The Girl Who Never Had a Birthday: Part 1
- Episode aired Nov 14, 1966
- 25m
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7.2/10
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Jeannie is so sad that she doesn't know her birthday that she starts to vanish feet first.Jeannie is so sad that she doesn't know her birthday that she starts to vanish feet first.Jeannie is so sad that she doesn't know her birthday that she starts to vanish feet first.
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- TriviaIn episodes #2.10 through #2.13 Jeannie wanted to know her birthday. The Show had a contest to guess the month and day. It started with "The Girl Who Never Had a Birthday, Part 1" (#2.10), wherein her year of birth was determined to be 64 BC. As these episodes take place in 1966, Jeannie is 2,029 years old. The actual month and day were finally revealed in "My Master the Great Caruso" (#2.13): Jeannie was born on April 1. April Fools Day, naturally.
- GoofsThe only facts known about Jeannie's birthday were that it was about 2000 years ago and that Neptune was in Scorpio on that day. The existence of the planet, Neptune, was not known before its discovery in 1846, about 120 years before the events depicted in this story. Therefore, nobody would have known about either Neptune or its position in the sky at the time of Jeannie's birth.
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Neptune was in Scorpio
"The Girl Who Never Had a Birthday" was the show's first two part storyline (followed by three more, plus the famous four parter), in which Jeannie begins to vanish, her powers weakening, because she is unhappy not knowing when her birthday is (she'd already given a date of July 1, 21 B.C, in the first season entry "G.I. Jeannie"). Meanwhile, Majors Nelson and Healet are assigned to work with ERIC (Electronic Rapid Input Computer), a $500 million super computer that can figure out any problem it is given. Tony comes up with the idea of using ERIC to discover when Jeannie was born, since all she knows is that on that day 2000 years ago Neptune was in Scorpio. Roger's reluctance stems from the fact that if they get caught it's bound to be a suicide mission. ERIC produces the date but all Tony gets is the year 64 B.C. before Dr. Bellows confiscates the strip of paper. By the episode's end Jeannie has lost all her powers and is trapped in a drawer in Major Nelson's desk, with Dr. Bellows ready to move in.
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