I Dream of Jeannie (TV Series) My Master, the Rainmaker (1966) User Reviews

Snow in Coco Beach

[DKosty123 · 9/10 · 7 December 2014]

Leave it to Jeannie, to be able to control the weather which would be something climate scientists would envy all else as then they would have the power to really raise the ocean levels.

Of course Jeannie relieves a drought but forgets to shut off the water. Once again in Jeannie's tradition to this point she does everything on this show she can to mess up Tony.

There is a script goof from the previous episode that crosses over to this one. It involves the snow that is whipped up. Jeannie is still learning to drive. Still waiting to see the flying carpet. Not sure why the carpet is not the preferred mode of transport, though cleaning the walls and floors compared riding a rug in the air.

Weather or not

[kevinolzak · 6/10 · 25 October 2016]

"My Master, the Rainmaker" has Jeannie making the rain vanish because she wants to picnic on the beach with her master. When Tony reflects on his childhood in Wisconsin Jeannie blinks snowfall upon his house, in July, with the ever present Dr. Bellows refusing to crack up. Alas, General Peterson refuses to believe that Tony can change the weather: "he snowed on me!" Tony manages to convince Jeannie to visit her family, before Sgt. Ben Roberts (Steve Ihnat) visits Major Nelson to inquire what he could do about his brother's Alabama drought, which will cost him his farm. Jeannie blinks once before leaving, and soon Tony is crowded by goods from Alabama, where rainfall has saved the farm but never stopped (Jeannie: "I left the water running!"). Now Dr. Bellows has a witness to try to pin Tony down, to an exasperated General Peterson: "you're saying that Tony Nelson rained on a town called Four Corners?" "he not only rained on it General, he flooded it out!" Steve Ihnat, best remembered as Garth in STAR TREK's "Whom Gods Destroy," sadly died of a heart attack at age 37 in 1972.

I am gonna make it rain up in here!

[PizzaHips · 5/10 · 24 September 2022]

The one question I have consistently asked about this series is...... " Why would Major Nelson be thrown in prison or court martialed because of Jeannie??" I can never really get past that question whenever Tony says Dr. Bellows has me now. How does he have you????? In this episode supposedly he can make it rain Sgt Roberts overhears Dr. Bellows saying Tony can control the weather and then asks him if he could help out the town of Four Corners. Tony beforehand had tricked Jeannie into leaving to visit her parents, which she says she has not seen in over a 1000 years. Funny that Major Nelson does not say anything about him seeing her mother in the first season, how did he forget this? How did Jeannie forget this????

So Jeannie leaves and visits her family, turning on the rain down in Four Corners but forgetting to turn it off. Dr Bellows tells General Peterson that " I've got Major Nelson right where i want him!!! Plus i have a witness!!" This whole premise makes no sense at all, the writing here for this episode would get a D-.

Jeannie comes back in the nick of time. Tony says he will be court martialed because there is a witness to him making it rain. DUMB Then somehow he is sent all kinds of vegetables from Alabama, how they grew that fast and got shipped down to Cocoa Beach that fast is anyone's guess.

One thing though that is much better is the color episodes look way way better than the computerized color from season one. The season 1 colorization was a total failure.