Debuting about the time that our space program started catching up with the Soviets, this series had astronaut Larry Hagman crash landing somewhere in the Arabian sea and finding on a deserted island an old bottle. Inside said bottle was a genie named Jeannie and she was delightfully and naively played by Barbara Eden.
Somehow Hagman got the bottle back home to Florida where he lived the better to be near his work at Cape Kennedy. Eden lived in the bottle which was now in Hagman's home.
It was when she was trying to do something to please her Master and was seen doing same that questions of morality and propriety soon emerged. In the case of fellow astronaut and neighbor Bill Daily it was curiosity turning to envy.
But when the chief physician of NASA Hayden Rorke was asking them it became sticky just about every episode. He was relentlessly curious about the strange doings in the Hagman household, remained so for the entire series run.
Larry Hagman's astronaut Tony Nelson was about as different as J.R. Ewing you can get. He was an All American hero type, nice guy, could be a bit of a klutz. Bill Daily was goofy and fun as fellow astronaut Roger Healey. No one was ever more officious than Hayden Rorke as Dr. Bellows.
Still the red blooded American male always hoped that he would find a bottle with a genie and it would look like Barbara Eden. Answering his every beck and call.
Somehow Hagman got the bottle back home to Florida where he lived the better to be near his work at Cape Kennedy. Eden lived in the bottle which was now in Hagman's home.
It was when she was trying to do something to please her Master and was seen doing same that questions of morality and propriety soon emerged. In the case of fellow astronaut and neighbor Bill Daily it was curiosity turning to envy.
But when the chief physician of NASA Hayden Rorke was asking them it became sticky just about every episode. He was relentlessly curious about the strange doings in the Hagman household, remained so for the entire series run.
Larry Hagman's astronaut Tony Nelson was about as different as J.R. Ewing you can get. He was an All American hero type, nice guy, could be a bit of a klutz. Bill Daily was goofy and fun as fellow astronaut Roger Healey. No one was ever more officious than Hayden Rorke as Dr. Bellows.
Still the red blooded American male always hoped that he would find a bottle with a genie and it would look like Barbara Eden. Answering his every beck and call.