We close out our initial run of Magical Mondays with the series premiere of I Dream of Jeannie, which launched 60 years ago.
You know the story by now. Astronaut Tony Nelson (Larry Hagman, who had appeared on The Rogues, another NBC series, the previous season) crash-lands on an island in the South Pacific, where he finds a certain bottle containing a genie (Barbara Eden), who falls for her new master immediately.
Subsequent episodes in season 1 would summarize this with a short narrative by voice actor Paul Frees.
Now, here's "The Lady in The Bottle":
By the time NBC got around to doing some reunion TV movies, Hagman had moved on to Dallas, and Eden would do a guest turn there for a brief reunion with her former leading man. Eden's then-husband, Michael Ansara (ex-Law of The Plainsman), would make some guest appearances during the series' run, including during the time he was recurring on Star Trek.
Medical Mondays debuts next week.
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