The Terrible Catsafterme

SEASON 1 – NBC

Created by Sidney Sheldon

Theme music by Richard Wess

• 001. The Lady in the Bottle – 9/18/1965
  • Astronaut Captain Anthony “Tony” Nelson (Larry Hagman) is on a space mission in his one-man capsule Stardust One, when it crash lands on a remote island in the South Pacific. There he encounters a bottle and frees the beautiful blonde 2000-year old genie named Jeannie (Barbara Eden) from it. She immediately kisses him and professes her loyalty to him, her new master, and grants his wish of being rescued by helicopter. He refuses to take her, knowing it would complicate his relationship with his fiancee Melissa (Karen Sharpe), the daughter of his commanding officer General Wingard Stone (Philip Ober). Jeannie however enters her bottle and rolls it into his bag. Upon his return, Tony is debriefed by NASA psychologist Alfred Bellows (Hayden Rourke), and Tony admits that he saw the genie, which Bellows chalks up to hallucination. Tony brings Melissa back to his house in Cocoa Beach, Florida, only to encounter Jeannie in his shower, causing Melissa to storm out. Stone, Bellows, and fellow astronauts Captain Roger Heely (Bill Daily), and Lieutenant Pete Conway (Don Dubbins) pay Tony a visit, and he hides Jeannie and her bottle in the garbage, which nearly gets smashed in a garbage truck. In order to save Jeannie, he appears insane to his colleagues, and finally ‘admits’ that he was only playing a joke on them. Jeannie causes further havoc by transforming his living room into a sultan’s den, mimicking Melissa when she confronts Tony, and planting yet another passionate kiss on him. Tony tells her that she needs to be gone by the morning, but Jeannie only smiles at the TV audience. Byanes Barron is the commander. Joe Higgins and Richard Reeves are the garbage men. Warren Kemmerling and Patricia Scott are the barbecuing husband and wife. 6/28/16 

• 002. My Hero? – 9/25/1965
  • Tony vows to stand up for Jeannie when she reports to him that a man has hit her. Unbeknownst to him, this occurred two thousand years ago in Persia by the giant Ali (Richard Kiel). Jeannie transports herself and Tony there so that he can confront Ali. Tony thinks that Jeannie will back him up when he stands up to Ali, but she disappears. An auctioneer (Jan Arvan) sells Tony for one shekel to Princes Fatima (Pamela Curran), but Tony’s insolence causes her to turn him back into the hands of Ali to be tortured into submission. Meanwhile Jeannie is visiting her father (Henry Corden) and mother (Florence Sundstrom) telling them that Tony’s act of chivalry equates to a marriage proposal. Jeannie appears to Tony and brings him to the wedding, but when he finds out that he is the intended groom, he refuses to marry Jeannie. She sends him back to the dungeon where he diverts Ali by telling him that the prisoner Turhan (Peter Brocco) has escaped. Jeannie then brings him back to the wedding where Jeannie’s father insists on a dowry. Jeannie sends Tony back to the dungeon again, but turns Ali’s hot poker into a feather and miniaturizes him. Jeannie sends Tony back home alone. When he appears to feel sad about saying goodbye, she shows up and overhears Roger arranging a date for himself and Tony. When the dates show up, she causes Tony to answer the door wearing only a towel. Paul Frees provides the opening narration. 6/30/16
• 003. Guess What Happened on the Way to the Moon? – 10/2/1965
  • Tony and Roger are selected for a survival mission during which they will be dropped off in Skull Flats, Utah. Despite Tony’s objections, Jeannie sneaks along on the mission inside Tony’s canteen. She then proceeds to create water, chicken soup, roast chicken, melon, and a silk tent for Tony, all while Roger is facing the elements and resorting to eating cactus and Tony’s shoe. Tony claims to have sprained his ankle and sends Roger to go on alone, while he rides out with Jeannie on camel. Roger spies Jeannie, the tent, and the camel on the course of his journey but chalks it up to hallucination. After seven days, Roger is picked up and told that Tony arrived back three days earlier. Dr. Bellows is perplexed that Tony has gained weight, has the gout in his elbow, and has saddle sores, while Roger’s feet are covered in blisters and he has lost twelve pounds. Tony finally tells the truth, but Dr. Bellows assumes that it his own power of mind over matter that got him through the journey. In light of this, Bellows gives Tony and even more difficult assignment called Operation: Extinction. This time Tony tells Jeannie that he needs to take her with him, and then at the last minute confines her to her bottle so that he can do it on his own. Byron Moore is General Moore. 8/11/16
• 004. Jeannie and the Marriage Caper – 10/9/1965
  • As Tony’s wedding day with Melissa gets closer, Jeannie does her best to stymie their relationship. Melissa’s father General Stone announces that he is going to become an ambassador and offers to make Tony his attache. Tony declines despite the pressure from Melissa. Jeannie prepares a dinner for Tony, Melissa, and her father, and then poses as Japanese houseboy Kato (Mako). One of Melissa’s old boyfriends named Grover Caldwell (John Hudson) also resurfaces and begins to interfere in Tony’s relationship by discussing a change in the honeymoon location with Melissa, and then pressuring Tony to take the attache job. At Tony’s bachelor party, Jeannie pops out of the cake. Tony also finds out that Roger is being sent to Australia by the General, so Grover can step in as the best man. When Jeannie finds out that Grover was Melissa’s old boyfriend, she plants a voice in Grover’s head telling him to admit that he is still in love with Melissa. When he tells her, Melissa decides to call off the engagement with Tony, whom she thinks has changed, and be with Grover. Tony couldn’t be more pleased, as he starts to realize that Jeannie is good to him and would never pressure him and was planning to break it off anyway, but pretends to be distraught and wishes the best for Melissa and Grover. Sal Ponti is Astronaut Cortwright. 8/11/16
• 005. G.I. Jeannie – 10/16/1965
  • Jeannie shows up at Tony’s office and finds out that Tony has been assigned a new attractive secretary named Corporal Lola Burns (Eileen O’Neill). Jeannie tries to step into the role of his secretary herself, but Tony tells her that she has to go through training with the WAFS – Women’s Auxiliary Training Squadron – in order to become a secretary. Tony allows it in order to get rid of her for a while. Jeannie enlists as Jeannie Nelson with Lieutenant Snyder (Peg Shirley) and is approved for six weeks of basic training in San Antonio. Jeannie goes through the training, but Commanding Officer Major Margaret Fiefield (Jane Dulo) keeps moving her from assignment to assignment because Jeannie keeps causing problems wherever she goes, including her assignment for Colonel Joe Fenton (Edmon Ryan) when she breaks his leg. All the while Jeannie keeps asking to be returned to Cape Kennedy to be Tony’s secretary. Using her powers, she greatly exceeds the secretarial requirements and forces Fiefield to send her to Cape Kennedy, sending Lola to Africa as well. However Tony tells Jeannie that he is heading to Nevada, and Jeannie forces Tony to discharge her by trashing his office. Robert DoQui is Sergeant Pete Snyder. 10/25/16
• 006. The Yacht Murder Case – 10/23/1965
  • Tony is forced into an assignment by Col. Webb (Richard Webb) in which he has to give a guided of the tour of the base to the president of a large aerospace firm, P.J. Ferguson (David Brian) and his attractive daughter Nina (Sharon Farrell). Ferguson asks General William Fletcher (C. Lindsay Workman) to have Tony attend a party on their yacht, which enrages Jeannie since he promised her a romantic walk on the beach. Tony imprisons Jeannie in the vacuum cleaner, but she escapes when the maid Mrs. Flaherty (Sandra Gould) comes to the house. The Fergusons see Jeannie on the boat talking to Tony, and when she disappears, they assume he threw her overboard and have him arrested. Tony pleads with Roger to go to his house and ‘talk to the walls’ in order to convince Jeannie to help him. Dr. Bellows catches Roger talking to Tony’s house and is puzzled even further. When Jeannie shows up in Tony’s prison cell, they have no choice but to let him go. Jeannie gets her weekend with Tony and take him into her bottle where they will not be interrupted. Robert Dornan is Carson. Ella Edwards aka Ellaraino is a WAF. Victoria Carroll is a young woman. Roy Taguchi is Albert. Robert Dornan is Carson. 10/25/16
• 007. Anybody Here Seen Jeannie? – 10/30/1965
  • When Jeannie overhears a newscaster (Ed Stoddard) hears that Tony, Roger, and Lieutenant George Conway (Dabney Coleman) (named as George Webb in the credits) will be taking a manned expedition into space, she becomes concerned about Tony’s safety. Meanwhile Dr. Bellows has concerns of his own about the mental condition of Tony based on all of the unexplained incidents that he’s witnessed, and request Tony to submit to additional tests. Tony obliges, but Jeannie sneaks along with him in his pocket and causes Tony’s barrage of tests and examination to be extremely bizarre. Tony becomes livid with Jeannie and despondent about his life’s work being undermined. Jeannie makes up for this by visiting Dr. Bellows and makes him believe he is crazy as he attempt to eat a sandwich and coffee, both of which keep disappearing and reappearing. Dr. Bellow goes for his own examination and decides that his diagnosis of Tony wasn’t credible. Tony becomes the first man to enter space, where he joined by Jeannie as he floats along. She plants a huge lipstick smear on his helmet. Davis Roberts is Bellows’ assistant Walter. 2/1/17
• 008. The Americanization of Jeannie – 11/6/1965
  • Jeannie want to integrate into society, and turns to reading an article called The Emancipation of Modern Woman. When Tony comes home from work, he finds that Jeannie has no longer completed any chores, is waring hair curlers, and has sent out for several new outfits. Tony is smitten by her new outfits and agrees to take out for dinner at a fancy restaurant called Tail of the Peacock, but when Jeannie mocks a supposed harem dancer named Sadelia (Tanya Lemani) who seems to be hitting on Tony, they are thrown out by the restaurant owner Armand (Steven Geray), who is also Sadelia’s husband. Jeannie feels like a failure as a woman and takes a job demonstrating appliances, but is thrown out by the manager Sam (Del Moore) and a barrage of customers (Mittie Lawrence, Yvonne White, Jewell Lain) when they accuse her of fraud when she makes a cake in a matter of seconds. Tony comforts her and tells her that Jeannie is just so full of affections that she needs someone to give it to… ultimately suggesting a pet. He comes to regret it though when she makes her lion Sim appear however. Jacques Roux is the waiter. 2/1/17
• 009. The Moving Finger – 11/13/1965
  • Tony prepares to head out for a ten-day trip to Hollywood to work as a technical advisor on an astronaut film starring actress Rita Mitchell (Nancy Novack). Jeannie ends up mailing herself to Hollywood, poses as his secretary, and accompanies him to the studio. Tony meets the director Henry Tracy (Woodrow Parfrey), who relates the movie plot of a female astronaut who is shrunk to microscopic level and infiltrates a Russian’s body. Rita invites Tony and Jeannie to a party at her place, where Tracy flirts with Jeannie, while she becomes jealous of the chemistry between Rita and Tony and makes it rain in the apartment which gives Tony a cold. Jeannie decides to become a movie star herself, so she heads over to the studio and recites The Moving Finger for stagehands Sammy (Dick Balduzzi) and Ronnie (Jim Begg), and is given a screen test at the request of famous actor Jason Huberts (David McLean). When Huberts gets Tracy to check out the screen test, everyone is surprised when, unable to be photographed, Jeannie doesn’t show up in the film. Tony cancels his date with Rita in order to console a very appreciative Jeannie. Later Jeannie arranges it so that she and Tony can put their footprints in cement at the theater. Arthur Romans is Assistant director Charlie. Stephen Whittaker is the bellboy. Joe Brooks is the crane driver. 5/9/17
• 010. Djinn and Water – 11/20/1965
  • Tony is working on finding a solution to desalinate water, and Jeannie tells him that her great-grandfather Bilejik (J. Carrol Naish) has come up with a way to take the salt out of sea water. Jeannie summons him and tries to get the secret from him, but Bilejik is interested in negotiating a deal. Meanwhile Jeannie leaves them alone to talk and goes out and tries to operate Tony’s car, and he has to chase it down in the presence of Dr. Bellows. Bilejik continues to negotiate, asking for the Statue of Liberty, the U.S. Mint, and Elizabeth Taylor in payment. Eventually Jeannie puts her foot down and threatens to tell her great-grandmother about his philandering . The secret ingredient ends up being geloom seeds, which Jeannie retrieves. The effectively absorb the salt, but unfortunately when Tony presents the seeds to a botanist (Chet Stratton) to find the modern name for the seed, he finds out that the daisy they originate from were wiped out by blight in the year 1. 5/9/17
• 011. Whatever Became of Baby Custer? – 11/27/1965
  • Neighborhood boy Custer Jamison (Billy Mumy) busts into Tony’s patio and catches him next to Jeannie floating on a towel which sunbathing. He tells his parents and soon Major Jamison (Herb Voland) and his wife (Grace Albertson) are trying to convince their son that he has an active imagination. Jamison also mentions this to Dr. Bellows, who agrees to talk to the Custer when he realizes that his ‘imagination’ involves Tony. Dr. Bellows actually contributes to spying on Tony in order to find out the mysterious circumstances surrounding him, to the point that they are caught by a police officer (Arthur Adams) who accuses them of being peeping toms. Custer seems to be everywhere that Tony turns, but he will not allow Jeannie to get rid of him via magic… but when Custer disappears, Tony is convinced that Jeannie has done something to him. Tony is frantic and is getting ready to make his confession of the truth to Dr. Bellows and the Jamisons, when Custer returns from the carnival, where he had spent the day watching a magician do some of the same ‘tricks’ as Tony. Dr. Bellows is frustrated that Tony’s confession never comes out. 1/2/18
• 012. Where’d You Go-Go? – 12/4/1965
  • Jeannie is already irritated when Tony doesn’t notice that she’s turned herself into a monkey at breakfast, but becomes even more enraged when an old girlfriend of Tony’s named Diane (Elizabeth MacRae) shows up and Tony accepts a date with her. Arguing all the way to work, complications arise when Dr. Bellows sees her dressed in her harem outfit in Tony’s car, and worse yet, when Jeannie backs the car into Roger, she accepts a date with him to get even with Tony. Roger talks Tony into going on a double date with him and Jeannie, and when Tony accepts, he doesn’t realize the girl is Jeannie. Then when he finds out Jeannie has a date, he cancels the ‘date’ with Roger to drag Diane all over town in search of Jeannie. He finally catches up with them at a nightclub and learns that Roger is Jeannie’s date. Frustrated and jealous, he tries to convince Jeannie to go home, but she ends up going back to Roger’s place. Whenever Roger gets frisky, she sabotages the record player and lights, and finally steals away from his apartment. Tony shows up Roger’s house in the middle of the night to ‘borrow a slide rule’ and is relieved to find that Jeannie had gone home hours earlier. Tony however refuses to admit to Jeannie that he is jealous, but when Roger shows up to bring Tony the slide rule, she realizes that he did in fact go in search of her. Bruno Della Santina is the maitre d’. Don Mitchell appears as the sergeant. 1/2/18
• 013. Russian Roulette – 12/11/1965
  • Tony asks that Jeannie not date Roger any more, but refuses to marry her. She says she will wait for marriage, but will only agree to not date if Tony will do the same. At work, General Barkley (Paul Reed) assigns Roger and Tony to entertain two visiting Russian cosmonauts, Major Posnofsky (Richard Gilden) and the beautiful Major Sonya Tiomkin (Arlene Martel). When Jeannie sees the Russians’ photo in the paper she is furious, and transfers her bottle into Roger’s jacket pocket. Tony behaves himself and even leaves early, but before Roger can leave, he finds the bottle in his pocket and gives it to Sonya as a gift. When Tony can’t locate the bottle at home and finds out from Roger that he gave it to Sonya, he rushes back over there. He nearly gets away with it until General Barkley and Dr. Bellows shop and insist that he let her keep the gift. She opens the bottle and frees Jeannie, who has no choice but to make Sonya her new master. Sonya test out her powers by having her kick Barkley and Bellows. Tony does his utmost to get to the airport to retrieve the bottle and keep the magic out of the hands of the Russian military, but by the time her plane is in the air. Later he receives a visit from Sonya who has made her dreams come true through Jeannie by becoming a wealthy American. She only agrees to return the bottle if Tony will marry her. Since it is the only way he can get her back, Tony agrees. After Sonya and Tony leaves for their honeymoon, leaving the bottle behind, Jeannie and the real Tony emerge from the kitchen wondering how long it will take her to realize she is with a fake Tony. John Beck is the Sergeant. Joseph Azar is the Russian who Jeannie turns herself into. Lael Jackson is the girl who slaps Roger. 9/4/18
• 014. What House Across the Street? – 12/18/1965
  • As Tony and Jeannie are getting ready to go to a baseball game, Jeannie dresses in her wedding dress and brings in a minister. Tony still refuses to marry her, so she gets upset and threatens to marry Roger. She calls her Mama (Lurene Tuttle) to get some advice, and Mama tells her to tell Roger she will marry him in order prod Tony to propose. While Tony admits that he would miss Jeannie, he also warns Jeannie that Roger is very fickle. Roger proposes and Jeannie accepts, but acknowledges to Tony that he’s never met Jeannie’s parents or been to her house. When Roger insists on meeting her parents, Mama suggests that Jeannie use the ‘parents’ she sees on television commercials, so Jeannie erects a house on the lot across the street and fabricates a set of parents, Mr. and Mrs. Prescott (Oliver McGowan, Avis Scott). It so happens that Dr. Bellows and his wife have purchased that lot to build a house on, and when he brings General Hadley (Jack Collins) to see it, Tony insists that Jeannie make the house disappear. Bellows and Hadley find Tony sitting in the lot drinking tea, since the house has disappeared around him. That night, after telling Dr. Bellows that Jeannie’s house is on his vacant lot, Roger meets the parents, who only speak in TV commercial slogans. Dr. Bellows arrives and sees the house, but by the time he gets over to ask Tony how it got there, Jeannie has made it disappear, leaving Roger sitting in the lot with a martini. Tony is pleased that Jeannie bailed him out and agrees to let her invite someone over… a minister (Walter Woolf King). Meanwhile Roger thinks he got drunk and wandered into a vacant lot, and that Jeannie got so mad at him that she moved, and took the house with her. 9/4/18
• 015. Too Many Tonys – 12/25/1965
  • Roger tips off Tony that General Peterson (Barton MacLane) has stated that married men make better astronauts and that Dr. Bellows will be by soon to talk to him about it. Jeannie overhears this and plans to be the bride. When Tony expresses no interest, she makes a Tony lookalike that is much more romantic and offers to marry her. Tony orders her to get rid of the double and she complies. Later Dr. Bellows pays a visit to Tony’s house and catches Jeannie there making him baked good. Assuming they are in love, Bellows implies that Tony will be in trouble if he doesn’t appreciate her so she brings back the double to show him how romantic Tony is. The double proposes marriage in front of Bellows, so he is thrilled. Roger however is furious when he hears the news since he hasn’t been asked to be the best man. When General Peterson plans to attend, Tony is temporarily forced to continue the facade, as his anger at Jeannie rages. Tony tries to tell Bellows that he isn’t going through with the wedding, but Bellows is insistent that they get married, ripping up Tony’s peculiar medical file and telling him that the strangeness will all be a thing of the past once Tony is married. Tony orders Jeannie to call off the wedding, but she refuses and brings in the other Tony to show him how to behave. On the morning of the wedding, Tony shows up acting more romantic than ever, but before the chaplain (Henry Hunter) can pronounce them man and wife, Jeannie runs out and says she can’t marry this man, thinking that he must be the impostor. Dr. Bellows and General Peterson assume she is an unstable woman and find it best that he not marry her. Jeannie later tells Tony that she knew it was him all along, but didn’t want to force herself on him. 5/31/19
• 016. Get Me to Mecca on Time – 1/8/1966
  • Jeannie is feeling exhausted and weak, and her magic is only working at half power. Tony gets more concerned when her limbs start disappearing and reappearing. Jeannie reads in Roger’s horoscope book that Mercury and Jupiter are together and that is the Day of the Ram, a day on which every Jeannie and her master must journey to Mecca to repeat sacred words or she will lose her powers and disappear. Tony is due to perform a space simulation, and he blows off Jeannie as superstition. Jeannie joins Tony in the simulator and Bellows hears him talking to her. When Tony realizes that Jeannie is serious, he asks Roger to keep Bellows busy while he goes to Mecca. Once they arrive, they run into Achmed (Jamie Farr) who directs them to the Thieves Market and the Well of the Madahar, where Tony must read the sacred words while facing the Minaret of the Rising Sun. He attempts do do this while under the observation of some American tourists (Owen Cunninghman, Alice Reinheart) and an Englishman (Foster Brooks). When it fails, Jeannie says they need to be in a different location, inside the current National Bank of Mecca, so they go back and break in that night. Jeannie loses her powers just as the police arrive. She realizes that they have been facing the Minaret of the Setting Sun. He repeats the incantation but doesn’t finish before the police capture them. Jeannie disappears, but Tony quickly recites the words and brings her back. She is able to make the police disappear, and sends Tony back to Bellows, who has been listening to Roger and his confessions about dreaming he was a camel. Bellows insist on seeing him regularly for psychoanalysis. Lael Jackson is Diane. Joseph Gillgoff is the policeman. 5/31/19 
• 017. Richest Astronaut in the World – 1/15/1966
  • Tony leaves Roger at his house while he goes and runs an errand, and Roger starts messing with Jeannie’s bottle while she is in it. When he shakes it, she is forced to exit the bottle and admit to Roger, who was thinking of hiring a private investigator to track her down, that she is a genie. Feeling jealous of Tony for having her at his disposal, Roger tricks her into telling him that a master merely need possession of the bottle, so he gets her to go into the bottle and then steals it. Tony quickly realizes what Roger has done, as Roger surrounds himself with exotic women, a lavish car and house, and every luxury imaginable. He refuses to give Jeannie back to Tony and keeps the bottle locked in a safe in his office. Tony tricks Roger into giving him a photograph of himself sitting by the pool and then takes it and shows it to Dr. Bellows, leading him to think that Roger is selling the secrets of Operation Gamma to a foreign power to get enough money to support such a lifestyle. Bellows brings General Peterson to see him and they put him under arrest. Roger begs Tony to help him get off the hook, but Tony demands that he had over Jeannie first. He agrees, and Jeannie simply blinks and all is forgotten by Bellows and Peterson. Roger feels duped that he could have just as easily ordered Jeannie to do the same thing… and even more so when Jeannie takes away all of the things she had given to him. Gerry Lock is the maid, Danielle Beausejour is the French maid, and Nadine Nardi is the Italian maid. Britt Semand is Helga. 2/16/20
• 018. Is There an Extra Jeannie in the House? – 1/22/1966
  • When Roger disobeys Dr. Bellows and keeps his niece Sheila (Judy Carne) out past the curfew that Bellows has set. As punishment, Bellows sends Roger on a 30-day trip to Andromeda Inlet. When Tony won’t let Roger take Jeannie with him, Jeannie suggests that she find Roger his own genie, her cousin Morilla, but Tony refuses this as well. When Roger gets ready to leave, his landlord Mr. Billings (Herbie Faye) sublets his apartment to Arnie (Bernard Fox) and Myrt (Emmaline Henry), a pair of magicians known as Abdul the Great and Co. Roger meets them before he leaves as they are rehearsing their act, and Roger thinks they are genies brought in by Jeannie. He orders them to make Dr. Bellows change his mind about sending him. Bellows does in fact decided that Roger is needed at home and cancels his trip, which causes Roger to act cocky in Bellows presence. When Tony and Jeannie call over to Roger’s house, Myrt answers the phone and pretends to be Morilla… and the believe her. Meanwhile Roger thinks he can do as he pleases and tells Dr. Bellows that he is going to make him head of the medical department, and tells Sheila that he is going to get her mink coat. When Tony and Jeannie come over, they realizes that Arnie and Myrt are merely magicians, so Jeannie helps Roger’s promise to Dr. Bellows come true. However Roger gets stuck with the bill for the $5000 mink coat. 2/16/20
• 019. Never Try to Outsmart a Jeannie – 1/29/1966
  • Tony is scheduled to attend the International Air Show in Rome and he is going to be taking the S.S. Sorrento ship to get there. Jeannie wants to go along and is desperately worried about the ship going down, but Tony will not let her go with him. Meanwhile Roger plans to borrow Jeannie while Tony is gone so that he can use her to re-furnish entire house. He begins giving all of his old stuff away, to the point that Dr. Bellows thinks he needs an ocean voyage as well. Jennie tries everything in her power to convince him to fly including posing as Dr. Bellows on the phone, as Roger attempts to get have Tony give him access to his house while he is gone. When Tony realizes that Jeannie is going to stop at nothing to accompany him on the trip, he tricks her into entering her bottle and locks her in. She later shows up at his office and tells him that Roger let her out. She is ready to turn Tony into a dog, but he gives her the option of going along as a normal woman if she can obtain a passport or as a Jeannie in her bottle. They head to the U.S. Passport office, but the clerk (Peter Brocco) won’t give her the passport because she has no birth certificate and can’t find anyone who has known her for at least two years. She meets a guy named Danny who is flirting with her, but he won’t vouch for her either. Jeannie overhears woman named Mollie Medford (Ila Britton) discussing with her friend Ethel (Lenore Kingston) how she still remembers being rescued by a woman during a gang’s shootout in Chicago, but can’t remember what the woman looks like. Jeannie transports herself back to that time in the woman’s head and inserts herself as the woman who rescued her. This makes Mollie more than willing to vouch for Jeannie for her passport, but since she knows nothing about her, the clerk warns them that perjury is illegal. Jeannie finally admits defeat and agrees to go along on the trip in her bottle. Roger is hosting all of the military brass at his house for a farewell party, but is still expecting Jeannie to fill his empty apartment with new furnishings. Unfortunately she is in her bottle in the luggage going on the ship, so when everyone arrives at Roger’s, is apartment is empty. 5/27/20
• 020. My Master, the Doctor – 2/5/1966
  • On his way to attend Roger’s appendectomy, Tony makes an off the cuff remark about always having the dream of being a surgeon, resulting in Jeannie trying to be helpful and sending him surgeon’s gear with a scalpel right over Roger in the operating room. Roger flips out and runs out of the operating room. When Dr. Bellows come in, Tony passes himself off a surgeon named Dr. Rasha Houn who flew in for the operation. Jeannie shows up in nurse garb and tries to help out around the hospital. She also tries to convince Tony that she could make him an excellent surgeon as she could make a star violin player, but Roger still balks at having Tony perform the surgery. Dr. Bellows starts to suspect that Houn is in fact Tony, so he reports it to General Peterson and tries to catch Tony in the act. Meanwhile Jeannie fills the bed of a little girl patient named Susan (Maureen McCormick) with stuffed animals, runs afoul of a lascivious and rude patient named Big Charlie Lukey (Peter Leeds), and frightens a nurse named Julia (Jane Dulo) by making test tubes float. When Dr. Bellows demands that Houn perform the surgery, Tony plans to drop Roger in the operating room and then leave. Unfortunately Dr. Bellows gets there before he can, and sends him right back in. When Bellows attempt to unmask him in front of Peterson, Jeannie plans another man (Julio Medina) under the mask who claims to be Rasha Houn, once again making Dr. Bellows look foolish. Roger’s surgery is a success although neither the real nor fake  Rasha Hounn performed it. Tony and Jeannie discuss Jeannie’s childhood fantasy as well, which also happens to be being a surgeon. She makes it come true as well by making her and Tony move to another operating room, with her getting ready to operate on him. Don Larson is the intern doctor. Elaine Nelson is the nurse handing Tony a scalpel and Carol O’Leary is the nurse giving Tony directions to Roger’s room.  5/29/20
• 021. Jeannie and the Kidnap Caper – 2/12/1965
  • Captain Nelson is getting tired of  being soft because he relies on Jeannie to do everything for him, so he makes her promise not to tell him “tough luck Charlie” next time he asks her to do something. Jeannie takes this vow, but comes to regret it quickly when two Chinese secret agents Wong (Richard Loo) and Chan (James Hong) kidnap and try to force him to reveal the secrets of his new NASA project Operation Gamma. Jeannie cannot help him for fear of losing her powers and turning to dust if she breaks her sacred vow. She is able to tell Roger what is going on, but cannot tell him where he is. She keeps visiting him and seeing his various forms of torture including water dripping on his head and hanging him upside-down. When the spies give him truth serum, she is able to cause him to only speak the details of the project in Arabic. Roger keeps running back and forth between Dr. Bellows and Jeannie to relay information. Bellows thinks that both Nelson and Healey are crazy, and tells General Peterson about the case study. Jeannie becomes even more distressed when a Chinese Princess (Linda Ho) becomes involved and tells the spies to administer drugged tea to Nelson. She suddenly realizes that if Tony were no longer her master, she could help him, so she gives Roger possession of the bottle, causes Wong to drink the tea himself, turns Chan into a donkey and the Princess into a parrot and brings Tony back home. Roger is reluctant to give up the bottle, but ultimately realizes Jeannie can never belong to anyone else. The men then visit Dr. Bellows and General Peterson and tell them that Roger was relaying information from a show the two men are writing for a benefit. Peterson insists that Bellows himself take some administrative leave. 9/11/20
• 022. How Lucky Can You Get? – 2/19/1966
  • Dr. Bellows surprises Tony by telling him that he and Roger are being promoted to Majors, and assigns them to travel to Nellis and Stead Air Force bases to give some lectures on aircraft. They decide to hit Reno after their work, and Roger is anxious to take Jeannie so she can help them become millionaires at the casinos. Tony however expressly forbids it, but Roger sneaks her there in his suitcase. She doesn’t make herself known but helps Tony win his first round at the slot machines. Roger then forces Tony to make a bet for him at the craps table, but Jeannie doesn’t understand that a ‘two’ is not a good roll, and Roger loses his $50. Once she gets onboard with how to play craps, Roger has Tony place another bet on the blackjack table, but immediately loses his $100 because Jeannie has no idea how to play. Eventually Roger is able to talk Tony into skipping swimming so he can place another bet for him at the craps table, saying that he can’t do it because he has a gambling addiction. This time Jeannie is able to give Tony multiple wins with Roger’s money until he has amassed thousands of dollars at the table. The croupier (Tim Herbert) and pit boss (Paul Hahn) start to become suspicious, especially when the dice seem to turnover after they’ve been thrown. Eventually they drag Roger and Tony out of the casino, when Tony manages to roll two dice, each with a seven on them. They are eventually released and Jeannie and Roger get a lecture from Tony. When Roger tries to talk Jeannie into helping him with some horse racing, Tony has Jeannie send Roger to be a jockey on one of the horses in the middle of a race. Buddy Lewis is the blackjack dealer. Ted de Corsia is Mr. Phillips, the casino manager. 9/11/20
• 023. Watch the Birdie – 2/26/1966
  • Tony has to deliver some important papers to General Peterson at the country club, so Jeannie, who was expecting Tony to spend the day with her, sends him ahead without pants. She joins him and clothes him, and then when Tony, who never plays golf, tries hitting a couple of balls with the club pro Jerry Barber (himself), she helps him do two drives of 400 yards. General Peterson has been looking for a golf partner who can beat Navy Admiral Tugwell (Ray Teal), who is coming into town to play golf with him. Tony tries to get out of it by saying his arm is broken, but he quickly abandons that plan when he hears a new mission is coming up and doesn’t want to be out of the running. Roger tries to give him a few tips, but it hardly makes a dent in his ability. Tony refuses to let Jeannie help him cheat, so locks her in the bottle when he leaves. On the day of the game, Tony plays as bad as ever, but General Peterson thinks he is faking so that he can make a major comeback. Roger sees how bad he is doing and frees Jeannie, who then helps him out of every trap or difficult shot imaginable, scoring him numerous holes-in-one. When the game is over, Tony has scored a 54, and won a victory for their team. Tony and General Peterson both agree not to taint such a golf exhibition with money, so they refuse to accept the winnings from Admiral Tugwell and his partner Commander Davis (Herbert Anderson). Just when he thinks he is in the clear, Dr. Bellows tells him that the General has signed him up for the Golf Open. Gene Boland is Captain Baxter. 12/29/20
• 024. Permanent House Guest – 3/5/1966
  • Jeannie thinks her talents are being wasted, so she demands that Tony wish for something big. The first thing that comes to his mind is an elephant, so that is what materializes. Dr. Bellows stops by and sees the elephant, much to Jeannie’s amusement. He runs to get General Peterson, but by the time they get there, Jeannie has changed the elephant into a poodle named Tiger. General Peterson thinks that Dr. Bellows is going crazy, so Bellows declares that he is moving in with Tony just as Jeannie is preparing a romantic dinner for the two of them. To explain all of the food, Jeannie transforms herself into Pedro (Romo Vincent) the cook. Tony tells Jeannie she’ll have to stay with Roger while Bellows is there. That night Jeannie appears as smoke, causing Dr. Bellows to think there is a fire and spray the extinguisher… right in Tony’s face. Jeannie then teleports the bottle around the room, and makes the sounds of footsteps, a train, heavy breathing, wild Indians, and gunfire. Bellows bids a hasty retreat out of the house, declaring that it is haunted. The next morning Roger brings his list of demands for Jeannie, including a ski resort and a maid. Tony tells him that there is a change of plans, but allows Jeannie to give him the maid, an large, overbearing woman named Agnes (Kate Murtagh). Martin Ashe is General Koster. Jack Davis is Commander Hastings. 12/29/20
• 025. Bigger Than a Bread Box and Better Than a Genie – 3/12/1966
  • Tony is surprised when he offers to let Roger borrow Jeannie for the afternoon and Roger declines, stating that he has something even better. Later, after stopping to accept a greeting from Colonel Chuck Yeager (himself), he stops in to see Roger in his office to clarify what he meant. Roger tells him that he’s found a fortune teller named Madame Zolta (Jorja Cutright), who seems to know everything about him. Tony is skeptical and asks to meet her himself, thinking that she must planning a major con on Roger. When he arrives, she seems to know everything about Major Nelson, even showing him a picture of himself as a child in her crystal ball. Tony seems to be amazed and asks to attend her next seance, so he can greet his late Uncle Jeff and Aunt Sue, and she tells him he is welcome. After he leaves, Madame Zolta speaks to her helper Hakim (Joseph Abdullah) about how they have fooled him, while Tony confides in Roger that he is just as skeptical… since he has no Uncle Jeff and Aunt Sue. Tony figures out he she did her trick with a photograph under the crystal ball, getting caught by Dr. Bellows, who naturally reports it to General Peterson. When Peterson comes to see him, he claims that the ball is merely a paper weight. Dr. Bellows, along with two other ladies, Miss Gordon and Mrs. Bates (Natalie Leeb), all show up to the seance, as does Jeannie, who watches from the sidelines. Madame Zolta seems to produce the ghosts of Uncle Jeff (Lincoln Demyan) and Aunt Sue (Alice Dudley), but before she can go any further, Jeannie makes wind blow and lightning strike in the apartment, and turns the crystal ball into a cake that hits her in the face. Madame Zolta believes she has actually conjured the dead, as the others all leave. Tony finds out from the police that her plan was to predict a great real estate opportunity to her victims, who are then approached and conned by another party in cahoots with her. That night Jeannie maintains that crystal balls can in fact tell the future, and sure enough she traps Tony inside one and they kiss. Then we she lets him out, they kiss again, proving that it correctly predicted the future. 4/24/21
• 026. My Master, the Great Rembrandt – 3/19/1966
  • Tony is painting a copy of a Rembrandt painting for a charity auction for the Air Force Benevolent League, but when he mentions to Jeannie that he wishes he could paint like the real Rembrandt, she actually turns his painting into the original. He doesn’t realize this, and enters it into the auction, which he is also talked into hosting. After selling off a couple of paintings, including the abstract one that Major Healy donated and Major Nelson bought since no one else would bid, he comes to his own. Two art critics, Dean Geller (Booth Colman) and Dr. Van Weesen (Jonathan Hole), who have spend the afternoon trying to convince each other that it is a forgery, both bid on the painting and drive the winning bid up to $300,000. The art critic then brings it to the attention to Dr. Bellows, who comes to the conclusion that Major Nelson is either guilty of forgery or theft, and in either case, grand larceny. In order to be sure, Bellows even flies over Louvre art critic Pierre Mallay (E.J. Andre) to be sure. Tony is frantic about how this will play out, but when Mallay arrives, he knows he is safe when he realizes that Mallay is actually Jeannie. He/she states that the painting is in fact a forgery. General Peterson thinks that Dr. Bellows is crazy for even bringing it up. When the real Mallay shows up, Tony initially thinks she is Jeannie, then can’t wait to get him back on the plane to Paris, and Dr. Bellows feels the same way, having been let down by his review of the painting. As Jeannie, Roger, and Tony all laugh about how Jeannie fooled Dr. Bellows, Tony admits he wishes he know how Rembrandt did his paintings… so Jeannie brings the real Rembrandt to the house. 4/24/21
• 027. My Master, the Thief – 4/2/1966
  • When Jeannie finds out that the local museum is hosting an exhibit from Jeannie’s hometown of Bukistan, she asks Tony to take her to see it. When the gets there, she sees that a pair of slippers that she used to own, which were stolen by Princess Mufista. She wants to take them but her master tells her that she cannot… but she does anyway, unbeknownst to him. The next day at work, everyone is talking about the theft and how it may become an international incident. Tony tries to get Jeannie to return them, but she refuses and won’t let him take them. Tony tries to steal them from her bottle while she is sleeping, but then realizes they are merely miniature versions of the real thing. He then tries to trick her by telling her that she can keep them, and that he wants to take her to lunch in Paris to celebrate. She goes on ahead to make the reservations, while he plans to return them to the museum. Dr. Bellows sees him with the slippers, but by the time he brings back General Peterson, Jeannie has already returned and snatched them back, replacing them in the box with a live lobster. Tony tells her again she can keep them, but that he might be arrested as he’s getting called to see Dr. Bellows and the security guard who saw him just before the theft at the museum. Jeannie then leaves the slippers out and ‘lets’ him take them. He and Roger return them to the museum, with Jeannie sneakily helping him along the way. Dr. Bellows tells him to cancel coming into see him, as ‘someone’ has returned the slippers to the museum. He vows that one day, somehow he will catch him in the act. Tony warns Jeannie not to take the slippers again… but he doesn’t realize that she’s already wearing them. Kathee Francis is Alice. 8/19/21
• 028. This Is Murder – 4/9/1966
  • Tony is requested by General Peterson to entertain the Princess Tarji (Gila Golan), who is visiting the United States, and is the daughter of the Sultan Pakuait, where the United States would like to put a satellite tracking station. Tony is afraid Jeannie will be jealous of this, but is surprised when she is not only cooperative, but offers to help throw a party for her. All of this changes however when she sees Tarji’s photo and realizes that her family had insulted Jeannie’s family 3000 years earlier and she has taken a solemn oath to kill her. Tony tries to get Dr. Bellows to have them turn the princess’ plane around lest they start a war. Then he gets the idea to tell Jeannie that Tarji isn’t coming after all. Then he asks her to build him properties all over the world, including a giant yacht in the Gobi desert, a pineapple plantation in Alaska, and a ski chalet in Bermuda. Since these are difficult tasks, Jeannie says it will take her three days to complete. Tony then meets with the Tarji and the two of them spend their days together dining and swimming, while he tracks Jeannie’s progress as the newspaper reports various weather anomalies. Jeannie comes back early and unexpectedly, so Tony tries get her back to the hotel before she arrives. She pops in at the house while Tarji is still at the house, so she resumes her plan to kill her. Tony asks if she can say good-bye to her stepfather, leading Jeannie to believe that she doesn’t have the royal blood. Jeannie calls it off and apologizes to Tarji, who is insulted at the notion that she was adopted and storms out. Jeannie turns Tony into a parrot and goes after Tarji, but once she meets her and finds her to be nice, she calls off the feud. When she returns home, she tells Tony that Tarji thought a lot of him, and vows to convince her father to build the tracking station. Roger stops by and finds it so amusing that Tony was a parrot, that she turns Roger into one. Ivan Bonar is the TV announcer. Vic Tayback is Tarji’s assistant Turhan. 8/19/21
• 029. My Master, the Magician – 4/23/1966
  • One night while Tony is working late, Jeannie shows up and creates a giant buffet dinner for him in his office. Dr. Bellows walks in and sees this, and immediately runs to General Peterson and wakes him to come see it. Jeannie hears them coming, and changes the meal into one single sandwich, and turns herself into a cleaning man (William Benedict). This gets Dr. Bellows into hot water with Peterson again. When Tony gets home the next day, Jeannie has Tony sit in the chair and she levitates him and his chair into the air to float and relax. Dr. Bellows then walk in and sees this, and he forces Tony to write down a statement that Dr. Bellows saw him floating. As he is leaving, Tony tells him that it is just a magician’s trick. Bellows seems to let it go, but then later approaches Tony to do a magic act in the NASA talent show. Jeannie warns him it is a trap, but Tony insists on doing the show without any help from Jeannie, so that Dr. Bellows can’t prove anything. Meanwhile, Bellows calls master magician Nestor the Great (Chet Stratton) in Cincinnati, Ohio to have him come assess Tony’s magic. Tony clumsily rehearses his magic tricks, none of which work correctly. On the day of the show, Tony’s magic follows a clown (Chester Hayes) act. He coaches a Sergeant (Don Mitchell) to be his assistant and operate a levitating device that magicians often use for the trick. After Tony goes on, Bellows goes behind the curtain and orders the Sergeant to remove the levitating device. When it comes time to levitate, Tony insists that he can’t do it, while Bellows insists that he can. Sure enough, Jeannie hears the crowd laughing at Tony, so she levitates him. The crowd is delighted, and Bellows brings Peterson to see. Peterson wants an explanation from Tony, but then Jeannie levitates Nestor, leading General Peterson to think that any magician can do the trick, and once again that Bellows himself is the crazy one. Bellows later comes to see Tony… just after Jeannie has grown an apple tree in the living room. 2/18/22
• 030. I’ll Never Forget What’s Her Name – 5/7/1966
  • Tony gets a letter from his Aunt Pauline in Denver, asking Tony to show around a friend of hers named Miss Gordon when she arrives in town. After he tells this to Jeannie, he goes into the kitchen and is hit in the head by a vase that falls off of the refrigerator. When he wakes up, he doesn’t recognize Jeannie, and assumes that she is Miss Gordon. Although he recognizes everyone else in his life, Jeannie is all new to him and he quickly becomes smitten with her. When Roger finds out about this, he wants to tell Tony, but Jeannie thinks this might be her only chance to marry Tony, so she sends Roger to the South Pole. He makes his way back – with frostbite that befuddles Dr. Bellows – and tries to convince Jeannie again, so she sends him to the jungles of the Amazon. While he is gone, Tony and Jeannie get closer and closer as they go on dates, until he finally proposes to her. Jeannie isn’t quite sure if she should accept, but when the real Francine Gordon (Greta Lenetska) shows up, Jeannie tells her that he’s getting ready for his wedding and sends her away. Roger makes it back with an injured arm after a Pygmy attack, and heads back to Tony’s house…where Jeannie promptly sends him in a diver’s suit somewhere under water. He comes back with the bends, and finally is able to talk to Tony and tells him who Jeannie really is. Tony tells him that he remembers and that he won’t marry her, and that he’ll make sure Jeannie doesn’t send him anywhere else. He then promptly goes to Dr. Bellows and tells him that Roger is crazy and came to him with a wild story about Jeannie being a genie. When Tony tells Roger that he told Dr. Bellows his story, Roger has a meltdown and tells him that he might have just ruined both of their careers. Dr. Bellows comes to see him, and Roger is reluctant to talk, but ultimately tells Bellows that Major Nelson is going to marry a genie in a bottle. Bellows apologizes to Tony for all of the misunderstandings, and acknowledges that it has been Roger causing the chaos all along. Bellows tells General Peterson about Roger, but when they all meet up at Tony’s house as he prepares to marry Jeannie, Roger refuses to tell General Peterson about the genie. Bellows thinks Tony will back him up, but by the time they find him in the kitchen, another vase has fallen on his head and restored his memory. He acts oblivious to the entire conversation with Dr. Bellows, which leads to Peterson once again thinking that Bellows is crazy. Now that is his memory is restored, he has to tell Jeannie that he’s not going to marry her… so she sends him and Roger to the Swiss Alps. 2/18/22

SEASON 2

Theme song “Jeannie” by Hugo Montenegro, lyrics (unused in the show) by Buddy Kaye 

• 031. Happy Anniversary – 9/12/1966
  • Tony doesn’t recall anything significant about the date, other than the fact that he is going into orbit that day, but Jeannie fondly remembers that it has been on year since Tony found her on the island in the South Pacific. She wants to celebrate by going back to the island where they can re-create the magic moment. He promises to take her out to dinner instead after his mission is completed. He is launched into orbit as planned, but suddenly his flight is interrupted and he heads back toward the same area where he had previously crash landed… where Jeannie’s bottle is conveniently waiting for him to free her again. However, Tony finds a different bottle and frees the genie inside, which turns out to be a genie named the Blue Djinn (Michael Ansara). Unfortunately, this genie does not intend to bring Tony wishes and fortune, but having grown bitter in the latter 500 of his bottle imprisonment, plans to kill the person who frees him. Tony then spots Jeannie’s bottle and lets her out, expecting her to protect him from the Blue Djinn. Jeannie however is scared to death of him, and tells Tony that he is the one who put her in her bottle in the first place. Tony tries to protect her, but the Blue Djinn buries him in sand and turns him into a lobster, then when Jeannie takes them back to their house in Cocoa Beach, the Blue Djinn follows with the intent to kill them. Tony outsmarts him by turning on the the TV to war movies and scenes of horrible weather, which the Blue Djinn believes to be a great power that Tony possesses. He is scared and apologetic until Roger happens along and turns off the TV and tells the Blue Djinn what it is. He is then about to kill Tony once and for all, until Tony requests that he not touch the Nelson treasure, which he confesses is hidden inside the vacuum cleaner. When the Blue Djinn goes in to get them, Tony locks him in there and Jeannie takes him to drop him off in the middle of the ocean. Tony has no choice then but to go back to the base and confess everything about Jeannie in order to explain how he got back to Cocoa Beach. Dr. Bellows is astounded, but tells Tony to hold the story until he can get General Peterson to listen as well, even putting sergeant (Don Mitchell) on guard at his door so Tony can’t leave. Jeannie finally shows back up and sends him back to his capsule, where the operator (Arthur Romans) reports him to be. This once again leaves Dr. Bellows appearing to be crazy when Tony isn’t in his office after all. Jeannie takes Tony back to the island to have their anniversary dinner, where they encounter the Blue Djinn, who has made his escape from the vacuum cleaner. Tony and Jeannie continue their dinner inside Jeannie’s bottle. 6/24/22
• 032. Always on Sunday – 9/19/1966
  • It’s Monday morning, and Tony is exhausted from the weekend, wishing it were still Sunday. Although he is adamantly against it, Jeannie offers to make it Sunday again, and then does it. She insists that Tony find some relaxation by having him do the things he loves. He refuses to believe that it is Sunday and insists that he must get to a meeting at work. Roger comes over to pick him to play golf, but he insists on going to work anyway, only to find that Eddie (Bob Hoffman) the janitor is the only one there. He comes home and demands that Jeannie restore Monday to the calendar, but she won’t do it until she feels he has gotten some rest and relaxation. She sends him into the wilds of Africa on a Safari tiger hunt, and puts him onto the tennis court with professional tennis player Pancho Segura (himself). Finally, Tony even talks to Dr. Bellows to try and convince him that the calendar has been altered and that Monday has been lost, and he is very concerned with what will happen to the next day. Jeannie then sends him onto a giant ski slope, but since he doesn’t know how to ski, he crashes into a large snow bank. Jeannie then feels terrible and packs up her things and tells Roger that she is leaving permanently. When Tony returns and Roger gives him the news, he feels terrible and starts to plead with Jeannie’s bottle that he return. Dr. Bellows returns and hear him telling the bottle how much he loves it and how he doesn’t want it to leave. Tony tells Dr. Bellows that he wants to open up and tell him everything to get it off his chest. Dr. Bellows calls General Peterson and asks him to come over to Major Nelson’s house to hear the confession. In the meantime, Jeannie returns and tells Tony that she couldn’t stay away, especially after all of the things that he said to her. When General Peterson arrives, Tony tells him that what Dr. Bellows heard was the lyrics of a song he was writing. With Jeannie playing the tune on the piano, Tony struggles through singing the words to Bellows and Peterson. Although Bellows feels foiled once again, Peterson agrees that Tony really does need help… at least in the songwriting department. He tells him he is the greatest astronaut, but advises him to give up his music. 6/24/22
• 033. My Master, the Rich Tycoon – 9/26/1966
  • A man named Harry Huggins (Paul Lynde) shows up at the Nelson household one morning, and before he can even meet Major Nelson, he starts insulting his home to Jeannie. She starts creating valuable works of art including a Louie XVIII dresser, a Renoir painting, a Ming vase, and a Michelangelo statue, along with a safe full of money and several servants. By the time that Tony makes his way downstairs and sees all of this, Huggins is introducing himself as an IRS auditor who has come to give him a $17 refund. In light of all of the obvious wealth, he tells Tony that he will be returning with an assessor. Jeannie refuses to get rid of any of the treasures, stating that everything is a gift from her, and that the government has no rights to tax her gifts. Tony heads off to do test runs in a flight simulator, and while Dr. Bellows is examining him, Huggins shows up to see Dr. Bellows. Huggins tries to convince Bellows that Tony is the head of an art smuggling ring, and while Bellows acknowledges over 100 other incidents with Tony, he refuses to believe that he is doing anything illegal. Huggins tells him that he will be bringing in an art professor named Prever (Maurice Dallimore) to take a look at the art, but predicts that Tony will get a truck and try to smuggle everything out. Bellows again surmises that Tony will not do that, but sure enough, that is just what Tony does. However, Huggins stops him in the process, and then demands to spend the night at the house to keep him from getting rid of anything. The next morning Huggins brings along Prever to examine the art, and Dr. Bellows comes to witness the results. Jeannie has a change of heart and makes it clear that everything there is fake by adding a “Made in Japan” mark on the vase, a mustache to the painting, an extra finger to the statue, and changing the money in the safe to Confederate money. Dr. Bellows is thrilled to see someone besides him get shafted by Tony, while Huggins starts an investigation on one of Dr. Bellows so-called business trips. 10/16/22
• 034. My Master, the Rainmaker – 10/3/1966
  • Tony had planned a picnic for Jeannie and him, but it unexpectedly starts raining. He promises that he will take her the next nice day they have. Jeannie immediately changes the day from rainy to sunny, much to Tony’s delight. He becomes wistful about snowy days in Milwaukee where he grew up. Jeannie then makes it start to snow, but only on their property… just as Dr. Bellows shows up at their door. When questioned, Tony tells him that he is working on a weather experiment. Dr. Bellows runs to General Peterson to tell him about the snow, just as Jeannie comes to visit Tony. When Bellows and Peterson walk into Tony’s office, Jeannie changes herself into a salesman wearing a fez named Ali Habeeb (Romo Vincent), who claims to be a weather expert who employs toads for his spells. After (s)he leaves, Peterson asks Tony point blank whether he can change the weather, and Tony claims he cannot, but appears to humor Dr. Bellows. Tony starts to feel like he is going through a nervous breakdown and tells Roger that he needs a break from Jeannie and uses psychology to convince Jeannie how much she must miss her family. She asks permission to go see them for a week, and Tony suggests that she take a few weeks. Tony is then visited by Sgt. Ben Roberts (Steve Ihnat), who has heard that Tony can control the weather, and he asks Tony if he might be able to help his brother, a down-on-his-luck farmer in Four Corners, Arkansas, who is losing all of his crops. Jeannie overhears this, so she makes it start raining on the crops before she leaves to visit her family. The rain makes his crops flourish, so much so that he sends baskets and baskets of produce – and two pigs – to Tony in appreciation. Bellows visit Tony at his house and tells him how General Peterson thinks that he is out to get Tony and tells Tony that he is dedicating his life to understanding Tony and will one day be able to pin him down. Later, Bellows overhears Roberts visit Tony and tell him that the rain is still going on and that his brother’s farm is now flooding. Bellows thinks that he now has the perfect witness, so he takes him to see General Peterson. Jeannie returns from vacation and Tony tells her that she has ruined the farm by leaving the rain running. Tony thinks he is done for since Bellows has a witness. When Peterson questions Roberts, he asks him if he has any proof that Tony can make it rain or snow, he says that he does not. Bellows orders Tony to try to make it snow, but when he says ‘snow’. it doesn’t work. After Tony and Peterson walk out of the room, Bellows says the word ‘snow’ and Jeannie makes it snow in the office. Roberts later visits Tony and tells him that the lake that now is in the place of the farm is a fisherman’s paradise, so his brother is now building cabins for tourists to come and fish. The brother sends baskets of fish to Tony in appreciation. Robert F. Lyons is Corporal Sam, who announces the produce delivery. 10/16/22
• 035. My Wild-Eyed Master – 10/10/1966
  • Tony has been up late at night working on paperwork for his upcoming orbital mission known as Project Rainbow, but it has caused his to show some stress in his right eye. Dr. Bellows grounds him until he shows improvement, and when he appeals to General Peterson, he backs up Dr. Bellows. Tony is given a one-month vacation to rest. Roger suggests that he have Jeannie fix him up, but Tony insists that she not find out since everything she touches seems to turn into disaster for him. However, when he gets home and tells Jeannie that his mission was canceled, she can tell that there is something wrong, so she goes and questions Roger. He tries to keep it a secret, but she sets his house on fire, he has to tell her the truth. Tony’s last hope is to take another eye exam with Dr. Bellows, and he goes in early and memorizes the eye chart. This is for naught, as Dr. Bellows switches out the chart before they start. Jeannie has come along, and she makes some adjustments to Tony’s eyes. He realizes after seeing Dr. Bellows and the secretary, Miss Gordon (Jean Marie), in their underwear, and then reads the eye chart right through the wall and identifies a private meeting that General Peterson is conducting, that he has x-ray vision. Dr. Bellows interrupts General Peterson’s meeting to tell him the news, but by the time he is dragged in to see Tony, Jeannie has tries to correct his vision… and accidentally made him nearly blind. General Peterson is annoyed and storms back to his meeting. Tony finds his way to his office where he insists that Jeannie return his eyesight to normal. This time she makes his eyes so powerful that he sees Jeannie and Roger as skeletons and passes out. Tony winds up being forced to take his vacation, and Jeannie is able to restore him back to perfect vision. When he brags about his hearing as well, Jeannie tries to improve it, and winds up making him deaf. Howard Wendell is the Senator that Roger shows around at NASA. 2/17/23
• 036. What’s New, Poodle-Dog? – 10/17/1966
  • Tony and Jeannie are planning a dinner one evening, but when Roger comes over and tells Jeannie that he wants Tony to accompany him on a double date with two Miss Universe finalists, Jeannie tries to throw him out. When Roger yells for Tony, Jeannie turns him into a French Poodle and puts him outside. Tony has heard Roger and a dog in the house and deduces that Jeannie has turned Roger into a dog. Tony finds out from his neighbor Mrs. Anderson (Hazel Shermet) that the dog catcher had been in the area, so he goes to the pound to try and retrieve him from the dog pound worker Mr. Wimple (Dick Wilson). He’s not sure that kind of a dog he is looking for, and mistakenly takes a Great Dane, leaving the actual Roger behind. He brings the dog home and tells him that he needs Jeannie to turn him back to Roger so that they can work on a report for work together. Dr. Bellows catches him talking to the dog and becomes suspicious. Jeannie returns, laughing because Tony has brought back the wrong dog. Tony returns to the pound and gets the real Roger poodle. Unfortunately, and man named Mr. Asher (Norman Burton) has bought the dog for his son Keith (Kevin Tate), so Tony is forced to pay $450 to retrieve Roger. He brings him to work to have him help with the report by barking while they wait for Jeannie to reappear. Dr. Bellows again catches him, and when Tony tells him that the poodle isn’t his, Dr. Bellows takes it and tells him that they are going to use the dog to send him into space. Tony returns home and begs Jeannie to turn the dog back into Roger, so she goes to see him, but whenever she turns him back, Roger maintains that he is going to take Tony on the date with the Miss Universe contestants. Eventually, Tony has no choice but to tell Dr. Bellows that the poodle is Roger. Bellows rushes out to get General Peterson to listen to Tony. Jeannie shows up and realizes that Tony is about to jeopardize his career, so she turns Roger back into a human. Fortunately for Dr. Bellows, he has reconsidered bringing in General Peterson, and is once again left utterly confused. Roger decides to keep his mouth shut about the date with the models. However, as Jeannie and Tony are heading out for dinner, one of the Miss Universe contestants calls about the date, so Tony realizes why Jeannie turned Roger into a dog. He decides to go on the date with Roger and beauties, but when they arrive at the house, Jeannie turns both of the girls into dogs. 2/17/23
• 037. The Fastest Gun in the East – 10/24/1966
  • Tony is watching an old Western film on TV and mentions to Jeannie how much he wished he could have lived during that time. Jeannie immediately transports him to Gopher Junction in the old West, where he is suddenly the Marshall of the town and under immediate attack by a mean cowboy named Bull (Hoyt Axton). The local banker Horace Sedgwick (Whit Bissell) stop Bull from shooting at Tony and takes him into the Sheriff’s office to meet his prisoner Eddie Sheridan (Eddie Firestone). Sedgwick tells Tony that Sheridan has been felt guilty for killing a couple from whom he is caught rustling cattle. However, Sheridan tells Tony that he was framed by the Unholy Ten, a gang trying to take over all of the land in the area. He claims they will hang him rather than take him to prison so that they can then claim his family’s land. Tony goes to the Silver Dollar Saloon, where he finally find Jeannie, who is disguised as a dancing hall girl. Bull and his friend Al (Fred Krone) pick on Tony, and Bull shoots a row of whisky bottles. With Jeannie’s help, Tony shots seven shot glasses with six bullets. Sheriden’s sister Georgia (Stephanie Hill) comes in and begs for Tony’s help to free her brother, but Jeannie doesn’t like it when she starts hanging all over Tony. Jeannie then causes him to miss every shot when Bull challenges him again. Bull and his friends Al and Josh (Bud Perkins) try to rough up Tony, but Sedgewick saves him again. Georgia comes in and says that some of the townsmen are breaking into the jail to lynch Eddie. Tony stops the crowd by throwing out tear gas grenades that Jeannie creates. A cowboy named Josh (Bud Perkins) tells them all that the Unholy Ten are now stealing the Sheridans’ cattle. Jeannie makes the cattle travel in reverse back to their land. Sheridan tips his hand when he tries to tell Sheridan that he won’t be able to pay his mortgage without his cattle. Bull and his men return to town and tell Sedgwick that they lost the cattle. Bull challenges Tony to a duel, but Jeannie makes his gun stick in his holster, and causes his other men’s guns to melt and explode. Tony accuses Sedgwick of orchestrating the entire plot of the Unholy Ten, and when he tries to deny it, Bull rats on him. Tony sends them all to jail. When Georgia tries to hug and kiss him too long, Jeannie sends Tony back home and he disappears on the spot. Jeannie then wakes him up in front of the TV, and he tells Jeannie all about the Western dream he had. He is puzzled, however, once he realizes he is still wearing boots with spurs on them. Richard Reeves is the cowboy who says “let’s get ’em boys!” 7/24/23
• 038. How to Be a Genie in 10 Easy Lessons – 10/31/1966
  • When Jeannie forces Tony to eat breakfast by forcing food in his mouth, he tells her that he has already eaten breakfast, then tells her how she keeps screwing things up and going overboard with everything he says. When he tells Roger how much trouble he is having, Roger begs him to let him have her, but when Tony refuses, Roger suggests that he give her lessons. Tony likes the idea and buys Jeannie the book Tales of the Arabian Knights and tells Jeannie to use it as a textbook on how to behave as a genie. Jeannie tells Tony that she can’t do the things the book says as Tony wouldn’t like it, but he insists that she follow it to the letter. He doesn’t realize that the book instructs genies to catch their masters by surprise and torture them. When she asks Tony to reconsider, he tells her to do as it says in the book or leave the house for good. Jeannie goes to get Roger’s advice, and when she tells him that Major Nelson will hate her if she does what is in the book, Roger tells her that she simply must do it all. That night when Tony heads to bed, he lies on a bed of nails. Tony tells Roger about it, and trying to provoke their break-up, Roger suggests that he be firmer in making her read and memorize the book. She then gives him a tiny cot and tells him that he has to sleep on it, while she goes to sleep in his room and puts an iron gate over his door. Dr. Bellows stops by and doesn’t even want to know why the gate is there. Roger once again advises Tony that Jeannie has run amok and that he should insist again that he read the book. When he insists that she do what is in chapter ten, so she suspends him over a group of hungry crocodiles. This concerns Roger a bit, so he tells Jeannie that her master has run amok and that she should find a new master. Roger convinces her that the only way to make him happy is to leave him and make Roger her master. Jeannie pulls Tony away from the crocodiles, and then tells him that Major Healy told her that he has run amok. Tony figure out that Roger is behind this and decides to pay him back by picking out a random chapter in the book and having Jeannie perform what it says: to send Roger to sit atop a tiny iceberg in the Arctic. Tony apologizes for trying to change Jeannie in the first place, and the pair reconcile. 7/24/23
• 039. Who Needs a Green-Eyed Jeannie? – 11/7/1966
  • Tony comes home from work and tells Jeannie that he is going out with an old friend from Ohio. At first, he calls the friend “Susie” and then clarifies that it is a man named Charlie Susie. Jeannie naturally believes he is lying, so she creates a jail cell in the living room and locks him in there all night. Roger stops by and offers to go get him a hacksaw to break out, so Jeannie sends Roger to the top of the Empire State Building. Dr. Bellows also stops by, and although tempted to go get General Peterson to witness it, he knows that by the time he gets back, the jail cell will be gone. The next morning, Jeannie lets Tony out of the cell, and Tony persists with his story that Charlie Susie is really the man’s name he was going to meet. She doesn’t buy it… until Tony gets a phone call from Charlie Susie asking him where he was last night. Jeannie is then sorry and apologetic to Tony for not believing him and promises to believe him from now on. She promises him that she will let him re-schedule the date for that night. When Tony gets to work, he admits to Roger that it was all a ruse and that the real date was for that night all along. Tony makes the date for that night with a real ex-girlfriend named Joan Sheldon (Joan Patrick), whom he hasn’t see in six years. When Roger stops by to see Tony and finds that he’s already left for the date, he begins to behave suspiciously, causing Jeannie to track down Tony and turn Joan into a chimpanzee. When Tony gets home, he begins to pack and tells Jeannie that he is leaving his own house since it doesn’t feel like his any longer. Jeannie promises to curtail her jealously and even to let him go back out with Joan again. Jeannie dutifully stays away from him, but then Roger brings over a newspaper revealing that Joan had been married to a mobster named “Two-Gun” Richard Sheldon (Ted de Corsia), who has escaped prison and is coming after Joan. Tony resumes his date where he left off, and she has no memory of their previous date and behaves exactly the same way as she had the night before. However, this time she gives Tony a brown box to hold for her. Roger tries to convince Jeannie to go over to her place and save Tony, but she insists that she promised to stay away. Sure enough, Two-Gun and his henchman Otto (Orville Sherman) show up at the apartment. Two-Gun tries to threaten and scare Tony, but he believes that he is Jeannie in disguise, so he threatens to spank her and make her write sentences. When Jeannie finally shows up, Tony realizes that Two-Gun is a real thug and becomes quite apologetic. Jeannie then simulates police sirens wailing and machine gun gunfire coming through the windows. Two-Gun and Otto finally give up, and Tony takes both of them plus Joan to the police station. Later, Tony enjoys a quiet night playing Checkers with Jeannie, while she makes sure that the phone stays off the hook at their house. 11/21/23
• 040. The Girl Who Never Had a Birthday: Part 1 – 11/14/1966
  • Tony asks Jeannie for help getting ready for Roger’s birthday party, so she produces a rare tiger much like they would have for parties in her day. Naturally, Dr. Bellows stops by to let Tony know that General Peterson wants to see Roger and him in the computer room at work and is puzzled by the tiger being there. Jeannie laments that she never had a birthday party since she has never known when her birthday was. Tony encourages her to go home and talk to her parents and family to see if she can figure out the date. He and Roger then go to work and check out the new five-million-dollar computer system known as ERIC – Electronic Rapid Input Computer – that can supposedly solve any problem that it is presented with. Jeannie comes back sad because everyone remembers a different month when her birthday took place, so she still is no closer to finding it. Tony tries to talk her through finding the records of her birth, and she recalls that Emperor Caligula had sent all of the records to ancient Rome, so she heads there to see what she can find. It turns out that they had all burned, so she again comes up short. Tony suggests that they simply pick and date and celebrate on the chosen date, but she insists she wants her own, accurate date. Tony decides they should try to feed ERIC with the information that they have, which is that it was about 2000 years ago and that Neptune was in Scorpio. Roger initially gets cold feet about using ERIC in this way, but when Jeannie starts to lose her powers, and then begins to vanish, explaining that this is what happens when she gets sad, he agrees to help Tony try to get info from ERIC. While Tony plugs the info into ERIC, Roger stands outside as the lookout, but when Dr. Bellows shows up unexpectedly, Roger isn’t quick enough to warn Tony. Bellows questions what they are doing there but buys that he is simply looking for optimal launch times. However, when the results spew out of ERIC, Bellows demands to see them. They learn that Jeannie was born in 64 BC, but he refuses to tell them the date, and insists that they are not to use ERIC for this type of nonsense, ordering them to use a third person to plug in data if they want to use it. He takes the information to General Peterson, and he tells Bellows to restore Tony’s access to ERIC as soon as he gets back from his trip to Alaska. Jeannie gets stuck in Tony’s office since her powers have nearly completely waned. She only has enough energy to blink herself into Tony’s desk. With Tony leaving for Alaska in the morning and Dr. Bellows getting ready to move into Tony’s office while Tony is gone and Dr. Bellows’ office getting painting, Jeannie has no opportunity to get out. Tony plans to try and get the birthday from ERIC again before he leaves. NOTE: This is the first of a two-part episode. 11/21/23
• 041. The Girl Who Never Had a Birthday: Part 2 – 11/21/1966
  • With Jeannie stuck in Tony’s desk drawer and Dr. Bellows now occupying the office, Tony sends Roger to try and get Jeannie’s birthday from ERIC again. This time, at Roger’s suggestion, they incorporate her personality traits in order to determine the date using Astrology. Tony goes to visit Dr. Bellows to try and help Jeannie get out of the desk, so he tells Dr. Bellows that he urgently needs to lie down on the couch and discuss some issues. He tells Dr. Bellows that after losing a dog as a child, he is now compelled to steal every animal he sees, from dogs to farm animals. Roger obtains Jeannie’s birthday using the information and rushes back to Tony’s office. Tony the tells Dr. Bellows that everything he told him was merely a dream and nothing more. Dr. Bellows leaves the room, and Jeannie is so happy to hear that her birthday has been discovered that she is able to make herself normal sized again. Roger insists on giving clues to the birth date, and then when Dr. Bellows returns with General Peterson, Jeannie has to disappear. Peterson tells Tony that since he is in the middle of therapy with Dr. Bellows, he is going to send Roger on the mission to Alaska instead. When Tony gets home, Jeannie is furious that Roger never revealed the date before being whisked away. Roger calls from Alaska, but again, misses his chance to reveal the date by making Tony continue guessing, before a fellow officer (Kenneth Washington) pulls Roger away again. In order to placate Jeannie, Tony offers to throw her a pre-birthday party, and he brings her flowers and a genie bottle necklace. Jeannie decides to spice up the party by bringing in some historical guests including Sigmund Freud (Larry Gelman), William Shakespeare (Martin Ashe), Benjamin Franklin (Bart Greene), Cleopatra (Diane Stanton), King Henry VIII (Jack Fife), and Marie Antoinette (Siri). Naturally, Dr. Bellows shows up and is fascinated by the guests but thinks that he just wanted invited to Tony’s masquerade party. After he leaves, Tony demands that Jeannie get rid of all of the guests… except for Dr. Freud, whom he wants to talk to about his ‘Jeannie’ problems. The next morning as they bask in the afterglow of the party, Jeannie tells Tony how exciting it will be to get to know her birthday and when she turns older each year. However, after thinking about turning older, she starts to panic at the thought of actually knowing her birthday. 4/2/24
• 042. How Do You Beat Superman? – 11/28/1966
  • As Jeannie is waiting for Roger to return so she can find out her birthday, she gets upset with Tony because he seems more interested in listening to the football game than paying attention to her. In order to make Tony jealous, she tells Jeannie that she met a man named Tony Millionaire (Mike Road) at the supermarket who is interested in her. When Tony still doesn’t seem concerned, Jeannie produces a man named Tony Millionaire to come to the door. When he courts her, asks her out, and kisses her hand, Tony does in fact start to become jealous and demands that Jeannie not go out with him. Jeannie tells him that she might be falling in love with Millionaire. Now almost frantic, Tony calls Roger in Alaska in order to get Jeannie’s birthdate so he can surprise her with it and make her forget Millionaire, but once again their conversation is interrupted by General Peterson while Roger takes too long to get out the answer. Tony comes home and asks Jeannie to go to dinner, but she tells him that she does not want to interrupt his football game, and that she already has a date with Tony Millionaire. That night, Jeannie stays out with her date until after 3am, prompting Tony to wait up for her and then read her the riot act, while pretending not to care. Jeannie produces a diamond ring on her finger and tells Tony that she and her beau are now engaged. Tony attempts to contact Roger in his plane, but the jump master (Julius Johnson) tells Roger that he needs to bail out, so once again he does not reveal the date. Tony tries to ask Jeannie out on a romantic date again, but Jeannie maintains that her fiancé is very jealous, and they plan to be married on Saturday. After Jeannie tells Tony that what she wants more than anything in the world is to marry the man she loves, Tony agrees to give her away at the wedding. General Peterson notices how distracted Tony is, and he advises him that if he is truly in love, to go tell the girl and win her over. Tony heads home with flowers and sees Jeannie through the window making Tony Millionaire materialize. Since he now knows that Millionaire isn’t real, he comes in and tells Jeannie how happy he is for Jeannie and much he is looking forward to the wedding. Jeannie blames Millionaire for getting him into this and makes him disappear. Jeannie tells Tony that Millionaire is no longer her fiancé and admits that she conjured him up. Jeannie becomes furious that Tony let her go through with the embarrassing charade and sticks him to the ceiling. The next time Tony is watching football and ignores her, Jeannie heads out to the supermarket, prompting Tony to insist on coming. Jeannie freezes the game for him until they return. Fred Essler aka Fred Hessler is the football announcer. 4/2/24

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