Jeannie thinks the mission is too dangerous so tries to get Tony grounded by sabotaging the tests from her hiding place in his jacket pocket.
Bellows, the base psychiatrist and Tony's superior officer, orders him to undergo some medical tests first. Tony is scheduled to be the first American to walk in space, but Dr. Lindsay Workman appears as General William Fletcher. When Tony orders Jeannie to go home and she obeys with a magic blink, the Fergusons, who'd already caught a glimpse of them talking, conclude from her sudden disappearance that Tony has murdered her.Ĭ. Ferguson ( David Brian), an aerospace executive, and his daughter Nina ( Sharon Farrell) after Nina, who has designs on Tony, presses her father to hire him away from NASA. Jeannie follows Tony on a yacht trip with P.J. training, after which Major Margaret Fiefield ( Jane Dulo) tries her in various departments but she's disastrous at each.Įdmon Ryan appears as Col. Tony, seeing an opportunity to get Jeannie out of his hair for a while, tells her that she would be required to join the Air Force first. Jeannie misses Tony because he's working long hours, so she proposes that she become his secretary. But Tony's had second thoughts too and hides his relief when Melissa tells him of her plan to marry Grover. When Melissa's old friend Grover Caldwell ( John Hudson) enters the picture, she transfers her interest to him, believing that Tony lacks ambition and has changed from the man she knew. His fiancée, Melissa, urges him to accept the position and move up their wedding date. When Tony's prospective father-in-law accepts an ambassadorship, he offers Tony a prestigious position, but Tony is set on staying an astronaut and turns down the offer. After the mission, Roger questions Tony's easy time while he himself languished in the desert heat. After Tony injures his ankle, he stays behind as Roger goes on. "Guess What Happened on the Way to the Moon?"ĭesert survival takes a luxurious turn when Jeannie follows Tony (Captain Nelson) and Captain Roger Healey (Tony's friend and NASA partner) on a desert survival mission, and supplies Tony with food, shelter and transportation, which he must hide from Roger. Florence Sundstrom appears as Jeannie's Mother. Guest stars: Henry Corden as Jeannie's Father. When Captain Nelson sticks up for her, Jeannie interprets it as a marriage proposal and blinks off to inform her parents that she's engaged to Captain Nelson (leaving him in Ali's clutches) and intends to marry him-assuming he survives Ali. Jeannie whisks Captain Nelson off to ancient Persia in order to have him avenge her honor against the immense Ali, Killer of Giants ( Richard Kiel). Philip Ober appears as General Wingard Stone, the father of Tony's fiancée Melissa ( Karen Sharpe).
A beautiful genie appears who pledges her service to him, helps him get rescued and then follows him back to Cocoa Beach, Florida. Curious, Captain Nelson opens the bottle and burnishes the outside, which causes a column of smoke to pour out. As he's building an "SOS" message in the sand, a mysterious bottle keeps placing itself in the stranded astronaut's path. (In some cases she leaves her arms unmoved.) For this article, we use the term "blink" to denote that her literal eye blink is associated with an act of magic.Īfter orbiting the Earth in Stardust One, Air Force captain and astronaut Tony Nelson crash lands on a remote island in the South Pacific. Note: The signature head-nod-and-blink with arms crossed in an uplifted pose indicates that Jeannie is invoking magic. Episodes Season 1 (1965–66) Īll first-season episodes were originally filmed in black and white, but were colorized subsequently for the Sony DVD releases and some syndication airings.
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