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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