Tony looked from his best friend eating the evidence to his genie, who was looking at him with those wide, expectant eyes, waiting for praise. He sighed, the tension draining out of him, replaced by the resignation that had become his life.
While Jeannie is eager to please Tony by granting his every wish, her "help" often backfires, creating comedic chaos for his career at NASA .
The unsung hero of the series. Bellows is the NASA psychiatrist who suspects Tony is insane (or a Russian spy) because of the bizarre reports of floating objects and disappearing houses. Rorke played him with a twitching paranoia that was both hilarious and sincere. He is the audience's stand-in—the only sane person who refuses to accept the insane reality. I Dream of Jeannie
Barbara Eden battled censors constantly. The original costume showed her navel. NBC Standards and Practices panicked. In the 1960s, a belly button on prime time was considered borderline pornography.
The show is well-known for its trumpet-driven animated opening and jazz-pop theme song composed by Hugo Montenegro. Fast Facts Tony looked from his best friend eating the
"The book," Bellows stammered. "It was a book. Now it's a... toaster?"
Dr. Bellows stood up. "Captain, I am taking this book for analysis. If NASA has developed moving, paper-thin electronic displays, I need to know why the Psychiatry division wasn't informed." The unsung hero of the series
Jeannie, who had been imprisoned by the "Blue Djinn," pledges her life to Tony as her "Master". The core conflict of the series stems from Jeannie’s attempts to use her powers to "help" Tony, which invariably leads to comedic disasters that Tony must then hide from his superiors at NASA—most notably the suspicious psychiatrist Dr. Alfred Bellows.