"The Lady in the Bottle" is the pilot for I Dream of Jeannie that was picked by NBC for its Fall 1965 schedule. The episode first aired on September 18, 1965. It wouldn't air again until the fall of 1970, when the series went into syndication.
Capt. Anthony Nelson (Larry Hagman) is on a rocket, on a space mission. During re-entry in a one-man capsule named Stardust One, things go awry and he has to make an emergency landing on a desert island in ...
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"The Lady in the Bottle" is the pilot for I Dream of Jeannie that was picked by NBC for its Fall 1965 schedule. The episode first aired on September 18, 1965. It wouldn't air again until the fall of 1970, when the series went into syndication.
Capt. Anthony Nelson (Larry Hagman) is on a rocket, on a space mission. During re-entry in a one-man capsule named Stardust One, things go awry and he has to make an emergency landing on a desert island in the South Pacific. There, while gathering items on the beach to form a giant "S.O.S." in the sand, he finds an old bottle that seems to move. When he opens it, smoke pours out, and a 2000-year-old beautiful blonde-haired girl named Jeannie (Barbara Eden) appears, dressed in "harem" clothing and speaking in Persian {in the unaired version of the episode, her first words to him are translated on screen as,"Your wish is my command, Master"}, and gratefully kisses him. Tony, shocked at first, realizes she's a genie, and that she can get him off...
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