I Dream of Jeannie is an American fantasy sitcom starring Barbara Eden as a 2,000-year-old genie and Larry Hagman as an astronaut who becomes her master, with whom she falls in love and whom she eventually marries.
After orbiting the Earth in Stardust One, Air Force captain and astronaut Tony Nelson crash lands on a remote island in the South Pacific.
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).
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.
Tony gets angry when he realizes what's happened so Jeannie undoes her work by getting Dr. Bellows to think he's temporarily lost his marbles and can't trust his own findings.
Bilejik has a secret method, but will only share it if Tony produces an extravagant gift in return—like the Statue of Liberty—so Jeannie intervenes to make her ancestor play fair.
So Jeannie blinks up two rich "parents" (Oliver McGowan and Avis Scott) and a mansion across the street from Tony's house—on a vacant lot Dr. Bellows has just purchased.
Once there, they discover they must break into the First National Bank of Mecca in order to stand in the correct spot to recite the words, and are in danger of being captured by police before Tony can perform the incantation.
As he prepares for his banishment, Roger discovers two stage magicians illicitly taking up residence in his apartment and concludes Jeannie and Tony have granted his wish for his own genie after all.
Jeannie plants herself in the hospital as a nurse, and as Dr. Bellows brings a skeptical Gen. Peterson to the operating room to expose Tony, she helps him escape the unmasking.
When Jeannie gives her Master a crack golf swing, General Peterson sees it and is so impressed that he recruits Tony as his partner for a game against a longtime rival.
Recognizing its authenticity, two art critics, Dr. Van Weesen (Jonathan Hole) and Dean Geller (Booth Colman), try to outbid each other for Tony's painting.
To protect the princess, Tony pretends to want a list of extravagant things (like a pineapple farm in Alaska) that he hopes will take Jeannie the duration of the visit to blink up.
To make good on the claims, Tony has to convert Dr. Bellows's obnoxious and unruly nephew (Butch Patrick) into "a bundle of love" in a single evening.
Jeannie hears Tony say he thinks the flight should have a human pilot so she turns Sam into a man (Larry Storch), and heads off to a beauty salon.
Publicity of the pin attracts “Charles” (Milton Berle), a con artist, who poses as the wealthy man of whom he's actually the servant, a Mr. Vanderhaven (Fred Clark).
Roger and Tony must participate in an experimental fitness program directed by ruthless exercise fanatic Commander Kiski (Don Rickles), who thinks they're "softies" and need to learn survival techniques.
Jeannie picks four random hipsters (Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart along with William Lewis and Steve O'Reilly) and blinks them musical skills so they can play the bazaar and get Tony off the hook.
She gets angry when she sees him swarmed by bikini-clad girls, but Tony comes up with a new lie in which he's protecting a Princess Maja (Brenda Benet) from some devious character.
In the meantime, the safecracker and his helper steal the safe but then sell the problematic thing to a pawnbroker (Reta Shaw), who in turn sends it to a junkyard to be scrapped.
She also agrees to fill in for them in the service of The Sultan of Hyderabad for a day, leaving Tony and Roger to take care of the ceaselessly crying infant genie.
The General replaces Dr. Bellows with unorthodox psychiatrist Dr. Corbett (Joe Flynn), who intends to use truth serum and "hypnodiscs" on Tony to get him to reveal his secrets.
Tony gives a ride to hippie hitchhiker Suzie (Hilarie Thompson), who happens to be the daughter of his new commanding officer, General Schaeffer (Vinton Hayworth).
When the General shows up at Tony's house, Jeannie transforms Harold into a clean-cut, well dressed version of himself, and Suzie quickly loses interest.
Suspecting a security leak, NASA sends Tony to a secret location to finish design work on a spacecraft before he has a chance to inform Jeannie and Roger.
When a snooty home buyer comes to see the house, Jeannie makes it appear regal and opulent, blinking mansion-scale rooms behind its humble doors.
The car owners (Kay E. Kuter and Ann Morgan Guilbert), are insurance fraud scam artists, who fake injuries and sue Tony.
She finds out that Jeannie has been invited to a party welcoming Major Biff Jellico (Michael Ansara), who's returning to the space program after a long absence.
But Jeannie goes overboard with frugality, and serves a minuscule meal, along with stale bread, then introduces a young couple (Larry Bishop and Maggie Thrett) she's taken in as boarders.
Guest star: Dick Van Patten as Market Clerk Jeannie has been happily married for 15 years to her astronaut husband Tony Nelson (Wayne Rogers) and has a teenage son, T. J.