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I Dream of Jeannie - Russian Roulette
episode 1.13
USA 1965
produced by Sidney Sheldon for Sidney Sheldon Productions, Screen Gems/NBC
directed by E.W. Swackhamer
starring Barbara Eden, Larry Hagman, Arlene Martel, Hayden Rorke, Bill Daily, Richard Gilden, John Beck, Joseph Azar, Lael Jackson, George DeNormand, Paul Reed
written by Arthur Alsberg, Bob Fisher, created by Sidney Sheldon, music by Richard Wess
TV-series I Dream of Jeannie
review by Mike Haberfelner
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NASA major Tony Nelson (Larry Hagman) is just not ready to make this
one commitment to his genie Jeannie (Barbara Eden) - which drives her up
the wall, to such an extent that she threatens to date Major Healie (Bill
Daily), Tony's best friend who's madly in love with her ... until of
course Tony promises her to at least stay away from other women - a
promise he promptly breaks when he professionally has to entertain sexy
Sonya (Arlene Martel), a Russian cosmonaut on a goodwill tour. To prevent
Jeannie from entervening, Tony seals her up inside her bottle, but then
the bottle gets into - of all people - Sonya's hands, and Sonya opens the
bottle and becomes Jeannie's new master. Thank God then that Sonya's
wishes are all pretty trivial, and she actually becones a capitalist in no
time having a genie, and before anyone knows it, Jeannie's back with Tony. Not
exactly the episode this series will be remembered by, this episode it
funny fo two reasons ... one being quite obviously that Barbara Eden and
Larry Hagman work so incredibly well together, but the other being the
episode's rather obvious anti-communist undercurrents (somehow comparable
to Ninotchka, actually) that
from today's point of view seem incredibly cute - which of course is not
saying much about the inherent quality of the episode as such, but it's
pretty much safe to say you'll get a chuckle out of it one way or the
other.
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