Cast and Crew

Creator: Sidney Sheldon

Leading Role: Barbara Eden, Larry Hagman, Bill Daily

Summary of I Dream of Jeannie DVD Box Set

 The series was created and produced by Sidney Sheldon in response to the great success of rival network ABC's Bewitched series, which had debuted in 1964 as the second most watched program in the United States.

In the pilot episode, The Lady in the Bottle, astronaut Captain Tony Nelson, US Air Force, is on a space flight when his one-man capsule Stardust One comes down far from the planned recovery area, near a deserted island in the South Pacific. On the beach, Tony notices a strange bottle that rolls by itself. When he rubs it after removing the stopper, smoke starts shooting out and a Persian-speaking female genie materializes and kisses Tony on the lips with passion, shocking him.