For those born on another planet or under the age of 40, Eden played a genie discovered and released by astronauts Hagman and Dailey, bound to permanently serve Hagman. In my book, Barbara Eden is the most attractive female actress ever, period. You could have tough competition for second, maybe Julie Christie, Deborah Paget or Kim Novak could fight it out. Eden's on-screen personality certainly enhances her looks, particularly as the please-at-all-costs, devoted but perpetually flaky Jeannie. Just the concept with a stunner like Eden in the lead role makes this hard to dismiss, as it was there was Hagman and Dailey, both accomplished comedic actors, along for the ride. They pretty much exhausted the ways to confuse Dr. Bellows, but who the heck cares? I still try and watch an episode of this (from WGN), haven't tired of it yet. Wouldn't work today because they would never have the discipline to play this plot out with the essential innocence intact, but for me this is in the top ten TV sitcoms of all time.
Review of I Dream of Jeannie
