15 Things You Never Knew About ‘I Dream of Jeannie’

7. Larry Hagman handled his frustration with booze

Apparently Larry got frustrated with how the show was written quite often, so he drank away his sorrows. “He started every day at the studio drinking vast quantities of champagne, and in between scenes, he sequestered himself in his dressing room, smoking pot and downing yet more champagne, all in the interests of maintaining a calm serenity.” He underwent a liver transplant in 1995, no doubt due to his heavy drinking.

8. They changed the storyline of why Jeannie was a genie

Initially the story went that Jeannie was turned into a genie and stuck in the bottle for refusing to marry Blue Djinn (who was played by her real life husband), but later they changed the story to say that Jeannie and her family had always been genies.

9. The cast met Buzz Aldrin before the Apollo 11 mission

Since Larry’s character was an astronaut, the cast once took a visit to Cape Canaveral Florida where Barbara-in costume-launched a weather rocket. Then they went to a dinner where Barbara was honored and got to meet Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon.