It's still incomprehensible to me that Larry Hagman looked back on that show with such disdain.
Well he was a flaming lib so he wasn’t too smart.
Just to add, it seems lots of the actors ans musicians that become typecast to the role/song that made them famous often resent it. Gary Numan was like that with the “Cars” song. He finially got over it but some never do.
“It’s still incomprehensible to me that Larry Hagman looked back on that show with such disdain.”
I read about that. It was the poor scripts. A few basic story lines were recycled over and over again. Hagman and others tried to get the producer to come up with better material but were ignored.
I think the first few episodes were the best, a new series with great potential. As soon as Major Roger Healey became privy to Jeannie’s true nature, the series quickly went downhill. His character was too buffoonish to watch, and the stupid laugh tracks didn’t help either. Hagman and Eden were great actors, but didn’t have much else to work with.