I Dream of Jeannie (TV Series) The Moving Finger (1965) User Reviews

A trip to Hollywood to become a movie star

[kevinolzak · 7/10 · 5 November 2016]

"The Moving Finger" opens with Tony trying to sneak off on a 10 day business trip to Hollywood, to work as a technical consultant for a movie. Jeannie naturally insists on going along, particularly as glamorous starlet Rita Mitchell (Nancy Kovack) is currently on the prowl for husband number 7. Producer Henry Tracy (Woodrow Parfrey) describes the plot of the upcoming "Fantastic Voyage," about American scientists shrunk to microscopic size, injected into the blood stream of an ailing Russian scientist to perform a delicate operation inside the human body. Disguised as Tony's secretary, Jeannie accompanies her master to Rita's dinner party, accepting an offer from Tracy to do her own screen test. The projection room is the setting for dejection, as she learns to her regret that genies cannot be photographed, though her voice is heard. Future entries sometimes disregarded this idea, but it was revived for the fifth season's wedding episode.

Consistent of Things to Come

[DKosty123 · 6/10 · 15 November 2014]

Jeannie becomes envious of a movie star - Rita Mitchell when her master Tony is assigned by NASA to be her technical director. When she tries to become a star herself she loses out at her screen test she does not show up on camera.

All of this in Hollywood, so we have a scene at Grauman's Chinese Theater in it. Ms. Mitchell is looking for husband number 7 so there are some little things that go on. A guy making a pass at Jeannie who is Tony's Secretary says to her- "where did you go to school to learn stenography?" She responds with what?" Then he winks and goes oh as if she were that kind of secretary? Not great humor but sometimes the script writers have a flat day, funnier then than now.