Jeannie blinks Tony to ancient Persia to defend her honor while Jeannie announces to her parents that this is the man she plans to marry.Jeannie blinks Tony to ancient Persia to defend her honor while Jeannie announces to her parents that this is the man she plans to marry.Jeannie blinks Tony to ancient Persia to defend her honor while Jeannie announces to her parents that this is the man she plans to marry.
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Eumenio Blanco
- Arab
- (uncredited)
Paul Frees
- Narrator
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Kelton Garwood
- Shirt-Ripping Guard
- (uncredited)
Bobby Gilbert
- Auction Attendee
- (uncredited)
Hans Moebus
- Vendor
- (uncredited)
Sammy Shack
- Vendor
- (uncredited)
Tony Urchel
- Guard
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaBarbara was pregnant but hid behind veils, grocery bags or whatever was available. Although Barbara was clearly not pregnant in the The Lady in the Bottle (1965), this episode didn't air until about 9 months after that.
- GoofsIt was established in the previous episode that Jeannie was in the bottle for 2,000 years, which would put her life as a human at somewhere prior to 35 BCE. Jeannie's parents make reference to Allah, the Islamic term for the deity, but that time period predates the coming of Islam by some 660 years.
- Quotes
Anthony 'Tony' Nelson: Hey where did we get the groceries?
Jeannie: Oh, I went shopping early this morning.
Anthony 'Tony' Nelson: You left the house?
Jeannie: Yes. I had to hurry down to my neighborhood grocer to shop for your supper.
Anthony 'Tony' Nelson: Well, now, who told you to do that?
Jeannie: A man on television.
Jeannie: Figures.
- Alternate versionsAlso shown in computer colorized version for syndication and DVD release.
Featured review
Looking up to Richard Kiel
"My Hero?" was only the second episode, establishing that Captain Nelson's closest friend is Captain Roger Healey, who at this early stage remains unaware of Tony's genie. Jeannie's day shopping included being struck by a man, Tony insistent on avenging the slight, until learning that it actually occurred 2000 years before. The man in question is Ali (Richard Kiel), 'killer of all giant men,' the result being that Tony is branded a slave for Princess Fatima (Pamela Curran). The reason behind Jeannie's deception is that defending a woman is the ancient way of proposing marriage. Tony meets Jeannie's father (Henry Corden) and mother (Florence Sundstrom), though in a future episode Barbara Eden herself would play Jeannie's mother, as well as her sister. Her father confesses that his daughter was a normal human before the wicked Djinn transformed her into a genie, though, again, in future episodes she says that she was born a genie. There were mercifully few self contained episodes featuring only Jeannie and Tony, with Jeannie's mother next appearing in "What House Across the Street?"
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- kevinolzak
- Nov 3, 2016
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- Runtime25 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 4:3
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