The trouble begins when Jeannie catches a nasty cold. Just before Major Tony Nelson, Major Roger Healey, and Commander Leslie Wingate (played by Richard Mulligan) blast off for a moon mission, Jeannie gives Tony a passionate goodbye kiss, unintentionally passing her germs to him. A Blinking Error
Thus begins the titular race: . The title is a clever pun on Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days , replacing the slow-moving hot air balloons and trains with Jeannie’s instantaneous blinks. However, the twist is that Jeannie doesn’t transport the space capsule itself. Instead, she uses her magic to simulate the journey, creating illusions of rapid, exotic travel while Tony sits in a training simulator. I Dream of Jeannie 4x23 Around the World in 80 Blinks