Bill Daily

Bill Daily plays Maj. Roger Healey on I Dream of Jeannie, the 1960s catalog astronaut pal who helps Larry Hagman’s Tony hide Barbara Eden from the program. Harem pants, suburban paranoia, a blink as plot: Daily is the accomplice with timing. He makes Sidney Sheldon’s fantasy multi-cam feel like a conspiracy of two men and a bottle.

The 1960s stop is I Dream of Jeannie, and Bill Daily occupies it as Maj. Roger Healey. NBC, 1965–1970: logistics. If you want a grip after the handshake, try s01e06: The Yacht Murder Case — early-season farce title doing double duty as spy-adjacent play, Hagman's slow burn already the engine. He does not float above the hour; he is how the hour walks.

The Bob Newhart Show later parked him as the neighbor-pilot orbit around Bob Hartley’s Chicago practice — MTM quiet comedy, lunatics around a buttoned-up lead. On TV Flash Daily is 1960s/1970s craft — Healey as the named weather, Newhart’s building as the encore, still the reason a secret and a sitcom hallway need a pal.

The Bob Newhart Show is why this card is a route, not a souvenir still as Howard Borden. Start that title at s01e01 — Fly the Unfriendly Skies opens MTM's quiet engine. Newhart already listens; Pleshette's Emily keeps the marriage dryly off-kilter; phone-bit timing. s02e01 still shows a later grip: Last TV Show is the psychologist hour eating its own medium. Buttoned-up lead surrounded by lunatics, perfected: the series arguing with television. Daily does not visit this floor; he works it.