"My Master, the Author" opens with Jeannie so upset with a mother's mistreatment of her son at the museum that she spends the next month writing a book on rearing children, eventually signing Tony's name to it. No one is more surprised than Major Nelson to find the newly published tome to become a best seller, except perhaps Dr. Bellows, naturally suspicious as to how a single astronaut can write a book on raising children. Chapter 13 shows how Tony can take one evening to turn a delinquent into a well adjusted young man, so Dr. Bellows offers his nephew Richard (Butch Patrick from THE MUNSTERS), while General Peterson brings over his withdrawn granddaughter Gina (Kimberly Beck). Eventually Richard (who aspires to join the Mafia) and Gina hit it off, to the amazement of Major Nelson himself, though with some help from Jeannie. Tony previously had trouble with a child in "Whatever Became of Baby Custer?" and later in "Jeannie and the Curious Kid."
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