Just Our Luck
originally aired on ABC
Just Our Luck is an American sitcom that aired on ABC for 12 episodes from September 20 to December 27, 1983. Created by brothers Lawrence and Charles Gordon, it was considered a modernized version of the 1960s sitcom I Dream of Jeannie. It starred Richard Gilliland as a mild-mannered TV weatherman for KPOX-TV, and T. K. Carter as a hip, fun-loving 3,000-year-old genie who is freed by Gilliland after being imprisoned in his bottle for nearly two centuries. The NAACP charged the show with promoting negative stereotypes of African-Americans. It was cancelled after three months.