My Favorite Martian
Exigius Twelve and a Half, an exoanthropologist from the planet Mars, becomes stranded on Earth after his one-man spaceship narrowly misses a NASA rocket plane and crashes near Los Angeles. The alien is rescued by Tim O'Hara, a newspaper reporter who explains the Martian to friends and authorities by introducing him as his Uncle Martin. "Uncle Martin" looks human, exc... Read all
Cast:Ray Walston , Bill Bixby , Pamela Britton , Alan Hewitt , J. Pat O'Malley , Roy Engel , Lee Krieger , Hal Baylor , Harry Lauter , Cliff Norton , Ann Marshall , Bernie Kopell , Howard Morton , Dick Wilson , Olan Soule , Lillian Culver , Michael Barrier , Paul Sorensen
S2.E1 ∙ Dreaming Can Make It So
Mrs. Brown makes her brownies using low fat margarine. When Martin eats some, it changes his constitution, changing his dreams from 2D to 3D and they don't go away. Things get urgent when he materializes a piece of Martian explosive.
S2.E2 ∙ The Memory Pill
Martin uses his memory-wiping machine on Tim, which causes him to fear his "Uncle" and out him as a martian to Mrs. Brown and the authorities, so Martin wipes Mrs Brown's memory, then his very own.
S2.E3 ∙ Three to Make Ready
Martin creates a neuro cerebral stimulator to help him decide if he should go home in a rocket to Mars or stay on Earth. A lightning strike to the stimulator causes Martin to split into 3 Martins: two of them decisive and one indecisive.
S2.E4 ∙ Nothing But the Truth
Dulcy, Henry and Stanley, Mrs. Browns' sister and her husband and son, come for a visit. Stanley is a boy with a vivid imagination but Henry sternly suppresses. Stanley sees Martin's spaceship but Henry insists it is his imagination.
S2.E5 ∙ Dial M for Martin
While fixing Mrs. Brown's TV antenna, Tim accidentally cuts a live telephone wire which hits Martin, in turn changing him into a live telephone. They keep explaining away the mysterious phone ringing and voices to her and Det. Brennan.
S2.E6 ∙ Extra! Extra! Sensory Perception!
Tim is writing a series on ESP. When he unavoidably brings the professor, the subject of his story, to the apartment, Martin hides his ESP so he can't read his thoughts. In the process, Mrs. Brown gets his ESP and regresses to a toddler.
S2.E7 ∙ My Uncle the Folk Singer
At a flagging folk music club, Martin unwittingly consumes cinnamon which causes him to playback any one of his many internal recordings of Earth music. His "singing" is a hit with club patrons. Tim is dating the club owner who wants more.
S2.E8 ∙ The Great Brain Robbery
For income, Martin starts tutoring. His student is Eddie, son of a brilliant Air Force Captain who wants him to enter the Air Force Academy. Eddie is defiant but in their lesson his silver braces transfer out Martin's mastery into him.
S2.E9 ∙ Double Trouble
Martin creates a replicating machine, the duplicates from which only have a limited lifespan. Tim accidentally duplicates Mrs. Brown and Det. Brennan takes out the duplicate on a date. At the restaurant, a second Det. Brennan is produced.
S2.E10 ∙ Has Anybody Seen My Electro-Magnetic Neutron Converting Gravitator?
Martin has his spaceship in the woods, prepping for a test light. While he and Tim are away, Peter, a runaway 6 year old, finds the ship and manages to take a flight. When he returns home, no one believes him but he has Martin's gadget.
S2.E11 ∙ Don't Rain on My Parade
During a dry hot spell, a neighbor tries a rain dance and rain machine, saying both worked in the old country. With the machine, he blasts Martin, causing him to tear a hole in a cloud with his finger that causes an endless deluge of rain.
S2.E12 ∙ The Night Life of Uncle Martin
Martin overworks himself, calculating a low fuel flight to Mars. This causes his subconscious self Pierre to materialize when he sleeps. Pierre is a womanizer who plays with Flossie's affections, promising elopement. Her brother insists.
S2.E13 ∙ To Make a Rabbit Stew, First Catch a Martian
Pammie's pet rabbit, Cleo, eats one of Martin's vitamins and grows into a human-sized rabbit on the same day Lorolei plans a costume party including Brennan. Martin develops the antidote but Cleo is more interested in Lorolei's fruit hat.
S2.E14 ∙ Won't You Come Home, Uncle Martin, Won't You Come Home?
Martin has a benevolence light bulb that when shone on Martians, permeates them with a "like me" glow. Tim gets in front of the bulb for fun, and later finds out from Martin that it has the exact opposite effect on humans: it permeates them with a "hate me" glow. Martin needs to find some fluorencium - an unknown substance to humans although Martin knows where to find some - to counteract the bulb's effect on Tim. Beyond Mrs. Brown wanting to evict him, Tim has an important job interview that day, and tries his hardest first to postpone it, and when he can't then second to avoid it. Tim is on the verge of losing his apartment, his girlfriend and his job, when Martin returns with the fluorencium.
S2.E15 ∙ The Case of the Missing Sleuth
Martin creates an Ultrasonic Microcosmic Molecular Separator, a device that breaks objects down to their individual molecules - because the molecules are so small, the object is now invisible to the naked eye - and puts them back together. Det. Brennan zaps himself. While Martin and Tim are out in the garage momentarily, Mrs. Brown unknowingly vacuums up his molecules and throws them in the trash. Luckily, Martin is able to retrieve them all. But before Martin can put him back together, the police department starts an investigation on the missing Det. Brennan. However during the mêlée of the investigation, Martin and Tim lose one molecule and need to find it before they can put him back together again.
S2.E16 ∙ How Are Things in Glocca, Martin?
Tim's rich but frugal Uncle Seamus visits America, looking for an old flame Eileen. He knows there is no "Uncle Martin" and is suspicious. Seamus sees Martin doing Martian trickery and thinks he's a leprechaun. He demands to be led to her.
S2.E17 ∙ Gesundheit, Uncle Martin
A sneezaphobia day, occurring every 300 years, causes Martin to temporarily become forgetful. He knows a remedy that includes a key ingredient. He writes the ingredient name on a paper and puts in a book that Tim unknowingly loans out.
S2.E18 ∙ Martian Report #1
Martin is preparing a report which suggests Earth children be frozen their adults, sparing them the gloom of being unproductive. Challenged by Tim, Martin tests on Doris, a girl from an orphanage. They have fun until Doris sees the report.
S2.E19 ∙ Uncle Martin and the Identified Flying Object
Martin's finger is uncontrollable due to sun overexposure and causes flying objects in Mrs. Brown's apartment. She brings in a psychic phenomenon expert. A Martian sedative buys time but energy builds and could burst, causing catastrophe.
S2.E20 ∙ A Martian Fiddles Around
Mrs. Brown plays on a bad violin, causing Martin to become transparent. He knows he can't convince her to stop playing, so he breaks and fixes its fundamental structure. The violin maker, Mr. Almafi, thinks he has finally perfected it.
S2.E21 ∙ Humbug, Mrs. Brown
Martin learns Mrs. Brown is in financial straits from her overgenerous nature. Martin gives her subliminal messages to save money and they have an extreme effect. Not trusting the bank, she withdraws all her money and a thief is nearby.
S2.E22 ∙ Crash Diet
Tim tinkers with Uncle Martin's ship, shrinking it to the size of a toy.
S2.E23 ∙ Gone But Not Forgotten
Martin gets a splinter of invisflex in his finger, so that everything he touches becomes invisible. What's worse, in the process, Martin loses his dime-shaped Martian Identity Disk, his so called "dog tag" on which contains all his personal information. The disk, when in trouble, sends out a verbal distress signal. Mrs. Brown stops by with some of her world famous brownies when she notices that some of Tim's furniture is "missing"; rather than say they're invisible, Tim tells her that they were stolen, which prompts her to call in Det. Brennan. As soon as Det. Brennan arrives on the scene, all the furniture reappears in the yard. During the investigation, he picks up Martin's coat in the pocket of which is his ID Disk. The detective takes the coat and the disk to the police station for his investigation. Upon its return to Martin, the coat is without the ID disk, which the detective took and inserts into a vending machine. Martin has to get it out of the machine before it starts sending out its "mysterious voice" distress signal. Martin manages to get it out of the machine, however in front of Det. Brennan. Martin's invisiflexed finger aids in hiding it from the good detective.
S2.E24 ∙ Stop, or I'll Steam
Det. Brennan irritates Martin more than usual, making him literally "let off steam" and causes him to dehydrate. Brennan hurts his back helping paint the house and is ordered to bed rest there, impeding Martin's ability to remedy himself.
S2.E25 ∙ The Magnetic Personality and Who Needs It
Tim accidentally magnetizes Martin, turning him into a living magnet. Martin is able to demagnetize himself but his magnetized particles are put on the hands of Mrs. Brown's handyman, a reformed pickpocket, attracting her brooch in hand.
S2.E26 ∙ We Love You, Miss Pringle
Miss Pringle, Tim's old no nonsense high school English teacher, stops by his apartment. She was and is the faculty advisor for the school newspaper, she being the one who got Tim first interested in becoming a journalist. The students have chosen him as this year's alumnus to sit on the committee to choose the teacher of the year. She also announces to Tim that she is retiring this year, but Martin finds out that she is not too happy about it despite her outward appearance of happiness. She has in reality been visiting many old students in an attempt to validate her life work. Martin suggests that Tim try and get Miss Pringle nominated, a difficult task because she is and was such a tough teacher. The current students do see Miss Pringle in the same light, and she realizes it. Her doing the Watusi for them does show a different side of the tough as nails teacher, but it's not enough. But in a discussion with the school Principal, Miss Pringle fights for the rights of the students, something that she's always done in private behind closed doors without wanting the credit. This discussion does become public knowledge as Martin broadcasts it over the school's PA system. She does become teacher of the year, and she is surprised and touched. She now knows her life work was not in vain.
S2.E27 ∙ Uncle Baby
Martin feels old and seeks rejuvenation using a special light. He needs 4 seconds of exposure and Tim messes it up, causing Martin to become an infant. Brennan stops by, thinks Tim has an abandoned infant and takes Martin to the hospital.
S2.E28 ∙ Once Upon a Martian Mother's Day
Martin misses his mother on Martian Mother's Day so he projects a 3D image of her. He then runs into Miss Cora, a spinster who is her doppelganger. Touched, he temporarily turns her worthless ring into a gem. She sells it to a jeweler.
S2.E29 ∙ Uncle Martin's Bedtime Story
Martin rigs Tim's radio to receive signals from the air force base of a coming launch to Mars. Mrs. Brown buys a hydraulic bed that has a spring synced to Martin's brain and tunes her into his thoughts while in bed. Brennan sleeps in it.
S2.E30 ∙ 006 3/4
Tim inadvertently acquires a distress note from Agent 006 of TopSecte, an organization to prevent worldwide hostilities. A nefarious organization is tracking him. The guys go to TopSecte headquarters where Tim is recruited as a temp agent.
S2.E31 ∙ Never Trust a Naked Martian
Tim touches one of Martin's antennae and lands in the 4th dimension. He becomes invisible and is in limbo. Martin finds a small crack into the dimension but it's getting smaller with time. He thinks Tim can make it running through.
S2.E32 ∙ Martin's Favorite Martian
Martin and Tim are in Death Valley to look for restorium, a material to fix the spaceship damaged by smog. Martin is away and Tim puts on his spacesuit and plays with his laser gun. He is spotted by a man and kids who think he's a Martian.
S2.E33 ∙ The Martian's Fair Hobo
Martin thinks he has made contact with a Martian space patrol.
S2.E34 ∙ A Martian Sonata in Mrs. B's Flat
Martin has distilled art music into liquid form. Thinking it's perfume, Mrs. Brown is transformed into a piano virtuoso and wows her music club. They want her in an upcoming fundraiser. The guys persuade a true concert pianist to join her.
S2.E35 ∙ The Green-Eyed Martian
Martin plans to use his serum spray on Mrs. Brown so she will attract a rival suitor and rid them of Det. Brennan so he has freedom to develop fuel for his spaceship. The serum works too well, infatuating Brennan, the butcher and Martin.
S2.E36 ∙ El Señor from Mars
Martin flies to Mexico as a treasure chest is found that has a tablet marking his arrival on Earth to Aztecs with a carving of his likeness. Tim goes along and they find the chest is guarded. Martin pops peppers that mess with his antenna.
S2.E37 ∙ Time Out for Martin
Martin builds a time machine to go back in time and avoid his crash to earth. Tim sees 1200 displayed on it and "corrects" it to 1215 and they are sent to that year in England. Tim stops a fight and ends up with the Magna Carta en route.
S2.E38 ∙ Portrait in Brown
Martin builds a machine that turns 3D items into 2D for compact packing in his spaceship. Mrs. Brown gets zapped, soon to be permanent. Brennan thinks she's a painting and gets her in an art gallery. The guys sneak in and find art thieves.
