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
S3.E1 ∙ Go West, Young Martian: Part 1
Brennan triggers the CCTBS, transporting the guys to 1849 St. Louis. They didn't carry the CCTBS with them so they are stuck. Using money seen as fake, Brennan's ancestor arrests and jails them. They escape and meet Mrs. Brown's ancestor.
S3.E2 ∙ Go West, Young Martian: Part 2
Thanks to the guys, Loralei Glutz heads west on a wagon train. But they are once again behind bars. Martin draws Tim a map of where the CCTBS is located in case they get separated. They break out only to be blackjacked by bounty hunters.
S3.E3 ∙ Martin of the Movies
Martin uses the CCTBS to travel to 1925 to stop himself from meddling with a movie being made and he ends up getting the lead role. Tim gets dragged along. Martin decides he must transform an inept waiter into an actor to fill the role.
S3.E4 ∙ Keep Me from the Church on Time
Martin has a "futuroid" camera that takes photos 24 hours into the future. It creates a photo of Tim as a groom in a wedding, the bride's face unseen. Tim limits his contact with women but gets assigned to cover a story at a men's club.
S3.E5 ∙ I'd Rather Fight Than Switch
Martin's new gizmo, a molecular reassembler, switches the psyche of the two subjects to which they are exposed. Naturally it is inadvertently beamed on he and Mrs. Brown just before Det. Brennan intends to propose marriage, switching them.
S3.E6 ∙ Tim, the Mastermind
In trying to devise a trip home to Mars, Martin takes many memory pills giving him green spots. Since Tim uses little brain space, Martin has him take the pills and gives him a post-hypnotic suggestion to return to normal at a finger snap.
S3.E7 ∙ Martin Goldfinger
Martians need gold in their diet and Martin hasn't had any which causes his body to turn whatever he touches to gold. After a difficult dinner served by Lorelei, Martin sends Tim to harvest greens near Ft. Knox that should have trace gold.
S3.E8 ∙ Bottled Martian
Martin is too heavy for his spaceship and shrinks himself to 6 ounces so he will fit in a wine bottle. He ends up in an overseas relief package in Baghdad and in the home of lovesick Abu whose girlfriend is being made to marry the Sultan.
S3.E9 ∙ Hate Me a Little
Reacting to antagonistic Brennan, Tim shines Martin's benevolence bulb on him and it breaks. The futuroid camera shows Brennan has a pleasant encounter with a bank robber. Martin rigs a device to flip Brennan but makes himself sluggish.
S3.E10 ∙ The Girl in the Flying Machine
Martin overcharges the magnetic field of his ship and pulls in a Slobodian space ship and its beautiful female pilot. He removes her memory and adds it to Martian tape. Lorolei's psychologist nephew wants to help her recover her memory.
S3.E11 ∙ The Time Machine Is Waking Up That Old Gang of Mine
The CCTBS time travel machine is stuck on 1870 Missouri. A short circuit in it transports Frank and Jesse James into Tim's apartment. The James brothers tie up the guys and make Lorelei drive them to Missouri so they can hold up a train.
S3.E12 ∙ Avenue C Mob
Martin temporarily ages himself 400 years as he studies human old age. He takes a job as a warehouse night watchman and meets 2 elder spinster sisters who tell him they want their storage items to open a tea house but the owner prohibits.
S3.E13 ∙ Tim and Tim Again
Martin's duplicating machine now makes permanent duplicates and naturally 2 Tims are made. Martin leaves to get 2 minerals needed to eliminate the duplicate. The dupe Tim uses Martin's personality change device to make himself an evil Tim.
S3.E14 ∙ Lorelei Brown vs. Everybody
Martin gives Lorelei a concentration pill so she can focus to find his letter she lost. It makes her focus on police work. She attends a police function with Brennan and takes the honorary badge too seriously, even a barricaded suspect.
S3.E15 ∙ The O'Hara Caper
Tim uses the CCTBS to go back to today's lunch hour because he missed a big news story: the robbery of some famous jewels. He has been demoted to obituaries. Once there, he bungles his way into becoming a suspect. Martin devises a plan.
S3.E16 ∙ Who's Got a Secret?
Mrs. Brown's big talking, mooching brother visits and finagles attending a women's defense league luncheon with a general as a guest speaker. He cons the General into thinking he is working on a top secret project with "inventor" Martin.
S3.E17 ∙ Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
Tim stands to inherit big money from distant relatives if he can prove the family link but the existence of "Uncle" Martin muddles things. He tries to use Martin's time machine to travel to 1920 and change an ancestor's name to Martin.
S3.E18 ∙ Martin's Revoltin' Development
Tim is sent on assignment with young photographer, Jimmy McClain. Tim isn't looking forward to the experience as Jimmy is a walking disaster zone. Martin knows however that Jimmy has a self-fulfilling failure complex which stems from his childhood, and thus Martin wants to help him out of it. At the story, Jimmy, with Martin's help, gets an exclusive photograph which does include Martin. However Martin is currently photograph invisible. If the photograph is developed and shown, it may disclose Martin's Martian identity. Martin destroys the photograph, and as a result, Jimmy is fired. Martin feels he owes Jimmy, so uses his futuroid camera is find out tomorrow's newspaper's front page headline. It involves notorious gangster Joey Makin. Tim is hesitant to tell Jimmy only because of the potential danger seeing as to Makin's history, but Martin insists. A problem occurs just prior to going off on the story as Jimmy hits Martin's equilibrium machine, which makes Jimmy lose his balance for a temporary period of time. Down at the scene of the crime, Martin helps Jimmy as much as he can using his levitation finger, however the finger goes on the blink. As Joey arrives on the scene, Jimmy takes the photo of the payoff when he falls over, which results in the three of them being captured by Joey and his gang. Martin has one more trick up his sleeve: Martian's primitive method of levitation through sheer concentration. Martin has just enough energy to free Jimmy. Just as Jimmy is ready to head off to get the police, Martin regains use of his levitation finger which he uses to help Jimmy capture Joey and his gang. Not only does Jimmy save the day and get his job back, but has gained self-confidence for the first time in his life.
S3.E19 ∙ TV or Not TV
Martin intermittently becomes "the" television transmitter worldwide, overtaking all TV broadcasting, his eyes being the camera. One occurrence lets all see a suave TV personality sans his toupee, shoe lifts, etc. and ruins his career.
S3.E20 ∙ The Man from Uncle Martin
Mrs. Brown's brother, Alvin, has another hair-brained, get rich scheme. His new fangled machine, Wannamaker's Widdle Wife Saver, is a housewife's answer to chores - it cleans, it vacuums, it mows lawns among other things. Or so it's supposed to once Martin puts it together. It's a piece of junk that even Martin can't salvage. Martin and Tim decide to try and sell it back to the man from who Alvin bought it, only because Alvin used Loralei's $500 to buy it. Dr. Dunlap ends up being a bigger swindler than Alvin is but pretends not to be, but Martin and Tim convince Dunlap that the machine is a goldmine. They also almost convince Alvin that it really is a piece of junk and he should get the money back. That is until Alvin and Loralei see Martin do some Martian trickery with the machine. Martin goofed big time. So Martin and Tim, pretend to want to act as backers for the machine with Dunlap, but also go incognito as executives of a large electronics firm backing Alvin and the machine in an effort to sell it back to Dunlap without, as Martin and Tim, really wanting to invest as Dunlap's potential backers.
S3.E21 ∙ Martin, the Mannequin
Martin is having some problems at a department store: there is a chemical in the cologne, Homme Fatale, that has turned him into a mannequin, a fate that could be permanent unless he gets blasted by some molecular revitalizing rays from his ray gun. The store's floor manager won't let Tim take the mannequin or buy the mannequin at that, so he has to go home and get the gun and bring it to the store. As soon as Tim gets back, Mrs. Brown and Det. Brennan also show up at the department store on a shopping spree. Tim can't shoot Martin in such a visible setting, so tries to get a a young boy to play toy gun with him. Unfortunately he shoots Mrs. Brown instead, turning her into a mannequin as well. Tim manages to unfreeze Martin from his mannequin state, but doing so for Mrs. Brown is a little more complicated as Det. Brennan is also searching for her. Martin has to keep the detective preoccupied, while Tim gives her the antidote: a whiff of Homme Fatale, of which the store has run out. Tim has to track down the last bottle just sold, or else Mrs. Brown will remain frozen forever.
S3.E22 ∙ Butterball
Martin must again go up against the CRUSH organization when Tim is kidnapped by Butterball.
S3.E23 ∙ When a Martian Makes His Violin Cry
Mrs. Brown's purse is stolen at a carnival. Det. Brennan automatically suspects a gypsy. Martin reads the gypsy's mind and knows he didn't do it. Because the detective arrests him, the gypsy places a curse on Mrs. Brown to drop things.
S3.E24 ∙ When You Get Back to Mars, Are You Going to Get It
Martin's 11-year old nephew, Andromeda, takes his dad's spaceship, gets lost in a cosmic storm and crashes on earth. Det. Brennan is sniffing around so they have to send "Andy" to school. But there he reveals his Martian identity.
S3.E25 ∙ Doggone Martian
Tim brings home a lost dog, Tutu. Martin has perfected a super micro-distillate process, one similar to distilling flowers into perfume. He plans to distill himself small, enabling a return to Mars. Tutu drinks Martin then he is reclaimed.
S3.E26 ∙ Virus M for Martian
Trouble begins when Tim (Bill Bixby) contracts a Martian virus.
S3.E27 ∙ Our Notorious Landlady
Mrs. Brown gets zapped by Martin's personality altercator and, in a jarring turn, absorbs the contents of the book "The Criminal Mind" and transforms to a scofflaw. She starts small but soon graduates to a plot to heist an epic diamond.
S3.E28 ∙ Martin Meets His Match
Martin is having trouble with his spaceship so he calls in a friend, one of the greatest minds ever on Earth, Leonardo DaVinci. DaVinci is annoyed to learn how his inventions have been credited to others and La Gioconda had a name change.
S3.E29 ∙ Horse and Buggy Martin
Martin has a mosquito bite which transfers the bit of residue from the bug's previous victim. In this case, it is a racehorse. The residue causes him to experience all the horse's feelings and vice versa. The mob drugs the horse as a fix.
S3.E30 ∙ Stop the Presses, I Want to Get Off
Mrs. Brown acquires Martin's "sixth sense" while he has it out of his body for cleaning. Martin races against time as soon Mrs. Brown will become aware of his Martian identity. She starts scooping Tim on news stories so much he gets fired.
S3.E31 ∙ My Nut Cup Runneth Over
Tim accidentally turns a squirrel into a man with Martin's malfunctioning molecular reassembler. Martin has to fix the reassembler soon or the change will be permanent. The payoff is when "Red," Tim and Martin perform as "The Squirrels."
S3.E32 ∙ Pay the Man the $24
Tim uses Martin's CCTBS to go back to do some research for his historical novel on the 1626 sale of Manhattan from the Indians to the Dutch. It seems he did something to kill the deal. So Martin insists they go back to then and fix it.
