My Favorite Martian

Year

1963

Genre

Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

Country

USA

Director

Actors

Ray Walston, Bill Bixby, Pamela Britton

Description

Exodus, an alien from the planet Mars, comes to earth and lives with Timothy O'Hara under the guise of his uncle Martin O'Hara. He spends most of his time trying to solve some problems caused by his presence in Earth. ------- 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, except when he extends his retractable antennae with which he can become invisible. His special powers and unusual illnesses present a constant challenge to Tim in his efforts to preserve his friend's cover.

Episodes

• Season 1: 1. My Favorite Martin (1963). Reporter Tim O'Hara, while covering a flight of the Air Force X-15, finds a spaceship that contains a genuine martian. The martian is a professor who specializes in the planet Earth and now has to repair his spaceship before he can go home.
• Season 1: 2. Matchmakers, The (1963). There is dual girl trouble in the O'Hara household. George, the dog who Tim is looking after for Mr. Burns, is in love with Chloe, the dog from next door. Through trying to get George and Chloe together, Tim falls for Chloe's owner, Marsha Carson. However Marsha has had some recent relationship problems of her own. Howard Loomis, her boyfriend, took off to Mexico without as much as a goodbye. Because Marsha feels betrayed by Howard, she is now overprotective of Chloe and suspicious of all men, including Tim. Tim's case is not helped by Angela, who bad mouths Tim to ...
• Season 1: 3. There Is No Cure For The Common Martian (1963). Martin comes down with a common cold, which is not so common but rather debilitating for Martians. Meanwhile Tim is sent to Trimbles Department Store to review their outer space exhibit. Trimble, a major advertiser in The Sun, tries to buy and bully for a good review, despite the display showing every unfounded stereotype of life on other planets. Tim knows the display to be total fantasy. But he doesn't get a chance to write the review as he inadvertently takes one of Martin's sleep inducing cold tablets and falls asleep. To submit the review by deadline, Martin ...
• Season 1: 4. Russians R In Season (1963). Martin reads about a $2 billion American space program, a program he knows is doomed for failure. Not wanting to see the American government waste $2 billion, Tim writes himself a fake letter to the newspaper which includes Martin's nighttime musings; Tim thinks Martin's mumblings are key to the flaw in the space program. Based on the fake letter, Tim writes a newspaper story criticizing the wasted $2 billion. Tim's masquerade is uncovered by the government, agents for whom think he's a spy working for the Russians. Tim is questioned under a lie detector, and he fails...
• Season 1: 5. Man Or Amoeba (1963). Renowned scientist Professor Newton Jennings posits that life no more advanced than amoebas or jellyfish can exist on Mars. Martin helps Angela write a report refuting Jennings claims, which quickly gets her a failing grade. When Martin's attempts to reason with Angela's teacher, Miss Weaver, fails, Martin figures the only way to regain the upper hand and Angela's trust is to speak to Jennings and expose him as a fraud. However Jennings is brilliant but has one minor flaw in his calculation. So Martin, with Tim's help, plants a seed in Jennings brain to correct the ...
• Season 1: 6. Man On The Couch, The (1963). To get some rarefied air, Martin goes atop a water tower. Passersby, including the police, think he's a jumper and he's promptly sent to the psychiatric ward of the hospital. Martin thinks he can quickly exit the hospital by reading the psychiatrist's mind and tell him what he wants to hear. However the psychiatrist, Dr. Harvey Bonnett, has other things on his mind, like his troubled marriage. Ultimately, Dr. Bonnett becomes the patient and Martin the doctor.
• Season 1: 7. Loaf Of Bread, A Jug Of Wine, And Peaches, A (1963). Martin allows himself to experience an emotion foreign to Martians: love at first sight. He falls hard for Peaches Ancream, that being her real given name since her father had a sense of humor. It is also an appropriate name as she is an exotic dancer. Peaches and Martin hit it off, so much so that Martin wants to marry her after their first date. Peaches admires honesty more than anything else in life, the reason that she broke up with her last boyfriend, Police Officer Thorp, who is still harboring strong feelings for Peaches. Martin decides to tell Peaches the ...
• Season 1: 8. Awful Truth, The (1963). Tim talks Martin into temporarily giving him a Martian power. Martin decides to give him the power of levitation for a 24 hour period. When he thinks the power practically useless beyond performing mere parlor tricks, Tim asks for another, to him, more useful power: mind-reading. Martin grants him his wish, to be activated the next day and to last until midnight. Tim also uses this power for parlor tricks, which gets him into trouble. But he also wants to use it for an interview he has that afternoon with Councilman Jack Gramby. Tim wants to write a story about the ...
• Season 1: 9. Rocket To Mars (1963). When the junk men come by, they mistakenly empty Martin and Tim's garage instead of Mrs. Brown's, and in doing so take Martin's space ship. Mrs. Brown has no idea the name of the junk yard, but there was a witness to the incident: Booboo, a neighborhood dog. Booboo, with the help of his dog friends and acquaintances, helps Martin track down the junk yard. When Martin and Tim get to the junk yard, they find out that the ship has already been sold to a Mr. Carter, who is using it as a "rocket" carousel at a children's amusement park. Mr. Carter refuses to sell it back ...
• Season 1: 10. Raffles No. 2 (1963). When Martin almost gets a parking ticket, Tim thinks it might be a good idea if Martin legitimizes his Earthly driving by getting a driver's license. Down at the Department of Motor Vehicles, finger-printless Martin has to do some fancy work when he is about to be finger printed. He steals the prints of another man at the DMV. Unfortunately for Martin, that print matches the only unidentified print at a major jewel robbery the previous year. In a routine cross check, the police find the print in Martin's file. And Tim covered the jewel robbery for the paper, something...
• Season 1: 11. Atom Misers, The (1963). Martin needs the hardest substance possible to repair his spaceship, the substance he has in mind is silibalt, an alloy of silicone and cobalt but one that has not yet been invented on Earth. To make some, he needs a cyclotron. Rather than destroy Tim's kitchen making his own, he decides to follow Tim on his latest interview at the university, where there is a cyclotron. At the university, Martin meets Tim's interview subject, Donald Mumford, 13-year old physics genius, and one who is constantly at odds with the ways of Dr. Jackson, his advisor. While Martin and ...
• Season 1: 12. That Little Old Matchmaker, Martin (1963). Tim is pursuing who seems to be the unattainable Cynthia Parker. Through reading her mind, Martin finds out that Cynthia is passionate about the classical arts whether it be music, literature or art, and she figures Tim is not, which is the truth. However Tim becomes everything she wants in a man. However this façade Tim fears is hurting Cynthia. Rather than hurt her by telling her the truth, he decides the best option is to find her her dream man. To do so, Martin needs to read men's minds to match them up to Cynthia's. Scanning through Tim's office, they find one ...
• Season 1: 13. How To Be A Hero Without Really Trying (1963). The O'Hara's have new neighbors, the Richmonds, within the family being young Stevie and his grown up sister Jennifer. The foursome go on a picnic to Sunset Mountain, since Martin needs to pick up some bling, an alloy located there but that has not yet been discovered by humans. Stevie has a vivid imagination and likes to pretend he's from Mars, which intrigues Martin. That's OK with Tim, as that means he can spend time with Jennifer alone. However Jennifer is concerned with Stevie's ability to discern reality from fantasy. While Martin goes off to collect his bling, ...
• Season 1: 14. Blood Is Thicker Than The Martian (1964). Tim's cousin Harvey is coming for a visit, which means Martin is going to have to go into hiding since Harvey would know that Tim has no Uncle Martin. And they have to keep Mrs. Brown away from Harvey since she would definitely spill the beans about Martin. Living in a small apartment, Martin can only keep away from Harvey so much, even if he is in his invisible state. And the sleeping arrangements become an issue. Those are not the only problems about Harvey's visit: Harvey is the biggest mooch in the world. Harvey wants Tim to help him get a job at The Sun as Harvey...
• Season 1: 15. Poor Little Rich Cat (1964). The stupidest idea Martin has heard of since he's been on Earth: Rosemary Willis leaving her cat, Max, $650,000 in her will. Morton Beanbecker, the lawyer for the estate, is threatening Tim with a lawsuit if he continues to editorialize about the stupidity of the will and deceased Rosemary Willis. However, Beanbecker also mentions that Mrs. Willis wrote a subsequent will leaving her estate to a children's orphanage, that will which was either never signed or hidden. Martin reads his mind that he really wants the second will to be found despite his threatening words to...
• Season 1: 16. RX For A Martian (1964). Martin can make it back to Mars since Mars has deviated from its regular orbit temporarily and is thus closer to Earth than usual. Martin has a 10 hour window of opportunity. Just as he is about ready to leave, he slips down the stairs and sprains his ankle, which also sprains his disappearing antenna. Mrs. Brown immediately calls an ambulance to the scene. When the ambulance physician takes Martin's vital signs, they rush him to the hospital since his vital signs aren't "human". The intern at the hospital has the same reaction. Martin knows that to get them to ...
• Season 1: 17. Going, Going, Gone (1964). Something is causing Martin's metabolism to go haywire. In succession, he loses control of his levitation finger, he magnetizes his clothing, he levitates, he becomes electrically charged, he shrinks and then he disappears. He finds out the cause is an increased activity of sunspots, and on Earth there is no way to control their effects on Martians. After five days, the sunspots are still occurring and Martin is still invisible. The authorities, based on a recent insurance policy Mrs. Brown sold Martin with Tim as beneficiary, suspect that Martin's "disappearance" is ...
• Season 1: 18. Who Am I? (1964). Martin and Tim are on their way to interview Professor Eugene Downey, the foremost expert on rocket fuel - Martin thinks the professor can assist in getting him back to Mars - when Martin is hit on the head with a monkey wrench. Martin gets amnesia from this concussion. He has no idea that he's a Martian, despite Tim telling him so. The only thing Martin and Tim can agree on is that Martin needs to go see a doctor. At Dr. Gilbert's office, Martin does learn that he has the power of levitation and the ability to disappear, still not quite believing why. The doctor, who...
• Season 1: 19. Now You See It, Now You Don't (1964). At the museum, Martin discovers that the long-time curator, Wilbur Canfield, is very unhappy. He has just acquired a new expensive Egyptian piece for the museum, but the museum's board is questioning the authenticity and therefore merit of this acquisition. Because of this, Canfield himself is now questioning his own abilities, as he feels he may be getting too old to do his work properly. The board is calling in an independent expert, Pietro Donati. What's worse, Canfield once discredited Donati's evaluation. Martin will know the piece's authenticity, if he can only ...
• Season 1: 20. My Nephew The Artist (1964). Martin wants to help Tim with the household expenses, and without a money earning activity, decides to sell art he's currently painting to relive boredom. Martin can paint in the style of any famous artist. Mr. Green of the Green Gallery notices Martin's first piece is just like a Van Gogh, and eagerly takes and sells it. As such, Mr. Green commissions Martin to paint some more and they sell as quickly as Martin gets them to the gallery. Mr. Green wants to have a showing of Martin's work. When Tim mentions that this might not be a good idea as it may raise questions ...
• Season 1: 21. Hitch-Hiker To Mars (1964). The Inter-Galaxy Corporation is launching a rocket to either Mars or Venus. Martin needs to convince them to choose Mars, so that he can stowaway and get home. J.M. Buckley, Inter-Galaxy's President, is an indecisive man, but is highly superstitious and makes many decisions on these superstitions. He is leaning toward sending the rocket to Mars, but two things are distracting him from making the announcement of such: it's Friday the 13th, and he's missing his lucky rabbit's foot. Martin overcomes the date superstition by making Buckley think that Friday the 13th is ...
• Season 1: 22. Uncle Martin's Broadcast (1964). Tim discovers that Martin's antennae act just like Earthly antennae: he can pick up radio and television signals among other things. Tim decides that while Martin's asleep, he's going to tune into the police frequency for a newspaper scoop. He hears about a robbery, and follows up with a telephone call to the police to find out more information. However the police decide to pick up both Tim and Martin since Tim had just a little too much information, information that only the police or the perpetrators of the crime would know about. Detective Sergeant Seeley, the lead...
• Season 1: 23. An Old, Old Friend Of The Family (1964). After Martin makes Tim miss a deadline, Martin decides to help Tim get an exclusive interview. Jakobar, the rogue leader of Kobima, is the story's subject matter. Martin is a legend in Kobima and has inside knowledge of Kobiman legend since he was good friends with Jakobar's great-grandfather Kobima, for who the country was named. After displaying the sign of Cocobahn - Martin's name in Kobiman - Jakobar agrees to see Martin. Martin talks Jakobar into making himself accessible to the media, namely Tim, but later reneges since he still has the suspicious mind of an ...
• Season 1: 24. Super Dooper Snooper (1964). Mrs. Brown is taking a course on how to be a private detective, and her first assignment is to prepare a dossier on an unsuspecting person. Her choice of subject is Martin. Of course, Martin knows what she's up to, but he is still a bit concerned about her discovering his Martian identity. Mrs. Brown finds Martin's flight log, which is written in Martian, but again Martin is concerned since the uneducated are too dense to know any better. She takes a photograph of it, which Martin is worried she will pass onto authorities, who, when they are unable to decipher it, ...
• Season 1: 25. Sinkable Mrs. Brown, The (1964). Pete Dudley, a real estate salesman, convinces Mrs. Brown that she should sell her ramshackle of a house, which causes a problem for Tim and Martin, especially in hiding the spaceship. Dudley already has prospective buyers, Edgar and Emily Graham, who would be especially interested in the garage since Mr. Graham wants to make it into a workshop. When the Graham's show up unexpectedly for their first visit, Martin has to hide the spaceship. The only thing he can do is to levitate it with his levitation finger, which even for Martin is difficult due to the ship's large ...
• Season 1: 26. Martin And The Eternal Triangle (1964). Martin finds himself involved in a romantic love triangle.
• Season 1: 27. Danger! High Voltage (1964). Martin needs to electrically charge himself for his trip back to Mars. However he overcharges himself. He needs to rid himself of the excess electricity, and when he initially tries to discharge it, he blacks out half of Los Angeles. Martin is facing two problems. First, if he is overcharged for an extended period of time, he will exhibit unusual symptoms such as a plaid designed face. A current symptom is his continual sneezing which is causing electrical switches to turn on. And second, the power company is narrowing the source of the blackout to the O'Hara's ...
• Season 1: 28. If You Can't Lick 'Em (1964). Martin is stressed out because neighborhood kid, Horace, won't leave him alone to work on his spaceship. The stress has caused Martin's antennae to be stuck in its up position which in addition causes him to lose his Martian powers. With Horace fast approaching, Martin has nowhere to hide, so fashions a pair of antennae for Tim to wear. As such, Horace will think they're just playing. Horace also wants to play Martian and goes out and buys a pair of antennae. This starts a nation-wide fad of boys playing Martian wearing antennae. A newsmagazine wants to interview ...
• Season 1: 29. Unidentified Flying Uncle Martin (1964). Martin needs to fly his space ship, which is deteriorating due to inertia. Tim's fear is realized: Martin's flight is spotted as a UFO. Martin needs to take another flight, but Mrs. Brown calls in the authorities - Jack and Jim being their representatives - who use Tim and Martin's apartment as a sighting station. Martin uses the opportunity to take his second flight since Jack and Jim have equipment - a plutron counter - that would be able to locate the space ship parked in the garage. The plutron counter does go off, but Martin slips some plutron into Mrs. Brown's ...
• Season 1: 30. How You Gonna Keep Them Down On The Pharmacy? (1964). The Earthly environment is causing a vitamin deficiency in Martin. He draws on energy and vitamins from everything and everyone around him. The effect on things is for them to go haywire. And if people look him in the eyes, they will fall asleep since they are sapped of their energy. Martin needs some vitamins immediately or else he will grow weaker and weaker to the point of no return. Luckily, the vitamins he needs can be found at any pharmacy, however by prescription. Also it's Sunday and all the stores are closed. But Tim convinces his good friend, Doc Mullen, to ...
• Season 1: 31. Miss Jekyll And Hyde (1964). Mrs. Brown's niece, Paula Clayfield, comes for visit. A former child prodigy, Paula has always relied on her brains to mask insecurities in her personal appearance. Despite her Plain Jane looks, Paula does have a boyfriend, Dr. Edgar Edgarton (her intellectual equal), with whom she has an "understanding" - they have a commitment to each other shy of a formal engagement. Paula notices Martin's sketches for a space ship, and insists on helping him to refine his design. Later, she also notices in Martin's possession a piece of a Martian alloy (something not available on ...
• Season 1: 32. Who's Got The Power? (1964). During an electrical storm, Martin gets an affliction called popsy, which causes him to appear and disappear uncontrollably. With Tim's help, Martin needs to long ground himself electrically to cure the popsy. Just as he does so, Mrs. Brown drops by and accidentally completes the grounding. In doing so, she gets Martin's levitation power. Martin temporarily fixes the symptom of appearing and disappearing by a concoction of household cleaners. But that is only in a need to get his levitation powers back from Mrs. Brown, which requires an electrically charged transfer. ...
• Season 1: 33. Oh, My Aching Antenna (1964). Martin finds that he is prematurely aging due to the increased gravity on Earth compared to Mars. Thus he goes through some anti-gravity therapy, which in turn causes havoc for those around him.
• Season 1: 34. Disastro-Nauts, The (1964). Martin convinces Tim to use his connections as a reporter to get Martin a tryout as the astronaut for a Mars destined rocket, privately financed by Omar M. Keck. Despite a slew of younger stereotypical astronaut types vying for the job, Martin's obvious advantages as a Martian get him the job. Before Martin is ready to leave, he allows Tim to prepare a story of his uncle "The Martian" for publication after Martin is on his way. On his way to the air force base with Martin, Tim leaves the tape of the story on Mr. Burns' desk - based on his usual schedule, Mr. Burns ...
• Season 1: 35. Shake Well And Don't Use (1964). Tim and Mr. Burns' nephew, Freddie Carson, are in the running for promotion to journeyman reporter at the newspaper. After finding out that Mr. Burns is a gourmet, Martin decides that a way to swing the tide in Tim's favor is to cook Mr. Burns a special meal, one which includes some special Martian condiments. The Martian ingredients however react with the Earth ingredients to cause Mr. Burns to move in slow motion. The effect of the antidote Martin has on hand has the opposite effect of speeding up Mr. Burns' movements. Meanwhile, Freddie arrives on the scene to take...
• Season 1: 36. Nose For News, A (1964). Tim gets mad at Martin for "disappearing and spying" on him while he has a date at the apartment. To make up for this, Martin covers for Tim when he goes missing from the office and Mr. Burns calls the apartment looking for him. Martin goes on the story in his place and phones back to Mr. Burns with an exclusive using Tim's voice. Unfortunately, Mr. Burns sees Tim in the office when he is also on the talking to him on the phone; Tim confesses that it is Martin on the phone covering for him. Also unfortunately, the exclusive is regarding an old friend of Mr. Burns', ...
• Season 1: 37. Uncle Martin's Wisdom Tooth (1964). A toothache of his "eye" tooth causes "eye" problems for Martin: he can't see. Tim takes him to see his dentist, although Martin doesn't have typical human teeth. He needs dental expertise and some dental powder without the dentist actually examining him, which is why dentist-phobic Tim takes the place in the dental chair. The remedy causes Martin's eye teeth to go crossed eyed, as does his vision. The only answer is tooth extraction.
• Season 2: 1. Dreaming Can Make It So (1964). Martin dreams in 2D: in form but not in substance. By changing her famous brownies to low fat, Mrs. Brown inadvertently changes Martin's constitution as Martians are affected by polyunsaturates; basically she has poisoned him. So his dreams change from being 2D to 3D, and they also don't go away. One of his materializations is a piece of Martian seismonitricite, an explosive. Once Martin finds out what Mrs. Brown did, he tries to detoxify himself before they all get blown to smithereens.
• Season 2: 2. Memory Pill, The (1964). After Tim shows how overly cluttered his mind is, Martin tells him of the Martian way of storing unneeded memories in an electronic memory box. The box produces a pill, which when swallowed, brings back the memory. Without Martin's supervision, Tim uses the memory box to store away memories of Martin, who he no longer recognizes. When Martin does some Martian trickery, Tim is afraid of this unknown Martian in his midst. He accuses Martin of being a Martian in front of Mrs. Brown, which makes Mrs. Brown think Tim is sick. So she calls in a doctor to examine Tim. In ...
• Season 2: 3. Three To Make Ready (1964). Martin creates a neuro cerebral stimulator to help him make up his mind about whether to go home in an unmanned rocket, or continue to stay on Earth with his new family, Tim. A lightning strike to the stimulator causes Martin to split into three: two decisive Martins on either extreme and an indecisive Martin. Once all three Martins come to a consensus on any issue, they will rejoin. While the three Martins talk, Tim tries to hide at least two of the Martins from Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Brown's doctor, who is called in after one of the Martin's hits his head. As the ...
• Season 2: 4. Nothing But The Truth (1964). Dulcy, Henry and Stanley - Mrs. Browns' sister and her husband and son - come for a visit. Henry is a computer hardware expert and as such believes that everything has a scientific explanation. Stanley is a typical boy with a vivid imagination, which Henry, with a heavy hand, tries to suppress. Stanley sees Martin's spaceship entering the garage, which he wildly exclaims to his father, who chastises him for making up lies. In Henry's mind, there are no such things as space ships or Martians. Martin feels guilty since Stanley was only telling the truth. To get Henry to...
• Season 2: 5. Dial M For Martin (1964). While fixing Mrs. Brown's TV antenna, Tim accidentally cuts a live telephone wire which hits Martin, in turn turning him into a live telephone. Martin has to figure out how to disconnect himself back to normal before Mrs. Brown and Det. Brennan (who was called in to find Mrs. Brown's pocketbook) stop buying their explanations for the telephone ringing and mysterious voices. But before he does, Martin and Tim overhear on Martin's telephone a plot to steal the Vandeleer diamond. Now how to pass on the information to Det. Brennan without telling from where the ...
• Season 2: 6. Extra! Extra! Sensory Perception! (1964). Tim is working on a series of stories on extra-sensory perception. Martin fears that if he meets the subject of Tim's story, Professor Hammerschlag, the professor will perceive Martin's true identity. When Tim unavoidably brings the professor back the apartment, Martin needs to hide his sensory perception so that the professor can't perceive his thoughts. Unfortunately in the process, Mrs. Brown gets Martin's sensory perception, which in a human causes regression all the way back to babyhood and beyond. The only way for Mrs. Brown to get rid of it is to sneeze it out ...
• Season 2: 7. My Uncle The Folk Singer (1964). Martin has been internally recording Earth music for a couple hundred years, and can call up any song within his internal library. At a folk music club, Martin drinks a cappuccino containing cinnamon to which he reacts. It turns on his recorder playback, and a folk song spews out of him. His "singing" is a hit with the club patrons. The club is owned by Tim's current flame, Della, who tries to persuade Tim to persuade Martin to sing at the club to help the business. Martin reluctantly agrees. However the fame and adulation quickly go to Martin's head. To snap Martin ...
• Season 2: 8. Great Brain Robbery, The (1964). In order to earn some money, Martin decides to do some tutoring, his first student being precocious 12-year old Eddie Prescott, the son of a seemingly tough-as-nails air force captain who wants his son to enter into the prestigious air force academy. Eddie's tough exterior masks insecurities of stupidity. During Martin and Eddie's first lesson, disaster strikes because of Eddie's silver braces; Martians are rendered brain dysfunctional when exposed to pure silver. As Eddie begins to learn, Martin begins to forget. In simple terms, Eddie is robbing Martin's brains. ...
• Season 2: 9. Double Trouble (1964). Martin creates a replicating machine, the duplicates from which only having a limited lifespan. Tim accidentally leaves the machine on, the machine duplicating Mrs. Brown just prior to her date with Det. Brennan. Problems arise when both Mrs. Brown's are waiting for their date, and ultimately Det. Brennan takes out the duplicate. Martin and Tim are not only concerned about Mrs. Brown, but also possible exposure of Martin's identity by Det. Brennan. Martin and Tim decide the best course is to bring the real Mrs. Brown to the restaurant and switch her with the duplicate...
• Season 2: 10. Has Anybody Seen My Electro-Magnetic Neutron Converting Gravitator? (1964). Six-year old runaway Peter Pendleton comes across Martin's spaceship in the woods while Martin and Tim are off away doing other work for Martin's test flight. Peter actually manages to take a flight on the ship, but after Peter returns home, his family and officials believe his is just a story of fancy. That may change as Peter has taken Martin's Electro-Magnetic Neutron Converting Gravitator, on Earth an anti-gravity device. Martin has to get it back from Peter before nosy reporter Grinnell, who is already suspicious due to some coincidences, gets the truth and the ...
• Season 2: 11. Don't Rain On My Parade (1964). During a drought/hot spell, Mr. Baldetti, Mrs. Brown's neighbor, tries his rain dance and rain machine, both of which he swears worked back in the old country. In use of the machine, he blasts Martin with a puff of carbon, the "smog" which in turn causes Martin to tear and to accidentally blast a hole in a cloud with his levitating trigger finger, causing it to rain. It rains for 7 days and 7 nights while Martin figures out how to make it stop raining. Mr. Baldetti, distraught that he thinks he caused the rain, makes an off handed comment about plumbing, which ...
• Season 2: 12. Night Life Of Uncle Martin (1964). As a defense mechanism against over fatigue and overwork, Martians appear double when they're tired, which Martin is. When he goes to sleep, his double materializes and has a great time in the old adage "all work and no play...", the double being Martin's "play" half. His double is a womanizer named Pierre. When Martin realizes what is happening, it is too late: Pierre is engaged to a woman, Flossie, with a thuggish brother who will hurt Martin/Pierre if Pierre hurts Flossie. So how can Martin stop Pierre from marrying Flossie without anyone getting hurt, physically ...
• Season 2: 13. To Make A Rabbit Stew, First Catch A Martian (1964). Pammie Goodwin's pet rabbit, Cleo, accidentally swallows one of Martin's vitamins, which causes Chloe to grow into a monster rabbit. Martin has to figure out how to restore Cleo. In the meantime, it's a tough job to hide a 6-foot tall rabbit, one with a 6-foot tall rabbit appetite, from the searching Pammie, Mrs. Brown and Det. Brennan. Before Martin can give Cleo the antidote he concocts, Cleo ingratiates her way into Mrs. Brown's masquerade party, and has such a good time, she doesn't want to take the antidote to become a regular rabbit again. Martin secretly slips ...
• Season 2: 14. Won't You Come Home, Uncle Martin, Won't You Come Home? (1964). 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 ...
• Season 2: 15. Case Of The Missing Sleuth, The (1965). 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...
• Season 2: 16. How Are Things In Glocca, Martin? (1965). Tim's rich but frugal Uncle Seamus comes for a visit. Obviously he doesn't know of an "Uncle Martin" and is suspicious of Tim's permanent house-guest. Seamus inadvertently sees Martin doing some of his Martian trickery, and comes to the immediate conclusion that Martin is a leprechaun. Seamus isn't going to pass up his chance to get a wish from a leprechaun. All he wants is to find his one true love, Eileen, who he hasn't seen in 25 years and who is living somewhere in America. Martin finds Eileen, a plain housemaid, who doesn't want to see Seamus again since he broke...
• Season 2: 17. Gesundheit, Uncle Martin (1965). Everytime he sneezes, Martin becomes temporarily forgetful. You see, it is sneezaphobia day, the first day of sneezaphobia week, which occurs once every 300 years. Martin describes it as being akin to hay fever season. Luckily, there is a simple remedy; unluckily, Martin can't remember one of the key ingredients. To be safe from his sneezing fits and accidentally identifying himself specifically to Det. Brennan, Tim recommends that Martin hide his spaceship and his Martian belongings, but Martin needs to write down where he hides it in case he sneezes and forgets. ...
• Season 2: 18. Martian Report #1 (1965). Much to Tim's horror, Martin suggests that Earth children should be deep-frozen until adulthood. This act, he surmises, would spare them the unhappiness of being relatively unproductive, not fully formed beings. Since Tim says Martin is being unscientific by not having this theory proved, Martin wants to test his theory on an Earth child. He decides to at least observe a child, a problem child at that, and enlists the aid of an orphanage which has an out-child program. His charge, Doris, ends up being someone with whom he has a lot of fun and visa versa. However she ...
• Season 2: 19. Uncle Martin And The Identified Flying Object (1965). Martin's levitation finger is getting uncontrollable due to overexposure to the sun. A Martian sedative will temporarily control the symptom, but Martin needs a longer term solution. But before Martin's finger is put to sleep, it causes some flying objects in Mrs. Brown's apartment, which brings in the services of psychic phenomenon expert Prof. Clemmens. Martin needs to hide his spaceship from the professor while keeping his problem finger under control. Worse, the temporary fix if weakened before a permanent fix, will cause major catastrophe due to the build up of ...
• Season 2: 20. Martian Fiddles Around, A (1965). Mrs. Brown's bad violin playing is causing Martin to short circuit and become transparent. Actually, it's the bad violin itself causing the problems. They know they can't convince Mrs. Brown to stop playing, so Martin breaks it so that he can fix the fundamental structure of the violin. He finds that the violin is not as bad as it first seems, it just has a few fundamental flaws. The violin maker is Mrs. Brown's teacher, Signor Almafi, his family violin business in threat of going under due to the poor quality of the instruments. After hearing the new and improved ...
• Season 2: 21. Humbug, Mrs. Brown (1965). Martin finds out that Mrs. Brown is in financial straits due to her over generous nature. Through noodle soup, Martin gives her some Martian subliminal messages to save money, the suggestions which have an extreme effect. She no longer trusts banks so she withdraws all her money and keeps it at home, and she kicks Tim and Martin out of the apartment for being late on their rent. But there's a bigger problem: there's a friendly neighborhood cat-burglar, and Mrs. Brown now has a houseful of cash. He does try to steal the money, but in their stopping him, Martin and Tim ...
• Season 2: 22. Crash Diet (1965). Martin needs to lose 3 pounds to be able to fly his weight sensitive spaceship properly. Luckily he has a machine that can collapse the necessary 3 pounds of fat molecules from his body. However, Tim presses the wrong switch and instead shrinks the spaceship to toy size. Fortunately the ship will expand back to its normal size in time, the "when" being the question. While Martin is gone on an errand and Tim unavoidably detained, a dog comes by and takes off with the ship. They find the dog, who tells them that their master is a Jolly Toys executive who has patented ...
• Season 2: 23. Gone But Not Forgotten (1965). 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...
• Season 2: 24. Stop, Or I'll Steam (1965). As a Martian, Martin can literally "let off steam" when aggravated, and Det. Brennan is aggravating him more than usual. This build up of aggravation and the resulting letting off of steam is causing Martin to dehydrate, and he needs some cold air therapy quickly to normalize his system, otherwise he will turn into, in his own words, "a cracker". He thinks he can do so by rigging up a contraption from the refrigerator through him to the oven. The only problem: Det. Brennan has thrown out his back and is temporarily but indefinitely laid up in Tim's bed. Martin figures...
• Season 2: 25. Magnetic Personality And Who Needs It, The (1965). While helping Martin do some work, Tim accidentally magnetizes Martin, turning him into a living magnet. Martin is able to demagnetize himself, however his magnetized particles are spilled onto the hands of Mrs. Brown's new handyman, reformed pickpocket Andy Fuller. Andy really wants to make it on the outside, but his new magnetized hands are causing some problems when they're attracted to Mrs. Brown's new metal brooch. Andy thinks it's all his fault. His magnetic hands are however mixing with the habitual side of his brain, and are also attracted to non-metalized ...
• Season 2: 26. We Love You, Miss Pringle (1965). 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 ...
• Season 2: 27. Uncle Baby (1965). Martin is starting to feel old and needs to go through the typical Martian process of rejuvenation, which is accomplished through a special light. With Tim's help, Martin does go through the process, however he is under the effects of the light too short a time and reverts into the physical equivalent of a baby. Before Tim gets Martin back under the light, Det. Brennan comes by and Tim tells him a story that the baby was abandoned. The detective takes the baby into custody to the hospital nursery as a ward of the state. Tim needs to get the light down to the hospital ...
• Season 2: 28. Once Upon A Martian Mother's Day (1965). It's nearing Martian Mother's Day and Martin is feeling sad in not being with his mother on that day. He even projects a 3D image of her to make himself feel better. On the day, he runs into Miss Cora Darling, a spinster the spitting image of his mother. Martin wants to do something nice for his mother lookalike, so a worthless but sentimental ring she has appraised - the ring from a former lover - Martin temporarily turns into a valuable piece not thinking that she'd sell it to the jeweler, which is what she does. So to get the ring before it reverts back into being ...
• Season 2: 29. Uncle Martin's Bedtime Story (1965). Martin rigs Tim's radio to receive signals from the air force base regarding an impending rocket launch to Mars. This coincides with Mrs. Brown buying a new electric bed, a spring in which matches Martin's brain frequency, so that she can read Martin's mind whenever she's in bed. She and Det. Brennan think she has ESP, and are trying to figure out the meaning of some of Martin's "Martian" thoughts. Martin needs to keep Mrs. Brown out of that bed until the launch. Luckily she intends on going to Palm Springs. Unfortunately Det. Brennan stays at her place and will be ...
• Season 2: 30. 006 3/4 (1965). Tim inadvertently gets possession of a distress note from Agent 006 of Top Secret, code named TopSecte, an organization to prevent worldwide hostilities. Agent 006 is being tracked by Crush - an international group of cutthroats who are against everything - whose undercover headquarters Agent 006 had found. Tim takes this information to TopSecte headquarters, and since Tim now knows too much, is taken under protective custody by TopSecte. As an alternative, they ask him to assist Agent 004, the only agent of which Crush is unaware, to help defeat Crush and save 006. ...
• Season 2: 31. Never Trust A Naked Martian (1965). Tim touches one of Martin's antenna, and is thrown into the fourth dimension: he becomes invisible and is in limbo. Martin finds a small crack into the dimension but it's getting smaller and smaller as time goes by. He thinks that Tim can make it through with a running start, but Mrs. Brown comes by the apartment with the handyman and won't leave, which doesn't allow Tim to come through. Meanwhile, the crack closes. Martin goes to Plan B: he remembers that Tim will be able to get out of limbo by actually doing the limbo under a burning broomstick. Despite his fears ...
• Season 2: 32. Martin's Favorite Martin (1965). Martin and Tim are out in Death Valley to fix Martin's ship, damaged by smog. The smog is causing rust-like spots. While Martin is off looking for some restorium, a material he needs to fix the rust spots, Tim tries on his space suit and fools around with his laser gun. Tim is spotted by the Farrow family, who think he's a Martian. Father Daniel is suspicious and fearful of Tim, but children Sally and Gerald are fascinated. Seeing that Tim is in trouble, Martin goes under cover as a prospector. Martin and Tim develop an idea that Tim should act like a Martian so that ...
• Season 2: 33. Martian's Fair Hobo, The (1965). Martin thinks he has made contact with a Martian space patrol.
• Season 2: 34. Martian Sonata In Mrs. B's Flat, A (1965). Mrs. Brown has asked Tim and Martin to listen to her piano performance at her woman's club meeting. She is awful. Half way through her performance, she excuses herself to go get her music in Tim's apartment. When she returns, she is now a virtuoso. Apparently she grabbed more than than just her music in Tim's apartment; she also grabbed some of Martin's liquid musical distillate. Martians can transfer musical energy into liquid form and when the distillate comes in contact with humans, it will transfer the energy of music into that person to be able to perform it. Mrs...
• Season 2: 35. Green-Eyed Martian, The (1965). To get rid of Det. Brennan while he's working on some important and time sensitive fuel for his rocket, Martin decides to use his irresistible serum. A spray of such will render a person irresistible, and he is going to use it on a "suitable suitor" for Mrs. Brown so that she'll dump the detective. However, Mrs. Brown sees the liquid in an atomizer bottle, and thinks it's perfume, which she sprays on herself. The next person who sees her is Martin, who falls madly in love with her. Apparently Martin made the spray too strong, so that Mrs. Brown will be attractive to ...
• Season 2: 36. El Señor From Mars (1965). Martin needs to rush to Mexico as a treasure chest that has just been discovered has a tablet inside marking Martin's arrival on Earth during the Aztec era, the tablet complete with a carving of his likeness. He needs to get there before anyone opens it and discovers his Martian origins. Tim decides to accompany him just in case. They find the chest, which is scheduled to be opened at a big festival the following day, in the Police Chief's office, the Police Chief who is guarding it. They run into a further problem when Martin's antenna won't go down, the symptom ...
• Season 2: 37. Time Out For Martin (1965). Martin builds a "CCTBS", a cathode-ray centrifugal time breakascope: a time machine. He plans to use it to go back to just before he crashed so that he can avert the problem the second time around and fly back to Mars. Tim corrects the clock on the CCTBS to the current hour/minute time of 12:15. However the clock is actually the year calculator and that sends Martin and Tim back to the year 1215 in England, England over where Martin's spaceship malfunction originally happened. The time trip broke the CCTBS, so they have no way of getting "home" until Martin fixes it, ...
• Season 2: 38. Portrait In Brown (1965). Martin has built a dimensional separator, a machine that turns 3D items into 2D. These 2D items will allow Martin to carry more Earth artifacts back to Mars. Will Mrs. Brown be one of those artifacts? She can be as she inadvertently walks in front of the machine and gets turned into a 2D object. As something organic, the 2D Mrs. Brown will remain permanently so in 18 hours. Martin needs a certain metallic compound to restore her third dimension. While Martin retrieves the compound, he turns Mrs. Brown into a painting to retain her flat shape, i.e. so that she won't ...
• Season 3: 1. Go West, Young Martian: Part 1 (1965). Martin rebuilds his CCTBS - cathode-ray centrifugal time breakascope - convinced that if he transports himself to just before the time he crashed, he can fix the problem and fly back to Mars. Det. Brennan inadvertently flips the switch for the delay function, sending Tim and Martin back in time. Instead of 1215 Merry Old England where they were sent last time, they are sent to 1849 St. Louis. Unfortunately the CCTBS didn't make the trip with them. Instead it should still be in the exact same spot in what is the site of Los Angeles in 1849. Unfortunately, they run into...
• Season 3: 2. Go West, Young Martian: Part 2 (1965). Loralei Glutz is safely on her way west on a wagon train. However Martin and Tim are once again behind bars. Before Martin breaks them out, he draws Tim a map of where the CCTBS is located just in case they are separated. After they break out, they are ambushed. They awake at the wagon train where Loralei is taking care of them; she found them and feels she owes them for helping her get her money back. The only thing they are missing is the map. Martin deduces that whoever stole it must be on the wagon train and thinks that it is a map of a gold strike in California. ...
• Season 3: 3. Martin Of The Movies (1965). Martin repairs his CCTBS, but hasn't fined tuned it enough to get precisely back to 1963. The closest he can currently get to is 1945. But it's back to 1925 that he currently has his eye on as he appeared in a silent movie made then - he just couldn't stand the performance of the actor who was scheduled to play the role - that movie which is scheduled to air on television that evening. Since his appearance in the movie would raise questions, he needs to get back to change history and not appear in the movie. Just as Martin is ready to go, Tim gets caught in the path ...
• Season 3: 4. Keep Me From The Church On Time (1965). Martin has a futuroid camera, something takes takes photos of the future. To show Tim how it works, Martin snaps a photo of him 24 hours into the future. Martin and Tim are shocked to see a photo of what looks like Tim the groom in a wedding, the bride whose face is not shown. For the first time in his adult life, Tim is not girl crazy, and wants to avoid women for the next 24 hours. Tim decides to cover a story for the paper in an effort to keep out of girl trouble, but he finds out after he accepts that the story is at the Kitten Club, a men's club. Martin follows ...
• Season 3: 5. I'd Rather Fight Than Switch (1965). Martin's newest gizmo, a molecular reassembler, switches the psyche of the two subjects to which they are exposed. Martin would like to use it to eliminate all hostility in the world, not to switch his and Mrs. Brown's psyches, which is what happens, just before Mrs. Brown is ready to go out on a date with Det. Brennan. Martin, looking like Mrs. Brown, is especially not looking forward to a date with Det. Brennan, but needs to do so not to attract the detective's suspicion. Martin is even more perturbed that the detective wants to ask Mrs. Brown to marry him. But of ...
• Season 3: 6. Tim, The Mastermind (1965). Martin has developed some green spots on his skin from taking too many memory pills. He has to take them to aid in his quest to make it back to Mars, but not if it's going to continue making him conspicuous with the spots. An idea: Tim can take the pills instead as he has excess unused brain capacity. Tim reluctantly agrees to do so. Taking the pills makes Tim the smartest man on the face of the Earth. However, to allow him to lead a normal life in this state, Martin has provided him something akin to a post hypnotic suggestion, where the snap of a finger will bring ...
• Season 3: 7. Martin Goldfinger (1965). Everything Martin touches is literally turning to gold. Tim is excited, but Martin isn't as it's a symptom that he's not well - he has a gold deficiency in his diet. In addition, he has to be careful what he touches. To fix his problem, Martin figures he needs to eat something that has been grown in gold enriched soil. Where a better place to find such than the area outside of Fort Knox. Martin enlists Tim's help in going to Fort Knox to pick up some greens growing by a stream that runs close to the gold vault. But before Tim can head off, the boys unavoidably have ...
• Season 3: 8. Bottled Martian (1965). Martin is too heavy for his spaceship, and he needs to lose 143 pounds. He devises a way to shrink himself to 6 ounces, however the shrinking process is only temporary, too temporary that it won't get him all the way back to Mars. So he needs to devise a way to make it more long lasting. As an experiment, he asks Tim to cork him inside a wine bottle with the necessary gas making the shrinking process longer lasting. Martin intends to stay inside the bottle all day just to make sure it works. However the wine bottle with Martin in it gets collected with an overseas ...
• Season 3: 9. Hate Me A Little (1965). Martin fixes his benevolence bulb so that it works on humans. When shone on humans, they turn into the nicest person in the world. Tim tries it on an extra antagonistic Brennan, but the effect is delayed. As much as he hates Brennan, Martin thinks this disastrous as a nice detective could potentially be a dead detective. So Martin uses his futuroid camera to see if/when he gets into trouble. They find that he changes into a nice person just as he enters a bank the following day and meets up with a notorious bank robber, Frank Talbert. So Martin rigs a device to change...
• Season 3: 10. Girl In The Flying Machine, The (1965). While Martin is working on his ship, he overcharges the magnetic field which accidentally pulls in a Slobodian astro-ship and its beautiful female pilot from its space orbit. While he figures out how to solve the dilemma, he erases the pilot's memory placing it on Martian tape, and he brings her back to the apartment. Martin tells her she's his niece, Zelda, and that she has a case of amnesia. Zelda is a naturally suspicious person, which is part of the subconscious memory she still retains. Martin figures he can fix Zelda's ship in 24 hours using his own ship as a ...
• Season 3: 11. Time Machine Is Waking Up That Old Gang Of Mine, The (1965). Martin is still trying to fix his CCTBS - his time travel machine - but it's stuck on the year 1870, the place the state of Missouri. There is a short circuit in the CCTBS, and instead of Martin and Tim being transported back, it transports two figures from 1870 Missouri into Tim's apartment, namely Frank and Jesse James. The trouble is that the James' hold Martin and Tim and ultimately Mrs. Brown hostage, and want to use the CCTBS to pillage history of all its riches. In the present day in the meantime, the James brothers go back to as familiar territory as possible,...
• Season 3: 12. Avenue C Mob (1965). Martin temporarily ages himself four hundred Martian years. He has been studying human old age, and figures one can only fully understand it by experiencing it. The one benefit however is that his mind is still as sharp as a tack, since Martian brains don't deteriorate with age. Martin decides that one of his acts as a senior on earth is to take a job as a warehouse night watchman since seniors don't want to be burden to their families. At work, Martin is interrupted by a couple of intruders, two elder spinster sisters, Tessie and Matilda Harvey. Their story: their ...
• Season 3: 13. Tim And Tim Again (1965). Martin has transformed his duplicating machine to have the duplicates become permanent instead of just temporary. He unfortunately duplicates Tim. So Martin goes off to get a mineral needed to eradicate the duplicate Tim, leaving the two Tims to fend for themselves. The real Tim has a great idea: he will get the duplicate to go off to work, while the real Tim goes on a beach date. However the duplicate Tim has other ideas. He uses Martin's personality changing machine on himself to transpose himself into an evil Tim, one that takes the real Tim's money, takes the real...
• Season 3: 14. Loralei Brown Vs. Everybody (1965). Mrs. Brown is more distracted than usual. To help her concentrate, Martin gives her a concentration pill, which will help her focus solely on the first thing she thinks about immediately after taking the pill. However instead of thinking about where she placed a letter for Martin, which is what he originally wanted her to think about, she thinks about police work. She becomes a civilian one-woman police ticket giving machine, for everything from littering to illegal parking. Unfortunately, there are also more dangerous aspects to police work. She buys a short wave ...
• Season 3: 15. O'Hara Caper, The (1965). Tim wants to use Martin's CCTBS to go back to today's lunch hour. He missed the biggest news story of the year - a robbery of the Beaudelaire jewels, worth $2.5 million - and has been demoted to writing the obituaries, in his mind only one step above the unemployment line. Martin reluctantly agrees. Once back, Tim makes the big mistake of acting like he knows too much about an impending robbery. So after the real thieves come into the store and steal the jewels, Tim is accused of being their look-out man. In discussion with Det. Brennan, Tim accidentally implicates ...
• Season 3: 16. Who's Got A Secret? (1965). Martin's "EWS" or Early Warning System - which is akin to human intuition - is going crazy. He soon finds out the cause is Mrs. Brown's big talking mooching brother, Alvin Wannamaker, who has come for a visit. The visit coincides with Mrs. Brown's woman's club defense league luncheon with a General as a guest speaker. Alvin implies to the General that he is working on a top secret project with "inventor" Martin, so the General infers it is something that it is something military related that he should have known about all along. The General leaks to the press that ...
• Season 3: 17. Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow (1966). Tim stands to inherent some money from the estate of Martha and Ralph O'Hara. The only things standing in his way are a relative, Clarence O'Hara who would inherit the estate otherwise, and Martin, who Clarence insists should not exist in the rightful O'Hara family. He feels he is an authority as his father was county recorder. Tim truly is the rightful heir, and tries to legitimize Martin. Using the CCTBS (the time machine), Tim suggests that Martin go back to January 15, 1920, the day that Martha and Ralph register the name of their newborn son, Frank, and use his ...
• Season 3: 18. Martin's Revoltin' Development (1966). 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,...
• Season 3: 19. TV Or Not TV (1966). Martin's internal transmitter is short circuiting. Intermittently, he becomes 'the' television transmitter worldwide, overtaking all regular television programming. His eyes are the camera. In the meantime, he has a special pair of sunglasses to wear that will block the transmitter. He needs some wiring from a television camera to fix the short circuit. Luckily Tim needs to go down to the television station on assignment. He has to interview matinée idol Chad Foster. So Martin tags along with Tim. When Martin is introduced to Chad, Chad admires his sunglasses. Martin ...
• Season 3: 20. Man From Uncle Martin, The (1966). 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 ...
• Season 3: 21. Martin, The Mannequin (1966). 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 ...
• Season 3: 22. Butterball (1966). Martin must again go up against the CRUSH organization when Tim is kidnapped by Butterball.
• Season 3: 23. When A Martian Makes His Violin Cry (1966). Mrs. Brown's purse is stolen at a carnival. Det. Brennan automatically suspects Raymond, a gypsy, only because the detective thinks all gypsies are crooked. Martin knows Raymond didn't do it. But because the detective hauls Raymond off to jail, Raymond places a curse on Mrs. Brown. For her, the curse is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Martin thinks that he can help Mrs. Brown get over the thought of the curse - that everything will slip through her fingers - by becoming invisible and holding onto things for her. Unfortunately, Martin's antenna are temporarily ...
• Season 3: 24. When You Get Back To Mars, Are You Going To Get It (1966). Another Martian spacecraft crash lands on Earth. It happens to be Martin's 11-year old nephew, Andromeda, who has come to Earth since he got lost in a cosmic storm. Andromeda is a proud Martian, who can't understand why Martin has taken on so many Earthly attributes, including the name Martin (his real name is Exigius 12-1/2). Andromeda refuses to wear Earth clothes or take on the name "Andy". He even tells the truth to Mrs. Brown and Det. Brennan, who think he just has an active child's imagination. But the detective is wary about the O'Hara's ability to raise a ...
• Season 3: 25. Doggone Martian (1966). Tim finds a lost dog and brings him home hoping that Martin can find out from the dog where he lives. It ends up not being lucky for Martin since the dog, Tutu, drinks Martin, turning Tutu into a talking dog. You see, Martin's new gizmo has the ability to distillate animal and vegetative matter down to their water form, and to reverse the process to return the objects back to the original state. He distillates himself to be light enough to escape Earth's gravity, and with Tim's help in launching his spaceship, to return back to Mars. But first, he now has to separate ...
• Season 3: 26. Virus M For Martian (1966). Tim arrives home a day earlier than expected from his Mexican assignment. Despite a Keep Out sign on his apartment door, Tim enters - it is his own apartment - and is exposed to a Martian virus, causing red striping across his face. Before Martin can give him the antidote, Det. Brennan stops by and sees Tim's striping. He automatically assumes that Tim has brought back a tropical virus and calls for an ambulance to take him to the hospital. Martin and Tim manage to elude Brennan once at the hospital, where Tim goes undercover, literally, by wrapping his head with ...
• Season 3: 27. Our Notorious Landlady (1966). Mrs. Brown gets zapped by Martin's personality altercator. There doesn't seem to be any outward effect from the blast, however this façade is part of her personality change. She has absorbed all the contents of Tim's book, The Criminal Mind, and solely has theft on the brain. She shoplifts some small items, not too much of an issue since Martin and Tim plan on taking them all back. But some information Det. Brennan passes along to her regarding his security of the Slotkin Diamond makes her think of the bigger catch. However before she can steal it, someone beats her ...
• Season 3: 28. Martin Meets His Match (1966). Martin is having some troubles with his spaceship, so he calls in some help from an old friend, one of the greatest minds ever on Earth: Leonardo Da Vinci. Da Vinci has other things on his mind than helping Martin. He is dismayed at life in the 20th century: how his inventions have been credited to others, and how his painting, La Gioconda, has been renamed the Mona Lisa. In his mind, all those have been stolen from him. The Mona Lisa is currently on loan to a local museum, for which Det. Brennan is in charge of security. Da Vinci sneaks out of the O'Hara apartment to...
• Season 3: 29. Horse And Buggy Martin (1966). Martin has a mosquito bite, from which he is suffering from symsymsympatheticus. This is an affliction where the next person bitten by the mosquito has a bit of Martin residue in him/her, and Martin is feeling everything that next person is feeling. But what if the next person isn't a person, but a horse? It ends up being not only a horse, but a race horse named Sweet Sister, who is running better than ever. Martin needs a blood sample from Sweet Sister to develop an antidote, and he manages to do so posing as a vet. Mistaking the taking of the blood sample as a ...
• Season 3: 30. Stop The Presses, I Want To Get Off (1966). Mrs. Brown once again walks in front of one of Martin's gizmos. This time, Martin was in the process of cleaning out his "sixth sense" as humans call it and reinserting it back into his body via his regenerating machine, but now Mrs. Brown is in possession of Martin's sixth sense. Three problems arise: Mrs. Brown is now suspicious of Martin since Martin wants his sixth sense back from her, Brennan breaks the regenerator which will take Martin a couple of days to fix, and the sixth sense becomes stronger over time to a point when Mrs. Brown will become aware of ...
• Season 3: 31. My Nut Cup Runneth Over (1966). Martin's malfunctioning molecular reassembler is what Tim uses to accidentally turn a squirrel into a human being. Martin has to fix the reassembler within 8 hours or else "Red" as they've coined him will be permanently changed to that of a human. In the meantime, Red's family moves in with the O'Hara's until he can be changed back to his proper squirrel state. Problems arise when Det. Brennan and Mrs. Brown come for a visit and notice a squirrel entering the apartment. The detective talks about calling in an exterminator to which Red takes offense and runs off. Tim ...
• Season 3: 32. Pay The Man The $24 (1966). 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. Apparently, while back in time, Tim accidentally implied to Chief Buffalo that the $24 or 60 guilder sale price was a steal, the Chief thinking that he meant that Peter Minuit is trying to steal the island. This prevents the sale, so in the present day, what is now New York does not belong to the United States. Martin and Tim need to go back to 1626 Manhattan to rectify the situation. Martin is a good mediator, but the ...

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