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My Favorite Martian
| My Favorite Martian | |
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| Premiere | September 29, 1963 |
| Finale | May 1, 1966 |
| Creator | John L. Greene |
| Network/Provider | CBS |
| Style | 30-minute science fiction sitcom |
| Company | Jack Chertok Television, Inc. |
| Distributor | Metromedia Producers Corporation (1967-?)
Telepictures Distribution (?-1986, 1996-2003) Lorimar-Telepictures (1986-1989) Warner Bros. Television (1989-1996, 2003-2013) Peter Rodgers Organization (2013- ) |
| Seasons | 3 |
| Episodes | 107 |
| Origin | USA |
My Favorite Martian is a science fiction sitcom that aired on CBS.
A human-looking extraterrestrial in a one-man spaceship crash-lands near Los Angeles. The ship's pilot is, in fact, an anthropologist from Mars and is now stranded on Earth. Tim O'Hara, a young newspaper reporter for The Los Angeles Sun, is on his way home from Edwards Air Force Base (where he had gone to report on the flight of the X-15) back to Los Angeles when he spots the spaceship coming down. The X-15 nearly hit the martian's spaceship and caused it to crash.
Tim takes the Martian in as his roommate and passes him off as his Uncle Martin. Uncle Martin refuses to reveal any of his Martian traits to people other than Tim, to avoid publicity (or panic), and Tim agrees to keep Martin's identity a secret while the Martian attempts to repair his ship. Uncle Martin has various unusual powers: he can raise two retractable antennae from his head and become invisible; he is telepathic and can read and influence minds; he can levitate objects with the motion of his finger; he can communicate with animals; he can freeze people or objects; and he can speed himself (and other people) up to do work.
Ostensibly an inventor by trade, Martin also builds several advanced devices, such as a time machine that transports Tim and the Martian back to Medieval England and other times and places, such as St. Louis in 1849 and the early days of Hollywood, and brings Leonardo da Vinci and Jesse James into the present. Another device he builds is a "molecular separator" that can take apart the molecules of a physical object, or rearrange them (a squirrel was made into a human). Another device can take memories and store them in pill form to "relearn" them later. Other devices create temporary duplicates, or levitate Martin and others without the need of his finger.
Tim and Uncle Martin live in a garage apartment owned by a congenial but scatterbrained landlady, Mrs. Lorelei Brown, who often shows up when not wanted. She and Martin have an awkward romance from time to time but Martin never gets serious for fear of going home to Mars. She later dates a vain, cold-hearted, plain-clothes police officer, Detective Bill Brennan, who dislikes Uncle Martin and is highly suspicious of him.
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Cast
| Actor | Character | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Cast | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Ray Walston | Uncle Martin | * | * | * |
| Bill Bixby | Tim O'Hara | * | * | * |
| Supporting/Recurring Cast | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Pamela Britton | Lorelei Brown | * | * | * |
| Ann Marshall | Angela Brown | * | ||
| J. Pat O'Malley | Harry Burns | * | ||
| Alan Hewitt | Detective Bill Brennan | * | * | |
| Roy Engel | The Police Chief | * | ||
Seasons
| Season | Premiere | Finale | # | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CBS | ||||||
| Season One | September 29, 1963 | June 28, 1964 | 37 | |||
| Season Two | September 27, 1964 | June 27, 1965 | 38 | |||
| Season Three | September 12, 1965 | May 1, 1966 | 32 | |||
In-Depth
- At a Glance: Additional information about the series
DVD Releases
| Title | Release | Discs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season Sets (Region 1) | ||||||
| Season One - Collector's Edition | June 24, 2014 | purchase | 5 | |||
| Season Two - Collector's Edition | December 23, 2014 | purchase | 5 | |||
| Season Three - Collector's Edition | October 30, 2012 | purchase | 5 | |||
