Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Uncle Martin also reveals that on Mars he lives on Fulton Canal, which ultimately leads to comedic mix-ups and confusion with Canal Fulton, Ohio. Andromeda had a single antenna, which Martin explained was because his baby antennae had fallen out and only one adult antenna had come in so far. Andromeda was, however, a regular on the later My Favorite Martians animated series.
Andromeda, originally devised to bring younger viewers to the show, disappeared without explanation after this single episode, and was not referred to again in the live-action series' eight remaining episodes. Revealed in the episode "We Love You, Miss Pringle", it was heard again when his real nephew, Andromeda (played by young actor Wayne Stam), crash-landed on Earth late in the show's third season. "Martin O'Hara's" real name is actually Exigius 12½. She later dates a vain, cold-hearted, plain-clothes police officer, Detective Bill Brennan, who dislikes Uncle Martin and is highly suspicious of him and his activities. The Martian and she have an awkward romance from time to time, but Uncle Martin never gets serious for fear of his ultimately going home to Mars. Lorelei Brown (a former WAVE as revealed in the first episode of season one) who often shows up when not wanted. Tim and Uncle Martin live in a garage apartment owned by a congenial but scatterbrained landlady, Mrs. Other devices create temporary duplicates, or levitate Martin and others without the need of his index finger. Another device can take memories and store them in pill form to "relearn" them later. Another device he builds is a "molecular separator" that can take apart the molecules of a physical object, or rearrange them (a squirrel is made into a human). Louis in 1849 and the early days of Hollywood, and brings Leonardo da Vinci and Jesse James into the present. Uncle Martin has various unusual powers: He can raise two retractable antennae from the back of his head and become invisible he is telepathic and can read and influence minds he can levitate objects with the motion of his index finger he can communicate with animals he can freeze people or objects, and he can speed himself (and other people) up to do any kind of work.Īlso an inventor, Uncle Martin builds several advanced devices, such as a time machine that transports Tim and the Martian back to England in the Middle Ages and other times and places, such as St. Tim agrees to keep the Martian's Earth identity a secret while he attempts to repair his spaceship. The Martian refuses to reveal any of his special traits to humans, other than Tim, to avoid both publicity and human panic. Tim takes in the Martian, saying to other people that he is Tim's Uncle Martin. Returning home to Los Angeles, O'Hara spots the same silver spaceship coming down quickly, after which it crash lands nearby. 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. The spaceship's pilot is a 450-year-old anthropologist from Mars. Air Force's rocket plane, the North American X-15. Greene created the central characters and developed the core format of the series, which was produced by Jack Chertok.Ī human-looking extraterrestrial in a one-man spaceship nearly collides at high altitude with the U.S.
The first two seasons, totaling 75 episodes, were in black and white, while the 32 episodes of season three were in color. The show stars Ray Walston as "Uncle Martin" (the Martian) and Bill Bixby as Tim O'Hara. My Favorite Martian is an American science fiction sitcom that aired on CBS from September 29, 1963, to May 1, 1966, for 107 episodes. Jack Chertok Television Productions, in association with The CBS Television Network
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