My Favorite Martian

My Favorite Martian was an American television sitcom aired on CBS from 1963 to 1966.

Premise

A human-looking extraterrestrial in a one-man ship crash-lands near Los Angeles. The ship's pilot is, in fact, from Mars and is now stranded on Earth. A young newspaper reporter, Tim O'Hara with the Los Angeles Sun, was on his way from Edwards Air Force Base (where he had gone to report on the flight of the X-15) back to Los Angeles when he spotted Martin's ship coming down.

Related Topics:
Extraterrestrial - Los Angeles - Mars - Earth - Reporter - Edwards Air Force Base - X-15

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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 and become invisible; he is telepathic and can read minds; he can levitate objects with the motion of his finger; and he can communicate with animals.

Related Topics:
Martian - Telepathic

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Martin also builds several advanced devices, such as a time machine which transports Tim and the Martian back to Medieval England and other times and places, such as St. Louis in 1849, the early days of Hollywood, or bring Leonardo da Vinci and Jesse James into the present. Another device he builds is a "molecular separator" which can take apart the molecules in 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. Another device can create temporary duplicates.

Related Topics:
Time machine - Medieval - England - Molecules

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Tim and Uncle Martin live in an apartment house run by a congenial but scatterbrained landlady, Mrs. Brown, who often shows up when not wanted. She later dates a plain-clothes police officer, Detective Brennan, who dislikes Uncle Martin and is highly suspicious of him.

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