SEASON 1
Created by John L. Greene
Theme music composed by George Greeley
- 001. My Favorite Martin – 9/29/1963
- Los Angeles reporter Tim O’Hara (Bill Bixby) lives in an apartment above the garage of the home of his landlady Mrs. Lorelei Brown (Pamela Britton) and her daughter Angela (Ann Marshall). He works for the Los Angeles Sun newspaper, and has a flirtatious relationship with Mrs. Brown’s niece Annabelle (Ina Victor). One morning after resetting all of his alarm clocks and falling back to sleep, he awoken by all three ladies and told that his editor Harry Burns (J. Pat O’Malley) wants him ot Edwards Air Force Base to report on a test flight of the X-15 aircraft. By the time Tim arrives, he has missed a near collision between the X-15 what the pilot identifies as a flying saucer. However he is rushed out by Col. Whitehead (Herbert Rudley) before he can get the story. On his way home, he spots the UFO go down and follows it to its crash, where he meets a man who identifies himself as a visiting Martian (Ray Walston), who is an anthropologist and has been to Earth many times before. Tim takes him back to his house, and witnesses him raise his antenna and turn himself invisible so he can sneak in. Tim allows the injured Martian to stay with him until he can recover and repair his ship. He also learns that the Martian can read minds and teleport himself. Based on the information provided to him by the Martian, he publishes an article stating that the pilot of the X-15 claimed to see a flying saucer. O’Malley and Lt. Murphy (Simon Oakland) pay him a visit to find out how he got the story. When they see the Martian in his house, Tim tells them that he is actually his Uncle Martin. When Tim refuses to reveal his source, he is thrown in jail. Martin teleports himself into the jail and tells Tim to claim he intercepted their broadcast on his car radio. When Murphy hears him talking to someone, an invisible Martin convinces him that Tim is a master ventriloquist. When Tim tells them the story about the radio, it checks out thanks to some interference from Martin. Tim agrees to help Martin raise the money needed to repair his ship by playing in Las Vegas, while Martin agrees to help Tim get Award winning stories through his mind-reading. Lee Krieger is the radarman. Marc Towers is the plainclothesman. 4/14/20
- 002. The Matchmakers – 10/6/1983
- With Mr. Burns out of town, and Tim expected to watch his dog George, Tim starts to get worried when George won’t eat anything. Martin communicates with the dog and finds out that George is in love with the dog Chloe who lives next door. They take George to see her, but she isn’t allowed outside because her mistress Marsha Carson (Laura Shelton) was recently shunned by a boyfriend named Howard Loomis (Linden Chiles) who took off for Mexico and left her, and thus distrusts men and keeps her dog away from meeting other dogs. Tim tries to rectify this by purposely running into her while they are walking dogs, and does in fact manage to charm her. However when Angela overhears Tim talk about how much he likes Marsha, she think he is talking about her. Then when she is disappointed, she mentions to Marsha how Tim floats from one girl to the next just like a butterfly. Marsha returns to her distrust of men, keeps Chloe inside, and causes George to stop eating again. Martin uses George and Chloe to find out the name of Marsha’s ex-boyfriend, and then phones him and tells him that Marsha is seeing someone else. In a panic, Howard return to the states and tells Marsha that he had had to leave on an emergency, but had sent a letter stating that he wanted to marry her upon return. She checks inside a magazine, and sure enough the letter he described was there all along. She and Howard make up, much to the disappointment of Tim… although he is grateful that George and Chloe can continue their romance, and he doesn’t have to call Mr. Burns back to pick up a sick dog. 4/14/20
- 003. There Is No Cure for the Common Martian – 10/13/1963
- Tim and Martin are each suffering from different problems. Tim is skating on thin ice with his boss at The Sun, and is assigned a cub reporter piece that involves reviewing an outer space display at Trimble’s department store. Martin has a cold which is magnified on earth, and causes him to disappear and reappear each time he sneezes. Tim reviews the Martians and Venusians displayed at Trimble’s, which were designed by Mr. Trimble’s (Willard Waterman) daughter Gloria (Sharon Farrell). She seems open to the criticism of Tim, who obviously knows the truth about aliens, but her father seems to only want a good review. Back home Mrs. Brown brings Martin some soup, but when Martin sneezes and disappears, she is shocked to see it all disappear seemingly on its own. Tim comes home and tries to cover for him by sneezing himself, so Mrs. Brown gives him some of the medicine that is brought by a delivery boy (Phil Garris), which turns out to be sleeping pills. Tim conks out, so Martin takes Tim’s notes and submits them as the story. Trimble, who is a huge financial supporter of the paper, complains and demands an apology and a retraction. Martin tries to convince Tim that his integrity in writing the truth is more important than his job. An invisible Martin accompanies Tim to help prod him along to stand up to Trimble, but he doesn’t have too much work to do, because Gloria slams her father for being such a bully and says she respects Tim for his bravery and honesty. Uncle Martin makes a phone call to The Sun using Trimble’s voice and tells them that Tim deserves to double his salary and it can be added to their advertising dollars. Additionally Tim scores a date with Gloria. 6/19/20
- 004. Russians R in Season – 10/20/1963
- While reading the paper, Uncle Martin casually mentions that the U.S. government is spending two billion dollars on a program that can’t possibly work. Tim is too busy trying to track down a penny in his bank statement, but it hits him in the middle of the night that he needs to do something. He tries to wake up Martin, but he only utters some formulas and says that the government should spend the money. Tim pens himself a letter regarding this, even mentioning the mysterious formula, and then sends himself the letter to publish in The Sun. Martin thinks he has made a mistake, and tells him that the government needs to fail so that it can learn and unlock the secrets of space travel. Two government agents (Frank Aletter, Ed Holmes) visit Tim at his house and tell them that they know he wrote the letter himself. Some of the formula was gibberish, but some of it also made sense to them so they bring him in to take a lie detector test administered by the head honcho James. L Jackson (Richard Deacon). His needle goes crazy at the mention of Uncle Martin, so they then bring him in as well. When Martin takes the test, the needle simply draws pictures. Attempts to hypnotize him fail as well, as Martin manages to hypnotize the agent during the session. He also manages to turn a brainwashing session around on the agents. Psychiatrist Dr. Weisbord (Bryan O’Byrne) is then brought in to administer a truth serum, which Martin is unable to overcome. He tells all about being a Martian, painting colorful vivid pictures of his planet, and his prior visits to earth over several hundred years. Mr. Jackson assumes that Martin is simply crazy and believes that he’s visited outer space. Later Martin reads in the paper that the government has added one more billion to the space program to pay for oxygen thermal rockets… which he says is exactly what they need. 6/19/20
- 005. Man or Amoeba – 10/27/1963
- Angela brings the newspaper to Uncle Martin and Tim, hoping that Martin will assist her on an assignment to critique an article in the newspaper about Mars. In the article, Professor Newton Jennings (John Fiedler) has stated that it is impossible for there to be any intelligent life on Mars because conditions wouldn’t allow anything more than an amoeba or a jellyfish. This starts Tim thinking that Martin might actually not be from Mars, and that he is merely using a form of magic or trickery to peform his impossible feats. Martin does a series of disappearances and reappearances to show off his skill, but as Tim is investigating them, Lorelei enters and asks Martin to help Angela with her paper. Martin offers his own version of the scientific facts that indicate that intelligent life on Mars is indeed possible. Angela winds up failling the paper because of her unsound exaplanations. It doesn’t seem to help when Martin accompanies her to talk to her teacher Miss Weaver (Betsy Jones-Moreland) and tries to explains his basis of understanding, but he is forced to admit that he has no scientific degree – nor high school diploma – she discounts him entirely, giving Angela permission to rewrite her paper with scientific evidence that makes sense. Martin doesn’t give up and goes to see Professor Jennings himself, using Tim to pretend that he is doing an article on him. While visiting his lab, Martin is able to read through Jennings’ notes, and comes to the conclusion that although his findings are not correct, his work is fifty years ahead of its time. Not wanting to discourage his future potential discoveries, he decides not to call out his errors. Tim goes ahead with his interview and article about Jennings, which illustrates that Jennings did in fact revises his theory about life on Mars, which vindicates both Martin and Angela. 10/4/20
- 006. The Man on the Couch – 11/3/1963
- As the temperature in Los Angeles nears 100 degrees, the rich air and heat start to take a toll on Martin. While taking a walk, he sees a water tower and elevates himself to the top of it where he finds fresher rarefied air. A passerby (Robert Paget) spots him up there and thinks he is planning to jump, so he calls the police. Lieutenant Harland (Henry Beckman) shows up with his men and tries to talk him down from killing himself. Tim gets assigned to cover the story, and when he arrives he gets permission to go up and talk to Martin. When he gets up there, Tim talks him into not simply disappearing… but it leads to him being admitted to the Psychiatric Ward at the hospital when he finally comes down. He is given a full psychiatric evaluation by Dr. Bonnett (Frank Behrens), during which Martin keeps reading Bonnett’s mind. Martin claims that he was only checkout out the structure because he thought it was leaning. Bonnett keeps Martin overnight to come up with a treatment plan, but Martin quickly is able to read that Bonnett has had an argument with his wife and can’t stop thinking about it. Martin gets him to open up and tell him all of his domestic problem, but Bonnett snaps out it quickly when Lorelei comes to see him. He starts treatment of Martin again, but Martin finally tells him that he only went on top of the water tower for the fresh air. Bonnett isn’t inclined to believe him, but Martin says he didn’t think he’d believe him because everyone wants complex answers. He admits that he does it too, always investigating everything he sees. Bonnett finally diagnosis that he’s too wrapped up in his work and gives him a pass to leave the ward, although after he’s gone, he questions whether Martin still needed help or not. He however heeds the advice and arranges a second honeymoon for him and his wife, and decides to do further research on the work psychosis. Back home, Mrs. Brown brings the guys more brownies, but Martin disappears to go sit on the roof. 10/5/20
- 007. A Loaf of Bread, a Jug of Wine, and Peaches – 11/10/1963
- When Tim gets in a fight with his girlfriend Delores and mentions how he fell in love at first sight with her. Martin tells him that the love-at-first-sight emotion doesn’t exist on Mars, so he wants to experience it for the book he is writing about his life on earth. He goes and sits in the park and only manages to freak out a nursemaid (Eleanor Berry) and a model (Greta Randall), as well as come under the watchful eye of Officer Thorp (Noam Pitlik). Then he spots a girl reading on a park bench, and is instantly smitten. Tim helps track he down, and she turns out to be exotic dancer Peaches Ancream (Kathie Browne). Martin asks Tim to ask her to have dinner with him, so Martin arranges an interview and reluctantly invites her to meet his uncle. This causes Officer Thorp to get angry and give Tim a parking ticket because he is in love with her. Peaches and Martin have a nice dinner, and she shares that she’s working on a book and fitness TV show. She is surprised that he’s never seen her dance, and asks him to keep it that way. Head over heels, he tells Tim that he’s going to propose to her, and as hard as he tries, Tim can’t talk him out of it. When the two meet again, before he can ask her to marry him, she admits that her book and TV shows are just pipe dreams. Martin then does what he said he would not, and tells her that he is a Martian. Peaches thinks it is humorous at first, but then gets annoyed, especially because the last man who asked her to marry him had told her several different cities where he said he was born. The man turns out to be Officer Thorp, and he now tells her it was because he was raised in an orphanage, and therefore doesn’t know. Martin sticks with his story, so Peaches walks off with Officer Thorp. Martin comes home to find Tim said again after another fight with Delores. Martin acknowledges how hard men on earth have it with understanding women. 1/21/21
- 008. The Awful Truth – 11/17/1963
- Tim wants Martin to give him a Martian power, so Martin reluctantly agrees to let him try the ability to levitate objects. Tim tries a few tricks and breaks some items, then decides he wants something more relevant to his career. With an interview coming up with Councilman Jack Gramby (Alan Reed), he asks for mind-reading ability. Martin agrees to let him have it until midnight. Tim tests it out on the postman (Dal McKennon) and Mrs. Brown for fun, and then sees its true dark nature when he finds out that his girlfriend Daphne Joyce (Jackie Russell) is lying to him about canceling a date with him to see her aunt when her true intentions are to see another man named Bruno. During his interview with Gramby, Tim tries to get his true perspective on his political intentions, but he is unable to get a read because Gramby truly doesn’t know where he stands. Tim uses this to write an article about how the Councilman ping-pongs between positions. The prompts the threat of a libel suit against Tim and the paper, which makes Tim see that man truly isn’t ready for mind-reading ability. Fortunately Gramby reconsiders and uses the article to make him realize that he needs to take some political stands. Things work out with Daphne as well, as she comes and tells Tim that she’s sorry she ditched him for Bruno and decided to cancel her date with him and go out with Tim instead. Martin addresses the audience and tells them that Bruno had actually postponed the date, and it was good that Tim didn’t have still ability to find this out. Dee J. Thompson is Gramby’s secretary Jean. Jon Silo is the waiter. 1/23/21
- 009. Rocket to Mars – 12/1/1963
- Uncle Martin is working to repair the hull of his spaceship so he can return to Mars. Later, two junk men Bruno (Karl Lukas) and Mike (Tom Kennedy) come over to pick up some scrap metal from Mrs. Brown. She accidentally gives them the key to Tim’s garage, and they take off with the spaceship. When Martin and Tim return, they try to track down the junk dealers who took the ship, but Mrs. Brown seems to have no information, so Martin communicates telepathically with the dog Boo Boo, and asks him to spread the info he remembers about the truck to all of his friends. Initially none of the dogs can find the truck, but finally one spots it in San Pedro at an Auto Wrecking & Scrap Metal yard. Martin and Tim talk to the manager (Vito Scotti), who advises them that it may have been crushed. He then remembers that he sold the ‘toy airplane’ to Mr. Carter (Cliff Norton) at Carter’s Kiddie Land. They rush over the park, and offer to buy it from Carter, but he declines. When Carter won’t budge, Martin instructs Tim to leave $10 for Carter, and then Martin takes a ride on the kiddie ride and takes off in the spaceship. Later at home, they laugh about Carter’s expression as they prepare steak dinners for the neighborhood dogs. Tommy Durkin is the little boy Harold. His mother is played by Arlen Stuart. The other little boy is played by Chris Hundley aka Craig Huxley. 5/17/21
- 010. Raffles No. 2 – 12/8/1963
- When a policeman (George Cisar) tries to give Martin a ticket for a parking violation, Martin puts more time on the meter to prevent the ticket. Tim lectures Martin about not having a license, so he heads to the bureau to get one. However when he realizes that they are asking for fingerprints, he grabs one from a stranger named Brian Henley (Howard Morton) and uses it. The print is identified by police Captain Farrow (John Anderson) as a previously unidentified print found at a jewelry store robbery. Soon Tim notices that he’s being trailed by detectives, and Martin is able to read their minds to figure out that they are suspects in the robbery. Tim asks his boss Mr. Burns if he can cover the fundraiser party where the hostess Summer Winthrop (Madge Blake) will be wearing the priceless Galaxy Diamond necklace. While at the party, they spot Henley and his female accomplice (Pamela Curran) swipe the necklace, and while Henley submits to a search, he passes the necklace to the accomplice, who hides it in Captain Farrow’s hat so they can steal it after he leaves the party. Martin tries to make himself invisible, but the electrical storm outside interferes. Martin is able to make the necklace transport from the hat into Henley’s jacket pocket. No matter what he does, the necklace follows him around and enters his pocket. Finally Farrow spots him with it, and arrests him, then returns it to an ecstatic Mrs. Winthrop. Norman Alden is Detective Harris. Olan Soule is the motor vehicle clerk. 5/18/21
- 011. The Atom Misers – 12/15/1963
- Martin is deep in thought, when he finally comes to conclusion that he needs to make an alloy of silicon and cobalt by using a Cyclotron particle accelerator, in order to come up with ‘Silibalt’, the only substance hard enough to repair his spaceship. He tries to create this in the kitchen, but the noise and inconvenience is driving Tim crazy. Tim is assigned by the paper to interview a 13-year old prodigy named Donald Mumford (Flip Mark) who is attending the university, and Tim lures Martin to go along to get him out of the house, by telling him that the University has a cyclotron. When they arrive at the school, Tim goes looking for Dr. E.A. Jackson (Jerome Cowan), the assistant head of the Physics department, and Donald’s advisor, but he initially only finds his attractive assistant Jeanine Carter (Jean Hale), while Martin goes looking for the Cyclotron in the University Warehouse, where he encounters Donald. Martin and Donald make an agreement that if Martin can get him an additional 9000 volts of power, Donald will help him make the alloy. Martin pulls the power from the University power supply by using his telekinesis to move the cabling around, much to the surprise of the workmen (Emil Sitka, Bert Conroy). When one of them throws a switch in the plant, it causes an explosion. Tim finally finds Jackson, who complains about the reckless experiments of Donald, and when the explosion occurs, Jackson decides that Donald needs to be expelled from school. Martin lectures Jackson about stifling a brilliant mind just because he thinks out of the box. Jackson changes his mind and has Donald move in with him so he can both nurture and keep an eye on him. Tim and Martin leave without the Silibalt, but Donald later sends him a piece of it, the hardest substance in the world. Martin is initially thrilled… until he realizes nothing in the world would be able to cut or form it. Bobby Byles is the music student. 9/12/21
- 012. That Little Old Matchmaker, Martin – 12/22/1963
- Tim laments because a lady named Cynthia Parker (Nancy Rennick), a co-worker of Tim’s at the newspaper, won’t go out with him. Martin gets tired of Tim obsessing over her, so he agree to help Tim by reading Cynthia’s mind so he can tell Tim what kinds of things she is into. Posing as a someone pitching a marketing questionnaire, he is able to read her mind enough to know that she is into higher culture, writers and poets, and classical music. Tim then begins reading classic works and listening to classical music. He then invites Cynthia to attend the orchestra with him. They hit it off, but when she tells Tim how much music and literary works mean to her, and how happy she is to be with someone who cares about it too. Tim starts to feel guilty that he is fooling her, but can’t figure out how to get out of it. He then has the idea to have Martin find a different man for her, one more suited who has the same interests. Martin finds a guy who works in the personnel department named Bill Fisher (Robert Colbert) who is into classical music as well. Tim offers him his tickets to the Salzburg String Quartet that he had bought for himself and Cynthia, but Bill is already going with his girlfriend Peggy “Angelface” Collins (Jan Moriarity). However, Martin hears the thoughts of Peggy, who is all about jazz music, stock car races, and other lowbrow fun. Martin comes up with an idea and attends the concert with everyone, and then once they are all seated, he moves everyone’s tickets around, so that they Tim ends up sitting with Peggy, and Bill ends up with Cynthia. It becomes obvious that Cynthia and Bill are more suited for each other, and in fact, only a month later they are getting married. Peggy is a bridesmaid at the wedding and catches the bride’s bouquet. This is of some concert to Tim, as they also have been dating, and attending jazz concerts, stock car races, and other lowbrow fun events. Dick Patterson and Nancy Howard appear as Douglas Ginzer and Mary Hogan, patron of the concert who have to move their seats, although their names are never given outside of the credits. Jan Burrell is the usher. 9/13/21
- 013. How to Be a Hero Without Really Trying – 12/29/1963
- Uncle Martin is working on his spaceship motor, and he needs an ore called Glink, which he will look for near Sunset Mountain. Tim declines to take him there because he has plans on his day off. They then meet their new little boy neighbor who pretends to be a Martian, and goes by the name of Zeno. His older sister Jennifer (Kathy Kersh) informs them that his real name is Steven Richmond (Butch Patrick). Steven wants to go along on their ‘picnic’ to Sunset Mountain, and when Tim gets one look at Jennifer, he’s all for it. They have the picnic as planned, then Martin goes looking for his Glink, and Steven tags along. Martin gets tired of him following, so he tells him to play hide-and-seek. Zeno takes his role as a Martian seriously and tries to prove his identity as a Martian by climbing halfway up the mountain and parking himself there… then gets too scared to climb down. A nearby picnicker (Richard Reeves) informs them of Steven’s location. Tim is too scared to climb up after him, but Martin tells him that he can save Steven and impress Jennifer by climbing up to get him. Furthermore, Martin leaves to go get his levitating device, which will ensure that Tim can’t fall. He rushes home, grabs it, and then speeds back. In fact, he is going so fast that two police offers (George Cisar, and Dick Wilson as Joe) try to pull him over. Martin uses his power to stop the cop car in the middle of the street and then he drives on. When the cops finally catch up and try to arrest Martin, they cause him to drop and break the levitator, but Martin makes them forget why they pulled him over. Every time Martin gets close to fixing the levitator, someone cause him to drop it and break it all over. Tim gets up to Steven and carries him down on his back. Once he is declared a hero, he notices that the levitator is smashed to bits, and faints. Later he nearly breaks his leg just trying to help Jennifer put up the kitchen curtains. 3/12/22
- 014. Blood is Thicker Than the Martian – 1/5/1964
- Tim gets a telegram from his cousin Harvey O’Hara (Paul Smith) that he’s going to drop by for a visit. Tim and Martin both instantly panic, thinking that he will probably want to stay a while, which would be disastrous since he would be sure to find out about Martin’s origins. Martin decides to disappear when he shows up, so he won’t know that he exists. Harvey wants Tim to help get him a job on the Los Angeles Sun so he can leave his small-town newspaper, The Old Grove Weekly Gazette and Advertiser. When Harvey mentions him getting settled in the apartment, Martin drags Tim out and tells him that he has to find a way to get rid of him. Martin also panics when Mrs. Brown keeps trying to meet Harvey, because she would be sure to tell Harvey about him. To try and get around this, Martin starts asking Mrs. Brown to various dinners and shows for the week. Tim is successful in getting Harvey a job at the paper, but says it will still take a while before he can move out. Martin has to sleep invisible, and his snoring keeps up Harvey… while Harvey’s snoring keeps up Martin. Finally, Martin has had enough and shows up at the apartment pretending to be a former associate of Tim’s from the Sun. Martin touts how much he enjoyed working on the small-town papers, while telling him how stressful that the big newspapers can be. To convince Harvey that he’s already going crazy, he starts moving objects in the presence of Harvey, trying to convince him that he’s having a nervous breakdown. Tim and Martin then are able to get Harvey on a bus to head back to go back to his home town. When they return home, they find that another cousin named Margie has shown up… and Martin wants nothing to do with this one. 3/12/22
- 015. Poor Little Rich Cat – 1/12/1964
- Martin is aghast when he reads a blurb in Tim’s newspaper indicating that a rich woman named Rosemary Willis died and left her $650,000 to her cat Max (Rhubarb aka Orangey). He wants to do something about it, so Tim tells him that he arranged a meeting with the Willis attorney Morton Beanbecker (Bernie Kopell). He tells Tim that the lawyers saw his newspaper blurb and warns him that he and the newspaper may face a billion dollar lawsuit if he says anything that could damage the potential for book deal, movie rights, or a future TV show about Max. He also mentions in passing that Mrs. Willis has written a second will that left her fortune to a children’s orphanage. Martin takes this as a dog whistle that he wants them to research the second will since it would be a conflict of interest for him to do so. He and Tim meet with Rosemary’s sister Aggie (Moyna MacGill) and her husband Charles (Dub Taylor), who are acting as the cat’s guardian and proxy spender. Aggie claims that her sister comes to her in dreams each night to tell her how to spend the money, including buying a diamond collar for Max, a new car, and a European cruise to take Max on. Martin goes and sees Max himself and communicates with him in beatnik lingo, and finds out that Max doesn’t want the money, and that he hid the orphan will because Rosemary had forgotten to sign it, and he didn’t want her associated with absent-mindedness. Martin takes the will to Beanbecker, who does in fact hope to find a loophole to get the money to the orphanage. However, neither he nor Martin can find any legal loopholes as they pore through law books. They get the idea to hold a séance, so that Aggie can speak to Rosemary directly. Martin poses as Rosemary and makes her remember the other will and the fact that it is the will that Rosemary would want to be honored. Aggie makes the decision to use her Power of Attorney privileges to sign the money over to the orphanage and use their own money to take the cruise. Max will live permanently at the orphanage where he will well taken care of. 7/14/22
- 016. Rx for Martin – 1/19/1964
- Martin figures out that Mars is deviating from its normal orbital course, and will soon be close enough for Martin to return on his spaceship… if he leaves within the next twelve hours. Tim can’t quite get over the fact that he’s going to lose Martin as his friend and guest. Martin sadly packs and he and Tim say their final goodbye, but as he heads toward the garage, Martin twists his ankle when he takes a fall down the stairs. Mrs. Brown sees him fall and tells him that she’s covered with insurance, and she calls the ambulance so he won’t sue her later. In addition to his ankle, he also pinches a nerve that causes his antenna not to work… and therefore he cannot disappear. The ambulance driver (Ray Kellogg) brings an intern (Yale Summers) to check him out. Naturally his vitals are way outside the norm of an earthling, which panics the intern and causes him to insist on getting him to the hospital. Tim tries to tell him that he can’t leave in his condition, but Martin angrily insists that he needs to get out of the hospital so that he can get going. Mrs. Brown also wants to make sure that he stays in hospital, so that he can use her insurance. He tries to sneak out, but is caught by Dr. Rothman (Bill Zukert), who only laughs at the intern’s reports of his temperature and heart rate, etc. Rothman agrees to allow him to leave, but wants him to take another physical exam. Martin sends Tim to go out and picks up a few things in order that Martin can appear to be within Earthling standards. For instance, he uses his water bottle full of ice to cool his temperature down to 98.6 degrees. He wants to take Martin into the fluoroscope room for an x-ray, but Martin has Tim step in his place since the gamma rays could destroy him. The doctor releases him just as he fully recovers his invisibility, and he departs the hospital, but in his invisible state, he winds up in the maternity ward temporarily before exiting the hospital. With an hour to spare, he has just enough time to try and leave once again… when he falls down the stairs once again and he sprains his other ankle. Naturally, Mrs. Brown again insists he head back to the hospital since she has both ankles covered. Later Marin expresses his disappointment but is also fascinated that he felt sentimentality and realizes that he partially considers himself to still be at home. 7/14/22
- 017. Going, Going, Gone – 2/2/1964
- While Tim is practicing golf in the house, Martin uses his powers to lift the golf balls off the ground, but when he tries to lift the ball return, he falters and it drops. Meanwhile, at the Mount Palomar Observatory a scientist named Dr. Orville Laird (David Bond) identifies a series of ongoing sunspots. The sunspots seem to be affecting Martin’s powers, and he soon realizes that he can’t control his powers when he manages to magnetize himself and starts drawing metal objects to his coveralls, which he removes and burns. He also starts levitating involuntarily. Meanwhile, Mrs. Brown has started selling insurance and talks Martin into buying a policy. She also wants to borrow a light bulb, which Martin can’t help but illuminate when he gets one for her. Tim thinks Martin should see a doctor, but Martin says that they wouldn’t understand his metabolism or makeup. Mrs. Brown overhears them arguing about it and Tim telling Martin that he acts as though it would kill him to see the doctor. Martin then shrinks to be a foot tall, and then becomes invisible. When the TV reception goes bad as well, an announcement is made that sunspots are interfering with the reception. Martin realizes that it is the sunspots that is playing havoc with his metabolism, and there is no way of knowing when they will stop. When the field representative William Stone (Jonathan Hole) from the Southern Mutual Life & Accident Company to examine Martin for his life insurance policy. Since he is invisible, Tim can’t come up with any good answers as to where he is, causing Stone to become suspicious and contact the police. Tim is visited by Lieutenant Gibson (Robert Lieb) and listens to Tim try and explain how Martin left without telling him where he is going. Gibson also finds buttons from Martin’s coverall in the outdoor fireplace. Although Mrs. Brown keeps giving the officer incriminating evidence, she insists that Tim couldn’t have harmed Martin. The police also find Tim’s handkerchief with Martin’s blood on it, which Martin had used when he cut his hand. Tim is then brought before the Assistant District Attorney Ronald Bradley (Henry Beckman), where he is accused of Martin’s murder. Martin is actually there with him, but Tim won’t let him come forward as it will give away his identity. Tim decides to act as if he is insane to help him with his plea. The officers take him into custody for a psychiatric evaluation, but as they are leaving the courtroom, Martin is standing outside the door fully visible. He tells the officers that he has been in traffic for weeks. 11/8/22
- 018. Who Am I? – 2/9/1964
- Martin is excited when he finds out that Professor Eugene Downey, who is the world’s foremost authority on rocket fuel, is visiting Los Angeles. Martin tells Tim that he is just an inch away from discovering the fuel that will help send Martin back to Mars. He intends to make himself invisible so he can nudge him along with his formula. He asks Tim to call his boss so he can arrange an interview with him. As they head out, Martin returns to the garage to grab their camera, and a monkey wrench that Martin had previously levitated falls and hits him in the head. When Martin comes to, he finds he has amnesia and doesn’t know that he is a Martian. He doesn’t know who he is, who Tim is, where he is, or why he’s there. He also believes that Tim had struck him with the wrench and drugged him. Tim tries to explain Martin’s true origin, but Martin won’t believe him, so Tim tries to show him his spaceship, but he believes it is just a fake model. Mrs. Brown sees them bickering and fighting, but thinks they are just playing. Tim gets Martin to agree to see Dr. Gilbert (Michael Fox), where he tells the doc that Martin has amnesia. Martin then tells the doc that Tim is crazy and has kidnapped and drugged him and tried to convince him that he’s a 450-year-old Martian. When Gilbert returns to the other office to question Tim, Martin accidentally discovers that he has the power to levitate items. He rushes back to the office to tell the doctor about the strange phenomena he is experiencing and then proceeds to show the doctor how he can levitate his chair and have it move around the room. Tim convinces the doctor that Martin is The Great Martino, and that he is using wires for his trick. When the doctor leaves to retrieve his nurse (Sally Carter), Tim shows Martin how he also has the ability to sprout antennae and disappear. When the doctor and nurse return, Martin is no longer apparently in the room, and Tim bids a hasty exit, causing the nurse to think that Dr. Gibert is in fact crazy. By the time Martin and Tim get home, Tim has nearly convinced him that he is speaking the truth. He also shows him the levitating tools, and when the recreate the moment when Martin was hit in the head, another hammer falls and knocks Martin out. This time when he wakes up, Martin has recovered his memory and they head out to see Professor Downey. Unfortunately, they are too late and he has already left town. Martin gets irritated that he was delayed by Tim, so he makes himself invisible. A coed girl (Erin O’Donnell aka Jacklyn O’Donnell) sees Tim talking to no one and swatting at the air and thinks he is crazy and too stressed out. Martin makes himself visible to the coed and mentions returning to Mars to get away from the stress, causing her to think he too is crazy. 11/8/22
- 019. Now You See It, Now You Don’t – 2/16/1964
- Martin wakes Tim up on his day off and insists that he take him to art museum. After showing Tim a painting in which he appears, Martin notices the museum curator Wilbur Canfield (Cecil Kellaway) and reads just enough of his mind to know that he is fretting about something. In order to get a better understanding as to whether there is a worthwhile story for Tim to print, Martin stops in to visit Canfield in his office. He offers to sketch Canfield and presents him the drawing, which Canfield notes is done in the style of Rembrandt. Martin reports that Canfield has just made a $50,000 for an ancient Egyptian statue that was found in the tomb of Nefertiti, but the museum board wants another expert named Donati (Maurice Marsac) to come look at it and give a second opinion. Canfield feels insulted by this, and Martin worries that Canfield will look foolish if the statue proves to be fake. He decides to check it out himself, but they are kicked out of the museum because it is closing. Martin makes himself invisible and sneaks back in to look at it, but the security guard Matt (John Qualen) won’t look away long enough for Martin to check out the statue. Martin and Tim go home and discuss it, and Martin decides to return and bring the statue out to him to check it out. Once they arrive, they can’t figure out how to get it past the windows with a burglar alarm. Martin then turns up the thermostat, and after Matt opens the window to cool off the place, Martin levitates the statue to himself. He takes it home to examine it and determines that it is real. They then return the statue, much to the wide-open mouths of Matt and the other security guard John (Harry Lauter). That night, Martin wakes up and remembers that he forgot to look for the obligatory marking for the Sun God Ra that would validate the authenticity of the statue. Donati shows up the next day to look over the statue, but since he cannot find the Ra symbol, he deems it a fake. Martin returns to the museum and tells Donati that he needs to scrape the statue to make sure that the Ra symbol isn’t covered by years of residue. Sure enough, when he scrapes the statue, he finds the symbol. Martin disappears before anyone but Dontai sees him. Tim’s editor is so pleased with the article that he appoints him to cover all of the Arts topics in the paper, his first assignment to review the opera. Martin fills Tim’s ears with cotton for him to use during the concert. 4/14/23
- 020. My Nephew the Artist – 2/23/1964
- Martin feels bad that he has been unable to make any money and contribute to the hospital, so he combines his love of painting works based on the old masters with an effort to sell them and make some money. He visits Mr. Green (Cyril Delevanti) and is able to make a quick sales, which he in turn immediately sells to a customer (Hazel Shermet). Green is so impressed with Martin’s work that he arranges to show off his work and invites famous art expert Mr. Bentley (Richard Deacon) and his wife (Cathleen Cordell) to the showing. Tim’s editor Mr. Burns hears about the showing and asks if the artist O’Hara is related to him. Tim runs home and questions Martin about the showing and is freaked out when he realizes what Martin is doing. When Mr. Green comes to tells Martin about the showing, Martin gives the credit to Tim and tells him that it was actually Tim who created the paintings. When Bentley is skeptical that Tim has painted all of the works, all of which are derivative of different old masters, Martin tells Bentley that Tim will paint five different paintings at once… all based on the works of different artists. Martin perfects being able to move the paintbrush with his telekinetic powers. However, when it comes time to create the paintings, Martin’s powers are on the fritz because he is allergic to a flower that Mrs. Bentley is wearing. He manages to get the flower off of her and throws it outside. Tim successfully completes the paintings to the great astonishment of Bentley and an audience of observers which includes Mr. Burns, who suggests that Tim probably will no longer need his job at the newspaper thanks to his great artistic talent. Martin then announces that Tim has decided to no longer be derivative of other artists and will come up with his own style. He tells Tim to create another painting on his own, and this time, Martin doesn’t help him. It merely looks like an ink blot, so Mr. Burns tells him that he had better show up to work as normal. Tim makes Martin promise to never again try to earn money to give him. Carol Worthington is Tim’s fan Miss Kane. 4/15/23
- 021. Hitchhike to Mars – 3/1/1964
- Martin is excited when he reads an article in the newspaper indicating that the Inter-Galaxy Corporation has developed a rocket that they intend to send to Mars… or possibly Venus. Martin hopes to stowaway on board in order to get back to Mars in time for his parents’ 500th wedding anniversary. However, since the company is not sure yet whether to go to Mars or Venus, he wants to make sure to influence them, so he has Tim show up to interview the company president J.M. Buckley (Herbert Rudley) with Martin posing as his photographer. They both try to persuade him toward going to Mars, but Martin has already read his mind and that Buckley has known for a few days that he wants to go to Mars. Unfortunately, Buckley doesn’t want to announce it yet, because he is wavering in his own confidence. Martin sets his watch forward so that he will leave the room so that Martin can look at the blueprints to see how much room will be on the ship. Tim tells Buckley about an Executive Award this his newspaper offers to an executive who can make decisive decisions. He decides to finally consort with the Vandenberg Airbase and announce that the first rocket will be going to Mars, but when he finds out that it is Friday the 13th, he gets cold feet again. Tim and Marin find out from his secretary Miss Maxwell (Alice Backes) how superstitious he is. She tells them that he goes to Lucky Shamrock Cafe every day, only because of the name of the place. They catch up with him at the restaurant and start doing things to convince him that Friday the 13th is in fact his lucky day, including dropping a fortune cookie at the table. He is ready to head back his office to make the announcement, but then realizes that he has lost his lucky rabbit’s food. Tim and Martin head back to the restaurant to search for it and are given permission by the waiter (Vito Scotti) to find it. They get some help from a cat named Herbie that they have to bribe to reveal its location, but the cat doesn’t tell him that he has chewed it up. Martin then is able to reconstruct a different rabbit’s food and return it to Buckley’s desk back at the office. When Buckley finds it, he makes the announcement to Vandenberg that they are going to Mars. Martin leaves an anonymous recommendation in the suggestion box to bring a magnetic oscilloscope on the mission. At home, Martin packs for the journey and says his goodbyes to Tim, and they exchange gifts to remember each other by. Tim watches from afar as he sees the rocket’s door open and close, indicating that Martin has boarded the ship. Once it is on its way and thousands of miles from Earth, Martin show up back in Tim’s apartment. He tells Tim that there was almost no room left when he saw how much space the magnetic oscilloscope took up on Earth. Martin figures he’ll try for his parents’ diamond anniversary 250 years from now. Lillian Culver is the woman in the restaurant. 8/28/23
- 022. Uncle Martin’s Broadcast – 3/8/1964
- When Tim notices that Martin’s antennae are similar to the ones on the TV, he asks Martin if he is able to pick up broadcast signals in a similar fashion. After Martin shows him that he can, Tim uses this to his advantage by suggesting that Martin go to sleep with his antennae out to keep himself from snoring, and then tunes into the police band and overhears them talking about the Crown Jewelry store robber. Tim then phones the police to inquire about the details of the robbery so that he can write about it in his newspaper. He speaks to Detective Sergeant Seeley (Don Haggerty), who has both Tim and Martin arrested since the information that Tim had was only broadcast on their new private two-way transmitters, which means that they are both suspects unless they can explain how they go the information. Since they can’t tell him about Martin’s broadcasting ability, he tells them he is going to hold them for 48-hours before they are arrested. Martin knows he can’t be fingerprinted or have his photo taken so he makes himself invisible, bends the bars, and escapes the cell. The guard (Roger Creed) lets Tim out to get a drink of water, as Seeley brings him some brownies from Mrs. Brown. Seeley tells his partner Charlie (Dick Wilson) that Tim will soon crack and give up any information he has. Meanwhile, Martin starts investigating the jewelry store where the robbery took place and is able to obtain a footprint of one of the perpetrators. From items they left behind, he is able to track the burglars to a waterfront bar and is able to determine two possible perpetrators named Harry (Lane Bradford) and Jim (Paul Sorenson) through his mind-reading. However, neither one fits the footprint, causing Martin to realize that there is a third person. By reading their minds, he is able to determine that the mastermind of the robbery is Seeley. Back at the station, Tim is making a confession so that Uncle Martin doesn’t have to stay on the lam. Martin then returns and claims that he committed the robbery. However, he is actually speaking for Seeley, and confessing that he had committed the robbery due to his life of sitting behind his desk without any recognition. When Seeley hears this, he has a breakdown and tries to stop Martin from talking, even trying to use his gun that Martin causes to malfunction. He finally calms down and admits his guilt and apologizes for pinning it on Martin and Tim. Martin uses his broadcasting and sends out an APB for Harry and Jim to be picked up. Later, Tim tries to tune into the police radio again, but Martin wakes up and tells Tim that he has put a lock on his broadcasting. Len Felber is the policeman on the night beat. 8/28/23
- 023. An Old, Old Friend of the Family – 3/15/1964
- Uncle Martin gets a phone call from Tim at work asking him to bring him some notes about the leader of a new East Asian country of Kobima named Jakobar (Charles Maxwell), who is visiting Los Angeles. Tim has a deadline of noon to get a story into the paper about him. Martin claims that he had visited Kobima 150 years earlier and became legendary to Jakobar’s great-grandfather by giving him sage advice and earning the honorary title of Kokoban, meaning “Miracle Man”. Martin winds up being late to get the story to Tim because he stopped off at an electronics store to buy a transducer which will help him repair his communications system in his spaceship. Tim is disappointed in Martin because he missed the deadline and provoked the ire of his boss Mr. Burns. Martin feels bad and promises to make it up to Tim by getting him an exclusive interview with Jakobar. Martin goes to see Jakoba at his hotel, but he keeps getting turned down by his security guard (Henry Corden). Eventually, he sends in a familiar symbol made of matchsticks, and when Jakobar sees it, he lets Martin in. Jakobar is impressed by all that Martin seems to know about his great-grandfather. However, Jakobar says he doesn’t believe that Kokoban ever existed. When Martin correctly tells Jakobar that he is thinking about how to make the best use of the oil that he has discovered in Kobima, and how he wants to have an American company build an oil refinery there. Martin also tells Jakobar that he is still doing many things in his business practices in tightly kept secrecy, even though the necessity is gone. Jakobar agrees to tell Tim his story for a newspaper article. However, when Martin returns with Tim, Jakobar has changed his mind, and assumes that because Uncle Martin’s stories were so accurate, that he couldn’t possibly be who he says he is: Kokoban’s great-grandson. He throws Tim and Martin out of his room, and Tim is left feeling like a fool since he told Mr. Burns that he is getting the interview. Martin makes himself invisible and sneaks back into the room. Martin gives Jakobar further advice and tells him that he needs to put his past of being a fugitive in the past. Martin tells him that he fears for the future of Kobima since Jakobar keeps wanting to fight rather than accept his success without having any trust. He tells Jakobar to stop being a rebel and to start being a statesman. Jakobar agrees to see Tim for the interview, but this time, Tim doesn’t want to come and be made a fool of again. Martin keeps giving Tim different signs and symbols including a newspaper article about Jakobar, and books that deal with being a great reporter. Tim finally heads back to Jakobar’s hotel, where Jakobar apologizes to both Martin and Tim. He asks Martin to look over the contract he signed with a refinery and is shocked when Martin tells him that there are no loopholes in the contract. Jakobar signs the contract, and tells Martin that if he didn’t know better, he would swear that he was the real Kokoban. Tim’s article is a success and is picked up by major newspapers. Bart Conrad and Joseph V. Perry are Jakobar’s guards. 12/18/23
- 024. Super-Dooper Snooper – 3/22/1964
- When Martin sees Mrs. Brown snooping in his window, he reads her mind and finds out that she is taking a correspondence course on being a detective. Tim doesn’t think there is much to worry about, but they later catch Mrs. Brown snooping inside their apartment, and then when confronted, pretending she is sleepwalking. Martin discovers that Mrs. Brown had taken photos of his flight log, which although was written in the Martian language, could fall into the hands of the authorities. Martin goes down to visit Mrs. Brown to read her mind, and although it gives him a raging headache, he finds out that she took photos of the flight log. Later, when Mrs. Brown asks the guys to pick up a pie, Martin steals the receipt for a roll of film that she left at Murphy’s drug store. However, when they pick up the photos, it turns out to be photos from two months ago. Upon delivering the pies, Martin reads her mind again and finds out that she has mailed the film to the correspondence school. Martin heads there the next morning and while snooping around in his invisible form, he is hit by a package tossed in by the mailman Charlie (Dennis Robertson). This damages one of his antennae and he is unable to disappear. While he is snooping in the company president J. Nathaniel Pierce’s (Cliff Norton) office, Pierce enters so Martin starts pretending that he is interested in taking a course. Martin sits through the spiel about how the courses will not cost him anything, and they make their money by selling accoutrements to the courses. The mailman Charlie (Dennis Robertson) pops into the office and tells Mr. Pierce that Mrs. Brown had sent her film to him but forgot the postage. Pierce opts to have the film sent back rather than pay it. Martin then sneaks out and swipes the film from Charlie on his way. Although all’s well with Martin after he retrieves the film and fixes antennae, Martin realizes that Mrs. Brown is only doing these things because she is lonely. He has a talk with her and convinces her that the work she is studying is very dangerous, and for a woman, she might be faced with having to fight her way out from a bunch of muscular brutes. Later, Mrs. Brown shows Martin that she is now taking Judo lessons and can now easily toss Martin across the yard. 12/18/23
- 025. The Sinkable Mrs. Brown – 4/5/1964
- While working on his ship, Uncle Martin gets a telepathic sense that there is a real estate agent named Pete Dudley (Allan Melvin) in the house trying to talk Mrs. Brown into selling the apartment. She mistakenly had called him while trying to get hold of a plumber. Tim and Martin worry that if she sells, they will have to find another place for themselves, and worse yet, for the spaceship. In addition to Dudley trying to talk her into getting rid of the house, citing all of its faults, he also tries to sell her a trip to Europe, and new car, and a bus trou of America. He then tells Mrs. Brown that he will return with an interested couple, Mr. (George Dunn) and Mrs. Graham (Elvia Allman). When Dudley later returns, Martin telepathically forces his car to drive backward out of the driveway and around the block, while he uses his finger to force the spaceship out of the garage and into the sky. He has to mentally hold it there while pointing his finger at it, so every time he has to shake hands with the Grahams, the ship starts to fall. Tim tries to get them into the garage to look at it so that Martin can return the ship there, but Dudley keeps putting that part of the tour off. Eventually, the come to the end of the tour, and Mr. Graham says he has no interest in looking at the garage but will check it out later in the daylight. After consideration, Martin decides that he is going to leave it up to Mrs. Brown whether she wants to sell the house or not, but their surprise, she decides she doesn’t want to sell because she would miss Martin and Tim. However, she has signed a contract with Dudley and given him a $100 down payment on the commission. Martin tells her to go off to the movies, and that he will show Dudley and the Grahams around when they return. When they do, Martin makes every faucet in the place leak to the tune of The Blue Danube. Then he makes the reception cause each show on TV to play the wrong audio. Then finally he makes the pictues on the wall crooked, then makes it appear that the house itself is crooked and sinking on one side. The Grahams storm out, and Mr. Dudley rips up the contract he made with Mrs. Brown and returns the $100 to Martin to give to her. 4/25/24
- 026. Martin and the Eternal Triangle – 4/12/1964
- Martin has a hankering to go the Philharmonic, but Tim is busy bowling that night. He suggests that Martin invite Mrs. Brown, but Martin worries that she might become too romantically attached and want to marry him. Tim talks him into asking her anyway, and he is shocked when she turns him down because she already has a date with a man named Andre Phillipe Charles Dupre (Albert Carrier), whom she met at a fashion show. The make fun of him and think he will be effeminate since he is a dress maker, but it turns out that he is tall and handsome and can surprisingly top almost every feat that Martin brags about. Tim accuses Martin of being jealous, but he flatly denies it. However, by the next morning after a night of restless sleep, he admits that he is in fact jealous. Tim remembers a story about a boy who nearly stole his girlfriend by claiming to be a manager of a store, while he was really a glorfied janitor. Tim suggests that maybe he can discredit Andre if he goes and visits him at his dress shop. While there, they eavesdrop and overhear Andre talking about separating from a woman named Francine Resnay (Maya Van Horn) and sending her payments back to France. They think that they have juicy gossip until they realize that Francie was actually a 26-year employee who is moving back to France. Martin is ashamed of himself and decides that if he really cares about Mrs. Brown, he would want her to be happy. However, when he reads Mrs. Brown’s mind, he realizes she really doesn’t feel that Andre is as romantic as she had hoped. He decides to follow them on their date to a Hungarian restaurant, making himself invisible when necessary. Martin manipulates thing to dim the lights, move them closer together, have him buy her a corsage, gets the orchestra to play them music, and keeps them drinking champagne. It appears that they have a wonderful night, and Martin goes home depressed. However, the next morning, she tells Tim and Martin that Andre had proposed to her, but she declined. She says that he was too perfect and there was no way to go but down, and that she prefers someone who isn’t so perfect… like Martin. Walter Janovitz is Lazlo the waiter. LaWana Backer is on of Andre’s salesgirls. Dovima Horan and Susan Wedell are Andre’s models. 4/25/24
- 027. Danger! High Voltage – 4/19/1964
- Tim walks in on Martin in the garage and sees him with a battery hooked up to his head. Tim thinks he is ending it all, but Martin is simply trying to turn himself into a living transmitter so that he can send a message to the control tower in Mars to let them know that he will soon be making the trek back now that he has repaired his spaceship. Although Martin is asked to keep an eye on the electric gauge, Tim is too busy talking to Martin about his plans that he misses seeing it get close to 100 until it hits 99. This proves to be too much electric and causes the controls on the spaceship to blow up. It also puts Martin in danger, as he will start to show the effects of being over-electrified for over twenty hours, which will turn his cheeks purple and green plaid and a tendency to act as a lightning rod. However, Martin thinks he can rid himself of the over-exposure. He tries to discharge the current back into the circuit, but it takes down the power all over the city. Over at the powerhouse, the manager Mr. Logan (Milton Frome) tries to use his worker Homer P. Gibson (Henry Gibson) to fix the outage. Martin wakes up in the middle of the night to try again to get rid of the circuit. Every time he sneezes, it sends an electric impulse to the various appliances in the house and turns them on. The next day, Tim and Martin hear on the radio that the police department vow to find the culprit for all of the electrical issues from the night before. Martin tries to stay out of sight in the attic while trying to use kinetic rhythm in the rocking chair to help stimulate getting rid of the electricity. Tim sees the police van coming through the neighborhood using in a radar detection truck. Tim tries to get him to hide, but soon the van comes back thanks to their tracking device. Martin decides to make himself invisible, with the plan of traveling in the van with the guys until he is taken back to the powerhouse. When Gibson and Officer Walker (Lee Krieger) arrive at the house, Tim requests that he can ride with them as a member of the press. Martin’s plan is to release the power back into the machinery at the powerhouse, where it should go unnoticed. When they arrive at the powerhouse, Tim tries to distract Gibson while he eats his lunch so that he can hook up his antennae to the generator there to discharge his electricity. Martin has to pitch in to make Gibson’s orange roll away from him, so that he can then fall into a stack of boxes, giving Martin the opportunity to hook up to the generator and drain his power. The next morning, Tim reads the article that he wrote, which explains how the issues are now in hand, while giving Homer Gibson the bulk of the credit. 9/15/24
- 028. If You Can’t Like ‘Em – 4/26/1964
- A boy named Horace (Dennis Rush), who Martin dubs as “Horrible Horace,” keep hanging around while Martin is trying to work on equipment in his spaceship. With him asking so many questions, Martin can’t find a way to go in and out of the garage while he is there. Therefore, he decides to make himself invisible when he senses that Horace is over to visit him. Unfortunately, something malfunctions in his antennae, causing him to not be able to become invisible, nor put his antenna back down in his head. When he can’t find a place to hide, he pulls the antenna off the TV and fashions a set of antennae for Tim as well. That way when Horace arrives, he assumes that they are playing a game in order to act like Martians. Horace then rushes over to the toy store with his friends Gloucester (Danny Krieger) and Fatso (Jim McCall) to talk to the owner Mr. Barnaby (Hal Smith) about getting some toy Martian antennae in for sale. Barnaby sees the opportunity in this and calls a friend who has used antennae as well as headbands for sale, and soon he has made a significant number of these toys to sell. As Martin tries to find way to make his antennae go down, including a steam bath, exercise, drinking goat’s milk, and an ice foot bath, Tim starts seeing kids all over town wearing the antennae. Martin finds this idea repulsive, but Tim tells him that he is wanted for an interview in Minute Magazine as the originator of the toy that is sweeping the nation. As they are discussing this, Martin eats a peanut that gives him the hiccups, and when he hiccups, his antennae go down. With his power restored to normal, Martin is ready to go out and celebrate. He then gets a visit from Barnaby and his attorney Mr. Smight (Irwin Charone), who want to talk about Martin giving his permission for Barnaby to manufacture and produce the new game Be a Martian. Since Martin is not interested, they request that he sign a form allowing Barnaby to patent the toy. Martin is afraid that the patent office might start looking into him if he comes to their attention. Martin stalls them until he can come up with an idea, and finally, he decides that if can invent something else to replace the Martian antennae fad, they will no longer even want to file the patent. He designs a toy called the Nose Mobile, and then gives Horace and his friends to test them out by running around in the yard with the spinning devices attached to their faces. 9/15/24
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