Premise

The man-seeking extraterrestrial in a of these-one-person ship crash-lands touching Los Angeles. A ship's pilot is, as a matter of fact, from either Mars and is now stranded on Earth. The immature newspaper reporter, Tim O'Hara with a Los Angeles Sun, get on his way from either Edwards Air Force Base (where he got attend report on the flight of the X-15) back to Los Angeles when he spotted Martin's ship coming down.

Tim will require a Martian in when his roomy & lives him dispatch as his Uncle Martin. Uncle Martin refuses to reveal any of his Martian traits to humans more than Tim, to make sure your not publicity (or even panic), & Tim agrees to keep Martin's identity a secret piece the Martian tries to repair his ship. Uncle Martin has various unusual powers: he could raise 2 retractable antennae & get invisible; he is telepathic & potty scould minds; he can levitate objects sustaining a motion of his finger; and he can communicate by having creature.

Martin as well builds many advanced gear, like the time machine which transports Tim and a Martian back to Medieval England & other times and wharehouses, like St. Louis around 1849, a early times of Hollywood, or even bring Leonardo da Vinci & Jesse James into a present. A second device he builds occurs as "molecular separator" which potty choose apart a molecules in the object, or even rearrange the babies (the squirrel was manufactured into a human being). An additional device might require memories & store the babies within pill form to "relearn" the two late. A second device might produce irregular duplicates.

Tim & Uncle Martin sleep in an apartment building rerun by the congenial however scatterbrained landlady, Mrs. Red, world health organization typically shows higher whilst non wanted. She late dates the plain-clothes police officer, Detective Brennan, who dislikes Uncle Martin & is extremely suspicious of him.

Characters

Uncle Martin (a Martian), played by Ray Walston '''Tim O'Hara, played by Bill Bixby Mrs. Red, played by Pamela Britton Mr. Burns''', played by J. Pat O'Malley, first season only, as Tim's boss at the newspaper Detective Bill Brennan, played by Alan Hewitt, second & third seasons only

Animated Series

An animated series, My Favorite Martians, was made by Filmation in 1973, starring Tim, Martin, Mrs. 'last & Detective Brennan (Brennan was substantially different). To appeal to the immature audience, Uncle Martin was joined by the Martian son known as Andromeda (nicknamed "Andy") (a character appeared once in a TV series), world health organization merely got of these antenna & so lesser powers than Uncle Martin. the pair as well got the Martian hypocorism Ok, a kinda bouncing sheep dog by having antennae. None of the characters were voiced per original actors, & Jonathan Harris voiced Martin.

Movie

A series was too remade as a film around 1999 starring Christopher Lloyd as Martin and Jeff Daniels as Tim. Ray Walston likewise featured in the film. Yet, the assumption was changed: Martians come 3-armed, 3-legged, 3-eyed, & have a "gumball", which may besides functiin on homo, to consider mortal form.

Trivia

Ray Walston did the commercial message, an extended few feet away service promotion for AT&T, around the year 2000. A conversation makes it evident to people world health organization remember a TV series that he is swimming a role of Uncle Martin, however olympic games. He's request in case a rates AT&T offers also apply for phoning fellow Martians living in the United States.