My Favorite Martian - Season 1 - Eps 29: Unidentified Flying Uncle Martin
Martin needs to fly his space ship, which is deteriorating due to inertia. Tim's fear is realized: Martin's flight is spotted as a UFO. Martin needs to take another flight, but Mrs. Brown calls in the authorities - Jack and Jim being their representatives - who use Tim and Martin's apartment as a sighting station. Martin uses the opportunity to take his second flight since Jack and Jim have equipment - a plutron counter - that would be able to locate the space ship parked in the garage. The plutron counter does go off, but Martin slips some plutron into Mrs. Brown's apron pocket, making the plutron counter point in Mrs. Brown's direction. Jack and Jim think the machine has gone haywire. During Jim and Jack's kafuffle with Mrs. Brown, Martin slips away. While in flight, Tim further distracts Jack and Jim with a spoon dangling outside on their tree, which through Jack and Jim's telescope will look like a flying saucer. Martin takes his flight undetected and gets back to the apartment safe and sound. To further protect himself, Martin exposes Tim as the perpetrator of the flying saucer hoax - all in the name of getting a news story - with the spoon on the string as his proof of his claim.
About My Favorite Martian
Title: My Favorite Martian
First Air Date: 1963-09-29
Last Air Date: 1966-05-01
Status: Ended
Rating: 5.9/10 (from 28 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 3
Total Episodes: 107
Network: CBS
Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy, Family
Production Companies: Unknown
Synopsis
Newspaper reporter Tim O'Hara finds a crashed alien spaceship that contains one live alien. Not wanting to be discovered by the authorities, the Martian assumes the identity of Tim's Uncle Martin and begins to repair his spaceship so that he can return to Mars.
Cast
Bill Bixby
Tim O'Hara
Ray Walston
Uncle Martin
Alan Hewitt
Det. Bill Brennan
Pamela Britton
Mrs. Lorelei Brown
