Let’s get it out at the start: My Favorite Martian was no Lost in Space. The latter had Robot, after all, and Dr. Smith, not to mention cool mod spacesuits. Despite its title, MFM had little-to-no outer-space trappings (at least as I remember it) and the lamest laugh track this side of Gilligan’s Island. If, however, you spent much of your childhood watching whatever was on the tube on Grandma’s house, you might be interested in the money shot from the My Favorite Martian pilot episode in 1963: The moment when reporter Tim O’Hara sees something strange in the sky, and meets the foil-jumpsuit-clad alien he later comes to know as Uncle Martin. Yuks ensued for the next three seasons.
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Great Moments in Martian-Earthling Relations: Tim O’Hara Meets Uncle Martin
By
Lynn Peril
Reading time 1 minute
