My Favorite Martian is a 1999 American live-action science-fiction comedy film starring Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Daniels, Daryl Hannah, Elizabeth Hurley, Wallace Shawn and Ray Walston, based on the 1960s television series of the same name in which Walston starred. "There Is No Cure for the Common Martian". CRUSH is reactivated when their leader Butterball, previously sent to prison with Tim's help, escapes. Uncle Martin's powers paint masterpieces in his bid to help Tim with household expenses, but Tim is believed to be their actual painter, arousing suspicion in the gallery where they are displayed. Using Martin's personality altecator, the duplicate changes his personality to evil. Widower Tom Corbett raises his young son Eddie. This release, however, never materialized and was postponed. Brennan does not take it seriously but Mrs. Brown does and she starts dropping everything. "Uncle Martin and the Identified Flying Object". Uncle Martin fears Tim's visiting cousin Harvey will expose him – until Harvey exposes a wounding flaw of his own. It was, and remains, a well-deserved audience favorite. View production, box office, & company info. In addition to the extraterrestrial powers indicated in the first two seasons, Martin was able to do much more in the final season, such as stimulating beard growth to provide Tim and himself with quick disguises, and levitating using his nose. Brennan also had a teenage son named Brad living with him and a pet chimpanzee named Chump. ; Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Martin's nephew, Andromeda, appeared in one episode. A Martian pill erases Tim's memory of his extraterrestrial uncle. My Favorite Things. When Martin gives Mrs. Brown a concentration pill, she concentrates on enforcing law and order. Andromeda had a single antenna, which Martin explained was because his baby antennae had fallen out and only one adult antenna had come in so far. This hilarious adventure begins when an ambitious TV reporter, Tim O'Hara (Jeff Daniels), stumbles upon a Martian (Christopher Lloyd) who has just crashed on Earth! "Uncle Martin" has various unusual powers: He can raise two retractable antennae from the back of his head and become invisible; he is telepathic and can read and influence minds; he can levitate objects with the motion of his index finger; he can communicate with animals; he can freeze people or objects, and he can speed himself (and other people) up to do any kind of work. A New York City attorney and his wife attempt to live as genteel farmers in the bizarre community of Hooterville. As part of research for a book he is writing, Tim uses Martin's time machine to travel back to the purchase of Manhattan. ; Cassandra Truth: No one believes Martin when he tells them he's a Martian. Martin decides to shrink himself to be lighter for the trip back to Mars. Revealed in the episode "We Love You, Miss Pringle", it was heard again when his real nephew, Andromeda (played by young actor Wayne Stam), crash-landed on Earth late in the show's third season. Martin's health monitor is mistaken for a quarter and deposited into a drink machine at police headquarters – where it loudly proclaims that it is a Martian in distress. In January 2010, MPI Home Video acquired the series' Region 1 rights under license from Jack Chertok Productions. My Favorite Martian. That film is scheduled to air on television tonight. The classic sitcom series. Directed by Donald Petrie. "Uncle Martin" looks human, except when he extends his retractable antennae with which he can become invisible. susiesnapshot. Appears in -The TV comedy/Sci Fi series "My Favorite Martian (USA CBS Net 1963 - 66) Episode - 2:38 Portrait in Brown (First broadcast on 27 June 1965) Played by - Lisa Seagram (1936 - 2019) Series synopsis - Los Angeles newspaperman Tim O'Hara discovers a Martian anthropologist and his space ship, which has crash landed on Earth. Those rights, together with video streaming, were acquired by Shock Video; in November 2017 Shock released a new complete boxed set of the series using restored show elements. Pamela Britton (born Armilda Jane Owen, March 19, 1923 – June 17, 1974) was an American actress, best known for appearing as Lorelei Brown in the television series My Favorite Martian (1963–1966) and for her female lead in the film noir classic D.O.A. He has to take them to aid in his quest to make it back to Mars, but not if it's going to continue making him ... Add our editors' Netflix movie and TV picks to your Watchlist, including "Bridgerton," David Fincher's Mank, and more. Martin and Tim frantically attempt to eliminate an accidental duplicate of Mrs. Brown – during its dinner date with Det. NOTE: Episode was originally scheduled for November 24, 1963. Due to the success of the model kit, the Chertok company subsequently has extended the Pegasus license. With Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Daniels, Elizabeth Hurley, Daryl Hannah. "The Magnetic Personality and Who Needs It". When Brennan mistakenly atomizes himself with Martin's invention, his disappearance draws the attention of a morose sleuth. When Mrs. Brown's purse is stolen, Brennan incorrectly blames a young gypsy man. Miss Pringle, Tim's old no nonsense high school English teacher, stops by his apartment. Sunspots wreak havoc with Uncle Martin's metabolism and powers. A Martian lands on Earth and makes friends with a reporter. News producer Tim O'Hara (… Uncle Martin's cold wreaks havoc when he disappears upon every sneeze and his antennae are stuck in the "up" position. Aug 28, 2018 - Explore Beverly Munden's board "My Favorite Martian", followed by 465 people on Pinterest. A nouveau riche hillbilly family moves to Beverly Hills and shakes up the privileged society with their hayseed ways. Danny Williams, a successful nightclub singer, encounters a variety of difficult or amusing situations in trying to balance his career with his family: his outspoken second wife Kathy, ... See full summary ». My Favorite Martian. Tim, Uncle Martin, and an estate lawyer try to thwart a shady couple who may be trying to embezzle the six-figure fortune that the wife's sister left her cat. John L. Greene created the central characters and developed the core format of the series, which was produced by Jack Chertok. searching for My Favorite Martian 19 found (324 total) alternate case: my Favorite Martian. "Uncle Martin" looks human, except when he extends his retractable antennae with which he can become invisible. However, the TV21 Martian pages have been used as special features on the US DVD release of the TV series from MPI, for the Australian DVD release from Umbrella Entertainment, and more recently on the Australia New Zealand DVD release from Shock Entertainment. [citation needed]. Martin's time machine malfunctions, causing Jesse and Frank James to appear in Tim's kitchen. Martin is taken with an elderly woman who is the spitting image of his own mother. This leads him to untentionally exposing a well-known actor's secret. My Favorite Martian stars Jeff Daniels as Tim O'Hara, once a newspaper man and now a struggling television producer in Santa Barbara. Unfortunately, before Martin can leave, his liquid form is drunk by a dog. The martian is a professor who specializes in the planet Earth and now has to ... Martin has developed some green spots on his skin from taking too many memory pills. That reprint is the only instance of a 1960s television comic reprint being used for this event. Unfortunately, there are times when a police detective cannot afford to be nice – especially with Brennan on track to encounter a dangerous bank robber. Martin's 11-year-old nephew Andromeda steals his father's ship and crash lands on Earth. Martin accidentally loses his Martian "sixth sense" to Mrs. Brown. Small, slender, with a mischievous smile and thin grayish blond hair, he was a hard actor to 'type'...which made him the perfect choice to play an extraterrestrial! However, the season 3 release from Australia's Umbrella Entertainment, on February 5, 2008, was as an import to North America. Martin's dinner party immobilizes Tim's boss. When a small boy sees Martin's antennae, it causes a nationwide fad to the Martian's dismay. A space colony family struggles to survive when a spy/accidental stowaway throws their ship hopelessly off course. The misadventures of a wisecracking talking horse and his human owner. My favorite Martian BILL BIXBY & JILL IRELAND MY FAVORITE MARTIAN (1963) DER ONKEL VOM MARS / My favorite Martian USA 1999 / Trey Parker, Matt Stone Ein Bruchpilot vom Mars wirbelt den gesamten Alltag des Erdlings Tim O'Hara, seines Zeichens TV- Journalist, gehörig durcheinander. The theme music for the series was composed by George Greeley and performed in part on an Electro-Theremin by Paul Tanner, a former member of Glenn Miller's band. My Favorite Martian. Distribution rights were held, as of April 2013, by Classic Media as part of their Filmation holdings. Martin's efforts to ground himself cause a city-wide power shortage. Desilu Studios - 9336 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA. However, the premise was changed: Martians such as Lloyd's "Uncle Martin" are now non-humanoids with four arms, four legs, and three eyes who use a gumball (which they call "nerplex") to assume human form. My Favorite Martian is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS from September 29, 1963, to May 1, 1966, for 107 episodes (75 in black and white: 1963–65, 32 color: 1965–66). Martin accidentally swaps his psyche with Mrs. Brown. Martin develops a short-circuit which causes him to start transmitting to everything he sees and hears onto television. As the series grew in popularity, the role of snooping but endearing landlady Laura Lee Brown (Broadway/movie veteran Pamela Britton) would be enlarged and softened, eventually becoming a romantic interest for Martin, and a new regular, Detective Bill Brennan (character actor Alan Hewitt), a veteran cop suspicious of the O'Hara's, and also enamored of Mrs. Brown, would be introduced. He likened the experience on the show to that of being in prison, and finally felt "free" when it came to an end, as he said at the time: “I’m delighted the show wasn’t continued. A PG film should not unsettle a child aged around eight or older. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. In 2018, Pidax Video Germany acquired both streaming and DVD distribution rights for Germany and released the series the same year under its German title Mein Onkel vom Mars; As of early July 2013, Warner Bros. held domestic and international syndication rights for the series. Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. Season 2. They manage to escape prison but are quickly ambushed and knocked unconscious by two shady criminals. Martin plays Cupid for Tim's great uncle and his long-lost lower-class love. He and Martin have to travel back in time to try to put history back on track. Uncle Martin tries to convince Angela's stubborn teacher that the facts he gave her about life on Mars and other planets for a book report is true. Tim O'Hara, a young newspaper reporter for The Los Angeles Sun, is on his way home from Edwards Air Force Base, where he had gone to report on the flight of the X-15. Andromeda was, however, a regular on the later My Favorite Martians animated series. 2" for the TV comedy series "My Favorite Martian". They also for the first time created a scale version of the time machine suitcase, along with offering "Uncle Martin"'s flight log book reproduced in both English and Martian text. Peter Greenwood (940 words) exact match in snippet view article find links to article He supervised the recent merchandising reactivation of the show My Favorite Martian. Those rights have since returned to the Chertok Trust. Martin fixes his benevolence bulb so it works on humans. To avoid exposing himself, he is then forced to go out a date with the recently-promoted Lieutenant Brennan. The show stars Ray Walston as Uncle Martin (the Martian) and Bill Bixby as Tim O'Hara. In 2015 Greenlight Collectibles produced a prototype My Favorite Martian boxed set featuring the second season's Plymouth Fury, as seen in the show. 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