My Favorite Martian

• Ray Walston: Uncle Martin ( the Martian )
• Bill Bixby: Tim O'Hara
• Pamela Britton: Mrs. Brown
• J. Pat O'Malley: Mr. Burns

My Favorite Martian (AKA My favorite Martian ) is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 29, 1963 to September 4, 1966 in 107 episodes (75 in b / w and 32 in color). In Germany, the series was first broadcast on ZDF in 1976 and has not been repeated since. The main characters are Ray Walston as Uncle Martin ( the Martian ) and Bill Bixby as Tim O'Hara.

Action

A human -looking alien from the planet Mars makes his spaceship crash-lands near Los Angeles. He is stranded on Earth. Tim O'Hara, a young newspaper reporter is on the way from Edwards Air Force Base, where he wrote a report on the flight of X-15, back to Los Angeles when he sees the spaceship crash.

Tim helps the Martians, and takes him home, where he claims him as his Uncle Martin. Outwardly Martin pretends to be a normal person, only Tim knows of its origin and its various special abilities, such as two extendable antennas, telepathic powers, the ability to speak with animals or to let things float by means of finger pointing.

In several episodes Martin builds special equipment, such as a time machine which transports and Tim Martin in several episodes to exotic places like the old England or the Wild West. The episode "When You Get Back Home to Mars, Are You Going To Get It " ( " Another one from Mars " ) was filmed as the last episode and led Uncle Martin's Martian nephew Andromeda "Andy" new one. In the U.S., the episodes were not broadcast in production order, so the audience why Andy appeared in episode 99, but disappeared resulted in 100 without explanation wondered. Andy should be as a regular character in the planned fourth season there. The fourth season has not been rotated. Some scenarios of the planned fourth season have been rewritten for the animated series by Filmation, and Andy was of course too. ZDF did not make the same mistake as the Americans and sent the episode " Another one from Mars " as a last episode of the live action series, so that there was a reasonable transition to the animated series.

1st Season ( black and white):

2nd Season ( black and white):

3rd Season ( color):

Production

The series was written by Jack Chertok Television for CBS in the studios of Desilu Productions in the 35 - mm film shot (1st - 2nd Season ), and MGM studios ( 3rd season in color with new scenes ). Later, the rights were to Warner Bros. Television Distribution.

Comics

At Gold Key appeared on the TV series " My Favorite Martian " in the United States from October 1963 to July 1966, a comic book series of nine issues. 2011/2012 there was a new edition of Hermes Press in the form of two anthologies of all expenditure. In addition, there was the American Free Comic Book Day 2012 a free reprint of a classic Gold Key comic booklet of "My Favorite Martian ".

Film Music

The Film Music of George Greeley is published by La - La Land Records on CD. It was the first TV series in which an electronic musical instrument was used, in which case Paul Tanner playing a Tannerin. Tracks of the soundtrack CD (total length: 1:14:20 ): 1 Opening Titles ( 0:33 ) 2 A Loaf of Bread, a Jug of Wine, and Peaches ( 4:32 ) 3 No Raffles. 2 ( 6:05 ) 4 The Party (source) ( 1:43 ) 5 Rocket to Mars ( 3:55 ) 6 Going, Going, Gone ( 2:10 ) 7 My Nephew the Artist ( 1:44 ) 8 Uncle Martin's Broad Cast ( 3:21 ) 9 Hitch- Hike to Mars ( 2:16 ) 10 An Old, Old Friend of the Family ( 5:13 ) 11 Unidentified Flying Uncle Martin ( 3:30) 12 Danger! High Voltage ( 4:15 ) 13 If You Can not Lick 'Em ( 4:46 ) 14 Oh, My Aching Antenna ( 2:20 ) 15 The Disastro - Nauts ( 4:00 ), 16. Shake Well and Do not Use ( 3:41 ) 17 Nothing But The Truth ( 3:43 ) 18 The Night Life of Uncle Martin ( 3:03 ) 19 Martian Report # 1 ( 1:13 ) 20 Will not You Come Home Uncle Martin, Will not You Come Home ( 2:19 ) 21 We Love You, Miss Pringle ( 3:17 ) 22 006 3/4 ( 6:05 ) 23 end Titles ( 00:36 ). In Germany there was a different theme song (Text: " My Favorite Martian makes the most amazing things, my uncle from Mars brings the world laugh ...") by the orchestra Amper & Strittmatter ( Quirin Amper Jr. and Fred Strittmatter ), available on several TV film music Sanmplern and as MP3 download. Quirin Amper Jr. (the father of Robert Amper Amper and Thomas ) and Fred Strittmatter also composed the soundtracks to German Dream of Jeannie and Bewitched. The notes, the complete text and the melody of the German title song to " My Favorite Martian " were published at Music Notes.

Movie

The uncle from Mars: 1999 appeared a movie with Christopher Lloyd as Martin and Jeff Daniels as Tim.

The first two seasons appeared in the U.S. in 2004 and 2005 by Rhino Entertainment on DVD. The third season was only published in October 2012 on DVD. In Australia, all three seasons of 2007-2008 published by Umbrella Entertainment on DVD. Network planning in England, a publication of the complete series on DVD. The end of 2008 there were in the magazine " widescreen " a great color display by Laser Paradise for a German DVD release of " My Favorite Martian " on the back cover of the booklet. However, the German DVDs can always yet to come ...

Others

• Pegasus Hobbies 2011 published a plastic model kit of Uncle Martin's spaceship along with a figure of Ray Walston as Martians.
• At the end of the film Martians - An alien Hazzard an alien agreed to the theme song of the series "My Favorite Martian ".
• In the TV series The Incredible Hulk ( TV series) - Episode 3:05 " My Favorite Magician " Ray Walston and Bill Bixby had a joint appearance again.
• With similar situation comedy, the television series I Dream of Jeannie (1965-1970) and Love drew inspiration " from Mars My uncle ," where the title character also had supernatural powers in a witch (1964-1972) of, but not with deliberative scientific technique, but with magic.

Animated series

An animated series, My Favorite Martians, was produced by Filmation and ran 1973-1975 on CBS and in 1977 on ZDF. End of the 90 years she ran resynchronized with "SF - The sci-fi channel " (DF1 ) under the new title " Martians with a twist ". For the animated series they used partially some screenplays of not more twisted fourth season of the live-action series, so they could be informally refer to as Season 4, even if in the U.S. version of the speakers were replaced. ZDF used the same speaker as in the live-action series. ZDF used in the animated series the same German title song as in the live-action series (supplemented with some sounds from the animated series), with DF1, however, there was to hear the original English song.

MY FAVORITE MARTIANS ( SF/DF1-Titel: " Martians with a twist " ) ( ZDF Title: " My Favorite Martian " )

Characters and original English voices: Martin: Jonathon Harris, Tim Howard Morris, Andromeda Lane Schiemer, Katy: Jane Webb, Lorelei: Jane Webb, Bill Howard Morris, Brad Lane Scheimer, Tiny: Howard Morris, Crumbs: Howard Morris, Chump: Howard Morris, Okey: Howard Morris, Jan: Jane Webb, Coral: Jane Webb, Miss Casserole: Jane Webb animated comedy series, United States 1973-74 ( Filmation ) 16 episodes.

There there is the animated series not yet on DVD, but in the U.S. and England only a few episodes on VHS. In Germany there is not a single episode of " My Favorite Martian " (neither animation nor live action series ) on VHS or DVD.