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MY FAVORITE MARTIAN

"NOSE FOR NEWS" Original Air Date: 1964 June 21
CAST

Uncle Martin (The Martian) .... Ray Walston
Tim 0'Hara .................... Bill Bixby
Lloyd Thomas................... David White
Mrs. Thomas ................... Sheila Bromley
Mr. Burns...................... J. Pat O'Malley
Linda ......................... Maggie Pierce


SYNOPSIS

Uncle Martin's study of the human race is playing havoc 
with Tim's love life:  he keeps popping up at the wrong times, 
in the wrong places.

To make amends, Martin covers an assignment for Tim and 
phones the story into the paper, using Tim's name.  It's a 
brilliant piece of reporting and "Tim 0'Hara" has gotten a 
three hour beat on all the other newspapers. But since Tim's 
in the office when Editor Burns receives the call, he knows that 
Tim didn't write the story.  When he learns who did, he offers 
Martin a job.  Burns won't take "no" for an answer.  He thinks 
Tim is consciously keeping Martin from accepting the offer 
because he' s jealous of his Uncle' s ability and warns  the
young reporter that if there aren't two O'Haras working on the 
paper, there won't be any.

So Martin is forced to become a reporter for the Sun, but 
from the moment he takes the job, his main objective is 
to be fired before embarrassing questions are asked 
concerning his "misplaced" application.

In the meantime, the story that Martin broke causes some 
problems for the paper and Martin is faced with the problem 
of patching up some old wounds.

The resolution of the problem is that Martin assumes the 
role of a human punching bag.