MY FAVORITE MARTIAN

"RX FOR A MARTIAN"
Original Air Date: 1964 January 19
CAST

Uncle Martin (The Martian) .... Ray Walston
Tim 0'Hara .................... Bill Bixby
Mrs. Brown .................... Pamela Britton 
Intern ........................ Yale Summers 
Dr. Rothman ................... Bill Zuckert



SYNOPSIS

Mars is out of her normal orbital path! Uncle Martin can make 
it back to his planet! He has just ten hours! He sadly makes his 
good-byes to Tim and starts down the stairs for the last time at 
Tim's little apartment. A tear in Tim's eye, a pang in Martin's 
heart, and BAM! Uncle Martin falls on his ... whatever it is a 
Martian falls on when he falls down a flight of stairs. He insists 
his ankle, bends his antennae, and loses his ability to disappear.

Mrs. Brown is totally insured. She's got Uncle Martin covered. 
She calls an ambulance and Uncle Martin winds up in the hospital. 
And he's lucky at that -- it should have been a mortuary -- after
all, he's got a 4 pulse, jungle drum for a heartbeat, and a 
temperature that no thermometer can hold. And his time is running 
out to return to Mars.

Dr. Rothman, the head doctor in the hospital, of course laughs at 
Uncle Martin's medical report. He wisely realizes an intern 
is... an intern. After one thing and another Martin is finally 
trapped and must undergo Dr. Rothman's personal examination.

Uncle Martin changes places with Tim in the dark X-Ray room. 
Tim's X-Ray becomes Uncle Martin's. Now he's being held in the 
hospital to find out why a man of his age appears to be so young. 
But it's getting better. The Gamma Rays have straightened out Uncle 
Martin's bent antennae -- he can now disappear, and that's what he 
does. Invisibly, he makes his way down the corridor, accidentally 
into the maternity ward, but finally out of the hospital.

Back home once again. Two hours left. A sad goodbye. BAM! He 
falls down the stairs. It happens all over again. There's no time 
left. Uncle Martin. to his sadness, but to all of our Earth joys, is 
trapped still in the land of us.
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