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MY FAVORITE MARTIAN

"IF YOU CAN'T LICK 'EM" Original Air Date: 1964 April 26
CAST

Uncle Martin (The Martian) .... Ray Walston
Tim 0'Hara .................... Bill Bixby
Horace ........................ Dennis Rush 
Barnaby ....................... Hal Smith 
Smight ........................ Irwin Charone 
Gloucester .................... Danny Krieger 
Fatso ......................... Jim McCall 
 
 
SYNOPSIS 

Because of a "mechanical" failure, Uncle Martin's raised antennas 
stick... and remain raised. Horace, a small boy, sees Martin with his 
antennas raised and concludes this is a new game called "playing 
Martian." He and all the other little boys in the neighborhood decide 
they want to play, too. They plague Mr. Barnaby, owner of the local 
toyshop, for toy antennas. Mr. Barnaby, of course, has none, but 
decides to manufacture them. Soon every boy in town is sporting 
antennas. Mr. Barnaby decides to patent the device in order to protect 
his investment. This creates a real danger for Martin. If the antennae 
are patented in Washington, Martin, as the inventor, will be named and 
the authorities will discover he has no birth certificate, no social 
security number... and no fingerprints. In addition, a leading 
magazine wants to do a piece on the fad that's sweeping the country. 
If Martin refuses to submit to an interview they will be suspicious, 
for what inventor doesn't want publicity? Martin gets the hiccups and 
his antennas go down but the problem still exists... that of the 
patent and the interview. 
 
Here Martin utilizes his knowledge of "human nature." The 
only way to end one fad is to replace it with another... and this he 
does. He devises a toy which the children can make themselves and 
which is unpatentable. It is a windmill that is worn on the nose and 
can be put together from paper, a clothespin and a rubber band. The 
children are delighted, discard their antennas, forget all about 
playing Martian... and in place of the antennas they a11 now sport 
"nose-mobiles." 
 
The "Martian" fad is ended, the "nose-mobile" fad is blooming.. and 
Martin is safe.