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MY FAVORITE MARTIAN

"THE GREAT BRAIN ROBBERY" Original Air Date: 1964 November 15
CAST

Uncle Martin (The Martian) .... Ray Walston
Tim 0'Hara .................... Bill Bixby
Capt. Prescott ................ Frank Marth 
Eddie ......................... Keith Taylor 
 
 
SYNOPSIS 

 
To earn some money and help with expenses, Martin undertakes the 
tutoring of a neighbor boy, Eddie Prescott, the son of an Air Force 
Captain in the missile command. The boy has a bad reputation and 
refuses to learn. Martin discovers that the boy is afraid because his 
father expects so much of him and soon has him learning rapidly. 
In the process, because Martians are sensitive to silver, Martin 
loses a good portion of his brains when Eddie smiles, revealing a 
mouthful of solid silver braces. These induce a powerful electrical 
discharge during which Martin's brains pass to the boy's head. 
The Captain becomes suspicious of Eddie's space knowledge 
and Martin discovers what has happened and how. 
 
Before Martin can devise a means of getting his brains back 
from Eddie, the Captain is transferred overnight to Washington, D.C. 
Martin tries to effect a brain transfer with his own electrical powers 
but ends up the loser again. Finally he goes up to his space ship, 
connects himself to the ship's electrical system, hovers in a negative 
cloud, and when the jet carrying Eddie passes through a positive 
cloud, he gets his brains back with an enormous electrical discharge 
and sonic boom. Eddie, with a vacuum in his head and with nature 
abhoring a vacuum, develops a great thirst for knowledge and becomes a 
normal boy.