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MY FAVORITE MARTIAN

"MY UNCLE, THE FOLK SINGER" Original Air Date: 1964 November 8
CAST

Uncle Martin (The Martian) .... Ray Walston
Tim 0'Hara .................... Bill Bixby
Mrs. Loralee Brown ............ Pamela Britton 
Della Darwell ................. Pat Priest 
Folk Singer ................... Stan Ross 
Folk Singer ................... James Joyce  
 
SYNOPSIS 

When visiting a coffee house belonging to Tim's girl friend, 
a sudden chemical imbalance accidentally causes a serious malfunction 
in Uncle Martin's brain recorder. His playback goes haywire, and in 
full view of the coffee house patrons, a song comes pouring out of 
him. Powerless to stop it, he covers up by grabbing a guitar, jumping 
up on the stage, and pantomiming the singing. He becomes an 
instantaneous hit.

Tim's girl, Della, believes it's Martin's natural talent, and 
decides she can use him to boost her sagging business. She asks him to 
work for her as an entertainer. At first Martin is reluctant to do it, 
but his popularity with the public as the "newest sound in folk music" 
goes to his head, swells the Martian ego, and pushes him into 
egotistical behavior which threatens to expose him as a visitor from 
outer space.

To bring Martin to his senses Tim causes a complete stoppage 
in  Martin's playback equipment. But it brings Della to the 
edge of financial ruin, because she had invested heavily to 
prepare for a special concert starring Martin. Martin suffers 
remorse when he finally realizes that his inflated ego is 
responsible for bringing disaster to Della. Now that he has 
been brought "down to earth" again, he improvises a dangerous 
laser device which is successful in restoring his Martian's 
brain recorder by electronic shock. He is enabled to go on 
once more for the concert, but his playback "voice" has now 
become so powerful in volume that it shatters every piece of 
glass in the coffee house, breaks out the entire front window, 
and makes the entire place a shambles.

The insurance repays Della for her loss, and Martin sadly concludes 
that when a Martian's ego swells up, it's bigger than anybody else's 
on Earth.