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MY FAVORITE MARTIAN

"STOP OR I'LL STEAM" Original Air Date: 1965 March 14
CAST

Uncle Martin (The Martian) .... Ray Walston
Tim 0'Hara .................... Bill Bixby
Mrs. Loralee Brown ............ Pamela Britton 
Detective Brennan ............. Alan Hewitt
Marvin ........................ Harry Lauter 

SYNOPSIS 

Tim is shocked to see clouds of steam pouring from 
Martin's ears as a result of his most recent encounter with Lieutenant 
Brennan, who has been coming around too often lately to visit Mrs. 
Brown. Martin explains this is how a Martian blows his top, but this 
could be disastrous if it happened in the presence of Brennan.

An ideal therapy is house painting, which Martin is 
about to do for Mrs. Brown, when he discovers that Brennan has 
also volunteered his services. Martin, frustrated by Brennan's 
human style of painting, has to duck out of sight to steam. The 
painting degenerates into a competition right out of Tom Sawyer 
with Brennan continually getting the better of Martin -- that 
is until Brennan tries to go too far and strains his back. He 
ends up flat on Tim's bed where his stiff back might keep him 
for a day or a month.

But Brennan as an impossible houseguest and a baby-
taking Mrs. Brown to nurse him, Uncle Martin finds himself 
popping off hourly like "Old Faithful". Quickly dehydrating, 
Martin is forced to work out a drastic electronic cure for his 
malady. He'll have to improvise, he tells Tim, using a make-
shift hook-up of household kitchen items. However, Brennan 
overhears part of the plan and misconstrues it for the plan of 
a jealous suitor to do away with Brennan, the rival. He decides 
to play possum and trap Martin.

But Brennan catches Martin wearing a football helmet, 
standing on a stove with one foot in a frying pan, a pipe 
coming out of one ear and connected to the refrigerator, a 
power line running from the other ear to a wall plug and a TV 
aerial in his hand. When Brennan demands to know what the 
devil's going on. Martin tells all about the steam and Mars, 
everything. He knows that Brennan will think he's dealing with 
a harmless nut. And that's exactly what Brennan thinks. He 
finally puts some thing over on that insufferable Brennan.