My Favorite Martian: My Favorite Martin

My Favorite Martian" is the title of the pilot episode of the CBS situation comedy series My Favorite Martian, which ran for three seasons from 1963 to 1966. The series stars Ray Walston, Bill Bixby and Pamela Britton and was created by John L. Greene. The pilot episode was written by Greene and directed by Sheldon Leonard. It first aired on Sunday, September 29th, 1963. In this episode, a reporter named Tim O'Hara (Bixby) discovers an alien spacecraft while covering a story about the flight of an Air Force X-15 fighter jet. The occupant of the spacecraft is a Martian (Walston) who, aside from two antenna sticking up out of the top of his head, appears completely human. Stranded on Earth and unable to affect repairs to his ship, the Martian goes to live with Tim and assumes the role of his uncle Martin.

Notes & Trivia

 * This episode is included on disc one of the My Favorite Martian: The Complete First Season DVD collection.


 * In the original unaired version of this pilot episode, Annabelle was Lorelei Brown's "other daughter." By the time the first episode was actually shown, Ina Victor had been dropped from the show, and her scenes were refilmed so that Annabelle was now Mrs. Brown's "visiting niece."