However, the story of how the Martian returns to his Red Planet has yet to be told. The show premiered on KTMA (now WUCW) in Minneapolis, Minnesota , on November 24, 1988. The time machine brings Tim, Martin and Mrs. Brown face to face with Jesse and Frank James. Andromeda is a proud Martian, who can't understand why Martin has taken on so many Earthly attributes, including the name Martin (his real name is Exigius 12-1/2). A Martian sedative will temporarily control the symptom, but Martin needs a longer term solution. He has won a Tony Award for his performance as the Devil in Broadway's "Damn Yankees", two Emmy Awards for Picket Fences (1992), and become a household name playing the extraterrestrial "Uncle Martin" on My Favorite Martian (1963). Ray Walston, Bill Bixby. Season 3, Episode 11. Jones. Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) is an American television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson and produced by Best Brains, Inc. Another Martian spacecraft crash lands on Earth. My Favorite Martian (TV Series 1963–1966) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Ray Walston died at age 86 of lupus on New Year's Day 2001 in Beverly Hills, California. The alien is rescued by Tim O'Hara, a newspaper reporter who explains the Martian to friends and authorities by introducing him as his Uncle Martin. My Favorite Martian (TV Series 1963–1966) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. While exploring Tim's neighborhood, Martin tells him about a friend of his named "Neenert", one of his planet's most gifted Martian scientists, who came to Earth in 1964, but never came back. Frank: L.Q. Exigius Twelve and a Half, an exoanthropologist from the planet Mars, becomes stranded on Earth after his one-man spaceship narrowly misses a NASA rocket plane and crashes near Los Angeles. Brace is captured by the SETI … The Martian takes the name "Uncle Martin" and explores the city with Tim, unaware that they are being watched by SETI, which discovered DNA left by Martin while hiding out at Tim's. My Favorite Martian then, consists of 107 episodes, 32 in color, with additional stories found in the nine Gold Key comics issued, and some stories and comics published only in England. Jesse: Mort Mills. Tim takes the Martian in as his roommate--in an apartment house run by a congenial but scatterbrained landlady, Mrs. Lorelei Brown--and passes him off as his Uncle Martin. But before Martin's finger is put to sleep, it causes some flying objects in Mrs. Brown's apartment, which brings in the services of psychic phenomenon expert Prof. Clemmens. It happens to be Martin's 11-year old nephew, Andromeda, who has come to Earth since he got lost in a cosmic storm.