get ’s get it out at the starting time : My Favorite Martian was no turn a loss in Space . The latter had Robot , after all , and Dr. Smith , not to refer coolheaded mod spacesuits . Despite its rubric , MFM had little - to - no verboten - distance trappings ( at least as I remember it ) and the lamest laugh caterpillar tread this side of Gilligan ’s Island . If , however , you spent much of your childhood watching whatever was on the metro on Grandma ’s family , you might be concerned in the money sprout from the My Favorite Martian pilot film sequence in 1963 : The moment when reporter Tim O’Hara sees something unknown in the sky , and play the foil - jumpsuit - clad alien he later comes to know as Uncle Martin . Yuks ensue for the next three season .
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