Were you a fan of My Favorite Martian? If so, were you surprised to learn that Ray Walston went on to hate the series with a fiery passion?
▬Contents of this video▬ 00:00 - Intro 01:34 - The Addition Of A New Character Killed The Series 05:41 - Ray Walston’s Hatred For My Favorite Martian Explained 07:34 - Outro
My Favorite Martian was a sitcom that aired on CBS from September 29, 1963, to May 1, 1966. The series starred Ray Walston as a Martian named Uncle Martin and Bill Bixby as Los Angeles Sun newspaper reporter Tim O'Hara. Uncle Martin was a very human-like extraterrestrial who crash-landed his one-man spaceship near Los Angeles, California. Stranded, Uncle Martin, who was an anthropologist back in his home world, had to learn how to survive on planet earth while attempting to make repairs to his ship.
Tim O'Hara spotted Uncle Martin's crash-landed ship while on his way home from the Edwards Air Force Base where had gone to report on the test flight of the X-15 hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft. Uncle Martin's vessel had nearly been hit by the X-15, causing it to crash.
Tim then took his new Martian friend in as his roommate. That’s when he gave him the name Uncle Martin in an attempt to hide his true identity. Uncle Martin refused to reveal his alien traits to anyone other than Tim. The last thing he wanted was to incite panic or draw unwanted publicity. Tim agreed to keep Uncle Martin’s identity a secret while he attempted to make the needed repairs to his ship.
Beyond just being from another world, Uncle Martin had various strange and unusual powers. For one thing, he could raise from the top of his head two retractable antennae. He could also make himself completely invisible, read minds with telepathy, levitate objects, communicate with animals, as well as manipulate time by freezing objects or people in a place or by speeding himself up to do work.
For its first season, My Favorite Martian did extraordinarily well in the Nielsen ratings. For its inaugural season, My Favorite Martian ranked #10. By the end of the second season, however, the series had fallen to #24. Even so, the series still was doing well enough to be renewed for a third and final season. Sadly, the show would continue to nosedive in the ratings throughout its third season, eventually leading CBS to cancel the series.
Watch this video to see the scene that took My Favorite Martian off the air for good. You’ll be surprised why the show ultimately failed and what some of its cast members ended up doing after the series came to an end.
The Scene That Took My Favorite Martian off the Air for Good
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