My Favorite Martian

Martin is preparing a report which suggests Earth children be frozen their adults, sparing them the gloom of being unproductive. Challenged by Tim, Martin tests on Doris, a girl from an orphanage. They have fun until Doris sees the report.

Martin's finger is uncontrollable due to sun overexposure and causes flying objects in Mrs. Brown's apartment. She brings in a psychic phenomenon expert. A Martian sedative buys time but energy builds and could burst, causing catastrophe.

Mrs. Brown plays on a bad violin, causing Martin to become transparent. He knows he can't convince her to stop playing, so he breaks and fixes its fundamental structure. The violin maker, Mr. Almafi, thinks he has finally perfected it.

Martin learns Mrs. Brown is in financial straits from her overgenerous nature. Martin gives her subliminal messages to save money and they have an extreme effect. Not trusting the bank, she withdraws all her money and a thief is nearby.

Tim tinkers with Uncle Martin's ship, shrinking it to the size of a toy.

Martin gets a splinter of invisflex in his finger, so all he touches becomes invisible. He makes the sofa and other items including his Martian "dog tags" disappear. Tim tells Lorelei they were stolen. She calls police and Brennan arrives.

Det. Brennan irritates Martin more than usual, making him literally "let off steam" and causes him to dehydrate. Brennan hurts his back helping paint the house and is ordered to bed rest there, impeding Martin's ability to remedy himself.

Tim accidentally magnetizes Martin, turning him into a living magnet. Martin is able to demagnetize himself but his magnetized particles are put on the hands of Mrs. Brown's handyman, a reformed pickpocket, attracting her brooch in hand.

Martin has distilled art music into liquid form. Thinking it's perfume, Mrs. Brown is transformed into a piano virtuoso and wows her music club. They want her in an upcoming fundraiser. The guys persuade a true concert pianist to join her.

Martin plans to use his serum spray on Mrs. Brown so she will attract a rival suitor and rid them of Det. Brennan so he has freedom to develop fuel for his spaceship. The serum works too well, infatuating Brennan, the butcher and Martin.

Martin flies to Mexico as a treasure chest is found that has a tablet marking his arrival on Earth to Aztecs with a carving of his likeness. Tim goes along and they find the chest is guarded. Martin pops peppers that mess with his antenna.

Martin builds a time machine to go back in time and avoid his crash to earth. Tim sees 1200 displayed on it and "corrects" it to 1215 and they are sent to that year in England. Tim stops a fight and ends up with the Magna Carta en route.

Mrs. Brown's big talking, mooching brother visits and finagles attending a women's defense league luncheon with a general as a guest speaker. He cons the General into thinking he is working on a top secret project with "inventor" Martin.

Tim stands to inherit big money from distant relatives if he can prove the family link but the existence of "Uncle" Martin muddles things. He tries to use Martin's time machine to travel to 1920 and change an ancestor's name to Martin.

Tim is sent on assignment with young photographer, Jimmy McClain. Tim isn't looking forward to the experience as Jimmy is a walking disaster zone. Martin knows however that Jimmy has a self-fulfilling failure complex which stems from his childhood, and thus Martin wants to help him out of it. At the story, Jimmy, with Martin's help, gets an exclusive photograph which does include Martin. However Martin is currently photograph invisible. If the photograph is developed and shown, it may disclose Martin's Martian identity. Martin destroys the photograph, and as a result, Jimmy is fired. Martin feels he owes Jimmy, so uses his futuroid camera is find out tomorrow's newspaper's front page headline. It involves notorious gangster Joey Makin. Tim is hesitant to tell Jimmy only because of the potential danger seeing as to Makin's history, but Martin insists. A problem occurs just prior to going off on the story as Jimmy hits Martin's equilibrium machine, which makes Jimmy lose his balance for a temporary period of time. Down at the scene of the crime, Martin helps Jimmy as much as he can using his levitation finger, however the finger goes on the blink. As Joey arrives on the scene, Jimmy takes the photo of the payoff when he falls over, which results in the three of them being captured by Joey and his gang. Martin has one more trick up his sleeve: Martian's primitive method of levitation through sheer concentration. Martin has just enough energy to free Jimmy. Just as Jimmy is ready to head off to get the police, Martin regains use of his levitation finger which he uses to help Jimmy capture Joey and his gang. Not only does Jimmy save the day and get his job back, but has gained self-confidence for the first time in his life.

Martin intermittently becomes "the" television transmitter worldwide, overtaking all TV broadcasting, his eyes being the camera. One occurrence lets all see a suave TV personality sans his toupee, shoe lifts, etc. and ruins his career.