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With Lurene Tuttle, Nydia Westman, and Klinger (from MASH)

Martin ages himself an additional 400 years and then takes a job as a night watchman.

While he is protecting a room full of priceless antiques, he witnesses a break-in, as a brick wall comes tumbling down.

Both he, and we, are completely surprised by the crooks. Not at all what we expected. Two elderly women. Actually it turns out that they were better thieves than most... by being attentive and nosy, they discover the culprit involved in another crime in the area.

Murray Matheson (Statesman Geller From Battlestar Galactica) is, of course the real crook here, and Klinger is his henchman. This is not the only episode Klinger is in, he was also a hospital orderly.

Problems erupt when Martin starts de-aging 12 hours before he expected to, and then he becomes "magnetized" which causes him to accumulate a special guest shadow, which turns out to be helpful.

This episode was a nice distraction from the other Mrs. Brown/Brennan induced catastrophes.

I love the old valiant "toilet car"...

It's interesting that there is a nod to "war of the worlds" when Martin's spaceship crashes... Martin's original "form" looks a lot like the Martian from war of the worlds... tentacled fingers.

The Mrs Brown/Martin attachment starts right off the bat... but it never really develops, this film does not have a lot of time to develop a story, it is kind of like the television show, one catastrophe after another. Elizabeth Hurley appears as eye candy, but does not really have a very good part, but that's probably how it was written. She is the one character where you want to hate her guts and she succeeded in doing that. Martin's got a suit named Zoot... but there is no detective Brennan.

This is much more than just a remake. It's got a very good twist ending. Ray Walston appears to be the head of some government agency, but nothing is as it appears. Look for Wallace Shawn.

The fact that Tim was driving an old valiant toilet car is very appropriate as you will see later in the film, it is one of the better gags.

There are a bunch of nice little places that refer directly back to the original pilot episode of the TV series, a couple of lines and scenes from the original TV pilot peppered here and there. Other than the film being Disney ized, it's OK.

And to top it off, we learn Martin's original Martian name from the 60s show... you think I'm going to tell you everything? (In the show it was "Xigeous 12 1/2", but it's not that here...) It is worth watching, but be warned. Some parts are like fingernails scraping against a chalkboard.

With Harvey Lembeck, even

Last episode of season two, last episode in Black and White.

Due to another gadget of Martin's, Mrs Brown gets flattened, and of course, Brennan immediately interferes before she can be fixed and then after that, it's one calamity after another. It appears that season two had started to incorporate characters that would appear in practically every episode and cause all kinds of problems. Alan Hewitt as Detective Brennan is one of these as well as the extremely nosy Mrs. Lorelai Brown (Pamela Britton). I don't remember if the Brennan character was introduced in season one, but in season two he was 1/3 of a triad, both he and Martin were romantically interested in Mrs. Brown, but it was only for sexual tension. The stories changed a bit for season two as well, as we were introduced to one catastrophe after another, and it was almost like enduring the scraping of fingernails on a chalkboard to see how Martin was going to extricate himself from impending doom or at least discovery.

I could not tell in the art museum scene if they had made a mannequin version of Martin... or if that was just make up over Ray Walston's face. It looks like it may have been another actor with a Ray Walston mask and then they made that person up to look like a mannequin...

Harvey Lembeck is an art thief who takes an interest in art, a member of an art thief gang, including a big jamoke and a chick.

According to the trivia, listen for the Star Trek transporter special effect sound...

I had not seen Harvey Lembeck in any television shows, only movies from American International so that was a nice unexpected twist.