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Movie

The movie deserves its own article... If anyone can make it... That would be great... 200.106.101.196 (talk) 17:53, 25 November 2006

Time travel television series

"Category:Time travel television series" is a newly-created category. There is a discussion over how much "time travel" should occur in a series before it should be included in this category. Please join the discussion in that category's discussion. Val42 19:45, 2 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Andromeda's single antenna

About Uncle Martin's real, Martina nephew Andromeda, the article says, "He had a single antenna, which Martin explains was the result of a childhood accident." I believe that's incorrect. I believe that what Uncle Martin explained to Tim was that Andromeda's baby antennae had fallen out, and only one of the permanent ones had grown in. 140.147.160.78 13:26, 29 January 2007 (UTC)Stephen Kosciesza[reply]

Disambiguation

I noticed today a network promo for a series "My Favorite Martian" on the WGN Superstation. From the limited seconds I was watching, I notice that the show is in color and is obviously a bit newer than the from the 1960's. At first glance it looks like it stars Dave Coulier and Christopher Lloyd. Anyway, we should disambig the two shows (IMHO), but I don't have the interest or knowledge about the subject matter to do so. /Blaxthos 18:33, 15 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

For the record, it's 1999's My Favorite Martian (film), starring Christopher Lloyd and Jeff Daniels, though you might have made Coulier's year if he ever sees this. - BilCat (talk) 06:05, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Colour in season 3

I just saw the first 10 episodes of season 3 on that new edition from Umbrella Entertainment. My impression ist, that it is not made in colour, but in black and white and then later had been coloured by hand or computer. Many objects are still in grey, which should be in any colour. You can see it very good, when there is the outside of Tim's flat in picture, or some of the pictures at the wall, which are famous pictures by Kandinsky and Klee. Compare the originals with the season 3 pictures! As I think that the original had been made in colour, is it possible that Umbrella did not had the original colour masters, and made "their own" colour edition of season 3? Or is it just the poor quality of the 1965s film material? --77.182.65.140 (talk) 21:07, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure about what prints were used on Umbrella, but Season 3 was definitely filmed in Color. BurkeDevlin (talk) 15:52, 5 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Games, Toys, Comics, etc.

It would be nice if an editor familiar with the topic at least mentioned the various consumer products for fans that were on sale during the run and later syndication. I found this collectibles page. I have no connection with the site, but I remember getting Martian Magic Tricks one Christmas. 5Q5 (talk) 17:01, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Roman Numeral mistake

Would it be too trivial to mention as a program "goof" in the article that they made a mistake with the Roman-numeral copyright date in the closing credits of several early episodes? Instead of MCMLXIII, 1963, it read MCMXLIII, which is 1943. 108.1.70.168 (talk) 05:55, 23 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it would be too trivia, as wel as original research, unless someone can cite a reliable source who has commented on the perceived gaffe. It would also be inappropriate to comment on the series' scientific mistakes about the climates of Mars and Venus, etc. 75.34.30.98 (talk) 20:27, 13 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Air Dates

According to this page, the episode "Time Out for Martin" was actually broadcast for the first time on May 8, 1966, rather than June 20, 1965: http://members.tripod.com/~jhh_2/HISTORY.htm

The introduction of the time machine (better known as the Cathode Ray Centrifugal Time-Break-A-Scope or "CCTBS") hit a sudden internal snag. Originally slated as simply one of the last episodes of the black and white second season, "Time Out for Martian" (a story about a trip back to 1215 England) was due to air June 20, 1965, only to be suddenly yanked at the last minute by CBS and a rerun shown instead.. Speculation suggests that when the production staff learned that MFM would be renewed in color, they may have decided it would be far better to introduce the Martian’s time machine in nothing less than a two-part color episode to kick off the 3rd season. Consequently, they must have prevailed upon CBS to support this decision, which the network did, obligingly shelving the black and white "Time Out for Martian" show until a year later, airing it finally on May 8, 1966, as the last first-run show of the series.

BurkeDevlin (talk) 00:09, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Follow-Up: I checked with the writer of the webpage mentioned above about the correct title of the episode. He said there was some disagreement about it. The DVD and some books say "Time Out for Martin", but he showed me pictures of script pages reading "Time Out for Martian". That's not conclusive, as the title might have been changed during production. But it does seem that the actual premier date of the episode was May 8, 1966. BurkeDevlin (talk) 23:35, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A 'missing' episode?

I distinctly recall an episode (shortly?) after the pilot in which Martin's ship is recovered from the wreckage site and transported to the garage; this has been mentioned in comment sections by at least on other as well. But it seems every episode extant after the pilot, takes its presence in the garage as an established fait accompli.

Is it possible that the first episode has somehow been unaccountably lost in accounting and the pilot is now regarded as the 'first' episode?

Martin, near the very end of the pilot/episode 1, states, "My little spaceship is down in the garage...". We are not told how, but no later episode is necessary or even possible under that circumstance. No episode is missing. JohndanR (talk) 17:25, 22 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Resolution. The pilot/first episode generally extant is a truncated broadcast of the full pilot which apparently is no longer visible anywhere on the internet. Excised scenes include Tim at a phone booth to phone in a news story, and... yes, Martin using a levitator device to get his ship on a truck and driven to Tim's garage:

members.tripod.com/~jhh_2/HISTORY.htm

JohndanR (talk) 01:59, 26 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]