Ray Walston

Ray Walston is Uncle Martin on My Favorite Martian, deadpan extraterrestrial craft in a reporter household. Crash-landing, antennae, levitation, invisibility as weekly work. Before space television went solemn, this was roommate farce. Walston sells the alien as an uncle — a raised eyebrow, a secret, the reason the sitcom has a science-fiction lease. Bixby as the human cover; Martin as the problem the cover has to love. Call the run CBS, 1963–1966. My Favorite Martian is the hour; Walston occupies it as Uncle Martin.

On TV Flash he is 1960s catalog royalty. We file Uncle Martin with the hours that treated a visitor as family. Watch the antennae. Walston is why the series photographs as a duet. The desk still hears the levitation gag. Door-slam sci-fi, a face that never needed to shout “alien.”

Walston belongs at the top of My Favorite Martian’s hour. s01e01 is the on-ramp — My Favorite Martin is the crash-land contract: Ray Walston's Uncle Martin, Bill Bixby's reporter house, antennae as the weekly tell. The turn lives at s02e35: The Green Eyed Martian is a mid-run jealousy title: deadpan extraterrestrial against human farce, sitcom space before Trek made it solemn. He is Uncle Martin in both, which is why the codes share a folder.

File Walston next to the codes. Uncle Martin sits in CBS’s orbit on purpose; lose him and a wall comes down. My Favorite Martin is the crash-land contract: Ray Walston's Uncle Martin, Bill Bixby's reporter house, antennae as the weekly tell. That is s01e01. The Green Eyed Martian is a mid-run jealousy title: deadpan extraterrestrial against human farce, sitcom space before Trek made it solemn. That is s02e35. Watch him as weekly labor on My Favorite Martian (1963–1966).