Sketch o’the Week- My Favorite Martian!

In a rare break from the usual, this original sketch is still available in the Studio Store!

It’s another sketch from our quickly getting old series “TV shows Tom watched as a kid after school”. This week features Bill Bixby and Ray Walston from the 1963-66 sitcom “My Favorite Martian”. There was a period of time where this show was on every day at the exit time I got home from school, and I saw a lot of episodes… although I don’t remember any of the later full color ones. I sort of categorized this show with “I Dream of Jeannie” and “Bewitched”, since there was a character with extraordinary powers in it. Being into comic books and sci-fi, it was one of my favorites. Sadly it disappeared from my local stations at one point and never popped up again while I was still spending a few hours after school watching TV while my dad was still at work.

Later when I was in Jr. High Bill Bixby starred in another of my favorite then current shows, “The Incredible Hulk”. Honestly I didn’t make the connection that the guy playing Dr. Banner was the same guy who played Tim in “My Favorite Martian”. Bixby’s look changed a lot from when he was a young man in MFM to when he played Banner.