My Favorite Martian

Created by John L. Greene

On CBS

A lighthearted 1960s sitcom built on the warmth of an unlikely domestic partnership between a reporter and a benevolent alien masquerading as his uncle.

Newspaper reporter Tim O'Hara finds a crashed alien spaceship that contains one live alien. Not wanting to be discovered by the authorities, the Martian assumes the identity of Tim's Uncle Martin and begins to repair his spaceship so that he can return to Mars.