A visitor from Mars becomes `Uncle Martin' to a local reporter, who rearranges his humdrum life to give the spaceman shelter. The special effects were cheesy and this was hardly an out-of-this-world classic, but there was nice chemistry between Ray Walston and Bill Bixby in storylines about the alien's powers (mind reading, invisibility, talking with dogs), and the lengths to which they went to keep them under wraps made for a good time.