# Earliest TV series about aliens fitting in badly? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [July 21, 2021, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-tv-series-about-aliens-fitting-in-badly/946939 "2021-07-21T02:52:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-tv-series-about-aliens-fitting-in-badly/946939/21 "2022-03-28T19:19:18Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Yep. Breer. I remember all their names as if it were yesterday. Make it STOP!! Sorry about that. It’s like an earworm. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2022, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-tv-series-about-aliens-fitting-in-badly/946939/22 "2022-03-29T02:54:52Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Uncle Martin understood Earth culture well enough to easily pass for human. While he had certain powers, he used them in secret and never had a problem fitting in (thought Tim sometimes had to make up explanations on the spot). That may be how it started, but by the second season, wacky alien hijinks ensued. [Courtesy of Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Favorite_Martian), here are some plot summaries. - Martin has mixed feelings about his latest chance to get home – which leads him to split into three. - Martin and Tim frantically attempt to eliminate an accidental duplicate of Mrs. Brown – during its dinner date with Det. Brennan. - Mrs. Brown’s violin-playing is causing the Martian to become transparent. - Martin’s health monitor is mistaken for a quarter and deposited into a drink machine at police headquarters – where it loudly proclaims that it is a Martian in distress. - Martin accidentally swaps his psyche with Mrs. Brown. To avoid exposing himself, he is then forced to go out a date with the recently-promoted Lieutenant Brennan. - Martin develops a short-circuit which causes him to start transmitting to everything he sees and hears onto television. This leads him to unintentionally exposing a well-known actor’s secret. Samantha Stevens did a better job of hiding her powers. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2022, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-tv-series-about-aliens-fitting-in-badly/946939/23 "2022-03-30T17:41:23Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > You want “aliens” who don’t fit in well, even though they look normal? > > The cavemen from the sitcom **It’s About Time** (1966-7). The first 18 episodes were about two astronauts who did a Star Trek IV and ended up in the Stone Age, but after that they got their spaceship working again and came back to the present with three cavemen (Joe E. Ross, Imogene Coca, and Mary Grace – I don’t remember if they brought her kid brother, too). They definitely didn’t do a good job of fitting in. > > You could argue that the characters in several sitcom series of the 1960s weren’t exactly standard modern humans and didn’t fit in > > Bewitched (witches and the like) > I Dream of Jeannie (Genies) > My Living Doll (A female Robot – 1964) > Hymie the robot on Get Smart (1967) > Holmes and Yoyo (Robot cop partner – 1976-7) > > Others have already been mentioned The first episode is on YouTube. Directed by Richard Donner! Catchy theme song. The show is awful. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw5jfWoXFUU) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2022, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-tv-series-about-aliens-fitting-in-badly/946939/24 "2022-03-30T18:19:59Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > The show is awful. Yes. I have a deep and abiding love of awful TV and movies. It’s why I watch MST3K. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-tv-series-about-aliens-fitting-in-badly/946939/25 "2022-04-01T02:52:22Z")
Not sure if this counts by the OP’s definition but it does predate _My Favorite Martian_. _Johnny Jupiter_ premiered in 1953. The premise was that Johnny was from Jupiter and he didn’t understand Earth customs. But Johnny Jupiter wasn’t here on Earth. He lived on Jupiter. He communicated with Earth via an interplanetary television. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/dnuxUcJ1Rc8/hqdefault.jpg "Johnny Jupiter - Episode 1 | Vaughn Taylor, Cliff Hall, Pat Peardon, Wright King") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnuxUcJ1Rc8) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-tv-series-about-aliens-fitting-in-badly/946939.md?page=1)