{"id":61,"date":"2012-10-10T07:29:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T14:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/tn\/?p=61"},"modified":"2017-12-11T08:06:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T16:06:01","slug":"the-neighbors-pilot-and-the-mall-or-and-you-think-your-neighbors-are-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/tn\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"The Neighbors: Pilot and The Mall or And You Think YOUR Neighbors Are Weird?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hello from our alien friends The Neighbors<\/a>!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Years ago, forty, to be exact, a short run television series took the American airways by storm. It was called My Favorite Martian<\/a>, staring Ray Walston<\/a> (Boothby from Star Trek, Next Generation) and Bill Bixby<\/a> (the original Hulk). A human-looking alien in a one-man spaceship crash-lands near Los Angeles. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The ship’s pilot is, in fact, an anthropologist from Mars and is now stranded on Earth. Tim O’Hara, a young newspaper reporter for The Los Angeles Sun,<\/em> is on his way home from Edwards Air Force Base<\/a> (where he had gone to report on the flight of a new plane) back to Los Angeles when he spots the spaceship coming down. There is a near collision with the spaceship, causing it to crash.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Tim takes the Martian in as his roommate and passes him off as his Uncle Martin. Uncle Martin refuses to reveal any of his Martian traits to people other than Tim, to avoid publicity (or panic), and Tim agrees to keep Martin’s identity a secret while the Martian attempts to repair his ship. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Uncle Martin has various unusual powers: he can raise from his head two retractable antennae and become invisible; he is telepathic and can read and influence minds; he can levitate objects with the motion of his finger; he can communicate with animals; freeze people or objects and he can also speed himself (and other people) up to do work. Naturally, he has little knowledge of Earth or American customs, and as a result, hilarity ensues.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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