Some unspeakable cosmic horror of a size beyond petty human imagining descended from the stars and sat on the Earth. Then it just dumped some extra ice on the Poles and hoped nobody would notice.

I'm not sure where the maritan comes into this.

Oh, good, they gave them a wacky alien dog. I was worried there for a second.

They seem very certain that people will approve of this.

Oh, the 70s

-Tim?
-Yes Katie?
-My favorite martians are in their ship again, trying to reproduce.
-Ah... yes Katie.
-But neither of them ever gets pregnant!
-It's not for lack of trying.

I notice the younger martian only has one antenna. Is that the equivalent of an undescended testicle?

Why 2 martians? I can understand the dog for the cute demographic but Ray Walston and Bill Bixby were fine with just the one.