My Favorite Martian My Uncle the Folk Singer (1963–1966) Online

My Favorite Martian My Uncle the Folk Singer (1963–1966) Online

Martin has been internally recording Earth music for a couple hundred years, and can call up any song within his internal library. At a folk music club, Martin drinks a cappuccino containing cinnamon to which he reacts. It turns on his recorder playback, and a folk song spews out of him. His "singing" is a hit with the club patrons. The club is owned by Tim's current flame, Della, who tries to persuade Tim to persuade Martin to sing at the club to help the business. Martin reluctantly agrees. However the fame and adulation quickly go to Martin's head. To snap Martin out of this earthly emotion, Tim tries to break Martin's playback function with a large dose of cinnamon, even if this hurts Della's business. The cinnamon does the trick with the playback mechanism as well as Martin's sensibilities. However they now have to try and fix the playback so that Martin can sing one last time to keep Della's business from going under.

While the title of the episode is a take off on the title of Allan Sherman's album, "My Son, The Folk Singer," the folk singer who appears in this episode is Stanley Ralph Ross (credited as Stan Ross,) who recorded a parody of the same Allen Sherman album under the title "My Son, The Copycat;" also under the name Stan Ross. Stanley Ralph Ross was primarily known as a writer of such TV shows as Batman, All In The Family and Columbo.

The episode title is a spoof on the best-selling #1 musical comedy album, released in 1962 by Allan Sherman, titled "My Son, The Folk Singer".