Martin rebuilds his CCTBS - cathode-ray centrifugal time breakascope - convinced that if he transports himself to just before the time he crashed, he can fix the problem and fly back to Mars. Det. Brennan inadvertently flips the switch for the delay function, sending Tim and Martin back in time. Instead of 1215 Merry Old England where they were sent last time, they are sent to 1849 St. Louis. Unfortunately the CCTBS didn't make the trip with them. Instead it should still be in the exact same spot in what is the site of Los Angeles in 1849. Unfortunately, they run into...

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Loralei Glutz is safely on her way west on a wagon train. However Martin and Tim are once again behind bars. Before Martin breaks them out, he draws Tim a map of where the CCTBS is located just in case they are separated. After they break out, they are ambushed. They awake at the wagon train where Loralei is taking care of them; she found them and feels she owes them for helping her get her money back. The only thing they are missing is the map. Martin deduces that whoever stole it must be on the wagon train and thinks that it is a map of a gold strike in California. ...

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Martin repairs his CCTBS, but hasn't fined tuned it enough to get precisely back to 1963. The closest he can currently get to is 1945. But it's back to 1925 that he currently has his eye on as he appeared in a silent movie made then - he just couldn't stand the performance of the actor who was scheduled to play the role - that movie which is scheduled to air on television that evening. Since his appearance in the movie would raise questions, he needs to get back to change history and not appear in the movie. Just as Martin is ready to go, Tim gets caught in the path ...

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Martin has a futuroid camera, something takes takes photos of the future. To show Tim how it works, Martin snaps a photo of him 24 hours into the future. Martin and Tim are shocked to see a photo of what looks like Tim the groom in a wedding, the bride whose face is not shown. For the first time in his adult life, Tim is not girl crazy, and wants to avoid women for the next 24 hours. Tim decides to cover a story for the paper in an effort to keep out of girl trouble, but he finds out after he accepts that the story is at the Kitten Club, a men's club. Martin follows ...

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Martin's newest gizmo, a molecular reassembler, switches the psyche of the two subjects to which they are exposed. Martin would like to use it to eliminate all hostility in the world, not to switch his and Mrs. Brown's psyches, which is what happens, just before Mrs. Brown is ready to go out on a date with Det. Brennan. Martin, looking like Mrs. Brown, is especially not looking forward to a date with Det. Brennan, but needs to do so not to attract the detective's suspicion. Martin is even more perturbed that the detective wants to ask Mrs. Brown to marry him. But of ...

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Martin has developed some green spots on his skin from taking too many memory pills. He has to take them to aid in his quest to make it back to Mars, but not if it's going to continue making him conspicuous with the spots. An idea: Tim can take the pills instead as he has excess unused brain capacity. Tim reluctantly agrees to do so. Taking the pills makes Tim the smartest man on the face of the Earth. However, to allow him to lead a normal life in this state, Martin has provided him something akin to a post hypnotic suggestion, where the snap of a finger will bring ...

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Everything Martin touches is literally turning to gold. Tim is excited, but Martin isn't as it's a symptom that he's not well - he has a gold deficiency in his diet. In addition, he has to be careful what he touches. To fix his problem, Martin figures he needs to eat something that has been grown in gold enriched soil. Where a better place to find such than the area outside of Fort Knox. Martin enlists Tim's help in going to Fort Knox to pick up some greens growing by a stream that runs close to the gold vault. But before Tim can head off, the boys unavoidably have ...

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Martin is too heavy for his spaceship, and he needs to lose 143 pounds. He devises a way to shrink himself to 6 ounces, however the shrinking process is only temporary, too temporary that it won't get him all the way back to Mars. So he needs to devise a way to make it more long lasting. As an experiment, he asks Tim to cork him inside a wine bottle with the necessary gas making the shrinking process longer lasting. Martin intends to stay inside the bottle all day just to make sure it works. However the wine bottle with Martin in it gets collected with an overseas ...

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Martin fixes his benevolence bulb so that it works on humans. When shone on humans, they turn into the nicest person in the world. Tim tries it on an extra antagonistic Brennan, but the effect is delayed. As much as he hates Brennan, Martin thinks this disastrous as a nice detective could potentially be a dead detective. So Martin uses his futuroid camera to see if/when he gets into trouble. They find that he changes into a nice person just as he enters a bank the following day and meets up with a notorious bank robber, Frank Talbert. So Martin rigs a device to change...

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While Martin is working on his ship, he overcharges the magnetic field which accidentally pulls in a Slobodian astro-ship and its beautiful female pilot from its space orbit. While he figures out how to solve the dilemma, he erases the pilot's memory placing it on Martian tape, and he brings her back to the apartment. Martin tells her she's his niece, Zelda, and that she has a case of amnesia. Zelda is a naturally suspicious person, which is part of the subconscious memory she still retains. Martin figures he can fix Zelda's ship in 24 hours using his own ship as a ...

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Martin is still trying to fix his CCTBS - his time travel machine - but it's stuck on the year 1870, the place the state of Missouri. There is a short circuit in the CCTBS, and instead of Martin and Tim being transported back, it transports two figures from 1870 Missouri into Tim's apartment, namely Frank and Jesse James. The trouble is that the James' hold Martin and Tim and ultimately Mrs. Brown hostage, and want to use the CCTBS to pillage history of all its riches. In the present day in the meantime, the James brothers go back to as familiar territory as possible,...

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Martin temporarily ages himself four hundred Martian years. He has been studying human old age, and figures one can only fully understand it by experiencing it. The one benefit however is that his mind is still as sharp as a tack, since Martian brains don't deteriorate with age. Martin decides that one of his acts as a senior on earth is to take a job as a warehouse night watchman since seniors don't want to be burden to their families. At work, Martin is interrupted by a couple of intruders, two elder spinster sisters, Tessie and Matilda Harvey. Their story: their ...

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Martin has transformed his duplicating machine to have the duplicates become permanent instead of just temporary. He unfortunately duplicates Tim. So Martin goes off to get a mineral needed to eradicate the duplicate Tim, leaving the two Tims to fend for themselves. The real Tim has a great idea: he will get the duplicate to go off to work, while the real Tim goes on a beach date. However the duplicate Tim has other ideas. He uses Martin's personality changing machine on himself to transpose himself into an evil Tim, one that takes the real Tim's money, takes the real...

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Mrs. Brown is more distracted than usual. To help her concentrate, Martin gives her a concentration pill, which will help her focus solely on the first thing she thinks about immediately after taking the pill. However instead of thinking about where she placed a letter for Martin, which is what he originally wanted her to think about, she thinks about police work. She becomes a civilian one-woman police ticket giving machine, for everything from littering to illegal parking. Unfortunately, there are also more dangerous aspects to police work. She buys a short wave ...

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Tim wants to use Martin's CCTBS to go back to today's lunch hour. He missed the biggest news story of the year - a robbery of the Beaudelaire jewels, worth $2.5 million - and has been demoted to writing the obituaries, in his mind only one step above the unemployment line. Martin reluctantly agrees. Once back, Tim makes the big mistake of acting like he knows too much about an impending robbery. So after the real thieves come into the store and steal the jewels, Tim is accused of being their look-out man. In discussion with Det. Brennan, Tim accidentally implicates ...

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Martin's "EWS" or Early Warning System - which is akin to human intuition - is going crazy. He soon finds out the cause is Mrs. Brown's big talking mooching brother, Alvin Wannamaker, who has come for a visit. The visit coincides with Mrs. Brown's woman's club defense league luncheon with a General as a guest speaker. Alvin implies to the General that he is working on a top secret project with "inventor" Martin, so the General infers it is something that it is something military related that he should have known about all along. The General leaks to the press that ...

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Tim stands to inherent some money from the estate of Martha and Ralph O'Hara. The only things standing in his way are a relative, Clarence O'Hara who would inherit the estate otherwise, and Martin, who Clarence insists should not exist in the rightful O'Hara family. He feels he is an authority as his father was county recorder. Tim truly is the rightful heir, and tries to legitimize Martin. Using the CCTBS (the time machine), Tim suggests that Martin go back to January 15, 1920, the day that Martha and Ralph register the name of their newborn son, Frank, and use his ...

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Tim is sent on assignment with young photographer, Jimmy McClain. Tim isn't looking forward to the experience as Jimmy is a walking disaster zone. Martin knows however that Jimmy has a self-fulfilling failure complex which stems from his childhood, and thus Martin wants to help him out of it. At the story, Jimmy, with Martin's help, gets an exclusive photograph which does include Martin. However Martin is currently photograph invisible. If the photograph is developed and shown, it may disclose Martin's Martian identity. Martin destroys the photograph, and as a result,...

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Martin's internal transmitter is short circuiting. Intermittently, he becomes 'the' television transmitter worldwide, overtaking all regular television programming. His eyes are the camera. In the meantime, he has a special pair of sunglasses to wear that will block the transmitter. He needs some wiring from a television camera to fix the short circuit. Luckily Tim needs to go down to the television station on assignment. He has to interview matinée idol Chad Foster. So Martin tags along with Tim. When Martin is introduced to Chad, Chad admires his sunglasses. Martin ...

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Mrs. Brown's brother, Alvin, has another hair-brained, get rich scheme. His new fangled machine, Wannamaker's Widdle Wife Saver, is a housewife's answer to chores - it cleans, it vacuums, it mows lawns among other things. Or so it's supposed to once Martin puts it together. It's a piece of junk that even Martin can't salvage. Martin and Tim decide to try and sell it back to the man from who Alvin bought it, only because Alvin used Loralei's $500 to buy it. Dr. Dunlap ends up being a bigger swindler than Alvin is but pretends not to be, but Martin and Tim convince ...

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Martin is having some problems at a department store: there is a chemical in the cologne, Homme Fatale, that has turned him into a mannequin, a fate that could be permanent unless he gets blasted by some molecular revitalizing rays from his ray gun. The store's floor manager won't let Tim take the mannequin or buy the mannequin at that, so he has to go home and get the gun and bring it to the store. As soon as Tim gets back, Mrs. Brown and Det. Brennan also show up at the department store on a shopping spree. Tim can't shoot Martin in such a visible setting, so tries ...

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Martin must again go up against the CRUSH organization when Tim is kidnapped by Butterball.

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Mrs. Brown's purse is stolen at a carnival. Det. Brennan automatically suspects Raymond, a gypsy, only because the detective thinks all gypsies are crooked. Martin knows Raymond didn't do it. But because the detective hauls Raymond off to jail, Raymond places a curse on Mrs. Brown. For her, the curse is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Martin thinks that he can help Mrs. Brown get over the thought of the curse - that everything will slip through her fingers - by becoming invisible and holding onto things for her. Unfortunately, Martin's antenna are temporarily ...

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Another Martian spacecraft crash lands on Earth. It happens to be Martin's 11-year old nephew, Andromeda, who has come to Earth since he got lost in a cosmic storm. Andromeda is a proud Martian, who can't understand why Martin has taken on so many Earthly attributes, including the name Martin (his real name is Exigius 12-1/2). Andromeda refuses to wear Earth clothes or take on the name "Andy". He even tells the truth to Mrs. Brown and Det. Brennan, who think he just has an active child's imagination. But the detective is wary about the O'Hara's ability to raise a ...

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Tim finds a lost dog and brings him home hoping that Martin can find out from the dog where he lives. It ends up not being lucky for Martin since the dog, Tutu, drinks Martin, turning Tutu into a talking dog. You see, Martin's new gizmo has the ability to distillate animal and vegetative matter down to their water form, and to reverse the process to return the objects back to the original state. He distillates himself to be light enough to escape Earth's gravity, and with Tim's help in launching his spaceship, to return back to Mars. But first, he now has to separate ...

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Tim arrives home a day earlier than expected from his Mexican assignment. Despite a Keep Out sign on his apartment door, Tim enters - it is his own apartment - and is exposed to a Martian virus, causing red striping across his face. Before Martin can give him the antidote, Det. Brennan stops by and sees Tim's striping. He automatically assumes that Tim has brought back a tropical virus and calls for an ambulance to take him to the hospital. Martin and Tim manage to elude Brennan once at the hospital, where Tim goes undercover, literally, by wrapping his head with ...

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Mrs. Brown gets zapped by Martin's personality altercator. There doesn't seem to be any outward effect from the blast, however this façade is part of her personality change. She has absorbed all the contents of Tim's book, The Criminal Mind, and solely has theft on the brain. She shoplifts some small items, not too much of an issue since Martin and Tim plan on taking them all back. But some information Det. Brennan passes along to her regarding his security of the Slotkin Diamond makes her think of the bigger catch. However before she can steal it, someone beats her ...

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Martin is having some troubles with his spaceship, so he calls in some help from an old friend, one of the greatest minds ever on Earth: Leonardo Da Vinci. Da Vinci has other things on his mind than helping Martin. He is dismayed at life in the 20th century: how his inventions have been credited to others, and how his painting, La Gioconda, has been renamed the Mona Lisa. In his mind, all those have been stolen from him. The Mona Lisa is currently on loan to a local museum, for which Det. Brennan is in charge of security. Da Vinci sneaks out of the O'Hara apartment to...

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Martin has a mosquito bite, from which he is suffering from symsymsympatheticus. This is an affliction where the next person bitten by the mosquito has a bit of Martin residue in him/her, and Martin is feeling everything that next person is feeling. But what if the next person isn't a person, but a horse? It ends up being not only a horse, but a race horse named Sweet Sister, who is running better than ever. Martin needs a blood sample from Sweet Sister to develop an antidote, and he manages to do so posing as a vet. Mistaking the taking of the blood sample as a ...

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Mrs. Brown once again walks in front of one of Martin's gizmos. This time, Martin was in the process of cleaning out his "sixth sense" as humans call it and reinserting it back into his body via his regenerating machine, but now Mrs. Brown is in possession of Martin's sixth sense. Three problems arise: Mrs. Brown is now suspicious of Martin since Martin wants his sixth sense back from her, Brennan breaks the regenerator which will take Martin a couple of days to fix, and the sixth sense becomes stronger over time to a point when Mrs. Brown will become aware of ...

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Martin's malfunctioning molecular reassembler is what Tim uses to accidentally turn a squirrel into a human being. Martin has to fix the reassembler within 8 hours or else "Red" as they've coined him will be permanently changed to that of a human. In the meantime, Red's family moves in with the O'Hara's until he can be changed back to his proper squirrel state. Problems arise when Det. Brennan and Mrs. Brown come for a visit and notice a squirrel entering the apartment. The detective talks about calling in an exterminator to which Red takes offense and runs off. Tim ...

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Tim uses Martin's CCTBS to go back to do some research for his historical novel on the 1626 sale of Manhattan from the Indians to the Dutch. Apparently, while back in time, Tim accidentally implied to Chief Buffalo that the $24 or 60 guilder sale price was a steal, the Chief thinking that he meant that Peter Minuit is trying to steal the island. This prevents the sale, so in the present day, what is now New York does not belong to the United States. Martin and Tim need to go back to 1626 Manhattan to rectify the situation. Martin is a good mediator, but the ...

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