Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?

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The Twilight Zone original series
Season two (1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5)
Fall 1960 – Summer 1961
List of The Twilight Zone episodes

Episodes:

  1. King Nine Will Not Return
  2. The Man in the Bottle
  3. Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room
  4. A Thing About Machines
  5. The Howling Man
  6. The Eye of the Beholder
  7. Nick of Time
  8. The Lateness of the Hour
  9. The Trouble With Templeton
  10. A Most Unusual Camera
  11. The Night of the Meek
  12. Dust
  13. Back There
  14. The Whole Truth
  15. The Invaders
  16. A Penny for Your Thoughts
  17. Twenty Two
  18. The Odyssey of Flight 33
  19. Mr. Dingle, the Strong
  20. Static
  21. The Prime Mover
  22. Long Distance Call
  23. A Hundred Yards Over the Rim
  24. The Rip Van Winkle Caper
  25. The Silence
  26. Shadow Play
  27. The Mind and the Matter
  28. Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
  29. The Obsolete Man

“Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

[edit] Details

[edit] Cast

  • Barney Phillips as the Venusian,
  • John Hoyt as the Martian,
  • Jack Elam, and
  • William Kendis.

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Two state troopers are investigating a crash and are led to believe that it was a UFO. They follow footprints to a diner where a group of passengers from a bus are waiting for a report on a bridge they have to cross. Most of the episode is taken up by mutual suspicion. When they get permission to go across the bridge, they all leave. Shortly, the businessman played by John Hoyt returns to the diner and tells the cook that the bridge collapsed and the bus and police car fell in killing all aboard the bus and the policemen. As the cook wonders how the businessman survived, he also notes that his clothes are not even wet. Soon the businessman unveils his third arm and stirs his coffee with his third hand, telling the cook that he is a Martian, and revealing that Mars plans to start a colony on Earth. Laughing, the cook tells him that he’s too late, and by taking off his paper hat and revealing his third eye, reveals that he is from Venus, which has already started a colony. The Martian invasion force is then intercepted and destroyed. The irony lies in the fact that, even if the Martian had not landed, there was an alien in the restaurant anyway.

[edit] Trivia

In 2005, Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up? was produced for the stage by 4 Letter Entertainment

The name of the episode is derived from the catch phrase "Will the real ______ please stand up?" used in the game show To Tell the Truth.

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