A TV journalist meets a stranded alien who is trying to repair his crashed spacecraft. After first planning to exploit the chance of a big story, he instead offers his help after befriending the visitor - but a fellow reporter plans to expose the truth. Sci-fi comedy based on the 1960s TV series, starring Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Daniels, Elizabeth Hurley and Daryl Hannah.

Ambitious television reporter Tim O'Hara stumbles upon a martian whose spaceship has accidentally crashed on Earth. Thinking this is his ticket to a Pulitzer Prize, Tim makes plans to expose the martian, who, posing as Tim's Uncle Martin, takes human form and has plans of his own. In fact, all of Tim's efforts to divulge the truth are systematically thwarted by the resourceful alien, who ultimately recruits Tim to help him repair his ship for a return to Mars.