The Martian reveals himself to Tim and Tim allows him stay. The Martian occupant then takes human form, becomes invisible and sneaks into the back of Tim’s car, travelling home with him.
The occupant of the craft quickly shrinks the UFO and Grace dismisses it as a toy. TV news director Tim O’Hara is returning from a newscast that has gone wrong along with his object of affection, his boss’s daughter Grace Channing, when he sees a UFO crash on a Santa Barbara beach. Van Vliet, Zott & Lizzie Monster Character Animation – Tippett Studio (Supervisors – Tippett & Craig Hayes), Visual Effects/Animation – Available Light (Supervisor – Van Vliet), Mars Sequence – Dream Quest Images (Supervisor – Tim Landry), Additional Visual Effects – Buena Vista Imaging, Hammerhead Productions Inc, Illusion Arts (Supervisors – Syd Dutton & Bill Taylor), Rainmaker Digital Pictures (Supervisor – Chris Kutcka), Station X Studios LLC (Supervisor – Meni Tsirbas), Roto Rooter Miniatures – 4 Ward Productions, Previsualization – Pixel Liberation Front & Team Work, Special Effects Supervisor – Mark Ratliff, Animatronic Effects – Amalgamated Dynamics (Supervisors – Alec Gillis & Tom Woodruff Jr), Production Design – Sandy Veneziano. Greene, Producers – Jerry Leider, Robert Shapiro & Mark Toberoff, Photography – Thomas Ackerman, Music – John Debney, Visual Effects Supervisors – Phil Tippett & John T.
Director – Donald Petrie, Screenplay – Deanna Oliver & Sherri Stoner, Based on the TV Series Created by John L.