Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up? story
State troopers investigating a UFO sighting track footprints to a diner, where they try to determine which one of seven bus passengers is really a Martian. Directed by: Montgomery Pittman. Story by: Rod Serling.
8 total · 7 major · 1 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| alien living secretly among us | major | We learned that both a Martian and a Venusian were posing as humans in order to scout out our planet as a prelude to "colonization", with invasion implied. |
| attack from outer space by a powerful conquering enemy | major | We heard that Martians and Venusians were competing to colonize Earth, and the sinister overtones implied that human civilization would not be suffered to thrive in peace. |
| flying saucer theory of UFOs | major | There was a UFO, and it had borne hostile extraterrestrials hither. |
| Martian extraterrestrial | major | An invader from Mars was hiding among a group of bus passengers waiting in a diner. |
| mind to mind interaction ability | major | The Martian was conjuring illusions in the minds of those at the diner. |
| mistrust | major | The bus people started becoming suspicious about each other because one of them was thought, as it turned out correctly, to be a Martian in disguise. |
| Venusian extraterrestrial | major | It transpires that the proprietor of the diner was a Venusian who had beaten the Martians to the punch, colonizing Earth first. |
| husband and wife | minor | Two married couples were at the diner. |