Did the show ever jump the shark/could it have lasted longer?

[DarleneIllyria]

I don't think the show ever jumped the shark. It was pretty solid to me. Yeah, had a few weak eps, but I never thought the show really jumped the shark. In a way, I wish the show would've lasted longer, but in a way, I'm kind of glad it went out when it was still good. Some shows, ohno: they just get so sucky and yet they still stay on the air. It just kind of destroys the good parts of the show if you have any bad parts of the show. lol, I think I'm talking in codes.

[dawsongirl]

I think it didn't. Like you said, there were weak eps, but every series has those. I thought even the colors eps were pretty solid. A lot of that though was Bill and Ray. They were always on.

[TV Knowledge Fan]

...there WERE plans for a fourth season. Producer Jack {"Mr. Cheapo"} Chertok KNEW the ratings were down during the 1965-'66 season on CBS, so he decided to show the network what he intended to do to "freshen" up the show- the last episode that was filmed that season introduced Uncle Martin's nephew Andy ["When You Get Back Home To Mars, Are You Gonna Get It"]. Ray Walston recalled that, when CBS executives saw this episode before it aired in February 1966, they told Jack Chertok and his entourage, "That's it, boys, so long". And shortly after that, the network announced that "MY FAVORITE MARTIAN" would not return for another season. And the final episode was "burned off" that February, so viewers wouldn't notice the direction the plot was going (ironically, the last original episode that aired on CBS, in May 1966, was the first "time-travel" story that was shot in black & white for season two, but withheld from broadcast because Chertok wanted to introduce the "TTCBS" element at the beginning of season three!).