I have no problem with a "serious" show occasionally going for a few laughs. It was also fun to see "All in the Family" star Carol O'Connor and "The Fugitive" star Barry Morse playing a couple of Martians (in disguise, I assume). But the thing would never get to the point. It wasn't the fact that we watched that girl (Janice Rand from Star Trek) shoot that idiot coming out of the elevator. It was the endless discussion and the faded negative effect that we had to wait through to get to the next event. I'd swear that half the episode was a gray mass, first out of focus, and then back to whatever was going on. I did enjoy the stolid, serious Martian, Morse, getting into cigarettes and coffee, but it took so long to deal with the issues. What they do at the end is sort of startling, but it's all in good fun.