The WORST episodes of Martial Law

Every episode of Martial Law ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Martial Law!

A Shanghai cop who is a master of martial arts fights crime in the Los Angeles Police Dept.

Last Updated: 11/8/2024Network: CBSStatus: Ended
star
7.08
38 votes

#1 - Sammo Blammo

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/1999

The MCU gets a new chief, Amy Dillon, after Winship retires. As soon as she takes up her appointment Sammo is kidnapped by a recently released thief and has a very complex bomb strapped to his chest. Daniel Darius, the thief, was part of a team who managed to steal over $50 million worth of art from an auction house. He was the only one who was caught and now he wants his share of the money. Problem is he has no idea who the rest of the team were and has only very brief descriptions of them. The MCU has only 8 hours to solve a 15 year old case before Sammo goes Blammo!

Directors: Joe Napolitano
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star
7.11
9 votes

#2 - Heartless

Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/22/2000

The Governor's daughter is waiting in hospital for a heart transplant. Sammo is an old friend of the Governor, they met when they were both in China, and Sammo's job in LA is down to him. The heart is stolen when the ambulance transporting it is attacked and the Governor soon receives the inevitable ransom call. If he doesn't sign pardons for three serial killers then his daughter will never see the heart. The governor decides that his daughter is worth more than his career and signs the pardons, hoping that Sammo and the MCU can catch the criminals before they start killing again!

Directors: Ron Satlof
Writer: David Ehrman
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Requiem (1)
star
7.22
36 votes

#3 - Requiem (1)

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/1/1999

Lee Hei and his daughter, Lin Pai Chin, are back in America trying to set up a big drug deal to finance their other criminal activities.

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Big Trouble
star
7.22
36 votes

#4 - Big Trouble

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/20/1999

A gang threatens the supermarket owned by Terrell's mum and step dad. He decides that he is going to help them out and enlists Sammo to aid him.

Directors: Jack Clements
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Red Storm
star
7.24
37 votes

#5 - Red Storm

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/24/1999

While waiting at the airport for the arrival of his teacher, Master Reng, from China Sammo gets involved with trying to stop a gang of crazed terrorists.

Directors: Greg Yaitanes
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Trifecta
star
7.26
38 votes

#6 - Trifecta

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/27/1999

Billy Rafferty, Terrell's former partner is found murdered. Terrell and Sammo investigate the last case he was working on, working undercover at a racetrack.

Directors: Greg Beeman
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Nitro Man
star
7.27
37 votes

#7 - Nitro Man

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/27/1999

During a robbery at Melanie's bank she ends up as a hostage and is kidnapped. Sammo is desperate to find her and save her from danger.

Directors: Greg Beeman
Writer: Carlton Cuse
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Diamond Fever
star
7.31
64 votes

#8 - Diamond Fever

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/1998

Sammo uncovers a diamond counterfeiting and smuggling operation ran by a major Chinese criminal, Lee Hei.

Directors: Rick Wallace
Writer: Carlton Cuse
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Substitutes
star
7.38
40 votes

#9 - Substitutes

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/23/1999

Sammo discovers that a legendary gangster and drugs dealer has left Colombia and come back to Los Angeles, looking for his ex-wife and son.

Directors: D.J. Caruso
Writer: Patty Lin
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Captive Hearts
star
7.38
37 votes

#10 - Captive Hearts

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/20/1999

Sammo and Terrell pursue a sweatshop proprietor suspected of selling babies.

Directors: Michael Lange
Writer: Del Shores
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End Game (2)
star
7.38
39 votes

#11 - End Game (2)

Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/8/1999

Lee Hei and his daughter continue to cause trouble for Sammo and his fellow cops. This time though they are told that if they don't catch them then their unit could be shut down.

Directors: Michael Lange
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Cop Out
star
7.45
56 votes

#12 - Cop Out

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/1998

Using his status as a new and unknown member of the LAPD Sammo goes undercover to help the team root out a group of vigilante cops.

Directors: Whitney Ransick
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Breakout
star
7.45
38 votes

#13 - Breakout

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/13/1999

A prisoner escapes from jail and goes looking for the $3 million he and his colleagues stole 5 years earlier.

Directors: Deran Sarafian
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Takeout
star
7.45
42 votes

#14 - Takeout

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/1998

A friend of Sammo owns a restaurant. He refuses to sell to Nathan Babbott, a big businessman, and then gets attacked. To help his friend, Sammo begins an investigation into Babbott. Sammo has problems trying to open a checking account at the local bank.

Writer: Patty Lin
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How Sammo Got His Groove Back
star
7.46
48 votes

#15 - How Sammo Got His Groove Back

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/1998

Terrell Parker, an LAPD press officer, sees his cousin, a rap artist shot by an assassin. His life saved only by the appearance of Sammo and Louis. Terrell tries to get himself involved in the investigation by partnering up with Sammo. Between them they uncover a CD bootlegging operation.

Directors: Larry Shaw
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Shanghai Express
star
7.47
73 votes

#16 - Shanghai Express

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1998

Sammo's comes to America to find one of his colleagues from China who has disappeared whilst infiltrating an international car theft ring. Sammo ends up taking part in a cop exchange programme between USA and China.

Directors: Stanley Tong
Writer: Carlton Cuse
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Trackdown
star
7.48
44 votes

#17 - Trackdown

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1998

Sammo and his colleagues try to discover the whereabouts a group of White Supremacists armed with heavy weapons.

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Bad Seed
star
7.48
46 votes

#18 - Bad Seed

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/12/1998

Winship discovers that his niece is involved with a Triad gang and assigns Sammo and Tyrell to track her down. Terrell is now part of the department.

Writer: Brian Fuld
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Wildlife
star
7.49
37 votes

#19 - Wildlife

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/6/1999

Sammo and Tyrell try to nail an illegal animal trading and hunting ring.

Directors: Whitney Ransick
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Painted Faces
star
7.51
41 votes

#20 - Painted Faces

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/9/1999

Sammo's nemesis, Lee Hei, is back in the US and attempts to assassinate the mayor of Shanghai.

Directors: Whitney Ransick
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Extreme Measures
star
7.54
46 votes

#21 - Extreme Measures

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1998

The murder of a DA leads to the Sammo and his colleagues uncovering a lawyer who hires a gang to steal prosecution evidence.

Directors: David Carson
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Funny Money
star
7.56
57 votes

#22 - Funny Money

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/1998

With the help of a federal agent Sammo and his fellow officers go after a gang who are counterfeiting money.

Directors: Deran Sarafian
Writer: Pam Veasey
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Lock-Up
star
7.59
46 votes

#23 - Lock-Up

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/19/1998

Sammo and Tyrell go undercover to infiltrate a gun-smuggling operation run by prison inmates.

Writer: Carlton Cuse
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Dead Ringers
star
7.65
55 votes

#24 - Dead Ringers

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/1998

When fighters start dying in an Internet based all-in-fighting competition the LAPD are called in. Louis goes undercover to see whether or not the fighters are being murdered

Directors: Whitney Ransick
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star
8.00
10 votes

#25 - My Man Sammo

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/1999

Sammo and Tyrell accidentally mess up an Interpol undercover operation when they arrest some arms dealers. Charlton McCallister, the Interpol agent, knows that the female arms dealer he was pretending to work for has a very big deal coming up. Amy volunteers to go undercover, even though she has no experience of that kind of work. At her first meeting McCallister gets shot and injured and she has to carry on without him. Sammo takes on the part of her butler/bodyguard so that they can try and find out exactly what is being sold and who is out to buy it.

Directors: Ron Satlof
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