The BEST Episodes of Martin
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
Last Updated: Jan 25, 2020
Network: FOX
Martin is a sassy sitcom centering on a radio-and-television personality named Martin Payne. The series focuses on Martin's romantic relationship with girlfriend Gina Waters, his job changes from a radio personality to a television personality, and the variety of friends Martin hangs out with along the way: the loud-mouthed and sassy Pam James and his best friends Tommy Strong and Cole Brown. Star, Martin Lawrence, also portrays of host of wild characters on the show. His neighbor Sheneneh; his mother Mama Payne; Otis the security guard; Jerome the gold-toothed player; Roscoe the snot-nosed kid who's always looking for a leg up; Bob, the white guy, King-Beef, Elroy, and many more. Martin is the center of attention, as each episode takes you from one hilarious circumstance to another. Hijinks, laughter, quick-witted banter, and lotsa love, make this series one to last forever.
#1 - Boo's in the House
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired Oct 31, 1996
The prospect of owning a home gets scarier when Martin and Gina buy their "dream house" on Halloween, but soon find that the place is a haunted, calamity-filled horror.
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#2 - The Romantic Weekend
Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired Apr 27, 1995
Gina is envious when Tommy and Pam plan to celebrate their six-month anniversary at a luxurious resort. When she complains to Martin about why they never do anything special, Martin takes Gina on a vacation to Chilligan's Island, a dreadful and low-rate resort that was advertised on the back of a cereal box. As the two try to make the best of their stay, they inadvertantly run into Tommy and Pam who also are vacationing at the resort.
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#3 - Checks, Lies, and Videotape
Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired May 13, 1993
Martin and Gina try to expose a crooked preacher, Reverend Leon Lonnie Love, as a fraud, after he cons thousands of dollars from his church members, including Mama Payne. To do so, they decide to have Gina lure him to her apartment so she can elicit a confession out of him and then capture it on videotape.
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#4 - Love is a Beach
Season 3 - Episode 27 - Aired May 18, 1995
Martin and Gina flee to the Bahamas with Tommy and Pam to escape their families constant bickering. As the couples make last minute preparations, Martin gets stuck in an elevator with Tommy, while Pam accidentally ruins Gina's wedding gown. After the diasters have passed, Martin and Gina are free to take part in their long-awaited oceanside wedding.
8.61 #5 - Goin' Overboard (2)
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired Feb 13, 1997
Martin and the gang are on a cruise ship with The Love Boat characters. Martin is doomed to finish the trip without Gina, who missed the boat, and is stalked by a suicidal temptress. Tommy thinks that Pam is suddenly interested in Cole, after finding them in bed together.
8.58 #6 - Homeo & Juliet
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired Feb 29, 1996
Gina & Pam have taken roles in an upcoming play to help raise money for needy kids. Martin continually disrupts rehearsal because he doesn't like the Olde English speech being used in the play. But everything comes to a head when Martin finds out the leading man will have to kiss the leading lady (Gina) during the play. He causes the leading man to fall and injure himself, leaving the actors without a leading man. Martin then has to improvise with his own "homeboy" interpretation of Romeo and Juliet.
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#7 - Your Arms Are Too Short to Box with Martin
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired Apr 22, 1993
Tommy's new girlfriend Shannon has an ex-lover that can't seem to let her alone. Eventually he and his gang of thugs confront Tommy and beat him up. Martin and Cole go after this angry group of little people to avenge Tommy's beating, by throwing their weight around and bullying the patrons in the little people's bar. But in the end, they almost get beaten up themselves.
8.49 #8 - Love is in Your Face (2)
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired Feb 13, 1994
With Gina out of his life, Martin reconsiders his decision to let her go to New York to move on with her life, and he sets out to win her back. (Part 2 of 2)
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#9 - Girlfriend
Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired Apr 13, 1995
Gina's conceited college friend comes to town. She's so offensive that Martin and Pam call a truce in their never ending fights and team up to expose her lurid past. Later, Martin invites Monique to appear on his tv talk show, and he exposes her to all of Detroit.
8.43 #10 - I Don't Have the Heart
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired Mar 27, 1994
Pam starts dating an older, wealthy man who eventually asks her to marry him. Initially, the gang was concerned about he and Pam, because of the age difference. But as time went by, they began to enjoy the perks that go along with being in the entourage of a wealthy industrialist: skybox tickets to games, New shoes for Martin, exotic trips to far away places. But once Pam breaks her engagement, Martin's hope of winning fame and fortune are dashed.
8.42 #11 - Hollywood Swinging (2)
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired Nov 14, 1993
In Los Angeles, Martin takes steps to ensure that he gets on Varnel Hill's talk show. During a performance by Jodeci, Martin crashes the stage and tries to join the group in singing. Then on the street, Martin runs into Michael Jackson and gets beat down. Elsewhere, Pam believes that she has tracked down Denzel Washington.
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#12 - Ain't Nuttin' Goin' on But the Rent
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired Feb 2, 1995
Martin becomes angry when his landlord, Mr. Lopez, increases his rent by 5%. As a result, Martin refuses to pay the rent which leads Mr. Lopez to send him an eviction notice, and also cut off the heat during a terrible blizzard. As Martin and the gang suffer through the weather together, Martin attempts to settle his dispute with Mr. Lopez but discovers the landlord in a compromising situation with another tenant's wife. Martin informs Mr. Lopez that he will keep quiet only if Mr. Lopez reduces the rent and turns the heat back on.
8.41 #13 - Old School Loving
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired Nov 5, 1995
Martin meets with Gina's boss, then gets her fired from the ad agency she's been working for. Now that Gina is unemployed, she spends her time rearranging the house, and painting the walls. So Martin tries to convince her boss to take her back.
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#14 - Jerome's in the House
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired Apr 1, 1993
After Pam gets dumped by her boyfriend, she decides to go out on a date with somebody 'different' out of sheer desperation. She decides to go out with Jerome, the player, even though Cole is trying to ask her out.
8.36 #15 - Whoomp! There It Ain't
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired Dec 12, 1993
After Pam catches Martin and Gina sneaking out of her party to have quickie sex, Pam challenges them to see if they can abstain from having sex for two weeks. Martin and Gina decide to make a bet to see who will be the first one to give in to their primal urges. Martin tries lure Gina into giving in by using soft music & candles, but Gina wears her sexiest blue dress to entice Martin to give in.
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#16 - Variety Show
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired Apr 29, 1993
Martin is chosen by his radio station manager to be the producer of a charity variety show for Aids. But in typical Martin Payne fashion, he lets the job go to his head, acts like a tyrant on the set, and alienates everyone around him, even Gina. In the end, Martin is left to do the whole show by himself, and bombs miserably.
8.36 #17 - No Love Lost
Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired May 1, 1994
Martin and Gina fight just before going to their engagement party, which Snoop Doggy Dogg has crashed.
8.35 #18 - He Say, She Say
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired Oct 14, 1995
After breaking up with Big Shirley, Martin convinces Cole to get back into the dating scene. At the club, Cole falls for a pretty woman who has just appeared on "America's Most Wanted". Now the gang has to come up with a plan to save their pal. Meanwhile, Tommy and Pam decide to see other people.
8.35 #19 - Thanks for Nothing
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired Nov 21, 1993
Martin's crazy relatives and Gina's parents arrive at Martin's house for Thanksgiving dinner. When Mama Payne hears the news, she panics trying to get away fast, and jumps out of the window. Gina can only watch from the window as Mama Payne soars to the ground.
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#20 - Radio Days
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired Nov 19, 1992
Stan decides to hire a new female talk show host and place her as co-host of Martin's show, to boost the station's ratings. At first Martin feels threatened by the move and is very stand-offish. But she soon warms him up with her charm, and Martin finds that he has become very attracted to her. Even though he loves Gina, he still feels a strong attraction to Monica, and tries to resist the temptation to be with her.
8.34 #21 - Crunchy Drawers
Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired Apr 17, 1994
Martin dreams he is attracted to Pam.
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#22 - Break Up (3)
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired Feb 18, 1993
Martin and his new girlfriend Nicole realize that they both are still in love with their rgeir former lovers, and break up. Billy Dee Williams guest stars on Martin's radio show and convinces him that he'd be foolish to lose Gina. Martin barges in on Gina while she's with another man, and tries to win her back.
8.32 #23 - Ain't That About a Ditch
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired Jan 30, 1997
Even though Gina's out of town on business, her mom comes to town for a weekend visit, and wants to spend all her time with Martin, playing boardgames and just getting to know him better. But Martin has plans to hang out with Tommy and Cole at a new club that just opened up. Somehow he has to figure a way to get away from Gina's mom, so he can go out and have a good time.
8.31 #24 - The Hoedown in Motown
Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired May 8, 1994
Stan is getting busted by the IRS for 20 years worth of back taxes, so he must sell the radio station. The new owner takes over and turns it into a country & western station. Martin tries to adapt. He buys a big cowboy hat, boots and tight jeans, but he's just not good at country & western.
8.31 #25 - Workin' Day & Night
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired Sep 26, 1993
Martin decides to become more macho after Stan, as well as Tommy and Cole, convince him that Gina has been controlling his life, and that he is 'whipped'. So to prove it, he decides to work double duty at the station just because Gina told him not to. And as usual, Martin takes things overboard and his antics to prove that Gina is not in control of his life cause other men to disrespect their women also, which leads to a big show-down at the radio station.
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