The BEST episodes written by Billy Van Zandt

#1 - Variety Show

Martin - Season 1 - Episode 25

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.

#2 - The Parents Are Coming, the Parents Are Coming

Martin - Season 1 - Episode 7

Gina wants Martin to meet her conservative parents but Martin's feeling nervous. Wanting to make a good first impression, he takes advice from Tommy and Cole that causes him to act like an idiot.

#3 - Blackboard Jungle Fever

Martin - Season 1 - Episode 17

Martin returns to his elementary school to participate in Career Day. He discovers his favorite 3rd grade teacher, Ms. Trinidad, is still teaching there. They decide to go out to eat and catch up on old times. They end up at his apartment where she begins making moves on him, just as Gina walks in. She tells Gina that Martin made the unwanted advance on her, and Gina runs out in anger. The next day, Martin returns to the school to confront his former teacher. She makes another move on him in the classroom, but this time Gina's watching and she's ready to defend her man!

#4 - The Gift Rapper

Martin - Season 1 - Episode 2

Martin forgets to get Gina a gift for their first anniversary. Gina is angry. So he runs out to a lingerie shop to get her some intimate apparel. But he ends up getting her a foot stool instead. In the end, Martin learns the importance of gift giving.

#5 - Rich Kids Bad, Poor Kids Good

The Hughleys - Season 1 - Episode 6

Darryl is worried that his kids are growing up spoiled. So he decides to show them what life is like to grow up poor.

#6 - Baby Fever

The Hughleys - Season 1 - Episode 7

Dave's not around when Sally goes into labor. The Hughleys and Milsap come to her rescue. Darryl overhears a conversation between Yvonne and a nurse and thinks that Yvonne might be pregnant.

#7 - Reliving Single

The Hughleys - Season 1 - Episode 13

The couples in the suburbs are worried about Milsap's single status and try to set him up.

#8 - The Night He Came Home

Martin - Season 1 - Episode 10

On Halloween, Martin and his friends gather at his apartment to share scary ghost stories. But they all get scared out of their wits after they perform a seance to communicate with the dead and call forth the spirit of old man Ackerman.

#9 - I Saw Gina Kissing Santa Claus

Martin - Season 1 - Episode 15

Martin reluctantly agrees to dress up as Santa Claus for Tommy's "Big Borthers'" program.

#10 - Break Up (2)

Martin - Season 1 - Episode 19

With Martin & Gina now broken up, Pam sets a lonely Gina up with her cousin Leon, who is a minister struggling to keep his fleshly desires under control. Meanwhile, Cole and Tommy take a despondent Martin to a nightclub hoping to cheer him up. While there, he meets a beautiful woman named Nicole, and they begin dating. By coincidence, the 2 couples happen to meet at a restaurant during dinner. Martin is extremely jealous of the fact that Gina is out with another man, and decides to 'help' him out when he begins choking on his food.

#11 - Look Who's Not Talking

Yes, Dear - Season 1 - Episode 7

Kim and Christine stop speaking to each other after a big argument about who is the better parent. Their childish fight has repercussions for Greg and Jimmy when their wives won't let them talk to each other either.

#12 - Goop-Hair-It-Is

The Wayans Bros. - Season 1 - Episode 1

Shawn and Marlon's latest scheme becomes a hair-raising nightmare when they take over the manufacture and marketing of a grooming product called ""Goop, Hair-It-Is."" While Marlon comes up with a concoction that makes his hair look great, Shawn decides to sell the hair goop on an infomercial. They shoot the infomercial live, with Gary Coleman acting as a celebrity spokesperson. While Gary is doing his pitch for ""Goop, Hair-It-Is,"" the chemicals from the product cause his hair to catch fire. Shawn and Marlon's dreams of becoming successful entrepreneurs also go down in flames.

#13 - Murder at the Stratley

Newhart - Season 7 - Episode 21

The townspeople accuse Dick or murdering Joanna after her "disappearance" strangely fits the scenario of his first murder-mystery novel, "Murder at the Stratley".

#14 - Darryl's Victory Tour

The Hughleys - Season 3 - Episode 8

When an old friend comes to visit, Darryl and Yvonne recount when they first met at the Jackson Victory Tour concert at Dodger Stadium in the eighties, but the nostalgic trip proves bumpy when they learn that their recollections do not necessarily match.

#15 - Leaving Las Vegas

The Hughleys - Season 4 - Episode 15

Musical guest: Gerald Levert Darryl's planned Valentine's Day surprise for Yvonne - a weekend vacation - turns into a bust when they're stranded at the airport. Meanwhile, Milsap is left in charge of Michael and Sydney.

#16 - The Nice Man Cometh

Newhart - Season 7 - Episode 14

Dick is picked to be the sidekick for a new late night talk show hosted by an abrasive man who has it in for Dick.

#17 - Goonstruck

Newhart - Season 7 - Episode 5

Stephanie is attracted to the virile young stomemason working at the Inn.

#18 - First Episode

Suddenly Susan - Season 1 - Episode 1

Even though Susan leaves her fiancé, Kip, at the altar, her ties to his family aren't severed---her boss is Kip's brother.

#19 - Darryl, Family Counselor

The Hughleys - Season 3 - Episode 19

Dave has a run-in with his visiting mother-in-law Edna, leading him to move in with Darryl and Yvonne. Fed up with his messiness, however, Darryl takes it upon himself to reingratiate Dave with Sally and Edna.

#20 - When Darryl Bumped Sally

The Hughleys - Season 4 - Episode 7

#21 - Honey, I Beat the Kids

The Hughleys - Season 2 - Episode 3

Darryl gives Michael a spanking for misbehaving, but it's Darryl who learns a lesson about raising children, and that the way he grew up is not necessarily the best way.

#22 - Death Takes a Three Day Holiday

The Hughleys - Season 2 - Episode 13

When a neighbor dies at a young age and his widow isn't left with enough life insurance, Yvonne becomes concerned about Darryl's life insurance situation, and convinces him to take the physical to get more life insurance even though he's scared of doctors. He gets a check up, and the doctor calls his house with test results, leaving a garbled message with Michael that has Darryl convinced he's dying. Darryl tries to live his last days as fully as possible, and after not sleeping for 37 hours he passes out from exhaustion. He wakes up and his doctor tells him that he's actually fine. It turns out that the doctor doesn't treat many black patients, in fact Darryl's only his second, and he overreated to a slight imbalance in Darryl's blood that's actually normal for black men.

#23 - Two Jacks and a Beanstalk

The Hughleys - Season 2 - Episode 16

Way back in the middle ages, Jack Sr. (D.L. Hughley) works for meager wages. With his hungry, hovel-dwelling brood, they have little to do but complain about food. When Jack Jr. (Dee Jay Daniels) sells their cow for beans, his father chides him for their lack of means. But the legumes, of course, are the magic kind, so the two Jacks climb the sprouting vine. In the clouds they search for untold wealth, to ensure a lifetime of happiness and health.