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  • FOX
  • Aug 27, 1992
  • FOX
  • Aug 27, 1992
Martin

Summary 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...

Created By: John Bowman, Topper Carew, Martin Lawrence

  • FOX
  • Aug 27, 1992
  • FOX
  • Aug 27, 1992
Martin
Season 1
5 Seasons
Season Premiere: Aug 27, 1992
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Summary 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...

Created By: John Bowman, Topper Carew, Martin Lawrence

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Episode 1 • Aug 27, 1992 • 23 m
Beauty and the Beast
Here we meet Martin Payne, a cocky radio personality who always says what's on his mind. His loving and forgiving girlfriend Gina with her loud-mouth co-worker Pam. His buddies Tommy and Cole. And WZUP boss Stan and co-worker Shawn.
Episode 2 • Sep 3, 1992 • 23 m
The Gift Rapper
It's Martin and Gina's anniversary. And Martin listens to his boss Stan and doesn't get a gift for Gina. She has all kinds of gifts for him. Making Martin feel bad and improvising big-time to get a gift.
Episode 3 • Sep 10, 1992 • 23 m
Things I Do for Love
Episode 4 • Sep 17, 1992 • 22 m
Boyz 'R Us
When the gang play a game called "The Book of Questions", Martin cannot handle it well when he finds out that Gina makes more money than he does. Cole tells his mom and it spreads like wildfire even reaching Martin's radio callers.
Episode 5 • Sep 24, 1992 • 21 m
Dead Men Don't Flush
Martin calls a plumber to fix his broken toilet, but the workman dies in his bathroom.
Episode 6 • Oct 1, 1992 • 23 m
Forever Sheneneh
Sheneneh wins a date with Christopher "Kid" Reid, and goes overboard in her eagerness to seduce him.
Episode 7 • Oct 8, 1992 • 23 m
The Parents Are Coming, the Parents Are Coming
Martin makes a fool of himself in front of Gina's conservative parents.
Episode 8 • Oct 15, 1992 • 23 m
Woman with a Past
Martin's jealous when he learns his talk show guest(guest star Keith Washington) once dated Gina.
Episode 9 • Oct 22, 1992 • 23 m
Baby It's Cole'd in Here
Cole takes Martin's advice to stand up to his mother, then comes to Martin for help when she kicks him out.
Episode 10 • Oct 29, 1992 • 25 m
The Night He Came Home
Martin and his friends perform a seance on Halloween in order to speak with the dead, but strange occurrences begin to occur, frightening the gang.
Episode 11 • Nov 5, 1992 • 23 m
The Great Payne Robbery
Martin's apartment is burglarized and he plots to catch the thief.
Episode 12 • Nov 12, 1992 • 23 m
Three Men and a Mouse
Martin's desperate to rid his house of a mouse so Gina will return, but his eccentric exterminator fails to do the job.
Episode 13 • Nov 19, 1992 • 22 m
Radio Days
A talk-radio starlet catches Martin's eye.
Episode 14 • Dec 3, 1992 • 23 m
I've Got a Secret
Martin loses his friends when he lets out a secret on the air.
Episode 15 • Dec 17, 1992 • 23 m
I Saw Gina Kissing Santa Claus
Martin dresses up as Santa for Tommy's Big Brother program.
Episode 16 • Jan 14, 1993 • 23 m
Do the Fight Thing
Martin and Gina's on-air fight is such a hit, Stan wants to make her a regular but Martin's unenthusiastic.
Episode 17 • Jan 21, 1993 • 23 m
Blackboard Jungle Fever
Martin hosts Career Day at his old elementary school and is hit on by his former third-grade teacher. When Gina walks in, she misunderstands the scene and dumps him.
Episode 18 • Feb 11, 1993 • 22 m
The Break Up: Part 1
Martin becomes dramatically depressed when a minor quarrel with Gina escalates into a breakup. Richard Pryor guest stars.
Episode 19 • Feb 11, 1993 • 23 m
The Break Up: Part 2
Gina goes on a date with Pam's cousin while Martin meets an interested woman when Cole and Tommy take him to a club. Second of a three-part episode.
Episode 20 • Feb 18, 1993 • 23 m
The Break Up: Part 3
Radio guest Billy Dee Williams convinces Martin to win Gina back, so he bursts in on her date with another man. Third of a three-part episode.
Episode 21 • Feb 25, 1993 • 23 m
I'm Not Your Superwoman
Gina loses patience when a flu-stricken Martin expects constant attention and mothering.
Episode 22 • Mar 18, 1993 • 23 m
Credit Card Blues
Martin's friends try to prove he's innocent when he's arrested for credit card fraud.
Episode 23 • Apr 1, 1993 • 23 m
Jerome's in the House
Pam accepts a date with Jerome.
Episode 24 • Apr 22, 1993 • 23 m
Your Arms Are Too Short to Box with Martin
Martin is faced with an angry gang of midgets, and learns a new lesson in bigotry.
Episode 25 • Apr 29, 1993 • 23 m
Variety Show
Martin gets to produce the station's charity variety show, but the authority goes to his head.
Episode 26 • May 6, 1993 • 23 m
Baby You Can Drive My Car
When the gang wins a new car, attempts to share it equally lead to chaos.
Episode 27 • May 13, 1993 • 23 m
Checks, Lies and Videotape
Martin and Gina expose the con artist preacher who bilked Martin's mother out of thousands of dollars.
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83
Jun 10, 2013
Martin has evolved into one of the most consistently amusing sitcoms in prime time, but not because the show itself is particularly original or well written. ... The best humor on Martin seems, whether it's true or not, to have been improvised by Lawrence and his costars, a quality which gives the show an enjoyably loose, anything-can-happen feel.
By Ken Tucker FULL REVIEW
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Jun 25, 2013
What it lacks is wit, depending instead on Lawrence to do shtick. He overacts terribly, hammily mugging for the camera.
By David Hiltbrand FULL REVIEW
25
Jul 23, 2013
It stinks. ... Dumb, sexist humour abounds. [5 Sep 1992]

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