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The Best Episodes of Martin

Every episode of Martin ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Martin!

The Best Episodes of Martin

Sassy sitcom centering on radio and television personality Martin Payne. Series focuses on his romantic relationship with girlfriend Gina, her best friend Pam and escapades...

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  1. Background image for Beauty and the Beast
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #1 - Beauty and the Beast

    S1:E1

    Martin gets in trouble with Gina when she listens in on his radio show and hears his insensitive remarks about women. When Martin gets home, Gina calls him into the bedroom, away from his friends Tommy and Cole. Martin gets chewed out, but give her attitude. So she threatens to leave him. Martin eventually gives in. But then Gina agrees to put on an act in front of Tommy and Cole by pretending that Martin won, if he attends a fancy dinner with her that night.

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    Director:Stan Lathan
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Jerome's in the House and He Won't Get Out
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - Jerome's in the House and He Won't Get Out

    S1:E23

    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.

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    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for The Break Up: Part 2
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - The Break Up: Part 2

    S1:E19

    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.

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  4. Background image for Baby, You Can Drive My Car
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - Baby, You Can Drive My Car

    S1:E26

    Everybody pools together to get a raffle ticket from Roscoe the snot-nosed kid, and wind up winning a brand new SUV. They decide to share it, by assigning each of them to drive on a different day of the week. Tommy ends up giving a ride Sheneneh, and her 2 friends, Bonquisha and Keylolo. Gina ends up fighting with Jerome, the player, trying to wash her window at an intersection, and breaking off the side view mirror. Cole ends up driving his mother, Mama Payne and a friend around, and crashing into the curb. Pam takes the car to a drive through bank window and gets hassled by Otis the security guard, who takes out his frustrations on the car. They all wind up running the vehicle into the ground and have to get rid of it.

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  5. Background image for The Romantic Weekend
    9.0/10(127 votes)

    #5 - The Romantic Weekend

    S3:E24

    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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    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Boo's in the House
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - Boo's in the House

    S5:E5

    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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    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Suspicious Minds
    8.7/10(139 votes)

    #7 - Suspicious Minds

    S2:E17

    Martin's new CD Walkman disappears. Stan convinces him that one of his friends must have taken it since they all have keys to his apartment. Martin goes around to each of his good friends and accuses them. Then it turns out he's wrong when the real taker of the Walkman innocently returns it to Martin.

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    Director:Gerren Keith
  9. Background image for Control
    8.6/10(101 votes)

    #8 - Control

    S2:E7

    Gina accidentally throws away Martin's tickets to a very important professional basketball game. She tries to get them out of the trash chute and replace them before Martin finds out, but is unsuccessful. She later finds out that Sheneneh also has a pair of tickets to the same game, and begs Sheneneh for them. Sheneneh, who doesn't like Gina and enjoys watching her suffer, decides to make it difficult for Gina to get the tickets. She compels Gina to work off the debt in her beauty salon.

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  10. Background image for Really, Gina's Not My Lover
    8.5/10(98 votes)

    #9 - Really, Gina's Not My Lover

    S2:E2

    After a painful toothache, Gina has a bad experience at the dentist's office. She has had novacaine, her face is swollen and bruised all over, she's drooling uncontrollably, and her speech is badly slurred. She looks like a mess! But Martin is determined to win the Man of the Decade award at his high school reunion that evening. His pride makes him want to brag to all his old schoolmates that he is rich and famous, and has a beautiful fashion model girlfriend. If anyone saw what his girlfriend really looked like, it would completely shatter his contrived image.

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    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for No Justice, No Peace
    8.5/10(106 votes)

    #10 - No Justice, No Peace

    S2:E16

    Martin gets a simple traffic ticket for running a stop sign. But he turns it into a Federal case when he decides to fight it in court and accuses the officer of civil rights violations, etc. As usual, Martin ends up botching the case and tries to resort to an insanity plea.

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    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Guard Your Grill
    8.5/10(114 votes)

    #11 - Guard Your Grill

    S2:E21

    After winning a charity boxing match, Martin thinks he is as good a fighter as anyone. And after Tommy Hearns makes advances towards Gina, Martin challenges the boxer to a 10-round grudge match, with potentialy disastrous results.

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  13. Background image for The Closer I Get to You
    8.5/10(83 votes)

    #12 - The Closer I Get to You

    S3:E6

    After the host of the show Word On The Street, is arrested and dragged off the set right before airtime, Martin is pressed into service as a last-minute fill-in. And after his advice on the show brings an arguing couple back together, Martin begins referring to himself as the Love Doctor, and begins handing out relationship advice to everyone he meets. Little does he know though, that his advice to Tommy would pay such high dividents for Tommy and Pam, yet leave his shocked and speechless.

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    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Got to Be There
    8.3/10(88 votes)

    #13 - Got to Be There

    S2:E3

    When Martin finds out that Gina has to go out of town on business, he, Tommy & Cole decide they will go out and have some fun while she is away. Meanwhile, Gina & Pam are having fun of their own at a company party in her hotel room, complete with a surprise male stripper. When Martin calls the room to talk to Gina, Bob, the white guy, answers the phone and tells Martin they are having a wild party, with strippers. Martin then drives the 500 miles in the middle of the night, and tries to catch Gina in the act of being unfaithful to him.

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  15. Background image for Hollywood Swinging: Part 2
    8.3/10(98 votes)

    #14 - Hollywood Swinging: Part 2

    S2:E12

    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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    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Beat It
    8.2/10(99 votes)

    #15 - Beat It

    S2:E4

    Martin invites a crowd of friends over to watch boxing on TV, but can never get to watch it, because he is constantly interrupted by his guests. Cole's new girlfriend Tasha, takes a liking to Tommy, and comes on to him in the back room, causing friction with Tommy and Cole. Pam and Sheneneh argue in the hall, and Bro' Man irritates Martin as well.

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    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for Fat Like Dat
    8.2/10(76 votes)

    #16 - Fat Like Dat

    S2:E10

    Gina convinces Martin that he's putting on weight. So he, Tommy and Cole go on a diet and attend Gina's aerobics class where they meet a tough physical trainer. Martin then decides that he will give up all the rich foods he used to enjoy, and in true Martin tradition, he takes his dieting and exercise to the extreme. Now Gina must figure out a way to bring the old Martin back.

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    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Hollywood Swinging: Part 1
    8.2/10(88 votes)

    #17 - Hollywood Swinging: Part 1

    S2:E11

    After Gina and Pam get promotions, Martin realizes his job is going nowhere. Especially after he meets Varnel Hill -- the successful TV talk-show host. So Martin decides to chase his dream of having a successful career by quitting his job, and heading to Hollywood.

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    Director:Gerren Keith
  19. Background image for Love Is in Your Face: Part 2
    8.1/10(66 votes)

    #18 - Love Is in Your Face: Part 2

    S2:E19

    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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  20. Background image for Get a Job
    8.1/10(71 votes)

    #19 - Get a Job

    S3:E10

    Martin and Gina attempt to discover information about Tommy's mysterious job. Nobody knows what Tommy does for a living, and when asked direct questions about his occupation, Tommy gives evasive answers, and questionable body-language. So they decide to go undercover and stake him out, only to discover him on the runway at an uptown strip club! Could this be what Tommy does for a living?

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  21. Background image for Girlfriend
    8.1/10(79 votes)

    #20 - Girlfriend

    S3:E23

    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.

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    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for I Saw Gina Kissing Santa Claus
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - I Saw Gina Kissing Santa Claus

    S1:E15

    Martin shares a unique version of the Christmas story when he reluctantly steps in to play Santa for the kids in Tommy's mentoring program.

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  23. Background image for The Break Up: Part 1
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - The Break Up: Part 1

    S1:E18

    Martin and Gina fight over Gina's unusual Valentine's Day gift, and escalates out of control until they finally break up. When they try and reconcile they discover that maybe they are just too different from each other.

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    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for I'm Not Your Superwoman
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - I'm Not Your Superwoman

    S1:E21

    Martin gets the flu and he expects Gina to stay at home and take care of him. But Gina gets fed up with him acting like a baby and comparing her with his mother.

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    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for Credit Card Blues
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - Credit Card Blues

    S1:E22

    Martin and an old friend get arrested for committing credit card fraud. So, Gina and the gang quickly scramble to come up with bail money.

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    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for Your Arms Are Too Short to Box with Martin
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - Your Arms Are Too Short to Box with Martin

    S1:E24

    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.

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    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"Beauty and the Beast" is the best rated episode of "Martin". It scored 10/10 based on 2 votes. Directed by Stan Lathan and written by Unknown, it aired on 8/27/1992. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Jerome's in the House and He Won't Get Out".