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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. 10.0/10(2 votes)

    #1 - Beauty and the Beast

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    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:N/A
  2. 10.0/10(1 votes)

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

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    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:N/A
  3. 10.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - Love Is in Your Face: Part 1

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    S2:E18

    Gina is offered a job in New York and Martin, taking advice from Stan, tells her to take it. Meanwhile Gina, taking advice from Pam and Sheneneh, decides to leave on the assumption that Martin will stop her from leaving and ask her to marry him. Part 1 of two.

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    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:N/A
  4. 9.5/10(2 votes)

    #4 - Do You Remember the Time?

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    S2:E1

    Martin struggles with coming up with a new topic for his talk show. In desperation, he finally accepts some ideas from the gang. Finally, Gina suggests that he use as a topic, the circumstances of how they first met and fell in love. As they go around the room, each of them has a different remembrance of the events of that night.

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    Director:Gerren Keith
  5. 9.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - The Break Up: Part 2

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    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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  6. 9.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - Baby, You Can Drive My Car

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    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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  8. 9.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - Got to Be There

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    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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  9. 9.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - Beat It

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    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:N/A
  10. 9.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - The Closer I Get to You

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    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:N/A
  11. 9.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Whole Lotto Trouble

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    S3:E9

    Martin wins the Michigan State lottery. He celebrates by going out and buying tons of expensive luxury items and gives money away to his friends, BEFORE picking up his lottery money. But when he does, he finds out that the winning ticket is a tie, and must be split - thousands of ways!

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    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:N/A
  12. 9.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - Get a Job

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    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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  13. 9.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - Boo's in the House

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    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:N/A
  14. 8.5/10(2 votes)

    #13 - Baby, It's You

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    S2:E5

    Martin agrees to help host a baby shower for some of Gina's expecting girlfriends at his apartment. But he doesn't expect one of the expectant mothers to go into labor. With the help of Tommy and Cole, Martin safely delivers the baby. Meanwhile Gina and Pam can't make it to the shower because they're broken down in an alley, while a lyrically challenged mechanic sings to them and works on their car.

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    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:N/A
  15. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - I Saw Gina Kissing Santa Claus

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    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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    Director:N/A
  16. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - The Break Up: Part 1

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    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:N/A
  17. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - I'm Not Your Superwoman

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    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:N/A
  18. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Credit Card Blues

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    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:N/A
  19. 8.0/10(1 votes)

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

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    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:N/A
  20. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - Variety Show

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    S1:E25

    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.

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  21. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - Workin' Day & Night

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    S2:E6

    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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    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:N/A
  22. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - Holiday Blues

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    S2:E15

    It's Christmas time and Martin is ready to spend the holidays with Gina, but Gina isn't happy. She wants to be with her family in Philadelphia. Pam convinces Martin to take Gina home. But instead of flying out of Detroit, Martin decides for them to take the bus. While waiting, the bus gets snowed in, Martin fights with Miss Gerri, Gina beats up the station attendant, and the couple gets their luggage stolen.

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  23. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - I've Got Work to Do

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    S3:E3

    Martin goes looking for a good job, but his pride won't let him take just any job. He has his reputation to maintain. As the bills begin to pile up, and he begins to get more desperate for work, he lands a series of low-paying, part-time positions.

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    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:N/A
  24. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - Movin' on In

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    S3:E7

    Martin and Gina finally decide to move in together. However, the apartment gets rather crowded when all of Gina's belongings get there. The two clash on what to keep, and they end up with two of everything. In the end they compromise on what to keep and what to give away to charity. Meanwhile, Pam and Tommy are glad Gina has moved out of her old apartment, so they can have a chance to ""do things"" once she is gone.

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  25. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - Feast or Famine

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    S3:E11

    Thanksgiving dinner ends up a battle of the sexes when the gang holds a contest to see which gender cooks the best Thanksgiving feast. It only takes a short time for the guys to realize they are over matched, so they resort to some sneaky tactics to win the contest.

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    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:N/A
  26. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - Go Tell It on the Martin

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    S3:E13

    A deranged man who is distraught over losing his job and his woman, takes over the TV station during Martin's show, with a bomb strapped to his body.

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    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:N/A

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 N/A, 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".