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The Best Episodes of Martin

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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 with best friends Tommy and Cole.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Martin Season 3 Episode 24 - The Romantic Weekend
    8.9/10(129 votes)

    #1 - 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.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Martin Season 2 Episode 17 - Suspicious Minds
    8.8/10(142 votes)

    #2 - 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.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:John Ridley

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  3. Martin Season 2 Episode 16 - No Justice, No Peace
    8.6/10(109 votes)

    #3 - 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.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Martin Season 2 Episode 2 - Really, Gina's Not My Lover
    8.5/10(94 votes)

    #4 - 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.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Martin Season 2 Episode 7 - Control
    8.5/10(100 votes)

    #5 - 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.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Cheryl Holliday

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  6. Martin Season 2 Episode 21 - Guard Your Grill
    8.5/10(108 votes)

    #6 - 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.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Martin Lawrence

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  7. Martin Season 3 Episode 6 - The Closer I Get to You
    8.4/10(81 votes)

    #7 - 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.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Martin Season 4 Episode 3 - Blow, Baby, Blow
    8.4/10(93 votes)

    #8 - Blow, Baby, Blow

    S4:E3

    Suddenly Gina, Pam and Cole can sing! But their talents are not appreciated by the Notorious B.I.G. (Biggie Smalls), who has asked for Martin's help in finding a new background vocalist.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Martin Season 4 Episode 25 - D.M.V. Blues
    8.4/10(84 votes)

    #9 - D.M.V. Blues

    S4:E25

    After Martin's drivers license expires, his insurance company cancels his policy. So in a rush to get his license renewed, he goes down to the DMV and experiences first hand the horrors of a day spent waiting on long lines, filling out reams of paperwork, DMV clerks with bad attitudes, and meeting up with an assortment of strange characters.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Martin Season 1 Episode 14 - I've Got a Secret
    8.3/10(95 votes)

    #10 - I've Got a Secret

    S1:E14

    Martin reveals a secret that Gina told him about Pam on the air which later turns into a big mess when everyone starts revealing past secrets.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Diane Burroughs, Joey Gutierrez

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  11. Martin Season 2 Episode 4 - Beat It
    8.3/10(99 votes)

    #11 - 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.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Martin Season 2 Episode 12 - Hollywood Swinging: Part 2
    8.3/10(103 votes)

    #12 - 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.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Martin Season 5 Episode 5 - Boo's in the House
    8.3/10(90 votes)

    #13 - 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.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Martin Season 1 Episode 26 - Baby, You Can Drive My Car
    8.2/10(92 votes)

    #14 - 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.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writers:Diane Burroughs, Joey Gutierrez

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  15. Martin Season 2 Episode 3 - Got to Be There
    8.2/10(91 votes)

    #15 - 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.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writers:Diane Burroughs, Joey Gutierrez

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  16. Martin Season 3 Episode 10 - Get a Job
    8.2/10(70 votes)

    #16 - 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?

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Cheryl Holliday

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  17. Martin Season 1 Episode 5 - Dead Men Don't Flush
    8.1/10(150 votes)

    #17 - Dead Men Don't Flush

    S1:E5

    Martin is having trouble with his toilet and tries to fix it himself. After he's made a wreck of things, Gina finally convinces him to hire a plumber to come out and fix it. But the when the plumber seems to be taking a very long time to complete the job, they find his body collapsed on the floor. What should they do now? Can they revive him, or is it too late?

    Director:Chuck Vinson
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Martin Season 1 Episode 10 - The Night He Came Home
    8.1/10(123 votes)

    #18 - The Night He Came Home

    S1:E10

    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.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writers:Billy Van Zandt, Jane Milmore

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  19. Martin Season 1 Episode 17 - Blackboard Jungle Fever
    8.1/10(104 votes)

    #19 - Blackboard Jungle Fever

    S1:E17

    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!

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writers:Billy Van Zandt, Jane Milmore

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  20. Martin Season 1 Episode 27 - Checks, Lies and Videotape
    8.1/10(93 votes)

    #20 - Checks, Lies and Videotape

    S1:E27

    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.

    Director:Terri McCoy
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Martin Season 2 Episode 10 - Fat Like Dat
    8.1/10(78 votes)

    #21 - 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.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Martin Season 2 Episode 11 - Hollywood Swinging: Part 1
    8.1/10(93 votes)

    #22 - 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.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Sandy Frank

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  23. Martin Season 3 Episode 23 - Girlfriend
    8.1/10(77 votes)

    #23 - 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.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Martin Season 1 Episode 23 - Jerome's in the House and He Won't Get Out
    8.0/10(98 votes)

    #24 - 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.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Martin Season 2 Episode 19 - Love Is in Your Face: Part 2
    8.0/10(72 votes)

    #25 - 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)

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Joey Gutierrez

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Romantic Weekend" is the best rated episode of "Martin". It scored 8.9/10 based on 129 votes. Directed by Gerren Keith and written by Unknown, it aired on 4/27/1995. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Suspicious Minds".