Martin - Season 1

Martin - Season 1

Season 1

Brash Detroit radio host Martin talks a big game on air, but his hot takes stir up trouble with his girlfriend, Gina, and their lovably chaotic crew.
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Episodes27
DatesAug 27, 1992 - May 13, 1993
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Episodes

Beauty and the Beast
Season 1Episode 125 min

Beauty and the Beast

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.
Aug 27, 1992
The Gift Rapper
Season 1Episode 225 min

The Gift Rapper

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.
Sep 3, 1992
Things I Did for Love
Season 1Episode 325 min

Things I Did for Love

Tommy's new relationship with his new girlfriend Danice prompts Martin to take Gina out for a romantic evening at a dance club, called the Savoy club. Meanwhile, Martin makes insensitive remarks and, as a result, receives numerous calls from his listeners stating that he isn't romantic enough.
Sep 10, 1992
Boyz 'R Us
Season 1Episode 425 min

Boyz 'R Us

When Martin finds out that Gina makes more money than he does, he becomes irrate and has major ego problems once the entire city of Detroit finds out. Now he has to prove to the whole city that he is really the ""man"" in the relationship.
Sep 17, 1992
Dead Men Don't Flush
Season 1Episode 525 min

Dead Men Don't Flush

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?
Sep 24, 1992
Forever Sheneneh
Season 1Episode 625 min

Forever Sheneneh

When Sheneneh wins a date with Christopher ""Kid"" Reid on Martin's radio show, Martin soon fears that Kid's career is over. Kid arrives at Sheneneh'a apartment and learns that she is his biggest fan. Sheneneh's hospitality towards Kid makes him uneasy when she serves malt liquor and makes sexual advances at him. Ultimately, Kid flees out of the apartment and resurfaces at Martin's place where Gina convinces Kid to go back and finish the date.
Oct 1, 1992
The Parents Are Coming, the Parents Are Coming
Season 1Episode 725 min

The Parents Are Coming, the Parents Are Coming

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.
Oct 8, 1992
Woman with a Past
Season 1Episode 825 min

Woman with a Past

Martin becomes jealous after learning that his recent radio show guest, Keith Washington, once dated Gina when they were younger.
Oct 15, 1992
Baby, It's Cole'd in Here
Season 1Episode 925 min

Baby, It's Cole'd in Here

Cole's mother interrupts Cole's evening with his girlfriend and demands back rent from her son. Following Martin's advice, Cole stands up to his mother but finds himself homeless when he is thrown out of the house. So he is forced to move in with Martin but soon drives Gina insane with his bad manners and disgusting habits. Martin informs Cole to persuade his mother to let him move back home. He comes to a mutual agreement with his mother and returns home.
Oct 22, 1992
The Night He Came Home
Season 1Episode 1025 min

The Night He Came Home

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.
Oct 29, 1992
The Great Payne Robbery
Season 1Episode 1125 min

The Great Payne Robbery

When Martin's elderly neighbor's apartment is robbed, Martin holds a neighborhood crime watch meeting. But then his apartment soon becomes the next target. So he devises a plan to catch the burglar.
Nov 5, 1992
Three Men and a Mouse
Season 1Episode 1225 min

Three Men and a Mouse

After Gina wakes up in the middle of the night, hearing noises in the kitchen, she wakes up Martin and sends him to investigate. Martin spots a mouse running under the refridgerator. The next day he contacts an 'exterminator' who Stan referred him to.
Nov 12, 1992
Radio Days
Season 1Episode 1325 min

Radio Days

Stan decides to hire a new female talk show host and place her as co-host of Martin's show, to boost the station's ratings. At first Martin feels threatened by the move and is very stand-offish. But she soon warms him up with her charm, and Martin finds that he has become very attracted to her. Even though he loves Gina, he still feels a strong attraction to Monica, and tries to resist the temptation to be with her.
Nov 19, 1992
I've Got a Secret
Season 1Episode 1425 min

I've Got a Secret

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.
Dec 3, 1992
I Saw Gina Kissing Santa Claus
Season 1Episode 1525 min

I Saw Gina Kissing Santa Claus

Martin reluctantly agrees to dress up as Santa Claus for Tommy's ""Big Borthers'"" program.
Dec 17, 1992
Do the Fight Thing
Season 1Episode 1625 min

Do the Fight Thing

Martin's radio listeners love it when he and Gina have an on-air argument. But Martin is against the idea when Stan wants to hire Gina permanently as co-host on the show.
Jan 14, 1993
Blackboard Jungle Fever
Season 1Episode 1725 min

Blackboard Jungle Fever

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!
Jan 21, 1993
Break Up (1)
Season 1Episode 1825 min

Break Up (1)

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.
Feb 11, 1993
Break Up (2)
Season 1Episode 1925 min

Break Up (2)

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.
Feb 11, 1993
Break Up (3)
Season 1Episode 2025 min

Break Up (3)

Martin and his new girlfriend Nicole realize that they both are still in love with their rgeir former lovers, and break up. Billy Dee Williams guest stars on Martin's radio show and convinces him that he'd be foolish to lose Gina. Martin barges in on Gina while she's with another man, and tries to win her back.
Feb 18, 1993
I'm Not Your Superwoman
Season 1Episode 2125 min

I'm Not Your Superwoman

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.
Feb 25, 1993
Credit Card Blues
Season 1Episode 2225 min

Credit Card Blues

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.
Mar 18, 1993
Jerome's in the House
Season 1Episode 2325 min

Jerome's in the House

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.
Apr 1, 1993
Your Arms Are Too Short to Box with Martin
Season 1Episode 2425 min

Your Arms Are Too Short to Box with Martin

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.
Apr 22, 1993
Variety Show
Season 1Episode 2525 min

Variety Show

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.
Apr 29, 1993
Baby You Can Drive My Car
Season 1Episode 2625 min

Baby You Can Drive My Car

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.
May 6, 1993
Checks, Lies, and Videotape
Season 1Episode 2725 min

Checks, Lies, and Videotape

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.
May 13, 1993

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