title: Martin

Specials

title: Bloopers Season 1

overview: Blooper reel outtakes from season 1

title: Bloopers Season 1

title: Martin's Favorite Moments Season 1

overview: This is Martin giving a recap of his favorite moments in season 1.

title: Martin's Favorite Moments Season 1

title: Season 0

title: Beauty and the Beast

overview: 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.

title: Beauty and the Beast

character: Stan Winters

character: Shawn McDermott

character: The Secretary

character: Caller #1 (voice)

character: Caller #2 (voice)

title: The Gift Rapper

overview: 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.

title: The Gift Rapper

character: Saleslady

title: Things I Did for Love

overview: 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.

title: Things I Did for Love

character: Caller #3 (voice)

character: Caller #4 (voice)

character: Danice

character: Jingle Singer

character: Man

character: Guy

title: Boyz 'R Us

overview: 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.

title: Boyz 'R Us

character: Bus Boy

character: King Beef Girl #3

character: King Beef Girl #1

character: Evelyn Porter

character: Maddie Brown

character: Waitress

title: Dead Men Don't Flush

overview: 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?

title: Dead Men Don't Flush

title: Forever Sheneneh

overview: 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.

title: Forever Sheneneh

title: The Parents Are Coming, the Parents Are Coming

overview: 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.

title: Woman with a Past

overview: Martin becomes jealous after learning that his recent radio show guest, Keith Washington, once dated Gina when they were younger.

title: Woman with a Past

title: Baby, It's Cole'd in Here

overview: 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.

title: Baby, It's Cole'd in Here

title: The Night He Came Home

overview: 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.

title: The Night He Came Home

title: The Great Payne Robbery

overview: 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.

title: The Great Payne Robbery

title: Three Men and a Mouse

overview: 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.

title: Three Men and a Mouse

title: Radio Days

overview: 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.

title: Radio Days

title: I've Got a Secret

overview: 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.

title: I've Got a Secret

title: I Saw Gina Kissing Santa Claus

overview: 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.

title: I Saw Gina Kissing Santa Claus

title: Do the Fight Thing

overview: 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.

title: Do the Fight Thing

title: Blackboard Jungle Fever

overview: 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!

title: Blackboard Jungle Fever

title: The Break Up: Part 1

overview: 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.

title: The Break Up: Part 1

title: The Break Up: Part 2

overview: 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.

title: The Break Up: Part 2

title: The Break Up: Part 3

overview: 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.

title: The Break Up: Part 3

title: I'm Not Your Superwoman

overview: 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.

title: I'm Not Your Superwoman

title: Credit Card Blues

overview: 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.

title: Credit Card Blues

title: Jerome's in the House and He Won't Get Out

overview: 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.

title: Your Arms Are Too Short to Box with Martin

overview: 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.

title: Variety Show

overview: 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.

title: Variety Show

title: Baby, You Can Drive My Car

overview: 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.

title: Baby, You Can Drive My Car

title: Checks, Lies and Videotape

overview: 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.

title: Checks, Lies and Videotape

overview: 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.

title: Season 1

Season 2

title: Do You Remember the Time?

overview: 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.

title: Do You Remember the Time?

title: Really, Gina's Not My Lover

overview: 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.

title: Really, Gina's Not My Lover

title: Got to Be There

overview: 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.

title: Got to Be There

title: Beat It

overview: 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.

title: Beat It

title: Baby, It's You

overview: 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.

title: Baby, It's You

title: Workin' Day & Night

overview: 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.

title: Workin' Day & Night

title: Control

overview: 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.

title: Control

title: You've Got a Friend

overview: Gina starts to hang around with a new male friend. They go shopping together alot. Martin gets suspicious. So he threatens the guy and drives him away. But after getting rid of him, Martin realizes he made a mistake when Gina drags him along to shop for ladies shoes.

title: You've Got a Friend

title: To Kill a Talking Bird

overview: Mama Payne leaves her beloved talking parrot at Martin's apartment for the weekend. The talking bird constantly insults Gina, which infuriates her. Gina tries to keep her cool, and cares for the bird anyway. But the bird dies and Mama Payne believes Gina killed the bird intentionally.

title: To Kill a Talking Bird

title: Fat Like Dat

overview: 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.

title: Fat Like Dat

title: Hollywood Swinging: Part 1

overview: 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.

title: Hollywood Swinging: Part 1

title: Hollywood Swinging: Part 2

overview: 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.

title: Hollywood Swinging: Part 2

title: Thanks for Nothing

overview: Martin's crazy relatives and Gina's parents arrive at Martin's house for Thanksgiving dinner.  When Mama Payne hears the news, she panics trying to get away fast, and jumps out of the window. Gina can only watch from the window as Mama Payne soars to the ground.

title: Thanks for Nothing

title: Whoomp! There It Ain't

overview: After Pam catches Martin and Gina sneaking out of her party to have quickie sex, Pam challenges them to see if they can abstain from having sex for two weeks.  Martin and Gina decide to make a bet to see who will be the first one to give in to their primal urges.  Martin tries lure Gina into giving in by using soft music & candles, but Gina wears her sexiest blue dress to entice Martin to give in.

title: Whoomp! There It Ain't

title: Holiday Blues

overview: 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.

title: Holiday Blues

title: No Justice, No Peace

overview: 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.

title: No Justice, No Peace

title: Suspicious Minds

overview: 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.

title: Suspicious Minds

title: Love Is in Your Face: Part 1

overview: 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.

title: Love Is in Your Face: Part 1

title: Love Is in Your Face: Part 2

overview: 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)

title: Love Is in Your Face: Part 2

title: Arms Are for Hugging

overview: Martin and Gina admit that they are fighting and arguing too much. So they seek the help of a church Minister for counselling to help them resolve their issues. They end up being invited by the Minister to a weekend Marriage counsel session with other troubled couples at a mountain retreat.

title: Arms Are for Hugging

title: Guard Your Grill

overview: 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.

title: Guard Your Grill

title: Yours, Mine and Ours

overview: When the small screen TV in the apartment needs replacing, Martin is enticed into buying a big-screen TV, and uses the money from Martin & Gina's combined checking account to purchase it.  This infuriates Gina, who makes him take it back, only to later be discovered buying items of her own in the same way.

title: Yours, Mine and Ours

title: I Don't Have the Heart

overview: Pam starts dating an older, wealthy man who eventually asks her to marry him.  Initially, the gang was concerned about he and Pam, because of the age difference.  But as time went by, they began to enjoy the perks that go along with being in the entourage of a wealthy industrialist: skybox tickets to games, New shoes for Martin, exotic trips to far away places.  But once Pam breaks her engagement, Martin's hope of winning fame and fortune are dashed.

title: I Don't Have the Heart

title: Crunchy Drawers

overview: While sleeping in bed with Gina, Martin repeatedly finds himself at the center of his worst nightmare: a night of passion with Pam.

title: Crunchy Drawers

title: No Love Lost

overview: Pam throws Martin and Gina an engagement party attended by Snoop Dogg, but the couple's childish argument threatens to make them miss it.

title: No Love Lost

title: The Hoedown in Motown

overview: Stan is getting busted by the IRS for 20 years worth of back taxes, so he must sell the radio station. The new owner takes over and turns it into a country & western station. Martin tries to adapt. He buys a big cowboy hat, boots and tight jeans, but he's just not good at country & western.

title: The Hoedown in Motown

title: Martin's on the Move

overview: Martin has quit his job at the new country radio station. He tries his had at working odd jobs to make money to make ends meet, but nothing seems to work out.  Sad and depressed, he leaves Detroit. But he doesn't tell Gina where he's going. He only says that he will return when he finds himself. She can only contact him via his pager, but . . .    This is a season ending cliffhanger.

title: Martin's on the Move

overview: Martin Payne continues to juggle career ambitions, his relationship with Gina and his own brazen impulses as a popular radio host in Detroit.

title: Season 2

Season 3

title: In Search of ... Martin

overview: Gina searches for the missing Martin.  But a canceled check leads her and the gang to find him.  Martin has joined a cult.

title: In Search of ... Martin

title: Martin Returns

overview: Martin escapes from the Monastary after learning that the cult leader is a sado-masochist psycho who is just after his body, and returns to Detroit. But once home, he discovers that Gina has completely redecorated his apartment in his absence. He also discovers that Gina has new plans for their relationship.

title: Martin Returns

title: I've Got Work to Do

overview: 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.

title: I've Got Work to Do

title: Martin Gets Paid

overview: Martin auditions for a television job, but finds out he must have an audition tape of himself doing a TV show.  So he hurriedly gets the gang together and hires audience members to put on  a quick show.  But his antics during the taping wind up alienating him from everyone.  In the end, he is offered an associate producer's job and must bring in donuts for the staff every morning.

title: Martin Gets Paid

title: Break Up to Make Up

overview: Martin feels his and Gina's relationship is becoming more strained. To remedy this he tries to spend more time with her. But she has a big presentation to do and needs to be alone to work. Martin then convinces Pam to get Gina over to his apartment that night. Martin thinks Gina is not coming, then she comes in the apartment while he is not looking. They sing Fire and Desire together.

title: Break Up to Make Up

title: The Closer I Get to You

overview: 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.

title: The Closer I Get to You

title: Movin' on In

overview: 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.

title: Movin' on In

title: Momma's Baby, Martin's Maybe

overview: Martin is excited when Gina's mother, his future mother-in-law comes to visit them.  This is his opportunity to impress Gina's mom and get to know her better.  But things go awry when a young boy shows up, claiming to be Martin's long lost son.  Now he must confront Gina and her mom with the news, and take on some new and unexpected responsibilities.

title: Momma's Baby, Martin's Maybe

title: Whole Lotto Trouble

overview: 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!

title: Whole Lotto Trouble

title: Get a Job

overview: 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?

title: Get a Job

title: Feast or Famine

overview: 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.

title: Feast or Famine

title: Lockin' Boots

overview: Gina and Martin agree to save money. But then Gina is forced to secretly make a withdrawal from their bank account in order to pay a parking ticket. Martin finds out about the secret withdrawal, and gets even by going on a wild shopping spree.

title: Lockin' Boots

title: Go Tell It on the Martin

overview: 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.

title: Go Tell It on the Martin

title: 'Xpress Yourself

overview: Martin's new TV show is doing well, and they are being prepped for nation-wide broadcast, but the show needs an overhaul in order to have wider audience appeal. Gina's company is hired by Martin's production company to recommend some changes to the show. Martin is distressed over the changes Gina recommends, and Gina ends up regretting it too, because Martin's personality begins to change as well.

title: 'Xpress Yourself

title: Sophisticated Ladies

overview: Gina and Pam put their best feet forward to be accepted into an exclusive women's club, but their plans of impressing the women are jeopardized when Sheneneh and Laquita show up and turn their dreams into a nightmare.

title: Sophisticated Ladies

title: Ain't Nuttin' Goin' on But the Rent

overview: Martin becomes angry when his landlord, Mr. Lopez, increases his rent by 5%. As a result, Martin refuses to pay the rent which leads Mr. Lopez to send him an eviction notice, and also cut off the heat during a terrible blizzard. As Martin and the gang suffer through the weather together, Martin attempts to settle his dispute with Mr. Lopez but discovers the landlord in a compromising situation with another tenant's wife. Martin informs Mr. Lopez that he will keep quiet only if Mr. Lopez reduces the rent and turns the heat back on.

title: Ain't Nuttin' Goin' on But the Rent

title: The Ex-Files

overview: After an argument about whether or not to invite their ex-lovers to the wedding, Martin and Gina decide to arrange a test to prove which one of them would be the most jealous of the other's ex.  They decide to go out to dinner with Gina's ex, Derrick, and Martin's ex, Tanya.  Meanwhile, Pam decides that she and Tommy should not see so much of each other, so that when they do see each, it would be ""HOT"".

title: The Ex-Files

title: High Noon

overview: Marting finds out from the D.A. that a criminal (named ""Mad Dog No Good"") that Martin helped put away, is getting out of jail on parole. The criminal has been watching Martin on his T.V. show, and calls Martin live-on-the-air and tells him he's getting out and wants to meet with him face-to-face.  Martin tries to get encouragement from all his friends, but when they find out that Mad Dog No Good is coming to get him, they all desert him and run.

title: High Noon

title: Mother of the Bride

overview: Gina's mother hires a high class wedding planner who promises to arrange the day of Gina's dreams. But Martin wants to seek out a more economical (cheaper) alternative. So he hires his own personal consultant -- Hustle Man.

title: Mother of the Bride

title: C.R.E.A.M.

overview: Martin and Gina bite off more than they can chew when they invest all their money in a restaurant, (named Martin's Meatloaf & Waffles), that becomes more popular than they anticipated.  The problem is that neither one of them knows how to run a restaurant or manage the finances, AND they take on Stan as a partner, which leads to lots of hilarious situations along the way.

title: C.R.E.A.M.

title: Girlfriend

overview: 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.

title: Girlfriend

title: The Romantic Weekend

overview: 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.

title: The Romantic Weekend

title: The Bachelor Party

overview: A nervous Martin and Gina try to enjoy their respective bachelor/bachelorette parties, but instead find themselves victims of their friends' advice and both imagine married life five years down the road.

title: The Bachelor Party

title: The Wedding Bell Blues (1)

overview: As Martin and Gina are making final preparations for their wedding, a visit from Martin's wacky relatives and Gina's conservative parents results in both families constantly bickering & fighting. At the last minute, Martin and Gina decide to elope. Mama Payne becomes furious and throws a fit in the chapel. Part 1 of 2.

title: The Wedding Bell Blues (1)

title: Love is a Beach (2)

overview: Martin and Gina flee to the Bahamas with Tommy and Pam to escape their families constant bickering. As the couples make last minute preparations, Martin gets stuck in an elevator with Tommy, while Pam accidentally ruins Gina's wedding gown. After the diasters have passed, Martin and Gina are free to take part in their long-awaited oceanside wedding.

title: Love is a Beach (2)

overview: Martin and the gang return for more misadventures, including a battle of the sexes, botched love advice and a stressful run-in with a Santa.

title: Season 3

Season 4

title: Martin in the Corner Pocket

overview: Gina realizes the honeymoon's over when Martin spends their first night back home partying with Tommy and Cole, while she stays home.

title: Martin in the Corner Pocket

title: Kill Him with Kindness

overview: Mama Payne overhears Gina discussing life insurance policies and she assumes that Gina is plotting to kill Martin for his insurance money.  Of course, Martin believes his mom, and now he must be very careful around Gina, and not let her get too close to him, or else!

title: Kill Him with Kindness

title: Blow, Baby, Blow

overview: 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.

title: Blow, Baby, Blow

title: Ring a Ding, Ding,Ding Gone

overview: Tommy and Cole explain to Martin that his wedding ring frightens off single women. After taking off his ring, and seeing all the attention he gets from beautiful women, he realizes they are right.  But it's Martin who's running scared when he loses the ring and has to figure out how to tell Gina about it.

title: Ring a Ding, Ding,Ding Gone

title: Love T.K.O.

overview: Martin and Gina decide to have a quiet night at home to rekindle their love passion. But they are constantly being interrupted before the fun begins. Tommy and Pam each show up at their apartment when things between them are not working out.  And Cole has broken up with Big Shirley after catching her with another man. Then he shows up at Martin's apartment, wanting Martin to meet all of his new girl friends, one at a time.

title: Love T.K.O.

title: He Say, She Say

overview: After breaking up with Big Shirley, Martin convinces Cole to get back into the dating scene.  At the club, Cole falls for a pretty woman who has just appeared on ""America's Most Wanted"". Now the gang has to come up with a plan to save their pal.  Meanwhile, Tommy and Pam decide to see other people.

title: He Say, She Say

title: Uptown Friday Night

overview: Tommy & Cole get robbed at Jerome's new club, the Shiznitz, after picking up Gina's birthday gift for Martin - an expensive ring. So they get with Jerome to track down the 3 female thieves at their hideaway.

title: Uptown Friday Night

title: Old School Loving

overview: Martin meets with Gina's boss, then gets her fired from the ad agency she's been working for. Now that Gina is unemployed, she spends her time rearranging the house, and painting the walls.  So Martin tries to convince her boss to take her back.

title: Old School Loving

title: Cole on Ice

overview: When Cole loses his job, Martin manages to get him a job working at the station. A job that Cole fouls up. But then Cole arranges to get Charles Barkley to appear as a guest on Martin's show.

title: Cole on Ice

title: Housekeeper from Hell

overview: With both Martin and Gina working, they decide to hire a maid.    Martin hires a maid that he likes, but when Gina sees her, she fires her.  Then Gina hires a male housekeeper, and Martin doesnt like him. They eventually settle on Miss Minnie, a nice older motherly woman on the outside, but makes their lives unlivable with her domineering ways.

title: Housekeeper from Hell

title: Three Homies and a Baby

overview: Martin agrees to babysit his infant nephew Camaron, when his parents go out of town. But once they get snowed in, and can't return home & get their baby, Martin & Gina have to watch the baby.  In the end, Gina has to leave for work, and Tommy & Cole come over to help out. However, even with the three of them, the baby still gets the upper hand.

title: Three Homies and a Baby

title: Headin' for Trouble

overview: Gina gets her head stuck in their new brass bed headboard while making love to Martin. They try everything to get her head unstuck.  Martin tries sawing it off, Tommy tries a welding torch to get most of it off, but none of their efforts pay off. So Gina must attend an important board meeting with the brass headboard, still stuck around her head, but hidden under a big wig and shawl!

title: Headin' for Trouble

title: Swing Thing

overview: The Paynes are invited to attend a Christmas party, given by some influential people with ties to other influential people who may be able to help Martin in his career.  But little does Martin realize that at the party, the guests are swapping more than Christmas gifts, and Martin may have both his hands full.

title: Swing Thing

title: The Bodyguard

overview: After Gina and Pam witness 2 bank robbers leaving the scene of the crime, they must enter witness protection because the criminals are notorious for making their witnesses disappear.  And since the police are afraid of the bank robbers, they arrange for  Otis to be the girl's bodyguard.

title: The Bodyguard

title: Green Card

overview: The Hispanic building superintendant is about to be deported, unless he gets married in a hurry. Pam, who despeately needs cash, so she can pay her back taxes to the IRS, agrees to be the bride -- for a price.

title: Green Card

title: You're All I Need

overview: Martin learns that the way to woo a big-shot producer is by flattering his wife — causing jealousies to flare when he and Gina get dinner with them.

title: You're All I Need

title: Kicked to the Curb

overview: Martin finds a bigger and better apartment for half the price they're paying now. So he decides to sublet his old place to a young couple, and move into the new place. But then the deal on the new place falls through, and it's too late to move back. Martin and Gina end up in the street! So they devise a scheme to scare off the new tennants. Tommy, Pam and Cole masquerade as dangerous criminals. The plan works nicely, and Martin gets his old crib back.

title: Kicked to the Curb

title: The Best of Martin

overview: Tisha Campbell hosts a special retrospective look back at the best of the last 99 episodes.  Episode includes many of the special moments from the show, outtakes, and Tisha's own insight into the laughter behind the show, that made it such a success.

title: The Best of Martin

title: The Love Jones Connection

overview: Sheneneh crashes a Love Connection show screening, then gets chosen! Chris Rock guest stars as Sheneneh's disrespectful date.

title: The Love Jones Connection

title: Where the Party At?

overview: Gina attempts to arrange a surprise birthday party for Martin. But she runs into some unexpected difficulties when all his friends, including Tommy and Cole say they're not interested because of Martin's rude and obnoxious attitude (AND, he doesn't tip his barber). But they then turn-the-tables on both Martin and Gina by throwing a huge surprise birthday party at Nipseys.

title: Where the Party At?

title: Homeo & Juliet

overview: Gina & Pam have taken roles in an upcoming play to help raise money for needy kids.  Martin continually disrupts rehearsal because he doesn't like the Olde English speech being used in the play.  But everything comes to a head when Martin finds out the leading man will have to kiss the leading lady (Gina) during the play.  He causes the leading man to fall and injure himself, leaving the actors without a leading man.  Martin then has to improvise with his own ""homeboy"" interpretation of Romeo and Juliet.

title: Homeo & Juliet

title: The Cabin Show

overview: The gang goes on a camping trip in the woods, and Martin and Gina look forward to a special time under the sacred Chippawa Indian waterfalls.  But Pam sprains her ankle, and Martin has to help her back to the cabin.  The two get lost in the woods, just as darkness falls, and nobody knows how to find them.

title: The Cabin Show

title: The Tooth Will Set You Free

overview: After undergoing hypnosis at the dentist's office for an aching tooth, Pam becomes a different person whenever clapping occurs.  She goes on a blind date with an artist, at his showing, and nobody realizes that she is still under hypnosis.

title: The Tooth Will Set You Free

title: Martin, I Want to Sing

overview: After Pam's cousin wins an open mike contest with her powerful singing voice, Martin only sees dollar signs, and decides to become her manager.  But things go awry when her voice doesn't cooperate when she gets nervous about singing.

title: Martin, I Want to Sing

title: D.M.V. Blues

overview: 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.

title: D.M.V. Blues

title: Why Can't We Be Friends? Part 1

overview: On their anniversary night, Martin & Gina are preparing to celebrate a night of quiet romance, when they are interrupted by Tommy and the gang. An argument breaks out over a suitcase that was loaned to Martin, and results in Tommy and Martin not speaking to each other, and eventually deciding to end their life-long friendship.  Martin is determined not to have Tommy in his life as a friend, until Cole comes by to deliver some bad news. This is the first of a 2-part episode.

title: Why Can't We Be Friends? Part 1

title: Why Can't We Be Friends? Part 2

overview: A major car accident has put Tommy in the hospital. Martin and Tommy had not been speaking to each other. Martin and the gang rush to the hospital to check on their injured friend, but find the man in the room in a full body cast. Martin, now sorry for the feuding, sobs at his bedside and vows to renew the friendship. But can Tommy really hear his plea?

title: Why Can't We Be Friends? Part 2

overview: Newlyweds Martin and Gina discover that marriage is hard work as they contend with messy friends, career woes and domestic fiascos.

title: Season 4

Season 5

title: Is You Is or Is You Ain't

overview: Gina thinks she might be pregnant and warns Martin to keep quiet. Within an hour, the whole city knows. Pam drops by, and just happens to have a pregnancy test in her purse. After an anxious Martin destroys the test, he has to go out at midnight and get another one. Meanwhile, Tommy and Cole argue over who will be the godfather.

title: Is You Is or Is You Ain't

title: Back in Trouble Again

overview: When Gina learns she is nominated for an advertising award, she asks Martin to attend the awards dinner with her and advises him not to play basketball with the boys because his back has been bothering him. He decides to play anyway and ends up disabled. With the help of Tommy and Cole, Martin goes to a chiropractor who helps him make it to the event in time. But once he's there, the pain really begins to set in.

title: Back in Trouble Again

title: Sophomore Jinx

overview: After some misadventures with marriage counselors, bad advice from friends fouls things up even more for the constantly quarreling Martin and Gina.

title: Sophomore Jinx

title: Working Girls

overview: Gina is all ready for an underwear ad presentation until Cole accidentally erases her computer. She goes to Pam for help, but her friend is too busy with a date. Under pressure during her pitch, Gina is incoherent, forcing Pam to step in and save the day. The clients are so impressed that they put Pam in charge, causing Gina to feel betrayed. Pam struggles to pull it off, but in the end she has to rely on Gina to win the account.

title: Working Girls

title: Boo's in the House

overview: 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.

title: Boo's in the House

title: Bangin' Hard in the School Yard

overview: When Martin announces on his talk show that any man can beat any woman at anything, especially in sports, Gina and Pam challenge him to a girls-against-guys basketball game. Martin and the guys think it will be easy to beat the girls until they discover the girl's secret weapon: the U.S. women's Olympic gold medal-winning basketball team. The "easy win" quickly turns into a challenging match as the guys begin to understand the girls' point.

title: Bangin' Hard in the School Yard

title: The Life You Save...Might Make You Rich

overview: While attending a dinner party at an exclusive restaurant, Martin saves the life of an African prince. The prince rewards Martin with lavish gifts and offers him a large sum of money for Gina's services. Martin agrees to the offer thinking that they will be able to use this royal money for their own little palace. All is well in the Payne kingdom until Martin realizes the Prince wants Gina to be his Princess.

title: The Life You Save...Might Make You Rich

title: Snow White

overview: When Tommy invites the gang for a ski vacation, they are all in for the ride of their lives. Cole's date Shanise is one ski short of a set; Pam's date Tahiem is one cold headache; and Tommy's date Aquannetta is one big surprise, as she is a white woman. After Martin discovers Tommy has a special announcement to make, he believes that Tommy is going to pop the question. Martin tells the gang and they decipher a plan to put an end to Tommy's engagement to the snow bunny. But after Martin causes everything to snowball, he realizes that the joke is on him.

title: Snow White

title: Come on over to My Place

overview: Cole attempts to entertain a girl at his Mom's house. But Mom shows up and ruins everything. Cole gets his own apartment. But it turns out to be a real dive. Cole and Shanise are happy anyway.

title: Come on over to My Place

title: Scrooge

overview: Lessons about the holiday spirit come knocking for Martin through ghosts of the past, present and future. Meanwhile, Jackie Chan pays Sheneneh a visit.

title: Scrooge

title: Waiting, Debating and Ovulating

overview: Martin and Gina are planning to have a baby. They plan to have a lunch-time rendezvous to get things going.  But a trip to the courthouse with Cole, leads to them finding out that Martin has been ignoring jury duty since 1982.  Now, forced to perform his civic duty as a juror, Martin presses for a quick verdict, so he can get home to his ovulating wife.

title: Waiting, Debating and Ovulating

title: You Play Too Much

overview: Martin helps a burglar rob his apartment, because he thinks its part of a scheme Pam put together, to get back at him for all his pranks.  It's only after he's been robbed, that he realizes the awful truth.

title: You Play Too Much

title: Ain't That About a Ditch

overview: Even though Gina's out of town on business, her mom comes to town for a weekend visit, and wants to spend all her time with Martin, playing boardgames and just getting to know him better.  But Martin has plans to hang out with Tommy and Cole at a new club that just opened up.  Somehow he has to figure a way to get away from Gina's mom, so he can go out and have a good time.

title: Ain't That About a Ditch

title: Goin' Overboard: Part 1

overview: Martin and the gang go on a cruise, which Gina accidentally misses. He later meets a beautiful woman named Ellen who he believes is contemplating suicide.  But after a talk with Martin, decides not to kill herself, and begins to develop a romantic interest in him. Tommy and Pam try to just be friends, but their friendship is tested after Tommy meets another beautiful woman. Later that night, stowaway Cole accompanies Pam to the bar, where they begin to drink heavily. The next day Pam wakes up in bed next to Cole and believes that they have slept together.  Meanwhile, Martin is awakened by a knock on the door, and finds a half dressed Ellen has come to his stateroom to pay him a visit.

title: Goin' Overboard: Part 1

title: Goin' Overboard: Part 2

overview: Martin and the gang are on a cruise ship with The Love Boat characters.  Martin is doomed to finish the trip without Gina, who missed the boat, and is stalked by a suicidal temptress. Tommy thinks that Pam is suddenly interested in Cole, after finding them in bed together.

title: Goin' Overboard: Part 2

title: Power to the People's Court

overview: Tommy must defend himself in court after his minor dent in Sheneneh's car leads to a lawsuit involving an exorbitant sum.

title: Power to the People's Court

title: I Martin, Take Thee...Pam?!

overview: Martin takes Pam back to Jamaica where he married Gina when he learns that his marriage to Gina is invalid and that he's actually married to Pam.

title: I Martin, Take Thee...Pam?!

title: Auction

overview: Martin gives his cuckoo clock to Pam, who finds that it makes too much noise, and donates it to a charity auction. Later, Martin & Tommy realize that the clock he gave away might be a very valuable antique, and worth a lot of money.  They then begin to come up with ways to get the clock back.

title: Auction

title: Daddy Dearest

overview: Tommy's ex-marine father, Sgt. Strawn, shows up and tries to make his son a man by showing him up in front of his friends.

title: Daddy Dearest

title: Stake-Out

overview: The police want to use Pam's apartment for a stake-out, to keep surveillance on a suspect named Dynamite Willie. Martin comes up with an idea to capture the suspect himself, and cash in on the $100,000 reward.

title: Stake-Out

title: Goin' for Mine

overview: Pam becomes upset over the fact that she has been recently fired from her former job. Tommy, Cole and Martin stop by Pam's apartment along with their high school buddy Trey Foster who happens to work at a record company called Keep It Real Records as an successful A&R. Trey tells Pam of a job opening for an A&R position. Pam, who has a passion for music, decides to visit Keep It Real Records. While there, she meets Donna, the sassy receptionist, Clyde, the messenger, and Tony the creative director who tries to flirt with Pam. Trey shows up late for work and receives a message from Donna that their boss, CEO Sterling Sweets, wants to see him as soon as possible. Sweets urges Trey to locate new talent or Trey will have to search for new employment. Pam tells Trey that she may be able to help him if he can get her the A&R position. He agrees. Dante, Pam's typist/assistant from work, brings her the rest of her belongings from her old office. Dante begins to play the piano and sings. Pam be

title: Goin' for Mine

title: One Flew over the Hoochie's Nest

overview: Pam's twin cousin Tammy escapes from a mental ward and comes to stay at Pam's house, but everyone mistakes her for Pam.

title: One Flew over the Hoochie's Nest

title: California, Here We Come: Part 1

overview: Martin's talk show is picked up by the network, and is slated to air to a nation-wide audience.  The only problem is that if Martin wants the show, he must move to L.A. where the show will be taped. Gina, who also has news of a new job offer prepares to break the news to Martin and the gang.

title: California, Here We Come: Part 1

title: California, Here We Come: Part 2

overview: Martin and Gina must say good-bye to Detroit and all their friends including Tommy, Pam and Cole. New job offers in Los Angeles for both Martin and Gina, prompt them to move. As they prepare, they gather the gang and recall past good times.

title: California, Here We Come: Part 2

overview: Through the ups and downs of their marriage, Martin and Gina grapple with career demands, new beginnings and their band of quirky friends.

title: Season 5

overview: 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.

title: Martin

title: Martin

title: Martin

title: Мартин

overview: В центре сюжета ситкома самовлюбленная медийная личность Мартин Пейн, его романтические связи и отношения с семьей.

title: Martin

overview: Drzý sitcom o rozhlasovém a televizním moderátorovi Martinu Paynovi. Seriál se zaměřuje na jeho romantický vztah s přítelkyní Ginou, její nejlepší kamarádkou Pam a eskapády s nejlepšími přáteli Tommym a Colem.

title: Martin

title: Martin

overview: Sassy sitcom centrée sur la personnalité de la radio et de la télévision Martin Payne. La série se concentre sur sa relation amoureuse avec sa petite amie Gina, sa meilleure amie Pam et ses escapades avec les meilleurs amis Tommy et Cole.

title: Martin

overview: Pittige sitcom waarin radio- en televisiepersoonlijkheid Martin Payne centraal staat. De serie concentreert zich op zijn romantische relatie met vriendin Gina, haar beste vriendin Pam en escapades met beste vrienden Tommy en Cole.

title: 马丁·劳伦斯秀

overview: 故事围绕着底特律 WZUP 电台的毒舌 DJ 马丁·佩恩（Martin Payne）展开。全剧的核心就是马丁那极其吵闹、狂野又充满爱意的日常生活：他与漂亮女友吉娜（Gina）那段相爱相杀的感情，他那帮性格迥异的狐朋狗友，以及他所在公寓楼里那一群奇葩邻居。


title: Arli$$

type: Backdrop

status: Ended

Season 1

title: A Man of Our Times

overview: While being nominated for the civic honor "Man of Our Times," Arliss must juggle one client's plans for a same-sex marriage on the opening night of a huge ice-skating tour, Kirby's gambling habit, and another client's financial ruin and impending unemployment.

title: A Man of Our Times

title: Un homme de notre temps

job: Writer

department: Writing

type: Crew

job: Director

department: Directing

character: Elizabeth Manley

type: GuestStar

character: Shaquille O'Neal

character: Danny Tartabull

character: Bob Costas

character: Jerry Jones

character: Stage Manager

character: Client Rep

character: Robo

character: Ann Meyers

character: Latrelle Shabazz

character: Football Announcer

character: Rita

character: Sebastian

character: Jim Palmer

title: Negotiating: It's Never Personal

overview: While high-school hoops sensation Shaler Halimon announces he'll skip college and jump straight to the NBA, Arliss positions himself as Shaler's agent and uses the opportunity to settle a score with team owner Buddy Reingold.

title: Negotiating: It's Never Personal

title: Rien de personnel

character: John Franco

character: Brent Barry

character: Hannah Storm

character: Buddy Reingold

character: Amelia Halimon

character: Deacon Delbert Henry

character: Shaler Hamilon

character: Henneman

character: Obless Obliche

title: How to Turn a Minus into a Plus

overview: AMM client and boxing champ Sucre Rey Santos finally gives in and grants top contender Cojones Ochonez a title fight. The huge payday means Arliss can finally buy that Gulfstream Jet he's had his eyes on. But when Ochonez is arrested and tossed in jail, the fight is no mas. However, Arliss gets the governor to sign off and approve the fight, allowing HBO to televise the Battle in the Bighouse, live from the state penitentiary.

title: How to Turn a Minus into a Plus

title: Les Athlètes sont nos modèles

character: Jim Lampley

character: Spectator

character: Himself

character: Al Bernstein

character: Sucre Rey Santos

character: Lupe Ochonez

character: Warden

character: Prison Guard

character: Judge

character: Sheik Caspia

character: Ring Announcer

character: Referee

character: Governor

title: Athletes Are Role Models

overview: Temptation gets the better of squeaky-clean QB Dan Hendricks. Arliss battles with a client's desire to confess his sins to the world while keeping the suspicious media and his scorned wife at bay.

title: Athletes Are Role Models

title: Comment gagner même quand c'est perdu d'avance

title: What About the Fans?

overview: L.A. Kings owner Flora Lansing dangles part-ownership in front of Arliss if he can find a new home for her hockey team--provided there's a new stadium, complete with luxury boxes and PSLs. But this must be kept a secret! So Arliss shops the team to three prospective homes: Raleigh-Durham, Las Vegas, and Mexico City.

title: What About the Fans?

title: Et les supporters ?

title: The Company You Keep

overview: Mike Armstrong, president of multinational CPM, is interested in buying AMM. Arliss never dreamed of selling until he hears what Armstrong's paying. AMM staffers, particularly Kirby, Rita, and Stanley, know their boss is up to something and begin to worry about their job security.

title: The Company You Keep

title: Vive la liberté !

title: Colors of the Rainbow

overview: A reporter overhears Arliss talking about the Jaboos of South Street, a rival stickball team from his old neighborhood and interprets this as a racial slur. A media siege begins and Arliss is under fire. Meanwhile, free-agent relief pitcher (and white supremacist) Trevor Heath decides to let Arliss represent him upon hearing the comments.

title: Colors of the Rainbow

title: Franchir la limite

title: Crossing the Line

overview: Why would Arliss even consider representing Anya Slovachek, the 186th ranked woman tennis player whose father is a psychotic maniac? Well, when he sees Anya with his own eyes, Arliss' mind is made up for him.

title: Crossing the Line

title: Les couleurs de l'arc-en-ciel

title: Timing Is Everything

overview: Arliss and Kirby decide to take beach volleyball to the next level by creating a new made-for-TV indoor tour with high-level glitz, oiled bodies, fluorescent sand, and heavy promotion. But everything goes afoul as the tour's top women's pair have irreconcilable differences, and one of the top guys infects his toe on a petrified kelp pod.

title: Timing Is Everything

title: Savoir saisir la balle au bond

title: The Client's Best Interest

overview: In the 12th annual Den of Thieves Rotisserie Baseball League, Arliss and Kirby hope their Frozen Ropes can bring the title back where it belongs, away from cosmetic surgeon Vic Freed and his hated Silicone Valley. Arliss must resolve a conflict of interest between the good of the Frozen Ropes, and the good of AMM client and Phillies ace Ned Bastille.

title: The Client's Best Interest

title: Le client est roi

title: The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of

overview: As a kid, Arliss idolized Hall of Fame outfielder Rocky Framaggio so much that he still carries around the Rock's rookie card. And now, after a chance meeting at the racetrack, Arliss decides to help the downtrodden Rock make some scratch and get back on his feet. But after the Rock strikes out at three job attempts, Arliss comes up with a stroke of marketing genius.

title: The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of

title: Le rêve américain

Season 2

title: A Full Service Agency

overview: Catcher Zack Bowers can barely get the ball back to the mound, let alone to second base. The source of his problems: he suspects his wife is unfaithful.  He demands that Arliss hire a private investigator to uncover the truth.  Meanwhile, Kirby is asked to housesit Bruce Smith's 'cat'.

title: A Full Service Agency

title: Agence tous services

title: The Value of Loyalty

overview: One of Arliss' long-term friends and clients leaves him when his fiancee declares it's time for a "fresh start." Meanwhile, Rita is dating a client and Arliss wants it to stop, or else.

title: The Value of Loyalty

title: Loyauté quand tu nous tiens

title: Arliss Michaels, American

overview: Arliss is invited to dinner at the White House and he can't decide whom to invite as his escort. but that becomes the least of his worries when his bowling champion client, the controversial Turkey Reeves, gets in trouble with the law.

title: Arliss Michaels, American

title: Aux portes de la maison blanche

title: The World at Your Feet

overview: Kahoutec "Comet" Evans is a can't-miss tennis phenom whom Arliss discovered years ago when the boy stood as tall as his racket. Now that Comet has come of age, Arliss must juggle the boy's mother's wish for her son to go to college with his own wish to cash in on the young superstar's talents.

title: The World at Your Feet

title: Le monde est à tes pieds

title: Salary Cap This!

overview: Sports Illustrated is planning an article about sports agents and will select one to grace the magazine's cover. Despite some early maneuvering, Arliss thinks he's out of the running. But "the working man's friend" puts on his best moves in OT when he risks his own life to save client Damian Niles, in the process displaying a brilliant grasp of NBA salary capology.

title: Salary Cap This!

title: Arliss Michaels crève le plafond

title: Kirby Carlisle, Trouble-Shooter

overview: When Arliss throws out his back, his dream of playing in the Crosby Pro-Am with golf client Ryan Mason III is shattered. Enter Kirby Carlisle, Arliss' Man Friday. Kirby steps in to partner with Mason and assists the pro with his club selection.

title: Kirby Carlisle, Trouble-Shooter

title: Kirby Carlisle, dépanneur en tout genre

title: The Real Thing

overview: AMM client Dan Manville is closing in on his 500th home run. Add that to the 500 stolen bases he's already chalked up, and he's the charter member of the 500/500 club. Arliss has everything in position for the "500/500 Experience," a huge Manville memorabilia tour on wheels, coming to a mall near you. All that's left for Manville to hit his 500th dinger--and for Arliss to get the ball.

title: The Real Thing

title: La valeur sûre

title: Visionary for a New Millennium

overview: Arliss is dazzled by marketing whiz Giselle Jaynes. She's charming, clever, and sexy - and she's filled with brilliant, cutting-edge ideas for AMM clients despite knowing nothing about the sports world.

title: Visionary for a New Millennium

title: Visionnaire pour un nouveau millenium

title: How to Be a Good Listener

overview: It's a day from hell for Arliss Michaels: Stanley is considering leaving AMM, while client Sammy Stilton is about to be suspended for "assaulting" an umpire. All this as Arliss tries to get to the airport for a top-priority "secret meeting."

title: How to Be a Good Listener

title: Ouvrir grand ses oreilles

title: Truth and Responsibility

overview: Arliss manages to get Kirby some airtime as a sports talk radio host. What better way to promote his own clientele - especially Yoshi Kobiashi, the latest pitching phenom nobody's ever seen. Before you know it, Kirby starts to rule the airwaves, and a star is born - and a huge deal for Arliss may be on the rocks.

title: Truth and Responsibility

title: À chacun sa vérité

Season 3

title: The Family Trust

overview: After Kirby signs hockey star Luc Cassoulet to the biggest contract in AMM history, an extremely delicate situation develops: how does AMM get paid its commissions without going public that the client is a deadbeat? Meanwhile, Arliss has his hands full defending NBA star Dewayne Troy for assaulting a referee.

title: The Family Trust

title: Whatever It Takes

title: My Job Is to Get Jobs

overview: AMM client Theo Holt is the kind of football player every team needs: a reliable backup quarterback capable of winning games. But when Theo's team decides to let him go and there are no other takers for his services, Arliss begins to wonder. When Arliss learns about a league-wide rumor that Theo is gay, he resurrects Theo's career as only Arliss can.

title: My Job Is to Get Jobs

title: My Job Is to Get Jobs

title: Whatever It Takes

overview: Representing clients who line up against each other in the heat of battle is nothing new to Arliss. But he hopes to hold running back Quinton Holloway out of Sunday's game. It isn't because Quinton will face another AMM client, linebacker Chet Smitrovich. So when Arliss gets Quinton a new contract extension, it clears the way for a showdown.

title: Whatever It Takes

title: Fans First

title: Fans First

overview: Disaster hits AMM when Defensive Player of the Year Lucian Balboa is stabbed by a crazed fan at the office's annual Super Bowl party. Where was the security? How did the stabber get into the party? These are the questions Arliss has to answer. And now Lucian has decided not to play on Super Sunday unless Arliss can guarantee that the stabber will be locked up.

title: Fans First

title: The Family Trust

title: Where Do Clients Come From?

overview: Whenever a rival agent passes away, Arliss always leads the feeding frenzy to sign the available clients. But when Leo Maroni bites the dust, 'Young Turk' Jeremy Brenner gives Arliss a battle in the scramble for new business. That's why Arliss signs Kit Ballew, a loser on the NASCAR circuit. But with nothing to live for, Kit starts tearing up the field, giving Arliss more than he bargained for.

title: Where Do Clients Come From?

title: Where Do Clients Come From?

title: The Legacy

overview: Arliss has a comfortable arrangement with a Midwestern football powerhouse university: Arliss negotiates the school's exclusive network TV deal pro bono, and teaches an ethics class at the school. This provides him access to the student-athletes and creates a pipeline straight from the dorm to AMM. However, the pipeline may dry up when an investigation into legendary Coach Duffy's program reveals some improprieties.

title: The Legacy

title: The Legacy

title: What Arliss Hath Joined Together...

overview: AMM client Amadou M'Bow is in love. And the NBA center from Senegal plans to marry his beloved, Miss Lisa Levine of Long Island. When Arliss insists that Amadou get his betrothed to sign a prenuptial agreement, Lisa balks, wedding bells are put on hold and Amadou plans to hang up the hightops.

title: What Arliss Hath Joined Together...

title: What Arliss Hath Joined Together

title: The Working Man's Friend

overview: As a fierce rainstorm brings the city to a standstill, Arliss is virtually alone at AMM. That is, until pitching sensation Diego Sanchez, like manna from heaven, arrives at the office after defecting from Cuba. But Arliss must rely on some unexpected assistance to overcome the obstacles of the day.

title: The Working Man's Friend

title: The Working Man's Friend

title: Stanley Babson...Win, Place, or Show

overview: AMM's financial whiz Stanley Babson is fed up with his conservative reputation. But when Arliss accuses him of always playing it safe, Stanley puts the company at risk by using clients' funds to purchase a racehorse.

title: Stanley Babson...Win, Place, or Show

title: Stanley Babson - Win, Place or Show

title: Behind Every Great Client...

overview: Arliss knows as well as any agent that helping a client in his personal life is part of the job. So when all-star shortstop Joe Garrison asks Arliss to tell his wife that he's leaving her, Arliss obliges. But what happens between Arliss and Erica Garrison isn't necessarily part of the job--nor what Joe had in mind.

title: Behind Every Great Client...

title: Behind Every Great Client...

title: The American Game

overview: Lockouts and strikes are unfortunately a part of pro sports, and nothing does more to alienate the fans. But when a ballplayer crosses the picket line, he knows the true meaning of alienation. Arliss must consider the consequences of representing replacement player Jim Greenbriar after Greenbriar saves Arliss' life.

title: The American Game

title: The American Game

title: What Would I Do Without Wu?

overview: When Rita, the glue of AMM, gets her shot at representing clients, she proves herself an adept agent. Arliss, meanwhile, is helpless without his right-hand gal. To make matters worse, Kirby's cousin Fitz is Rita's fill-in.

title: What Would I Do Without Wu?

title: What Would I Do Without Wu?

title: His Name Is Arliss Michaels

overview: Longtime AMM client Donnie Thurman isn't quite ready to hang up the baseball cleats. So when Arliss tells Donnie there are no takers for his services and then signs a younger ballplayer to a big contract, Donnie sues Arliss for conflict of interest.

title: His Name Is Arliss Michaels

title: His Name Is Arliss Michaels

Season 4

title: Cause and Effect

overview: An upset stomach leads Arliss to Dr. Irv's for a routine checkup. But when Dr. Irv expresses his concerns based on Arliss' family history, Arliss starts thinking the ""C"" word. Meanwhile, Kirby and Rita try to help a little old lady sell her late husband's treasure trove of sports memorabilia.

title: Cause and Effect

title: Cause and Effect

title: Taking One for the Team

overview: Arliss is so eager to sign high school baseball phenom Jake Battershell before any other agent does that he's willing to do anything to please Jake and his parents. Well, almost anything. Kirby's effort to help AMM client Seth Carson focus on his duties as a pro quarterback go further than anyone expects.

title: Taking One for the Team

title: Our Past, Our Present, Our Future

title: Our Past, Our Present, Our Future

overview: Fourteen-year-old skating champion Crystal Dupree is an AMM cash cow. But she learns the hard way, with Stanley's assistance, that Mom and Dad may not necessarily have her best interest at heart. Also, Kirby resists shutting down the ""KIRBY CARlisle WASH.""

title: Our Past, Our Present, Our Future

title: People Are Assets Too

title: People Are Assets, Too

overview: When the Lakers move from the Forum to the Staples Center, there will be fewer courtside seats, and the ticketholders with seniority will maintain their floor seats. Arliss is not one of those ticketholders, and desperately tries to find a way to keep his cherished seats on the floor.

title: People Are Assets, Too

title: The Stories You Don't Hear About

title: The Stories You Don't Hear About

overview: It's fight night in Las Vegas and AMM client Ivory Ortega needs to get past Tomate de Cannes before a huge showdown (and payday!) with Oscar De La Hoya. But Arliss needs to act fast when he sees that Ivory is in no condition to box after a fight with his wife.

title: The Stories You Don't Hear About

title: Taking One for the Team

title: The Changing of the Guard

overview: Arliss gets fogged in while in Kansas City negotiating shortstop client Rico Rosa's contract with team owner Helga Krupp. Helga's an un-P.C. penny-pincher, making her an easy target for just about everyone. Meanwhile, the AMM bowling team is relieved that Arliss, the weak link on the squad, is AWOL.

title: The Changing of the Guard

title: You Gotta Love This Game

title: You Gotta Love This Game

overview: The NBA lockout allows Arliss the opportunity to focus on the other aspects of sports representation, particularly his female clients. At Rita's urging they take on WNBA player Terry Shaw. Terry is unlike anyone AMM has ever represented, creating a newly found awareness and appreciation of women's sports.

title: You Gotta Love This Game

title: The Changing of the Guard

title: To Thine Own Self Be True

overview: When The Korean government insists that AMM client, pitcher and native son Ja Ahn Kim serve in the Korean military, Arliss' deal-making expertise is put to the test. Meanwhile, AMM client and hockey enforcer Doug Hager is banned from the NHL and seeks a new career in professional wrestling.

title: To Thine Own Self Be True

title: To Thine Own Self Be True

title: The Cult of Celebrity

overview: Cooter McCoy is world-renowned for playing before huge crowds. But the country singing sensation wants to play baseball, not music, and seeks Arliss' assistance. Meanwhile, Rita and Kirby try to help Stanley find the woman of his dreams.

title: The Cult of Celebrity

title: The Cult of Celebrity

title: D-Day

overview: Rap-master extraordinaire T-Bagg enters the arena of sports agency, and a few AMM clients jump ship. And, with Arliss bedredden with chicken pox, it's up to Kirby and Stanley to make things happen at the NFL Draft.

title: D-Day

title: D-Day

title: The Art of Give and Take

overview: Arliss uses money from his foundation to buy off a bad childhood memory.

title: The Art of Give and Take

title: The Art of Give and Take

title: Rules of the Game

overview: Feeling long in the tooth, Arliss gets a makeover, hoping to turn back the clock. Rita dates rival agent Justin Sturgess and Stanley is asked to join a prestigious country club.

title: Rules of the Game

title: Rules of the Game

title: Creatures of Habit

overview: Arliss buys a rare piece of memorabilia, and sends a client to a hypnotist to help him quit chewing tobacco. When treatment appears to work, Arliss sends Kirby there to quit gambling. Meanwhile, Rita tries to keep an LPGA client from falling off the wagon.

title: Creatures of Habit

title: Making Things Happen

overview: Arliss learns that a good friend and client, who is about to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, is being charged with domestic abuse. Meanwhile, Rita's activist friend sides with the client's wife.

title: Making Things Happen

title: I Get Involved

overview: Arliss has to walk the fence when two clients, both teammates, are dating the same girl. Rita plays Cyrano for one of the clients, and a TV reporter shows up to do a ""Where Are They Now?"" segment on Kirby.

title: I Get Involved

title: Comings and Goings

overview: Arliss must help a client bury his mother. Meanwhile, Stanley's having a run of bad luck that threatens his chess game, so he goes looking for a ""slumpbuster."" And Kirby comes face-to-face with his own slumpbuster from 18 years ago, and must face the consequences.

title: Comings and Goings

title: It's Who You Know

overview: Arliss tries to talk the ""pot dealer to the NBA"" out of retiring by offering to get his kid into a fancy private school. Meanwhile, Rita plays a relationship with a physical trainer by ""The Rules.""

title: It's Who You Know

title: The Value of Honesty

overview: Arliss has an affair with a WNBA coach, but his client (also the coach's star player) wants her fired. Meanwhile, in the aftermath of a wild birthday celebration, Kirby and Rita suspect they may have ""done it.""

title: The Value of Honesty

title: The Sum of the Parts

overview: A baseball client needs a kidney, and Arliss tries to convince the player's minor-league brother to donate his. Meanwhile, a soccer client scores a goal for the opposing team, causing him to take refuge at Rita's apartment while Kirby goes into hiding.

title: The Sum of the Parts

title: Honoring Our Past

overview: When one of his boxing clients enlists in the Army, Arliss tries to figure out a way to get him out. Meanwhile, Stanley and a native-American tribal chief attempt to get a football team to change its ""offensive"" mascot.

title: Honoring Our Past

title: When Opportunity Knocks

overview: Arliss, Rita and Stanley must deal with Kirby's absence when he leaves the agency to join a fledgling football league run by a flashy TV producer.

title: When Opportunity Knocks

title: Last Call

overview: Arliss tries to get a dotcom millionaire team owner to re-sign an aging broadcaster who may be losing his touch. Rita ghostwrites a column for Arliss, and Kirby helps discipline Stanley's unruly dog.

title: Last Call

title: A Breed Apart

overview: Arliss pursues popular mascot Reggie the Rooster, using a fundraiser Stanley has organized for another mascot, who was injured in the line of duty. Rita takes up boxing after a series of obscene phone calls.

title: A Breed Apart

title: Where There's a Will

overview: Arliss is named executor of a superstar jockey's will, which leaves everything to his wife - but he had two wives. Kirby discovers that his former coach is now homeless.

title: Where There's a Will

title: You Can Pick Your Friends...

overview: Arliss' ne'er-do-well brother Archie uses his name to further a scam. Kirby and Stanley plot their own scam on a stadium concession millionaire.  Stanley purposely swallows a ring that turned up in a burger.

title: You Can Pick Your Friends...

Season 6

title: Setting Precedents

overview: Arliss deals with the domestic problems of a female tennis superstar. Kirby helps a basketball client graduate from college.

title: Setting Precedents

title: Fielding Offers

overview: Arliss treks to Canada in an effort to steal a hockey team; Rita uses alternative medicine in her war against age.

title: Fielding Offers

title: You Are Your Priorities

overview: While Stanley and Kirby consider investing in rodeo, Arliss rekindles an old flame.

title: You Are Your Priorities

title: A Question of Character

overview: Arliss must deal with a racecar driver's numerous wives while trying to sign him.

title: A Question of Character

title: The Price of their Toys

overview: Arliss tries to get a husband-and-wife broadcasting team their own show; Kirby deals with a spoiled clients's new ""hobbies.""

title: The Price of their Toys

title: Like No Business I Know

overview: Arliss seeks revenge on a baseball manager who embarrasses him; an actor studies Kirby as research for a movie role.

title: Like No Business I Know

title: Of Cabbages and Kings

overview: Kirby reps a mercurial college basketball coach; Arliss is frustrated trying to sell beachfront property.

title: Of Cabbages and Kings

title: As Others See Us

overview: While Rita is visiting her family, Kirby and Stanley prepare Arliss' ""surprise roast.""

title: As Others See Us

title: Giving Something Back

overview: A female pro-golf client conceals a dark secret; Kirby gets hold of a piece of rare memorabilia.

title: Giving Something Back

title: Hard Choices

overview: Arliss faces his first year in the red, while Kirby deals with his model girlfriend.

title: Hard Choices

Season 7

title: The Immortal

overview: Arliss deals with a revered baseball legend and his namesake daughter. Stanley escorts a boxer to his HBO debut.

title: The Immortal

title: What You See Is What You Get

overview: Rita manages a client's political passion, while Arliss helps a team member find her passion. Stanley's new car gets dinged

title: What You See Is What You Get

title: In with the New

overview: Arliss works to make an NBA client's dream come true, while Stanley mentors a student project.

title: In with the New

title: There's No I in Team

overview: Arliss hires a protégé, to the dismay of Kirby. Rita is attracted to the chef at Stanley's new restaurant.

title: There's No I in Team

title: Playing It Safe

overview: Arliss tries to realize his gold record dreams while helping a baseball player through a tough decision.

title: Playing It Safe

title: Moments to Remember

overview: Kirby dates a female body builder, while Arliss motivates a traumatized NFL client.

title: Moments to Remember

title: It's All in the Game

overview: Arliss and Kirby support an ex-client's political rise while Rita seeks a spokesmodel for a specialty clothing item.

title: It's All in the Game

title: Standards and Practices

overview: Stanley advises his sought-after football-star nephew on choosing the right college, while Arliss helps a female football reporter negotiate with network executives who see her as too old for the job.

title: Standards and Practices

title: End Game

overview: Arliss and Stanley try to persuade a reclusive former chess champion to get back into the game, and Rita is wooed by a former lover.

title: End Game

title: Profiles in Agenting

overview: Stanley and Kirby try to persuade boxer Roy Jones Jr. to endorse an innovative cooking product, while Arliss is smitten with Rita's sports photographer friend.

title: Profiles in Agenting

title: All That Glitters

overview: Stunned by the sudden death of a good friend, Arliss goes off on a road trip of soul searching, leaving Rita, Kirby and Stanley to manage AMM on their own.

title: All That Glitters

overview: A behind-the-scenes look at the glitzy, big-money world of professional sports following the eternally optimistic and endlessly resourceful L.A. sports agent Arliss Michaels whose Achilles' heel is his inability to say “no” to clients and employees.

title: Arli$$

title: Арлисс

overview: История Арлисса Майклса, возглавляющего спортивное агентство и лезущего из кожи вон, чтобы его клиенты остались довольны.

title: Арлис

overview: Добре дошли в професионалния свят на спорта, свят на големи пари, слава и власт. Неразделна част от него са и множеството изкушения, жълтата преса, пропиления талант, изгубените договори и неясното бъдеще. В този бърз и яростен свят професионалният спортист се нуждае от доверен приятел, от съветник, голям брат. Нуждае се от нещо повече от добър агент, необходим му е супер-агент, той иска Арлис.

title: Arli$$

overview: Arliss Michaels (Robert Wuhl) es el número uno de los agentes deportivos.

title: Arli$$

title: Arli$$

overview: Arliss est un puissant agent sportif de Los Angeles. Dans les coulisses du sport professionnel, brassant des sommes considérables, il fait preuve d'un optimisme inébranlable et d'une incapacité totale à dire «non».

title: Arli$$

overview: Arliss Michaels není obyčejný sportovní agent, on je sportovní super agent. Pro sportovce a všechny kolem nich je prostě Bůh. Arliss je jako Jerry Maguire, ale bez svědomí.

title: Arli$$