Martin is an American sitcom made by HBO Independent Productions which aired from August 27, 1992. The show is both branded after and celebrities actor-comedian Martin Lawrence Thomas Mikal Ford Tichina Arnold, Carl Anthony Payne II, along with Tisha Campbell. Amid the Fox network's rising reputation across the 1990s, Martin was one of the network shows through the five-season run of the sitcom. In contrast to the prevalence of NBC's"Must See TV" on Thursday nights in the 1990s, many African American and Latino viewers flocked to Fox's Thursday night Line up of both Martin, Living Single, and New York Undercover. In reality, these were the three highest-rated series among households such as its 1996--1997 year old.