List of Martial Law episodes
# List of Martial Law episodes

Martial Law is an American crime drama starring Sammo Hung. It premiered on CBS on September 26, 1998 and ended on May 13, 2000, with a total of 44 episodes over the course of 2 seasons.

## Series overview

| Season | Episodes | Episodes | Originally aired | Originally aired |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Season | Episodes | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
| 1 | 22 | 22 | September 26, 1998 (1998-09-26) | May 8, 1999 (1999-05-08) |
| 2 | 22 | 22 | September 25, 1999 (1999-09-25) | May 13, 2000 (2000-05-13) |

## Episodes

### Season 1 (1998–1999)

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 1 | "Shanghai Express" | Stanley Tong | Carlton Cuse | September 26, 1998 (1998-09-26) |
| Sammo is sent to the United States as part of a cop exchange program, when he tries to find one of his Chinese colleagues who has disappeared while infiltrating an international ring of car thieves. ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Diamond Fever" | Rick Wallace | Rick Husky | October 3, 1998 (1998-10-03) |
| Sammo discovers diamond smuggling done by the Chinese kingpin he came to the US to help capture. ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "Dead Ringers" | Whitney Ransick | Carlton Cuse & Alfred Gough & Miles Millar | October 10, 1998 (1998-10-10) |
| Sammo and the unit investigate when competitors in an internet based fighting competition start dying in the ring. ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "Funny Money" | Deran Sarafian | Pam Veasey | October 17, 1998 (1998-10-17) |
| Sammo and his partners track a counterfeiting ring. ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "Cop Out" | Whitney Ransick | Alfred Gough & Miles Millar | October 24, 1998 (1998-10-24) |
| The unit investigates a group of vigilante cops taking the law into their own hands. This is Tammy Lauren's final appearance as Det. Dana Dickson. ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "Extreme Measures" | David Carson | Story by : Josh Appelbaum & André Nemec Teleplay by : Josh Appelbaum & André Nemec & Carlton Cuse | October 31, 1998 (1998-10-31) |
| Sammo and his partners try to locate a missing ex-cop-turned-armored truck guard held captive by a white supremacist group armed with major weapons. ||||||
| 7 | 7 | "Trackdown" | Greg Beeman | Rick Husky | November 7, 1998 (1998-11-07) |
| A DA is murdered in a string of burglaries that seem to be tied to a corrupt lawyer. ||||||
| 8 | 8 | "Take Out" | John T. Kretchmer | Patty Lin | November 14, 1998 (1998-11-14) |
| A restaurant owner who is a friend of Sammo's is attacked for refusing to sell to a big businessman. Sammo tries to open an account at the local bank. Shannon Lee, daughter of Martial Arts film star Bruce Lee, plays a role in this episode as Sammo's goddaughter Vanessa. ||||||
| 9 | 9 | "How Sammo Got His Groove Back" | Larry Shaw | Russel Friend & Garrett Lerner | November 21, 1998 (1998-11-21) |
| Sammo and the others investigate when an up-and-coming rapper (Ginuwine) is shot by an assassin. They team up with Terrell Parker, the rapper's uncle and an LAPD press lieutenant, and uncover a bootlegging operation involving the rapper's ex-manager. Arsenio Hall makes his first appearance as Lt. Terrell Parker. ||||||
| 10 | 10 | "Bad Seed" | Jesús Salvador Treviño | Brian Fuld | December 12, 1998 (1998-12-12) |
| Sammo and Terrell try to track down Winship's niece who is involved with a robbery gang of delinquents. Louis and Grace investigate a homicide that at first glance seems to be the work of the same gang. ||||||
| 11 | 11 | "Lock-Up" | John Patterson | Kevin Murphy | December 19, 1998 (1998-12-19) |
| Sammo and Terrell go undercover in prison to flush out inmates and corrupts guards involved in a gun-smuggling operation. ||||||
| 12 | 12 | "Painted Faces" | Whitney Ransick | Alfred Gough & Miles Millar | January 9, 1999 (1999-01-09) |
| A nemesis of Sammo's returns to the United States. ||||||
| 13 | 13 | "Substitutes" | DJ Caruso | Patty Lin | January 23, 1999 (1999-01-23) |
| A legendary drug dealer has come to Los Angeles, looking for his ex-wife and son. Arsenio Hall is upgraded to the main cast. ||||||
| 14 | 14 | "Wildlife" | Whitney Ransick | Russel Friend & Garrett Lerner | February 6, 1999 (1999-02-06) |
| Sammo and his partners try to catch an illegal animal trading and hunting ring. ||||||
| 15 | 15 | "Breakout" | Deran Sarafian | Randy Feldman | February 13, 1999 (1999-02-13) |
| A prisoner escapes from jail and looks for the money that he and his partners stole 5 years earlier. ||||||
| 16 | 16 | "Captive Hearts" | Michael Lange | Del Shores | February 20, 1999 (1999-02-20) |
| Sammo and Terrell is after a ring of sweatshop criminals who might be selling their workers' babies. ||||||
| 17 | 17 | "Trifecta" | Greg Beeman | Pam Veasey & Mark Haskell Smith | February 27, 1999 (1999-02-27) |
| A former partner of Terrell's is found murdered. ||||||
| 18 | 18 | "Big Trouble" | Jack Clements | Alfred Gough & Miles Millar | March 20, 1999 (1999-03-20) |
| A supermarket owned by Terrell's parents is being threatened by corrupt truckers. ||||||
| 19 | 19 | "Nitro Man" | Greg Beeman | Russel Friend & Garrett Lerner | March 27, 1999 (1999-03-27) |
| Melanie ends up as a hostage and is kidnapped when her bank is robbed. ||||||
| 20 | 20 | "Red Storm" | Greg Yaitanes | Mark Verheiden | April 24, 1999 (1999-04-24) |
| Sammo tries to stop a gang of terrorists at the airport. ||||||
| 21 | 21 | "Requiem: Part 1" | Greg Beeman | Pam Veasey & Del Shores | May 1, 1999 (1999-05-01) |
| A Chinese criminal is back in America with his daughter and tries to set up a drug deal to finance his criminal activity. ||||||
| 22 | 22 | "End Game: Part 2" | Michael Lange | Jim Kramer & Mark Haskell Smith | May 8, 1999 (1999-05-08) |
| The unit is told that they could be shut down if they do not catch Lee Hei and his daughter. ||||||

### Season 2 (1999–2000)

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 23 | 1 | "Sammo Blammo" | Joe Napolitano | Lee Goldberg & William Rabkin | September 25, 1999 (1999-09-25) |
| Sammo is kidnapped by a thief and has a very complex bomb attached to his chest. ||||||
| 24 | 2 | "Thieves Among Thieves" | Oley Sassone | Lisa Klink | October 2, 1999 (1999-10-02) |
| Sammo and Terrell goes undercover to catch some jewel thieves. ||||||
| 25 | 3 | "This Shogun for Hire" | Stanley Tong | J. Larry Carroll & David Bennett Caren | October 9, 1999 (1999-10-09) |
| A Japanese assassin is hired by a drug dealer to kill a public official. ||||||
| 26 | 4 | "24 Hours" | Bruce Seth Green | Gene F. O'Neill & Noreen Tobin | October 16, 1999 (1999-10-16) |
| A prisoner has been given permission to attend his sisters funeral and Sammo and Terrell has been given the assignment of "babysitting" him. ||||||
| 27 | 5 | "Ninety Million Reasons to Die" | Stanley Tong | Jacquelyn Blain | October 23, 1999 (1999-10-23) |
| Sammo is kidnapped after 6 million dollars has been mysteriously deposited in his bank account. ||||||
| 28 | 6 | "My Man Sammo" | Ron Satlof | Jacquelyn Blain | October 30, 1999 (1999-10-30) |
| Sammo and Terrell arrest some arms dealers, accidentally messing up an Interpol operation. ||||||
| 29 | 7 | "Friendly Skies" | Bruce Seth Green | Lisa Klink | November 6, 1999 (1999-11-06) |
| Grace and Terrell are on a flight escorting prisoners to a maximum security prison. A guard pulls a gun and forces them to release the prisoners. ||||||
| 30 | 8 | "Call of the Wild" | Max Tash | David Bennett Carren & J. Larry Carroll | November 13, 1999 (1999-11-13) |
| A mild mannered man kills a man in an office. Sammo catches up to him, but he matches Sammo's martial arts skills. His wife says that he did not even know martial arts. ||||||
| 31 | 9 | "Blue Flu" | Oley Sassone | Gene O'Neill & Noreen Tobin | November 20, 1999 (1999-11-20) |
| The whole police station is under quarantine after someone releases a virus. ||||||
| 32 | 10 | "Sammo Claus" | Max Tash | Lisa Klink | December 18, 1999 (1999-12-18) |
| Robbers dressed as Santa Claus rob a toy store. ||||||
| 33 | 11 | "No Quarter" | Ron Satlof | Paul Bernbaum (Story) | January 8, 2000 (2000-01-08) |
| A gang war erupts in LA over a mobster's plan to bring a pro-football team to Los Angeles. If that was not bad enough, Sammo, Terrell, and Amy are demoted by a corrupt councilman to keep them out of his way, who is actually attempting to gain control of this football team for himself and is pulling a scam with parking meters to make enough money to do so. ||||||
| 34 | 12 | "Scorpio Rising" | Bruce Seth Green | Michael Gleason | January 15, 2000 (2000-01-15) |
| A crime organization known as Scorpio are threatening various executives of global companies. ||||||
| 35 | 13 | "No Fare" | Chuck Bowman | Paul Bernbaum | January 22, 2000 (2000-01-22) |
| Sammo goes stir crazy when he is told to take a week off and offers to drive his neighbors cab. The rest of the team are looking for a jewel thief and a killer off a marine biologist. ||||||
| 36 | 14 | "Dog Day Afternoon" | Bruce Seth Green | Jacquelyn Blain | February 5, 2000 (2000-02-05) |
| Sammo looks after a dog after his owner is killed. ||||||
| 37 | 15 | "Deathfist Five: MCU" | Terrence O'Hara | Lisa Klink | February 12, 2000 (2000-02-12) |
| An action star wants to follow Sammo and Terrell to make his next movie more authentic. Someone has set fire to the house of a judge. ||||||
| 38 | 16 | "Honor Among Strangers (Part 1)" | Christian I. Nyby II | J. Larry Carroll & David Bennett Carren | February 19, 2000 (2000-02-19) |
| A group of military guys rob a bank with automatic weapons and body armor that the army was supposed to have been scrapped led by a white supremacist named Cliff Eagleton. While Grace and Terrell go undercover at a nearby military base to track down the stolen weapons and find who among their personnel is involved with Eagleton, Sammo meets a Texas Ranger named Cordell Walker who has come to Los Angeles to catch Eagleton for murdering another Texas Ranger, and they soon find that Eagleton intends to use stolen stinger missiles to target foreign businesses in Los Angeles. Part 2 of the episode aired as the episode "The Day of Cleansing" on Walker, Texas Ranger. ||||||
| 39 | 17 | "Freefall" | Oley Sassone | Lee Goldberg & William Rabkin | February 26, 2000 (2000-02-26) |
| Spy satellites come crashing down in downtown L.A. ||||||
| 40 | 18 | "The Thrill Is Gone" | Chuck Bowman | Michael Gleason | March 11, 2000 (2000-03-11) |
| A designer drug called Thrill hits the streets of Los Angeles. ||||||
| 41 | 19 | "Heartless" | Ron Satlof | David Ehrman | April 22, 2000 (2000-04-22) |
| The daughter of the governor is in the hospital waiting for a heart transplant. The heart she is waiting for is stolen when an ambulance is attacked. ||||||
| 42 | 20 | "In the Dark" | Max Tash | David Ehrman | April 29, 2000 (2000-04-29) |
| The international crime organization Scorpio tries to rescue a member who is in prison. ||||||
| 43 | 21 | "Final Conflict (Part 1)" | Oley Sassone | Paul Bernbaum | May 6, 2000 (2000-05-06) |
| The MCU discover that Scorpio has a personal grudge against Sammo. Scorpio kidnaps Amy and her fiancee and buries them alive in a limo, injures Terrell, and kidnaps Grace. ||||||
| 44 | 22 | "Final Conflict (Part 2)" | Oley Sassone | Lee Goldberg & William Rabkin | May 13, 2000 (2000-05-13) |
| Scorpio plans to make a randomly picked plane crash. ||||||
