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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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"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.
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.
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"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.
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.
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"Dog Day Afternoon"
Bruce Seth Green
Jacquelyn Blain
February 5, 2000 (2000-02-05)
Sammo looks after a dog after his owner is killed.
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.
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"Freefall"
Oley Sassone
Lee Goldberg & William Rabkin
February 26, 2000 (2000-02-26)
Spy satellites come crashing down in downtown L.A.
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"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.
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"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.
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"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.
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"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.
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"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.