Bill Martin

Bill Martin is an American television producer and writer based in Los Angeles. Martin and Mike Schiff met in the graduate film program at Columbia University. They began their television writing careers on In Living Color and soon were staffed on 3rd Rock from the Sun. There they served as showrunners for three seasons before leaving to create their own series Grounded for Life.

Works

The Unicorn
6.5

The Unicorn

A tight-knit group of best friends and family helps Wade embrace his “new normal” in the wake of the loss of his wife. As a sometimes ill-equipped but always devoted single parent to his two adolescent daughters, he is taking the major step of dating again.

Release Date: 2019-09-16

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 18

Vote Count: 35

The Neighborhood
7.6

The Neighborhood

The nicest guy in the Midwest moves his family into a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles where not everyone appreciates his extreme neighborliness. That includes their new next-door neighbor Calvin.

Release Date: 2018-10-01

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 22

Vote Count: 135

Hank
5.7

Hank

Hank Pryor, a titan of industry, suddenly finds himself out of work, almost out of money and around a wife and kids for whom he's never made much time. Despite his recent setbacks, however, Hank is confident he's on the road back to the top. He knows he is destined to return to greatness. And he is—just not the greatness he imagines.

Release Date: 2009-09-30

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 3

Grounded for Life
6.9

Grounded for Life

Right out of high school, Sean Finnerty got his girlfriend Claudia pregnant. Now she’s his wife, and at just 32, he’s somehow found himself with 14-year-old daughter Lily, two little boys, and a constant struggle between his need to be responsible and his desperate desire to be irresponsible. His judgmental father Walt and devil-may-care brother Eddie are no help at all. When they all get together, stories always start to fly. Of course, Sean’s family will never let him finish a story; they interrupt, they debate, they derail, they defend themselves; just like any good family would.

Release Date: 2001-01-10

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 9

Vote Count: 91

3rd Rock from the Sun
7.5

3rd Rock from the Sun

The high commander of an alien expedition lands on Earth -- what he considers to be the least-important planet -- in human form as Dick Solomon. Along for the ride are his alien compatriots Harry, Sally and Tommy -- who is the eldest of the group but is now angrily trapped in a teen's body.

Release Date: 1996-01-09

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Character: Dance Judge #2

Episode Count: 139

Vote Count: 497

6.0

Doctor Duck's Super Secret All-Purpose Sauce

A montage of sketch comedy and music videos.

Release Date: 1986-01-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 2

Amazing Stories
7.5

Amazing Stories

A truly amazing, fantastical, science fiction, funny and odd, and sometimes scary, sad and endearing anthology series presented by Steven Spielberg with guest appearances by many famous actors, actresses, and directors.

Release Date: 1985-09-29

Character: guard

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 198

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