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History of the 90s
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The Rise and Fall of Martin Lawrence
Martin was a show about relationships from a single blackmail perspective. Unlike other black sitcoms in the 1980s and early 90s that revolved around families. Fox executives needed something really different, what they called counter-programming. They went to black creators and gave them just a lot of creative freedom.
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