Martin appeared in the first Brian Keith series, "Crusader", a Cold War drama on CBS. He guest-starred, as a circus tightrope walker Dooley Delaware, in the 1957 episode "High Wire" in CBS' "Have Gun - Will Travel". He portrayed a henpecked soldier in a 1958 episode of the syndicated Western series, "Boots and Saddles" and starred in a "Trackdown" episode "A Stone for Benny French". That same year, he played the lead in the episode "Pete Henke" of NBC's Western "Jefferson Drum".