Martha Stewart Living Television
The numbers.
Facts and patterns drawn from 1,216 documented episodes, April 01, 1998 to September 30, 1999. Numbers compiled from the archive; partial entries noted.
The run
1,216
episodes documented
856 confirmed by primary source
11
seasons, 1993 – 2004
S1–S9 on CBS / Syndicated; S10–S11 on Hallmark
1999
the peak year
169 episodes that year alone
First broadcast
Fish Dumplings; Vegetable Tagine; Charoset Seder Plate
April 01, 1998
Series finale
Presidential Luncheon; Teaching Children Table Manners
September 30, 1999
"Nov was the busiest month."
113 episodes aired in Nov — more than any other month. October second with 109. June and August nearly silent: 12 episodes each.
What she covered
Episode count by primary topic (seed episodes only)
Out of the studio
113
Field trip episodes. Martha left the studio to visit Jamaica, Bar Harbor Maine, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, Vera Wang's studio, Bobbi Brown's makeup room, the Bronx Zoo, Balthazar, Aquavit, the Four Seasons, and hundreds of farms, workshops, and restaurants across the country and the world.
Each one was an education. The field trip was her most durable format.
Recurring segments
18
Cookie of the Week
documented episodes featuring the segment
8
Good Things
title episodes (the segment appeared far more often)
202
Garden-to-table
episodes with garden-as-pantry as the underlying theme
Her mother
"Big Martha" Kostyra appeared in three of the ten confirmed Hallmark-era episodes.
Martha Kostyra — Martha's mother, known as "Big Martha" — joined her daughter on screen for episodes about family recipes, birthday celebrations, and Eastern European cooking traditions. Of the ten Hallmark-era titles we can confirm, three feature her by name. She was the show's most documented recurring guest.
Season by season
Underlying themes
The vocabulary
The archive carries 1,681 unique tags across all documented MSL episodes. The most frequent, excluding year tags:
Photography
1,115 of 1,216
documented MSL episodes now carry a photograph from marthastewart.tv. The photographs come from Martha's own streaming archive and are the images her team selected. The remaining 101 carry a plain tile — honest about what we don't have.
Images sourced from marthastewart.tv (Vimeo OTT), courtesy of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. This is a non-commercial research archive.
About this data
Episode records were compiled from TheTVDB, IMDb, TV Guide, Yidio, Wikipedia, and marthastewart.tv. Hallmark-era episodes (Seasons 10–11, 2002–2004) were recovered from the marthastewart.tv streaming archive in May 2026 — previously declared unretrievable by public databases. Topics, themes, and tags were assigned during data generation; the taxonomy is imperfect but consistent. Numbers on this page are drawn live from the archive database and update as the archive grows.