 With the new storyline good to go, Cloris Leachman and Jon Shepodd were hired to play the Martins, debuting in the mid-fourth-season episode, "Transition".There, Paul and Ruth Martin arrive in the show's fictional community of Calverton to purchase the Miller farm.Timmy believes he will be returned to his aged and ill aunt and uncle, Abby and Jed Clausen of distant Olive Bridge with the sale of the farm, and runs away, setting off a desperate search by Ellen and Paul.