Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist Episode Rating Graph
May 1995 - Feb 2002
May 1995 - Feb 2002
7.5
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S6 Ep15
9.3
24th Dec 1999
Dr. Katz applies his expertise to a criminal trial.
S6 Ep11
8.7
24th Dec 1999
Dom Irrera and Al Lubel take the couch; Ben buys a big-screen TV to replace their failed set.
S5 Ep18
8.6
23rd Nov 1998
It's Thanksgiving, and something big happening: Katz's ex-wife Roz is coming for dinner
S6 Ep14
8.3
24th Dec 1999
Dr. Katz hosts a radio show.
S2 Ep5
8.2
14th Jan 1996
A bee traps Katz in his office, while his honey of a secretary offers stinging sympathy.
S6 Ep12
8.1
24th Dec 1999
When the paper doesn't get delivered for a few days, Ben observes that Katz is hooked on the news. Katz denies it and bets him that he can go longer without news than Ben can go without talking.
S6 Ep2
8.1
22nd Jun 1999
Teri Garr and Ed Crasnick are featured; Ben opposes gentrification of his old neighborhood and tries to form a grass-roots movement to stop it.
S5 Ep6
8.1
20th Jul 1998
Ben becomes enamored of Cindy, a telemarketer from Telepurchase. He mistakes her powerful sales skills for actual affection, and wants to have a private conversation with her, resulting in an angrily whispered argument between him and Katz.
S6 Ep17
8.0
3rd Feb 2002
Ben learns of Laura's engagement.
S6 Ep13
8.0
24th Dec 1999
Dr. Katz is skeptical of a new therapy technique suggested by Ben.
S6 Ep8
8.0
24th Dec 1999
Carol Leifer and Kevin Meaney are featured; Ben is convinced his father is about to remarry after Katz has a couple of dates with a gastroenterologist.
S6 Ep6
8.0
20th Jul 1999
Wanda Sykes-Hall and Jon Stewart visit the doctor; Ben joins a walk for hunger in an attempt to impress Laura.
S6 Ep5
8.0
13th Jul 1999
Tom Hertz and Al Lubel are featured; Ben throws a big party, and asks his father to make other plans.
S6 Ep4
8.0
6th Jul 1999
Dom Irrera and Mitch Hedberg are featured; Ben and Dr. Katz explore past-life regression, and Katz learns he was once a barmaid in the Old West.
S5 Ep15
8.0
12th Oct 1998
Katz's wedding anniversary is approaching, so Ben wants to do something for him.
S5 Ep13
8.0
28th Sep 1998
Ben wakes Katz up in the middle of the night, claiming to hear a noise. Katz hears it too, and they both think they're being burglarized. After first trying to scare off the burglar (""I'm sure glad they haven't outlawed semi-automatic weapons in the city yet!""), they give up (""Help yourself, take whatever you want, just lock up when you're done""). Turns out the burglar doesn't get in, but Katz and Ben over-react -- oddly, this time it's Katz who over-reacts more. They get new locks and bars on the windows, and Ben wants a hamster. Katz tells Julie and Stan that a home is burglarized every 15 minutes, and that he can't believe he called 911 and was told he had the wrong number. (Stan: ""Did you dial N-I-N-E-one-one?"" Katz: ""OK, you win, you're the stupidest guy in the bar."") Katz suggests a lower peephole, in case the burglar is a midget. Why? Because every horror movie he's seen has an evil midget in it. (Movies mentioned: ""Midget Killers,"" ""I'm Small and You're Dead,"" ""Too Small to Let
S4 Ep11
8.0
31st Aug 1997
While watching the news, Ben and Katz learn that a mailbox in their neighborhood was struck by a car driven by a bald Caucasian male in his late 40s. Ben assumes it was his dad, despite dad's protests that while he is in his late 40s, he is ""balding,"" not bald.
S4 Ep1
8.0
9th May 1997
Ben wins $500 in the Sir Pay-a-Lot scratch-off lottery and takes Katz and Laura out to dinner. Soon enough, Ben and Laura both get drunk and start to act goofy.
S3 Ep9
8.0
26th Jan 1997
92-year-old Aunt Estelle (wife of Uncle Morty) dies, and Katz is asked to give the eulogy.
S3 Ep1
8.0
6th Oct 1996
Ben decides to go into the celebrity limo business. He moves into Katz's office to do this, which of course annoys Laura.
S3 Ep5
7.9
3rd Nov 1996
While rummaging around in search of his birth certificate, Ben comes across evidence of Katz's former life: as a hippie folk singer.
S3 Ep8
7.9
19th Jan 1997
Katz wants to take up recording again, because he's writing a new song. Ben is opposed to the idea, until Katz tells him he can be the producer.
S3 Ep3
7.9
20th Oct 1996
Katz decides to keep a bowl of fruit at the office, but it goes rotten pretty fast. He talks about it at the bar, and Stanley pronounces ""fructose"" as ""fruck-tose."" Meanwhile, Ben considers a variety of career options, after being told by his dad that he's ""pissing his life away"". He tries cake decorating and makes a cake made purely of frosting; takes up roller-skating; considers being a truck driver; and asks if there's a job for what he used to do as a kid: put on a pair of dad's pants, pull them way over his head, and stumble around the house.
S5 Ep3
7.9
29th Jun 1998
Katz brings up the job issue with Ben, and a series of metaphors ensues.
S4 Ep6
6.9
27th Jul 1997
Katz gets a phone call from Sharon Meyers, a woman he dated briefly two years ago, when she was also his patient. She was very attractive, and a dancer (""She was a Rockette. She can kick her own face,"" Ben says).
S4 Ep7
6.9
3rd Aug 1997
Katz takes a class in making African ritual masks.
S2 Ep12
7.0
12th May 1996
Disaster does little to color Ben's penchant for samples of hair-care products.
S6 Ep18
7.0
3rd Feb 2002
Conan O'Brien uses Dr. Katz's jokes on TV.
S1 Ep1
7.2
28th May 1995
Ben entertains a business venture that he knows will bring home the bacon: raising pot-bellied pigs--at home.
S4 Ep4
7.2
6th Jul 1997
Apparently not having learned from his previous experience with journalism, Ben goes to a broadcasting school audition.
S2 Ep3
7.2
12th Nov 1995
Dr. Katz doesn't see that he needs glasses.
S2 Ep8
7.3
14th Apr 1996
Ben disapproves of his father's sleep-over date.
S4 Ep8
7.3
10th Aug 1997
Katz and Ben decide to reorganize their closet space, and they hire a company to do it.
S1 Ep2
7.3
4th Jun 1995
Dr. Katz is down in the mouth about his less-than-social life after Ben tells him that they're spending too much time together.
S1 Ep6
7.3
2nd Jul 1995
In the never-ending struggle to help his son grow up, Dr. Katz suggests that if Ben had his own car, jobs--and dates--might naturally follow.
S3 Ep6
7.3
5th Jan 1997
Katz gets Ben to play ""Guess Who,"" the old game from Ben's childhood. However, Katz accidentally sees Ben's card via the reflection in the TV, and he uses that information to win, without telling Ben that he had cheated.
S2 Ep10
7.4
28th Apr 1996
Ben decides he wants to help people and begins mapping out a strategy to do so.
S5 Ep7
7.4
27th Jul 1998
Ben is surprised to get a letter from boyhood friend Lance Garcy. Turns out it's a chain letter, and Ben is quite awed by its power of causing tragedy to strike those who ignore it.
S3 Ep2
7.4
13th Oct 1996
Julie sets Katz up on a blind date with her friend Beth, who makes her own clothes. Stan put in a good word for Katz, telling Beth that Katz's nickname was ""Scootch.""
S4 Ep13
7.4
14th Sep 1997
Laura starts taking a lot of time off, but won't say why. Ben is curious and so is Katz, and they speculate.
S2 Ep9
7.5
21st Apr 1996
Ben and his father think they're up to building a set of shelves in the living room.
S2 Ep1
7.5
15th Oct 1995
Ben gets his 15 minutes of fame when he witnesses a crime and is quoted in the paper.
S4 Ep2
7.5
22nd Jun 1997
Ben decides to write his memoirs, dedicated to the ""loving memory"" of his father.
S5 Ep10
7.5
17th Aug 1998
Ben points out, ""When we spend time together over breakfast: boring,"" leading to a discussion of the old games he and Katz used to play when Ben was a kid. Katz asks him to take the London broil out of the freezer, and then goes to work. When he gets home, Ben greets him with a clue -- the first in a series of 54 -- for a game of Treasure Hunt
S6 Ep1
7.5
15th Jun 1999
Jeff Goldblum and Ted Alexandro are patients; Ben considers joining the military after being called a "sissy" by a boyhood chum.
S6 Ep16
7.5
3rd Feb 2002
Ben gets a job at a bakery.
S2 Ep11
7.5
5th May 1996
Dr. Katz piques his brain committing his theory of intelligence to paper for an adult-education class.
S4 Ep3
7.5
29th Jun 1997
Dr. Katz buys an Electric Bike because he always wanted one but never got it as a kid. They find that a $1,000 bicycle isn't all fun and games, when it breaks as Ben drove it down stairs. They soon learnm that some inventions just were never meant to be.
S1 Ep1
7.2
28th May 1995
Ben entertains a business venture that he knows will bring home the bacon: raising pot-bellied pigs--at home.
S1 Ep2
7.3
4th Jun 1995
Dr. Katz is down in the mouth about his less-than-social life after Ben tells him that they're spending too much time together.
S1 Ep3
7.6
11th Jun 1995
Katz goes to an open-mic night to sing, play guitar and embarrass Ben.
S1 Ep4
7.8
18th Jun 1995
After a checkup shows that he's a prime candidate for a heart attack, Dr. Katz asks Stanley and Laura to help him shape up.
S1 Ep5
7.8
25th Jun 1995
Dr. Katz worries that he and Ben's mother failed to provide their son with everything he needed to know about the opposite sex.
S1 Ep6
7.3
2nd Jul 1995
In the never-ending struggle to help his son grow up, Dr. Katz suggests that if Ben had his own car, jobs--and dates--might naturally follow.
The first episode of Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist aired on May 28, 1995.
The last episode of Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist aired on February 03, 2002.
There are 81 episodes of Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist.
There are 6 seasons of Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist.
No.
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist has ended.