Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist Episode Rating Graph
May 1995 - Feb 2002

May 1995 - Feb 2002
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S5 Ep18
8.3
23rd Nov 1998
It's Thanksgiving, and something big happening: Katz's ex-wife Roz is coming for dinner

S6 Ep15
8.3
24th Dec 1999
Dr. Katz applies his expertise to a criminal trial.

S2 Ep5
8.1
14th Jan 1996
A bee traps Katz in his office, while his honey of a secretary offers stinging sympathy.

S6 Ep2
8.0
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.

S6 Ep11
7.9
24th Dec 1999
Dom Irrera and Al Lubel take the couch; Ben buys a big-screen TV to replace their failed set.

S3 Ep5
7.8
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 Ep3
7.8
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.

S2 Ep6
7.7
21st Jan 1996
Ben thinks his dad may have a drinking problem.

S4 Ep10
7.7
24th Aug 1997
Ben wins first runner-up in a WFEN radio contest to ride in the traffic helicopter. He hopes the real winner can't make it and he gets all psyched up for the possibility.

S3 Ep8
7.7
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.

S2 Ep7
7.7
7th Apr 1996
A new tenant catches Ben's eye.

S6 Ep5
7.7
13th Jul 1999
Tom Hertz and Al Lubel are featured; Ben throws a big party, and asks his father to make other plans.

S5 Ep15
7.7
12th Oct 1998
Katz's wedding anniversary is approaching, so Ben wants to do something for him.

S5 Ep6
7.7
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.

S3 Ep11
7.7
9th Feb 1997
Katz thinks Ben is watching too much TV, which he is. But he says TV influences people.

S3 Ep1
7.7
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.

S1 Ep5
7.7
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.

S4 Ep1
7.6
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.

S5 Ep4
7.6
6th Jul 1998
Katz and Ben try to decide on a movie. Katz wants to see ""Love Strings"" (a chick flick), while Ben wants to see ""Fire Power.

S6 Ep4
7.6
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.

S3 Ep10
7.6
2nd Feb 1997
Katz puts his back out while putting on his shoes, and Ben, as usual, is a wealth of help. He eventually becomes Katz's primary care-giver, though, driving him to work, carrying him into the office, and turning him over to Laura, warning her that he's heavily doped up on medication.

S1 Ep3
7.6
11th Jun 1995
Katz goes to an open-mic night to sing, play guitar and embarrass Ben.

S6 Ep13
7.6
24th Dec 1999
Dr. Katz is skeptical of a new therapy technique suggested by Ben.

S5 Ep9
7.6
10th Aug 1998
Ben's goes to visit his cousin Sarah, in an unnamed city, from whom he once stole money when he was 6 (""It was over a dollar,"" he says as he worries whether she's still upset).

S2 Ep12
6.8
12th May 1996
Disaster does little to color Ben's penchant for samples of hair-care products.

S4 Ep13
6.8
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.

S4 Ep7
6.9
3rd Aug 1997
Katz takes a class in making African ritual masks.

S6 Ep18
6.9
3rd Feb 2002
Conan O'Brien uses Dr. Katz's jokes on TV.

S6 Ep7
6.9
24th Dec 1999
Greg Behrendt and Ian Bagg are featured; Dr. Katz and Ben "help" Laura buy a used car.

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).

S3 Ep6
6.9
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.

S4 Ep8
7.0
10th Aug 1997
Katz and Ben decide to reorganize their closet space, and they hire a company to do it.

S4 Ep5
7.1
13th Jul 1997
Katz finds a chair sitting outside on the curb and takes it home (""You wouldn't believe the kind of stuff people throw away."" Ben: ""You mean crap?""). However, he realizes his folly and sends Ben to take it to the dump, which proves to be difficult, because the dump is no longer open to the public (""It's all digital now"").

S4 Ep4
7.1
6th Jul 1997
Apparently not having learned from his previous experience with journalism, Ben goes to a broadcasting school audition.

S5 Ep10
7.1
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

S5 Ep7
7.1
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.

S2 Ep3
7.1
12th Nov 1995
Dr. Katz doesn't see that he needs glasses.

S6 Ep16
7.1
3rd Feb 2002
Ben gets a job at a bakery.

S5 Ep12
7.2
21st Sep 1998
Katz is disturbed to learn that the city alderman he voted for is corrupt. He talks about what HE would do if he were alderman: ""I'd like to bring crime back into the streets and out of the home,"" and get rid of the ""criminal element"" (Ben: ""Criminal element? What, are you Batman?""). Ben immediately begins being his dad's campaign manager, despite Katz's insistence that he is NOT running. (Ben's platform: handicap parking for everyone.) He makes signs and harasses Laura, inviting her over to help with the ""campaign"" (he tells her he used air quotes on the word ""campaign"").

S1 Ep6
7.2
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.

S6 Ep9
7.3
24th Dec 1999
Merrill Markoe and Dana Gould visit the doctor; Ben cares for a neighbor's rooftop pigeons as a snowstorm approaches.

S6 Ep14
7.3
24th Dec 1999
Dr. Katz hosts a radio show.

S5 Ep1
7.3
17th Jun 1998
Katz seems to be losing energy and is sleeping later in the morning. He wonders if he's feverish, but in fact, he feels a little cold.

S4 Ep2
7.3
22nd Jun 1997
Ben decides to write his memoirs, dedicated to the ""loving memory"" of his father.

S1 Ep1
7.3
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.

S5 Ep8
7.3
3rd Aug 1998
Katz gets a death threat, via Laura, who is unclear on the details; she didn't press for more information because ""I didn't want to make him angry--er.""

S3 Ep2
7.3
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.""

S1 Ep1
7.3
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
7.5
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
7.7
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
7.2
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.