List of Titus episodes
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The following is the list of episodes of the American sitcom Titus as they are presented in US broadcast order.[1] The show ran for three seasons (from 2000-2002) airing 54 episodes. The show starts and ends in the "neutral space" where Titus is the only occupant(except for 2 episodes where Erin and Ken occupied the space). Titus would turn on a light bulb at the beginning of the show and turn it off in the end (except for the episodes "The Pit" & "Episode Eleven" wherein the light stays on as the show ends).
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[edit] Season 1: 2000
Episodes 1 and 2 were aired in reverse order.
| Title | Director | Writer(s) | Original airdate |
Production code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Sex With Pudding" | Jeff Melman | Jack Kenny, Brian Hargrove | March 20, 2000 | 1ADK-01 |
| Titus (Christopher Titus) believes that Erin (Cynthia Watros) is cheating on him and goes to her place of work to confront her about the situation with his brother Dave (Zack Ward) and his friend Tommy (David Shatraw). | ||||
| "Dad's Dead" | Michael Lessac | Jack Kenny, Brian Hargrove, Christopher Titus | March 27, 2000 | 1ADK-79 |
| When Ken Titus (Stacy Keach) doesn't emerge from his room for several days (not even for a beer!) Chris and Dave have to contemplate the possibility of life without dad. | ||||
| "Dave Moves Out" | Jack Kenny | Sally Lapiduss | April 3, 2000 | 1ADK-06 |
| When Dave tries to move out on his own (on Titus' advice), Ken has him thrown in jail for stealing a VCR. | ||||
| "The Breakup" | Howard Murray | Christopher Titus | April 10, 2000 | 1ADK-03 |
| The simple question "Want some pie?" sets off a tragicomic series of events when after a fight with Erin, Titus has a one-nighter with a diner waitress. | ||||
| "Titus Integritous" | Lee Shallat-Chemel | John Augustine, Jim Hope | April 17, 2000 | 1ADK-05 |
| Titus refuses to attach a wing to the top of the custom hotrod he intends to sell, while everyone close to him encourages him to sell out. | ||||
| "Red Asphalt" | Jack Kenny | Matt Rosenberg, Ritch Shydner | May 1, 2000 | 1ADK-07 |
| Titus and the gang go to meet Papa Titus for a birthday dinner, but when he cuts off a driver Titus gets in over his head — unfortunately he passed someone even nuttier than the Titus clan. | ||||
| "Mom's Not Nuts" | Jeff Melman | Jack Kenny, Brian Hargrove | May 8, 2000 | 1ADK-02 |
| It's family dinner at the Titus' when Christopher's mom Juanita shows up for some reconciliation… and everybody accepts it (even Ken!) but Titus. | ||||
| "Intervention" | David Lee | Adam Belanoff | May 15, 2000 | 1ADK-04 |
| When Papa Titus decides to give up drinking, the gang must stage an intervention… to get him back on the wagon before he loses his job because he's too boring. | ||||
| "Episode Eleven" | Brian Hargrove | Christopher Titus | May 22, 2000 | 1ADK-08 |
| Papa Titus gets into a car accident and has a heart attack… and to no one's surprise, blames Titus. Never mind the decades of beer and cigarettes, it was a missing distributor cap that brought on his (third) attack. But when Titus finds out what really happened, Ken may not survive. | ||||
[edit] Season 2: 2000-2001
| Title | Director | Writer(s) | Original airdate |
Production code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Titus is Dead" | Jack Kenny | Jack Kenny, Brian Hargrove | October 3, 2000 | 2ADK-01 |
| After Titus' practical joke on Ken, Christopher tries to get back into his dad's good graces...but finding him a new girlfriend wasn't part of the plan. | ||||
| "The Test" | Brian Hargrove | Christopher Case | October 10, 2000 | 2ADK-02 |
| In the wake of Ken's heart attack, everyone donates blood and Christopher and Erin have to answer some questions about their nights of unprotected sex and the possibility of AIDS. | ||||
| "The Surprise Party" | Robert Berlinger | Tom Saunders, Kell Cahoon | October 17, 2000 | 2ADK-03 |
| Kathy's surprise party is anything but - it's moving day for her and Ken needs the family to help move her in. | ||||
| "What's Up, Hollywood?" | Kevin Rodney Sullivan | Sally Lapiduss | October 31, 2000 | 2ADK-04 |
| Titus is shocked and surprised when Papa Titus congratulates him on a good job detailing his truck. | ||||
| "Locking Up Mom" | Jeff Melman | Christopher Titus | November 14, 2000 | 2ADK-06 |
| During Juanita's competency hearing at a mental hospital, Titus has doubts about keeping his mother locked up for life, despite Ken's protests to do so. | ||||
| "The Perfect Thanksgiving" | Jeff Melman | Chris Sheridan | November 21, 2000 | 2ADK-05 |
| Erin vows to have the perfect Thanksgiving dinner to announce her and Titus' engagement to both their families...and they all end up in the hospital. | ||||
| "Tommy's Girlfriend" | Robert Berlinger | Patrick Meighan | November 28, 2000 | 2ADK-08 |
| Tommy reintroduces himself to his ex-girlfriend (Nicole Sullivan)...by crashing into her car and claiming Titus did it. | ||||
| "The Reconciliation" | Robert Berlinger | December 12, 2000 | 2ADK-07 | |
| Juanita Titus comes to visit for a family visit with her new boyfriend, but Ken is less then happy to see her having a happy life. | ||||
| "Last Noelle" | Robert Berlinger | Jennifer Fisher | December 19, 2000 | 1ADK-08 |
| Titus attends the funeral of his ex-girlfriend, Noelle, whom he still loves, despite that Noelle physically abused him. | ||||
| "Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!" | Robert Berlinger | John R. Morey | January 9, 2001 | 2ADK-09 |
| Trouble's brewing when Titus' success at a custom-car show goes to his head, threatening his friendship with Tommy and Dave. | ||||
| "When I Say Jump" | Brian Hargrove | Christopher Case | January 16, 2001 | 2ADK-11 |
| Titus and the gang decide to go base-jumping, and Christopher has to go against Erin's wishes. | ||||
| "Episode 27" | Joe Regalbuto | Sally Lapiduss | January 30, 2001 | 2ADK-12 |
| Ken Titus and his bride-to-be take their families out to celebrate, but after Kat taunts Titus, he's forced to pull out the video tape of Ken caught drunken-driving and things go downhill from there. | ||||
| "The Smell of Success" | Jack Kenny | Christopher Titus | February 6, 2000 | 2ADK-13 |
| The car shop goes under, and Ken Titus refuses to help out. Literally left with no other option, Christopher kicks out Erin, and turns to alcohol. | ||||
| "Deprogramming Erin" | Gary Shimokawa | Chris Sheridan | February 13, 2001 | 2ADK-14 |
| Titus tries to get Erin back, his family and friends try to help, and things turn out about as well as can be expected. | ||||
| "NASCAR" | Jeff Melman | Christopher Case | February 20, 2001 | 2ADK-15 |
| Erin gets Titus and Ken to drive across the country together---by telling each that the other is dying. | ||||
| "Life Forward" | Robert Berlinger | Jim Hope | February 27, 2001 | 2ADK-16 |
| Tommy tricks Erin and Christopher into attending a self-help seminar to obtain breakthroughs in their personal lives...but when Papa Titus finds out, he plans to break through a few things of his own. | ||||
| "Gift of the Car Guy" | Robert Berlinger | Jennifer Fisher | March 13, 2001 | 2ADK-17 |
| Titus sells Erin's car to buy a funny car for drag racing...without telling her | ||||
| "Tommy's Girlfriend II" | Jeff Melman | Patrick Meighan | March 27, 2001 | 2ADK-18 |
| A gathering includes Tommy's new girlfriend – the waitress Titus slept with during a one-night breakup with Erin. | ||||
| "Hard Ass" | Bill Shea | Chris Sheridan | April 10, 2001 | 2ADK-20 |
| Christopher has to deal with parenthood of a sort when Erin's niece Amy moves in with them. | ||||
| "Private Dave" | Gary Shimokawa | Sally Lapiduss | April 17, 2001 | 2ADK-21 |
| Titus tries to undo what he sees as damage when Dave's response to a Dear John letter is to join the Army. | ||||
| "Three Strikes" | Joe Regalbuto | David L. Moses | April 24, 2001 | 2ADK-22 |
| Titus deals with the aftermath of a break-in that leaves Erin with a broken leg | ||||
| "The Pit" | John Amodeo | Robert Hawkins | May 8, 2001 | 2ADK-23 |
| Christopher finally gets to live his (and his dad's) dream of racing, even though he has to ignore Papa Titus to do it. | ||||
| "The Pendulum" | Jack Kenny | Christopher Titus | May 15, 2001 | 2ADK-24 |
| Conclusion. Ken and Erin confront the uncertainty of Titus's fate following his accident. With Titus in a coma, Ken also occupies the Neutral Space for most of this episode. | ||||
| "The Wedding" | Kevin Rodney Sullivan | John R. Morey | May 22, 2001 | 2ADK-19 |
| What would a wedding be without family? Peaceful, say Erin and Titus in this second-season finale. While making plans with their priest, they decide to marry right then and there, thus averting what they see as definite disaster. A wise decision, but unfortunately undone by Tommy's big mouth. Nightmare by nightmare, people start showing up. Soon, the church "is full of people we love," says Erin. "How could this go so horribly wrong?" replies her fiancé. Most notable on the nonguest list: Titus' mom and her latest spouse, whom Titus catches in an act that puts a hitch in the hitching. | ||||
[edit] Season 3: 2001-2002
| Title | Director | Writer(s) | Original airdate |
Production code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Racing in the Streets" | Brian Hargrove | Chris Sheridan | November 14, 2001 | 3ADK-01 |
| The physical effects of his near fatal car crash are still lingering, but that doesn't stop Titus from street racing to raise money for Erin's tuition. But his best laid plans backfire when Erin discovers what is really going on and tries to put a stop to it. | ||||
| "Amy's Birthday" | Gary Shimokawa | John R. Morey | November 21, 2001 | 3ADK-03 |
| Erin throws a surprise birthday party to cheer up her troubled niece Amy but her plans backfire. When Erin finds Amy's mom passed out drunk, she quickly realizes that her niece's home environment is not suitable and decides to do something about it—much to Titus' dismay. | ||||
| "Tommy's Not Gay" | Gary Shimokawa | Christopher Case | November 28, 2001 | 3ADK-04 |
| Titus is determined to mend fences at a bar after Tommy rejects his father, who's just revealed he's gay. | ||||
| "Shannon's Song" | Joe Regalbuto | Sally Lapiduss | December 5, 2001 | 3ADK-08 |
| Titus' "perfect" sister Shannon arrives, upstaging Christopher at every opportunity--until Shannon's husband leaves her after Shannon announces that she's pregnant. | ||||
| "Grad School" | Gary Shimokawa | Jennifer Fisher | December 12, 2001 | 3ADK-02 |
| Erin disdains, then requests Titus's help when she visits troubled teens for her first grad-school assignment as an interning social worker. | ||||
| "Houseboat" | Joe Regalbuto | Jim Hope | December 19, 2001 | 3ADK-06 |
| Christmas on a houseboat brings a kinder, gentler Ken when he thinks his best friend (David Carradine) has fallen overboard. | ||||
| "The Trial" | Jack Kenny | Christopher Titus | January 2, 2002 | 3ADK-05 |
| Connie Stevens becomes the third actress (after Christine Estabrook and Frances Fisher) to play the role of Titus's mother, Juanita, who was last seen having just fatally shot her abusive husband at Titus and Erin's ill-fated wedding. Now Juanita is on trial for murder, and ex-husband Ken can't wait to testify and put her away for good. Not so Titus. She is, after all, his mom, and when Titus takes the stand—following some well-intentioned but highly incriminating remarks by Erin, Dave and Tommy—he emphasizes the positive things he's learned from her. What later transpires during the course of the trial, however, can in no way be construed as positive. | ||||
| "Grandma Titus" | Brian Hargrove | Shawn Thomas | January 9, 2002 | 2ADK-25 |
| Phyllis Diller guest stars as Grandma Titus, who still intimidates Ken despite having Alzheimer's disease, which has her trying to teach a high-school class. | ||||
| "Errr" | Jack Kenny | Chris Sheridan | January 16, 2002 | 3ADK-13 |
| To keep Amy from killing herself over being rejected by a lover named Charlie (who turns out to be a girl), Titus tells the story of how he fell in love with Erin. | ||||
| "Tommy's Crush" | Kevin Rodney Sullivan | Patrick Meighan | January 23, 2002 | 3ADK-09 |
| Tommy and a pregnant Shannon have an affair, much to the Titus family's shock and anger, but when Shannon loses the unborn child to a miscarriage, Shannon's husband, Stefan, returns to get her back. | ||||
| "Into Thin Air" | John Amodeo | Robert Hawkins | January 30, 2002 | 3ADK-11 |
| While on a skiing holiday, Dave goes out of bounds after Titus and Erin tell him his girlfriend is cheating on him with a ski instructor. Titus follows to discover they are both trapped above a 400-foot (120 m) cliff, but refuses to help Dave, arguing that he must become a man by saving himself—and Tommy, who plummets down to join them. | ||||
| "Too Damn Good" | Gary Shimokawa | David L. Moses | February 6, 2002 | 3ADK-16 |
| A car executive (Frankie Muniz) seeks a new design from Titus, who turns to Ken for inspiration when he has a creative block. | ||||
| "Bachelor Party" | Leslie Kolins-Small | Jennifer Fisher | February 13, 2002 | 2ADK-15 |
| Titus' bachelor party doesn't quite turn out as planned when he and the guys encounter a pregnant woman (Alex Borstein) and have to help her deliver. Erin sits on the neutral space in this episode. | ||||
| "Hot Streak" | Joe Regalbuto | Patrick Meighan, John R. Morey | February 20, 2002 | 3ADK-14 |
| Titus attempts to win his father's love and respect by taking him to the Bahamas, but things go terribly wrong when Ken has another heart attack while winning at the blackjack tables. | ||||
| "The Session" | Brian Hargrove | Matt Ember | March 6, 2002 | 3ADK-10 |
| At Erin's insistence, the Tituses go into group therapy. Not surprisingly, things don't go quite as planned. | ||||
| "Same Courtesy" | Bill Shea | Christopher Case | March 20, 2002 | 3ADK-12 |
| Titus plans an elaborate revenge on Erin and his family after being embarrassed during their mock therapy session. He pits family members against each other on Erin's birthday and watches as his fiendish plan comes to fruition. | ||||
| "After Mrs. Shafter" | Bill Shea | Shawn Thomas | July 29, 2002 | 3ADK-17 |
| Titus and Tommy's friendship is put to the ultimate test when Ken begins dating Tommy's mom. Titus assures Tommy that the relationship won't last—as is normal for Ken. However, everyone is shocked to learn that Ken considers Tommy's mother to be the true love of his life. The situation grows even more complicated when Tommy's estranged gay father shows up to reconcile his marriage. | ||||
| "The Visit" | Katy Garretson | Christopher Titus | July 29, 2002 | 3ADK-18 |
| Titus and Erin's plans to formally adopt Amy are thrown for a loop when Titus' insane mother Juanita unexpectedly shows up at the house in the middle of the social worker's final visit. Juanita, claiming to have escaped from the mental hospital, has come seeking Titus' forgiveness, but things get weirder when it's revealed that Juanita committed suicide. | ||||
| "Insanity Genetic(1)" | Kevin Rodney Sullivan | Jim Hope | August 5, 2002 | 3ADK-19 |
| In the aftermath of Juanita's death, Titus tries to repress his feelings for his dead mom while on an airplane, but a turkey dinner causes Titus to have a breakdown--and everyone else on the plane to suspect Titus and his friends of being terrorists. | ||||
| "Insanity Genetic(2)" | Gary Shimokawa | Nancy Steen, Matt Ember | August 5, 2002 | 3ADK-20 |
| As a result of the incident on the plane, Titus must face jail time or commitment. And only his friends and family can save him...which means he's in deep trouble. | ||||
| "The Protector" | Gary Shimokawa | Nancy Steen | August 12, 2002 | 3ADK-07 |
| Titus gets into trouble when he goes after a kid who is harassing Amy in school--and things get worse when the kid's father comes in and Amy recognizes him as the man who sexually molested her while her parents were in prison. | ||||
