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The Best Episodes of Black Tie Nights Season 1

Every episode of Black Tie Nights Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Black Tie Nights Season 1!

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Black Tie Nights was a softcore drama anthology series which aired on Cinemax in the United States from 2004 to 2005. This anthology show revolved around the adventures of Olivia Hartley and Cooper Snow who ran

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Black Tie Nights Season 1 Episode 5 - The Sex Sense
    5.7/10(19 votes)

    S1:E5

    An Interior Designer is set up on a date with an architect. They visit a house together on their date. They are informed by the housekeeper that the house is haunted.

    Director:Julie Jordan
    Writer:Anthony L. Greene

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  2. Black Tie Nights Season 1 Episode 6 - Luck Be a Lady
    5.5/10(23 votes)

    S1:E6

    Darcy is a lawyer from Reno seeking a boyfriend, and she is matched to Las Vegas casino employee Nick. Cooper and accompany Darcy to Vegas to meet Nick, where complications briefly ensue due to the appearance of Nick's ex-girl friend, a stripper named Diamond.

    Director:Julie Jordan
    Writer:Anthony L. Greene

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  3. Black Tie Nights Season 1 Episode 11 - Whose Thong Is It, Anyway?
    5.5/10(15 votes)

    S1:E11

    Blake Tie sets up a couple of actors on a special date as extras on a soap opera. Ryan puts Cooper to the jealousy test.

    Director:Julie Jordan
    Writer:Anthony L. Greene

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  4. Black Tie Nights Season 1 Episode 1 - Date and Switch
    5.3/10(24 votes)

    S1:E1

    Best friends Cooper and Olivia are in desperate need of money. A friendly wager over Cooper's matchmaking skills leads to them starting up a dating service.

    Director:Julie Jordan
    Writer:Anthony L. Greene

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  5. Black Tie Nights Season 1 Episode 2 - Naughty and Nice
    5.3/10(16 votes)

    S1:E2

    Olivia sets up a date between a nerdy math professor Ryan Lundy and a soap opera star Andrea Johnson. Cooper and Olivia hire an assistance named Gladys.

    Director:Julie Jordan
    Writer:Karen O'Hara

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  6. Black Tie Nights Season 1 Episode 4 - A Girl Thing
    5.1/10(26 votes)

    S1:E4

    Ryan's fantasies life starts to bloom. His first fantasy is Cooper. The teams put together a date that helps the client Helen realize that she unknowingly has affections for women as well as men.

    Director:Julie Jordan
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Black Tie Nights Season 1 Episode 10 - The Legend
    5.0/10(19 votes)

    S1:E10

    Adult film star legend, Ron Jeremy enlists the help of Black Tie to find a woman who doesn't know about his history. It seems the porn star no longer likes it when women only want to sleep with him because he has a large penis. He wants a woman with brains too. He wants to connect too.

    Director:Julie Jordan
    Writer:Brian Hurwitz

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  8. Black Tie Nights Season 1 Episode 8 - Makeover
    4.8/10(13 votes)

    S1:E8

    Ryan wins a bet and ends up in bed with Cooper. Olivia gives Ryan a makeover to give him a real chance at Cooper. Black Tie gives a plumber a makeover and sets him up and Andrea Johnson.

    Director:Julie Jordan
    Writers:Karen O'Hara, Anthony L. Greene

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  9. Black Tie Nights Season 1 Episode 12 - Internal Affairs
    4.7/10(16 votes)

    S1:E12

    The dating service set a saucy romance novelist up with a critic who has ripped her work to shreds, and arranges for the two of them to ride along with some in-on-the-scheme cops. Sparks fly when the two discover each other's identities and feel a mutual attraction. Meanwhile, Cooper picks up a pair of earrings from an old flame, Justin. Although she avoids temptation, a heartbroken Ryan sees them in a final kiss and assumes she cheated on him.

    Director:Julie Jordan
    Writer:Anthony L. Greene

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  10. Black Tie Nights Season 1 Episode 9 - Love Is Blind
    4.6/10(18 votes)

    S1:E9

    The agency helps an aging model concerned about her looks meet a blind man who admires her soul as well as her body. Cooper and Ryan continue to explore their new sexual bliss. Olivia, finally moving on from the death of her husband, finds pleasure with a tall, dark and handsome yoga classmate named David.

    Director:Julie Jordan
    Writer:Anthony L. Greene

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  11. Black Tie Nights Season 1 Episode 7 - Girl on Page 19
    4.5/10(18 votes)

    S1:E7

    A Black Tie client, Andy wants to have a date with a model found on page 19 of a fashion magazine. No one knows her name or the agency that she is with. They have to find her first before they can set up a date.

    Director:Julie Jordan
    Writers:Karen O'Hara, Anthony L. Greene

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  12. Black Tie Nights Season 1 Episode 3 - Beauty and the Beach
    4.0/10(20 votes)

    S1:E3

    The team sets up a date between a corporate lawyer whose looking for something different and a champion surfer. Impressed with they way he handled Cooper, Olivia asks Ryan Lundy to join the team.

    Director:Julie Jordan
    Writer:Brian Hurwitz

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  13. Black Tie Nights Season 1 Episode 13 - Something Wilder
    3.8/10(28 votes)

    S1:E13

    Ryan has quit his job, leaving the dating service as a huge unorganized mess. Desperate, they hire Gladys, the man-hungry secretary who previously held the job. She inadvertently sets up the spicy Candy (who had asked for a wild man) with a shy, repressed man, but after a car wreck and some time in jail, they find some common ground. Olivia goes out on her best date yet with Charlie, while Cooper tracks Ryan down at a chicken shack and convinces him that nothing happened between herself and her old boyfriend. Ryan returns to work and Gladys, who had been using their phone line as a phone sex service, quits.

    Director:Julie Jordan
    Writers:Karen O'Hara, Anthony L. Greene

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"The Sex Sense" is the best rated episode of "Black Tie Nights" season 1. It scored 5.7/10 based on 19 votes. Directed by Julie Jordan and written by Anthony L. Greene, it aired on 7/2/2004. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Luck Be a Lady".