6.1/10209 votesLoading...#1 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/2015
Ken is stressed out at work over his “whining, complaining” patients so he needs a therapy session with Allison. Back at home, Ken is nervous about Molly’s driving test – “What if she doesn’t fail!”
Director: Scott Ellis
Writer: N/A
6.7/10123 votesLoading...#2 - Ken Helps Pat
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/2015
Pat wants everyone to start working on Saturdays, so the workers in the office ask Ken to talk Pat out of it. When Ken visits Pat at home, he's shocked to find out he's living in a boat in the driveway. After Pat explains he's going through a divorce but still loves his wife, Ken thinks they've had a bonding moment. Meanwhile, Dave is given a new nickname at school and it brings up bad memories for Allison.
Director: Andy Cadiff
Writer: Matthew Libman, Daniel Libman
7.1/1082 votesLoading...#3 - Dicky Wexler's Last Show
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 3/11/2016
Ken is delighted when a long-time favorite patient/comedian comes in for a checkup. Unfortunately, tests reveal that Dicky’s cancer has come back and he must stay at the hospital, keeping him from performing what was going to be his last stand-up show. But Ken is determined to get Dicky what he wants! Meanwhile, Allison runs into an old-time patient at another therapist’s office, causing her to question her own abilities and friendship with the woman.
Director: Mark Cendrowski
Writer: Erik Sommers
7.1/1077 votesLoading...#4 - Ken's an Expert Witness
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/18/2016
Ken's confidence as a medical expert witness is shattered when the plaintiff's lawyer shreds his credibility on the stand; Dave gets Allison's help to sew a designer dress for Molly.
Director: Jean Sagal
Writer: Mike O'Connell
7.1/1072 votesLoading...#5 - Clark's Big Surprise
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 3/24/2017
Ken finds out about Clark and Connor's surprise wedding and is tasked with getting the guests there.
Director: Phill Lewis
Writer: Lisa McQuillan
7.2/10149 votesLoading...#6 - The Seminar
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/2015
When the office celebrates a promotion for Clark, Ken is oblivious since he lives in his own world…it’s the last straw for Clark dealing with Ken’s selfish ways. Clark writes a fake complaint comment card about Ken, so he’s forced to attend a training seminar for better bedside manners, which leaves Allison at home to have dinner with Ken’s parents.
Director: Scott Ellis
Writer: Mary Fitzgerald
7.2/10124 votesLoading...#7 - Kevin O'Connell
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/23/2015
Ken is taken aback when he meets Allison’s former boyfriend Kevin O’Connell, now a very hot and successful doctor. So when Ken is asked to speak at a banquet honoring Kevin, he uses the opportunity more as a roast. Meanwhile, Molly struggles with a school assignment asking for what she wants to be when she grows up.
Director: Mark Cendrowski
Writer: Paul A. Kaplan, Mark Torgove
7.2/10118 votesLoading...#8 - Halloween-Aversary
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/2015
The episode opens with a flashback to Ken's botched marriage proposal on Halloween. Now 20 years later, Ken tries to arrange the perfect re-proposal for Allison. Meanwhile at the office, which is decorated for Halloween, Damona and Julie accidentally drug Pat and then take advantage of their boss' suddenly giving mood.
Director: Anthony Joseph Rich
Writer: Erik Sommers
7.2/10121 votesLoading...#9 - Thanksgiving Culture Clash
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/2015
Molly rebels and gets a Japanese tattoo, which spirals Ken and Allison into having a cultural face-off. At a holiday dinner, they push their traditional dishes on their guests, while Dave documents the Thanksgiving events for a school project. Julie invites the office over to her place – but Damona and Clark try finding a way to leave early so they can make it to their other Thanksgiving plans.
Director: Ken Whittingham
Writer: Mike O'Connell
7.2/1099 votesLoading...#10 - The Master Scheduler
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/11/2015
When Allison gushes about how excited she is to go to Hawaii for the holidays, Ken realizes that he forgot to ask for those days off. So Ken, not wanting to admit he messed up, turns to lying, begging and bribing the master scheduler for the office (with whom no one has ever met), hoping he can give him the time off.
Director: Beth McCarthy-Miller
Writer: Paul O'Toole, Andy St. Clair
7.2/1077 votesLoading...#11 - Korean Men's Club
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 4/15/2016
Ken, at the insistence of Allison, reluctantly joins a civics-minded community group – but it may not be what it seems.
Director: Anthony Joseph Rich
Writer: Farhan Arshad
7.3/10101 votesLoading...#12 - Delayed in Honolulu
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/8/2016
The Park family are in the airport on their way home from Hawaii when their flight is delayed for several hours. Ken has an interaction with Dr. Oz that goes awry - and then needs to get the famous TV doctor to switch airplane seats with him. Meanwhile, Allison gets overly involved in Molly's love life and accidentally breaks up with her boyfriend via text message, and Dave finds himself in a high-stakes card game with some college students. Back at Welltopia, it's "Black Monday," the clinic's busiest day of the year, and in Ken's absence, Julie is the doctor in charge, and Clark and Damona have to help her learn that thoroughness doesn't have to take forever.
Director: Anthony Joseph Rich
Writer: Mike Sikowitz
7.3/1098 votesLoading...#13 - Ken's Physical
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/15/2016
Allison is upset to find out that Ken hasn't had a physical in years and urges him to do so. Ken asks Julie to sign that he's had a physical, but Julie insists on doing the real thing due to her professionalism. After the physical, Julie learns that Ken is suffering from moments of high stress - he blames Allison at first, but then they both realize it's due to their kids and their growing concerns. Meanwhile, Molly is having trouble holding down a job to earn money to go to skiing, but uses her entrepreneurial spirit to make the den's bathroom available to a nearby film crew - much to her parents' dismay.
Director: Victor Gonzalez
Writer: Paul A. Kaplan, Mark Torgove
7.3/1088 votesLoading...#14 - The Wedding Sitter
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/19/2016
Things end up not running smoothly after Ken and the office staff attend a colleague's wedding. Molly hires a baby sitter for Dave. Dave attempts to sneak out and he hires a friend to impersonate him.
Director: Anthony Joseph Rich
Writer: Matthew Libman, Daniel Libman
7.3/1084 votesLoading...#15 - Ken at the Concert
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 3/4/2016
Ken feels that Molly is pulling away as a teenager and tries to reconnect by taking her and her friends to a concert for Emblem3. Though she is embarrassed by her dad’s antics at the concert, Molly does appreciate the effort and finally warms up to her dad — just a little. Meanwhile, Allison takes Dave to a birthday party, but after he cuts his foot, he wreaks havoc on the Welltopia team when he is forced to face a big fear – a needle for the tetanus shot. Also, Damona struggles with how to break things off with Pat.
Director: Scott Ellis
Writer: Nicole Sun
7.3/1075 votesLoading...#16 - Dave's Sex Talk
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 4/8/2016
Dave gets an impromptu birds-and-the-bees talk from Julie after Ken has been avoiding it, but he's not off the hook with Allison when she learns he took full credit. Meanwhile, Clark gets dubious advice from Pat.
Director: Eric Dean Seaton
Writer: Hilary Winston
7.3/1071 votesLoading...#17 - Dave Goes on Shark Tank
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/2016
When Dave announces he’s been invited to pitch his Hot Legs Duvet invention on “Shark Tank,” Ken is excited. But then he gets nervous about throwing his son into the Tank when he realizes how tough the Sharks can be. Meanwhile, Molly heads to Welltopia to intern, and Pat is so impressed that he takes her under his wing.
Director: Mark Cendrowski
Writer: Paul O'Toole, Andy St. Clair
7.3/1075 votesLoading...#18 - Allison's Thanksgiving Meltdown
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/2016
Allison convinces a reluctant Ken that it would be a fun family adventure to drive to her parents for Thanksgiving dinner. But along the way, a traffic jam combined with her husband and kids’ antics causes her to lose her usual cool. Meanwhile, Clark takes charge to serve Thanksgiving dinner at a shelter for the homeless, but his bossiness and unnecessary attention to details drives everyone a little crazy.
Director: Anthony Joseph Rich
Writer: Mike Sikowitz
7.3/1071 votesLoading...#19 - Allison Finds A Lump
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/24/2017
Allison finds a suspicious lump in her breast during a self-check leading Ken and the HMO group to rush to her side as she awaits the results of the doctor's tests anxiously; Dave tries to figure out how he will portray a character in the play.
Director: Phill Lewis
Writer: Jim Brandon, Brian Singleton, Ken Jeong
7.4/1090 votesLoading...#20 - Meeting Molly’s Boyfriend
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/26/2016
When Molly brings home her boyfriend, Allison has a conflict of interest when she realizes that he’s the son of one of her patients. Through a therapy session, Allison concludes that Molly’s boyfriend is cheating on her, but when Ken and Allison try to pry it out of him, it’s actually Molly who admits to cheating. This leads Allison to reveal her own overlapping romance when she first started dating Ken. Meanwhile, Pat begins kissing up to the staff, knowing that his evaluation is coming up.
Director: Victor Gonzalez
Writer: Nicole Sun
7.4/1069 votesLoading...#21 - Dr. Ken: Child of Divorce
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/2016
When D.K. tells Ken he moved into the Park home because he’s gotten a divorce, Ken can’t shake the Korean cultural understanding that divorce equals failure and takes a look at his own marriage. Meanwhile, the divorce news causes Dave to reflect on his relationship with Emily.
Director: Phill Lewis
Writer: Mary Fitzgerald
7.4/1069 votesLoading...#22 - Ken and the Basketball Star
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/27/2017
When the star of Molly’s high school basketball team injures his ankle, Ken’s routine exam and unexpected diagnosis shocks everyone since it might keep the young man from playing in the big game. Meanwhile, Clark and Connor take another major step in their relationship before getting married, and Pat lets Allison in on the secret espresso coffeemaker he keeps in his office.
Director: Anthony Joseph Rich
Writer: Paul O'Toole, Andy St. Clair
7.4/1065 votesLoading...#23 - A Dr. Ken Valentine's Day
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/3/2017
Ken lets Allison, who is second-guessing her decision to have a low-key Valentine’s Day, think that a love poem Dave wrote for his sweetheart, Emily, is meant for her. Meanwhile, Molly and Jae consider Valentine’s Day a corporate concoction; Clark plans a romantic scavenger hunt to lead Connor to his present; and complications arise when Damona and Eric have dinner at a restaurant that she and Pat once frequented when they were dating.
Director: Anthony Joseph Rich
Writer: Hilary Winston
7.4/1073 votesLoading...#24 - Ken's Professor
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 3/10/2017
Ken's old professor makes an appointment and torments Ken during his visit.
Director: Mark Cendrowski
Writer: Mike O'Connell
7.4/1072 votesLoading...#25 - Ken and the CEO
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 3/17/2017
Pat eyes a promotion and asks Ken to put a good word in for him with the CEO of Welltopia.
Director: Ron Moseley
Writer: Nicole Sun
The Worst Episodes of Dr. Ken
Every episode of Dr. Ken ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Dr. Ken!
Dr. Ken is a brilliant physician with no bedside manner. He is always trying to be a good doctor, as well as a good husband...
Genre:Comedy
Network:ABC
Worst Episodes Summary
"Pilot" is the worst rated episode of "Dr. Ken". It scored 6.1/10 based on 209 votes. Directed by Scott Ellis and written by N/A, it aired on 10/2/2015. This episode scored 0.6 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Ken Helps Pat".