The Best Episodes Written By Steve Franks
Every TV Episode Written by Steve Franks Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Steve Franks Ratings Summary
The best episode written by Steve Franks is "Shawn (and Gus) of the Dead", rated 9/10 from 5 user votes. It was "directed by Steve Franks". "Shawn (and Gus) of the Dead" aired on 2/15/2008 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Extradition II: The Actual Extradition Part".
9.0/10 5 votes#1 - Shawn (and Gus) of the Dead
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/15/2008
Lassiter and Juliet get called to a museum to investigate the disappearance of a 3,000-year-old mummy. Lassiter insists it's just a prank that's not worth his time. He's busy working on another case involving the death of philanthropist William Wyles III. However, the assistant curator insists that something weird is going on, something possibly supernatural that requires special help. Shawn is then brought in on the case, and he declares that the mummy was not stolen, iit walked away on its own.
Director: Steve Franks
Writer: Steve Franks
9.0/10 4 votes#2 - Extradition II: The Actual Extradition Part
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 11/10/2010
Shawn and Gus return to Vancouver to visit their old nemesis Despereaux in prison at the felon's request, who then uses them to escape and pull one last job before he is extradited to the United States. Only while he is out, he is framed for the murder of a Crown Attorney and now asks the guys for help clearing his name of this most recent – and frankly unseemly – charge.
Director: Steve Franks
Writer: Steve Franks
9.0/10 2 votes#3 - Shawn Rescues Darth Vader
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 10/12/2011
Shawn stumbles across a dead body at the British consulate's home while working a case to recover a stolen "Star Wars" collector's item. In order to get the police on the case, Shawn claims he had a vision of the murder and puts his reputation as a psychic on the line.
Director: Steve Franks
Writer: Steve Franks
8.8/10 6 votes#4 - Extradition: British Columbia
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 8/7/2009
Shawn and Gus spot an art thief whom Lassiter has been trying to arrest for years. So, although they are on a skiing vacation in Canada, they appeal to the local constabulary with mixed results: someone gets axed, another finds himself interrogated and Pierre Despereaux may get away scot-free, once again.
Director: Steve Franks
Writer: Steve Franks
8.8/10 4 votes#5 - Romeo and Juliet and Juliet
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 7/14/2010
When the daughter of a Chinese Triad family disappears, Shawn and Gus take on the case.
Director: Steve Franks
Writer: Steve Franks
8.7/10 6 votes#6 - Tuesday the 17th
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 2/13/2009
Shawn and Gus are hired by a childhood friend to find a missing camp counselor who disappeared near their old sleep-away campgrounds. Upon their arrival, spooky activity abounds and they must uncover if the dark past of the abandoned camp has come back to life.
Director: James Roday Rodriguez
Writer: Steve Franks
8.6/10 5 votes#7 - Black and Tan: A Crime of Fashion
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/8/2008
It's Gus' birthday, so Shawn takes him to the launch party for Ciao clothing's new fall line. While Gus tries to make a move on his favorite model, one of the owners of Ciao is suddenly electrocuted via the stage's microphone. Shawn is certain that his death was no accident, so Shawn and Gus move in to the loft where the Ciao models live.
Director: Mel Damski
Writer: Steve Franks
8.6/10 9 votes#8 - The Break-Up
Season 8 Episode 10 - Aired 3/26/2014
Shawn and Gus help Detective Lassiter enlist the help of Henry and Woody to solve the murder of a real estate executive. Meanwhile, Shawn struggles with a life decision.
Director: Steve Franks
Writer: Steve Franks
8.4/10 5 votes#9 - A Very Juliet Episode
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 2/10/2010
In 2003, Juliet made a pact with her boyfriend Scott Seaver to meet up in seven years. After he fails to show up, Shawn finds him, and by extension endangers his life since he was a key witness against mobster JT Waring, who was convicted for the murder of a US Marshall. When Waring denies killing the Marshall, Shawn must prove him right in order to protect Scott.
Director: Steve Franks
Writer: Steve Franks
8.4/10 5 votes#10 - Think Tank
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 2/24/2010
Shawn and Gus are recruited into a think tank to help prevent the murder of a business tycoon, but once the group has disbanded, they realize that one of the members plans to use the assassination ideas to kill the client instead of save him.
Director: Stephen Surjik
Writer: Steve Franks
8.3/10 6 votes#11 - The Head, the Tail, the Whole Damn Episode
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 3/3/2010
After Lassiter takes a page out of Shawn's book and claims a shark attack victim was actually murdered, the guys must then scramble to find the fish and prove him right.
Director: Matt Shakman
Writer: Steve Franks
8.2/10 6 votes#12 - 65 Million Years Off
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 7/20/2007
The discovery of a washed-up body sparks a debate between Shawn and the police, who both disagree as to how the man died. While Shawn believes that the man was killed by a Tyrannosaurus Rex, the police believe the killer is a little less... extinct.
Director: Tim Matheson
Writer: Steve Franks
7.9/10 7 votes#13 - From the Earth to the Starbucks
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1/26/2007
When Lassiter doubts his own crime-solving ability, Shawn tries to boost his confidence by helping him solve an astronomer's mysterious death.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: Steve Franks
7.9/10 8 votes#14 - Lock, Stock, Some Smoking Barrels and Burton Guster's Goblet of Fire
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 1/8/2014
Stylish art thief Pierre Despereaux summons Shawn to London to help on an undercover operation.
Director: Steve Franks
Writer: Steve Franks
7.8/10 6 votes#15 - Ghosts
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 7/18/2008
Gus' supervisor, Frankjim Ogletree, demands that he quit moonlighting at Psych, lest he face termination. The vice-president of Gus' pharmaceutical company, however, decides to hire the duo as his wife believes that their home is haunted.
Director: Stephen Surjik
Writer: Steve Franks
7.8/10 5 votes#16 - Six Feet Under the Sea
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 1/9/2009
When Shabby the sea lion is found dead after being released into the wild, Shawn sets out to prove it was murder and stumbles onto a bigger mystery.
Director: Steve Franks
Writer: Steve Franks
7.8/10 5 votes#17 - Indiana Shawn and the Temple of the Kinda Crappy, Rusty Old Dagger
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 2/29/2012
Shawn and Gus team up with Despereaux to locate a mythical dagger rumored to be the key to unlocking a dead billionaire's treasure.
Director: Steve Franks
Writer: Steve Franks
7.6/10 11 votes#18 - Scary Sherry: Bianca's Toast
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 3/2/2007
Juliet asks Shawn and Gus for assistance on her undercover assignment. They're only too glad to help, since it involves sorority sisters. Unfortunately, what's supposed to be an easy case turns out to have ties to their past and may endanger Juliet. Meanwhile, Lassiter locks horns with the oldest rookie the departments has ever trained.
Director: John Landis
Writer: Steve Franks
7.5/10 4 votes#19 - Santabarbaratown 2
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 2/27/2013
After Henry takes a bullet to the chest and is rushed to the hospital, a spiteful Shawn seeks revenge on the shooter and everyone else involved in the scandal.
Director: Mel Damski
Writer: Steve Franks
7.4/10 16 votes#20 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/7/2006
When Shawn Spencer is arrested for calling in an accurate tip to the police because only the perpetrator would know the details, his only way out is pretending to be a psychic. It turns out Santa Barbara PD isn't done with him. They ask him to consult on a kidnapping case, and a business is born.
Director: Michael Engler
Writer: Steve Franks
7.4/10 11 votes#21 - American Duos
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 7/13/2007
Shawn and Gus go undercover as talent show contestants to investigate a number of failed attempts to kill one of the judges.
Director: John Landis
Writer: Steve Franks
7.2/10 10 votes#22 - Psych: The Musical
Season 7 Episode 15 - Aired 12/15/2013
This musical extravaganza follows Shawn and Gus' search for an escaped playwright who was declared criminally insane following a suspicious fire. Complicating matters, a person who may have important evidence is an enemy from Shawn's past.
Director: Steve Franks
Writer: Steve Franks
7.0/10 12 votes#23 - The Spellingg Bee
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/14/2006
When what begins as a little competitive sabotage in a regional spelling bee quickly escalates to murder. Shawn and Gus must investigate the mysterious death of the "Spellmaster" at the regional Spelling Bee.
Director: Mel Damski
Writer: Steve Franks
7.0/10 12 votes#24 - Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Piece
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 7/21/2006
Shawn and Gus become wedding crashers at a posh ceremony in order to retrieve a stolen antique engagement ring inexplicably taken from an inpenetrable vault under surveillance. The theft turns to murder when things start to come unraveled.
Director: Michael Engler
Writer: Steve Franks
6.9/10 10 votes#25 - Woman Seeking Dead Husband - Smokers Okay, No Pets
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 7/28/2006
Shawn and Gus land their first non-SBPD case when a widow hires them to find some cash that her husband stole from a bank. Shawn is asked to talk to a spirit and help the widow of the thief.
Director: Jeff Melman
Writer: Steve Franks