Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist — Season 4

Aired 9 May 1997 • 30 min

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.

Aired 22 June 1997 • 30 min

Ben decides to write his memoirs, dedicated to the ""loving memory"" of his father.

Aired 29 June 1997 • 30 min

Dr. Katz buys an Electric Bike because he always wanted one but never got it as a kid. They find that a $1,000 bicycle isn't all fun and games, when it breaks as Ben drove it down stairs. They soon learnm that some inventions just were never meant to be.

Aired 6 July 1997 • 30 min

Apparently not having learned from his previous experience with journalism, Ben goes to a broadcasting school audition.

Aired 13 July 1997 • 30 min

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"").

Aired 27 July 1997 • 30 min

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).

Aired 3 August 1997 • 30 min

Katz takes a class in making African ritual masks.

Aired 10 August 1997 • 30 min

Katz and Ben decide to reorganize their closet space, and they hire a company to do it.

Aired 17 August 1997 • 30 min

Ben wants to take a bike trip to Nova Scotia, and he and Katz discuss the great outdoors. Several plans are offered, but what they wind up doing is sitting around the house all weekend. Ben gets the whole thing on tape, thanks to Laura's camcorder.

Aired 24 August 1997 • 30 min

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.

Aired 31 August 1997 • 30 min

While watching the news, Ben and Katz learn that a mailbox in their neighborhood was struck by a car driven by a bald Caucasian male in his late 40s. Ben assumes it was his dad, despite dad's protests that while he is in his late 40s, he is ""balding,"" not bald.

Aired 7 September 1997 • 30 min

Katz wants to do something big for Ben's 25th birthday, but Ben doesn't want any fuss.

Aired 14 September 1997 • 30 min

Laura starts taking a lot of time off, but won't say why. Ben is curious and so is Katz, and they speculate.