Steve Franks is the creator and one of the executive producers of the USA Network hit show Psych. He also (co-)wrote 27 episodes and directed 11 before going on to co-write and direct the three Psych movies released so far. Franks also wrote and performed the theme song for the show, "I Know, You Know", together with his band The Friendly Indians. All 12 episodes of the spin-off series Psych: The Big Adventures of Little Shawn and Gus were also written by him.
His only appearances in the Psychverse were as an uncredited extra in "Shawn (and Gus) of the Dead", where he walks past Shawn while he and Gus are arguing over the phone, and as an uncredited zombie extra in S8E9 "A Nightmare on State Street".
Besides Psych Franks is also known for writing the 1999 comedy Big Daddy, which is referenced on Lassiter's errand list in Psych 2: Lassie Come Home ("erase big daddy").
Expandable list of episodes Franks has written and directed
The Psych episodes Franks has written and directed are:
- S1E1 "Pilot" (written)
- S1E2 "Spellingg Bee" (written)
- S1E3 "Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Piece" (written)
- S1E4 "Woman Seeking Dead Husband: Smokers Okay, No Pets" (written)
- S1E10 "From the Earth to the Starbucks" (written)
- S1E15 "Scary Sherry: Bianca's Toast" (written with James Roday Rodriguez)
- S2E1 "American Duos" (written with Rodriguez)
- S2E2 "65 Million Years Off" (written)
- S2E15 "Black and Tan: A Crime of Fashion" (written with Rodriguez)
- S2E16 "Shawn (and Gus) of the Dead" (written and directed)
- S3E1 "Ghosts" (written)
- S3E10 "Six Feet Under the Sea" (written and directed)
- S3E15 "Tuesday the 17th" (written with Rodriguez)
- S4E1 "Extradition: British Columbia" (written with Andy Berman and directed)
- S4E6 "Bollywood Homicide" (written with Anupam Nigam)
- S4E12 "A Very Juliet Episode" (written with Tim Meltreger and directed)
- S4E14 "Think Tank" (written with Berman)
- S4E15 "The Head, the Tail, the Whole Damn Episode" (written with Meltreger)
- S5E1 "Romeo and Juliet and Juliet" (written and directed)
- S5E10 "Extradition II: The Actual Extradition Part" (written and directed)
- S5E11 "In Plain Fright" (written with Meltreger)
- S6E1 "Shawn Rescues Darth Vader" (written and directed)
- S6E10 "Indiana Shawn and the Temple of the Kinda Crappy, Rusty Old Dagger" (written and directed)
- S7E1 "Santabarbaratown 2" (written with Bill Callahan)
- S7E15 "Psych: The Musical" (written and directed)
- S8E1 "Lock, Stock, Some Smoking Barrels and Burton Guster's Goblet of Fire" (written with Kell Cahoon and directed)
- S8E10 "The Break-Up" (written and directed)
Franks also co-wrote (with Rodriguez) and directed Psych: The Movie, co-wrote (with Berman and Rodriguez) and directed Psych 2: Lassie Come Home, and co-wrote (with Rodriguez) and directed Psych 3: This Is Gus.
Trivia[]
- The entrance guard in S4E10 "You Can't Handle This Episode" is named "Franks" after him.
- Franks is distinctive for his height, as he stands 6'8".