Steve Franks is the creator and one of the executive producers of the USA Network hit show Psych.
Steve Franks also came up with and wrote the story for the 1999 comedy Big Daddy starring Adam Sandler.
Along with creating and producing the show Psych, Franks has also written many episodes. Franks wrote the theme song, "I Know, You Know," and performed it with his band, The Friendly Indians, for the show. Franks is distinctive for his height, as he stands 6'8".
He directed but did not write the series finale, entitled "The Break-Up".
His only appearances in Psych 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 the penultimate episode "A Nightmare on State Street".
Episodes of Psych Franks has written[]
- Pilot
- Spellingg Bee
- Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Piece (with Andy Berman)
- Woman Seeking Dead Husband: Smokers Okay, No Pets
- From the Earth to the Starbucks
- Scary Sherry: Bianca's Toast (with James Roday Rodriguez)
- American Duos (with James Roday Rodriguez)
- 65 Million Years Off
- Shawn (and Gus) of the Dead (with James Roday Rodriguez) (also directed)
- Ghosts
- Six Feet Under the Sea
- Tuesday the 17th (with James Roday Rodriguez)
- Extradition: British Columbia (with Andy Berman) (also directed)
- Bollywood Homicide
- A Very Juliet Episode
- Think Tank (with Andy Berman)
- Romeo and Juliet and Juliet (also directed)
- Extradition II: The Actual Extradition Part (also directed)
- Shawn Rescues Darth Vader (also directed)
- Indiana Shawn and the Temple of the Kinda Crappy, Rusty Old Dagger
- Santabarbaratown 2
- Psych: The Musical (also directed)
- Lock, Stock, Some Smoking Barrels and Burton Guster's Goblet of Fire (also directed)
Franks co-wrote (with James Roday Rodriguez) and directed Psych: The Movie, co-wrote (with Andy Berman and Rodriguez) and directed Psych 2: Lassie Come Home, and co-wrote (with Rodriguez) and directed Psych 3: This Is Gus.