Dr. Phil / Season 17 Specials Season 1 Season 2 Season 3 Season 4 Season 5 Season 6 Season 7 Season 8 Season 9 Season 10 Season 11 Season 12 Season 13 Season 14 Season 15 Season 16 Season 17 Season 18 Season 19 Season 20 Season 21 1 - Exclusive: The Model, the Hitman and the Victim (Sep 10) 2 - If Looks Could Kill: Inside the Model Murder-for-Hire Sting (Sep 11) 3 - We're Alcoholics, but We're Great Parents (Sep 12) 4 - Mystery at Sea: What Happened to Actress Natalie Wood? (Sep 13) 5 - Mystery at Sea: The Captain Speaks, Claims Hollywood Star Natalie Wood's Death Was No Accident (Sep 14) 6 - My Perfect Cheerleader Fiancee Is Abusing Me! (Sep 17) 7 - Self-Help Author Can't Help Himself: Locked in a Room With Baseball Bats, Afraid of Violent Sons (Sep 18) 8 - Deadly Best Friends? Exclusive: Father Whose Son Was Allegedly Murdered by Childhood Friend Speaks Out (Sep 19) 9 - My Mother and Sister Poisoned My Daughter Against Me and Now I Refuse to Go to Her Wedding! (Sep 20) 10 - My Wife Is Married to Another Man and Now Has a New Boyfriend (Sep 21) 11 - Hot Pepper: My Jealous Wife Chased Me Down the Freeway, and Married to Medicine (Sep 24) 12 - My Abusive Mother Is a Psychopathic Liar Holding My Younger Siblings Hostage in a Filthy Home (Sep 25) 13 - A Daughter Confronts Her Mother About Years of Living in Squalor: Will She Tell the Truth? (Sep 26) 14 - It's My Husband's Fault Our Honor Roll Student Is on a Downward Spiral (Sep 27) 15 - Arrests, Assaults and Addiction; My Family Needs to Get Over My Past (Sep 28) 16 - My Husband Thinks I'm Hacking Our Devices: Help Clear My Name! (Oct 1) 17 - Russian Hackers or Lying Wife? Will Jennifer Finally Come Clean? (Oct 2) 18 - Once a Hotshot Rapper, Now Homeless, Addicted and Destroying His Family (Oct 3) 19 - From Christian Cheerleader to Car-Stealing Criminal: What Happened to Our Daughter? (Oct 4) 20 - My Ex-Husband Has Brainwashed Our Child Against Me! (Oct 5) 21 - Nanny Tell All: What's Going on Behind Closed Doors? (Oct 8) 22 - Nurse Heather: Saving Lives & Slowly Killing Her Own? (Oct 9) 23 - Not So Sweet 16 (Oct 10) 24 - Assaults and Arrests: Troubled Teen Confronts Her Grandma (Oct 11) 25 - She Claims Her Husband Left Her for Two Weeks With No Money, No Food and No Car (Oct 12) 26 - A Family Claims Their Former Model Daughter Won’t Stop Lying (Oct 15) 27 - "Dr. Phil, Can You Save My Marriage?" and "The Dubrows on Diets, Date Nights, And 'OC' Disasters" (Oct 16) 28 - Being Gary Busey (Oct 17) 29 - Deconstructing Privilege (Oct 18) 30 - Evicted and Homeless: My Daughter Is Not Capable of Being a Mother (Oct 19) 31 - A Meddling Father-in-Law Who Allegedly Trapped His Son on His Compound (Oct 22) 32 - My Mother Is Dating the Man Who Abused My Sister (Oct 23) 33 - My African-American Daughter Believes She Is Caucasian (Oct 24) 34 - Exclusive: Hawaii Yoga Twin Who Drove Off Cliff With Her Sister (Oct 25) 35 - A Therapist Involved in a Money-Laundering Scam Faces Prison Time (Oct 26) 36 - Was Our Biological Father Involved in an Adoption Scam? (Oct 29) 37 - A Biological Father Accused of an Adoption Scam: The Aftermath (Oct 30) 38 - A Woman Claims to Be Pregnant for 3 Years 7 months (Oct 31) 39 - The Nanny Accused of a Firefighter Scam Faces Her Victims (Nov 1) 40 - Violent Love; A Boyfriend's Confession of Abuse (Nov 2) 41 - Lies, Betrayal and Custody: It's Been 2 Years Since We've Seen Our Daughter (Nov 5) 42 - From Top Model to Bottom of the Bottle (Nov 6) 43 - My Husband Believes I Am a Serial Adulterer, but I Have Never Been Unfaithful (Nov 7) 44 - My Sister Is Grooming Her 6-Year-Old Son to Become Transgender (Nov 8) 45 - Jersey Shore Mom and Daughter Bring Their Drama to Texas (Nov 9) 46 - Arrested for Keying Ex-Boyfriend's Car (Nov 12) 47 - Dad Confronts Daughter's Abuser (Nov 13) 48 - Witness to Murder (Nov 14) 49 - My Husband's Face Has Been Used as Catfish Bait (Nov 15) 50 - A Catfish Meets Her Victim (Nov 16) 51 - Exes at War: Bruises, CPS Reports, and Allegations of Abuse (Nov 19) 52 - Exes at War: Who's Behind the CPS Reports? And Charlamagne Tha God's Blueprint for Beating Fear and Anxiety (Nov 20) 53 - Actress Daughter Confronts Hoarder Mother on Eve of Eviction (Nov 21) 54 - My Wife Cannot Stop Being Unfaithful and It Is Destroying Our Family (Nov 27) 55 - Bad Parenting or Bad Teen? Who's Really to Blame? (Nov 28) 56 - Dr. Phil: Should I Divorce My Narcissistic, Angry Husband? (Nov 29) 57 - Unmasked but Still Unhappy (Nov 30) 58 - My Husband Butt-Dialed Me and Unknowingly Revealed He Blew His Secret Inheritance (Dec 3) 59 - Our Lying Daughter Would Rather Live in a Car Than With Her Own Child (Dec 4) 60 - My Cat-Hoarding Obsession Is Ruining My Marriage (Dec 5) 61 - 12 Kids, One on the Way and Too Many Problems (Dec 6) 62 - A Teen Obsessed With Beauty and Perfection (Dec 7) 63 - Beautiful Disaster? (Dec 10) 64 - Accusations of Trespassing, Stalking and Lies: Twin Daughters Caught in the Middle (Dec 11) 65 - My 14-Year-Old Son Is Accused of Killing His Siblings; Up and Vanished: Where Is Kristal Reisinger? (Dec 12) 66 - 200 Police Calls: Who's the Problem: Partying Teen or Attention-Seeking Mom? (Dec 13) 67 - My Fiance Never Showed Up to Our Wedding, but I Still Love Him (Dec 14) 68 - Scott Peterson's Sister-in-Law: Scott Is Innocent (Dec 17) 69 - Husband, Father, Murderer: Inside the Chris Watts Case (Dec 18) 70 - Missing: Where Is Corinna Slusser?; Girls Gone Update: Ebby Found (Dec 19) 71 - From Disney Star to Homeless and in Danger: Will Orlando Brown Accept Life-Saving Treatment? (Dec 20) 72 - Controversial Parenting Gone Viral (Dec 21) 73 - The Incomparable Kathy Bates (Jan 3) 74 - I Am Not Mentally Ill But I Am the Reincarnation of Pocahontas (Jan 4) 75 - I Believe I'm Being Electronically Harassed and Tricked Into Seeing Aliens! (Jan 7) 76 - Teenage Brides and Horrific Abuse: Escaping the Secret Life of Polygamy (Jan 8) 77 - A Secret Revealed; My Sister-in-Law Is a Danger to Her Son (Jan 9) 78 - Tales of Deception and Terror: Virtual Kidnapping; A Deadly Love Scam, Deceit and Dirty John (Jan 10) 79 - My Lazy Son Has No Empathy for My Cancer; My Mom Acts Like My Sister and Not My Mother (Jan 11) 80 - What Happened to the Bakersfield 3? (Jan 14) 81 - Bakersfield 3: What the Profiler Revealed (Jan 15) 82 - I Regret Agreeing to My Wife Being a Sugar Baby (Jan 16) 83 - A Member of My Secret Facebook Group Got Me Fired. I'm Afraid She's Stalking Me (Jan 17) 84 - A Young Woman Tormented by Memories of Abuse: But Are They Real? (Jan 18) 85 - My Grandson's Father Nearly Killed Us and His Mother Is Battling Us in Court (Jan 21) 86 - My Son Lost $60,000 Gambling From My Basement and Now Can't Raise His Children! (Jan 22) 87 - Please Convince My Daughter She Has an Eating Disorder (Jan 23) 88 - My Husband Told My Best Friend I Was Dying and Asked Her to Marry Him (Jan 24) 89 - Vanished Without a Trace: Girlfriend Missing 26 Years (Jan 25) 90 - Criminal Love: Why Women Date Inmates (Jan 28) 91 - In Love With a Rageaholic (Jan 29) 92 - Our Son Is a 40-Year-Old Homeless Car Camper (Jan 30) 93 - The Boy Under the Stairs: Hero Siblings Speak Out (Jan 31) 94 - I'm Afraid of My Violent, Video Game Addicted Son (Feb 1) 95 - Our Lying Ex-Boyfriend Is the Next Dirty John (Feb 4) 96 - More Ex-Girlfriends Confront Accused Con Man Erik (Feb 5) 97 - The BTK Killer's Daughter Speaks Out and The Mysterious Case of Crystal Rogers (Feb 6) 98 - My Fiance Believes He's a Superhero (Feb 7) 99 - Is My Nigerian Boyfriend Scamming Me? (Feb 8) 100 - Expelled, Handcuffed & Violent: My 14-Year-Old Daughter Is Out of Control (Feb 11) 101 - Destoni's Drama: Will She Accept Help? (Feb 12) 102 - Our Mother Is a Manipulator Who Abandoned Us as Children (Feb 13) 103 - From Physician Assistant to Living in Her Truck With Foreign Accent Syndrome (Feb 14) 104 - An Unspeakable Accusation: My Daughter Believes I Molested My Granddaughter (Feb 15) 105 - My Ex Is Trying to Erase Me From My Children's Lives (Feb 18) 106 - An Estranged Father Finally Confronts His Children (Feb 19) 107 - Is a Serial-Killer Gang Murdering Young Men Across the U.S.? (Feb 20) 108 - Insta-Famous to Insta-Lonely (Feb 21) 109 - Held Captive, Drugged and Abused by My Own Father (Feb 22) 110 - Edge of Insanity: I Believe I Have a Second Schizophrenic Child (Feb 25) 111 - A Second Schizophrenic Child or a Misdiagnosing Mom: Can Bodhi Be Helped? (Feb 26) 112 - Controversy Over Hate Crime Hoaxes (Feb 27) 113 - The Most Enabling Mother in America? (Feb 28) 114 - Sex Trafficking Survivor Demands Answers From Her Therapist Mother (Mar 1) 115 - Reunion Gone Wrong? (Mar 4) 116 - Exclusive: Chris Watts' Full Confession. His Daughter's Final Words (Mar 5) 117 - Save My Beautiful Daughters From Their Narcissistic Father (Mar 6) 118 - The One Who Survived (Mar 7) 119 - Lies, Betrayal and Custody: “It’s Been Two Years Since We’ve Seen Our Daughter” (Mar 8) 120 - Exclusive: Grieving Parents React To Chris Watts Confession (Mar 11) 121 - I Swiped Right on My Quadriplegic Boyfriend (Mar 12) 122 - A Secret Revealed; “My Sister-in-Law is a Danger to Her Son” (Mar 13) 123 - Our Lying Daughter Would Rather Live in a Car Than with Her Own Child (Mar 14) 124 - A Therapist Involved in a Money Laundering Scam Faces Prison Time (Mar 15) 131 - Finger Pointing and Accusations: Will Karlie Guse Be Found? (Mar 26) 132 - Hollywood Obsessed: The Black Dahlia Murder Mystery New Evidence Found (Mar 27) 135 - I Believe Global Terrorists Are Poisoning Me (Apr 1) 136 - Let Me Live My Life! (Apr 2) 137 - Jonestown: Stories of Strength and Survival (Apr 3) 140 - Blinded by Love (Apr 8) 141 - I Want My Vindictive Millionaire Mother Out of My Life (Apr 9) 142 - An Unfit Mother or an Alienating Grandma? Family's Decade-Long Drama (Apr 10) 143 - Our 6-Year-Old Son Was Murdered by His Grandmother (Apr 11) 159 - Is This Scam Artist Ready to Come Clean? (May 3) 174 - A Daughter's Brutal Murder; Her Father's Quest for Justice (May 24) 176 - Dr. Phil, Help Our Marriage & My Wife's Kidnapping 35+ Years Ago Captured Our Future (Aug 26) 177 - Our Preppy and Privileged Son is Now a Wannabe Gangster” (Aug 27) 178 - Family Destroyed By Sexual Abuse, Secrets and Lies (Aug 28) 179 - “Our Mother Was Diagnosed with Munchausen By Proxy” (Aug 29) 180 - The 47-Year-Old Relationship Virgin (Sep 3) 181 - Child Kidnapped, Starved and Beaten (Sep 4) 182 - A Thanksgiving Disaster, a Burned Toddler and a Family at Odds (Sep 5) 183 - “We Gave Our 31-Year-Old Daughter a Curfew and Tracked Her on GPS … But She’s Still a Liar and a Drunk” (Sep 6)
Season 17 · Episode 78 Tales of Deception and Terror: Virtual Kidnapping; A Deadly Love Scam, Deceit and Dirty John Jan 10, 2019 · 1h
Parents Andy and Bridget received a call from a scammer who claimed he was holding their daughter hostage for ransom; Debra, the real woman behind the podcast and Bravo series "Dirty John," tells of meeting a dangerous criminal online.
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When did Dr. Phil Season 17 Episode 78 air? Dr. Phil Season 17 Episode 78 aired on January 10, 2019.
How long is Dr. Phil Season 17 Episode 78? This episode runs for approximately 60 minutes.
