diff --git a/FMScraper/items.py b/FMScraper/items.py
index f169811..e0cd611 100644
--- a/FMScraper/items.py
+++ b/FMScraper/items.py
@@ -29,7 +29,10 @@ class show_Item(scrapy.Item):
     tags = scrapy.Field()
 
 class episode_Item(scrapy.Item):
-    title = scrapy.Field()
+    title = scrapy.Field(
+            default = 'null',
+            input_processor = MapCompose(clean_text)
+            )
     description_lead = scrapy.Field(
             default = 'null',
             input_processor = MapCompose(clean_text)