Abstract. Three simple, rapid and accurate titrimetric procedures using ammonium metavanadate have been developed for the determination of six phenothiazine drugs in pure form and in dosage forms. The procedures are based on the oxidation of phenothiazines in acid medium to colourless sulphoxides via orange or purple coloured intermediates. In the first method, phenothiazines are titrated directly in H2SO4-H3PO4 medium to a colourless end-point. In the second procedure, a known excess of oxidant is added and after a specified time, the residual oxidant is determined using standard ammonium ferrous sulphate titration. The third method employs electrometric end-point detection. The optimum reaction conditions and other analytical parameters are evaluated. The influence of the substrates commonly employed as excipients with phenothiazine drugs has been studied. Statistical comparison of the results with those of an official method shows excellent agreement and indicates no significant difference in precision. Most of the proposed methods are unsatisfactory for one reason or the other. The chloramine -T titrimetric procedure [6] is not suitable for micro determination. In non-aqueous titrimetry [3], the medium has to be scrupolously anhydrous. This is inconvenient in practice and even a trace amount of water will affect the results. As the reagent is unstable, the NBS method [7] is unreliable. The complexometric procedures [8,9] involve the filtration of the complex before titrating the unreacted metal. Stripping voltammetric techniques [15,16], though quite good for the determination of phenothiazines at low levels (ng ml-1), involve a rigid control of surface area of the hanging mercury drop electrode (HMDE). Moreover, these procedures are time consuming due to prolonged deposition and stripping processes and removal of oxygen with highly pure nitrogen gas. The HPLC technique [17] requires an expensive experimental set up. The purpose of this investigation was to develop simple, rapid, accurate and inexpensive titrimetric procedures for the determination of phenothiazines in bulk and in dosage forms using ammonium metavanadate, a well-known oxidimetric titrant in pharmaceutical analysis [18,19] and the results of the investigation are presented in this paper.