8.0/101 votesLoading...#1 - The Waiting Game
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/9/1990
After a nuclear blowout, only two factions remain. Humans inside of a small locked shelter, and nuclear holocaust vampires. With the two sides only separated by a small digital code on the outside of the shelter.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/10210 votesLoading...#2 - The Match Game
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 4/15/1989
Four teenagers go into a haunted Victorian mansion and play a game where each tell part of a ghost story while a match burns, suddenly the story comes true.
Director: Michael Brandon
Writer: N/A
7.3/10259 votesLoading...#3 - Mannequins of Horror
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 5/20/1989
A nurse tries to help a patient who obsesses on perfecting his clay mannequins. But little does she know how much of a connection he actually has with them.
Director: Ernest D. Farino
Writer: Josef Anderson
7.2/10314 votesLoading...#4 - Glim-Glim
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 2/4/1989
A mysterious disease has killed most of the people in town and Amy's father believes that the hideous alien holed up in the library is responsible. But as Amy soon learns, Glim-Glim may be their only hope for survival.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/10126 votesLoading...#5 - A Bond of Silk
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/1989
A newlywed couple finds out you get what you pay for when they discover that their honeymoon suite is not quite what they expected.
Director: Ernest D. Farino
Writer: N/A
7.0/10132 votesLoading...#6 - The Farmer's Daughter
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/1989
A man takes shelter at a farm for the evening and he is surprised to be sharing a room with the farmer's pretty daughter.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.9/10143 votesLoading...#7 - The Mother Instinct
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/18/1989
A slimy, good-for-nothing husband tries to get money from his mother-in-law, especially when he finds out that her fruit can produce a serum that can boost the human strength. He is prepared to do anything to get rich from it, but hasn't counted on just how protective a mother can be.
Director: Bette Gordon
Writer: N/A
6.9/10108 votesLoading...#8 - The Bargain
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 5/27/1990
A homely owner of a bookshop is very much in love with a frequent customer who barely seems to know she exists. When she calls a number in a very old magazine, she finds that they are in business and willing to sell her a mask that will guarantee her the beauty that will catch the man's attention.
Director: Tom Noonan
Writer: N/A
6.8/10295 votesLoading...#9 - Pool Sharks
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/17/1988
A pool hustler, Gabe finds himself involved in a high-stakes game (literally) with Natasha, a seductive vampire.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.8/10175 votesLoading...#10 - Pillow Talk
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/24/1988
A man feeds a monster that resides in his bedroom.
Director: N/A
Writer: David Odell
6.8/10148 votesLoading...#11 - All in a Day's Work
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/6/1989
A witch tries to protect herself against a demon.
Director: N/A
Writer: Jule Selbo
6.8/10112 votesLoading...#12 - The Offering
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/18/1990
After receiving a head injury in a car crash, a man recovering in the hospital finds that he can see a strange creature that he believes is the source of cancer.
Director: Ernest D. Farino
Writer: Dan Simmons
6.7/1095 votesLoading...#13 - Reaper
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/26/1989
A patient at a nursing home makes a deal with the Grim Reaper.
Director: N/A
Writer: Josef Anderson
6.7/10117 votesLoading...#14 - Far Below
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/25/1990
A nosy city official stumbles into a secret operation beneath a New York Subway.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.7/10106 votesLoading...#15 - The Family Man
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 6/3/1990
A young boy tries to protect his family from an alien, whom he can only see using his dead father's glasses.
Director: N/A
Writer: Gordon Rayfield
6.6/10281 votesLoading...#16 - The Feverman
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/22/1988
An unusual healer is a man's last hope for his ailing daughter.
Director: Michael Gornick
Writer: Neal Marshall Stevens
6.6/10154 votesLoading...#17 - Parents from Space
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/11/1989
A girl dealing with her cruel foster parents, is blessed when aliens take over their bodies.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.6/10119 votesLoading...#18 - Portrait of the Artist
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/1989
The art being displayed in a local exhibit may not be what it appears to be as the haunting figures hanging in the gallery resemble those of recent missing persons.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.6/10116 votesLoading...#19 - Love Hurts
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/1989
A DMV employee begins an affair with his wife and father-in-law being the only thing holding him back. However, the seductress taps into her learned dark magic to make him all hers.
Director: Manny Coto
Writer: Edithe Swensen
6.6/10111 votesLoading...#20 - Museum Hearts
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/7/1990
A cheating man finds himself locked after-hours in a museum with three women: his girlfriend; the woman he's cheating on her with; and the reanimated body of a Druid priestess, who claims to be the spirit of woman.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.5/10112 votesLoading...#21 - The Face
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/1989
When two brothers break into an old woman's house to rob her, they wind up killing her, but not before she bites one of them, leaving him with a nasty scar to remember her by.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.5/10102 votesLoading...#22 - Jar
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/1989
A private detective looking for a missing person discovers an innkeeper who sells mysterious jars.
Director: Bette Gordon
Writer: N/A
6.5/102 votesLoading...#23 - The Moving Finger
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 4/26/1991
A man battles a large finger that that rises out of drain of his sink.
Director: Kenny Myers
Writer: Haskell Barkin
6.4/10115 votesLoading...#24 - Bed and Boar
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/21/1990
A traveling salesman spends the night in a hotel next door to a beautiful woman and her husband, who hides a dark secret.
Director: Sara Driver
Writer: David Odell
6.4/10112 votesLoading...#25 - The Gift
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/20/1990
A young boy has been kidnapped and locked in the basement of a cabin where he meets and befriends a strange beast he discovers to be a man with many powers. He can help them escape their captors, but there are unfortunate limits to such abilities.
Director: Jeffrey Wolf
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Monsters
Every episode of Monsters ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Monsters!
Monsters is a syndicated horror anthology series which originally ran from 1988 to 1991 and reran on the Sci-Fi Channel during the 1990s. As of...
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Best Episodes Summary
"The Waiting Game" is the best rated episode of "Monsters". It scored 8/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 12/9/1990. This episode scored 0.6 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Match Game".