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The Best Episodes of Monsters

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Monsters is a syndicated horror anthology series which originally ran from 1988 to 1991 and reran on the Sci-Fi Channel during the 1990s. Similarly to Tales from the Darkside, Monsters shared the same producer, and

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Monsters Season 2 Episode 17 - One Wolf's Family
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - One Wolf's Family

    S2:E17

    Anya, a girl from a family of wolves, plans to marry Stanley, but her father objects as Stanley is a were-hyena.

    Director:Alex Zamm
    Writer:Paul Dini

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  2. Monsters Season 3 Episode 10 - The Waiting Game
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - The Waiting Game

    S3:E10

    Four survivors of a nuclear blowout hide in their shelters, only connected by a walkie-talkie. While unbeknownst to them, the corpses of the dead are reanimated by something older than the radioactivity.

    Director:Bruno Spandello
    Writer:John Fox

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  3. Monsters Season 3 Episode 24 - The Moving Finger
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #3 - The Moving Finger

    S3:E24

    When a mysterious, impossibly long finger inexplicably and creepily pokes up out of the drain of his bathroom sink, family man Howard Mitla is pushed to the brink of madness in his attempts to get rid of it.

    Director:Kenny Myers
    Writer:Haskell Barkin

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  4. Monsters Season 3 Episode 8 - Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites

    S3:E8

    Young conspiracy theorist Kevin tries to convince his cool skeptic friend Tommy that an old-timey local barbershop is run by vampires in disguise.

    Director:John Strysik
    Writer:Dan Simmons

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  5. Monsters Season 1 Episode 1 - The Feverman
    4.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - The Feverman

    S1:E1

    When a doctor is unable to heal a man's sick daughter, the desperate father goes to a 'Feverman', a mysterious healer who literally fights the illness by summoning a physical manifestation of it from within the patient. The doctor, angry at the father's belief in superstition, tries to expose the Feverman as a fraud. In doing so, not only does he learn the truth, but there's also a price to pay for faith.

    Director:Michael Gornick
    Writer:Neal Marshall Stevens

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  6. Monsters Season 1 Episode 18 - The Match Game
    2.3/10(3 votes)

    #6 - The Match Game

    S1:E18

    In a haunted Victorian mansion, two couples play a game where each person tells part of a ghost story about the late former owner while a match burns. The story somehow comes true, and he rises from the grave to take their lives.

    Director:Michael Brandon
    Writer:David Chaskin

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  7. Monsters Season 1 Episode 5 - My Zombie Lover
    2.0/10(2 votes)

    #7 - My Zombie Lover

    S1:E5

    One night each year, the dead come back to life. A young zombie falls for his living female classmate but his hunger for human flesh and her prejudiced, zombie hunter father stand in the way of their happiness.

    Director:David Misch
    Writer:David Misch

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  8. Monsters Season 1 Episode 17 - Taps
    2.0/10(2 votes)

    #8 - Taps

    S1:E17

    Professional dancer/actress Suzy St. Claire wants independence from her possessive dancing partner and boyfriend, so she poisons and dismembers him. However, his severed leg in a red tap shoe seeks revenge.

    Director:David Misch
    Writers:David Misch, Larry Charles

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  9. Monsters Season 1 Episode 20 - Cocoon
    2.0/10(2 votes)

    #9 - Cocoon

    S1:E20

    A cop asks his psychic girlfriend to help a beautiful amnesiac remember who she is. It turns out she's a woman who feeds on the life energies of her lovers in order to maintain eternal youth.

    Director:John Gray
    Writer:Edithe Swensen

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  10. Monsters Season 2 Episode 4 - Rerun
    2.0/10(2 votes)

    #10 - Rerun

    S2:E4

    A teenage girl resurrects a recently deceased movie star that pledges his undying love for her. Her best friend enlists the formerly late actor's agent for help.

    Director:John Auerbach
    Writers:Peg Haller, Bob Schneider

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  11. Monsters Season 2 Episode 5 - Love Hurts
    2.0/10(2 votes)

    #11 - Love Hurts

    S2:E5

    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

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  12. Monsters Season 2 Episode 7 - Jar
    2.0/10(2 votes)

    #12 - Jar

    S2:E7

    While managing a remote inn near a wilderness swamp, an innkeeper makes ends meet by selling jars of items from the swamp. One particular item helps others to 'meet ends'. A curious private eye checks into the inn in search of a missing person, and meets Ann, who has brought her husband there to get him away from it all.

    Director:Bette Gordon
    Writers:Peg Haller, Bob Schneider

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  13. Monsters Season 2 Episode 12 - Museum Hearts
    2.0/10(2 votes)

    #13 - Museum Hearts

    S2:E12

    A lothario and two women he cheated on are trapped in a museum basement with the ancient bog body of a man-hating druid priestess, who worshiped Ceridwen.

    Director:Theodore Gershuny
    Writer:Theodore Gershuny

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  14. Monsters Season 2 Episode 16 - Perchance to Dream
    2.0/10(2 votes)

    #14 - Perchance to Dream

    S2:E16

    Following a blow to the head, Alex's nightmares appear to be becoming reality. His girlfriend seeks a psychologist's help and he suggests for Alex to enter the dream world and face his subconsciousness.

    Director:Paul Boyington
    Writer:Michael Reaves

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  15. Monsters Season 3 Episode 3 - Bug House
    2.0/10(2 votes)

    #15 - Bug House

    S3:E3

    Ellen and May's father died some time ago, and May has started living in the family's broken-down, bug-infested cabin. While visiting, Ellen discovers that her sister has a handsome new lover named Peter and that May is due to give birth but has been enduring severe abdominal pains. Peter seduces Ellen, who has always been competitive with May (but has long denied it). Both the truth about Peter and his reason for seducing Ellen soon become clear.

    Director:Kenny Myers
    Writer:Josef Anderson

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  16. Monsters Season 3 Episode 21 - Talk Nice to Me
    2.0/10(2 votes)

    #16 - Talk Nice to Me

    S3:E21

    A ladies' man is being harassed over the phone by a mysterious lonely female stalker with a seductive voice.

    Director:Ernest Farino
    Writer:Paul Dini

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  17. Monsters Season 1 Episode 3 - New York Honey
    1.0/10(2 votes)

    #17 - New York Honey

    S1:E3

    A greedy married man blackmails his eccentric beekeeper neighbor to profit off his tasty honey. He also falls for the beekeeper's mysterious, seductive vamp girlfriend.

    Director:Gerald Cotts
    Writer:Harvey Jacobs

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  18. Monsters Season 2 Episode 10 - The Mandrake Root
    1.0/10(2 votes)

    #18 - The Mandrake Root

    S2:E10

    In her basement, a married woman finds her late grandmother's exotic plant: the mythical mandrake root, an ingredient used in black magic to create the perfect lover that unfortunately feeds on human blood.

    Director:Brian Thomas Jones
    Writer:Harvey Jacobs

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  19. Monsters Season 3 Episode 1 - Stressed Environment
    1.0/10(2 votes)

    #19 - Stressed Environment

    S3:E1

    Dr. Elizabeth Porter, who spent twelve years raising rats in an unhealthy environment in hopes of evolving their intelligence, faces the terrifying results of her experiment.

    Director:Jeffrey Wolf
    Writer:Neal Marshall Stevens

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  20. Monsters Season 3 Episode 16 - The Waiting Room
    1.0/10(2 votes)

    #20 - The Waiting Room

    S3:E16

    Ben suggests to his newlywed son John and daughter-in-law Kate to spend their wedding night in the same hotel room where he spent his honeymoon. When a mysterious woman kidnaps John there, Ben reveals his secret to Kate.

    Director:Philip Alderton
    Writer:Neal Marshall Stevens

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  21. Monsters Season 1 Episode 2 - Holly's House
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #21 - Holly's House

    S1:E2

    Katherine is the star of Holly's House, a popular children's television show. Holly herself is a remote-controlled child-size robot. When Katherine is linked to the robot via wires and radio waves, she can make Holly walk and talk like a real person. Lenny, who plays 'Mike the Mailman', has gotten Katherine pregnant and asks her to marry him. But a stressed-out Katherine begins to think Holly is talking to her, and 'Holly' becomes jealous of Lenny and others on the show. Is Katherine going mad, or is something sinister going on?

    Director:Theodore Gershuny
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Monsters Season 1 Episode 4 - The Vampire Hunter
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #22 - The Vampire Hunter

    S1:E4

    Can famous vampire hunter Ernest Chariot save his assistant Jack before his old enemy Charles Poole can kill the young man, or worse, turn him into another bloodsucker?

    Director:Michael Gornick
    Writer:Edithe Swensen

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  23. Monsters Season 1 Episode 6 - Where's the Rest of Me?
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #23 - Where's the Rest of Me?

    S1:E6

    In a right-wing South American dictatorship on the verge of leftist rebellion, mad scientist Dr. Willard Wingite keeps a rebel's cadaver alive to harvest its organs for his rich friends. But the undead rebel decides to get his organs back.

    Director:Richard Benner
    Writer:Richard Benner

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  24. Monsters Season 1 Episode 7 - The Legacy
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #24 - The Legacy

    S1:E7

    Dale finds the private sanctuary of late horror icon Fulton Pierce. Dale can see Fulton's image in the old makeup case that was owned by the actor, and his life soon goes down a dark road.

    Director:Jeffrey Wolf
    Writer:John Harrison

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  25. Monsters Season 1 Episode 8 - Sleeping Dragon
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #25 - Sleeping Dragon

    S1:E8

    A mysterious prehistoric capsule is found outside Reno. Four scientists study it, but a lizard-looking monster hatches from it. With a heavy snowstorm raging outside, they must fight for their survival.

    Director:Mark Rezyka
    Writer:Michael Reaves

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Best Episodes Summary

"One Wolf's Family" is the best rated episode of "Monsters". It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Alex Zamm and written by Paul Dini, it aired on 2/11/1990. This episode scored 1.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Waiting Game".