All 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
Season 1
4.0/101 votesThe Feverman
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/22/1988
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
2.3/103 votesThe Match Game
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 4/15/1989
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
2.0/102 votesMy Zombie Lover
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/19/1988
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
2.0/102 votesTaps
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 3/4/1989
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
Writer: David Misch, Larry Charles
2.0/102 votesCocoon
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 4/29/1989
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
1.0/102 votesNew York Honey
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/5/1988
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
N/A/100 votesHolly's House
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/29/1988
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
N/A/100 votesThe Vampire Hunter
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/12/1988
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
N/A/100 votesWhere's the Rest of Me?
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/26/1988
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
N/A/100 votesThe Legacy
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 12/3/1988
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
N/A/100 votesSleeping Dragon
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/10/1988
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
N/A/100 votesPool Sharks
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/17/1988
Pool hustler Gabe challenges seductive but evil Natasha to a game. The kicker is she is a vampire and he is out for revenge against her.
Director: Alan Kingsberg
Writer: Alan Kingsberg
N/A/100 votesPillow Talk
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/24/1988
Miles goes to great lengths to keep his bed possessed by a Lovecraftian nightmare full. But an assertive female writer who seems to fancy him challenges his status quo.
Director: Carl Stine
Writer: David Odell
N/A/100 votesRouse Him Not
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/31/1988
A painter with strange visions who lives in an old cottage is visited by a warlock who used to live there. But his arrival wakes an ancient beast buried far below the cottage.
Director: Mark Shostrom
Writer: Michel Parry
N/A/100 votesFools' Gold
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/21/1989
Three construction workers find a hidden cave with treasure guarded by a troll.
Director: Greg Cannom
Writer: Michael Reaves
N/A/100 votesGlim-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: Peter Stein
Writer: F. Paul Wilson
N/A/100 votesParents from Space
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/11/1989
An orphan named Cindy receives a blessing in disguise when her abusive foster parents are taken over by friendly aliens whose ship has broken down.
Director: Gerald Cotts
Writer: Peg Haller, Bob Schneider
N/A/100 votesThe 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: David E. Smith
N/A/100 votesTheir Divided Self
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/25/1989
One stormy evening, Dr. Blackman tries to counsel successful professional comedians James and Robert Self, who also happen to be conjoined twins who won't stop bickering and trying to kill each other.
Director: Frank De Palma
Writer: Michael Bishop
N/A/100 votesRain Dance
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 4/22/1989
During a drought, a struggling treasure hunter for profit and his vain wife get more than they bargained for when he buys a cursed rainmaking idol from an old indigenous woman who bears ill will towards the whites.
Director: Richard Friedman
Writer: Michael Kimball
N/A/100 votesAll in a Day's Work
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/6/1989
A man haunted by his doppelgänger asks a white witch and single mother to help him raise a demon to defeat it before it takes him and her son.
Director: Allen Coulter
Writer: Jule Selbo
N/A/100 votesSatan in the Suburbs
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/13/1989
A charming devil forces a down-on-her-luck but principled suburbanite single mother to be his ghost writer, and if his biography gets published, he'll get a better position in hell. She tries to convert him to the side of goodness.
Director: Warner Shook
Writer: Jule Selbo
N/A/100 votesMannikins of Horror
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 5/20/1989
In an Orwellian society, a female doctor in an insane asylum tries to help her patient, a former brilliant surgeon obsessed with giving life to his clay figurines, before the institution director deems him incurable and therefore expendable.
Director: Ernest Farino
Writer: Josef Anderson
N/A/100 votesLa Strega
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 5/27/1989
A young man tries to destroy a beautiful witch, whom he thinks has placed his mother under a deadly curse.
Director: Lizzie Borden
Writer: Michael McDowell