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The Best Episodes of Monsters Season 1

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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
    Monsters Season 1 Episode 18 - The Match Game
    7.3/10(261 votes)

    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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  2. Monsters Season 1 Episode 23 - Mannikins of Horror
    7.2/10(303 votes)

    S1:E23

    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

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  3. Monsters Season 1 Episode 13 - Glim-Glim
    7.1/10(358 votes)

    S1:E13

    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

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  4. Monsters Season 1 Episode 9 - Pool Sharks
    6.8/10(344 votes)

    S1:E9

    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

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  5. Monsters Season 1 Episode 10 - Pillow Talk
    6.8/10(222 votes)

    S1:E10

    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

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  6. Monsters Season 1 Episode 15 - The Mother Instinct
    6.8/10(179 votes)

    S1:E15

    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

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  7. Monsters Season 1 Episode 21 - All in a Day's Work
    6.8/10(191 votes)

    S1:E21

    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

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  8. Monsters Season 1 Episode 14 - Parents from Space
    6.6/10(197 votes)

    S1:E14

    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
    Writers:Peg Haller, Bob Schneider

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  9. Monsters Season 1 Episode 1 - The Feverman
    6.5/10(347 votes)

    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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  10. Monsters Season 1 Episode 2 - Holly's House
    6.3/10(315 votes)

    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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  11. Monsters Season 1 Episode 20 - Cocoon
    6.3/10(179 votes)

    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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  12. Monsters Season 1 Episode 19 - Rain Dance
    6.2/10(178 votes)

    S1:E19

    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

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  13. Monsters Season 1 Episode 12 - Fools' Gold
    6.0/10(180 votes)

    S1:E12

    Three construction workers find a hidden cave with treasure guarded by a troll.

    Director:Greg Cannom
    Writer:Michael Reaves

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  14. Monsters Season 1 Episode 24 - La Strega
    6.0/10(281 votes)

    S1:E24

    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

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  15. Monsters Season 1 Episode 5 - My Zombie Lover
    5.8/10(385 votes)

    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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  16. Monsters Season 1 Episode 8 - Sleeping Dragon
    5.8/10(310 votes)

    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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  17. Monsters Season 1 Episode 6 - Where's the Rest of Me?
    5.7/10(238 votes)

    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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  18. Monsters Season 1 Episode 11 - Rouse Him Not
    5.7/10(249 votes)

    S1:E11

    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

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  19. Monsters Season 1 Episode 3 - New York Honey
    5.6/10(275 votes)

    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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  20. Monsters Season 1 Episode 17 - Taps
    5.6/10(188 votes)

    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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  21. Monsters Season 1 Episode 22 - Satan in the Suburbs
    5.6/10(270 votes)

    S1:E22

    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

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  22. Monsters Season 1 Episode 4 - The Vampire Hunter
    5.2/10(332 votes)

    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 7 - The Legacy
    5.1/10(217 votes)

    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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  24. Monsters Season 1 Episode 16 - Their Divided Self
    4.1/10(191 votes)

    S1:E16

    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

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"The Match Game" is the best rated episode of "Monsters" season 1. It scored 7.3/10 based on 261 votes. Directed by Michael Brandon and written by David Chaskin, it aired on 4/15/1989. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Mannikins of Horror".