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The Best Episodes of Monsters Season 3

Every episode of Monsters Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Monsters Season 3!

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...
Genres:MysterySci-Fi & FantasyDrama
Networks:SyfyChiller
Episodes
24
Avg. Rating
6.3
S1
S2
S3
S4
E1
E2
E3
6.3
5.7
6.7

Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Stressed Environment" is the best rated episode of "Monsters" season 3. It scored 6.3/10 based on 110 votes. Directed by Jeffrey Wolf and written by N/A, it aired on 9/30/1990. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "Murray's Monster".

  • Stressed Environment
    6.3/10(110)

    #1 - Stressed Environment

    Season 3 Episode 1

    Aired 9/30/1990

    Mutant rats threaten pesticide wielding scientists in a laboratory.

    Director: Jeffrey Wolf

    Writer: N/A

  • Murray's Monster
    5.7/10(94)

    #2 - Murray's Monster

    Season 3 Episode 2

    Aired 10/7/1990

    A psychiatrist with his own stress from his wife finds a solution when he discovers a sheepish patient has manifested his repressed anger in the form of a giant ape-like monster.

    Director: Scott Alexander

    Writer: N/A

  • Bug House
    6.7/10(103)

    #3 - Bug House

    Season 3 Episode 3

    Aired 10/14/1990

    A man awakes to find himself in a home where the lady of the house has a non-chalant attitude towards the bugs in her home.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Josef Anderson

  • Cellmates
    6.5/10(96)

    #4 - Cellmates

    Season 3 Episode 4

    Aired 10/21/1990

    A young man expecting to be freed from prison by his rich father discoveres he's been placed in the wrong cell.

    Director: Stephen Tolkin

    Writer: David Odell

  • Outpost
    6.5/10(92)

    #5 - Outpost

    Season 3 Episode 5

    Aired 10/28/1990

    A planetary station commander discovers the identity of a monster that operates a mining project on a hostile planet.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Michael Reaves

  • The Hole
    7.2/10(138)

    #6 - The Hole

    Season 3 Episode 6

    Aired 11/4/1990

    A group of men find their way into a bunker during the Vietnam War, only to find that this hole hides a secret buried in its walls.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Small Blessings
    6.2/10(95)

    #7 - Small Blessings

    Season 3 Episode 7

    Aired 11/11/1990

    A young family tries to cope with having a meat hungry deformed baby.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites
    7.1/10(116)

    #8 - A Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites

    Season 3 Episode 8

    Aired 11/18/1990

    Two teenagers think the barber shop across the street may be a secret meeting place for town vampires.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Dan Simmons

  • The Young and the Headless
    5.9/10(91)

    #9 - The Young and the Headless

    Season 3 Episode 9

    Aired 11/25/1990

    The marriage of a couple of doctors become problematic when the woman's presumed-to-be-dead husband returns and she finds herself still allured to the hunk despite her better judgement. After finding success with animating a headless parrot, the two decide to use the numbskull of a third wheel to take their work to another level.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Waiting Game
    7.5/10(145)

    #10 - 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

  • Sin-Sop
    7.0/10(92)

    #11 - Sin-Sop

    Season 3 Episode 11

    Aired 12/9/1990

    A sort of faith healer has set up a kind of distillery for paying customers. What was once the most sinful man is now a living conduit to drain people of their sins.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A New Woman
    5.9/10(87)

    #12 - A New Woman

    Season 3 Episode 12

    Aired 12/16/1990

    As a rich, elderly man lays dying, his cold-hearted mistress threatens what maybe his last morale act on earth. For her soulless intents, the man's mysterious doctor promises her a haunting that very well may change her outlook.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Edithe Swensen

  • Malcolm
    5.4/10(91)

    #13 - Malcolm

    Season 3 Episode 13

    Aired 12/23/1990

    A husband rediscovers a part of himself that he thought he lost long ago when he gave up his music career for his wife.

    Director: Tom Noonan

    Writer: N/A

  • Household Gods
    4.4/10(97)

    #14 - Household Gods

    Season 3 Episode 14

    Aired 12/30/1990

    When a recent mother tries to go back to work while maintaining some housework, she finds things going awry. To her disbelief she finds out that her lifestyle is defying the domestic gods.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Edithe Swensen

  • The Space Eaters
    6.9/10(90)

    #15 - The Space Eaters

    Season 3 Episode 15

    Aired 1/6/1991

    Two men encounter a victim who claims his brain was eaten. After confirming the story, they attempt to fight off the alien invader responsible.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Waiting Room
    6.6/10(115)

    #16 - The Waiting Room

    Season 3 Episode 16

    Aired 1/13/1991

    A father brings his son and his new wife to a hotel where he and his wife once stayed. It seems that there is a specific reason for this, one that has to do with a promise he broke to a woman he encountered in a room that exists only in the dark.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Leavings
    6.8/10(88)

    #17 - Leavings

    Season 3 Episode 17

    Aired 1/21/1991

    Two police officers are disturbed by recent sightings of people who are missing body parts and others who appear to have been almost put together from other parts. However, the oddest thing is the blasé reaction of their supervisor upon hearing their stories.

    Director: John Tillinger

    Writer: Gahan Wilson

  • Desirable Alien
    5.3/10(88)

    #18 - Desirable Alien

    Season 3 Episode 18

    Aired 1/27/1991

    A caseworker for the United States Immigration Service wants to unlock the mystery of her subject's alluring power.

    Director: Bette Gordon

    Writer: Edithe Swensen

  • A Face for Radio
    6.8/10(83)

    #19 - A Face for Radio

    Season 3 Episode 19

    Aired 2/3/1991

    A smart-mouth host of a late-night radio show is beguiled by a female guest who claims she was abducted by aliens and that they gave her a creature to help rid the planet of evil.

    Director: Bruce Feirstein

    Writer: N/A

  • Werewolf of Hollywood
    6.6/10(92)

    #20 - Werewolf of Hollywood

    Season 3 Episode 20

    Aired 2/10/1991

    A screenwriter it tasked to pen a horror film with the unique premise of a werewolf in the position of an executive. But things starting getting a bit bloody when it seems that it hits a nerve with someone in the studio.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Ron Goulart

  • Talk Nice to Me
    5.7/10(77)

    #21 - Talk Nice to Me

    Season 3 Episode 21

    Aired 2/17/1991

    A columnist and lady's man is harassed by a woman via the phone, but he can't figure out who she is, how she seems to know what's going on in his apartment all the time, or how she manages to get into his place without him seeing her.

    Director: Ernest D. Farino

    Writer: Paul Dini

  • Hostile Takeover
    6.2/10(77)

    #22 - Hostile Takeover

    Season 3 Episode 22

    Aired 2/24/1991

    A cut-throat CEO is making good business with the help of voodoo, but doesn't find out until it's too late that it comes with a very high price.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Maker
    6.6/10(76)

    #23 - The Maker

    Season 3 Episode 23

    Aired 4/18/1991

    A bum encounters a man with the power to create anything he desires.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Moving Finger
    5.8/10(169)

    #24 - 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