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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!

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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. As of 2011, Monsters airs on NBC Universal's horror/suspense-themed cable channel Chiller

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Monsters Season 3 Episode 1 - Stressed Environment
    6.2/10(121 votes)

    #1 - Stressed Environment

    S3:E1

    Mutant rats threaten pesticide wielding scientists in a laboratory.

    Director:Jeffrey Wolf
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Monsters Season 3 Episode 2 - Murray's Monster
    5.9/10(104 votes)

    #2 - Murray's Monster

    S3:E2

    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:Unknown

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  3. Monsters Season 3 Episode 3 - Bug House
    6.8/10(117 votes)

    #3 - Bug House

    S3:E3

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Josef Anderson

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  4. Monsters Season 3 Episode 4 - Cellmates
    6.6/10(105 votes)

    #4 - Cellmates

    S3:E4

    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

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  5. Monsters Season 3 Episode 5 - Outpost
    6.6/10(100 votes)

    #5 - Outpost

    S3:E5

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Michael Reaves

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  6. Monsters Season 3 Episode 6 - The Hole
    7.2/10(149 votes)

    #6 - The Hole

    S3:E6

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Monsters Season 3 Episode 7 - Small Blessing
    6.4/10(104 votes)

    #7 - Small Blessing

    S3:E7

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Monsters Season 3 Episode 8 - A Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites
    6.9/10(128 votes)

    #8 - A Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites

    S3:E8

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Dan Simmons

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  9. Monsters Season 3 Episode 9 - The Young and the Headless
    6.1/10(100 votes)

    #9 - The Young and the Headless

    S3:E9

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Monsters Season 3 Episode 10 - The Waiting Game
    7.5/10(163 votes)

    #10 - The Waiting Game

    S3:E10

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Monsters Season 3 Episode 11 - Sin-Sop
    7.1/10(101 votes)

    #11 - Sin-Sop

    S3:E11

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Monsters Season 3 Episode 12 - A New Woman
    6.0/10(97 votes)

    #12 - A New Woman

    S3:E12

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Edithe Swensen

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  13. Monsters Season 3 Episode 13 - Malcolm
    5.7/10(103 votes)

    #13 - Malcolm

    S3:E13

    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:Unknown

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  14. Monsters Season 3 Episode 14 - Household Gods
    4.6/10(108 votes)

    #14 - Household Gods

    S3:E14

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Edithe Swensen

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  15. Monsters Season 3 Episode 15 - The Space-Eaters
    7.1/10(102 votes)

    #15 - The Space-Eaters

    S3:E15

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Monsters Season 3 Episode 16 - The Waiting Room
    6.4/10(127 votes)

    #16 - The Waiting Room

    S3:E16

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Monsters Season 3 Episode 17 - Leavings
    7.0/10(97 votes)

    #17 - Leavings

    S3:E17

    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

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  18. Monsters Season 3 Episode 18 - Desirable Alien
    5.6/10(100 votes)

    #18 - Desirable Alien

    S3:E18

    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

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  19. Monsters Season 3 Episode 19 - A Face for Radio
    6.8/10(93 votes)

    #19 - A Face for Radio

    S3:E19

    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:Unknown

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  20. Monsters Season 3 Episode 20 - Werewolf of Hollywood
    6.8/10(104 votes)

    #20 - Werewolf of Hollywood

    S3:E20

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Ron Goulart

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  21. Monsters Season 3 Episode 21 - Talk Nice to Me
    5.8/10(88 votes)

    #21 - Talk Nice to Me

    S3:E21

    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

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  22. Monsters Season 3 Episode 22 - Hostile Takeover
    6.4/10(86 votes)

    #22 - Hostile Takeover

    S3:E22

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Monsters Season 3 Episode 23 - The Maker
    6.8/10(85 votes)

    #23 - The Maker

    S3:E23

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Monsters Season 3 Episode 24 - The Moving Finger
    5.7/10(183 votes)

    #24 - The Moving Finger

    S3:E24

    A man battles a large finger that that rises out of drain of his sink.

    Director:Kenny Myers
    Writer:Haskell Barkin

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Stressed Environment" is the best rated episode of "Monsters" season 3. It scored 6.2/10 based on 121 votes. Directed by Jeffrey Wolf and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/30/1990. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Murray's Monster".