- 6.3/10110 votes6.3/10(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
- 5.7/1094 votes5.7/10(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
- 6.7/10103 votes6.7/10(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
- 6.5/1096 votes6.5/10(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
- 6.5/1092 votes6.5/10(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
- 7.2/10138 votes7.2/10(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
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- 6.2/1095 votes6.2/10(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
- 7.1/10116 votes7.1/10(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
- 5.9/1091 votes5.9/10(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
- 7.5/10145 votes7.5/10(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
- 7.0/1092 votes7.0/10(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
- 5.9/1087 votes5.9/10(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
- 5.4/1091 votes5.4/10(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
- 4.4/1097 votes4.4/10(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
- 6.9/1090 votes6.9/10(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
- 6.6/10115 votes6.6/10(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
- 6.8/1088 votes6.8/10(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
- 5.3/1088 votes5.3/10(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
- 6.8/1083 votes6.8/10(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
- 6.6/1092 votes6.6/10(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
- 5.7/1077 votes5.7/10(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
- 6.2/1077 votes6.2/10(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
- 6.6/1076 votes6.6/10(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
- 5.8/10169 votes5.8/10(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
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
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".