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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. Similarly to Tales from the Darkside, Monsters shared the same producer, and

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Monsters Season 3 Episode 1 - Stressed Environment
    6.4/10(127 votes)

    #1 - Stressed Environment

    S3:E1

    Dr. Elizabeth Porter, who spent twelve years raising rats in an unhealthy environment in hopes of evolving their intelligence, faces the terrifying results of her experiment.

    Director:Jeffrey Wolf
    Writer:Neal Marshall Stevens

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  2. Monsters Season 3 Episode 2 - Murray's Monster
    6.0/10(110 votes)

    #2 - Murray's Monster

    S3:E2

    Psychiatrist Murray Van Pelt attempts to use a man who can turn into an unstoppable monster whenever his repressed anger is let loose through hypnosis to get rid of his annoying wife.

    Director:Scott Alexander
    Writer:Scott Alexander

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  3. Monsters Season 3 Episode 3 - Bug House
    6.7/10(124 votes)

    #3 - Bug House

    S3:E3

    Ellen and May's father died some time ago, and May has started living in the family's broken-down, bug-infested cabin. While visiting, Ellen discovers that her sister has a handsome new lover named Peter and that May is due to give birth but has been enduring severe abdominal pains. Peter seduces Ellen, who has always been competitive with May (but has long denied it). Both the truth about Peter and his reason for seducing Ellen soon become clear.

    Director:Kenny Myers
    Writer:Josef Anderson

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  4. Monsters Season 3 Episode 4 - Cellmates
    6.6/10(112 votes)

    #4 - Cellmates

    S3:E4

    A spoiled American ends up in a South American jail for killing a kid with his car. He counts on his rich father's lawyer to get him out but a weird old political prisoner tells him he's in 'the bad cell' that no one ever leaves.

    Director:Stephen Tolkin
    Writer:David Odell

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  5. Monsters Season 3 Episode 5 - Outpost
    6.7/10(109 votes)

    #5 - Outpost

    S3:E5

    A space mining corporation representative visits the company facility on an uninhabited planet run by a mutant slave to see why his output is behind schedule.

    Director:T.K. Hudson
    Writer:Michael Reaves

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  6. Monsters Season 3 Episode 6 - The Hole
    7.2/10(155 votes)

    #6 - The Hole

    S3:E6

    During the Vietnam War, American soldiers Kenner and Torres, and a South Vietnamese lieutenant blast their way into an underground base and series of tunnels operated by the Viet Cong. They discover a horribly wounded guerrilla, who tells them that the VC tunneled through an old burial ground, and now the dead want vengeance.

    Director:David Severeid
    Writer:Haskell Barkin

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  7. Monsters Season 3 Episode 7 - Small Blessing
    6.5/10(112 votes)

    #7 - Small Blessing

    S3:E7

    Two normal, loving human parents try to keep their cute, cannibalistic, mutant infant son from devouring the neighbors. Meanwhile, a wannabe serial killer stalks the area.

    Director:Roger Nygard
    Writers:Peg Haller, Bob Schneider

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  8. Monsters Season 3 Episode 8 - Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites
    6.8/10(142 votes)

    #8 - Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites

    S3:E8

    Young conspiracy theorist Kevin tries to convince his cool skeptic friend Tommy that an old-timey local barbershop is run by vampires in disguise.

    Director:John Strysik
    Writer:Dan Simmons

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  9. Monsters Season 3 Episode 9 - The Young and the Headless
    6.2/10(107 votes)

    #9 - The Young and the Headless

    S3:E9

    Jealous wheelchair-bound Edward takes his wife Victoria's long-lost alpha male ex, Hunk, who suddenly came back for her, out of the picture for good. Being scientists, the two use microchips that mimic the human mind to rebuild Hunk.

    Director:Tom Abrams
    Writers:Peg Haller, Bob Schneider

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  10. Monsters Season 3 Episode 10 - The Waiting Game
    7.5/10(172 votes)

    #10 - The Waiting Game

    S3:E10

    Four survivors of a nuclear blowout hide in their shelters, only connected by a walkie-talkie. While unbeknownst to them, the corpses of the dead are reanimated by something older than the radioactivity.

    Director:Bruno Spandello
    Writer:John Fox

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  11. Monsters Season 3 Episode 11 - Sin-Sop
    7.2/10(107 votes)

    #11 - Sin-Sop

    S3:E11

    A nice, young, southern faith healer uses the miraculous cleansing ability of the corpse of the most evil man in the world to run a small, popular, sin-extraction business. A female reporter and a cynical psycho-killer try to debunk him.

    Director:P.J. Pesce
    Writer:Doug Wallace

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  12. Monsters Season 3 Episode 12 - A New Woman
    6.1/10(102 votes)

    #12 - A New Woman

    S3:E12

    A greedy wife tries to get her dying rich husband to give her the control over his buildings for the poor that she plans to sell. The husband's strange doctor tries to scare her straight.

    Director:Brian Thomas Jones
    Writer:Edithe Swensen

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  13. Monsters Season 3 Episode 13 - Malcolm
    5.7/10(110 votes)

    #13 - Malcolm

    S3:E13

    Unhappy wife Lorna asks her depressed, workaholic husband Malcolm to play his clarinet for her like he did in their youth. The music causes severe pain in his abdomen and he's taken to surgery. What they find trapped in there is beyond bizarre.

    Director:Tom Noonan
    Writer:Tom Noonan

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  14. Monsters Season 3 Episode 14 - Household Gods
    4.7/10(116 votes)

    #14 - Household Gods

    S3:E14

    Deborah is a married career woman who just had her first baby. Instead of taking care of her child and home, she hires a nanny to take care of things while she works from home. Everything begins to go wrong, which the nanny says have occurred because Deborah has offended 'the household gods'.

    Director:Michael Warren Powell
    Writer:Edithe Swensen

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  15. Monsters Season 3 Episode 15 - The Space-Eaters
    7.2/10(108 votes)

    #15 - The Space-Eaters

    S3:E15

    Two old gentlemanly friends play a game of chess, when a sinister telepathic alien invader shaped like a giant tentacled eyeball arrives to eat their brains.

    Director:Robert T. Megginson
    Writer:Robert T. Megginson

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  16. Monsters Season 3 Episode 16 - The Waiting Room
    6.5/10(136 votes)

    #16 - The Waiting Room

    S3:E16

    Ben suggests to his newlywed son John and daughter-in-law Kate to spend their wedding night in the same hotel room where he spent his honeymoon. When a mysterious woman kidnaps John there, Ben reveals his secret to Kate.

    Director:Philip Alderton
    Writer:Neal Marshall Stevens

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  17. Monsters Season 3 Episode 17 - Leavings
    7.0/10(104 votes)

    #17 - Leavings

    S3:E17

    Beat cops Mancini and Pankhurst tell their boss about the strange occurrences they've recently witnessed such as normal people being turned into surgically reassembled freaks. The inspector offers the truth, but it comes with a price.

    Director:John Tillinger
    Writer:Gahan Wilson

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  18. Monsters Season 3 Episode 18 - Desirable Alien
    5.7/10(107 votes)

    #18 - Desirable Alien

    S3:E18

    To pass the US citizenship test, secretive Greek lothario Hercules Valvalotus must take a physical, which he desperately wants to avoid, so he tries to seduce the female immigration officer to get a free pass.

    Director:Bette Gordon
    Writer:Edithe Swensen

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  19. Monsters Season 3 Episode 19 - A Face for Radio
    6.9/10(102 votes)

    #19 - A Face for Radio

    S3:E19

    Sleazy late night radio host Roy Bright brings in an alluring guest who claims aliens gave her the solution to evil in the world — a monster that eats bad people who agree to it. He laughs it off, at first...

    Director:Bruce Feirstein
    Writer:Bruce Feirstein

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  20. Monsters Season 3 Episode 20 - Werewolf of Hollywood
    6.9/10(110 votes)

    #20 - Werewolf of Hollywood

    S3:E20

    An ambitious screenwriter plans to use the information that a top producer in the Hollywood studio he's working for might be a werewolf to finally advance his career.

    Director:Thomas J. Whelan
    Writer:Ron Goulart

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  21. Monsters Season 3 Episode 21 - Talk Nice to Me
    5.9/10(96 votes)

    #21 - Talk Nice to Me

    S3:E21

    A ladies' man is being harassed over the phone by a mysterious lonely female stalker with a seductive voice.

    Director:Ernest Farino
    Writer:Paul Dini

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  22. Monsters Season 3 Episode 22 - Hostile Takeover
    6.5/10(94 votes)

    #22 - Hostile Takeover

    S3:E22

    A greedy Wall Street banker tries to apply Reagan's voodoo economics literally — by selling his soul to the Devil through a voodoo priestess to become rich and powerful.

    Director:Randall Moldave
    Writer:Jonathan Valin

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  23. Monsters Season 3 Episode 23 - The Maker
    6.8/10(91 votes)

    #23 - The Maker

    S3:E23

    In an abandoned hotel, Mack meets a drunk named Freddy who can create anything he wants out of thin air, even food and money, but it all ends up having some critical flaw to it. If Freddy stops drinking? His nightmares return.

    Director:William Wesley
    Writer:Michael Kimball

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  24. Monsters Season 3 Episode 24 - The Moving Finger
    5.7/10(197 votes)

    #24 - The Moving Finger

    S3:E24

    When a mysterious, impossibly long finger inexplicably and creepily pokes up out of the drain of his bathroom sink, family man Howard Mitla is pushed to the brink of madness in his attempts to get rid of it.

    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 6.4/10 based on 127 votes. Directed by Jeffrey Wolf and written by Neal Marshall Stevens, it aired on 9/30/1990. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Murray's Monster".