6.3/10106 votes#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
5.8/1092 votes#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
6.7/10101 votes#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
6.5/1093 votes#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
6.4/1088 votes#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
7.2/10133 votes#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
6.2/1091 votes#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
7.1/10114 votes#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
5.9/1088 votes#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
7.5/10143 votes#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
7.0/1089 votes#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
5.9/1084 votes#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
5.3/1088 votes#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
4.4/1095 votes#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
7.0/1088 votes#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
7.1/10113 votes#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
6.9/1086 votes#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
5.3/1086 votes#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
6.8/1079 votes#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
6.7/1090 votes#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
5.6/1073 votes#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
6.2/1075 votes#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
6.7/1074 votes#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
5.8/10165 votes#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!
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Season 3 Ratings Summary
"Stressed Environment" is the best rated episode of "Monsters" season 3. It scored 6.3/10 based on 106 votes. Directed by Jeffrey Wolf and written by N/A, it aired on 9/30/1990. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Murray's Monster".