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The Best Episodes Written By Andy Breckman

Every TV Episode Written by Andy Breckman Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

  1. 8.6/10(7 votes)

    #1 - Mr. Monk and the End (2)

    S8:E16

    After listening to Trudy's last message, Monk finally discovers who killed his wife. Racing against time before he dies of poison, he must make a fateful decision.

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  2. 7.8/10(5 votes)

    #2 - Did the TV Star Do It?

    S1:E6

    When a major TV star's assistant is found murdered, the two Tonys disagree about whether her celebrity employer has something to hide.

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    Director:Silver Tree
  3. 7.7/10(21 votes)

    #3 - Mr. Monk Meets the Candidate (1)

    S1:E1

    A former San Francisco police detective suffering from an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder is called in to investigate an apparent assassination attempt of a mayoral candidate in which one of his bodyguards is killed.

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  4. 7.7/10(17 votes)

    #4 - Mr. Monk and the Psychic

    S1:E3

    When a woman drives off the road to her death, her body is mysteriously found the next morning by a psychic known for fudging the truth. Monk must discover if she's telling the truth this time, or else let a murderer go free.

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  5. 7.7/10(6 votes)

    #5 - Will the Good Cop Bowl 300?

    S1:E4

    A cold-blooded murder is always shocking -- but not nearly as shocking as TJ's sudden and inexplicable rise to bowling league glory.

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  6. 7.6/10(5 votes)

    #6 - Will Cora Get Married?

    S1:E8

    Cora falls head over heels for a handsome stranger, but TJ isn't too keen on their budding romance. Big Tony finally identifies Connie's killer.

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  7. 7.5/10(19 votes)

    #7 - Mr. Monk Meets the Candidate (2)

    S1:E2

    With an introduction to Monk's talent, his phobia's, and need for an assistant, Monk investigates the murder of the candidate bodyguard and a political worker. He determines the candidate was not the intended target.

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  8. 7.5/10(17 votes)

    #8 - Mr. Monk Goes to the Carnival

    S1:E5

    A police officer and friend of Stottlemeyer is framed for a crime he didn't commit involving a ferris wheel. Meanwhile Monk tries to convince Stottlemeyer to get him reinstated.

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  9. 7.5/10(11 votes)

    #9 - Mr. Monk and the Captain's Wife

    S2:E14

    On her way to film a documentary (apparently about a union dispute), Captain Stottlemeyer's wife, Karen, is badly injured when her car is struck by a tow truck whose nonunion driver has been killed by a sniper. Distraught and furious, the captain blames a sleazy union official and his thug, a theory that seems to be confirmed when a second tow truck driver is murdered. But Lieutenant Disher, in charge of the crime scene investigation, discovers an odd detail that doesn't fit well with this scenario – both the assailant and the murdered truck driver were barefoot. Empathizing with the captain's anguish, Monk offers to do whatever he can to help and of course ends up investigating the case. A small dog that follows Sharona from the crime scene leads her to the home of a handsome man who seems attracted to her, but Monk is more interested in the next-door neighbor's off-kilter sundial. Meanwhile, the captain, fearing that his wife will die, becomes increasingly violent, taking out his anger...

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  10. 7.5/10(10 votes)

    #10 - Mr. Monk Takes Manhattan

    S3:E1

    Monk and his friends go to New York City to discover the connection between Trudy's murder and Warrick Tennyson, whose name was given to Monk by Dale the Whale in last season's cliffhanger, ""Mr. Monk Goes to Jail."" As they're checking into their hotel, mayhem breaks out in the lobby and three people are killed, including the Latvian ambassador to the United Nations. Monk quickly discovers that the ambassador's coat is wet--an odd detail because minutes earlier he was standing near Monk in a dry coat. Monk provides a police sketch artist with minute details about the perpetrator's left ear--the only part of his face that wasn't covered--and Stottlemeyer pressures the New York police captain to allow them access to Tennyson in exchange for their help in the new case. However, the DA, for reasons of her own, is blocking their access to Tennyson, and only after Stottlemeyer ""borrows"" the keys to the captain's office and pulls out the file that he saw Captain Cage hurriedly stuff into the b

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  11. 7.5/10(10 votes)

    #11 - Mr. Monk and the Girl Who Cried Wolf

    S3:E6

    It's Sharona's turn to be terrified. After several frightening and mysterious encounters with a blood-soaked man that no one else can see, she begins to doubt her own sanity, and Stottlemeyer advises Monk to give her time off to restore her nerves. Monk is left with an irritating substitute nurse whose philosophy is the opposite of Sharona's: everything from Monk's requests for wipes to the obsessively systematic organization of his refrigerator has to go. Wanting Sharona back again, Monk goes to the garage where Sharona first saw the blood-soaked man and finds a clue--the silver tip from the toe of a cowboy boot. Meanwhile Sharona, who is attending a night class in creative writing, apparently forgets to turn in an assignment and seems to be misplacing objects. But when her writing instructor's husband dies of a heart attack after eating tomato soup, Sharona recognizes the plot of her missing story and realizes that she's not crazy. All she and Monk have to do now is tie together the...

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    Director:N/A
  12. 7.5/10(6 votes)

    #12 - Mr. Monk and the End (1)

    S8:E15

    Monk is called to a murder at the location where he first heard of his wife's murder, and while Monk figures out who the assassin is, he doesn't know that the one who ordered the hit is also responsible for the death of Trudy. Knowing that Monk will eventually put all the pieces together, he orders Monk's death, and when all hope seems lost, Monk discovers something which could finally end his 12-year nightmare.

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  13. 7.5/10(6 votes)

    #13 - What Is the Supermodel's Secret?

    S1:E2

    A stunning supermodel is infatuated with Big Tony -- much to TJ's befuddlement. Meanwhile, a killer in disguise has the police hopping for clues.

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  14. 7.4/10(7 votes)

    #14 - Mr. Monk Bumps His Head

    S4:E11

    Suffering from amnesia, Monk wakes up believing he is the husband of an eccentric resident of a small town.

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  15. 7.4/10(10 votes)

    #15 - Who Framed the Good Cop?

    S1:E1

    A man is found murdered in the park, and only two people in the world could have done it: TJ or his father.

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  16. 7.3/10(10 votes)

    #16 - Mr. Monk Gets Stuck in Traffic

    S3:E13

    When Monk, Natalie, and Julie get stuck in a traffic jam after a multi-car collision blocks the freeway, Monk gets out of the car to investigate. He soon deduces from the absence of skid marks and other clues that the young man in the overturned Volkswagen that caused the pile-up was murdered and his body placed in the car to make his death look like an accident. But the highway patrolman in charge of the ""accident"" scene wants nothing to do with Monk (or the not-very-successful lawyer who has latched onto him), and the mountains blocking the signal prevent Monk from calling Captain Stottlemeyer for an authorization to investigate. Monk briefly returns to Natalie's car, where he finds Julie in need of a bathroom and Natalie nursing an injured wrist. Unfortunately for them, Monk's mind is on the fatality, and he returns to the Volkswagen. The angry officer gives him the victim's name and occupation (environmental activist), but he still refuses to listen to Monk's evidence. Meanwhile, t

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  17. 7.2/10(18 votes)

    #17 - Mr. Monk Meets Dale the Whale

    S1:E4

    A judge is murdered while placing a 911 call, but before she dies she names her attacker - notorious criminal Dale Biederbeck. The problem is, "Dale the Whale" is over 800 pounds and hasn't left his bed in years.

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    Director:Kevin Inch
  18. 7.2/10(16 votes)

    #18 - Mr. Monk and the Red-Headed Stranger

    S1:E12

    When monk's favorite singer, Willie Nelson, is suspected of murdering his tour manager, Monk steps in to clear his name.

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  19. 7.2/10(5 votes)

    #19 - Who Cut Mrs. Ackroyd in Half?

    S1:E10

    TJ and Cora get a nightmare of an undercover assignment: pose as husband and wife. Meanwhile, Big Tony closes in on Connie's killer.

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  20. 6.8/10(10 votes)

    #20 - Mr. Monk and the Panic Room

    S3:E2

    In yet another case of murder in a room locked from the inside, a music producer is found dead with bullets in his back, head. and chest, clearly neither an accident nor a suicide. But this time there's a further twist: the dead man's pet chimpanzee, Darwin, is caught with the murder weapon in his hand. Not wanting to make a monkey of himself by falsely accusing a chimpanzee of murder, Stottlemeyer takes the chimp into the interrogation room, tempting the animal to fire what he thinks is an empty gun. Meanwhile, Disher realizes that he's inadvertently given the captain a loaded gun and panic ensues. When the gun goes off, endangering not only Stottlemeyer but Disher, Monk, and Sharona as well, Stottlemeyer is persuaded that the chimp is guilty and is ready to allow animal control to put him to sleep. Sharona, however, is convinced that Darwin is innocent. In desperation, Sharona resorts to breaking and entering to rescue Darwin, persuading the most unlikely person imaginable to take hi

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  21. 6.6/10(9 votes)

    #21 - Mr. Monk Gets Cabin Fever

    S3:E12

    After witnessing a Chinese gangland murder, Monk has to stay in an FBI safe house--a cabin in the woods--in the protective custody of Agent Grooms, with Stottlemeyer and Natalie as company. Awakened by a man's scream, Monk convinces Stottlemeyer and Natalie that a woman in a nearby cabin has murdered her husband. Agent Grooms, however, remains skeptical. After Grooms disconnects their telephone, Stottlemeyer locks him in the bathroom and the three ""borrow"" Grooms's car and set out in a rainstorm to investigate, only to get stuck in the mud on the way. Meanwhile, Disher and his new girlfriend Hayley are encountering a strange circumstance--the fortunes in their fortune cookies keep coming true. When a fortune informs Disher that an old friend is in trouble and only he can save him, Disher immediately sets out to save Monk, unaware that he's leading a pair of hitmen to the FBI cabin. After a rainy night in the car, Stottlemeyer leads Natalie and Monk through the woods toward the neighbor

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  22. 6.5/10(11 votes)

    #22 - Mr. Monk and the Red Herring

    S3:E10

    With Sharona in New Jersey remarried to her ex-husband, Monk has been without an assistant for three months and it's time to find a new one--if only he could find a suitable applicant. When Natalie Teeger, a thirty-something widow with an eleven-year-old daughter, arrives at his house, he thinks she's applying for the job, but she's really been sent by Captain Stottlemeyer to get Monk's help--two men have broken into her apartment in the last few days and she had to kill the second one with scissors in self-defense. Examining Natalie's apartment, Monk finds a single clue, an unused fish net caught between the sofa cushions, suggesting that the intruders were trying to steal Mr. Henry, Julie's pet fish. But why would anyone want to steal a ninety-nine-cent red herring, er, crimson marblefish? A second clue surfaces when Lieutenant Disher finds a note in the dead perp's pocket reading ""2:30 Sea of Tranquility"" and Natalie identifies the Sea of Tranquility as an exhibit at the science mus

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  23. 6.4/10(7 votes)

    #23 - Mr. Monk and the Garbage Strike

    S5:E2

    Monk finds himself adrift in an ocean of filth when a garbage strike brings San Francisco to a halt...and Adrian to near-paralysis.

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  24. 6.4/10(5 votes)

    #24 - Mr. Monk and His Biggest Fan

    S6:E1

    When Marci Maven is accused of a bizarre crime, she turns to the object of her obsession for help - Adrian Monk.

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  25. 6.3/10(7 votes)

    #25 - Mr. Monk and the Big Game

    S5:E3

    Julie and her friends hire Monk to look into the suspicious death of their basketball coach.

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    Director:Chris Long

Andy Breckman Ratings Summary

"Mr. Monk and the End (2)" is the best rated episode written by Andy Breckman. It scored 8.6/10 based on 7 votes. It was directed by Randall Zisk. It aired on 12/4/2009 and is rated 0.8 points higher than their second-best episode, "Did the TV Star Do It?".