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The Best Episodes Written By Daniel Dratch

Every TV Episode Written by Daniel Dratch Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

Daniel Dratch Ratings Summary

"Mr. Monk and the Three Pies" is the best rated episode written by Daniel Dratch. It scored 7.9/10 based on 12 votes. It was directed by Randall Zisk. It aired on 1/23/2004 and is rated 0.2 points higher than their second-best episode, "Mr. Monk and the Very, Very Old Man".

  • Mr. Monk and the Three Pies
    7.9/1012 votes

    #1 - Mr. Monk and the Three Pies

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 1/23/2004

    When Monk's older brother Ambrose calls him about a ""life-or-death matter,"" Monk accepts the call grudgingly and agrees to meet the brother from whom he's been estranged since Ambrose refused to attend Trudy's funeral seven years before. In fact, Ambrose, an agoraphobic packrat whose house is full of bundled up newspapers, has not left the home he and Adrian grew up in for thirty-two years. Believing Ambrose's claim that his next-door neighbor, Pat Van Ranken, has murdered his wife after a loud argument, Monk and Sharona visit Van Ranken and decide to follow him. Van Ranken, meanwhile, is behaving very strangely, entering a potato sack race and a bingo tournament in which the prizes include a cherry pie. It's not hard for the Monk brothers to tie Van Ranken to another murder involving a cherry pie--the challenge is finding a motive for Van Ranken and proving that he did it. The episode provides a glimpse of Monk's family background and the reasons for his estrangement from his brother,

    Director: Randall Zisk

    Writer: Daniel Dratch

  • Mr. Monk and the Very, Very Old Man
    7.7/1015 votes

    #2 - Mr. Monk and the Very, Very Old Man

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 7/25/2003

    Captain Stottlemeyer must take a page from the Book of Monk when his wife nags him into looking into the murder of the world's oldest man. First on-screen appearance of Karen Stottlemeyer (Glenne Headly).

    Director: Larry Trilling

    Writer: Daniel Dratch

  • Mr. Monk and the Blackout
    7.4/109 votes

    #3 - Mr. Monk and the Blackout

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 7/9/2004

    Three deaths during a city-wide blackout result in a joint investigation by Stottlemeyer, Monk, Sharona, and Disher, with the unprecedented cooperation of the FBI and the help of power company spokeswoman Michelle Rivas, an attractive brunette who is inexplicably attracted to Monk. While Sharona and Dr. Kroger pressure Monk to call Michelle, Disher follows up on Monk's suggestion that the power outage is connected to a '90s radical named Winston Brenner. Everything fits--the handwriting in the note, the phrasing, even a pair of photographs. Everything except one small detail at the end of the report--Brenner died in 1995. When the FBI acknowledges the possibility that Brenner may have faked his own death to avoid a trial, Captain Stottlemeyer presents a tree-hugging former friend of Brenner's with the evidence that Brenner is still alive and reminds him that this particular power outage is also a homicide. When the tree-hugger is murdered, it becomes clear that the killer is indeed Bre

    Director: Michael Zinberg

    Writer: Daniel Dratch

  • Mr. Monk and the Big Reward
    7.1/107 votes

    #4 - Mr. Monk and the Big Reward

    Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 2/3/2006

    Low on cash because they haven't had a homicide to investigate in three weeks, Monk and Natalie search for the stolen Alexander Diamond, hoping to win the million-dollar reward. Unfortunately, they have competition in the form of a retired Scotland Yard investigator, a bounty hunter, and a gadget-loving private detective, all of whom want the reward money for themselves. Monk quickly figures out that the heist was an inside job and that one of the robbers was under five feet tall, short enough to hide inside a roll-top desk. He also discovers a clue linking a perpetrator to a transcendental meditation retreat. With their competitors close behind them, Monk and Natalie head for the retreat, where they find the thief, who is unfortunately dead. Meanwhile, Disher is having to interrogate a strange young woman who keeps turning herself in for such ""crimes"" as stealing pens or murdering a hamster. Monk tells Natalie that he's solved the case and they race to the police station with the other detectives following. The only thing left is to find the diamond before their competitors do.

    Director: Randall Zisk

    Writer: Daniel Dratch

  • Mr. Monk Goes to the Dentist
    7.0/107 votes

    #5 - Mr. Monk Goes to the Dentist

    Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 3/10/2006

    During the investigation of an armored car heist involving the deaths of two drivers and the theft of valuable government bonds, Lt. Disher tries to convince Captain Stottlemeyer that he witnessed a murder while under anesthesia in the dentist's office. When one of the highjackers, Denny Jardeen, is found murdered, Disher insists that Jardeen is the man he saw Dr. Bloom and his assistant kill while he was sedated. Stottlemeyer still thinks that Disher was hallucinating, and Disher angrily leaves the force, deciding to revive his high school rock band, the Randy Disher Project, as an alternate means of earning his living. Meanwhile, the only clue to Jardeen's murder is two pairs of bruises each ten inches apart on the dead man's chest.

    Director: Jefery Levy

    Writer: Daniel Dratch

  • Mr. Monk and the Game Show
    6.9/1011 votes

    #6 - Mr. Monk and the Game Show

    Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 8/13/2004

    With Sharona in New Jersey to visit her ailing mother, Monk is left in the very incompetent hands of his annoying upstairs neighbor, Kevin Dorfman, but the prospect of a week with Kevin is eased somewhat by a visit from Trudy's father, Dwight Ellison. Dwight invites Monk (and Kevin) to spend the week with him and his wife, Marcia – and at the same time investigate gameshow host Roddy Lankman, who appears to be involved in a conspiracy to allow one of his contestants, Val Birch, to win every game. Despite the memories of Trudy aroused by spending time with her parents in her former home and the questionable help of Kevin, Monk discovers evidence that Lankman visited Birch's house – and that Birch visited the site of the accident that killed Lankman's assistant, Lizzie Talvo. To discover exactly how Lankman and his crooked contestant are communicating – and possibly prove that they're involved in something much worse than cheating – Monk becomes a contestant on the game show. His knowledge o

    Director: Randall Zisk

    Writer: Daniel Dratch

  • Mr. Monk Goes to Vegas
    6.9/109 votes

    #7 - Mr. Monk Goes to Vegas

    Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 2/18/2005

    In the middle of the night, Monk receives a phone call from a drunken Stottlemeyer, who has gone to Las Vegas with Disher for a fellow officer's bachelor party. Stottlemeyer believes that a wealthy casino owner has murdered his wife, but he needs Monk's help to prove that the death wasn't an accident. Unfortunately, when Monk arrives in Vegas with Natalie the next morning, Stottlemeyer can't remember anything that happened the previous night--including how his pants happened to be thrown out the window. As Monk and Natalie explore the elevator where the woman died, interrogate witnesses, and reenact the death scene (with Monk in the role of victim), Stottlemeyer tries to retrace his steps and deal with Disher, who has become addicted to blackjack and fallen hopelessly deep into debt. When Monk, at Stottlemeyer's insistence, takes Disher's place at the blackjack table to win back his money, he figures out how the murder occurred as he simultaneously places winning bets, but the casino o

    Director: Randall Zisk

    Writer: Daniel Dratch

  • Mr. Monk Gets Drunk
    6.4/107 votes

    #8 - Mr. Monk Gets Drunk

    Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 8/5/2005

    Monk goes to a wine-tasting and finds it a bit more than he bargained for.

    Director: Andre Belgrader

    Writer: Daniel Dratch

  • Mr. Monk and the Class Reunion
    6.4/107 votes

    #9 - Mr. Monk and the Class Reunion

    Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 8/11/2006

    Monk attends his college reunion and uncovers a complex murder plot against one of his former classmates.

    Director: David Grossman

    Writer: Daniel Dratch