8.2/106 votes#1 - Who Is the Ugly German Lady?
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/21/2018
After escaping from prison, Big Tony's old buddy moves in -- disguised as a woman. Meanwhile, TJ suspects the escapee of murder.
Director: Alex Hardcastle
Writer: David Breckman
7.6/109 votes#2 - Mr. Monk Gets Married
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/27/2004
After a phone call from Lt. Disher, Monk and Sharona find him in Captain Stottlemeyer's office, drinking Scotch to console himself because his 58-year-old mother has married a 37-year-old antique dealer he's sure is up to no good. The con man, Dalton Padron, has taken his aging bride to a marriage counseling clinic for their honeymoon, and Sharona persuades Monk that the best way to catch him is to pose as husband and wife and join him at the clinic. In a group therapy session, Sharona accuses Padron of winking at her and, in the scuffle that follows, snatches an old letter from his jacket pocket. The letter confirms their suspicions: Padron is after the gold that was stashed away 150 years earlier by the crazy old prospector who once owned the house. Padron later grabs the letter and burns it, but not before Monk and Sharona discover that the secret is somewhere in the hundreds of journals that the old man wrote before he died. Early the next morning, Sharona follows Padron into an ol
Director: Craig Zisk
Writer: David Breckman
7.5/108 votes#3 - Mr. Monk and the Foreign Man
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 8/14/2009
Monk meets a visiting African widower who's determined to find the hit-and-run-driver who killed his wife near Monk's apartment. Monk begins to identify with the man and confuses his wife with Trudy.
Director: David Grossman
Writer: David Breckman
7.5/1015 votes#4 - Mr. Monk Goes Back to School
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 6/20/2003
When English teacher Beth Landow falls from the clock tower at Trudy's former high school, the assistant principal doubts the police department's conclusion that the death was a suicide and invites Monk to investigate. Monk quickly concludes that the suicide note is a forgery: a highly respected English teacher wouldn't confuse ""its"" with ""it's."" A few words with the teachers in the lounge lead him to suspect that the murderer is a science teacher, Derek Philby. Unfortunately for Monk, Philby was proctoring an SAT exam when Ms. Landow's body landed on Philby's car, setting off his car alarm and alerting the entire school to her death. Armed with a strong suspicion but no evidence, Monk becomes a substitute teacher in hopes of finding the information that will incriminate Philby, who arrogantly informs him that he's ""failing the class""--he has no evidence to support his hypothesis. Faced with students who throw erasers at him, an irate father who is also the school's gym teacher threat
Director: Randall Zisk
Writer: David Breckman
7.4/1018 votes#5 - Mr. Monk Goes to the Asylum
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 8/9/2002
Monk is committed to an asylum, where he becomes convinced the chief psychiatrist committed a murder several years prior.
Director: Nick Marsh
Writer: David Breckman
7.1/1011 votes#6 - Mr. Monk and the Paperboy
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 1/16/2004
When Monk's paperboy is murdered on his doorstep by a guy looking to steal his newspapers, Monk turns to the pages of the newspaper for clues to solve the baffling crime.
Director: Michael Fresco
Writer: David Breckman
7.1/107 votes#7 - Mr. Monk and the Astronaut
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 3/3/2006
When Captain Stottlemeyer suspects that a suicide is really a murder, Monk confirms his suspicions by discovering that the victim, Joanne Raphelson, was too short to have used the stool she supposedly stood on to hang herself. But the next clue, the remains of an olive, a cherry, and a cocktail onion on a stirring stick, leads Monk to suspect that the murder was committed by an astronaut, Steve Wagner. A little research reveals a motive--Joanne was about to publish a book revealing that Wagner had abused her five years earlier. Now all Monk has to do is to prove that Wagner could commit the murder when he was in outer space.
Director: Randall Zisk
Writer: David Breckman
7.1/1018 votes#8 - Mr. Monk and the Earthquake
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 10/4/2002
Renowned philanthropist Henry Rutherford is killed when a minor earthquake rocks the city and sends a display case falling on top of him. But when Monk examines the scene, he finds clues that suggest foul play.
Director: Kevin Inch
Writer: David Breckman
7.0/107 votes#9 - 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: David Breckman
6.8/106 votes#10 - Mr. Monk Is Up All Night
Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 9/14/2007
Mr. Monk takes a walk when he can't sleep, but ends up running into a murder.
Director: Randall Zisk
Writer: David Breckman
6.6/109 votes#11 - Mr. Monk and the Panic Room
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 6/25/2004
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
Director: Jerry Levine
Writer: David Breckman
6.3/106 votes#12 - Mr. Monk Visits a Farm
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 2/9/2007
When Lt. Disher inherits a farm from an uncle who committed suicide, he decides to quit the police force and start a new life in the country. But Disher soon suspects that his uncle was murdered, so Monk joins him on the farm to investigate.
Director: Andre Belgrader
Writer: David Breckman
5.8/108 votes#13 - Mr. Monk and the Secret Santa
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 12/2/2005
When an officer dies after drinking poisoned wine sent to Captain Stottlemeyer as a Christmas gift, the captain suspects Frank Prager, who tried to shoot him outside a bar several months earlier. Searching the crime scene for clues, Monk notes that the bullet holes seem to form a pattern, but neither he nor Stottlemeyer can figure out the message they're intended to convey. After trying unsuccessfully to talk with Prager's young daughter, Monk goes under cover as Santa Claus. This time he learns that Prager is hiding in a church with ""three ladies"" in front of it. But when Prager is caught and interrogated, it's clear that he had nothing to do with the poisoned wine. With the other suspects on Disher's list also eliminated, Monk and the captain are back to square one. But when Monk opens the card accompanying his gift from the Christmas party, he finds the clue that solves the case.
Director: Jerry Levine
Writer: David Breckman
5.7/107 votes#14 - Mr. Monk's Other Brother
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 1/9/2009
When Monk's delinquent half-brother, Jack Jr., escapes from prison and breaks into Monk's apartment, he manipulates Monk into helping him find the person he claims framed him for murder.
Director: David Hoberman
Writer: David Breckman
5.4/107 votes#15 - Mr. Monk and Mrs. Monk
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 8/12/2005
Is Monk hallucinating or is he really seeing Trudy?
Director: Randall Zisk
Writer: David Breckman
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"Who Is the Ugly German Lady?" is the best rated episode written by David Breckman. It scored 8.2/10 based on 6 votes. It was directed by Alex Hardcastle. It aired on 9/21/2018 and is rated 0.6 points higher than their second-best episode, "Mr. Monk Gets Married".