The BEST episodes of Monsters
Every episode of Monsters ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Monsters!
Produced by Richard P. Rubinstein, producer of Tales from the Darkside, Monsters was a 30-minute weekly show that was very simple in its premise. Normally, due to budget restrictions all the scripts were written with only one or two interior scenes and a maximum of six or seven characters and always involved a monster.
#1 - A Bond of Silk
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/1989
A newlywed couple finds out you get what you pay for when they discover that their honeymoon suite is not quite what they expected.
#2 - Glim-Glim
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/4/1989
The last three survivors on Earth find an alien who can help them.
#3 - The Match Game
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/15/1989
In a haunted Victorian mansion, two couples play a game where each person tells part of a ghost story about the late former owner while a match burns. The story somehow comes true, and he rises from the grave to take their lives.
#4 - 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.
#5 - Mr. Swlabr
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/28/1990
Roy Barton lives a life of misery. Since his dad left he has been made into a slave, serving his mother and sister hand and foot. Hope comes in the form of a creature who calls himself ""Swlabr"". With help from Swlabr, Roy is able to turn the tables on his pesky family.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - Stressed Environment
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/1990
Mutant rats threaten pesticide wielding scientists in a laboratory.
#11 - The Family Man
Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 6/3/1990
A young boy tries to protect his family from an alien, whom he can only see using his dead father's glasses.
#12 - The Bargain
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/27/1990
A homely owner of a bookshop is very much in love with a frequent customer who barely seems to know she exists. When she calls a number in a very old magazine, she finds that they are in business and willing to sell her a mask that will guarantee her the beauty that will catch the man's attention.
#13 - The Gift
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/20/1990
A young boy has been kidnapped and locked in the basement of a cabin where he meets and befriends a strange beast he discovers to be a man with many powers. He can help them escape their captors, but there are unfortunate limits to such abilities.
#14 - Refugee
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/13/1990
An American secret agent finds himself being tasked with one more mission. He is to help a Soviet scientist, but finds that the forces he is to help her escape from are more dangerous than the Russians.
#15 - Micro Minds
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/4/1990
A couple of scientists make a dramatic breakthrough when an antenna finds a signal from intelligent life. However, the world of these beings turns out not to be swimming in a sea of stars, but in a mere tank.
#17 - The Offering
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/18/1990
After receiving a head injury in a car crash, a man recovering in the hospital finds that he can see a strange creature that he believes is the source of cancer.
#19 - Perchance to Dream
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/4/1990
A psychiatrist and a girl help a man who is having strange dreams that may well spell his demise.
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - The Maker
Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/18/1991
A bum encounters a man with the power to create anything he desires.
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.
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