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 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - Pillow Talk
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/24/1988
A man goes to great lengths to keep his bed possessed by a Lovecraftian nightmare full. But an assertive female writer who seems to fancy him challenges his status quo.
#8 - The Mother Instinct
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/18/1989
An elderly wheelchair-bound woman develops a miraculous melon juice formula from her plants, and her greedy abusive son-in-law wants to steal it.
#9 - Pool Sharks
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/17/1988
A hustler plays a high-stakes game of pool with a lovely creature of the night.
#10 - Mannikins of Horror
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/20/1989
In an Orwellian society, a female doctor in an insane asylum tries to help her patient, a former brilliant surgeon obsessed with giving life to his clay figurines, before the asylum director deems him incurable and therefore expandable.
#11 - Reaper
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/26/1989
A patient at a nursing home makes a deal with the Grim Reaper.
#12 - All in a Day's Work
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/6/1989
A man haunted by his doppelganger asks a white witch and single mother to help him raise a demon to defeat it before it takes him and her son.
#14 - Portrait of the Artist
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/1989
The art being displayed in a local exhibit may not be what it appears to be as the haunting figures hanging in the gallery resemble those of recent missing persons.
#15 - 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.
#16 - Taps
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/4/1989
A professional dancer and actress who seeks independence from her possessive dancing partner and boyfriend poisons and then dismembers him, but his severed leg in a red tap shoe seeks revenge, in this dark comedy.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#20 - Rain Dance
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/22/1989
During a drought, a struggling treasure hunter for profit and his vain wife get more than they bargained for when he buys a rain-making evil idol from an old Native American woman who bears ill will towards the whites.
#21 - Satan in the Suburbs
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/13/1989
A charming devil forces a down-on-her-luck but principled suburbanite single mother to be his ghost writer, and if his biography gets published, he'll get a better position in hell. She tries to convert him.
#22 - Parents from Space
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/11/1989
Abusive elderly foster parents of a nice little orphan girl have their bodies taken over by friendly aliens, whose spaceship broke down.
#23 - The Farmer's Daughter
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/1989
A man takes shelter at a farm for the evening and he is surprised to be sharing a room with the farmer's pretty daughter.
#24 - The Feverman
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/22/1988
A skeptical doctor wants to prove to his desperate friend with a sick daughter that the local legendary healer he wants to see is a fraud.
#25 - 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.