The BEST episodes of Monsters season 1

Every episode of Monsters season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Monsters season 1!

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.

Last Updated: 8/29/2024Network: SYFYStatus: Ended
Glim-Glim
star
8.34
41 votes

#1 - Glim-Glim

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/4/1989

The last three survivors on Earth find an alien who can help them.

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The Match Game
star
7.72
39 votes

#2 - 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.

Directors: Michael Brandon
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Pillow Talk
star
7.38
13 votes

#3 - 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.

Directors: Carl Stine
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The Mother Instinct
star
7.36
11 votes

#4 - 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.

Directors: Bette Gordon
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Pool Sharks
star
7.31
13 votes

#5 - 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.

Directors: Alan Kingsberg
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Mannikins of Horror
star
7.30
10 votes

#6 - 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.

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All in a Day's Work
star
7.22
9 votes

#7 - 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.

Directors: Allen Couther
Writer: Julie Selbo
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Taps
star
7.11
9 votes

#8 - 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.

Directors: David Misch
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Rain Dance
star
7.00
7 votes

#9 - 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.

Directors: Richard Friedman
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The Cocoon
star
7.00
10 votes

#10 - The Cocoon

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/29/1989

A cop asks his psychic girlfriend to help a beautiful amnesiac remember who she is. It turns out she's a woman who feeds on the life energies of her lovers in order to maintain eternal youth.

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Satan in the Suburbs
star
7.00
9 votes

#11 - 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.

Directors: Warner Shook
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Parents from Space
star
6.91
11 votes

#12 - 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.

Directors: Jerry Smith
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The Feverman
star
6.84
45 votes

#13 - 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.

Directors: Michael Gornick
Writer: Neal Stevens
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New York Honey
star
6.78
27 votes

#14 - New York Honey

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/5/1988

A greedy married man blackmails his eccentric beekeeper neighbor to market his tasty honey for him and make a bundle. He also falls for the beekeeper's mysterious, seductive vamp girlfriend.

Directors: Jerry Smith
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Holly's House
star
6.72
25 votes

#15 - Holly's House

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/29/1988

Holly, the lead in a children's TV series, isn't the nice puppet she pretends to be.

Directors: Ted Gershundy
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Where's the Rest of Me?
star
6.59
17 votes

#16 - Where's the Rest of Me?

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/26/1988

In a right wing South American dictatorship on the verge of leftist rebellion, a mad U.S. scientist keeps the cadaver of a rebel alive to harvest its organs for his rich friends. But the undead rebel decides to get his organs back.

Directors: Dick Benner
Writer: Dick Benner
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Sleeping Dragon
star
6.05
19 votes

#17 - Sleeping Dragon

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/10/1988

A mysterious prehistoric capsule is found outside Reno, Nevada. Four scientists study it in their lab, but a lizard-looking monster hatches from it. With a heavy snowstorm raging outside, they must fight for their survival.

Directors: Mark Rezyka
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Fools' Gold
star
6.00
9 votes

#18 - Fools' Gold

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/21/1989

Three construction workers find a hidden cave with treasure guarded by a troll.

Directors: Mark Shostrom
Writer: Michel Parry
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La Strega
star
5.88
8 votes

#19 - La Strega

Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/27/1989

A man aims to take revenge against a shopkeeper whom he believes is a witch who killed his mother via a curse.

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My Zombie Lover
star
5.83
18 votes

#20 - My Zombie Lover

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/19/1988

One night each year the dead come back to life. A young zombie falls for his living female classmate but his hunger for human flesh and her prejudiced zombie-hunting dad stand in the way of their happiness in this horror comedy.

Directors: David Misch
Writer: David Misch
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The Vampire Hunter
star
5.59
22 votes

#21 - The Vampire Hunter

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/12/1988

Can the famous vampire hunter save his friend before his old enemy can kill the young man, or worse, turn him into another bloodsucker?

Directors: Michael Gornick
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Rouse Him Not
star
5.40
10 votes

#22 - Rouse Him Not

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/31/1988

A woman living in an old country house is visited by a stranger researching a warlock who used to live there.

Directors: Mark Shostrum
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The Legacy
star
4.71
14 votes

#23 - The Legacy

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/3/1988

Dale finds the private sanctuary of Fulton Pierce, a famous, dead, horror actor. Dale can see Fulton's image in the old make-up case that was owned by the actor, and his life soon goes down a dark road.

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Their Divided Self
star
4.00
9 votes

#24 - Their Divided Self

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/25/1989

One stormy evening, Dr. Blackman tries to counsel two successful professional comedians, who also happen to be conjoined twins that won't stop bickering and trying to kill each other.

Directors: Frank DePalma
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