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.
#1 - Glim-Glim
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/4/1989
The last three survivors on Earth find an alien who can help them.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#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.
#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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - Fools' Gold
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/21/1989
Three construction workers find a hidden cave with treasure guarded by a troll.
#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?
#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.
#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.
#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.