Monsters
You’ll never look at the world the same way again.
TV-141988•22m•7.1/10
Sci-Fi & FantasyMysteryComedyDrama
Ratings
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7.1/10(24)
Monsters is a syndicated horror anthology series which originally ran from 1988 to 1991 and reran on the Sci-Fi Channel during the 1990s. Similarly to Tales from the Darkside, Monsters shared the same producer, and in some ways succeeded the show. It differed in some respects nonetheless. While Tales sometimes dabbled in stories of science fiction and fantasy, this series was more strictly horror. As the name implies, each episode features a different monster, from the animatronic puppet of a fictional children's television program to mutated, weapon-wielding lab rats.
Production
Tribune Entertainment, Laurel Entertainment Inc.
Language
EN
Status
Ended
First Aired
October 22, 1988
Last Aired
April 26, 1991
Networks
Chiller, Syndication
Created By
Richard P. Rubinstein, Mitchell Galin
Where to Watch
Region US · Lang EN
US
No providers available for this region.
Seasons & Episodes
Select a season to view episodes. Reddit links may contain spoilers.
Season
E1
The Feverman
Air date: 1988-10-22
When a doctor is unable to heal a man's sick daughter, the desperate father goes to a 'Feverman', a mysterious healer who literally fights the illness by summoning a physical manifestation of it from within the patient. The doctor, angry at the father's belief in superstition, tries to expose the Feverman as a fraud. In doing so, not only does he learn the truth, but there's also a price to pay for faith.
E2
Holly's House
Air date: 1988-10-29
Katherine is the star of Holly's House, a popular children's television show. Holly herself is a remote-controlled child-size robot. When Katherine is linked to the robot via wires and radio waves, she can make Holly walk and talk like a real person. Lenny, who plays 'Mike the Mailman', has gotten Katherine pregnant and asks her to marry him. But a stressed-out Katherine begins to think Holly is talking to her, and 'Holly' becomes jealous of Lenny and others on the show. Is Katherine going mad, or is something sinister going on?
E3
New York Honey
Air date: 1988-11-05
A greedy married man blackmails his eccentric beekeeper neighbor to profit off his tasty honey. He also falls for the beekeeper's mysterious, seductive vamp girlfriend.
E4
The Vampire Hunter
Air date: 1988-11-12
Can famous vampire hunter Ernest Chariot save his assistant Jack before his old enemy Charles Poole can kill the young man, or worse, turn him into another bloodsucker?
E5
My Zombie Lover
Air date: 1988-11-19
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 hunter father stand in the way of their happiness.
E6
Where's the Rest of Me?
Air date: 1988-11-26
In a right-wing South American dictatorship on the verge of leftist rebellion, mad scientist Dr. Willard Wingite keeps a rebel's cadaver alive to harvest its organs for his rich friends. But the undead rebel decides to get his organs back.
E7
The Legacy
Air date: 1988-12-03
Dale finds the private sanctuary of late horror icon Fulton Pierce. Dale can see Fulton's image in the old makeup case that was owned by the actor, and his life soon goes down a dark road.
E8
Sleeping Dragon
Air date: 1988-12-10
A mysterious prehistoric capsule is found outside Reno. Four scientists study it, but a lizard-looking monster hatches from it. With a heavy snowstorm raging outside, they must fight for their survival.
E9
Pool Sharks
Air date: 1988-12-17
Pool hustler Gabe challenges seductive but evil Natasha to a game. The kicker is she is a vampire and he is out for revenge against her.
E10
Pillow Talk
Air date: 1988-12-24
Miles 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.
E11
Rouse Him Not
Air date: 1988-12-31
A painter with strange visions who lives in an old cottage is visited by a warlock who used to live there. But his arrival wakes an ancient beast buried far below the cottage.
E12
Fools' Gold
Air date: 1989-01-21
Three construction workers find a hidden cave with treasure guarded by a troll.
E13
Glim-Glim
Air date: 1989-02-04
A mysterious disease has killed most of the people in town and Amy's father believes that the hideous alien holed up in the library is responsible. But as Amy soon learns, Glim-Glim may be their only hope for survival.
E14
Parents from Space
Air date: 1989-02-11
An orphan named Cindy receives a blessing in disguise when her abusive foster parents are taken over by friendly aliens whose ship has broken down.
E15
The Mother Instinct
Air date: 1989-02-18
A slimy, good-for-nothing husband tries to get money from his mother-in-law, especially when he finds out that her fruit can produce a serum that can boost the human strength. He is prepared to do anything to get rich from it, but hasn't counted on just how protective a mother can be.
E16
Their Divided Self
Air date: 1989-02-25
One stormy evening, Dr. Blackman tries to counsel successful professional comedians James and Robert Self, who also happen to be conjoined twins who won't stop bickering and trying to kill each other.
E17
Taps
Air date: 1989-03-04
Professional dancer/actress Suzy St. Claire wants independence from her possessive dancing partner and boyfriend, so she poisons and dismembers him. However, his severed leg in a red tap shoe seeks revenge.
E18
The Match Game
Air date: 1989-04-15
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.
E19
Rain Dance
Air date: 1989-04-22
During a drought, a struggling treasure hunter for profit and his vain wife get more than they bargained for when he buys a cursed rainmaking idol from an old indigenous woman who bears ill will towards the whites.
E20
Cocoon
Air date: 1989-04-29
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.
E21
All in a Day's Work
Air date: 1989-05-06
A man haunted by his doppelgänger asks a white witch and single mother to help him raise a demon to defeat it before it takes him and her son.
E22
Satan in the Suburbs
Air date: 1989-05-13
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 to the side of goodness.
E23
Mannikins of Horror
Air date: 1989-05-20
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 institution director deems him incurable and therefore expendable.
E24
La Strega
Air date: 1989-05-27
A young man tries to destroy a beautiful witch, whom he thinks has placed his mother under a deadly curse.
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