Monsters

Name: Monsters
Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Comedy, Drama
Released: 1988-10-22
Rating: 7

ENDED3 Seasons72 Episodes★ 7.0

Monsters is a sci-fi and fantasy series on Chiller that ran from 1988 to 1991, ending after 3 seasons and 72 episodes.

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NetworkChiller

First AiredOct 22, 1988

Last AiredApr 26, 1991

GenreSci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Comedy, Drama

Runtime22 min

Created ByRichard P. Rubinstein, Mitchell Galin

LanguageEnglish

CountryUnited States

ProductionTribune Entertainment, Laurel Entertainment Inc.

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.

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Seasons & Episodes3 seasons · 72 episodes

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E1Stressed Environment

Sep 30, 199022m

Dr. Elizabeth Porter, who spent twelve years raising rats in an unhealthy environment in hopes of evolving their intelligence, faces the terrifying results of her experiment.

E2Murray's Monster

Oct 7, 199022m

Psychiatrist Murray Van Pelt attempts to use a man who can turn into an unstoppable monster whenever his repressed anger is let loose through hypnosis to get rid of his annoying wife.

E3Bug House

Oct 14, 199022m

Ellen and May's father died some time ago, and May has started living in the family's broken-down, bug-infested cabin. While visiting, Ellen discovers that her sister has a handsome new lover named Peter and that May is due to give birth but has been enduring severe abdominal pains. Peter seduces Ellen, who has always been competitive with May (but has long denied it). Both the truth about Peter and his reason for seducing Ellen soon become clear.

E4Cellmates

Oct 21, 199022m

A spoiled American ends up in a South American jail for killing a kid with his car. He counts on his rich father's lawyer to get him out but a weird old political prisoner tells him he's in 'the bad cell' that no one ever leaves.

E5Outpost

Oct 28, 199022m

A space mining corporation representative visits the company facility on an uninhabited planet run by a mutant slave to see why his output is behind schedule.

E6The Hole

Nov 4, 199022m

During the Vietnam War, American soldiers Kenner and Torres, and a South Vietnamese lieutenant blast their way into an underground base and series of tunnels operated by the Viet Cong. They discover a horribly wounded guerrilla, who tells them that the VC tunneled through an old burial ground, and now the dead want vengeance.

E7Small Blessing

Nov 11, 199022m

Two normal, loving human parents try to keep their cute, cannibalistic, mutant infant son from devouring the neighbors. Meanwhile, a wannabe serial killer stalks the area.

E8Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites

Nov 18, 199022m

Young conspiracy theorist Kevin tries to convince his cool skeptic friend Tommy that an old-timey local barbershop is run by vampires in disguise.

E9The Young and the Headless

Nov 25, 199022m

Jealous wheelchair-bound Edward takes his wife Victoria's long-lost alpha male ex, Hunk, who suddenly came back for her, out of the picture for good. Being scientists, the two use microchips that mimic the human mind to rebuild Hunk.

E10The Waiting Game

Dec 9, 199022m

Four survivors of a nuclear blowout hide in their shelters, only connected by a walkie-talkie. While unbeknownst to them, the corpses of the dead are reanimated by something older than the radioactivity.

E11Sin-Sop

Dec 9, 199022m

A nice, young, southern faith healer uses the miraculous cleansing ability of the corpse of the most evil man in the world to run a small, popular, sin-extraction business. A female reporter and a cynical psycho-killer try to debunk him.

E12A New Woman

Dec 16, 199022m

A greedy wife tries to get her dying rich husband to give her the control over his buildings for the poor that she plans to sell. The husband's strange doctor tries to scare her straight.

E13Malcolm

Dec 23, 199022m

Unhappy wife Lorna asks her depressed, workaholic husband Malcolm to play his clarinet for her like he did in their youth. The music causes severe pain in his abdomen and he's taken to surgery. What they find trapped in there is beyond bizarre.

E14Household Gods

Dec 30, 199022m

Deborah is a married career woman who just had her first baby. Instead of taking care of her child and home, she hires a nanny to take care of things while she works from home. Everything begins to go wrong, which the nanny says have occurred because Deborah has offended 'the household gods'.

E15The Space-Eaters

Jan 6, 199122m

Two old gentlemanly friends play a game of chess, when a sinister telepathic alien invader shaped like a giant tentacled eyeball arrives to eat their brains.

E16The Waiting Room

Jan 13, 199122m

Ben suggests to his newlywed son John and daughter-in-law Kate to spend their wedding night in the same hotel room where he spent his honeymoon. When a mysterious woman kidnaps John there, Ben reveals his secret to Kate.

E17Leavings

Jan 21, 199122m

Beat cops Mancini and Pankhurst tell their boss about the strange occurrences they've recently witnessed such as normal people being turned into surgically reassembled freaks. The inspector offers the truth, but it comes with a price.

E18Desirable Alien

Jan 27, 199122m

To pass the US citizenship test, secretive Greek lothario Hercules Valvalotus must take a physical, which he desperately wants to avoid, so he tries to seduce the female immigration officer to get a free pass.

E19A Face for Radio

Feb 3, 199122m

Sleazy late night radio host Roy Bright brings in an alluring guest who claims aliens gave her the solution to evil in the world — a monster that eats bad people who agree to it. He laughs it off, at first...

E20Werewolf of Hollywood

Feb 10, 199122m

An ambitious screenwriter plans to use the information that a top producer in the Hollywood studio he's working for might be a werewolf to finally advance his career.

E21Talk Nice to Me

Feb 17, 199122m

A ladies' man is being harassed over the phone by a mysterious lonely female stalker with a seductive voice.

E22Hostile Takeover

Feb 24, 199122m

A greedy Wall Street banker tries to apply Reagan's voodoo economics literally — by selling his soul to the Devil through a voodoo priestess to become rich and powerful.

E23The Maker

Apr 18, 199122m

In an abandoned hotel, Mack meets a drunk named Freddy who can create anything he wants out of thin air, even food and money, but it all ends up having some critical flaw to it. If Freddy stops drinking? His nightmares return.

E24The Moving Finger

Apr 26, 199122m

When a mysterious, impossibly long finger inexplicably and creepily pokes up out of the drain of his bathroom sink, family man Howard Mitla is pushed to the brink of madness in his attempts to get rid of it.

About Monsters

Monsters is a sci-fi & fantasy, mystery, comedy, drama series on Chiller. The show first aired on Oct 22, 1988 and currently has 3 seasons and 72 episodes. Monsters has ended. It has a rating of 7.0/10 based on 27 votes. Created by Richard P. Rubinstein and Mitchell Galin.