Monsters

A horror anthology about a family of monsters watching a different horror story every week on their TV. Each tale is separate, often cautionary with occasional dark humor and irony and features various deadly creatures.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Cast:John Bolger , Pamela Dean Kelly , Michael J. Anderson , Carlos Lauchu , Robert Weil , Meat Loaf , Tempestt Bledsoe , David Brisbin , Marilyn Jones , Tom Mason , Kin Shriner , Lewis J. Stadlen , John C. Vennema , Adrienne Barbeau , Linda Blair , Chris Noth , Richard Moll , Kent McCord

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ The Feverman

Fri, Oct 21, 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.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Holly's House

Fri, Oct 28, 1988

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

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ New York Honey

Fri, Nov 4, 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.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ The Vampire Hunter

Fri, Nov 11, 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?

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ My Zombie Lover

Fri, Nov 18, 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.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Where's the Rest of Me?

Fri, Nov 25, 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.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ The Legacy

Fri, Dec 2, 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.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ Sleeping Dragon

Fri, Dec 9, 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.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ Pool Sharks

Fri, Dec 16, 1988

A man named Gabe challenges a seductive but evil woman named Natasha to a pool game. The kicker is she is a vampire and he is out for revenge against her.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ Pillow Talk

Fri, Dec 23, 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.

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ Rouse Him Not

Fri, Dec 30, 1988

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.

12Season 1

S1.E12 ∙ Fools' Gold

Fri, Jan 20, 1989

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

13Season 1

S1.E13 ∙ Glim-Glim

Fri, Feb 3, 1989

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

14Season 1

S1.E14 ∙ Parents from Space

Fri, Feb 10, 1989

Abusive elderly foster parents of a nice little orphan girl have their bodies taken over by friendly aliens, whose spaceship broke down.

15Season 1

S1.E15 ∙ The Mother Instinct

Fri, Feb 17, 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.

16Season 1

S1.E16 ∙ Their Divided Self

Fri, Feb 24, 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.

17Season 1

S1.E17 ∙ Taps

Fri, Mar 3, 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.

18Season 1

S1.E18 ∙ The Match Game

Fri, Apr 14, 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.

19Season 1

S1.E19 ∙ Rain Dance

Fri, Apr 21, 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.

20Season 1

S1.E20 ∙ Cocoon

Fri, Apr 28, 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.

21Season 1

S1.E21 ∙ All in a Day's Work

Fri, May 5, 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.

22Season 1

S1.E22 ∙ Satan in the Suburbs

Fri, May 12, 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.

23Season 1

S1.E23 ∙ Mannikins of Horror

Fri, May 19, 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 expendable.

24Season 1

S1.E24 ∙ La Strega

Fri, May 26, 1989

A young man tries to destroy a beautiful witch, whom he thinks has placed his mother under a deadly curse.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ The Face

Sat, Sep 30, 1989

Two burgling brothers try to rob an old lady and the less stupid but more ruthless one ends up killing her by accident after she bites him. Soon, the infected bite wound starts to turn into a face.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Portrait of the Artist

Sat, Oct 7, 1989

A father gets a shock when searching for his missing daughter in an artist's studio.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ A Bond of Silk

Sat, Oct 14, 1989

A newlywed couple book themselves into the basement suite of a fancy hotel which soon turns out to be the lair of a monstrously sized arachnid.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Rerun

Sat, Oct 21, 1989

A girl with a major crush on a recently killed hunky movie star summons him back from the dead, but he has other plans than love for her. Her nerdy best friend, who loves her, contacts the dead guy's Hollywood agent for help.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ Love Hurts

Sat, Oct 28, 1989

A woman uses voodoo to get her lover to leave his wife.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ The Farmer's Daughter

Sat, Nov 4, 1989

Aging traveling salesman hides from a thunderstorm in the farmhouse of a nice elderly couple and falls for their mysterious, young, seductive daughter obsessed with true love, whom they keep in the attic.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ Jar

Sat, Nov 11, 1989

Neo-noir tale set in a motel about a shady private investigator and a femme fatale who uses the content of a mysterious jar to get rid of her husband.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ The Demons

Sat, Nov 18, 1989

A greedy alien named Arcturus tries to enslaved a demon to grant his wishes, but instead gets a poor insurance agent from Chicago named Arthur Gammet. Poor Arthur must grant the alien's wishes even if it means getting a demon of his own.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ Reaper

Sat, Nov 25, 1989

An elderly man in a nursing home, who's terrified of death, makes a deal with the Grim Reaper - if he gets more souls for Death, he gets to live a bit longer. Things complicate when he falls for a caring elderly nurse..

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ The Mandrake Root

Sat, Dec 9, 1989

A married woman finds her deceased grandmother's exotic plant in the basement. It's the mythical mandrake root, an ingredient used in black magic to create the perfect lover that unfortunately feeds on human blood.

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ Half as Old as Time

Sat, Dec 16, 1989

Ready to pay any price to stay young, a dying old man asks his archaeologist daughter to reveal to him the secret location of a forbidden Native American fountain of youth supposedly protected by an evil snake god.

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ Museum Hearts

Sat, Jan 6, 1990

A lothario and two women he cheated on are trapped in a museum basement with the ancient bog body of a man-hating druid priestess, who worshiped Ceridwen.

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ Habitat

Sat, Jan 13, 1990

A woman agrees to be an alien test subject, only to lose her mind with loneliness.

14Season 2

S2.E14 ∙ Bed and Boar

Sat, Jan 20, 1990

A salesman comes between a husband and wife having a spat in the hotel room next door.

15Season 2

S2.E15 ∙ Mr. Swlabr

Sat, Jan 27, 1990

A boy discovers a toy in a cereal box that miraculously comes to life as a mischievous reptile.

16Season 2

S2.E16 ∙ Perchance to Dream

Sat, Feb 3, 1990

Following a blow to the head, Alex's nightmares appear to be becoming reality. His girlfriend asks a psychologist for help and he suggests for Alex to enter the dream world and face his subconsciousness.

17Season 2

S2.E17 ∙ One Wolf's Family

Sat, Feb 10, 1990

Anya, a girl who comes from a family of wolves, plans to marry Stanley, but her father objects because Stanley is a were-hyena.

18Season 2

S2.E18 ∙ The Offering

Sat, Feb 17, 1990

A man who is in a hospital following a car accident begins to see terrifying apparitions of giant insect-like creatures.

19Season 2

S2.E19 ∙ Far Below

Sat, Feb 24, 1990

A man sent to investigate why a subway maintenance crew is paid so highly gets more than he bargained for.

20Season 2

S2.E20 ∙ Micro Minds

Sat, Mar 3, 1990

An astronomy student believes she has contacted an alien lifeform that is frighteningly close to earth.

21Season 2

S2.E21 ∙ Refugee

Sat, May 12, 1990

A retiring disillusioned top spy is enlisted one last time to retrieve a defecting female Soviet physicist, but an unexpected visit from the agents of Hell to the safe house, where the two are hiding from the KGB, complicates things.

22Season 2

S2.E22 ∙ The Gift

Sat, May 19, 1990

A rich kid is kidnapped for ransom by two ruthless criminals and taken to a remote cabin. In its basement, he finds a mysterious but benevolent beast-man who offers him a supernatural way out. But there's a price.

23Season 2

S2.E23 ∙ The Bargain

Sat, May 26, 1990

A lonely bookstore owner goes to extreme lengths to transform her appearance in order to woo a handsome customer.

24Season 2

S2.E24 ∙ The Family Man

Sat, Jun 2, 1990

A kid who doesn't like his mother's new boyfriend discovers the man's true reptilian nature when he wears his old glasses.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Stressed Environment

Sat, Sep 29, 1990

A female scientist who spent 12 years raising rats in a stressed environment in the hopes of evolving their intelligence faces the terrifying results of her experiment.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Murray's Monster

Sat, Oct 6, 1990

A black comedy about a psychiatrist who 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.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ Bug House

Sat, Oct 13, 1990

A woman comes to an old house to see her estranged sister, only to find her sickly and pregnant with a creepy lothario boyfriend, who seduces her as well. She discovers his real, insectoid nature too late.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ Cellmates

Sat, Oct 20, 1990

Spoiled American ends up in a South American jail for killing a kid with his car. He counts on his rich daddy'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.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ Outpost

Sat, Oct 27, 1990

Sad existentialist drama about a female representative of a space mining corporation who visits the company's mining facility located on an uninhabited planet and run by a mutant slave to see why his output is behind schedule.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ The Hole

Sat, Nov 3, 1990

During the Vietnam War, two US marines and their allied South Vietnamese guide end up trapped in the maze of underground Vietcong tunnels haunted by the undead restless spirits of the soldiers killed in the war.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ Small Blessings

Sat, Nov 10, 1990

Black comedy about two normal, loving human parents who are constantly trying to keep their cute, demonic, monstrous, cannibalistic, mutant baby boy from devouring the neighbors. Meanwhile, a wannabe serial killer is stalking the area.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites

Sat, Nov 17, 1990

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

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ The Young and the Headless

Sat, Nov 24, 1990

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.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ The Waiting Game

Sat, Dec 8, 1990

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.

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ Sin-Sop

Sat, Dec 8, 1990

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.

12Season 3

S3.E12 ∙ A New Woman

Sat, Dec 15, 1990

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. Inspired by Dicken's Christmas Carol, the husband's strange doctor tries to scare her straight.

13Season 3

S3.E13 ∙ Malcolm

Sat, Dec 22, 1990

Unhappy wife asks her depressed, workaholic husband 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.

14Season 3

S3.E14 ∙ Household Gods

Sat, Dec 29, 1990

A modern, independent wife and mother is about to learn that no woman can defy the misogynistic household gods, who can turn the life of any housewife who refuses to submit to them into a living nightmare through sadistic mischief.

15Season 3

S3.E15 ∙ The Space Eaters

Sat, Jan 5, 1991

In this tribute to 1950s monster movies, two old gentlemanly friends are playing a game of chess, when a sinister telepathic alien invader shaped like a giant tentacled eyeball arrives to eat their brains.

16Season 3

S3.E16 ∙ The Waiting Room

Sat, Jan 12, 1991

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, ashamed Ben reveals his secret to Kate.

17Season 3

S3.E17 ∙ Leavings

Sat, Jan 19, 1991

Two beat cops tell their boss about the strange occurrences in the city they've recently witnessed such as normal people being turned into surgically reassembled freaks. He offers them the truth, but it comes with a price.

18Season 3

S3.E18 ∙ Desirable Alien

Sat, Jan 26, 1991

To pass the U.S. citizenship test, a Greek lothario with a big secret must first agree to a physical, which he desperately wants to avoid, so he tries to seduce the female immigration officer in charge of his case to get a free pass.

19Season 3

S3.E19 ∙ A Face for Radio

Sat, Feb 2, 1991

A cocky, sleazy and horny late night talk radio host brings in a sexy female guest who claims the 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.

20Season 3

S3.E20 ∙ Werewolf of Hollywood

Sat, Feb 9, 1991

A frustrated, ambitious scriptwriter plans to use the information that one of the top producers in the Hollywood studio he's working for might be a werewolf to finally advance his career.

21Season 3

S3.E21 ∙ Talk Nice to Me

Sat, Feb 16, 1991

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

22Season 3

S3.E22 ∙ Hostile Takeover

Sat, Feb 23, 1991

A greedy yuppie Wall Street banker tries to apply President Reagan's voodoo economics literally - by selling his soul to the devil through a voodoo priestess to become rich and powerful. He realizes too late the downside of this deal.

23Season 3

S3.E23 ∙ The Maker

Wed, Apr 17, 1991

In an abandoned hotel, Mack meets a happy drunk called 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. And if Freddy stops drinking? His nightmares return.

24Season 3

S3.E24 ∙ The Moving Finger

Thu, Apr 25, 1991

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