Monsters

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: ComedyDramaFantasy

Cast:John BolgerPamela Dean KellyMichael J. AndersonCarlos LauchuRobert WeilMeat LoafTempestt BledsoeDavid BrisbinMarilyn JonesTom MasonKin ShrinerLewis J. StadlenJohn C. VennemaAdrienne BarbeauLinda BlairChris NothRichard MollKent 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.