List of Monsters episodes

Greedy apartment dweller Jay Blake (Lewis J. Stadlen) blackmails his beekeeping neighbor into allowing him to market the special honey his bees make. A beautiful woman (Andrea Thompson) appears out of nowhere and begins pushing aside Blake's mousy wife, and turns out to "bee" much more than Blake bargained for.

A nerdy teenage girl named Dottie (Tempestt Bledsoe) discovers that her handsome, athletic boyfriend Paul (Steve Harper) - who died six months ago - has come back as a zombie. Her zombie-hating parents (Marcella Lowery and Ed Wheeler) and her bratty little brother (Eugene Byrd) return home with terrible results. But no mother should let a guest leave the house hungry...

Failed horror writer Dale (David Brisbin) buys the home of a deceased horror movie actor and moves in with his shrewish wife Debbie (Lara Harris). Dale discovers the dead man's makeup kit, and to gain inspiration puts on some of the makeup to act out his favorite horror roles. But he gets a lot more than he bargained for.

Natasha () is a rich, beautiful woman who loves to play pool in run-down bars while attended by her mortician friend, Lester. She's challenged by pool shark Gabe (Tom Mason) who's mourning his dead brother. Natasha turns out to be a vampire, but it's not clear who is hunting who.

Artist Linda McGuire (Laraine Newman) lives alone in an old house in the country, where she's harassed by local peeping tom Ritzen (Terrence Evans). She's visited by author John Thunston (Alex Cord), who is conducting research on a warlock who used to live in the home. But the house and Thunston are both more than they seem.

Conjoined twins James (David L. Lander) and Robert Self (Keith MacKechnie) work as comedians and constantly fight with one another. James' girlfriend Elegy (Karen Haber) brings in noted psychiatrist Dr. Blackman (Rich Hall) to help them get along. The Self Brothers quickly discover they have a common enemy in Dr. Blackman.

A white witch named Fiona Flynn (Adrienne Barbeau) is consulted by Steven Rose (James Morrison), a professor of ancient history who has unwittingly summoned a doppelgänger from an ancient text. The doppelgänger is trying to take over Rose's life, and Flynn summons a demon named Belphamelech () to deal with the doppelgänger. But with Fiona's son Ian () in the apartment while the conjuring goes on and Rose unlearned in the magical arts, things start to go wrong.

Harried single mother and frustrated writer Xantipe Finch (Deborah Strang) is contacted by a demon named Clancy (Chris Noth), who wants to write Lucifer's memoirs so that the devil can be more popular than God. Clancy quickly sets a bad example for her son Marty (Danny Gerard) and proceeds to solve all of Xantipe's problems. But the more he helps, the more devilish the Xantipe and Marty become. Xantipe agrees to help Clancy write the book if he'll remove their new demonic natures. But can he do it?

Dr. Collin (William Prince) is a former surgeon who had a mental breakdown and is incarcerated in an insane asylum. He began hallucinating that his body was coming apart, and in response began obsessively creating anatomically correct clay manikins. Dr. Jarrett (Glynis Barber) befriends him, but Dr. Starr (Brian Brophy) demands that the manikins be taken away for Collin's own good. But the manikins come to life and begin wreaking a horrible vengeance. Dr. Jarrett learns a terrible secret about them in turn.

Directed by Ernest D. Farino.

Vito (Rob Morrow) is a young Italian American man who enters the dress shop of a young woman named Lia (Linda Blair), and attempts to kill her. She disarms and subdues him. Vito says Lia is "la strega" (the Italian language word for witch). Ten years ago, Vito was very ill and his mother (Maria Tucci) sold her engagement ring in Lia's pawn shop to pay for a doctor. Lia allegedly switched rings, then cursed Vito's mother so that she was ill for a decade before finally dying. Vito wants revenge. Lia says it wasn't her but rather her mother who owned the pawn shop, that her mother was a witch, and that she herself is innocent. To prove it, she makes Vito promise to stay with her for two weeks, after which he may kill her or not. Vito tries to kill Lia right away, but she morphs into a demon, then his mother, then a dressmaker's dummy. Realizing he's trapped, Vito stays with Lia and begins to suspect she is a witch, too. Vito becomes attracted to Lia. He dreams of making love to her, but she morphs into his mother - who accuses him of breaking her dying wish to retrieve her ring. Lia tells him that Vito's mother tried to defraud Lia's mother and take a ring which she had not pawned. Lia's mother had a vision of Vito's mother in pain for 10 years, but it was no curse. Lia and Vito make love. When the two weeks are up, Vito meets Lia in the shop and shoots her. Her body morphs into that of a demon, then Vito's mother - who accuses him of not retrieving the ring. She dies, and Vito removes the ring. Lia reappears, and Vito tells her that he kept his promise and returned la strega's ring.

Ma (Bobo Lewis) and Pa (George Hall) let an aging traveling salesman named Howard Filby (Soupy Sales) into their home during a terrible thunderstorm. He's permitted to spend the night, but must share a room on the second floor with their daughter Lucy (Stephanie Phillips). Lucy has a beautiful voice, but Filby can only see her in silhouette through a bedsheet dividing their room. When he convinces Lucy to lower the sheet, she turns out to be just as beautiful he expected. But Lucy demands commitment from her lovers and harbors a horrific secret.

Mr. Hallet (Fritz Weaver) runs a general store and hotel near a swamp. A private investigator, Jack Bateman (Richard Edson), is looking for a missing woman last seen at the hotel. He meets beautiful Ann Spiros (Gina Gershon) and her loutish but wealthy husband, George (Ed Kovens), and is immediately attracted to her. Hallet is selling monsters he stores in large Mason jars. When released in the light, the creature attacks, kills, and in seconds devours the victim before itself dissolving. Ann uses just such a creature to kill her husband, allowing her and Bateman to have a night of intense passion. But can two unethical people trust one another?

Based on story by Steven W. Davis.

A greedy alien sorcerer in another dimension named Arturus (Richard Moll) accidentally summons an earthly accountant named Arthur (Jeff Silverman) rather than the demon he was seeking. To avoid a lifetime in a cage, Arthur decides to summon his own demon in an attempt to free himself from Arturus' control. But he too only manages to summon a dimensional counterpart (Eddie Deezen). Now the two accountants have to work together to stop the sorcerer and free themselves.

Based on a story by Robert Scheckley.

Mr. Ross (George D. Wallace) is an elderly man newly arrived at a retirement home. Nurse Sheila Brewer (Barbara Billingsley) helps him get a room. That night, the Grim Reaper (Curt Lowens) appears. Ross makes a deal: More life, but in return he has to deliver many deaths. After the Grim Reaper reappears several times to warn him to hold up his end of the bargain, Ross begins killing people. He also falls in love with Nurse Brewer. But Ross isn't the only one in the nursing home to have made a deal with Death.

A dying elderly archeologist (Leif Garrett) begs his tomboy archeologist daughter "Jake" (Valerie Wildman) to reveal to him the location of an ancient Native American spring rumored to be the Fountain of Youth. She does, but they are confronted by an Indian shaman (Nick Ramus) who tells the old man about the terrible price to be paid to achieve youth and immortality. The old man thinks he's paid once he's killed his daughter, but there is another payment yet to come.

Danny (Patrick Breen) is a handsome museum curator who is cheating on his fiancé, Edwina (Sarah Trigger) with a floozy blond waitress Cheryl (Louise Roberts). Edwina stumbles upon Danny attempting to have sex with Cheryl in a basement gallery that's under construction. All three are unintentionally locked in for the night by the staff. Danny accidentally awakens the mummy of a 3,000-year-old Druid witch (Pamela Dean Kelly) after exposing it to a bloody handkerchief. The mummy was rejected by her lover in the past and now seeks vengeance on all male lotharios.

Roy Barton (Robert Oliveri) is bossed around by his mother Mrs. Barton (Kate McGregor-Stewart) and his teenage sister Barbie (Danielle Ferland). He finds a toy in a cereal box that "grows" when water is added to it. But when he does so, the "toy" turns out to be a living, foot-high reptilian created named Mr. Swlabr (voiced by Rockets Redglare). Swlabr wants lots of "lick 'em up" (liquids) and starts to play tricks on Roy's mom and sister in an attempt to defend Roy from them. Thinking Roy has a pet of some kind, Mrs. Barton decides to turn the hose on Swlabr...

Based on a story by Steven L. Nelson

Greta (Anne Meara) and Victor Lupazian (Jerry Stiller) have a daughter Anya (Amy Stiller) who is about to marry Stanley (Robert Clohessy). The audience learns that the Lupazian family is a family of werewolves. Victor is opposed to his daughter's marriage because Stanley is a werehyena and there has been issues between werewolves and werehyenas in the past like werehyenas being scavengers. Nosy neighbor Iris Peabody (Karen Shallo) suspects something is wrong with her new neighbors. Can Stanley save his bride's family?

Dr. Rathmore (Barry Nelson) runs an obscure but important unit of a big city subway system from an underground office. His men - Jensen (Rick Goldman), Luchinsky (Calvin Levels), and Watson () - not only repair the sound and video cameras in the subway tunnels but seem to be fighting off some creatures as well. A young, arrogant accountant named Alex Kritz () wants to know why Rathmore's men are paid so highly, why this unit of the subway system is paid out of the police department's budget, and why its budget is many times larger than any other city agency. When Kritz learns the truth, he has to make a choice to help or hinder Rathmore's efforts. But Rathmore's been making choices, too...

Dr. Elizabeth Porter (Carol Lynley) has been experimenting heavily on lab rats under the theory that subjecting them to environmental stress will cause their intelligence to rise. A new member of her team named Dr. Robert Winston (Victor Raider-Wexler) arrives to help with the experiment. But when a lab worker dies, it's clear the rats are learning a lot more than anyone suspects.

A hen-pecked psychiatrist (Joe Flaherty) has a domineering wife (Miriam Flynn) he loathes. He's also trying to get his ditzy blond secretary (Teresa Ganzel) to sleep with him. A new, mild-mannered patient named Murray (Marvin Kaplan) arrives who complains of having an "inner monster" that's trying to come out. When the monster (performed by Colin Penman) turns out to be real, the psychiatrist realizes he has the ideal opportunity to kill off his wife....if the monster agrees.

The father of Ellen (Karen Sillas) and her sister May (Juliette Kirth) died some time ago and May has started living in the family's broken-down, bug-infested cabin. While visiting May, Ellen discovers that May has a handsome new lover named Peter (Robert Kerbeck) and that May is pregnant. May is due to give birth soon, but is having 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.

During the Vietnam War, American soldiers Sergeant Kenner (Ahmad Rashād) and Corporal Torres (Antone Pagán) and a South Vietnamese lieutenant (Glenn Kubota) blast their way into an underground base and series of tunnels operated by the Viet Cong (VC). They discover a horribly wounded guerrilla who tells them that the VC tunneled through an old burial ground and now the dead want vengeance. The VC dies before he can say any more. The men become unnerved and panic as they encounter booby-traps left by the VC and soon start shooting at everything. But there might be something worth shooting at.

Wendy (Julie Brown) and Louis (Kevin Nealon) are parents to a baby named Eric. Eric's quite a handful and meat delivery boy Teddy (David Spade) is bringing meats to the house every day. The audience learns after just a few minutes that Eric is violent, eats only meat, likes to start fires, and is a human-shaped monster with 37 fully formed sharp teeth. Louis says that Eric can tell that Wendy isn't bonding with him and that's why he's such a problem child. They call in an older woman named Babs (Peggy Rea) for advice. But it's only when a serial killer that Wendy least suspects gets into the house that Wendy learns how important her relationship with Eric can be.

Victoria (Karen Valentine) and the wheelchair-bound Edward (George Reinholt) are doctors practicing experimental surgery on living patients in a Third World country. Victoria has discovered a way to replace a person's brain with a microchip. "Hunk" (John Schiappa), Victoria's muscle-bound, handsome, soldier of fortune lover, returns after seven years in the jungle. When Edward fools Hunk into committing suicide, Victoria removes Hunk's shattered skull and replaces it with a computer chip. But Hunk still has a mind (and body) of his own.

Based on a story by W. C. Morrow.

During Christmas, a dying man named Thomas (Tom McDermott) has a greedy wife named Jessica (Linda Thorson) who wants him to die as soon as possible so that she can get her hands on his money. Thomas' nephew David (Dan Butler) wants to stop Jessica from securing his uncle's signature on an agreement to tear down a homeless shelter and construct an office building. On Christmas Eve, Thomas' doctor (Mason Adams) warns Jessica that she should change her ways or be visited by horrific spirits.

Howard (Richard Clarke) and Fredrick (Matt Hulswit) are two friends living in New England. One night as they play chess during a horrible thunderstorm, a local man named Henry Wells (Richard Hughes) appears at their door. Wells says his brain has been eaten and sure enough, he has a hole in his temple and his brain is missing. But he's alive and talking. Wells tells the two men about a craft wreathed in light which landed near the town and about being attacked by a "thing" that ate his brain. Wells finally dies and an alien begins speaking to the two men through Wells' body. The alien says it is coming for them and the two men must figure out how to survive.

A Latino immigrant named Luis (Luis Guzmán) and a Greek immigrant named Hercules Valvalotus (Tony Spiridakis) are workers at a dingy urban café. Immigration officer Maggie Price (Wendy Makkena) is investigating Valvalotus' citizenship application and Hercules turns on the sexual charm to try to get her to give him a break. Maggie reports his sexual harassment to her superior Mr. Vega (Rick Aviles). That evening, Dr. Moss (Debbie Harry, appearing as "Deborah Harry") arrives at the café to give Hercules a physical. She succumbs to his masculine charms, but Maggie stumbles in on them and becomes insanely jealous. Dr. Moss meets with Hercules to try to seduce him, and learns that he's much, much more than a mere illegal alien.

Hollywood horror screenwriter Buzz Hunkle (Richard Belzer) is assigned by producer Leo Tandoski (Shelley Berman) to work with a co-writer named Vicki (Geraldine Leer) on a new werewolf movie. The outline is about a movie studio CEO named Billy who is a werewolf and about a heroic producer named Leo who unmasks him. Studio CEO Billy Mariner (David Leary) arrives in Buzz's office and announces he's financing picture. Buzz and Vicki fight over the script. That night, they hear screams and wolf howls out on the studio back lot. They discover Leo's dead body and a werewolf running amok. But Leo warned them that there's more to the "movie" outline than there seems and Buzz has to unravel the mystery.

Howie (Tom Noonan) is addicted to television quiz shows and always gets the answer right. His wife (Alice Playten) goes out for ice cream while Howie watches his shows. Hearing a noise, Howie see an incredibly long, bony finger poking up out of the drain of his bathroom sink. Terrified because he doesn't know how such a thing could be happening, Howie ignores the frightening thing. His wife returns from the store and sees nothing. That night, Howie finds he can't go to the bathroom without the finger poking up out of the drain at him. As Howie tries to destroy the finger, first with drain cleaner and then a hedge trimmer, the finger attacks him and becomes longer and longer. But every finger is attached to a hand...

Richard B. Shull has a voiceover role as a television announcer.