Monsters

Season 3

Season 3

Season • Sep 30, 1990–Apr 26, 1991

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.
  1. S3E1 - Stressed Environment

    Stressed Environment

    22 min • Sep 30, 1990 (36 years ago)

    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.

  2. S3E2 - Murray's Monster

    Murray's Monster

    22 min • Oct 7, 1990 (36 years ago)

    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.

  3. S3E3 - Bug House

    Bug House

    22 min • Oct 14, 1990 (36 years ago)

    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.

  4. S3E4 - Cellmates

    Cellmates

    22 min • Oct 21, 1990 (35 years ago)

    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.

  5. S3E5 - Outpost

    Outpost

    22 min • Oct 28, 1990 (35 years ago)

    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.

  6. S3E6 - The Hole

    The Hole

    22 min • Nov 4, 1990 (35 years ago)

    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.

  7. S3E7 - Small Blessing

    Small Blessing

    22 min • Nov 11, 1990 (35 years ago)

    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.

  8. S3E8 - Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites

    Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites

    22 min • Nov 18, 1990 (35 years ago)

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

  9. S3E9 - The Young and the Headless

    The Young and the Headless

    22 min • Nov 25, 1990 (35 years ago)

    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.

  10. S3E10 - The Waiting Game

    The Waiting Game

    22 min • Dec 9, 1990 (35 years ago)

    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.

  11. S3E11 - Sin-Sop

    Sin-Sop

    22 min • Dec 9, 1990 (35 years ago)

    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.

  12. S3E12 - A New Woman

    A New Woman

    22 min • Dec 16, 1990 (35 years ago)

    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.

  13. S3E13 - Malcolm

    Malcolm

    22 min • Dec 23, 1990 (35 years ago)

    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.

  14. S3E14 - Household Gods

    Household Gods

    22 min • Dec 30, 1990 (35 years ago)

    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'.

  15. S3E15 - The Space-Eaters

    The Space-Eaters

    22 min • Jan 6, 1991 (35 years ago)

    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.

  16. S3E16 - The Waiting Room

    The Waiting Room

    22 min • Jan 13, 1991 (35 years ago)

    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.

  17. S3E17 - Leavings

    Leavings

    22 min • Jan 21, 1991 (35 years ago)

    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.

  18. S3E18 - Desirable Alien

    Desirable Alien

    22 min • Jan 27, 1991 (35 years ago)

    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.

  19. S3E19 - A Face for Radio

    A Face for Radio

    22 min • Feb 3, 1991 (35 years ago)

    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...

  20. S3E20 - Werewolf of Hollywood

    Werewolf of Hollywood

    22 min • Feb 10, 1991 (35 years ago)

    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.

  21. S3E21 - Talk Nice to Me

    Talk Nice to Me

    22 min • Feb 17, 1991 (35 years ago)

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

  22. S3E22 - Hostile Takeover

    Hostile Takeover

    22 min • Feb 24, 1991 (35 years ago)

    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.

  23. S3E23 - The Maker

    The Maker

    22 min • Apr 18, 1991 (35 years ago)

    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.

  24. S3E24 - The Moving Finger

    The Moving Finger

    22 min • Apr 26, 1991 (35 years ago)

    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.