Monsters - Season 3

First aired: 9/30/1990 24 episodes

Episodes

1. Stressed Environment

Aired: 9/30/1990

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. Murray's Monster

Aired: 10/7/1990

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. Bug House

Aired: 10/14/1990

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. Cellmates

Aired: 10/21/1990

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. Outpost

Aired: 10/28/1990

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. The Hole

Aired: 11/4/1990

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. Small Blessing

Aired: 11/11/1990

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. Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites

Aired: 11/18/1990

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. The Young and the Headless

Aired: 11/25/1990

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.

10. The Waiting Game

Aired: 12/9/1990

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.

11. Sin-Sop

Aired: 12/9/1990

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.

12. A New Woman

Aired: 12/16/1990

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. The husband's strange doctor tries to scare her straight.

13. Malcolm

Aired: 12/23/1990

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. Household Gods

Aired: 12/30/1990

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. The Space-Eaters

Aired: 1/6/1991

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. The Waiting Room

Aired: 1/13/1991

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, Ben reveals his secret to Kate.

17. Leavings

Aired: 1/21/1991

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. Desirable Alien

Aired: 1/27/1991

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. A Face for Radio

Aired: 2/3/1991

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. Werewolf of Hollywood

Aired: 2/10/1991

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. Talk Nice to Me

Aired: 2/17/1991

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

22. Hostile Takeover

Aired: 2/24/1991

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. The Maker

Aired: 4/18/1991

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. The Moving Finger

Aired: 4/26/1991

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.