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The Best 'Monk' Episodes of All Time
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Vote for your favorite Monk episodes, no matter how popular they are.
This list of the best Monk episodes, is voted on by other fans of the series. With so many memorable episodes of the show, it's hard to trust just one person's opinion of what the top Monk episodes of all time are. Tony Shalhoub's award-winning performance of Adrian Monk also landed his character on best fictional detectives and best TV characters with mental illness. Fans of Monk are extremely passionate about the show, and there is often debate over which episodes are better than others. That's why this list exists- so you can vote for your favorites and we can find out once and for all what everyone thinks the best episode is.
The list is made up of all Monk episodes, including "Mr. Monk Gets Jury Duty" and "Mr. Monk and the Genius." What is the best Monk episode of all time? Look below and find out, and be sure to also check out our list of more great shows like Monk.
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Dec 04 2009- Season: Monk - Season 8
- Episode Number: 16
After listening to Trudy's last message, Monk finally discovers who killed his wife. Racing against time before he dies of poison, he must make a fateful decision. - 2Mar 17 2006
- Season: Monk - Season 4
- Episode Number: 16
"Mr. Monk Gets Jury Duty" is the sixteenth and final episode of the fourth season of the American comedy-drama detective television series Monk, and is the show's 61st episode overall. The series ...more - 3Oct 18 2002
- Season: Monk - Season 1
"Mr. Monk and the Airplane" is first season finale of the American comedy-drama detective television series Monk, and the show's 13th episode overall. The series follows Adrian Monk, a private ...more - 4Sep 20 2002
- Season: Monk - Season 1
- Episode Number: 9
A woman is murdered during the San Francisco marathon and Monk suspects her married lover, Trevor McDowell, even though he was running in the race. Although McDowell disappears from the video tape of ...more - 5Jul 14 2006
- Season: Monk - Season 5
- Episode Number: 2
Monk finds himself adrift in an ocean of filth when a garbage strike brings San Francisco to a halt...and Adrian to near-paralysis. - 6Jan 23 2004
- Season: Monk - Season 2
- Episode Number: 11
When Monk's older brother Ambrose calls him about a ""life-or-death matter,"" Monk accepts the call grudgingly and agrees to meet the brother from whom he's been estranged since Ambrose refused to ...more - 7Sep 14 2007
- Season: Monk - Season 6
- Episode Number: 9
Mr. Monk takes a walk when he can't sleep, but ends up running into a murder. - 8Mar 04 2005
- Season: Monk - Season 3
- Episode Number: 16
After twenty-two-month-old Tommy Graser finds a severed finger and gives it to a policeman, Monk walks through the park with Tommy trying to retrace the child's steps. He finds no body or other ...more - 9Feb 02 2007
- Season: Monk - Season 5
- Episode Number: 12
When Natalie suspects foul play in the deaths of her parents' wealthy neighbors, Monk goes undercover as a butler to investigate. - 10Jul 15 2005
- Season: Monk - Season 4
- Episode Number: 2
Monk is reunited with his agoraphobic brother, Ambrose, after the murder of an armored car driver. - 11Aug 06 2004
- Season: Monk - Season 3
- Episode Number: 7
When Edna Coruthers, a model employee at a giant chain store called Mega-Mart, is killed by a falling television set, Monk is called in to investigate by the store's security chief--who turns out to ...more - 12Nov 27 2009
- Season: Monk - Season 8
- Episode Number: 15
Monk is called to a murder at the location where he first heard of his wife's murder, and while Monk figures out who the assassin is, he doesn't know that the one who ordered the hit is also ...more - 13Mar 03 2006
- Season: Monk - Season 4
- Episode Number: 14
When Captain Stottlemeyer suspects that a suicide is really a murder, Monk confirms his suspicions by discovering that the victim, Joanne Raphelson, was too short to have used the stool she ...more - 14Feb 04 2005
- Season: Monk - Season 3
- Episode Number: 12
After witnessing a Chinese gangland murder, Monk has to stay in an FBI safe house--a cabin in the woods--in the protective custody of Agent Grooms, with Stottlemeyer and Natalie as company. Awakened ...more - 15Jul 29 2005
- Season: Monk - Season 4
- Episode Number: 4
Monk goes undercover as an office worker to solve a case. - 16Oct 30 2009
- Season: Monk - Season 8
- Episode Number: 11
Monk reluctantly adopts a dog while looking into the suspicious disappearance of its owner. - 17Aug 05 2005
- Season: Monk - Season 5
- Episode Number: 5
Monk goes to a wine-tasting and finds it a bit more than he bargained for. - 18Jul 25 2008
- Season: Monk - Season Seven
- Episode Number: 2
Monk must match wits against a grandmaster chess player that he suspects of murder. - 19Jun 27 2003
- Season: Monk - Season 2
- Episode Number: 2
When a friend's college-age son dies mysteriously in Mexico, the mayor sends Monk to investigate. Doubting the coroner's report that the young man ""drowned"" in mid-air, Monk nevertheless has ...more - 20Feb 11 2005
- Season: Monk - Season 3
- Episode Number: 13
When Monk, Natalie, and Julie get stuck in a traffic jam after a multi-car collision blocks the freeway, Monk gets out of the car to investigate. He soon deduces from the absence of skid marks and ...more - 21Feb 18 2005
- Season: Monk - Season 3
- Episode Number: 14
In the middle of the night, Monk receives a phone call from a drunken Stottlemeyer, who has gone to Las Vegas with Disher for a fellow officer's bachelor party. Stottlemeyer believes that a wealthy ...more - 22Oct 09 2009
- Season: Monk - Season 8
- Episode Number: 8
After Monk's insurance company refuses to pay for more private therapy sessions, he joins Dr. Bell's therapy group, where it appears that someone is murdering fellow patients. - 23Jan 20 2006
- Season: Monk - Season 4
- Episode Number: 11
Suffering from amnesia, Monk wakes up believing he is the husband of an eccentric resident of a small town. - 24Aug 01 2003
- Season: Monk - Season 2
- Episode Number: 6
Sharona's actress sister, Gail, is suspected of murdering Hal Duncan, a fellow actor who dies onstage after Gail stabs him with what she insists is a retractable knife. When Sharona's mother (who ...more - 25Aug 20 2004
- Season: Monk - Season 3
- Episode Number: 9
After Captain Stottlemeyer is shot in the shoulder by an unknown assailant, a somewhat rattled and very angry Disher is left in charge of the investigation. Although Monk is almost as distressed as ...more
