Season 1

Air date:2002-07-12
User score:
7.5
Number of episodes:12

He’s ingenious, he’s phobic, and he’s obsessive-compulsive. Adrian Monk’s offbeat antics have made him unfit for duty but he’s back as a San Francisco police consultant to help out on their most baffling cases. The brilliant but neurotic Monk is now fighting crime as well as his abnormal fears of germs, heights, crowds and virtually everything else known to man.

List of Episodes

S1E1

7.8

Air date: 2002-07-12

Runtime: 79 min

Monk investigates an assassination attempt on Mayoral Candidate Warren St. Claire and learns there's more at play than meets the eye.

S1E2

7.7

Air date: 2002-07-19

Runtime: 44 min

Everyone believes psychic Dolly Flint has accomplished the impossible when she discovers the body of the former Police Commissioner's missing wife. Everyone except Monk.

S1E3

7.2

Air date: 2002-07-26

Runtime: 45 min

An 800-pound recluse, aka Dale the Whale, is the number one suspect in a murder case. But how can a man who can't even fit through his bedroom door be a murderer?

S1E4

7.5

Air date: 2002-08-02

Runtime: 44 min

Monk, who suffers from vertigo, investigates the death of a police detective murdered on a ferris wheel.

S1E5

7.4

Air date: 2002-08-09

Runtime: 44 min

After being temporarily institutionalized, Monk stumbles upon a four-year-old murder. Or is his mind playing tricks on him?

S1E6

7.2

Air date: 2002-08-16

Runtime: 43 min

A billionaire is shot dead while mugging a couple outside a theater. It appears to be a mid-life crisis gone horribly wrong, until Monk figures out the truth.

S1E7

7.6

Air date: 2002-08-23

Runtime: 45 min

Monk investigates an attorney's death and develops a love interest in one of the suspects.

S1E8

7.2

Air date: 2002-09-13

Runtime: 44 min

Monk, himself a former marathon runner, figures out the clever scheme devised by a furniture magnate to dispose of his mistress during a citywide marathon.