Monk

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Adrian Monk (Emmy-winner Tony Shalhoub) is a highly gifted detective whose career is jeopardized by his overwhelming fear of germs, crowds, small places, and almost everything else.... Monk's disorder was triggered by the murder of his beloved wife, Trudy. Ordered to take a leave of absence from the police department, Monk hires a nurse who helps him try to get reinstated on the force, and in the process, becomes an unlikely "Dr. Watson" to his "Sherlock Holmes." When the police department find themselves unable to crack a high-profile case, they have no choice but to bring back the only man for the job...phobias and all.

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Meet the Characters

Detective Adrian Monk

Tony Shalhoub
Sharona Fleming

Bitty Schram
Captain Leland Stottlemeyer

Ted Levine
Lieutenant Randall Disher

Jason Gray-Stanford

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Episodes

Episode 1

Episode 1: Mr. Monk Meets the Candidate part 1

Monk investigates an assassination attempt on Mayoral Candidate Warren St. Claire, and learns there’s more at play than meets the eye.
Episode 2

Episode 2: Mr. Monk and the Candidate part 2

Monk investigates an assassination attempt on Mayoral Candidate Warren St. Claire, and learns there’s more at play than meets the eye.
Episode 3

Episode 3: Mr. Monk and the Psychic

A former Police Commissioner murders his wife and arranges for her body to be “discovered” by notorious quack psychic Dolly Flint. Everyone believes Dolly has accomplished the impossible—except for Monk.
Episode 4

Episode 4: Mr. Monk Meets Dale the Whale

When a local judge is found murdered, all the evidence points to one man; an 800-pound reclusive tycoon named Dale Biederbeck, aka Dale the Whale. But how can a man who hasn’t left his bed in eleven years and can’t even fit through his bedroom door be responsible for the murder? It’s up to Monk to find out.
Episode 5

Episode 5: Mr. Monk Goes to the Carnival

Monk, who suffers from vertigo, investigates the death of a police detective murdered on a ferris wheel.
Episode 6

Episode 6: Mr. Monk goes to the Asylum

After being temporarily institutionalized, Monk stumbles upon a four-year-old murder. Or is his mind playing tricks on him?
Episode 7

Episode 7: Mr. Monk and the Billionaire Mugger

A billionaire computer mogul is shot dead while mugging a couple outside a movie theatre. It appears to be a mid-life crisis gone horribly wrong - until Monk uncovers the truth.
Episode 8

Episode 8: Mr. Monk and the Other Woman

Monk investigates an attorney’s death and develops a love interest in one of the suspects.
Episode 9

Episode 9: Mr. Monk and the Marthon Man

Monk, himself a former marathon runner, figures out the clever scheme devised by the furniture magnate to dispose of his mistress.
Episode 10

Episode 10: Mr. Monk Takes a Vacation

During his vacation, Monk helps solve the murder witnessed by Benjy, Sharona’s son, even though the corpse keeps on eluding them.
Episode 11

Episode 11: Mr. Monk and the Earthquake

Sharona’s life is in danger while Monk brilliantly solves this seemingly perfect crime of opportunity committed during a San Francisco earthquake.
Episode 12

Episode 12: Mr. Monk and the T.V. Star

Monk suspects the star of a hit TV crime show of killing his ex-wife. His only problem: The actor’s rock solid alibi.
Episode 12

Episode 12: Mr. Monk and the Red-Headed Stranger

A blind woman witnesses the murder of Willie Nelson’s road manager, but it only takes Monk a hand-shake to lift all accusations away from Willie and toward the real criminal.
Episode 13

Episode 13: Mr. Monk and the Missing Granny

A law student promises to get Monk reinstated to the police force in exchange for his help in finding the kidnappers of her beloved grandmother.
Episode 13

Episode 13: Mr. Monk and the Airplane

Braving his fear of flying and of enclosed areas, Monk boards a plane with Sharona and resolves the murder of a passenger’s wife - left dead at the airport, but replaced on board by her double.
Episode 14

Episode 14: Mr. Monk and the Captain's Wife

When the Captain’s wife falls victim to an apparent union dispute gone awry, it’s up to Monk to find out what really happened and bring Stottlemeyer back from the brink.
Episode 15

Episode 15: Mr. Monk Gets Married

It’s unholy matrimony, as Monk and Sharona pretend to be married to get the goods on a con man.
Episode 16

Episode 16: Mr. Monk Goes to Jail

When a death row inmate is murdered 45 minutes before his execution, Monk is brought in to find out why.

Characters

Detective Adrian Monk

Tony Shalhoub

Shalhoub has established himself as one of the most talented character actors working today. His numerous feature film roles include Spy Kids, Galaxy Quest, The Siege, A Civil Action, Searching for Bobby Fischer, The Impostors, Primary Colors, Gattaca, Men in Black, Big Night, Barton Fink, Honeymoon in Vegas, Quick Change, Longtime Companion, 13 Ghosts and Life or Something Like It.

Shalhoub had an especially memorable role in USA Films The Man Who Wasn't There (Winner for Best Director-2001 Cannes International Film Festival) by Joel and Ethan Coen, starring Billy Bob Thornton and Frances McDormand.

Shalhoub made his feature directorial debut with the independent film Made Up, in which he costars with his wife Brooke Adams and Gary Sinise.

Shalhoub's television credits include starring in the telefilm remakes of Gypsy and That Championship Season, directed by Paul Sorvino. He was a series regular on the sitcoms “Stark Raving Mad” and the long-running hit series Wings.

Shalhoub won a Golden Globe Award and was also nominated for a Screen Actor’s Guild Award for his role as Adrian Monk in the show’s first season.
Sharona Fleming

Bitty Schram

Schram is probably best known for her film debut role as Evelyn Gardner, the sobbing right-fielder who was reminded by Tom Hanks that there is “No crying in baseball!,” in Penny Marshall’s box office hit, A League of Their Own.

Schram has also been seen in a number of films, including Cleopatra’s Second Husband, with Paul Hipp; Kissing A Fool, with David Schwimmer and Jason Lee; One Fine Day, with Michelle Pfeiffer and George Clooney and Marvin’s Room, with Meryl Streep and Diane Keaton, to name a few.

On television, Schram has appeared in many critically acclaimed series, including Felicity, Roswell and Strong Medicine.

Schram is also an accomplished stage actor, having appeared as one of the original cast members in the Broadway hit, Neil Simon’s Laughter on the 23rd Floor; with Nathan Lane; Off-Broadway’s Blackout and One Acts by Warren Leight; as well as regional productions including Slow Dance on the Killing Ground.
Captain Leland Stottlemeyer

Ted Levine

Best known for his role as the serial killer Buffalo Bill in the classic thriller The Silence of the Lambs, Levine has been seen in numerous films including Ironweed, with Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep; Betrayed, with Debra Winger and Tom Berenger; Heat, with Al Pacino and Robert De Niro; Georgia with Jennifer Jason Leigh and Mare Winningham; Bullet, with Mickey Rourke; Wild, Wild West, with Will Smith and Kevin Kline; Ivan Reitman’s Evolution, with David Duchovny and Julianne Moore; and The Fast and the Furious, with Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez. Levine was also in the Jonathan Demme thriller, The Truth About Charlie, with Mark Wahlberg and Thandie Newton.

Levine recently finished shooting two feature films, Wonderland opposite Val Kilmer and Kate Bosworth, and Birth opposite Nicole Kidman.

Also an accomplished stage actor, Levine has appeared in numerous productions, including Sam Shepard’s Buried Child, for Broadway; Your Home in the West, El Salvador and Killers, at the Steppenwolf Theatre Co.; Life and Limb, for the Wisdon Bridge Theatre; and 70 Scenes of Halloween, Time of Your Life, A Class D Trial in Yokohama and The Tooth of the Game, for the Remains Theatre.
Lieutenant Randall Disher

Jason Gray-Stanford

Gray-Stanford was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada. He was trained in theater at the University of British Columbia before beginning his career in film and television.

After appearing in numerous Canadian and U.S. television shows, he got his first film break when David E. Kelley hired him to star in his film Mystery, Alaska. Gray-Stanford went on to co-star again opposite Russell Crowe in the Academy Award.-winning feature A Beautiful Mind.

Gray-Stanford co-stars in several episodes of Steven Spielberg's Taken, 20-hour epic mini-series for Sci Fi.