Monk

First Aired in 2002

Former police detective Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub), whose photographic memory and amazing ability to piece together tiny clues made him a local legend, has suffered from intensified obsessive-compulsive disorder and a variety of phobias since the unsolved murder of his wife, Trudy, in 1997. Now on psychiatric leave from the San Francisco Police Department and working as a freelance detective/ consultant on difficult cases, Monk hopes to convince his former boss, Captain Leland Stottlemeyer (Ted Levine), to allow him to return to the force. Stottlemeyer, who wavered between admiration for Monk and annoyance at his eccentricities during the first season, is becoming more of a friend to Monk as the series develops, frequently calling him in to help, as much for Monk's benefit as for his own. However, he knows Monk's limitations as well as his strengths and may still harbor doubts about the wisdom of allowing Monk to carry a gun or subdue a perpetrator. Stottlemeyer's second-in-command, Lieutenant Randall Disher (Jason Gray-Stanford), also seems to be developing both admiration and compassion for the man he once labeled "the defective detective."
Despite flaws and inadequacies all around, the three are becoming an increasingly effective team, with additional help from Monk's personal assistant. From the double-episode pilot through the first half of season three, Monk was aided by his nurse, Sharona Fleming (Bitty Schram). But in the tenth episode of the third season, Sharona was replaced by a new assistant, Natalie Teeger (Traylor Howard). Like Sharona, a divorcee with a son named Benjy, Natalie is a single parent, a widow with a daughter named Julie (Emmy Clarke). Unlike Sharona, Natalie is not a nurse but a former bartender with a fresh perspective on "Mr. Monk," as she still addresses her new boss.

Schedule: The fourth season (part one) begins Friday, July 8, at the usual time. Apparently this half-season will consist of eight episodes, with the remaining eight to air in January and February. (ABC, the network for which the series was originally developed, retains its right to air "repurposed episodes" (reruns) but seems unlikely to do so again now that USA Network is owned by NBC.)

Upcoming episodes:
July 8 (season premiere), MR. MONK AND THE OTHER DETECTIVE;
July 15, MR. MONK GOES HOME AGAIN;
July 22, MR. MONK STAYS IN BED;
July 29, MR. MONK AND MRS. MONK.
(See the Episode Guide for the tentative August schedule.)

Production: The pilot was shot in Vancouver and the remaining first-season episodes in Toronto, but a bigger budget enabled USA Network to move production to Los Angeles for all subsequent seasons. Occasional footage shot in San Francisco is used for scenes where location is crucial. "Mr. Monk Takes Manhattan" was shot in New York City, but apparently "Mr. Monk Goes to Vegas" was shot on a Los Angeles set. Production of fourth-season episodes is on hiatus but will probably resume in September as it did last year.

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Episodes:

Season 1:
1. Mr. Monk and the Candidate (1)
2. Mr. Monk and the Candidate (2)
3. Mr. Monk and the Psychic
4. Mr. Monk Meets Dale the Whale
5. Mr. Monk Goes to the Carnival
6. Mr. Monk Goes to the Asylum
7. Mr. Monk and the Billionaire Mugger
8. Mr. Monk and the Other Woman
9. Mr. Monk and the Marathon Man
10. Mr. Monk Takes a Vacation
11. Mr. Monk and the Earthquake
12. Mr. Monk and the Red-Headed Stranger
13. Mr. Monk and the Airplane

Season 2:
1. Mr. Monk Goes Back to School
2. Mr. Monk Goes to Mexico
3. Mr. Monk Goes to the Ballgame
4. Mr. Monk Goes to the Circus
5. Mr. Monk and the Very, Very Old Man
6. Mr. Monk Goes to the Theater
7. Mr. Monk and the Sleeping Suspect
8. Mr. Monk Meets the Playboy
9. Mr. Monk and the 12th Man
10. Mr. Monk and the Paperboy
11. Mr. Monk and the Three Pies
12. Mr. Monk and the T.V. Star
13. Mr. Monk and the Missing Granny
14. Mr. Monk and the Captain's Wife
15. Mr. Monk Gets Married
16. Mr. Monk Goes to Jail

Season 3:
1. Mr. Monk Takes Manhattan
2. Mr. Monk and the Panic Room
3. Mr. Monk and the Blackout
4. Mr. Monk Gets Fired
5. Mr. Monk Meets the Godfather
6. Mr. Monk and the Girl Who Cried Wolf
7. Mr. Monk and the Employee of the Month
8. Mr. Monk and the Game Show
9. Mr. Monk Takes His Medicine
10. Mr. Monk and the Red Herring
11. Mr. Monk vs. the Cobra
12. Mr. Monk Gets Cabin Fever
13. Mr. Monk Gets Stuck in Traffic
14. Mr. Monk Goes to Vegas
15. Mr. Monk and the Election
16. Mr. Monk and the Kid

Season 4:
1. Mr. Monk and the Other Detective
2. Mr. Monk Goes Home Again
3. Mr. Monk Stays in Bed
4. Mr. Monk Goes to the Office
5. Mr. Monk Gets Drunk
6. Mr. Monk and Mrs. Monk
7. Mr. Monk Goes to a Wedding
8. Mr. Monk and Little Monk
9. Mr. Monk and the Secret Santa
10. Mr. Monk Goes to a Fashion Show
11. Mr. Monk Bumps His Head
12. Mr. Monk and the Captain's Marriage
13. Mr. Monk and the Big Reward
14. Mr. Monk and the Astronaut
16. Mr. Monk Goes to the Dentist
17. Mr. Monk Gets Jury Duty

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