Monk S8

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Show Guide

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.

Meet the Characters

Natalie Teeger

Traylor Howard
Lieutenant Randall Disher

Jason Gray-Stanford
Captain Leland Stottlemeyer

Ted Levine
Detective Adrian Monk

Tony Shalhoub

Episodes

Episode 1

Mr. Monk's Favorite Show

Monk is thrilled to serve as a bodyguard to his favorite actress, a former child star whose life is in danger after the publication of her tell-all book.
Episode 2

Mr. Monk and the Foreign Man

Monk finds himself increasingly drawn to a case involving a visiting African man who is investigating his beloved wife’s hit-and-run death - a case that strongly resonates with Monk.
Episode 3

Mr Monk and the UFO

Monk must uncover the link between a missing woman and a UFO sighting after he and Natalie get stuck in a small desert town.
Episode 4

Mr. Monk Is Someone Else

At the behest of an FBI agent, Monk assumes the identity of a dead hit man in an effort to foil an assassination plot.
Episode 5

Mr. Monk Takes the Stand

Monk’s phobias threaten to undermine a big murder case when an aggressive defense attorney targets the detective’s unconventional methods in court.
Episode 6

Mr. Monk and the Critic

Natalie becomes convinced a critic who planned her daughter Julie’s theatrical performance was responsible for a murder at the same time as the show
Episode 7

Mr. Monk and the Voodoo Curse

Voodoo appears to be the only explanation when unmarked dolls sent to San Francisco residents accurately predict a series of inexplicable deaths – including, perhaps Natalie’s.
Episode 8

Mr. Monk Goes to Group Therapy

When Monk’s insurance company refuses to pay for more individual therapy sessions, Monk joins Dr. Bell’s therapy group, where somebody appears to be murdering his fellow patients.
Episode 9

Happy Birthday, Mr. Monk

Natalie tries to throw a birthday party for Monk while he investigates the mysterious death of an office building’s maintenance man.
Episode 10

Mr. Monk and Sharona

When Sharona returns to San Francisco to handle legal issues related to an uncle’s death, Monk suspects foul play and is torn between the differing styles of Sharona and Natalie.
Episode 11

Mr. Monk and the Dog

Monk reluctantly adopts a dog while looking into the suspicious disappearance of its owner.
Episode 12

Mr. Monk Goes Camping

To woo the lone holdout on a police reinstatement committee, Monk accompanies Lt. Disher and the man’s troublesome son on a camping trip where nature isn’t the only thing to fear.
Episode 13

Mr. Monk Is the Best Man

Monk must figure out who’s making anonymous threats against Capt. Stottlemeyer and his fiancée on the eve of their wedding.
Episode 14

Mr. Monk and the Badge

Monk finds his return to the police force to be more challenging than he expected when he becomes involved in the case of a serial killer.
Episode 15

Mr. Monk and the End: Part 1

Monk is called to a crime at the location where he first heard the news of his wife’s murder and begins the most important investigation of his life.
Episode 16

Mr. Monk and the End: Part 2

Monk pursues the killer of his wife in the series finale.

Characters

Natalie Teeger

Traylor Howard

An Orlando, Florida native, Howard's first exposure to acting was appearing in commercials while in high school. She later graduated from Florida State University with a degree in communications and advertising and a minor in English. Howard went on to appear in over 30 national commercials before landing her first series role on the NBC comedy "Boston Common." She also starred in the ABC television series “Two Guys and a Girl” and the CBS series “Bram and Alice.”
Howard’s feature credits include “Me, Myself and Irene” opposite Jim Carrey and Renee Zellweger. She also appeared opposite Norm McDonald and Chevy Chase in the MGM feature “Dirty Work,” and in the Indy feature “Confessions of a Sexist Pig.” Most recently Howard completed filming on “The Mask II: Son of the Mask” with Jamie Kennedy and Alan Cumming.
Currently Traylor is married and lives in Los Angeles where she enjoys tennis, snow skiing, yoga and swimming.
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.
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.
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.