About this season
MonsterVision is an American variety series that aired on TNT from March 1, 1993 to September 2000. The series was hosted by Joe Bob Briggs from 1995 to 2000, and featured classic B and cult films from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Penn and Teller guest-hosted MonsterVision marathons before Briggs came on board as the full-time host. Late in its run, the show changed formats, discarded "Last Call," and became Joe Bob's Hollywood Saturday Night and Monstervision.
Episodes (31)
1. Maximum Overdrive (1986)
Aired 2 January 1999 • 121 min
A group of people tries to survive when machines start to come alive and become homicidal.
4. The Seventh Sign (1988)
Aired 9 January 1999
Abby Quinn is eagerly awaiting childbirth but is haunted by dreams in which she miscarries. When she decides to rent a room to a mysterious stranger, she releases a chain of events that will unleash the end of humanity.
6. The Silencers (1996)
Aired 16 January 1999 • 117 min
Special Agent Rafferty is thrown into a maelstrom of action and intrigue when he identifies a mysterious alien race who are on a mission to invade Earth.
7. Dolores Claiborne (1995)
Aired 23 January 1999 • 152 min
A big city reporter travels to a small town where her mother has been arrested for the murder of an elderly woman for whom she worked as a housekeeper.
8. The Kiss (1988)
Aired 23 January 1999 • 123 min
After the death of her mother, a teenage girl is faced with bizarre supernatural occurrences when her mother's estranged sister arrives and begins to infiltrate her and her father's lives.
16. Phantasm II (1988)
Aired 6 February 1999 • 112 min
Mike, after his release from a psychiatric hospital, teams up with his old pal Reggie to hunt down the Tall Man, who is at it again. A mysterious, beautiful girl has also become part of Mike's dreams, and they must find her before the Tall Man does.
28. The Guyver (1991)
Aired 13 March 1999 • 109 min
A young man discovers a mechanical device that merges with his own body, turning him into a cyborg superhero. When strange creatures start appearing, trying to take the device back, he begins to uncover a secret plot to genetically engineer terrifying monsters.
32. Poltergeist (1982)
Aired 3 April 1999 • 132 min
A family's home is haunted by a host of demonic ghosts.
40. The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Aired 1 May 1999 • 112 min
When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies.
45. Love Potion No. 9 (1992)
Aired 22 May 1999 • 152 min
Two scientists who are hopeless with the opposite sex experiment with a substance that makes them irresistible to anyone who hears them speak.
46. The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)
Aired 22 May 1999 • 115 min
An anthropologist goes to Haiti to research a drug that makes someone appear dead by suspending all vital signs.
54. Maximum Overdrive (1986)
Aired 19 June 1999 • 119 min
A group of people try to survive when machines start to come alive and become homicidal.
55. Look Who's Talking Too (1990)
Aired 26 June 1999 • 95 min
This time, a new baby is on the way, and it's a girl. Wrapped together with the standard conflict between mother and father, Mikey engages in a bit of sibling rivalry with his new sister.
61. The Blues Brothers (1980)
Aired 17 July 1999 • 176 min
Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts together his old band to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised. Joe Bob's Summer School: Pop Culture 201
62. Pee Wee's Big Adventure (1985)
Aired 17 July 1999 • 111 min
When eccentric man-child Pee-wee Herman gets his beloved bike stolen in broad daylight, he sets out across the U.S. on the adventure of his life. Part of Joe Bob's Summer School: Pop Culture 201
63. Conan the Barbarian (1982)
Aired 24 July 1999 • 179 min
A powerful warrior seeks to avenge the genocide of his people and the murder of his parents at the hands of a snake cult.
64. Conan the Destroyer (1984)
Aired 24 July 1999 • 120 min
Conan leads a ragtag group of adventurers on a quest for a princess.
65. Hot Shots! (1991)
Aired 31 July 1999 • 105 min
A parody of Top Gun (1986) in which a talented but unstable fighter pilot must overcome the ghosts of his father and save a mission sabotaged by greedy weapons manufacturers.
69. Mars Attacks! (1996)
Aired 21 August 1999 • 133 min
Earth is invaded by Martians with unbeatable weapons and a cruel sense of humor.
74. The Great Outdoors (1988)
Aired 4 September 1999 • 121 min
A Chicago man's hope for a peaceful family vacation in the woods is shattered when the annoying in-laws drop in.
75. National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985)
Aired 4 September 1999 • 126 min
The Griswold's win a vacation tour across Europe where the usual havoc ensues. (Part of Joe Bob's Summer School: Geography 207)
77. Dragnet (1987)
Aired 11 September 1999
The equally strait-laced and "by-the-book" nephew of Joe Friday must work with his more laid-back partner to solve a mystery.
78. The Devil's Rain (1975)
A satanist cult leader is burnt alive by the local church. He vows to come back to hunt down and enslave every descendant of his congregation, by the power of the book of blood contracts, in which they sold their souls to the devil.
81. Somewhere in Time (1980)
Aired 25 September 1999
A Chicago playwright uses self-hypnosis to travel back in time and meet the actress whose vintage portrait hangs in a grand hotel.
82. The Fear (1995)
Aired 25 September 1999
A group of college seniors spending a weekend at a cottage for a psychological experiment called "fear therapy" find a human-sized wooden figure called Morty, which triggers everyone's deepest and darkest secrets and emotions.
89. Child's Play 2 (1990)
Aired 30 October 1999 • 95 min
While Andy's mother is admitted to a psychiatric hospital, the young boy is placed in foster care, and Chucky, determined to claim Andy's soul, is not far behind.
90. In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
Aired 31 October 1999 • 112 min
An insurance investigator begins discovering that the impact a horror writer's books have on his fans is more than inspirational.
101. The American President (1995)
Aired 4 December 1999 • 123 min
A widowed U.S. President running for reelection and an environmental lobbyist fall in love. It's all above-board, but "politics is perception," and sparks fly anyway.
102. Look Who's Talking Now (1993)
Aired 4 December 1999 • 109 min
The dogs can talk at a family of 4, where mom loses her job the same day dad gets a job as pilot for a cute, single boss.
107. Twins (1988)
Aired 25 December 1999 • 202 min
A physically perfect but innocent man goes in search of his long-lost twin brother, who is short, a womanizer, and small-time crook.
108. Rocky IV (1985)
Aired 25 December 1999 • 108 min
Rocky Balboa proudly holds the world heavyweight boxing championship, but a new challenger has stepped forward: Drago, a six-foot-four, 261-pound fighter who has the backing of the Soviet Union.