Monsters is just a syndicated horror anthology series which conducted on the sci fi Channel from 1988 to 1991 and re-ran during the 1990s. At the time of 2011, Monsters airs on NBC Universal cable station Chiller in week-day marathons that are jagged. In a related vein to Tales from the Darkside,'' Monsters in a number of ways succeeded the show, as well as shared the same producer. It excels in certain respects. This series was more strictly horror while Tales dabbled in stories of fantasy and science fiction. As its name implies, each episode of Monsters comprised into mutated, weapon-wielding lab rats from the animatronic puppet of a children's tv program. Comparable to Tales, however, the stories in Monsters were very straightforward action plots and sometimes included some twist in which a character's conceit or greed could do him in, often with results. Adding to the was a sense of comedy frequently lost on horror productions which might in many cases added into this production's eeriness lighten the audience's mood in a few instances.