Mr. Monk Is on the Run: Part 1 (15 Feb. 2008)

Monk is charged with the murder of the man who killed Trudy, and manages to escape custody in order to figure out what really happened.

Director:

Randall Zisk

Writers:

Andy Breckman (creator), Tom Scharpling

Stars:

Tony Shalhoub, Traylor Howard, Jason Gray-Stanford

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Tony Shalhoub	...	Adrian Monk
Traylor Howard	...	Natalie Teeger
Jason Gray-Stanford	...	Lt. Randall Disher
Ted Levine	...	Captain Leland Stottlemeyer
Scott Glenn	...	Sheriff Rollins
Melora Hardin	...	Trudy Monk
C.S. Lee	...	Deputy Bell (as C. S. Lee)
Courtney Gains	...	Frank Nunn
Jack Stehlin	...	Local Prosecutor
Benjamin J. Cain Jr.	...	Detective #1 (as Ben Cain)
Brian Prescott	...	K-9 Cop
Matt Tulve	...	Camping Man (as Matthew Patrick Tulve)
Karl T. Wright	...	Monk's Lawyer
Kendall Clement	...	Warehouse Supervisor
Nick Nordella	...	Gas Station Attendant

Storyline

Monk is charged with the murder of the man who killed Trudy, and manages to escape custody in order to figure out what really happened.

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Mystery | Crime

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Certificate:

TV-PG

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

15 February 2008 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Stage 5, Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Mandeville Films, Touchstone Television, Universal Media Studios (UMS)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

44 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Quotes

Lt. Randall Disher: It's funny, this is the kind of case Monk always solves. You know, not funny ha ha funny, you know, more like, not funny at all funny.

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Connections

Spoofs The Fugitive (1993)

User Reviews

Homage rather than theft

I found the plot of this episode to contain more homage than theft. I am most familiar with "The Fugitive," so I'll limit my references to the similarities between "Monk" and "Fugitive": Sheriff Rawlins is what Gerrard mistakenly calls the Sheriff on the scene of the train wreck in the movie and the sheriff in "Monk" is named Rawlins; the flight through the woods was similar in both works; the search perimeter set up in both works is the same; the similarities between the searches demanded by Rawlins and Gerrard are evident ("every dog house, hen house. . ." "every tricycle . . ."); the request for a helicopter sounds similar in both pieces; the exhortation to search hospitals sounds similar in both as well. I've only seen this episode once, so I can't add more, but view the shared material as something that the writers did for fun rather than out of laziness.