"Monk" Mr. Monk Buys a House (2008)

Director:

Randall Zisk

Writers:

Andy Breckman (creator)
Andy Breckman (teleplay)

TV Series:

"Monk" (2002)

Original Air Date:

18 July 2008 (Season 7, Episode 1)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Mystery | Crime

Plot:

Following the death of his beloved psychiatrist, Dr. Charles Kroger, Monk decides to buy a house to get away from the neighbor girl...

Plot Keywords:

Detective | Obsessive Compulsive Disorder | Murder | Widower | Multiple Actors For One Character

Cast

Tony Shalhoub	...	Adrian Monk
Traylor Howard	...	Natalie Teeger
Jason Gray-Stanford	...	Lt. Randall Disher
Ted Levine	...	Captain Leland Stottlemeyer
Brad Garrett	...	'Honest' Jake Phillips
Jack Carter	...	Joseph Moody
Katherine Kendall	...	Cassie Drake
Marty Ryan	...	Mr. Sutton
McNally Sagal	...	Miss Moody (as Mcnally Sagal)
Hector Elizondo	...	Dr. Neven Bell
Bob Gebert	...	Hardware Store Clerk
Burl Moseley	...	Police Officer
Cameron Meyer	...	Mother
David Castellani	...	Medical Examiner
Ivo Nandi	...	Honest Ramone

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:TV-PG

Company:

Mandeville Films

Trivia:

It is revealed that Dr. Charles Kroger died of a heart attack. Stanley Kamel really did die of a heart attack in April. This episode was dedicated to his memory.

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When being quizzed by Randy for the maritime exam, Captain Stottlemeyer states that safe water markers are traditionally green and red horizontal stripes. Safe water markers are actually red and white vertical stripes.

House hunting

Monk buys a house and gets a new shrink, all in one neatly produced episode that kicks off the show's 7th season. He buys the house for the wrong reasons, which have to do with his former shrink, and soon learns to regret it when he brings in a handyman who in offering to modernize it, tears the place apart. The handyman is played by the cop brother from EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND and the new shrink is veteran actor Hector Elizondo. By the way, the house Monk buys was the scene of a horrible accident involving the previous owner (comedian Jack Carter). Monk soon figures out the man's death was no accident. There is a nice tribute to Stan Kamel, who played Monk's shrink through six seasons before dying of a heart attack, at the very end. Very nicely done, and I mean the whole episode.