He's ingenious, he's phobic, he's obsessive-compulsive. Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner "Tony Shalhoub is a riot" (TV Guide) in "Monk," the show that critics are praising as "fresh, exciting and utterly original." (Chicago Tribune) Monk's hilarious, offbeat antics have made him unfit for duty but he's back as a police consultant to help out on their most baffling cases. The brilliant but neurotic Monk is now fighting crime as well as his abnormal fears of germs, cars, heights, crowds and virtually everything else known to man in "the best detective show to come along in decades." (NY Post) "Nothing on TV generated more fun than this" (LA Times) and now you can enjoy the entire first season of "Monk" on DVD. Episodes include: Disc 1: "Mr. Monk And The Candidate" - In Monk's stunning pilot episode, dirty politics come to light when a mayoral candidate's bodyguard is murdered at a campaign rally, and the suspects include the candidate's devious wife, his ambitious aide, and his dedicated volunteers. "Mr. Monk And The Psychic" - There's definitely more than meets the eye when a shady psychic is the first one to discover a missing dead body, and Monk stages a "reading" in order to catch the killer. "Mr. Monk Meets Dale The Whale" - Monk meets his match when the death of a murdered judge points to Dale "the Whale" Biederbeck, and 800-pound financier who can't fit through his doorway and hasn't left his bed in eleven years. Disc 2: "Mr. Monk Goes To The Carnival" - Monk's OCD reaches new heights when he must investigate the death of a police investigator on a Ferris wheel despite his dizzying sense of vertigo. "Mr. Monk Goes To The Asylum" - After a misunderstanding sends him to a psychiatric institute for forty-eight hours of observation, Monk investigates a four-year-old murder where the so-called "crazy people" might be the only sane witnesses. "Mr. Monk and The Billionaire Mugger" - Things just don't add up for Monk when a billionaire software magnate is shot dead while mugging a couple exiting a movie theater. Is this a mid-life crisis that went too far? Disc 3: "Mr. Monk And The Other Woman" - Love is put to the test when Monk falls for a beautiful suspect in the case of a lawyer's murder investigation. "Mr. Monk And The Marathon Man" - Monk's in a race against time to prove that the murderer of a woman who was thrown off a twenty-story balcony was really her lover - even though he was running a citywide marathon at the time. "Mr. Monk Takes A Vacation" - Despite being on a much-needed vacation, there's not much rest and relaxation for Monk and Sharona when Benjy claims to have witnessed a murder in their hotel. Disc 4: "Mr. Monk And The Earthquake" - There's more than a force of nature at work when a wealthy businessman is killed during an earthquake, and Monk is sure that the grieving widow had something to do with his calamitous tumble. "Mr. Monk And The Red-Headed Stranger" - Something sounds distinctly off-key when musician Willie Nelson is accused of murdering his embezzling road manager and the only witness to the crime is a blind woman. "Mr. Monk And The Airplane" - Murder takes to the skies when Monk accuses a fellow plane passenger of doing away with his wife and hiding the body somewhere in the airport.