He's ingenious, he's obsessive-compulsive. Emmy and Globe Award winner "Tony Shalhoub is a riot" (TV Guide) in "Monk," the show that critics are praising as "fresh 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 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). Episodes include: Disc 1 - "Mr. Monk Goes Back To School" - It's time for Monk to hit the books as a substitute teacher when he suspects murder rather than suicide in the case of an English teacher's fall from a clock tower. Guest stars Andrew McCarthy and Rosalind Chao. "Mr. Monk Goes To Mexico" - There's trouble brewing south of the border when Monk investigates the death of a college student who mysteriously drowned during a skydive. "Mr. Monk Goes To A Ballgame" - Monk suspects a foul play by a baseball great in the murder of a tyrannical CEO and his pretty young wife. "Mr. Monk Goes To The Circus" - There's scandal under the big top when an unpopular ringmaster is murdered and Monk suspects his vengeful ex-wife. Guest stars Lolita Davidovitch. Disc 2 - "Mr. Monk And The Very, Very Old Man" - It's the ultimate odd couple when Captain Stottlemeyer moves in with Monk and they try to work together to solve the murder of the world's oldest man. Guest stars Glenne Headly. "Mr. Monk Goes To The Theater" - Monk adds stage fright to his list of neuroses when he takes on a murdered actor's role in order to find the onstage killer. Guest stars Betty Buckley and Amy Sedaris. "Mr. Monk And The Sleeping Suspect" - A string of mail bombs is terrorizing San Francisco, and Monk's convinced the perpetrator is a man who's been in a coma for the past four months. "Mr. Monk Meets The Playboy" - Monk uncovers a not-so-appealing side of adult magazines when a CFO of a publishing company is found strangled by his own workout equipment. Guest stars Gary Cole and Danny Bonaduce. Disc 3 - "Mr. Monk And The 12th Man" - A rash of unsolved murders stuns the city, and Monk is called in to find a connection between the victims before the murderer strikes again. "Mr. Monk And The Paperboy" - When Monk discovers his paperboy murdered at his doorstep, he has to deal with the unnerving suspicion that the murderer was really after him and the fact the policemen investigating the crime keep wiping their feet on his clean doormat. "Mr. Monk And The Three Pies" - In order to solve a crime involving cherry pies, Monk is going to have to call on the one person who may be more neurotic than he is - his estranged brother, Ambrose. Guest stars John Turturro. "Mr. Monk And The TV Star" - It's lights, camera, murder when Monk accuses the star of a hit TV crime series of murdering his ex-wife so he won't have to share his huge paychecks with her. Guest stars comedian Sarah Silverman. Disc 4 - "Mr. Monk And The Missing Granny" - Who'd want to kidnap sweet little Granny Parlo? Monk's hot on the trail of the missing matriarch when her law school granddaughter offers to help him get back on the police force. "Mr. Monk And The Captain's Wife" - Captain Stottlemeyer's wife is badly injured when she is hit by a tow truck with a murdered driver, and Monk races to find clues to the crime before Stottlemeyer does something drastic in revenge. "Mr. Monk Gets Married" - Wedded bliss couldn't be further from the truth when Monk and Sharona pretend to be married in order to get information on a con man from a couples therapy group. "Mr. Monk Goes To Jail" - Monk's undercover and behind bars in order to figure out why a death row inmate was murdered forty-five minutes before his execution. Guest stars Tim Curry as Dale "the Whale" Biederbeck.