Episode
Monsters: Household Gods
Overview
Deborah is a married career woman who just had her first baby. Instead of taking care of her child and home, she hires a nanny to take care of things while she works from home. Everything begins to go wrong, which the nanny says have occurred because Deborah has offended 'the household gods'.
Details
- Series
- Monsters
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 14
- Air date
- 1990-12-30
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Household Gods is Episode 14 in Season 3 of Monsters. It aired on 1990-12-30. The runtime is 22 min.
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