Episode
Monsters: Small Blessing
Overview
Two normal, loving human parents try to keep their cute, cannibalistic, mutant infant son from devouring the neighbors. Meanwhile, a wannabe serial killer stalks the area.
Details
- Series
- Monsters
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 7
- Air date
- 1990-11-11
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Small Blessing is Episode 7 in Season 3 of Monsters. It aired on 1990-11-11. The runtime is 22 min.
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