"Monk"
Mr. Monk and the Secret Santa (2005)

Director:

Jerry Levine

Writers:

Andy Breckman (creator)
David Breckman (written by)

TV Series:

"Monk" (2002)

Original Air Date:

2 December 2005 (Season 4, Episode 9)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Mystery | Crime

Plot:

When an officer dies after drinking poisoned wine sent to Captain Stottlemeyer as a Christmas gift, the captain suspects Frank Prager...

Plot Keywords:

Christmas | Murder | Obsessive Compulsive | Multiple Actors For One Character | Detective

US TV Schedule:

Mon. Aug. 4

5:00 PM

USA

Mr. Monk and the Secret Santa

#4.9

Cast

Tony Shalhoub	...	Adrian Monk
Traylor Howard	...	Natalie Teeger
Jason Gray-Stanford	...	Lt. Randall Disher
Ted Levine	...	Captain Leland Stottlemeyer
Rachael Harris	...	Cpl. Alice Westergren
Gill Gayle	...	Frank Prager
Emmy Clarke	...	Julie Teeger
Clare Carey	...	Sister Heather
Michelle Azar	...	Charlotte Prager
Casey Longstreet	...	Dori Prager
Chet Grissom	...	Detective Chasen
Burnadean Jones	...	Toddler's Mom
Dylan White	...	Detective Robbins
Clint Jung	...	Sweater Detective
Emma Bretthauer	...	Coughing Girl

Certification:

Portugal:M/12

Company:

Mandeville Films

Goofs:

Continuity: In the opening, the killer is shown poisoning the bottle of port by using a syringe to inject the poison through the cork and into the port, but when Detective Chasen opens the bottle and pours a drink, the bottle has a typical port stopper: a cork stopper with a hard plastic cap. The syringe and needle would not have penetrated the plastic cap.

Good Christmas Episode

This was a nice - and funny - Christmas episode with some nice messages.

It opens with a Christmas party at the police station. Capt. Stottlemeyer receives a bottle of port wine as his gift from his "secret Santa" but isn't interested in it. He can't find the gift he supposed to give to someone so he gives that instead. It's poisoned and the cop who drinks it dies. I won't say anymore because this has a few twists to it that are interesting.

The funniest part of the show was when Monk went undercover as a Santa in the mall. That was only a short scene, but it was very good.

There are some warm, sentimental moments in here, too, for most of the cast members and a few others. This is an episode that leaves you with a good feeling....almost perfect for the Christmas season.