The year was 1997 or 1998, and I was home from school with a massive case of bronchitis, which meant about a week off and lots of daytime TV, and that was when I first discovered "Monsters". It aired in a block with Tales from the Darkside and Amazing Stories if I remember correctly. I remember seeing some not-yet-famous faces like Seth Green in a few episodes and even the lady who voices Lisa Simpson, but by far the best episode had to be the one with the nuclear fallout shelter besieged by mutant holocaust vampires and the only way in is through a multidigit number lock on the outside and there's one guy left alive inside, since the two other survivors had ventured outside to see how things looked and he sees his buddy, a guy who, while human, had been working on a crossword puzzle and trying to figure out a eleven-letter word for "tenacity", outside who has been turned into a vampire. He tells the guy he's figured out the eleven letter word for tenacity: persistence and proceeds to punch in code after code on the door: 1111111...1111112...1111113. That's how it ends. I've always thought that episode was creepy as all hell.
