The third season of Monk

Monk (TV series)

Monk is an American comedy-drama detective mystery television series created by Andy Breckman and starring Tony Shalhoub as the titular character, Adrian Monk. It originally ran from 2002 to 2009 and is primarily a mystery series, although it has dark and comic touches.The series debuted on July...

originally aired in the United States on USA Network

USA Network

USA Network is an American cable television channel launched in 1971. Once a minor player in basic cable, the network has steadily gained popularity because of breakout hits like Monk, Psych, Burn Notice, Royal Pains, Covert Affairs, White Collar, Monday Night RAW, Suits, and reruns of the various...

 from June 18, 2004 to March 4, 2005. It consisted of 16 episodes. Tony Shalhoub

Tony Shalhoub

Anthony Marcus "Tony" Shalhoub is an American actor of Lebanese descent. His television work includes the roles of Antonio Scarpacci on Wings and sleuth Adrian Monk on the TV series Monk. He has won three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe for his work in Monk...

, Ted Levine

Ted Levine

Frank Theodore "Ted" Levine is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs and Captain Leland Stottlemeyer in the television series Monk.-Early life and career:...

, and Jason Gray-Stanford reprised their roles as the main characters, and Traylor Howard

Traylor Howard

Traylor Elizabeth Howard is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Sharon Carter on the television series Two Guys and a Girl and as Natalie Teeger on the USA Network series Monk.-Early life:...

 joined the cast. Bitty Schram

Bitty Schram

Elizabeth Natalie "Bitty" Schram is an American actress, most widely known for having played Sharona Fleming in the television series Monk.-Career:...

 left the show due to a contract dispute during the Winter hiatus. A DVD of the season was released on July 5, 2005.

Crew

Andy Breckman

Andy Breckman

Andy Breckman is a television and film writer and a radio personality. He is the co-creator and executive producer of the Emmy Award-winning television series Monk on the USA Network, and is co-host of WFMU radio's long-running conceptual comedy program Seven Second Delay...

 continued his tenure as show runner

Show runner

Showrunner is a term of art originating in the United States and Canadian television industry referring to the person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a television seriesalthough such persons generally are credited as an executive producer...

. Executive producers for the season included Breckman and David Hoberman. NBC Universal Television Studio was the primary production company backing the show. Randy Newman

Randy Newman

Randall Stuart "Randy" Newman is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist who is known for his mordant pop songs and for film scores....

's theme (It's a Jungle out There

It's a Jungle out There

"It's a Jungle Out There" is a song written by Randy Newman, the theme song for the TV series Monk since its second season. In 2004, it won an Emmy Award for best theme song....

) was continued to be used, while Jeff Beal

Jeff Beal

Jeff Beal is an American composer of music for film, television, recordings, and the concert hall. Highly regarded as a jazz instrumentalist and versatile composer, Beal's music often incorporates a synthesis of improvisatory and composed elements.- Early life :Beal began trumpet studies in the...

's original instrumental theme could be heard in some episodes. Directors for the season included Randall Zisk

Randall Zisk

Randall "Randy" Zisk is an American television director and producer.As both a director and producer, he has worked most substantially on the television series Monk and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman...

, Jerry Levine

Jerry Levine

Jerry Levine is an American actor and director, perhaps best known for his role as Rupert 'Stiles' Stilinski in the feature film Teen Wolf.-Career:...

, Michael Zinberg

Michael Zinberg

Michael A. Zinberg is an American television director, producer and writer.He has directed episodes of several American television series such as Everybody Loves Raymond Monk, The Bob Newhart Show, WKRP in Cincinnati, L.A...

, and Andrei Belgrader. Zisk received an Emmy award-nomination for his work on "Mr. Monk Takes His Medicine". Writers for the season included Andy Breckman, David Breckman, Lee Goldberg

Lee Goldberg

Lee Goldberg is an American author, screenwriter and producer, known for his work on several different TV crime series, including Diagnosis: Murder, A Nero Wolfe Mystery, Hunter, Spenser: For Hire, Martial Law, She-Wolf of London, SeaQuest, 1-800-Missing, The Glades and Monk...

, William Rabkin, Joe Toplyn, Daniel Dratch, Hy Conrad, and Tom Scharpling

Tom Scharpling

Tom Scharpling is an American radio host, comedian, television writer, producer and music video director. He is best known for hosting the weekly freeform radio call-in comedy program The Best Show on WFMU and for acting as a writer/executive producer for the TV show Monk.Scharpling is also noted...

.

Cast

Tony Shalhoub

Tony Shalhoub

Anthony Marcus "Tony" Shalhoub is an American actor of Lebanese descent. His television work includes the roles of Antonio Scarpacci on Wings and sleuth Adrian Monk on the TV series Monk. He has won three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe for his work in Monk...

 returned as the titular character and OCD detective, Adrian Monk

Adrian Monk

Adrian Monk is a fictional character portrayed by Tony Shalhoub and the protagonist of the USA Network television series Monk. He is a renowned former homicide detective for the San Francisco Police Department...

. Ted Levine

Ted Levine

Frank Theodore "Ted" Levine is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs and Captain Leland Stottlemeyer in the television series Monk.-Early life and career:...

 and Jason Gray-Stanford reprised their roles as Captain Leland Stottlemeyer

Leland Stottlemeyer

Captain Leland Francis Stottlemeyer is a fictional police officer played by Ted Levine on the American crime drama Monk. He is Captain of the San Francisco Police Department 's Homicide Detail, and a longtime friend of Adrian Monk from their days on the force together where he served as Monk's...

 and Lieutenant Randall "Randy" Disher, respectively. Bitty Schram

Bitty Schram

Elizabeth Natalie "Bitty" Schram is an American actress, most widely known for having played Sharona Fleming in the television series Monk.-Career:...

 portrayed Monk's nurse, Sharona Fleming

Sharona Fleming

Sharona Fleming is a fictional character in the award-winning series Monk. Sharona is a divorced practical nurse from New Jersey and a single mother with a young son named Benjy. She was played by Bitty Schram. Schram was nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance.-Biography:Sharona's...

, for the first half of the season, but left due to a contract dispute. Traylor Howard

Traylor Howard

Traylor Elizabeth Howard is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Sharon Carter on the television series Two Guys and a Girl and as Natalie Teeger on the USA Network series Monk.-Early life:...

 was then cast as Natalie Teeger

Natalie Teeger

Natalie J. Teeger is a fictional character on the American crime drama Monk. She becomes Adrian Monk's personal assistant midway through the third season of the show...

 in a main role as Monk's new assistant. Andy Breckman

Andy Breckman

Andy Breckman is a television and film writer and a radio personality. He is the co-creator and executive producer of the Emmy Award-winning television series Monk on the USA Network, and is co-host of WFMU radio's long-running conceptual comedy program Seven Second Delay...

, the show's creator, stated, "I will always be grateful to Traylor because she came in when the show was in crisis and saved our baby [....] We had to make a hurried replacement, and not every show survives that. I was scared to death."

Guest stars for the third season were in even more abundance than the previous two. Stanley Kamel

Stanley Kamel

Stanley Kamel was an American actor, best known for his role as Dr. Charles Kroger on the American television series Monk.-Biography:...

 reprised his role as Monk's psychiatrist, Dr. Charles Kroger, in nine episodes, while Kane Ritchotte

Kane Ritchotte

Kane Ritchotte is an American child actor and musician. He is probably best known for acting in the TV series Monk as Benjy Fleming. He has also appeared in the TV series Judging Amy as James Canello. He was the drummer for Disney's Devo tribute band, Devo 2.0...

 continued to play Benjy Fleming, Sharona's son. Emmy Clarke

Emmy Clarke

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 entered the series as Julie Teeger (Natalie's daughter), and Melora Hardin

Melora Hardin

Melora Diane Hardin is an American actress, best known for her roles as Jan Levinson on NBC's The Office and Trudy Monk on USA's Monk.-Early life:...

 returned as Monk's beloved deceased wife, Trudy Monk. Tim Bagley

Tim Bagley

Timothy Hugh "Tim" Bagley is an American character actor who has appeared in numerous films and television programs. He is perhaps best known for his recurring roles on the TV series Will & Grace, Monk and $h*! My Dad Says.-Early life:...

 made his first two appearances as Harold Krenshaw, Monk's main rival. Jarrad Paul

Jarrad Paul

Jarrad Paul is an American actor and screenwriter.He moved to Los Angeles, CA after graduating from high school. During the 1990s, Paul had recurring roles on such shows as Legend and Home Improvement. In 1999, he co-starred with Jay Mohr in Action as screenwriter Adam Rafkin...

 portrayed Kevin Dorfman, Monk's annoying upstairs neighbor, while Glenne Headly

Glenne Headly

Glenne Aimee Headly is an American actress of film, stage and television.-Early life:Glenne Headly was born in New London, Connecticut and her first years were spent living under the care of her mother in San Francisco and her maternal grandmother in Pennsylvania...

 continued to portray Karen Stottlemeyer, the captain's wife. Other guest stars for the season included Brooke Adams, Scott Adsit

Scott Adsit

Scott Adsit is an American actor, writer and improvisational comedian. He is currently co-starring as Pete Hornberger in the hit NBC comedy 30 Rock and worked in the Adult Swim stop-motion animation programs Moral Orel and Mary Shelley's Frankenhole.-1990s:After attending Columbia College Chicago,...

, Kelly Albanese

Kelly Albanese

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, Amy Aquino

Amy Aquino

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, Moon Bloodgood

Moon Bloodgood

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, James Brolin

James Brolin

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, Emma Caulfield

Emma Caulfield

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, Jonathan Chase

Jonathan Chase (actor)

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, Maree Cheatham

Maree Cheatham

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, Enrico Colantoni

Enrico Colantoni

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, Frank Collison

Frank Collison

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, Alicia Coppola

Alicia Coppola

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, Carmen Electra

Carmen Electra

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, Patrick Fischler

Patrick Fischler

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, Sean Foley

Sean Foley

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, Rosemary Forsyth

Rosemary Forsyth

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, Neil Giuntoli

Neil Giuntoli

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, Michael A. Goorjian

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, Parker Goris

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, Harry Groener

Harry Groener

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, Eileen Grubba

Eileen Grubba

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, Saverio Guerra

Saverio Guerra

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, Bob Gunton

Bob Gunton

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, Philip Baker Hall

Philip Baker Hall

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, John Michael Higgins

John Michael Higgins

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, Rick Hoffman

Rick Hoffman

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, James Intveld

James Intveld

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, Sung Kang

Sung Kang

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, Chris Kennedy

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, Edward Kerr

Edward Kerr

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, Lance Krall

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, Olek Krupa

Olek Krupa

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, Mako, Ken Marino

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, John Maynard

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, Larry Miller, Jeffrey Dean Morgan

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, Glenn Morshower

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, Lochlyn Munro

Lochlyn Munro

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, Niecy Nash

Niecy Nash

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, Arthel Neville

Arthel Neville

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, Patrick Thomas O'Brien

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, Raymond O'Connor

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, Nick Offerman

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, Faith Prince

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, David Purdham

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, Judge Reinhold

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, Mark Sheppard

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, Nick Spano

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, Josh Stamberg

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, Nicole Sullivan

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, Alanna Ubach

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, Jill Wagner

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, Michael Weston

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, Mykelti Williamson

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, Adam Wylie

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, and Rachel Zeskind

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. The band Korn

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 also made an appearance.

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Emmy Awards

• Outstanding Actor - Comedy Series (Tony Shalhoub, won)
• Outstanding Directing - Comedy Series (Randall Zisk
  Randall Zisk
  Randall "Randy" Zisk is an American television director and producer.As both a director and producer, he has worked most substantially on the television series Monk and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman...
  
  for "Mr. Monk Takes His Medicine", nominated)