Adrian Monk is a brilliant former San Francisco detective, who now consults the police as a private consultant while battling with an obsessive-compulsive disorder.

After the unsolved murder of his wife, Trudy, Adrian Monk develops obsessive-compulsive disorder, which includes his terror of germs and contamination. His condition costs him his job as a prominent homicide detective in the San Francisco Police Department, but he continues to solve crimes with the help of his assistant and his former boss.—Jwelch5742

Adrian Monk, once a prominent homicide detective in San Francisco, California. Now a lonely consultant for the police. Filled with a laundry list of obsessive compulsive disorders and phobias caused from the unsolved murder of his wife. This brilliant broken man tries to regain the stature he once had through each new case with the help of the ones who never gave up on him. While also trying to survive each day and its trials as cleanly and neatly as possible. Filled with laughs, gasps and tears. Monk, is an original award winning detective show that the world hasn't seen in a long time.—Josh Burton

Adrian Monk was a police detective but his world fell apart when his wife was murdered. He is now extremely obsessive compulsive and paranoid to the point that it has cost him his job on the police force. However, he still has a great knack for solving crimes and serves as a consultant to the San Francisco Police Department.—grantss

Former Police Detective Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub) has suffered from intensified obsessive-compulsive disorder and a variety of phobias since the murder of his wife, Trudy (Stellina Rusich and Melora Hardin), in 1997. Despite his eidetic memory and his amazing ability to piece tiny clues together, he is now on psychiatric leave from the San Francisco Police Department. Aided by his friend and practical nurse, Sharona Fleming (Bitty Schram), Monk works as a freelance Detective and consultant, hoping to convince his former boss, Captain Leland Stottlemeyer (Ted Levine), to allow him to return to the force. Stottlemeyer wavers between admiration for Monk and annoyance at his eccentricities. Also, he harbors serious doubts about the wisdom of allowing Monk to carry a gun. Stottlemeyer's second-in-command, Lieutenant Randall Disher (Jason Gray-Stanford), also has his doubts about Monk, but seems to be developing a reluctant admiration for the "defective detective".—CarolT