Picture telephone monitoring system in which a picture telephone (14) in a monitoring side and another picture telephone (18) in an operating side are connected to each other, and the picture telephone (14) is connected to an operation console (16). The operation console includes an infrared sensor (17) for detecting an intruder, a displacing device for moving a view field of a camera combined with the picture telephone (14), a sound pickup microphone, a speaker for outputting audio signals transmitted from the picture telephone (18) and received by the picture telephone (14) via an earphone terminal thereof, and a preset value accumulating section for recording therein a telephone number of and an in-coming dial tone from the picture telephone (18).