THE MUNSTERS debuted
on CBS on September 24, 1964 and completed its original prime-time
network run on September 1, 1966. Arriving in American homes at a time
when classic horror characters
The series revolves around a loving "normal"
family of misfits who reside in a spooky cobweb-filled house at 1313
Mockingbird Lane in Mockingbird Heights. The head of the family,
kindhearted
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were
in vogue with young people, THE MUNSTERS celebrated the macabre humor
of these ghoulish creatures with wisecracking dialogue and outrageous
sight gags.
Herman Munster (Fred Gwynne), bears a close resemblance to the
Frankenstein monster as originally portrayed by Boris Karloff. His wife
Lily (Yvonne DeCarlo) resembles Vampira, the creepy-but-sexy hostess of
horror on TV. Lily's father, "Grandpa Munster" (Al Lewis), is actually
Count Dracula from Transylvania. Herman and Lily's son, Eddie (Butch
Patrick), looks like a junior wolfman. The final member of their
household is Herman and Lily's niece, Marilyn (played first by Beverly
Owen and then by Pat Priest), who is considered the ugly duckling of
the family although she is a beautiful, blonde, all-American teenager.
