Monday, June 4, 2007

The Munsters Family Comedy Series

Casts:
  • Fred Gwynne as Herman Munster
  • Yvonne DeCarlo as Lily Munster
  • Butch Patrick as Edward "Eddie" Wolfgang Munster
  • Al Lewis as Grandpa
  • Beverley Owen & Pat Priest as Marilyn Munster


The Munsters family sitcom created by Allan Burns and Chris Hayward, comedy show about family of monsters based from horror movies like vampires, werewolves, frankensteins living in their happy life but humors as they interact and not knowing they scare normal people around the society.


The Munsters was headed by Frankensteins Herman Munsters working in a funeral parlor, his wife Lily the family matriarch who love to house cleaning, cooking, mediator on squabbling members and always manage keeping up her appearance, her maiden name was “Dracula”. Their son Edward “Eddie” Wolfgang Munsters was a typical werewolf boy attending elementary school and howls on full moon, while Lily's niece Marilyn who considered the ugly duck in the family was normal blonde attending college and Lily's father Sam “Grandpa” Dracula joined the family was, of course vampire and a mad scientist keeping his laboratory in the cellar of the house. They live and act in their own monster ways and thinking as a normal family but interacting with the society scream people and bring laughter to the viewers.


The Munster sitcom fun and laughter lasted for 2 seasons with 70 black & white episodes aired from September 1964 to September 1966 on CBS.


The Munsters Sitcom DVD