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Over the years, the show’s continuing popularity led to a reunion movie, a spin-off series, plus several reboots and revisits. However, The Munsters found a big audience in reruns. It also got higher Nielsen ratings than The Addams Family, airing at the same time on ABC.Ĭompetition from ABC’s Batman led to The Munsters being cancelled. Produced by the creators of Leave It to Beaver, the final result for The Munsters launch was a satire of American suburban life, as well as both traditional monster movies and the family shows of the era.

The original pitch for the series was-surprisingly-way more like what became The Addams Family. The Munsters included analogs to Universal Monsters-Herman was a version of the Frankenstein’s Monster, Grandpa was Dracula, Eddie was a werewolf, and family relatives included the Creature From the Black Lagoon, Phantom of the Opera, and Dr. The series starred Fred Gwynne as Herman Munster Yvonne De Carlo as wife Lily Al Lewis as Grandpa Butch Patrick as Eddie, Herman’s and Lily’s son and Beverley Owen (later replaced by Pat Priest) as their niece Marilyn. The Munsters is a family of benign monsters.