The Terrible Catsafterme

SEASON 1 – CBS

Created by Allan Burns and Chris Hayward. Developed by Norm Liebmann and Ed Haas.

Theme song composed by Jack Marshall

• 000. My Fair Munster (Pilot) – UNAIRED 1964
  • Marilyn’s latest date Jack runs for his life when he sees Herman, so consequently she begins to feel depressed that she hasn’t found a man. Marilyn and his wife Phoebe (Joan Marshall) think that Marilyn is an ugly duckling and that she’ll never get married and get out of the house. Grandpa decides to help by creating a love potion in his dungeon. Happy Derman is Eddie. NOTE: This is the 13-minute color pilot footage used to pitch the series to CBS. 4/13/20

• 001. Munster Masquerade – 9/24/1964
  • A Frankenstein created Herman (Fred Gwynne) and vampiress Lily Munster (Yvonne DeCarlo) and their son werewolf Eddie (Butch Patrick) live at the creepy and sinister 1313 Mockingbird Lane in the Los Angeles suburb of Mockingbird Heights. Also sharing the house are Lily’s father Sam Dracula, known as Grandpa (Al Lewis), and Lily’s niece from her sister, Marilyn (Beverley Owen). Marilyn’s latest boyfriend Tom Daly (Linden Chiles) invites Marilyn and her folks to attend a masquerade ball they are throwing at his haughty parents Albert (Frank Wilcox) and Agnes’s (Mabel Albertson) house. The gladly accept the invitation, make their case for Grandpa coming too, and hire Mrs. Morton (Lurene Tuttle) to babysit Eddie. Lily dresses as Little Bo Peep, while Herman is concealed as King Arthur inside a suit of armor. Grandpa works on several options using potions in his basement lab, settling on Napoleon. At the party, Agnes is taken aback by the Munsters’ strangeness, especially Grandpa’s. Albert dresses as Frankenstein’s monster, and feels insulted by Herman when Herman assumes he isn’t wearing a costume. When the Munsters start to feel left out, and Marilyn brings it to the attention of Tom, he awards Herman the prize for best costume. When Herman removes his helmet, the partygoer (Walter Woolf King) dressed as George Washington makes a comment that Herman is wearing a mask within a mask, causing Lily to feel insulted and storm out. Marilyn is angry at Tom, but he insists on walking her home, only to run away scared when he sees that Herman and Lily have removed their costumes and still look the way they do. Meanwhile Eddie never makes an appearance to Mrs. Morton, merely communicating by intercom, and howling at the moon before he goes to bed. Nina Roman appears as the Harem girl. Other partygoers include Paul Bradley, Berniece Janssen, and Roy Darmour. 4/13/20
• 002. My Fair Munster – 10/1/1964
  • Marilyn’s latest date Jack (Edward Carleton) runs for his life when he sees Herman, so consequently she begins to feel depressed that she hasn’t found a man. Herman and Lily think that Marilyn is an ugly duckling and that she’ll never get married and get out of the house. Grandpa decides to help by creating a love potion in his dungeon and slipping it into her oatmeal. When Marilyn doesn’t eat breakfast that morning, Lily slips the oatmeal back into the pot, which is then eaten by Herman, Lily, and Eddie. Meanwhile the mailman Warren Bloom (John Fiedler) and the Munsters’ busybody neighbor Yolanda Cribbins (Claire Carleton) discuss how repulsive the Munsters are. However after the Munsters eat the oatmeal, Warren and Yolanda fall head over heels for Lily and Herman. They chase the Munsters around their house mercilessly, while the school girls chase Eddie home. Eventually the potion wears off, and both Warren and Yolanda, who insists on being called Yo-Yo, run away when they see they are in the presence of the Munsters. Grandpa throws the rest of the love potion into Mrs. Cribbin’s garden. Later Mr. Bloom and Mrs. Cribbins get together to console each other, and once they smell the cabbage from her garden, they become amourous with each other. Bob Hastings provides the voice of the raven. 4/13/20
• 003. A Walk on the Mild Side – 10/8/1964
  • Stress over the family finances has been causing Herman to have insomnia and the only cure is for him to take late night walks in Midcity Park. As the Desk Sergeant (Larry Blake) at the police station reports to Police Chief Harris (Cliff Norton), citizens have been reporting that there is a monster roaming the park. This makes the headlines in the paper, and when Lily sees it, she advises Herman he should stay clear of the park so that he does not encounter this ‘monster.’ Herman decides to take a walk anyway and is spotted by a drunk (Harrison Lewis) and an old woman (Almira Sessions) who report it to the police. A fat lady (Kate Murtagh) in the park is simultaneously robbed by a purse snatcher (Paul Baxley). Police Commissioner Ludlow (Barry Kelley) thinks that Chief Harris is crazy as he is often caught in strange positions when the Commissioner walks in, but also warns him that he better make an arrest. Patrolmen Finkel (Mike Gordon) and Ball (Jim Gruzal) do in fact spot Herman and attempt to apprehend him, but Herman gets away, believing that he has been grabbed by a two-headed, four-armed monster himself. Eventually Chief Harris disguises himself as a woman and walks in the park at night. He is grabbed by the purse snatcher, and Herman who is nearby because he thinks that Marilyn is in the park with her boyfriend, believes that Harris’s screams are Marilyn’s and assists by grabbing the snatcher. The snatcher is then scapegoated as being the monster who has been stalking the park, and consequently Harris is presented with a medal by the Commissioner. However when the Commissioner asks him to describe the man who assisted him, Harris describes another monster… and sent on a desert beat. Meanwhile Grandpa attempts to build an enlarging machine and cause much havoc with the house’s electricity and appliances, and inadvertently shrinks Eddie. Ultimately he declares it a failure because he cannot generate enough electricity for it to work consistently. 6/17/20
• 004. Rock-a-Bye Munster – 10/15/1964
  • Grandpa has repaired their TV with war surplus parts and it is tuning into scenes from their own house. When Herman overhears Lily and Beverly talking about a new playmate for Eddie. Herman assumes that Lily is expecting a baby, but it is actually Dr. Edward Howard Dudley’s (Paul Lynde) son Elmer (Peter Robbins) who Marilyn will be babysitting to whom they are referring. Herman tries to hint for Lily to tell him the news, but she doesn’t say anything and then drops a card with Dr. Dudley’s name on it. Herman and Grandpa go to see him at 4am to ask about Lily, and Dudley, who isn’t wearing his glasses so cannot see Herman, tells him that everything was arranged for having a new child in the Munster home. Meanwhile Lily looks into buying Herman a new car for his birthday, so she goes to see salesman Diamond Jim (Sid Melton) and picks out both an old hearse and a roadster, both of which she orders to have modified. Herman later hears her talking to the salesman about the cars and assumes she is again referring to a baby. Herman insists on helping Lily fix breakfast, and then later makes her strawberries and pickles for lunch. Finally Herman tells her that he’s aware of the new house guest, but is surprised when she can tell him exactly what time Elmer will arrive. The next morning, Herman wakes up excited to meet Elmer so Lily tells him that he’s already arrived and sends him into the living room to meet him. Herman spots a Frankenstein’s monster walking toy and assumes that is his son. Then when Eddie introduces him to the real Elmer, Herman faints because he looks so ugly to him. When he comes to, Lily explains who Elmer actually is, and then gives him his birthday present… one car modified to incorporate both the hot rod and the hearse. Elmer tells Eddie that he’s got the neatest parents in the whole world. Marilynn Lovell is Mrs. Dudley. 6/17/20
• 005. Pike’s Pique – 10/22/1964
  • City Gas commissioner Bordon T. Pike (Richard Deacon) is told by his associate Sonny Harkness (Pat Harrington, Jr.) that they are going to need access below the Munster house to connect two pipes for the city gas line. Pike suggests that they just do it 25 feet below the surface without the Munsters’ knowledge. However when the workmen try it, they break through the cellar wall where Grandpa is trying to treat Herman’s headache. The workman (Joe Brooks) reports what he has seen so Pike heads over and offers them $1500 to run the pipe through their cellar. Herman and Lily are in agreement, although Grandpa is skeptical and in defiance of them overriding him, he turns into a bat and takes off. Pike makes a hasty exit and goes home to his wife Fanny (Jane Withers) who accuses him of being with another women. When Herman reconnects with him, he invites Herman to come get the check so that his wife can see who he has been dealing with. However when Herman sends Marilyn in his stead, Fanny throws her out and attacks Pike. Herman gets wind of how Marilyn was treated and goes over to confront Pike, but this time Fanny answers and faints. Pike thinks Herman has hit her, and he punches Herman in the nose. Pike later learns the truth, and after he and his wife reconcile and she promises to always believe him, he goes back to the Munster house with a white flag and presents them with the check. Grandpa is still bitter and turns into a wolf and attempts to attack him, but misses. He then offers his pen for Herman to sign the contract. Herman finds out from a neighbor that others had received $2000 more for allowing their basement access, but then he finds that Pike has given him a $5000 bonus for helping him with his marital situation. Grandpa feels bad that he had offered his pen with disappearing ink. Pike is nearly fired by the mayor (Henry Hunter) for not getting the signature… until Grandpa uses his crystal ball to re-create Herman’s signature right before their eyes. 10/4/20
• 006. Low-Cal Munster – 10/29/1964
  • Herman wakes up one night strapped to the table in Grandpa’s lab, escapes from his straps, kicks in the TV, breaks through the front door and front gate, and heads to the Farber house where they are getting ready to have a family turkey dinner. He scares the parents Seymour (Dick Winslow) and Anna (Monty Margetts), kids Arlene (Diane Courtney) and Lester (Scott McCartor), and Grandma (Elsie Baker). In voiceover, Herman narrates the events the led to this point via flashback. Herman is getting ready to attend a reunion of his Army outfit, but cannot fit into his old uniform. Lily doesn’t want him to go, but tells him that if he can lose enough weight by getting on a doctor’s diet to fit into the uniform, he can go to the reunion. Herman goes to see Dr. Dudley, but he has given his nurse Miss Fairchild (Caryl Rowe) his glasses for repair so he cannot see Herman. When he shows up, Dudley misses all of the signs of strangeness including Herman’s lack of heartbeat, his weight that destroys his scale, and mistakes his hairy hand for a dog. Once Dudley puts his glasses back on, he sees Herman and faints. Later Herman receives the results of his exam advising him to lose 100 pounds, so he starts a diet of vitamins and water for the next week. Lily and Grandpa both encourage him to off the diet, but he wants to stick to it. As he nears the final day before the reunion, he is told that it is Thanksgiving and that there will be lots of food, but the though of it causes him to faint. Dr. Dudley is called and he diagnoses Herman as being dead, then flees when he suddenly ‘wakes up’. Herman has Grandpa strap him to his lab table to watch TV and not eat, while the family head off to Thanksgiving dinner. When the TV announcer (Michael Jackson) starts talking about Thanksgiving food, Herman comes to action and breaks free and heads to the Farbers to eat their entire Thanksgiving meal. Back home the next day, Herman can now fit into his uniform… although the family discovers that he is wearing Grandma’s old truss. Ronnie R. Rondell is Freddie the passerby. 10/4/20
• 007. Tin Can Man – 11/5/1964
  • Herman is angry when he finds that Eddie has been hiding letters from the school indicating that he’s been failing Science class. Over at the school, juvenile investigator Mr. Taggert (Arch Johnson) wants to throw Eddie out of school, while the principal Harold Balding (Richard Simmons) thinks he is being to hasty. Herman schedules a meeting with Balding, but can’t make it when he gets tied up at the mortuary, so Marilyn goes in his place. Meanwhile, Mr. Taggert goes to the Munster house and gets a grand tour from Grandpa, culminating in they seeing the robot that he and Eddie have been working on for Science class. Taggert is unimpressed, and tells Grandpa that he plans to throw Eddie out of school, causing Grandpa to sick the robot on him and run him out of the house. On the flip side, Marilyn has a nice meeting with Mr. Balding and invites Marilyn to have the family bring the robot that she tells him about to the Science Fair together. Taggert returns to the school in tatters and blames it on the robot, causing Mr. Balding to threaten to fire him if the robot proves to be a perfectly working machine. Taggert sabotages the robot by throwing a wrench inside it, causing it to malfunction. As Grandpa tries to repair the robot backstage at the Science Fair, Herman goes out to nervously entertain the audience with the jokes he’s been learning from his book I Die Laughing. Everyone in the audience thinks he is the robot, and cheers him on. Grandpa finally fixes the robot, but as it starts to go on stage, it explodes and falls apart. Eddie then goes out and tells Mr. Balding that the robot fell apart. Balding wants to give him the first prize anyway, but Eddie admits that it was his Grandpa who did most of the work on it. Balding is impressed with his honesty and declares him a model student. Later Eddie and Grandpa rebuild the robot, and teach it tell Herman’s jokes. Rand Brooks and Kathleen O’Malley are the first couple in the audience. Murray Alper and Dee Carroll are the second. 1/20/21
• 008. Herman the Great – 11/12/1964
  • When Herman shows off to Eddie’s friend Wilbur Ramsey (Teddy Eccles) how he can bend a metal bar, Wilbur goes home and tells his father Duke (John Hubbard), a professional wrestling promoter. He offers Herman a night job wrestling at $300 a week, a tempting offer for Herman, who is worried about saving for Eddie’s college education. Herman doesn’t want anyone to know, so Ramsey tells him he can wrestle as the Masked Marvel and wear a mask to hide his identity. Herman begins getting into shape, and is discovered by Grandpa, who promises to keep his secret. During his first match against Tarzan McGirk (Gene Le Bell), Herman lets up on him and is pinned, getting counted out by the referee Tiger Joe Marsh (himself). Herman’s family watches on TV, and has nothing but disdain for the Masked Marvel. When Grandpa asks him why he lost, Herman tells him that Tarzan had given him a sob story in the ring, and he didn’t have the heart to beat him. And so it goes for matches with Killer Conklin (Matt Murphy), Genghis Cohen (The Great John L.), and Crusher Kawalski (Jay York) that Herman lets them all win. Duke’s assistant Jerry (Johnny Silver) encourages him to dump Herman, but Duke decides to offer $50 a minute for any amateur who can stay in the ring with Herman. Professional wrestler Strangler Murphy (Count Billy Varga) tries to wrestle as an audience member named John Smith, while Murphy’s manager Mr. Hansen (Joseph Mell) puts sleeping pills in Herman’s water. Herman can barely stay awake for the match, but when Grandpa finds out that ‘Smith’ is a professional, he uses his magic powers to give Herman the advantage and knock down Murphy… and the ring as well. When the back room catches on fire, Duke asks Herman to make the announcement to clear the arena. However when he takes off his mask, his face does that on his own. Herman is awarded $1000 for his bravery… which goes straight into Eddie’s college fund.  Jimmy Lennon is the ring announcer. 1/20/21
• 009. Knock Wood, Here Comes Charlie – 11/19/1964
  • Herman is already having a rough day when his seemingly sophisticated twin brother Charlie (Fred Gwynne) shows up at the front door. While Herman is hiding out, Charlie shows the family his invention, a machine that extracts uranium from seawater, which he proves by putting his own Geiger counter in front of it. Lily and Grandpa take him at his word, while Herman and Marilyn think he is trying to con Lily out of her $5000 inheritance that she got from her grandmother. Herman hide her money in the wall safe, while Grandpa tries the experiment on his own. When the machine only yields sand for him, he believes that he broke the machine. Meanwhile Charlie is getting pressure from a gangster named Leo “Knuckles” Kraus (Mike Mazurki) to cut him in on the profits of the fake machine since he put $1000 into the ruse. Grandpa actually fixes the machine, first to make gold, then uranium. But before it is completely finished, Charlie, posing as Herman, manages to sell it to the Munsters’ widowed neighbor Mrs. Cartwright (Jean Willes). When Herman finds out about it, he retrieves the money from the wall safe and buys it back from Mrs. Cartwright in order to save the family name. When Grandpa tells Charlie how he has ‘fixed’ the machine, he too is eager to get it back. He offers to give Herman and Lily back their money for the machine. Mazurki poses as a cab drive and picks up Charlie in order to get his money, and when Charlie attempts to show him how the machine really can now make uranium, it blow up the car. As Grandpa had said, the machine wasn’t quite ready yet. 5/16/21
• 010. Autumn Croakus – 11/26/1964
  • Lily and Herman head to the beach on a dark, rainy day and leave Grandpa behind at home, and when both Marilyn and Eddie blow him off as well, he decides he needs a wife, so he turns to a matrimonial service. Herman is embarrassed by the whole thing and thinks it is beneath the family to meet a spouse that way. Nevertheless a woman named Lydia Gardner (Linda Watkins) enthusiastically answers his inquiry. When the comes to house and meets everyone in the family – except for Herman, who refuses to see her – she finds them all strange, but decides to proceed with the marriage. It turns out she runs the matrimony company with her boyfriend Malcolm (Neil Hamilton) and plans to make Grandpa her fifth victim, and claim his money after he’s gone. On her first night in the house, she attempts to poison Grandpa’s food, but he doesn’t take the bait. She then booby-traps the stair with roller skates, rope, and grease in hopes that she can get him to fall down. Herman gets up for a sandwich, but manages to bypass every trap himself. Lily is still furious with Herman for refusing to meet with her, and Herman decides to sleep in the guest room. He doesn’t realize that Lydia is in there, but when she sees him for the first time in her bed, she screams and rushes out of the house, going through every booby trap on the stairs. She is caught outside by two policemen (Richard Reeves, Jerry Mann), who arrest her and inform the family that she is the infamous ‘Black Widow’. 5/16/21
• 011. The Midnight Ride of Herman Munster – 12/3/1964
  • After coming home from the movies late a night, Herman is so exhausted, that when he goes out to the car to grab Lily’s coat, he falls asleep in the back seat. Two gangsters, Freddie (Lennie Weinrib) and Al (Lee Krieger), who are planning a bank heist, happen along and steal the car to use for the getaway, not realizing that Herman is asleep in the back. They return to their boss Marty (Val Avery) at their hideout, where they are awaiting the arrival of some outside muscle named Big Louie (Maxie Rosenbloom). Meanwhile, when Lily realizes that Herman and the car have disappeared, she calls the police sergeant (Paul Bryar) and reports Herman missing, giving him a bizarre description of what he looks like. The sergeant puts out an APB on Herman, but a pair of officers find Louie roaming the streets looking for the hideout. While the rest of the Munsters are driving the streets looking for Herman, the officers take Louie to the Munster house and put him to bed. Herman wanders in from the car into the hideout, where the criminals force Herman at gunpoint to drive the car to the bank. After they collect the loot, they drive away erratically, causing the police to chase them. Herman purposely wrecks the car in order for the police (Pat McCaffrie, Michael Ross) to arrest the criminals. After Lily and the family return home, they are puzzled when the police call and tell her that they have Herman, since she believes Herman is in his own bed. Grandpa and Lily go in to double check who is in the bed, and when they find Louie, he goes running for his life. 9/10/21
• 012. The Sleeping Cutie – 12/10/1964
  • Grandpa has created a pill in his lab that, when combined with water, will change into gasoline. He pitches it to the Reliable Oil Company, and one young agent (Grant Williams) brings it to his boss Mr. Hadley (Walter Woolf King), who is skeptical at first, but then realizes it is the real deal. Meanwhile, Marilyn has been suffering from insomnia and asks Grandpa to give her some of his sleeping potion. He makes some for her, and she falls asleep immediately. The only problem is that when Eddie tries to wake her up, she won’t budge. Grandpa realizes that he gave her the ‘sleeping beauty’ potion, and now requires the kiss of a prince to wake her up. The agent shows up at the house prepared to make a deal with Grandpa, but with the emergency going on with Marilyn, Lily asks him to come back later. The family takes out an ad looking for a prince, and in the meantime, tries to find a frog that is actually a prince… with no luck. Two actors, Paul Newmar (Gavin MacLeod) and George Spelvin (John Hoyt) show up thinking they want an actor to play a prince, but once they see Herman, the run out anyway. Grandpa attempts to burn the sleeping beauty potion, but accidentally burns the gas potion ingredients. Mr. Hadley believes that Grandpa is trying to deal with other companies, so he sends his agent back again. Lily once again turn him away, but when Herman sees his card – and that his name is William Prince – he quickly invites him in. Grandpa refuses to talk business until Prince agrees to kiss his ‘hideous’ niece. He agrees to do it in order to make the deal, but then when he sees how beautiful she really is, he nearly forgets about the business at hand altogether. His kiss works like a charm, and she wakes up, happy to have been kissed and ready for another. It also turns out that Prince is trying to pay Grandpa $50,000 to sign a contract to keep the product off the market. Herman and Lily step in and refuse to allow him to take the money, since he helped with Marilyn, and then burned the potion anyway. Prince then asks Marilyn out for dinner. 9/11/21
• 013. Family Portrait – 12/17/1964
  • Mr. Morgan (Roy Roberts), the editor of Event Magazine, assigns his news writer Chip Johnson (Fred Beir) and photographer Lennie Bates (Harvey Korman) to spend the weekend with the Munster family, as they were selected by the magazine’s computer to be designated as the Average Family of the Week. Herman and most of the family are thrilled, as this also means a $5000 prize will be awarded to them. However, Grandpa is less excited, as he resents the notion of being labeled as ‘average’, as it will negatively affect the persona he is portraying in his memoirs. Herman orders him not to leave the house, so he hides with his bat Igor. Herman and Lily think he’s left the house, so they go around town searching in his hiding places, including a restaurant that Herman empties just by looking in the window, and down a manhole. Meanwhile, Chip and Lennie show up at the house, and are received by Marilyn, who has a room ready for them. Chip takes an instant liking to Marilyn, but she sends them to bed to avoid him, and Lennie is more interested in drinking alcohol stored in his binoculars case. Herman and Lily come home empty-handed and go straight to bed. Lennie begins spotting Eddie and Herman around the house and wakes up Lennie. They both wind up fleeing from the house in the middle of the night… only to be sent back by Mr. Morgan to finish the job. Grandpa finally agrees to the family portrait, which winds up on the cover of the magazine. Morgan notes that he is happy that one of the average families is finally representing the Halloween holiday. The Munsters take issue with the Halloween note, and think the magazine got them mixed up with a hideous other family featured in the magazine, who naturally look completely normal. NOTE: This is the last appearance of Beverly Owen as Marilyn. 3/9/22
• 014. Grandpa Leaves Home – 12/24/1964
  • Grandpa is making noise and opening the window while Herman is trying to enjoy the humor of Murder at the Rue Morgue, which leads to some bickering and then a larger fight during which Grandpa says he’s moving out of the house. As he’s packing, Eddie tries to talk him out of leaving, but Grandpa guides him to complain to his parents. Herman thinks Grandpa is feeding Eddie lines to make them feel sorry for him, and is convinced he is bluffing, even when Grandpa looks through the papers for tickets to Hong Kong. When Herman still won’t bite, Grandpa does in fact leave. Lily sends Herman to look for him, and after scaring a dog, a man (Bill Couch) fixing his car, and others, he comes home empty-handed. Eddie sees an ad in the newspaper advertising Grandpa doing his magic act at The Domino Club. Lily calls Grandpa there, and he tells her that he’s sold the place out. The club manager (Robert Strauss) is less enthusiastic and tells Grandpa he needs to update his corny show. Herman and Lily show up to see the show, and find the place to be quite seedy, especially the exotic dancer (Sarah Jane Ross) on stage. Grandpa does an escape act by being entering a box, which is chained and nailed shut, vowing to escape in ten second. When the manager counts off and passes ten, he brings out more dancing girl. They then return to the escape act, where Grandpa is still struggling. Lily is afraid he’s suffocating, so he breaks open the box, much to Grandpa’s chagrin. When the manager opens the box, Grandpa has turned into a wolf, and then restores himself. The manager is now impressed and wants to double his pay and book him. Grandpa decides he’s rather return to the family who loves him. The family then opens their Christmas gifts, and Grandpa lights his cake with his thumb. Pat Priest takes over the role of Marilyn. Bill Dungan is the drunk. Iris Adrian is the woman at the show. Nicky Blair is the friend. 3/10/22
• 015. Herman’s Rival – 12/31/1964
  • Lily becomes worried when she sees that their checking account is empty, and decides to secretly look for a job. Herman confesses to Grandpa that he has loaned Lester (Irwin Charone), Grandpa’s son and Lily’s brother, $5000 for an investment. Grandpa is aghast, because so many of financial ventures are a disaster. Lily interviews with Mr. Haggerty (Chet Stratton) at the employment agency using her maiden name Lily Dracula. Haggerty is aghast when she states she is 137 years old and worked in the war reading crystal balls to track planes. When his assistant (Tommy Farrell) notifies him of a job opening at the Golden Earrings Tea Room for a palm reader, Haggerty thinks Lily would be a perfect fit. Meanwhile, Grandpa has been noticing Lily leaving after and returning before Herman gets home from work, and suggests that they follow her to see what she is doing. That day they track her to the tea room and see her meeting with her boss Ramon (Lee Bergere), who runs the place with his wife Louisa (Karen Flynn). Grandpa and Herman assume that Lily is having an affair with him, especially when they see her reading his palm and think they are holding hands. That night Herman confronts her, and she skirts the issue. This causes Herman to get angry and head over to confront Ramon. Lester calls the house and gives Lily the message that his investments have paid off and he is coming to return Herman’s money. She then realizes why they appeared to be broke, and she tells Grandpa, who now understands what she was doing at the tea room. They call and warn Ramon that Herman is on his way, but he is confident he knows how to handle a jealous husband. Grandpa and Lily head over there to be sure, and they find that Ramon has fainted upon laying eyes on Herman for the first time. Every time Ramon wakes up and sees Herman, he passes out again. Making matters worse, Lester, who looks like a werewolf, shows up with the money, making Ramon faint all over again. Back home Lily reads Herman’s palm for fun, but he is more interested in just holding her hand. 7/12/22
• 016. Grandpa’s Call of the Wild – 1/7/1965
  • Eddie requests that his folks take him camping since the kids in his class are reporting how fun it is. They agree to grin and bear the fresh air, and they head to Shadow Pine Camp. On their way in, the rangers (Bing Russell, Mike Ragan) at the gate thi;nk the Munster family is strange looking, so they report their presence to the warden Mr. Haskell (Don Haggerty). Meanwhile, the Munster set up camp in their own unconventional way: when Lily wants their tent to be under a tree, Herman simply uproots and relocates the tree. When he takes Eddie fishing, he casts his lawn all the way beyond the other side of the lake and manages to hook another fisherman’s (Curt Barrett) fish right out of the frying pan, and then catches another camper’s barbecue chicken. That night as they listen to the howl of the wolves under the moonlight, Grandpa longs for his days back in Transylvania when he used to run at night with the wolf pack. The next morning, Lily wakes up in a panic because Grandpa is missing. They hear a broadcast on the radio that park rangers found a rare Transylvanian breed of wolf that is being held at the ranger’s office. Lily goes to see Mr. Haskell and his assistant Willard (Ed Peck) to claim Grandpa, who has transformed himself into a wolf. The wolf apparently tells Lily that he’s forgotten how to turn himself back. Haskell thinks she’s crazy, and refuses to release the wolf to her, and tells her that they will be turning it over to the New York Zoo. She returns to her campsite and asks Herman to break Grandpa out of his cage. That night Herman returns and breaks into the cage and run off with Grandpa. Haskell spots him and thinks it is a bear taking the wolf. Once they all get home, Herman finds one of Grandpa’s potions that works to de-wolf him back to his old self. The wolf drinks the potion and then chases a cat out the window, and as he is running, he switches back to Grandpa, with no memory of his time as a wolf. 7/12/22
• 017. All-Star Munster – 1/14/1965
  • Marilyn is upset when she is told by her school Westbury College to go home because her tuition account is in arrears. Lily is sure she paid it but can’t find it in her check register, so Herman agrees to go to the school to settle the situation. Meanwhile over at the school, the head basketball coach Roger Denman (Frank Maxwell) is telling his assistant coach Jerry (Gene Blakely) that he is expecting a big ape from Kentucky named Moose Mallory (Robert Easton) who took six years to graduate high school to come and play basketball for them. He wants to get him signed up to a scholarship before Dean Haggerty finds out how dumb he is. When Herman shows up at the school looking for the Dean to settle Marilyn’s account, the coaches think that Herman must be the new player Moose. They start asking Herman for his stats and then put him in a sweatsuit and take him onto the basketball court before he sees the Dean. They are suitable impressed by Herman’s near-superhuman performance on the court. They have him sign the contract and tell him that the tuition is all taken care of. Herman goes home thinking that Marilyn can return to school, but when Eddie shows him a newspaper article that indicates that Herman has been signed up for the Westbury basketball team. The Moose Mallory arrives in town with his pop (Pat Buttram), but when they show up to see the coaches, they are told that the position has already been filled and sends them home. Moose’s Pop won’t give up, so he goes and sees Herman at home. When Herman realizes what has happened, he heads to the school to get things settled, while the Mallorys stay at the Munster house adn get a grand tour. They are in awe of all of the modern conveniences, and Moose hits it off with Marilyn. Herman tells the Coach that he can’t play basketball since the scholarship wasn’t rightfully his. When they tell him that he has to honor his contract, Herman bangs his fists on their desk and drives it several feet into the floor, causing Coach Denman to tear up the contract immediately. Moose takes the college to the National Championship, and Marily continues to date Moose, who is now driving a new sports car courtesy of the college. NBA player Darrall Imhoff was Herman’s basketball stand-in. 11/6/22
• 018. If a Martian Answers, Please Hang Up – 1/14/1965
  • Two Federal Communications Commissioners (Larry Thor, Ray Montgomery) discuss the new applicant for a Ham Radio license and how they hope he is taking the privilege of operating one responsible. Meanwhile, Herman now has his license and is using the radio to sing the song My Mother’s Eyes to different listeners all over the world. Lily and Grandpa think the radio is a waste of time, but Herman wants to use it to be a good citizen and help with crimes and emergencies. Elsewhere, Eddie’s two friends Walt (Pat Rosson) and Roger Andrews (Ronnie Dapo) have gotten walkie-talkies and are pretending to be alien visitors from Mars. When Herman hears them talking, he believes they really are from Mars, and he starts talking to them. The boys have to get home, so they put Herman on hold until the next day. Herman tells Lily and Grandpa about his discovery and hopes it might lead to the Nobel Prize for him. Grandpa thinks he is crazy, but the next day when he tunes in with Herman, he believes they must be from Mars as well. Grandpa and Herman agree that they need to report this to the Air Force, but they want to gather evidence first. Grandpa digs out his direction finder, consisting of a divining rod and a transistor with dials set to water, metal, girls, and flying objects. The boys have since dressed like spacemen and have acquired a plastic mock spaceship. Grandpa leads Herman to a manhole where he is splashed with water, not realizing that the direction finder is set to search for water. Then they happen up on the boys and the spaceship, but when the boys see them, they run away. Herman takes Grandpa’s picture with the spaceship, and Grandpa takes it to the Air Force Captain Halbert (Herbert Rudley). He blows off Grandpa but promises that they’ll have the photo analyzed. When Roger later tells his father Mr. Andrews (Dort Clark) that they felt threatened by the men they saw, he becomes furious at the ‘bullies’. When Herman reaches out to them again, Mr. Andrews threatens Herman, who laughingly tells him that he doesn’t know how to find him. Andrews then simply threatens to blow up the entire Earth. This scares Herman, who gathers his family, and they hide in the walls. When Grandpa comes home, he tells Grandpa that the Air Force determined that the spaceship was a novelty item made in Japan. Later Herman resumes playing with a ham radio and encounters another person who claims to be from Mars. Herman won’t fall for it this time and tells the guy off. Elsewhere in the universe, a Martian bemoans how rude humans can be. 11/7/22
• 019. Eddie’s Nickname – 1/28/1965
  • Eddie comes home in a horrible mood, vowing to never return to school after his classmates have been teasing him about his height and calling him ‘Shorty’. Lily sends Herman to talk to him about his problem and Eddie tells him that he wants to be big and tall like his hero, who happens to be Herman. Lily wants to complain to the school, but Grandpa thinks he can give Eddie a spell that will turn the other students into kangaroos. Herman forbids him to do any spells, but Grandpa does one on Eddie anyway with the intent of making him taller. However, the only change in Eddie is that he grows a full beard and mustache. Herman and Lily are furious with Grandpa. Herman takes Eddie to see Dr. Dudley, who not only doesn’t want anything to do with the Munsters, but tells Eddie that his only suggestion is to stock up on paper bags for Eddie to wear over his head. That night at dinner, Eddie is drooping over his soup and gets his beard in it. They find that Lily’s soup disintegrates Eddie’s beard. Lily rubs it all over his face and his beard disappears. Herman gives a lecture that it doesn’t matter what other people say or what you look like, but rather the only important things in life are the size of your heart and the strength of your character. Grandpa admires Herman for the speech. Herman comes home later and finds that Eddie is in his room crying again after doing poorly at baseball. Naturally, Grandpa wants to solve the problem with another spell. Alice Backes is the doctor’s assistant Miss Fairchild. 4/10/23
• 020. Bats of a Feather – 2/4/1965
  • Eddie’s class is going to have a Pet Fair at school, and he has no pet to take. Grandpa decides to let him take his pet bat Igor, but when Herman insults the bat, he flies away, leaving Eddie with nothing to take. Grandpa decides to turn himself into a bat and pose as Igor so that Eddie can take a pet to school. Both Eddie’s teacher Miss Guthrie (Barbara Babcock) and the principal Mr. Hazlett (Thomas McBride) are taken aback by the bat, especially when Grandpa shows off and flies around the room, only to return to Eddie. That night, Eddie comes home with the prize-winning pet, but it isn’t Grandpa, but rather a squirrel. He explained that he and Timmy Brubaker traded pets for the weekend. Herman and Lily then reveal that the bat was actually Grandpa, and they insist that he get him back. Eddie calls and speaks to Mrs. Brubaker and finds out that Timmy sold the bat to his father, who took it to Washington D.C. to be part of a government experiment at the Space Laboratory. Brubaker (Gilbert Green) and his colleague Dr. Grant (Alvy Moore) plan to send the bat into space. When Grandpa hears his low chances of survival, he faints. They bring in another female bat named Cleo to get Grandpa to calm down. Meanwhile, the Munster family boards a plane for the first time to head to Washington D.C. They have the plane to themselves, as all of the other passengers flee when they board. The stewardess (Sally Mills) is particularly nervous to have to wait on them as well. Although there are two G.I. guards (Frank Gardner, Allan Hunt) guarding the facility, when they see Herman, they believe that he is an escaped experiment and send him back inside. Herman takes Cleo the bat instead of Grandpa. Nevertheless, Grandpa escapes the room and turns himself back into his vampire human form. Grandpa shows up at home as Herman is telling Cleo to turn back into Grandpa. Igor then returns home as well and strikes up a romantic relationship with Cleo. Grandpa tells Herman that he might want to have a conversation with Eddie about the ‘bats and the bees.’ Ronnie Dapo and Jimmy Mathers are Eddie’s classmates. 4/13/23
• 021. Don’t Bank on Herman – 2/1/1965
  • Marilyn is feeling ill, and all Grandpa manages to accomplish with his potion is to levitate her. Since she can’t run errands for Lily, Herman and Grandpa are sent to the Mockingbird Heights Branch of Union National Bank to withdraw all of their tax installment. Meanwhile, the bank manager Mr. Grover (Maurice Manson) tells his assistant Mr. Williams (Pitt Herbert) that there are bank robbers in the area who wear Halloween masks during their robberies. When Herman and Grandpa arrive, the teller (Audrey Swanson) assumes they are the robbers and gives them all of the money in her drawer. When he gets home, he realizes that he has $18,300, but Lily informs him that they only had $680 in the account. She is initially furious that Herman has made such a blunder, but soon realizes that it may not have been his fault. She is still annoyed by his obsession with the cash and the dreams he is having about being rich. After she pours water in his face to wake him up, Herman decides he must get the money back to the bank that night… even if it means that he and Grandpa have to break into the bank. They head to the bank around 3am and manage to get inside the vault by removing the time-lock to open at 3am. Once they are in, the door closes behind them and they find themselves trapped inside. They try to get through on an emergency number, but they ultimately reach an incompetent operator and wind up breaking the phone. The real bank robbers in the area, Scotty “Fingers” Malone (Paul “Mousie” Garner) and Scotty Dusick (Jack Bernardi) decide to throw off the police by robbing this bank at night. When they manage to blow off the safe drawer, Herman and Grandpa emerge, thankful to be ‘rescued’. Herman gives them both big hugs, causing them to faint. The police show up and arrest them. Herman and Grandpa are the ‘mystery’ heroes but decide not to accept any reward or do any interviews. 8/21/23
• 022. Dance with Me, Herman – 2/18/1965
  • Lily is upset when she finds an invitation to Marilyn’s parents’ night at school and realizes that Marilyn hasn’t invited Herman or Lily. When they confront her about it, she claims that it is because she didn’t think that Herman would like it since it is a dinner and dance. Herman agrees that he hates dancing, but Lily insists that she teach him how to dance. Their lesson doesn’t go very well, as he breaks a number of items in the living room. Grandpa tries to make him a dancing potion, but Herman refuses to drink any of his potions. Instead, Herman finds an ad in the newspaper for the dancing school Happytime Ballroom, where its owner “Doc” Happy Haverfield (Don Rickles) tells his assistant Miss Valentine (Joyce Jameson) to try and take every client for all that she can. After dancing with Herman for mere moments, Miss Valentine declares him a natural and tells him that he will be teaching the class soon. Herman is pleased with his lesson, and willingly signs a ten-year contract with Haverfield with many pages of fine print. After he heads to work, Grandpa reads over the contract and finds out that he signed up for 1500 lessons, a life insurance policy with the school as the beneficiary, and several other unfavorable conditions. Over at the school, Haverfield gets a tip that the police are going to come around investigating them, likely by using an undercover officer who appears to be an inept student. Miss Valentine suspects that the undercover officer is actually Herman. To escape scrutiny, they tell Herman that he has no talent and that they are refunding his money and discontinuing his lessons. That night he has to break it to Lily and Marilyn that he has no talent for dancing and wants them to go to the dance without him. The ladies start to head out, but Lily falls on the front steps and sprains her ankle. Marilyn then lets Grandpa know that she had faked the injury so that she could stay home with Herman. Later, Herman practices baseball with Eddie so that he can attend teh father-son baseball game. He hits the ball off the side of the house, and it bounces back and knocks him out. 8/21/23 
• 023. Follow That Munster – 2/25/1965
  • Grandpa questions the fact that Herman has been sneaking out at nights, and Herman confides in him that he is practicing the art of being a detective using instructional guides and tactics that he is learning from a kit he sent away for from the United States National Federal Detective Academy. Herman is hoping to learn the trade and then get a job with the Kempner Detective Agency. When Herman tries to sneak out for another night of practice, Lily catches him and tells him that she will now have to go around to neighbors to collect donations for the Bundles for Transylvania charity. When Lily finds out that he’s not at his office, she heads to the Kempner Detective Agency to have him followed. When she meets with Mr. Kempner (Ken Lynch) and his assistant Mike (Herb Armstrong), they become spooked when she gives them Homer’s description. They decide to use the guy who’s been trying to get a job and only goes by the name of “702,” who is actually Herman. They give Herman the description of the guy he is to follow. As Grandpa reads off the description to Herman, he sketches the man, who is clearly Herman himself. Although Herman doesn’t believe him, Grandpa sees that the name of the woman who hired them is Lily Munster. Grandpa tells Herman to pretend that he has followed the man and to then give the agency a glowing description of his actions. Lily gets the report back from the agency and reads it aloud to the entire family, which describes what Herman did during his evening absence, which includes Herman going to church, avoiding a burlesque show, petting a stray dog, and helping an old lady across the street. Lily is apologetic to Herman, and the agency is so impressed with 702’s work that they offer him a job as a bodyguard for a woman named Mrs. Andrews (Doris Singleton), whose husband is beating her. While Herman is guarding her at her house, Lily and Marilyn come to the door to collect for Bundles for Transylvania, and when Lily sees him in a woman’s house, she punches him out. This causes Herman to get fired from the Kempner Detective Agency and earns yet another apology from Lily. Herman considers opening his own beauty parlor after seeing an ad in a magazine, which Grandpa promptly rips up. Mike Winkelman and Ronnie Haran are the couple on the bench who Herman spies on. 12/16/23
• 024. Love Locked Out – 3/4/1965
  • Herman is planning to go to an office party after the workday is done, and he tells Lily he plans to be home at 6:30. However, two of the guys his carpool, Winthrop (Norman Grabowski) and Calvin (Bryan O’Byrne), laugh that Herman believes that since the parties don’t usually even get started until 9:oopm. As it gets into the later hours of the evening, Lily tries to call him to come home, but Herman is clearly inebriated and giggly. He doesn’t wind up getting home until after midnight, and by this time, Lily has locked him out of his bedroom, leaving him to try and sleep on the couch with Eddie’s doll Woof-Woof. The cat, a dripping faucet, a mouse, and accidentally setting himself on fire are among the things that keep him from getting any sleep. The next morning when Herman is late for breakfast, the only food that Lily will give him to eat are prune pits. Grandpa advises Herman to go see a marriage counselor, and Marilyn advises Lily to do the same thing. Dr. Harvey Baxter (Elliot Reid) give both Herman and Lily the same advice: to assume all responsibility and make the first apology. When they both sit down to apologize, they both get upset with each other because each one tries to make the apology first. Grandpa then gets another idea and comes up with a potion that can be used as paint to give Eddie a fake case of measles. When Lily finds Eddie with the measles in the middle of the night, she calls up Herman from his spot on the couch, and when he sees the measles, he faints dead away. Lily can then appreciate what a sensitive, caring man Herman actually is. Herman believes that the measles were psychosomatic because he was worried about his parents’ marriage. Herman declares that the family never has to worry about the fighting again, as he will now only have his ‘office parties’ at home. The family all breaks into a rendition of Camptown Races around the organ. 12/16/23
• 025. Come Back, Little Googie – 3/11/1965
  • Lily allows Eddie to have his school friend Googie Miller (Billy Mumy) over for the weekend. The family soon catches on that Googie is full of practical jokes and insults when he calls Grandpa a penugin and uses a hand buzzer on Herman. They take an instant disliking to him, but decide to give him a chance, nonetheless. That night at dinner, Googie politely pulls the chair out for Lily but pulls it away from Herman so he goes crashing to the ground. Later, Grandpa shows Googie around his laboratory and considers changing Googie into an animal. Googie then pours nitroglycerin into Grandpa’s potion that he’s working on to perform such changes. He promises Googie that when he finishes the formula, he will turn Googie into a rabbit. When Grandpa’s potion explodes, it sends him through the ceiling of the house. Later, Grandpa makes good on his promise to change Googie into a rabbit, but Googie has another trick up his sleeve. He substitutes a chimpanzee named Chimpo (Judy the Chimpanzee) that he rented from Andy’s Pet Shop. When Grandpa is unable to change the monkey back to Googie, they panic when Googie’s father calls and asks to come get him. The Munsters volunteer to drop him off at home, and so they drop the monkey off at his house to his father (Russ Conway), who doesn’t even realize it right away. Meanwhile, Eddie wants to tell his parents the truth, but Googie threatens to blame it all on him if he does. When Mr. Miller calls Lily to ask about the monkey, she has no idea that they dropped off the monkey and is surprised when Eddie and Googie come in from the movies. Herman and Grandpa are dumbfounded when they see that the real Googie is at the house. Mr. Miller leaves behind the monkey, and Lily tells him that she thinks she knows who may have left it. She demands that they explain the monkey, and they think that Googie has once again chanced back to the monkey. Herman warns Eddie that when he lies down with dogs, he might come up with fleas. Lily thinks that Eddie should be punished, but hates to see Googie go off scot-free, so Herman says he’ll go over the next day and tell him what Googie did. Chimpo has had enough of the whole thing and runs out of the house. 4/22/24
• 026. Far Out Munsters – 3/18/1965
  • Eddie tells his family how much he likes the rock band The Standells, but when he plays it, the family finds it nothing but noise. Eddie tells them that the band is coming to play in town and how much he’d like to meet them. Meanwhile, The Standells (themselves – Larry Tamblyn, Gary Lane, Tony Valentino, Dick Dodd) are in town looking for a mansion to rent where they can stay during their engagement. Their manager Pops Murdock (Alex Gerry) has a real estate agent scour the area, and they decide that the Munsters’ house would be perfect. Murdock visits the house, but Marilyn tells him that no one is home and that they’d probably not be interested. Herman is surprised when he hears the offer of $1500 and decides that they can use the money to pay their vet bill from the last time Grandpa caught distemper. They decide to move forward with renting it, and the entire family moves to the Winston Hotel for the weekend, much to chagrin of the bellboy (Frank Killmond) and doorman (Tom Curtis). As the Standells move into the Munsters’ house, the Munsters settle in at the hotel. However, they quickly find that they are not comfortable with all of the modern conveniences and soft beds. While the Standells fill up the house with party guests, the Munsters decide to call off the deal and head back home. They are shocked when they get there and see all of the lights on and hear the music. They decide to go in and demand that they all leave. However, after listening to the band play the songs Come On and Ringo and I Want to Hold Your Hand, they start to enjoy the music after all. They are even interested in a hippy called The Hermit (Kelton Garwood) when he does a psychedelic poetry reading. Herman then gets up and does his own free-form poetry reading, and despite the fact that it makes no sense, the hippies all seem to dig it. Lily plays a solo on the harp and sings the song He’s Gone Away, which moves Herman and Grandpa to tears. The Standells bid the band a fond farewell, and Eddie is thrilled to receive an autographed photo. Zelman King is the hippie with the beard. Sue Winton is the girl hippie. 4/22/24
• 029. Herman the Rookie – 4/8/1965
  • Los Angeles Dodgers manager Leo Durocher (himself) is looking for a new star hitter, and as he is discussing this with reporter Charlie Hodges (Gene Darfler), he is struck by a baseball hit from eight blocks away by Herman, who is showing Eddie how to play. Durocher visits Herman at home, and after being shocked by the strange people and odd surroundings of the house, he offers Herman a tryout. Lily calls Herman in sick from the parlor the next day so he can attend. He knocks everyone out with his hitting and fielding, but also nearly knocks everyone out literally whenever a her runs into a player, one runs into him, or he throws the ball to any of them. Durocher ultimately has to tell Herman they can’t use him because he would be too big of a liability to the players and it would be costly to make the repairs in the stadium following his games. Herman is crestfallen, but Lily and the family let him know how much they love him. Later he shows Eddie how to kick a football, and it strikes Elroy ‘Crazylegs’ Hirsch (himself), who is telling Hodges how much he needs a kicker on his football team. Baseball player Ken Hunt, who was Butch Patrick’s real-life step-father, plays the fearful catcher. 2/29/20

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