#1
Munster Masquerade
Marilyn's boyfriend invites Marilyn and her family to a masquerade party.
Marilyn goes as Priscilla her boyfriend as John Alden. Lily is Little Bo Peep,
Grandpa is Napoleon, and Herman is King Arthur dressed in armor. Marilyn's
boyfriends father (Dressed As Frankenstein) is insulted with Herman compliments
him for now wearing a costume :). At the end of the night Herman with a prize
for wearing a Frankenstein costume under his suit of armor. Lily and Grandpa are
insulted because that is Herman's real face! Herman doesn't realize that he is
being insulted.
DIRECTOR:
Lawrence Dobkin
WRITERS:
Joe Connelly & Bob Mosher
GUEST STAR: Mabel Albertson......Agnes Daly, Frank Wilcox
& Linden Chiles
#2 My Fair Munster
Grandpa mixes up a love potion designed to
make the opposite sex fall madly for anyone who drinks the potion. grandpa mixes
some in Marilyn's oatmeal to help her keep a boyfriend. Marilyn is in a rush and
has no time for breakfast, so Lilly puts her oatmeal back into the big pot and
servers the oatmeal to the rest of the family. Now they are all affected by the
potion! The mailman becomes interested in Lily; the next-door neighbor now has
an attraction for Herman; Eddie is even chased home by all the girls from his
class.
DIRECTOR:
David Alexander
WRITERS:
Norm Liebmann & Ed Haas
GUEST STAR: John Fiedlers......Mailman, Claire Carleton
& Edward Mallory
#3
A Walk on the Mild Side
Herman is suffering from insomnia. The only thing that will make him sleep is a
late-night walk in the park. A "Monster" type creature has been
spotted in the park at night and Lily would prefer if Herman would stay home.
What she doesn't know is that the monster is Herman!
DIRECTOR: Norman
Abbott
WRITERS:
Norm Liebmann & Ed Haas
GUEST STARS: Cliff Norton
& Roy Roberts
#4
Rock-A-Bye Munster
Herman and Grandpa overhear Lily and Marilyn talking and somehow get the idea
that Lily is pregnant. What's really happening is Dr. Dudley's son, Elmer, is
coming to stay with the Munsters while Dr. Dudley and his wife are on vacation.
DIRECTOR: Norman
Abbott
WRITERS:
Joe Connelly & Bob Mosher
GUEST
STARS: Paul Lynde...... Dr. Dudley, Sid
Melton.....Diamond Jim, Marilyn Lovell & Peter Robbins
#5 Pike's Pique
The gas company wants to run a pipeline 25 feet under the Munsters' house. At
that height is would run through Grandpa's dungeon lab. When the workers are
digging they get extremely frightened by Herman and Grandpa's appearance.
Mr. Pike, the manager of the Gas Company, thinks that the Munsters are
trying to scare the workers to drive up the cost of construction on the Munster
Property. He thinks its a good idea to visit with The Munsters to see what's
going on...
DIRECTOR: Seymour
Berns
WRITERS:
Norm Liebmann & Ed Haas
GUEST STARS: Richard Deacon....Borden
Pike, Pat
Harrington....Sonny Harkness, Jane Withers
#6 Lo-Cal Munster
Herman wants to go to a reunion with his army friends. Unfortunately he can't
seem fit into his uniform. Lily doesn't want Herman to go, but decides to make a
deal with him. If Herman can lose enough weight to fit into the uniform, he can
go. Herman quickly goes on a Diet limiting him to almost no food. When he
is watching TV he sees a commercial for a Thanksgiving Dinner and loses
control...
NOTE:
This episode used a technique called "framing."
The show
opens with the last scene of the episode in the beginning and then shows the
events leading up to the scene as a flashback, and then shows the last
scene again. In many cases a narrator is needed to explain to the audience
that their going to see a flashback. Narration is provided by Herman.
DIRECTOR: Norman
Abbott
WRITERS:
Norm Liebmann & Ed Haas
GUEST STARS:
Paul Lynde...... Dr. Dudley
-----------------Dick Winslow,
Monty Margetts, Elsie Baker, Diane Cortney, Scott McCarter & Caryl Rowe
#7 Tin
Can Man
Thanks to a recommendation from an investigator of The Board of Education Eddie
is in danger of being expelled from school. The only way he can stay if he makes an excellent project for the school's
Science Fair; Grandpa helps he make a robot. Herman walks on stage and is
thought to be the robot causing Eddie to win first prize and stay in school.
DIRECTOR: Earl
Bellamy
WRITERS:
Norm Liebmann & Ed Haas
GUEST STARS:
Paul Lynde...... Dr. Dudley, Arch Johnson
& Richard Simmons
#8 Herman the Great
Herman becomes a professional wrestler called The Masked Marvel. After he shows
that he has superhuman strength to a friend of Eddie's who
is the son of a pro wrestling manager. Herman uses the extra cash to save for Eddie's college education.
However Herman is so nice and gullible his opponents can take advantage of him.
NOTE:
This episode featured real life wrestlers Count Billy Varga, Gene
LeBall, Jay York, the Great John L., and Matt Murphy.
DIRECTOR: Earl
Bellamy
WRITERS:
Norm Liebmann & Ed Haas
GUEST STARS: John Hubbard,
Johnny Silver, Joe Mell, Teddy Eccles, Jimmy Lennon & Tiger Joe Marsh
#9
Knock
Wood, Here Comes Charlie
Herman has a twin brother Charlie who is a con-artist. He comes to town and ends up
stays at the Munster home, which doesn't make Herman too happy. Charlie claims to have
made an invention that takes uranium from seawater, he's looking for an investor.
Herman thinks that the whole thing is a scheme to get a Lilys $5000 inheritance, he ends up
being right.
DIRECTOR: Lawrence Dobkin
WRITERS:
Norm Liebmann & Ed Haas
GUEST STARS:
Mike Mazurki...... Knuckles
#10 Autumn Croakus
Grandpa is feeling lonely and depressed so he contacts a
matrimonial agency to find a mate. The agency sends over a nice looking elderly woman who
find Grandpa to be delightful. She turns out to be the Black Widow: she makes her living
by marrying her suitors, getting them to sign
a life insurance policy naming her as beneficiary, and then murdering them.
NOTE:
When watching the opening scene in this episode, look for a technician
in a white T-shirt walking in the back-ground of the Munster house, which
completely ruins the scene. This was featured as a Nick-at-Nite Rewind,
when The Munsters was seen on Nick-at-Nite.
DIRECTOR: Lawrence Dobkin
WRITERS:
James Allardice & Tom Adair
GUEST STARS:
Neil Hamilton......Malcolm,
Linda Watkins, Richard Reeves & Jerry Mann
#11 The
Midnight Ride of Herman Munster
After going to the car to find something Herman falls asleep in the back of his
car with the keys in the ignition. The car is then stolen by bank robbers who
don't know that Herman is sleeping in the back seat. When Herman wakes up he wanders
into their hideout and is thought to be Big Louie, a gang member who has taken
twenty years of beatings in the boxing ring. Herman winds up as an accomplice in
a bank robbery.
DIRECTOR: Ezra Stone
WRITERS:
Joe
Connelly & Bob Mosher
GUEST STARS:
Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom as Big Louie, Lennie Weinrib,
Lee Krieger, Joe Devlin, Val Avery,
-----------------Joel Donte, Pat McCaffrie, Vince
Williams & Mike Ross
#12 Sleeping Cutie
Marilyn has insomnia and in a attempt to cure it, Grandpa
accidentally gives her a Sleeping Beauty potion instead. Now Marilyn can't wake
up unless she has been kissed by a prince. Lily and Herman advertise for a prince in
classified section the newspaper, but this only attracts a couple of
out-of-work actors. Meanwhile, Grandpa is negotiating with an oil company for
the rights to use his magic pill that turns water into gasoline.
DIRECTOR: Norman Abbott
WRITERS:
James Allardice & Tom Adair
GUEST STARS:
Gavin MacLeod as Paul Newmar, Grant Williams,
Walter Woolf King & John Hoyt
#13 Family Portrait
The Munsters have been chosen by Event Magazine as the
average American family. Grandpa is insulted by being labeled
"average." He disappears, jeopardizing the family's photo opportunity
and the large amount of prize money that came with it. When a journalist and
photographer arrive at the Munster home, Herman and Lily think they are burglars.
NOTE: This is the last episode that Beverly Owen, the first Marilyn, appeared
in. She left to get married and move to New York.
DIRECTOR: Lawrence Dobkin
WRITERS:
James Allardice & Tom Adair
GUEST STARS: Harvey Korman
as Lennie Bates, Roy Roberts, Fred Beir & Bill Daniels
#14 Grandpa Leaves Home
Grandpa feels neglected and decides to depart the
Munster Family. In the beginning Lily and Herman believe this is just a ploy to get
attention and they let Grandpa leave, expecting he'll soon come back. Shortly afterwards, they begin to miss him and try to track him down.
The find out he's doing a magic act at a local nightclub.
NOTE: This is the first episode that Pat Priest,
the second Marilyn, appeared in.
DIRECTOR:
Norman Abbott
WRITERS:
Dick Conway & Roland MacLane
GUEST STARS: Robert Strauss, Iris Adrian, Sarah Ross, Bill Duncan, Bill
Couch & Nicky Blair
#15 Herman's Rival
Lily thinks that Herman has lost all
his savings through a bad investment - when in fact he loaned it to her brother,
the Wolf Man. She decides to build-up the family's funds by taking a palm-reading
job in a tea room. In a plot twist Grandpa and Herman suspect that Lily is sneaking out of the house
to have a love affair.
DIRECTOR: Joseph Pevney
WRITERS:
Dick Conway & Roland MacLane
GUEST STARS: Irwin Charone as
The Wolf Man, Lee Bergere, Karen Glynn, Chet Stratton & Tommy Farrell
#16 Grandpa's Call of the Wild
Herman takes the family on a camping trip in a national
park. After a dinner by the campfire, Grandpa hears the howls of the
wolves and remembers his days in the old country. The next morning,
Grandpa is missing. Lily realizes that he changed himself into a wolf to roam
the woods with his canine friends. When she hears a news report about the
capture of a rare Transylvanian wolf, Lily goes to the authorities to reclaim
her father.
DIRECTOR: Earl Bellamy
WRITERS:
Joe Connelly & Bob Mosher
GUEST STARS: Mike
Ragan, Bing Russell, Don Haggerty, Ed Peck, Curt Barrett
#17
All-Star Munster
Herman goes to the dean's office of Marilyn's college
to straighten out a tuition matter. When searching for the office, he
wanders into the gym and is mistaken for a student basketball star who is
expected for a tryout. Herman amazes the coach with his superhuman abilities
and is offered a contract to play for the college team.
DIRECTOR: Earl Bellamy
WRITERS:
Joe Connelly & Bob Mosher
GUEST STARS: Pat Buttram, Robert Easton, Frank Maxwell
#18 If a
Martian Answers, Hang Up
When Herman fools around with a ham radio in Grandpa's
dungeon, he thinks he's contacted Martians. But he is actually speaking to two kids
who are fooling around with walkie-talkies and just pretending to be Martians.
The kids think Herman is also a kid, and a stupid one too.
DIRECTOR: Norman Abbott
WRITERS:
Joe Connelly & Bob Mosher
GUEST STARS: Herbert Rudley as
Captain Halbert, Ray Montgomery, Larry Thor, Ronnie Dapo, Pat Rosson, Dort
-----------------Clark,
John Stenner
#19 Eddie's Nickname
Eddie wants to quit school because all the kids there
call him Shorty. Grandpa helps by fixing a potion to
make Eddie grow six inches overnight. Instead, the potion causes the young
Munster to grow a full beard and mustache.
DIRECTOR: Joseph Pevney
WRITER:
Richard Baer
GUEST STARS: Paul Lynde as
Dr. Dudley, Alice Backes
#20
Bats
of a Feather
Eddie needs an impressive pet to take to the school pet
fair, but Spot, the fire-breathing monster, is too shy to come out of hiding.
Eddie decides to take Igor the bat, but Igor is insulted by one of Herman's
wisecracks and flies away. Without Eddie's knowing, Grandpa changes
himself into a bat to impersonate Igor. This causes trouble when Eddie gives Grandpa to another student whose father wants to send him to outer space on a
scientific mission.
DIRECTOR: Jerry Paris
WRITER:
Dick Conway
GUEST STARS: Alvy Moore as
The Laboratory Scientist, Barbara Babcock, Tom McBride, Ronnie Dapo,
------------------Jimmy Mathers, Gilbert Green,
Sally Mills, Frank Gardner, Alan Hunt.
#21 Don't Bank on Herman
When Herman and Grandpa go to the bank to make a
withdrawal, they are mistaken for bank robbers and handed eighteen thousand
dollars in cash. When Herman gets home and realizes the wrong he's done wrong, he
can't rest until he returns the money. When trying to bring it back in the middle
of the night, Herman and Grandpa wind up locked in the bank's vault.
DIRECTOR: Ezra Stone
WRITER:
Douglas Tibbles
GUEST STARS: Mousie Garner,
Maurice Manson, Pitt Herbert, Audrey Swanson, Jack Bernardi
#22
Dance With Me, Herman
In order to accompany Marilyn to her school dance,
Herman decides to take dancing lessons. He goes to Happy Havemeyer's Dancing
School, where he is suckered into signing a ten-year contract for 1500 lessons
(at $7.50 a lesson).
Herman is under the wrong impression that he is going to become a dancing
instructor for the school.
DIRECTOR: Joseph Pevney
WRITERS:
James Allardice, Tom Adair, Joe Connelly & Bob Mosher
GUEST STARS: Don Rickles as Happy Havemayer, Joyce Jameson
#23 Follow That Munster
Herman goes out each night in order to practice
becoming a real detective. Lily thinks he's having an affair with another
woman and hires the same detective agency Herman is working for to have Herman
followed. In a Plot twist Herman gets the
assignment to follow himself.
DIRECTOR: Joseph Pevney
WRITERS:
Joe Connelly & Bob Mosher
GUEST STARS: Ken Lynch, Herb
Armstrong, Doris Singleton, Mike Winkelman, Miss Ronnie Haran
#24
Love
Locked Out
After Herman attends an office party that goes on until
the wee hours of the morning, Lily locks Herman out of their bedroom and makes
him sleep on the sofa. When they are unable to reconcile, Lily and Herman each
see a marriage counselor independently.
DIRECTOR: Charles Barton
WRITERS:
James Allardice & Tom Adair
GUEST STARS:
Elliot Reid, Norman Grabowski &
Bryan O'Byrne
#25
Come
Back, Little Googie
Grandpa is under the impression that he's turned
Eddie's friend Googie into a monkey. The truth is that the little boy is hiding
to fool the Munsters.
NOTE: Billy
Mumy was the original choice for Eddie Munster, but his parents said no because
of all of the makeup requirements. Billy made many appearances as a child, but
is best known as Will Robinson from Lost in Space.
DIRECTOR: Joseph Pevney
WRITERS:
Joe Connelly & Bob Mosher
GUEST STARS:
Billy Mumy as Googie, Russ Conway
#26
Far-Out Munsters
The Standells, a rock group from Hollywood, are in town
for a club appearance. They want a secluded place to stay in order to escape
from their screaming teenage fans. Their manager pays an exorbitant fee to the
Munsters to use their house for the weekend. The Munsters pack up and relocate
to a hotel, but they can't get adjusted to its cleanliness and normality.
When they arrive home prematurely, they find The Standells singing, "I Want
to Hold Your Hand," and throwing a wild party filled with far-out beatniks
and hipsters. The Munsters are initially shocked, but soon find that they
fit in with these freaky people - who never once question their unusual
appearance. Guest stars: The Standells as themselves and Zalman King as the Man
With Beard.
DIRECTOR: Joseph Pevney
WRITERS:
Joe Connelly, Bob Mosher & Richard Conway
GUEST STARS:
The Standells as themselves, Zalman
King as the man with beard, Alex Gerry, Kelton Garwood, Sue ____________Winton,
Tom Curtis, Frank Killmond
#27 Munsters on the Move
In order to accept a promotion, Herman has to shuffle
his family off to Buffalo. Eddie, who happens to be doing great on the baseball
team, throws a temper tantrum. Since Grandpa has already sold the house to a
wrecking company, the Munsters have no choice but to wage war.
DIRECTOR: Joseph Pevney
WRITERS:
George Tibbles, Joe Connelly & Bob Mosher
GUEST STARS:
Bert Freed, Eddie Hanley,
Lenore Shanewice, Alma Murphy, Jan Arvan, Bella Bruck, Charles Sell, Joey ____________Scott,
Hydia Westman
#28
Movie Star Munster
A pair of con artists want to stage a phony accident as
an insurance company scam. All they need is someone to play the part of the
victim - preferably a big stupid guy with a face that looks as if it's been in
an accident. When they stumble upon Herman, they realize they've found the
perfect guy. Posing as a couple of movie producers, they get him to sign
an accident policy by pretending it's a movie contract for a remake of DOUBLE
INDEMNITY. As the crooks devise various ways to kill off their leading man,
Herman becomes a stuck-up actor.
DIRECTOR: Jerry Paris
WRITERS: James Allardice & Tom Adair
GUEST STARS: Jesse White..... J.R. Finlatter, Walter Burke
#29
Herman the Rookie
Leo Durocher, manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, needs
a power hitter for his team. When he gets conked on the head by one of Herman's
line drives from seven blocks away, he believes he has his man. He tracks Herman
down and asks him to try out for the team. After Herman demonstrates his
powerful force as a batter, Durocher comments: "I don't know whether to
sign him with the Dodgers or send him to Vietnam."
DIRECTOR: Jerry Paris
WRITERS: Joe Connelly & Bob Mosher
GUEST STARS: Leo Durocher, Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch, Gene Darfler,
Ken Hunt
#30 Country Club Munster
The Munsters win a membership to the highly exclusive
Mockingbird Heights Country Club. The membership board wants to get a close look
at the family to see if they measure up to their standards, so they invite Lily
and Grandpa to a fashion show. Meanwhile, Herman is invited to play golf.
While Lily and Grandpa stand out like a couple of freaks, Herman sends golf
balls soaring like missiles and wreaks havoc on the putting green. Afterwards,
the Munsters decide that the club doesn't meet their own standards.
DIRECTOR: Joseph Pevney
WRITER: Douglas Tibbles
GUEST STARS: Woodrow Parfrey, J. Edward McKinley, Dan Tobin, Johnny Jacobs,
Janet Dey, Sally Ross, Al Checco
#31
Love
Comes to Mockingbird Heights
The Munsters receive $180,000 in gold doubloons from
Uncle Gilbert in Transylvania. When their bank's assistant manager arrives to
pick up the money for deposit, he instantly falls in love with Marilyn. Grandpa
and Lily do their best to encourage the romance, not realizing that this
gentleman is only after Marilyn for her doubloons.
DIRECTOR: Joseph Pevney
WRITERS: Joe Connelly & Bob Mosher
GUEST STARS: Charles Robinson
#32
Mummy Munster
Herman arranges to meet Marilyn at the natural history
museum. But he accidentally gets himself locked inside an Egyptian sarcophagus,
whereupon a sleeping pill he swallowed earlier takes effect. A pair of museum
curators open the box the next day and mistake the sleeping Herman for an
ancient mummy. When Lily reads about their supposed scientific discovery in the
newspaper, she goes to the museum and requests that the curators put Herman in a
cab and send him home as soon as he wakes up.
DIRECTOR: Ezra Stone
WRITERS: Joe Connelly & Bob Mosher
GUEST STARS: Philip Ober as Dr. Wilkerson, Pat
Harrington as Mr. Thatcher, Diana Frothingham, Dennis Cross,
-----------------Pat
McCaffrie, Ralph Smiley
#33
Lily
Munster, Girl Model
Fearing that she is not useful around the house, Lily
searches for a job. She eventually lands a position as a fashion model, causing
Herman to become wildly jealous as he entertains fantasies about the suave men
she's liable to mingle with. With Grandpa's help, Herman transforms himself into
a swinging playboy. Grandpa, in a disguise, poses as his beautiful blonde girlfriend.
DIRECTOR: Earl Bellamy
WRITERS: Joe Connelly & Bob Mosher
STORY: Dick Conway
GUEST STARS: Roger C. Carmel as Laszlo Brastoff, Lois Roberts, Sally Morris,
Sondra Matesky, Nina Shipman,
-----------------Susan
Wedell, Tracey Butler, Kimberly Beck
#34
Munster the Magnificent
Eddie volunteers Herman as a performer for his school's
Talent Night. Since Herman has no discernible talent, Grandpa conjures up
a pair of magic ballet shoes that will transform whoever wears them into a
gifted dancer. But Herman is uneasy about strapping on this footwear.
Fortunately, Eddie already has him billed as the world's greatest magician.
DIRECTOR: Norman Abbott
WRITERS: James Allardice & Tom Adair
GUEST STARS: Dave
Ketchum as Master of Ceremonies, Eddie Ryder, Stuart Nisbet
#35 Herman's Happy Valley
Herman purchases ten acres in Happy Holiday Valley
through a magazine ad. It turns out to be a patch of wasteland in a
broken-down ghost town, so the Munsters absolutely adore it. This makes
things difficult for the fly-by-night salespeople who get a better offer for the
property and want to buy it back.
DIRECTOR: Ezra Stone
WRITER: Dick Conway
GUEST STARS: John Hoyt, Richard Reeves, Bartlett Robinson
#36
Hot
Rod Herman
Eddie, under the impression that his father is the
greatest driver in the world, volunteers Herman in a drag-strip competition.
After souping up the Munster Koach and dressing up like Marlon Brando in his
Wild One days, Herman loses his car in a drag race. In a rematch, Grandpa
races in the Dragula, a motorized coffin on wheels.
DIRECTOR: Norman Abbott
WRITERS: Joe Connelly & Bob Mosher
GUEST STARS: Henry Beckman, Brian Beckman, Ray Montgomery, Gavin MacLeod, Eddie
Donno
#37 Herman's Raise
Egged on by Lily, Herman demands a raise from his boss
Mr. Gateman. He is promptly fired. Herman is afraid of Lily's reaction, so he
pretends that he is still going to work when in fact he is searching for
employment. He gets fired from a number of blue-collar jobs - including one at a
Chinese laundry, where he wreaks total slapstick chaos.
DIRECTOR: Ezra Stone
WRITERS: Joe Connelly, Bob Mosher & Douglas Tibbles
STORY: Douglas Tibbles
GUEST STARS: John Carradine as Mr. Gateman, Benny Rubin as Tom Fong
#38 Yes,
Galen, There Is a Herman
Herman saves the life of a young boy, Galen Livingston
Stewart, by bending the bars his head is stuck between. They immediately
become close friends. The only problem is that Galen's parents think Uncle
Herman is a figment of the boy's imagination. They take him to a psychiatrist,
played by Harvey Korman with a broad German accent.
DIRECTOR: Norman Abbott
WRITERS: Joe Connelly & Bob Mosher
GUEST STARS: Brian Nash as Galen Livingston Stewart, Harvey Korman as Dr.
Leinbach, Walter Brooke,
-----------------Marge
Redmond
#39 Herman's Child Psychology
Eddie is upset that his family does not treat him
cruelly because he thinks this means they don't care about him. When Eddie
decides to run away from home, Herman employs a little child psychology, which
naturally backfires. Various circumstances eventually lead to Herman's getting
involved with a dancing bear.
DIRECTOR: Ezra Stone
WRITERS: Joe Connelly & Bob Mosher
GUEST STARS: Michael Petit, Bill Quinn, Gene Blakely, Lee Henry
#40 Herman the Master Spy
In this Cold War episode, a Russian fishing trawler
picks up a scuba-diving Herman in its haul of fish and mistakes him for the
missing link. The crew members report their find to Moscow, claiming it puts the
Soviets ahead in the "missing link race." The response from the
Commissar is that Herman is an American spy.
DIRECTOR: Ezra Stone
WRITER: Douglas Tibbles
GUEST STARS: Leonard Yorr, John Lawrence, Bella Bruck, John Zaremba, Robert
Millar, Howard Wendell, Val Avery,
-----------------Ed
Reimers, John Silo, Edward Mallory, Henry Hunter
#41 Bronco-Bustin' Munster
In yet another example of Eddie's misguided regard for
his father's natural abilities, the young Munster enters Herman's name in the
bucking bronco contest at the local rodeo. Lily is unable to talk Herman out of
such a dangerous task: he is intent on being a hero to his son in spite of the
fact that he's scared stiff. Meanwhile, the promoters plan to have Herman ride a
horse that is guaranteed to break every bone in his body.
DIRECTOR: Ezra Stone
WRITERS: Joe Connelly & Bob Mosher
GUEST STARS: Don "Red" Barry,
William Phipps, Leonard P. Greer, Dick Lane
#42 Herman Munster, Shutterbug
Herman takes up amateur photography and accidentally
snaps a picture of two men making their escape from a bank robbery. Herman
has visions of getting a big reward for his evidence, but the bank robbers track
him down and decide to hold up with the Munsters until the heat is off. This
episode revisits the show's recurrent fascination with criminality, especially
bank robberies.
DIRECTOR: Earl Bellamy
WRITER: Dick Conway
GUEST STARS: Herbie Faye, Joe DeSantis,
Alma Murphy, Jesse Kirkpatrick, Robert Morgan
#43
Herman, Coach of the Year
When Eddie is called Lead Foot by the other kids on his
track team, Herman offers to become his athletic coach. While demonstrating his
out-of-this-world prowess in shot put, discus-throwing and pole-vaulting, Herman
causes untold destruction and makes a fool of himself. Grandpa decides to come
to the rescue by creating a magic speed pill that will make Eddie a champion
runner.
DIRECTOR: Norman Abbott
WRITERS: James Allardice & Tim Adair
GUEST STARS: Emmaline Henry as The Wife,
Henry Beckman
#44 Happy 100th Anniversary
Herman and Lily want to buy each other an elaborate
gift for their 100th Anniversary. Without telling each other, they both take
night jobs as ship welders. Since the job requires them to wear protective
helmets that conceal their faces, they don't realize whom they're dealing with
when they start flirting with each other.
DIRECTOR: Ezra Stone
WRITER: Douglas Tibbles
GUEST STARS: Vinton Hayworth as Bank
Manager, Foster Brooks as The Admiral, William O'Connell,
-----------------Robert Cornthwaite, Jack
Grinnage, Noam Pitlik
#45 Operation Herman
When Herman visits the hospital to see Eddie, who is
having his tonsils out, he is mistaken for an accident victim and is immediately
given a dose of laughing gas. Grandpa rescues him and brings him home, where
Lily assumes that Herman has been drinking.
DIRECTOR: Norman Abbott
WRITER: Joe Connelly & Bob Mosher
GUEST STARS: Dayton Allen, Marge Redmond,
Don Keefer, Bill Quinn, Justin Smith
#46 Lily's Star Boarder
Herman becomes insanely jealous of Chester, a
mysterious boarder whom Lily has bought into the household in yet another of her
schemes to acquire a little extra cash. After searching Chester's room, Herman
concludes that he's a gangster. In fact, he is a lieutenant for the police
department.
DIRECTOR: Ezra Stone
WRITER: Douglas Tibbles
GUEST STARS: Charles Bateman, Buddy Lewis,
Chet Stratton
#47 John
Doe Munster
A 300-pound safe drops on Herman's head, causing him to
develop amnesia. In order to get him released into her custody, Lily
petitions the court to adopt Herman as her son. Until he restores his
memory, he is treated as Eddie's brother John.
DIRECTOR: Earl Bellamy
WRITER: Richard Baer
GUEST STARS: Frank Maxwell, Joe Quinn,
Willis Bouchey, Olan Soule, Vince Williams, Michael Blake, Monica Rush
-----------------Barry O'Hara, Peter Dawson
#48 A
Man for Marilyn
To provide poor unfortunate Marilyn with a future
husband, Grandpa tries to turn a frog into a prince. Conveniently, he
chooses a nearsighted frog who won't be put off by Marilyn's hideous looks.
Not realizing that the potion has failed, Grandpa and Herman mistake a passing
stranger for their princely frog.
DIRECTOR: Ezra Stone
WRITERS: James Allardice & Tom Adair
GUEST STARS: Roger Perry, Don Edmonds, Dick
Wilson, Dave Willock, Jan Barthel, Jackie Coogan Jr.
#49 Herman's Driving Test
Herman gets promoted to hearse driver and has to renew
his driver's license. This requires him to take a road test, which he fails.
Grandpa convinces him that he'd have better luck taking the test in a one-horse
town. He turns out to be extremely correct.
DIRECTOR: Ezra Stone
WRITER: Dick Conway
GUEST STARS: Charlie Ruggles, Francis
DeSales, Irwin Charone, Will J. White
#50 Will
Success Spoil Herman Munster?
Eddie borrows a tape recorder belonging to the
disc-jockey father of one of his friends. Herman records a version of DRY BONES,
accompanying himself on the guitar. The following day, the disc jockey plays the
song on his radio show - and it becomes an instant hit. Herman identifies
himself as the mystery singer and quickly turns into an egomaniacal would-be
celebrity. Grandpa comes to the rescue with his Nothin' Muffins.
DIRECTOR: Ezra Stone
WRITERS: Lou Shaw, Joe Connelly, Bob Mosher
GUEST STARS: Gary Owens as The Disc Jockey,
Penny Kunard, Frank Evans, Don Dillaway, Nolan Leary, Debbie Butler,
-----------------Sandra Ferra, Gail Ganley
#51
Underground Munster
The Munsters' pet Spot runs away from home and is
mistaken for a dangerous monster when he is sighted in the sewer. When
Herman goes down the manhole to search for Spot, he too is mistaken for a
dangerous monster. The Mayor vows to rid the city of these menaces by using TNT.
DIRECTOR: Don Richardson
WRITERS: Joe Connelly & Bob Mosher
GUEST STARS: J. Edward McKinley, Warren
Parker, Jimmy Joyce, Hoke Howell, Bob Harvey, David Azar, John Mitchum,
-----------------Buck Kartalian, Helen Kleeb, Elsie
Baker
#52 The
Treasure of Mockingbird Heights
While searching for a fuse box in the dungeon, Herman
and Grandpa discover a secret chamber and a clue to the pirate treasure hidden
on the Munsters' property.
DIRECTOR: Charles Rondeau
WRITER: George Tibbles
#53
Herman's Peace Offensive
Herman advises Eddie to turn the other cheek when he
gets pushed around by a bully. Shortly thereafter, Herman is the victim of a
practical joke at work. Grandpa takes the situation in hand by teaching both
Eddie and Herman how to box.
DIRECTOR: Ezra Stone
WRITER: Douglas Tibbles
GUEST STARS: Jackie Minty, Chet Stratton, Bryan O'Byrne
#54
Herman Picks a Winner
Herman tries to teach Eddie a lesson about the folly of
gambling: he takes the money in Eddie's piggy bank and bets it on a long shot at
the racetrack. When the horse comes in a winner, it ruins the point of Herman's
lesson and leads to his entanglement with organized crime.
DIRECTOR: Ezra Stone
WRITER: Dick Conway
GUEST STARS: Charlie Callas as Lefty, Barton MacLane as Big Roy, Joyce James,
Sammy Shore
#55 Just
Another Pretty Face
Herman is struck in the head by a bolt of lightning
from one of Grandpa's experiments. It causes him to become so disfigured that he
ends up resembling officer Francis Muldoon from CAR 54, WHERE ARE YOU? (or how
Fred Gywnne looks without makeup). Lily hopes
to restore Herman's old face with plastic surgery.
DIRECTOR: Gene Reynolds
WRITER: Richard Baer
GUEST STARS: Dom DeLuise as Dr. Dudley, Joan Swift, Jackie Joseph, Lenore
Kingston
#56
Big
Heap Herman
The Munsters are heading for a vacation in Buffalo
Valley when Herman gets off for a rest stop at Indian Flats. He wanders into the
village of an Indian tribe that specializes in luring the tourist trade. The
tribe's eldest member mistakes Herman for an ancient spirit leader.
DIRECTOR: Ezra Stone
WRITERS: Joe Connelly & Bob Mosher
GUEST STARS: Ned Romero, Len Lesser, Felix Locher, Sally Frei, Richard Jury
#57 The
Most Beautiful Ghoul in the World
With inheritance money from Cousin Wolverine, Grandpa
and Herman develop an invention for transporting an electrical current without
wires. Lily and Marilyn use the rest of the money to operate their own beauty
salon. Both endeavors turn out to be disasters, causing various parties to take
legal action.
DIRECTOR: Ezra Stone
WRITER: Ted Bergman
GUEST STARS: Elvia Allman, Mary Mitchel, Charles Lane, Adele Claire
#58
Grandpa's Lost Wife
A lady in Sioux City, Iowa, has placed an advertisement
offering a reward for the return of her lost husband, who is Grandpa. Grandpa
claims to have never seen this woman before in his life - but when he discovers
that she's filthy rich, he's ready to sign an affidavit stating that she is his
spouse.
DIRECTOR: Ezra Stone
WRITER: Douglas Tibbles
GUEST STARS: Jane Withers, Douglas Evans
#59
The
Fregosi Emerald
Eddie gives Marilyn a ring he found in the attic as a
birthday present. Grandpa recognizes it as the Fregosi Emerald, a centuries-old
ring with a Transylvanian curse. Herman doesn't believe in such a silly
superstition; he is intent on proving that the ring does not bring about bad
luck. He quickly regrets trying to do this.
DIRECTOR: Ezra Stone
WRITER: Richard Baer
GUEST STARS: Paul Reed, Louise Glenn, Joan Swift, Leslie Connors
#60 Zombo
Eddie, an avid fan of ghoulish TV host Zombo, becomes
the winner of the "Why I Like Zombo Contest" and gets to be on the
Zombo show. Herman becomes jealous of Eddie's new hero and wants to appear
equally outlandish. But his efforts to impress his son fail. Eddie eventually
learns that Zombo is not a real person but a phony character played by an actor.
DIRECTOR: Ezra Stone
WRITER: Dennis Whitcomb
GUEST STARS: Louis Nye as Zombo, Digby Wolfe, Mike Barton, Jimmy Stiles, Jackie
Minty
#61 Cyrano de Munster
After Herman has his poetry published in The Mortician
Monthly, a shy coworker named Clyde asks him to compose love letters to help him
attract the attention of a young lady he's fallen for. Herman obliges, but soon
Lily discovers samples of this mushy writing and becomes suspicious. After a
re-enactment of the "hiding in the bushes" scene from CYRANO DE
BERGERAC, the object of Clyde's desire falls for Herman. Meanwhile, Herman
mistakenly suspects that Clyde's object of desire is Lily.
DIRECTOR: Joesph Pevney
WRITER: Douglas Tibbles
GUEST STARS: Chet Stratton, Joan Staley, Eileen O'Neil
#62 - The
Musician
Grandpa's magic transforms Eddie from a rotten trumpet
player into a classical music virtuoso. But when he needs to duplicate the
potion for a command performance for Herman's boss, Grandpa can't remember the
exact formula. Eddie is accidentally turned into a jazz-playing, jive-talking
hipster.
DIRECTOR: Ezra Stone
WRITER: Richard Baer
GUEST STARS: John Carradine as Mr. Gateman
#63 Prehistoric Munster
Herman has his ego flattered twice by his family.
First, Eddie wants to enter him in the Father of the Year Contest. Next,
Marilyn wants to sculpt a clay bust in his likeness. When she tells her
art professor that the sculpture represents a living person, he plans to make a
bundle from his discovery of a missing link. Herman is summoned to his office
for an examination, but he's under the impression he's about to receive an award
and a bunch of neat prizes.
DIRECTOR: Joesph Pevney
WRITER: Douglas Tibbles
GUEST STARS: Harvey Korman as Professor Gearhart von Fagenspahen, Harvey
Korman,
-----------------George
Petrie as Professor Hansen, Richard Poston
#64
A
Visit From Johann
Dr. Victor Frankenstein IV from Germany visits
Mockingbird Heights and brings with him Johann, Herman's look-alike cousin.
Johann is quite primitive and behaves like the Frankenstein monster from the
movies. It is up to Herman to try to civilize him and teach him English. Lily is
not informed of this; mistaking Johann for Herman, she takes him away for a
romantic weekend getaway.
DIRECTOR: Gene Reynolds
WRITERS: Joe Connelly & Bob Mosher
GUEST STARS: John Abbott, Forrest Lewis,
Helen Kleeb, Jefferson County
#65 Eddie's Brother
Eddie longs for the companionship of a younger brother,
so Grandpa builds him a robot named Boris. Eddie becomes resentful of this
silent, mechanical boy who is so considerate and well-behaved that he garners
all of Herman's attention and admiration.
DIRECTOR: Ezra Stone
WRITERS: Dick Conway
GUEST STAR: Wendy Cutler
#66 Herman the Tire Kicker
Herman buys a convertible for Marilyn from a
fly-by-night used-car dealer named Fair Deal Dan. Once he gets it home, it
explodes into a piece of junk. Herman later finds out that the car is a stolen
piece of junk when he is placed under arrest.
DIRECTOR: Ezra Stone
WRITERS: James Allardice & Tom Adair
GUEST STARS: Frank Gorshin as Fair Deal
Dan, Johnny Silver, Pat McCaffrie, Jimmy Cross, Jack Perkins, Rian Garrick,
-----------------Dennis Cross, Saul Gorse, Fred
Carson
#67 A
House Divided
A massive argument erupts between Grandpa and Herman
after Herman accidentally destroys a go-cart the two of them constructed for
Eddie. Since Grandpa claims to own half of the house, Herman draws a white
line down its center and insists that Grandpa remain on his side of the line.
DIRECTOR: Ezra Stone
WRITER: Dick Conway
#68
Herman's Sorority Caper
To cure Herman of his hiccoughs, Grandpa puts him into
a trance with the Transylvanian Brain Freeze. Meanwhile, a couple of
fraternity pledges are sent to spend a night in the Munster house as part of
their initiation. Thinking that sleeping Herman is a dummy, they bring him
to a sorority house, where he awakens from his trance.
DIRECTOR: Ezra Stone
WRITER: Douglas Tibbles
GUEST STARS: Bonnie Franklin as Janice, Ken
Osmond as John, Michael Blodgett, Frank Gradner, David Macklin,
-----------------Vicki Fee, Hedy Scott, William
Fawcett, Michael Ross
#69 -
Herman's Lawsuit
Herman is struck by a car. He isn't hurt, but the car
that struck him is totaled. The uninjured driver assumes she has disfigured
Herman, and her attorney suggests that she try to settle with him for $10,000. When Herman receives the offer, he wrongly assumes that this
is the amount he owes for the damage he caused to the car. He runs away from
home rather than face the problem of financial ruin for his family.
DIRECTOR: Ezra Stone
WRITERS: Douglas Tibbles, Joe Connelly, Bob Mosher
GUEST STARS: Simon Scott, Dorothy Green,
Jerome Cowan, Fabian Dean, Eddie Marr, Bob Marvey, Than Wyenn,
-----------------Monroe Arnold
#70 - A
Visit From the Teacher
When Eddie reads a school composition entitled "My
Parents - An Average American Family" to his class, his teacher believes
the boy is exhibiting symptoms of an overactive imagination. The school
principal suggests that Eddie's wild exaggerations might be motivated by an
underprivileged home life. It is decided that a visit to the Munster home
is in order.
DIRECTOR: Ezra Stone
WRITERS: Joe Connelly & Bob Mosher
GUEST STARS: Pat Woodell, Willis Bouchey
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