List of The Munsters Episodes
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The following is an episode list for the CBS sitcom The Munsters. The series broadcast on September 24, 1964, and ended on May 12, 1966. A feature length film, Munster, Go Home!, was released on June 15, 1966, as a spin-off from the main series. A second spin-off, called The Munsters' Revenge, aired on television 15 years later on February 27, 1981, but with the same three leads.
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[edit] Seasons
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | |||
| 1 | 38 | September 24, 1964 | June 10, 1965 | |
| 2 | 32 | September 16, 1965 | May 12, 1966 | |
[edit] Pilot Episodes
| # | Title | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|
| Pilot | "My Fair Munster" | Unaired |
| Filmed in color. | ||
| Pilot | "My Fair Munster" | Unaired |
| A second version of the pilot. This story later became the second episode of the first season. | ||
[edit] Season 1: 1964–1965
| No. in series | No. in season | Title | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "Munster Masquerade" | September 24, 1964 |
| Marilyn's boyfriend, Tom Daly invites the Munster clan to a masquerade. Eddie (Butch Patrick) remains at home with Mrs. Morton as his sitter. Marilyn (Beverley Owen) goes as Priscilla, Lily (Yvonne DeCarlo) is Little Bo Peep, Grandpa (Al Lewis) is Napoleon and Herman (Fred Gwynne) is King Arthur in a suit of shining armor.
Guest Stars: Mabel Albertson as Agnes Daly, Frank Wilcox as Albert Daly, Lurene Tuttle as Mrs. Morton and Linden Chiles as Tom Daily | |||
| 2 | 2 | "My Fair Munster" | October 1, 1964 |
| Concerned over Marilyn's difficulty in keeping boyfriends, Grandpa cooks up a love potion and slips it into her oatmeal. But when Marilyn doesn't eat breakfast, the potion ends up in the wrong mouth.
Guest Star: John Fiedler as Warren Bloom the Mailman | |||
| 3 | 3 | "Walk on the Mild Side" | October 8, 1964 |
| Suffering from insomnia caused by high electrical bills, Herman begins going on midnight walks. When other walkers see him, they are scared telling the police that a monster is free at the park along with a dangerous thief. This causes Police Commissioner Ludlow to send Police Chief W.R. Harris to find the culprit under threat of being reassigned to the "most desolate, deserted, law-forsaken part of town." Meanwhile, Grandpa invents an "enlarging machine" in order to help Eddie grow.
Guest Star: Cliff Norton as Police Chief W.R. Harris | |||
| 4 | 4 | "Rock-A-Bye Munster" | October 15, 1964 |
| Herman and Grandpa eavesdrop on Lily and Marilyn and get the impression that Lily is pregnant. But the playmate she's expecting for Eddie is just Dr. Dudley's son, Elmer.
Guest Stars: Paul Lynde as Dr. Dudley, Sid Melton as Diamond Jim, Peter Robbins as Elmer Dudley | |||
| 5 | 5 | "Pike's Pique" | October 22, 1964 |
| The city's gas department wants to run a pipeline 25 feet (7.6 m) under the Munsters' house. Unfortunately, at that level it runs straight into Grandpa's laboratory.
Guest Stars: Richard Deacon as Border T. Pike, Pat Harrington as Sonny Harkness, Jane Withers as Mrs. Fanny Pike | |||
| 6 | 6 | "Low-Cal Munster" | October 29, 1964 |
| Herman wants to attend a reunion of his army buddies, but can't fit into his uniform. Lily doesn't want him to go, so they make a deal that if Herman can lose enough weight to fit into the uniform, she'll let him go.
Guest Star: Paul Lynde as Dr. Dudley, Michael Jackson as TV Announcer | |||
| 7 | 7 | "Tin Can Man" | November 11, 1964 |
| Eddie is in danger of being expelled from school. His only chance to prevent this is doing a great project for the school's science fair. | |||
| 8 | 8 | "Herman the Great" | November 12, 1964 |
| Herman becomes a professional wrestler, the Masked Marvel, after he demonstrates his superhuman strength for Eddie's friend, the son of a pro wrestling manager.
Guest Stars: Gene LeBell as Tarzan McGirk, Billy Varga as Strangler Murphy | |||
| 9 | 9 | "Knock Wood, Here Comes Charlie" | November 19, 1964 |
| Herman's twin brother Charlie, a fast-talking con artist, comes to town and ends up staying at the Munster home against Herman's wishes.
Guest Star: Mike Mazurki as Leo "Knuckles" Kraus | |||
| 10 | 10 | "Autumn Croakus" | November 26, 1964 |
| Feeling lonely, Grandpa contacts a matrimonial agency that promises to find him a mate. The agency sends over an attractive elderly woman who's not quite as harmless as she looks.
Guest Star: Neil Hamilton as Malcolm | |||
| 11 | 11 | "The Midnight Ride of Herman Munster" | December 3, 1964 |
| Herman falls asleep in the back of his car, leaving the keys in the ignition. The car is stolen by a couple of bank robbers who aren't aware that Herman is lying in the back seat.
Guest Star: Maxie Rosenbloom as Big Louie | |||
| 12 | 12 | "The Sleeping Cutie" | December 10, 1964 |
| In an attempt to cure Marilyn of insomnia, Grandpa accidentally gives her a Sleeping Beauty potion and she can't wake up until she is kissed by a prince.
Guest Star: Gavin MacLeod as Paul Newmar, John Hoyt as George Spelvin | |||
| 13 | 13 | "Family Portrait" | December 17, 1964 |
| The Munsters have been chosen by Event Magazine as the average American family. Insulted by being labeled average, Grandpa disappears, jeopardizing the photo opportunity and the prize money that accompanies it.
This is the last episode with Beverly Owen as Marilyn. The colorized version of this episode was released as a single DVD October 7, 2008. Both the original black and white and colorized version were on the same DVD. Guest Star: Harvey Korman as Lennie Bates | |||
| 14 | 14 | "Grandpa Leaves Home" | December 24, 1964 |
| Grandpa feels neglected and decides to move out. Lily and Herman think it's just a ploy to get attention, expecting he'll soon come slinking back.
Factoid: This is the first episode with Pat Priest as Marilyn. | |||
| 15 | 15 | "Herman's Rival" | December 31, 1964 |
| Lily thinks that Herman has lost his savings to a bad investment when, in fact, he lent it to her brother, the Wolf Man. | |||
| 16 | 16 | "Grandpa's Call of the Wild" | January 7, 1965 |
| Herman takes the family on a camping trip. After a dinner by the campfire, Grandpa hears the howls of the wolves and reminisces about his days in the old country. Herman and Lilly tell Grandpa not to do it after what happened last time. After another wolf howl upon the other Munsters going to sleep, Grandpa starts howling as well. The next morning, Grandpa is missing until the other Munsters find Grandpa in the form of a Transylvanian Wolf within the custody of the local rangers. Now the Munsters must get Grandpa out of the camping grounds and back to the house in order to use one of the potions to get Grandpa back to normal. | |||
| 17 | 17 | "All-Star Munster" | January 14, 1965 |
| Herman goes to Marilyn's college to straighten out a tuition matter. In searching for the dean's office, he wanders into the gym and is mistaken for a basketball star who is supposed to tryout that day.
Guest Star: Pat Buttram as Pop Mallory | |||
| 18 | 18 | "If a Martian Answers, Hang Up" | January 21, 1965 |
| When Herman fools around with a ham radio in Grandpa's dungeon, he thinks he's contacted Martians.
Guest Star: Herbert Rudley as Captain Halbert | |||
| 19 | 19 | "Eddie's Nickname" | January 28, 1965 |
| Eddie wants to quit school because all the kids there call him Shorty. Grandpa tries to brew a potion to make Eddie grow six inches (152 mm) overnight.
Guest Star: Paul Lynde as Dr. Dudley | |||
| 20 | 20 | "Bats of a Feather" | February 4, 1965 |
| Eddie needs an impressive pet to take to the school pet fair. When Igor the bat gets insulted by one of Herman's wisecracks and flies away, Grandpa changes himself into a bat to impersonate Igor.
Guest Star: Alvy Moore as Dr. Grant | |||
| 21 | 21 | "Don't Bank on Herman" | February 11, 1965 |
| Herman and Grandpa go to the bank to make a withdrawal, but they are mistaken for bank robbers and handed $18,000 in cash. | |||
| 22 | 22 | "Dance With Me, Herman" | February 18, 1965 |
| In order to accompany Marilyn to her school dance, Herman decides to take up dancing lessons.
Guest Star: Don Rickles as "Doc" Happy Havemeyer | |||
| 23 | 23 | "Follow That Munster" | February 25, 1965 |
| Herman sneaks out each night to train to become a detective. Lily suspects he's having an affair and hires the detective agency where Herman is working to have him followed. | |||
| 24 | 24 | "Love Locked Out" | March 4, 1965 |
| After Herman gets home late from an office party, Lily locks Herman out of their bedroom. When they are unable to reconcile, Lily and Herman seek counseling. | |||
| 25 | 25 | "Come Back, Little Googie" | March 11, 1965 |
| Grandpa is under the impression that he's turned Eddie's friend Googie into a monkey.
Guest Star: Billy Mumy as Googie Miller | |||
| 26 | 26 | "Far Out Munsters" | March 18, 1965 |
| A rock group called The Standells pays the Munsters an exorbitant fee to use their house for the weekend. When the Munsters can't adjust to the cleanliness of their hotel, they return home to find a wild party. At the party the Standells perform a cover of The Beatles' I Want to Hold Your Hand Herman improvises a beatnik poem, and Lily sings the English folksong "He's Gone Away" while playing the harp.
Guest Stars: The Standells as Themselves, Zalman King as Bearded Man | |||
| 27 | 27 | "Munsters on the Move" | March 25, 1965 |
| In order to accept a promotion, Herman has to shuffle his family off to Buffalo. Eddie refuses to go. Grandpa has already sold the house to a wrecking company, so the Munsters have no choice but to wage war. | |||
| 28 | 28 | "Movie Star Munster" | April 1, 1965 |
| A pair of con artists wants to stage a phony accident as an insurance scam. When they stumble upon Herman, they realize they've found the perfect patsy.
Guest Star: Jesse White as J.R. Finlater | |||
| 29 | 29 | "Herman the Rookie" | April 8, 1965 |
| 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 eight blocks away, he believes he has his man.
Guest Star: Leo Durocher as Himself, Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch as Himself | |||
| 30 | 30 | "Country Club Munsters" | April 15, 1965 |
| The Munsters win a membership to the highly exclusive Mockingbird Heights Country Club, but the membership board wants to get a close look at the family to see if they meet the club's standards. | |||
| 31 | 31 | "Love Comes to Mockingbird Heights" | April 22, 1965 |
| 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 falls for Marilyn. | |||
| 32 | 32 | "Mummy Munster" | April 29, 1965 |
| Herman arranges to meet Marilyn at the natural history museum. But he accidentally gets himself locked inside an Egyptian sarcophagus, where a sleeping pill he had taken earlier kicks in.
Guest Stars: Philip Ober as Dr. Wilkerson, Pat Harrington, Jr. as Thatcher | |||
| 33 | 33 | "Lily Munster, Girl Model" | May 6, 1965 |
| Feeling useless, Lily searches for a job. She lands a position as a fashion model, causing Herman to become wildly jealous and transform himself into a swinging playboy.
Guest Star: Roger C. Carmel as Laszlo Brastoff | |||
| 34 | 34 | "Munster the Magnificent" | May 13, 1965 |
| 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 make him a gifted dancer, but Eddie already has him billed as a magic act.
Guest Star: Dave Ketchum as Master of Ceremonies | |||
| 35 | 35 | "Herman's Happy Valley" | May 20, 1965 |
| Herman purchases 10 acres (40,000 m2) 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. | |||
| 36 | 36 | "Hot Rod Herman" | May 27, 1965 |
| Believing that his father is the greatest driver in the world, Eddie volunteers Herman and his car, the Munster Koach, for a drag race. | |||
| 37 | 37 | "Herman's Raise" | June 4, 1965 |
| Egged on by Lily, Herman demands a raise from his boss Mr. Gateman. He is promptly fired. Afraid of Lily's reaction, he pretends that he is still going to work, when he's actually trying out new jobs.
Guest Stars: John Carradine as Mr. Gateman, Benny Rubin as Tom Fong | |||
| 38 | 38 | "Yes, Galen, There Is a Herman" | June 10, 1965 |
| Herman saves the life of a young boy, Galen, by bending the bars his head is stuck between. They become close friends, but Galen's parents think Uncle Herman is a figment of the boy's imagination.
Guest Stars: Brian Nash as Galen Stewart, Harvey Korman as Dr. Leinbach | |||
[edit] Season 2: 1965–1966
| # | Total | Title | Original airdate |
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