The Munsters Today Morton (Grandpa), Hilary Van Dyke (Marilyn) and Jason Marsden (Eddie), and broadcast 73 episodes from October 8, 1988, to May 25, 1991, giving it more first-run episodes than the original series. The pilot explained the 22-year gap following the original series by showing the family as they were in 1966 when an accident took place; the family then proceeds to wake up in 1988. It was created following a failed attempt to revive the show with most of the original cast (Fred Gwynne, Al Lewis and Yvonne De Carlo) in the 1981 NBC telefilm "The Munsters' Revenge". In the living
The Munsters Lane. NBC ultimately canceled plans for "Mockingbird Lane" to be produced as a weekly series, but later announced the pilot episode would air in late October 2012 as a Halloween special. In August 2017, it was announced that Seth Meyers is developing a modern-day interpretation of the series. The series will place the Munsters in Brooklyn, New York where they try to fit in as an ordinary family. Between 2004 and 2008, Universal Studios Home Entertainment released the entire series on DVD in Regions 1 & 2. The "Family Portrait" episode in color, which was absent from the season 1