The Munsters The Munsters The Munsters is an American sitcom depicting the home life of a family of benign monsters starring Fred Gwynne as Frankenstein's monster-type head-of-the-household Herman Munster, Yvonne De Carlo as his vampire wife, Lily Munster, Al Lewis as Grandpa, the over-the-hill vampire who relishes in talking about the "good old days", Beverly Owen (later replaced by Pat Priest) as their teenage niece Marilyn Munster, whose all-American beauty made her the family outcast, and Butch Patrick as their half-vampire, half-werewolf son Eddie Munster. The series was a satire of both traditional monster movies and the wholesome family fare of the
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