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 (film series) has invited family and friends from the "old country" to stay for Christmas. Despite being released only a year after "Here Come the Munsters", the film features an entirely different cast. This film has been released on DVD. In August 2004, the brothers Keenen Ivory Wayans, Shawn Wayans, and Marlon Wayans negotiated a deal with Universal Pictures to produce a contemporary film adaptation of "The Munsters". In September 2006, Shawn Wayans revealed that "The Munsters" would be produced and written by the brothers and that it was slated for a 2007 release starring Rose McGowan as Marilyn Munster. Shawn also