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
Beverley Owen Beverley Owen Beverley Owen (born Beverley Ogg; May 13, 1937) is a retired American television actress, best known for having played the original role of Marilyn Munster during the first season of "The Munsters". Owen received an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan. She was a student of Sanford Meisner. Owen left her role on "The Munsters" to get married to writer and producer Jon Stone. They were married for ten years (1964–1974). She has two daughters, Polly and Kate. She continued to pursue her studies in Early American History, for which she earned a master's degree in 1989.