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
Grandpa (The Munsters) episode of "The Munsters" he looks in the mirror and casts a reflection. However, he does not cast a reflection in later incarnations, nor does he appear on film or in pictures. Traditionally, vampires (including Sesame Street's Count von Count) do not cast reflections. A running gag on the show, later adopted in "The Munsters Today", is Grandpa's attempts to bite someone on the arm which usually ends in failure. Al Lewis was the only actor from the original series to reprise his role in a 1973 unsold pilot for an animated cartoon titled "The Mini-Munsters". In 1987, he reprised