Here Come the Munsters to help him escape. They flee from the scene in the Munster Koach. Four of the original "Munsters" surviving cast members Yvonne De Carlo, Al Lewis, Butch Patrick, Pat Priest, appeared in a cameo scene in a restaurant. While the movie draws on many elements of the original series, it departs from the established "Munsters" canon. In this version Marilyn's last name is given as Hyde, and she is the daughter of Herman's sister, not Lily's (as she is in the original series and in "The Munsters Today"), also, In this film Marilyn is the same age as the series,
The Munsters Eddie was portrayed by Derman as a nasty brat. The title sequence had light, happy music (picked up from the Doris Day movie "The Thrill of It All") instead of the more hip surf theme that was to come. The episode is available on the complete first season of "The Munsters" DVDs. It was also decided that Joan Marshall looked too much like Morticia Addams and that Happy Derman was too nasty as Eddie, so both were replaced. On the basis of the first presentation, the new series, still not completely cast, was announced by CBS on February 18, 1964.