Lily Munster Lily Munster Lily Munster is a fictional character in the CBS sitcom, "The Munsters", originally played by Yvonne De Carlo. The matriarch of the Munster household, Lily is a vampire. The role was later played by Lee Meriwether in "The Munsters Today" and by Portia de Rossi in the unsold 2012 pilot "Mockingbird Lane". Lily was first introduced in the 2nd pilot episode and is the only family member to not appear in the original pilot episode. In the original pilot Herman was married to another woman called Phoebe Munster who was scrapped as the producers felt she resembled Morticia
The Munsters Nite in the 1990s. It also aired on TV Land from 2000 to 2008. On October 5, 2015, Cozi TV began airing the show. The show is currently aired in a two hour block on Sunday evening prime time. In 1973 there was an animated one hour special for ABC, the Mini-Munsters based on characters from the original series. A sequel television series titled, "The Munsters Today", ran from 1988 to 1991 and lasted for 72 episodes. The unaired pilot episode, written by Lloyd J. Schwartz, explained the 22-year gap through an accident in Grandpa's lab that put the family