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) a former girlfriend "Shirley Zlebnik", and his overbearing Mother (played by actress Ruth Buzzi). In the episode "Munster Masquerade", Grandpa describes having been married "167 times", and although his wives are "all dead", he still keeps "in touch with them". Grandpa's wife, Lily's Mother, makes an emotional appearance in "The Munsters Today" series in 1990, in the episode "Once In a Blue Moon" (airdate: September 18, 1990). Grandpa's identity as Count Dracula is also alluded to in both the original series and "The Munsters Today". In the 1965 episode "The Musician", Mr. Gateman refers to him as "Count Dracula" when