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
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