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) Grandpa's lab. And much like a bat, Grandpa sleeps hanging upside down from the ceiling: usually in the living room, the attic, or the lab (the interior of his bedroom was never shown on the series). In "The Munsters Today", Grandpa's companion was Leonard the skeleton, whom he met at college back in Transylvania. Flashbacks to the events at college and to how Leonard and Grandpa met are part of the storyline in "The Munsters Today" episode "Never Say Die" (airdate: February 24, 1990). Grandpa doesn't always display the traits that are commonly associated with vampires. For example, in one