The Munsters Traditional Cache
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The Munsters is a 1960s American family television sitcom depicting the home life of a family of monsters. It starred Fred Gwynne as Herman Munster and Yvonne De Carlo as his wife, Lily Munster. The series was a satire of both traditional monster movies and popular family entertainment of the era. It ran concurrently with The Addams Family. Although the Addamses were well-to-do, the Munsters were a more blue-collar family. The Munsters depicts an old gothic style mansion, a similar staircase in the home's foyer, a beautiful blond cousin as a main character, a child who lives in the mansion, as well as a brunette mother figure, a vampire relative who lives with the family, and The Munsters adds in a Frankinstein father figure. The Munsters experience the problems of not fitting into regular society in a comic routine.
The series aired at night once a week in black-and-white on the CBS Television Network from September 24, 1964 to May 12, 1966, for 70 episodes. It was canceled after ratings dropped to a low due to the premiere of ABC's Batman, which was in full color.] Though ratings were low during its initial two-year run, The Munsters grew in popularity during decades of syndication.
The family, while decidedly odd, consider themselves fairly typical working-class Americans of the era. Herman, like many husbands of the 1960s, is the sole wage-earner in the family, though Lily and Grandpa make (short-lived) attempts to earn a little money from time to time. While Herman is the titular "head of household," Lily actually makes most of the decisions.
The costumes and appearances of the family members other than Marilyn were based on the classic monsters of Universal Studios films from the 1930s and 1940s. Universal produced The Munsters, as well, and thus were able to use these copyrighted designs, including their idiosyncratic version of Frankenstein’s monster for Herman. Other studios were free to make films with the Frankenstein creature, for example, but could not use the costume and style of makeup originally created by Jack Pierce for the 1931 film Frankenstein.
The original Victorian home of the Munster family was at 1313 Mockingbird Lane in the fictional Mockingbird Heights. The town's location is not specified in the series, but in later incarnations is described as a small town outside of Los Angeles, California.
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