1 9 8 7 – 1 9 9 1Β (USA)
73 x 30 minute episodes
Fans may have recoiled in horror at this reboot of the original classic series, but – believe it or not – The Munsters Today lasted longer than the original.
In 1966 Grandpa conducts an experiment thatΒ backfires and places the family in a state of suspendedΒ animation.Β Twenty-two years later, the familyΒ awakens – still at 1313 Mockingbird Lane – to the new world of the 1980s and their attemptsΒ to adjust to society are depicted.
Herman Munster (John Schuck ofΒ Holmes & Yoyo) is six feet eight inches tall and works as a gravedigger for MrΒ Graves (Stanley Ralph Ross) of the Gateman, GoodburyΒ and Graves funeral parlour.
Herman worships the ground his wife, the formerΒ Lily Ann Dracula, was buried under. Lily (Lee Meriwether, who had played Catwoman in the original Batman series) is 324Β years old and married Herman 299 years ago inΒ Transylvania.
Before Lily met Herman, she workedΒ as a singer in Club Dead in Transylvania. She wonΒ the beauty pageant title, ‘Miss Transylvania of 1655’Β and the Silver Shroud Award for Fashion Design.
Her normal body temperature is 25.8 degrees, andΒ herΒ favourite song is Transylvania the Beautiful.Β SheΒ gave birth to Eddie within 24 hours of becomingΒ pregnant (a tradition in her family).
Grandpa, the original Count Dracula, is a madΒ scientist who enjoys conducting experiments in theΒ lab beneath the Munsters home. He was married toΒ a woman named Katja, but she left him when she gotΒ tired of ironing capes and mopping dungeons.
Grandpa attended the University of TransylvaniaΒ and majored in philosophy. Grandpa is a member ofΒ the A.V.A. (American Vampire Association). Igor isΒ his pet bat, Stanley his lab rat, and Leonard is theΒ skeleton he befriended in his college days who nowΒ lives in the dungeon.
Grandpa also has a computerΒ named Sam and once had a business in TransylvaniaΒ sharpening fangs. His last job was guillotine janitor.
Neice Marilyn is blonde, beautiful and the black sheep of the family. She is 17 years old and attends MockingbirdΒ Heights High School. She is a neat freak andΒ desperately wants a bigger bosom (“I wanna be aΒ 36D”) to attract boys.
Edward (Eddie) Wolfgang Munster, Lily andΒ Hermanβs son, attends Mockingbird Heights HighΒ School and wants to become a rock video producer.Β He has a pet Tasmanian devil named Irving.
The Munsters also own Munster Moor, a swampΒ at 1313th Avenue; their insurance company is GraveΒ Diggers Mutual – “The Good Hands People.”
Spot,Β a fire-breathing dragon, lives under the staircaseΒ in the living room; Maxine is a sea serpent whoΒ lives in the moat that surrounds their homeΒ andΒ Boris is the name of the boarβs head mounted on theΒ living room wall.
Herman Munster
John Schuck
Lily Munster
Lee Meriwether
Grandpa (Count Vladimir Dracula)
Howard Morton
Marilyn Munster
Hilary Van Dyke
Eddie Munster
Jason Marsden