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The Munsters - My Fair Munster
episode 1.2
USA 1964
produced by Bob Mosher, Joe Connelly for Kayro-Vue Productions/CBS
directed by David Alexander
starring Fred Gwynne, Yvonne De Carlo, Al Lewis, Beverley Owen, Butch Patrick, John Fiedler, Claire Carleton, Edward Mallory
written by Norm Liebmann, Ed Haas, created by Allan Burns, Chris Hayward, developed by Norm Liebman, Ed Haas
TV series The Munsters, The Munsters (classic series)
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Pretty young Marilyn (Beverley Owen) is devastated: Yet another young
man (Jack Mallory) has taken flight after a very lovely evening, when she
invited him into her family house - so what's wrong with her?
Her family - Frankenstein monster lookalike Herman (Fred Gwynne), his
vampire wife Lily (Yvonne De Carlo), the vampire grandfather (Al Lewis)
and werewolf boy Eddie (Butch Patrick) - reacts to this with understanding
and compassion, and they console her in every way possible - but behind
closed doors, they know very well what's wrong with her: Marilyn, well,
looks kind of ... odd. So grandpa mixes up a love potion to make everyone
who sees her fall in love with her. He mixes it into her breakfast ... but
then she doesn't eat breakfast and Herman and Lily share her bowl ... and
suddenly, the neighbour (Claire Carleton) and the mailman (John Fiedler)
fall in love with them, respectively, even if they were shaking with fear
when only glimpsing them until just now. And suddenly, Herman and Lily are
chased through their own house by their lovesick (in the very sense of the
word) new lovers - until the potion wears off ...
An episode that shows everything that was right about The
Munsters: It presents its central family as the typical middle
class American family that might just be a bit ... monstruous - which
doesn't even occur to them, and the attitude of others towards them only
mirrors their own prejudiced little minds, makes them a whole more
monstruous on the insided than the Munsters are on the outside ... on
which this episode of course plays a perfect joke. Add to this a perfect
cast and rather well-staged slapstick scenes, and you got yourself a
pretty good sitcom.
By the way, the set-up of this one was lifted from the series unaired
(colour) pilot [click
here].
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