![]() His wife Lily (Yvonne De Carlo) is a gothic vampire, as is her father Grandpa (aka Sam Dracula, played by Al Lewis). Herman Munster (Fred Gwynne) is a Frankenstein’s Monster-type creation (with make-up fashioned in the famous Universal Frankenstein series – possible because Universal also produced this series). Although they behave like any regular suburban family, they are anything but. The show featured the titular family, who lived at 1313 Mockingbird Lane. The Munsters was created by Allan Burns and Chris Hayward, who had previously scored big with Leave It to Beaver. For a while, it seemed that the standard domestic comedy show was a thing of the past, as varying networks aired shows like Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, Mr Ed, My Favorite Martian, The Addams Family and, of course, The Munsters. ![]() The 1960s was a boom period in the United States for fantasy-themed situation comedies.
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