List of The Munsters episodes

Marilyn's boyfriend, Tom Daily, invites the Munster clan to a masquerade. Eddie (Butch Patrick) remains at home with Mrs. Morton as his sitter. Marilyn (Beverley Owen) goes as Priscilla, Lily (Yvonne De Carlo) is Little Bo Peep, Grandpa (Al Lewis) is Napoleon and Herman (Fred Gwynne) is King Arthur in a suit of shining armor. At the party Mr. Daly is dressed and made up as Frankenstein's monster. Herman tells him that he reminds him of someone and adds that it's unfortunate that he isn't wearing a costume at his own masquerade party, angering Mr. Daly. When it is time for the best costume award Herman is asked to take off his helmet. One man (Walter Woolf King says that Herman should win for wearing one mask over another. Lily iss insulted and Marilyn as well is angry with Tom's family. Tom takes Marilyn home, where he finally sees Herman and Lily without their costumes. Tom runs away, but Marilyn is relieved.

Marilyn is depressed because all her boyfriends, including her latest named Jack (Edward Mallory), run away after their date. Grandpa wants to help her. He cooks up a love potion and slips it into Marilyn's oatmeal, but Marilyn skips breakfast and Herman, Lily, and Eddie accidentally eat the love potion. The postman starts to flirt with Lily. Yolanda Cribbins (Claire Carleton), a neighbor who does not like the Munsters, suddenly finds Herman very attractive. Eddie is chased by a bunch of girls, trying to catch him. Grandpa finds out what is happening when Marilyn tells him that she didn't eat the oatmeal that morning. The potion eventually wears off and the postman and Yolanda run off. Marilyn tells Grandpa that she would rather have someone like her for herself.

Note: This was the first of the broadcast episodes to be filmed, although it was the second one aired[3]

Suffering from insomnia caused by high electrical bills, Herman begins going on midnight walks. When other walkers see him, they are scared and tell the police that a monster is free at the park. There is also a purse snatcher roaming the park. This causes Police Commissioner Ludlow (Barry Kelley) to send Police Chief W.R. Harris to find the culprit under threat of being reassigned to the "most desolate, deserted, law-forsaken part of town." Harris dresses up as a woman and goes out to find the monster. With Herman's help, the purse snatcher is caught. Meanwhile, Grandpa invents an "enlarging machine" in order to help Eddie and other things grow, but he's having some trouble getting it to work properly. Larry J. Blake appears as The Desk Sergeant. Kate Murtagh appears as The Fat Lady. Almira Sessions appears as The Woman. Michael Gordon appears as Patrolman Finkel.

Herman and Grandpa think Lily is pregnant after overhearing her speak with Marilyn. The truth is that Marilyn will care for Dr. Dudley's son, Elmer, who will be visiting Eddie. Herman finds the doctor's card and takes Grandpa with to visit the doctor that night. Herman asks Dr. Dudley whether Lily's expecting a boy, and believing that Herman is talking about Elmer, he says yes. Meanwhile, Lily is thinking about giving Herman a new car for his birthday. Lily tells Herman that Eddie's new playmate has arrived and that he's in the living room. Elmer brought a Frankenstein doll, and when Herman sees it, he thinks that it's his newborn son. Eddie and Elmer explain to Herman that it's only a toy. He faints and later Lilly explains everything to him. But Herman cheer ups after seeing that Lily has bought him a new car, actually, a two-in-one car.

Note: First appearance of the iconic family car, the "Munster Koach".

Workers digging for a gas pipeline 25 feet (7.6 m) underground accidentally reach Grandpa's laboratory in the dungeon of the Munster's house. The workers run off in horror and report what they saw to Borden T. Pike from City Gas. Pike goes to the Munster's home to try and secure rights to run the pipe. Herman later calls Pike and tells him he'll come over to his house to sign the papers. But, not feeling that well, Herman sends Marilyn instead. This causes a problem as Pikes wife thinks he is seeing other women and she slams the door on Marilyn. In the end, and despite some of Grandpas meddling, the deal goes through.

Herman goes on a diet to be able to fit into his old uniform for an army reunion. When Dr. Dudley tells him to loose a hundred pounds in a week, Herman resolves only to consume water and vitamins. Unfortunately, Herman starts his diet just as Thanksgiving is approaching. Everyone asks him to eat something, but Herman insists he can lose the weight. The family straps Herman to a table and then goes out for their Thanksgiving meal. But a hunger-stricken Herman can be potentially dangerous. He escapes and makes his way to a home where a family named Farber are about to have dinner. He breaks into the house and starts eating their turkey. Herman manages to fit into his uniform, but only with the help of a corset.

Eddie has his friend Wilbur (Teddy Eccles) over, and Herman wows the kids with exhibitions of his strength. Wilbur's dad, Duke Ramsey (John Hubbard) is a wrestling promoter. He hears about Herman, calls him and invites him to be a wrestler. Herman decides he must start to put some money aside for Eddie's college education, so he takes a job. But he wants to keep it a secret, so he becomes the Masked Marvel. Grandpa discovers Herman's secret. Herman winds up losing his fights because the other wrestlers all give him a sob story. Ramsey comes up with a gimmick. He will pay by the minute any amateur to fight Herman. But a professional wrestler and his manager plan to pretend to be an amateur and put sleeping pills in Herman's water. Grandpa uses his magic to help Herman win.

Herman's twin brother, Charlie (Fred Gwynne, in a dual role), a fast-talking con artist, stays with the Munsters against Herman's wishes. Charlie has 24 hours to pay back a $1000 loan. He tries to bilk Lily out of $5,000 by attempting to sell her a worthless device that he pretends can separate uranium from sea water. Herman won't let Lily buy the machine. Grandpa thinks he broke Charlie's machine when he can't get it to produce any uranium. When Charlie hears that neighbor Mrs. Cartwright (Jean Willes) has lots of money, he sells the machine to her. Knowing the machine is worthless and to protect the Munster name, Herman buys the machine back from Mrs. Cartwright. Grandpa tells Charlie that he fixed the machine, so Charlie buys it back from Herman. But there apparently are still a few bugs in the machine.

Grandpa wants to marry again, because he's feeling lonely. He looks for a fiancée in a matrimonial agency. Herman is against it, but Grandpa gets fascinated with a woman named Lydia Gardner (Linda Watkins). What Grandpa doesn't know is that she is from a fraudulent agency. Lydia makes her living by marrying men and then killing them for their money. Even though Herman refuses to meet Lydia, Lily and Grandpa invite her to stay at the house for a while. Lydia's first attempt to kill Grandpa fails. That evening she sees Herman for the first time, screams and runs out of the house. The police catch her outside and explain to Marilyn what she was up to.

After a midnight visit to the drive-in, Herman falls a sleep in the family's Cadillac (not the Munster's Koach). The car is promptly stolen by two thieves named Freddie (Lennie Weinrib) and Al, to be used as a getaway car on a bank job. Lily is worried about Herman's disappearance and reports him missing to the police. They then go searching for him. When Herman awakens, the thieves mistake him for their getaway driver, Big Louie. Meanwhile, the police mistake a drunken Big Louie for Herman and they drop him off at the Munster's house. Confusion ensues until the crooks get caught and Big Louie is returned to the police.

Grandpa has invented a pill that turns water into gasoline. Grandpa sends a sample to an oil company hoping to sell it. Mr. Hadley (Walter Woolf King), the president, is convinced the pill works and sends Dick Prince (Grant Williams) to close the deal with Grandpa. Meanwhile, Marilyn has been suffering from insomnia. Grandpa gives her a magic potion in order to help her get some sleep. But he discovers that he used a Sleeping Beauty potion, and only the kiss of a Prince will brake the spell. Herman puts an ad in the paper looking a prince. Two actors come to the house, but run off when they see Herman. When Dick Prince arrives looking for Grandpa, Herman sees that he would be the perfect prince. Grandpa says that he will sign the contract if Prince kisses Marilyn. Prince discovers that Marilyn is a pretty girl, and when he kisses her the spell is broken. Grandpa signs the contract that says he will keep his product off the market. But Lily says that they won't accept any money, as a thank you for Prince and his help.

The Munsters are to be photographed by Event magazine, which has picked them as the "average American family." The prize includes $5,000 dollars, and in order to win the money the magazine must send two reporters to spend a couple days with the family. While there, the reporters are to write an article and take some pictures of the family. Every member of the family must appear in the family portrait. Grandpa is offended by the word "average" and hides. Herman and Lily decide to go out and look for him. Meanwhile, Marilyn receives the two reporters in the house. One of them begins to flirt with Marilyn, while the other starts to feel scared. Herman and Lily return without success. During the night, the reporters bump into Herman and Lily and run out of the house. The magazine director tells them to go back and get a picture. The Munsters family portrait appears on the cover of the magazine and says that here is the average family celebrating Halloween.

Guest star: Harvey Korman as Lennie Bates, Fred Beir as Chip Johnson and Roy Roberts as Mr. Morgan

Herman and Grandpa have a fight. Grandpa claims that nobody wants "this broken down old man" and that he'll leave forever. Herman tells Lily that Grandpa's just bluffing. Herman's plan is to act as though nothing is happening when Grandpa says good bye. Grandpa is only pretending but when he sees that the family doesn't seem concerned, he leaves the house. Eddie sees in the paper that Grandpa's working in a night club as a magician. Herman and Lily go to the club to check on Grandpa. Grandpa attempts a trick where he locks himself in a trunk with chains, and tries to get out unassisted. Things at first don't go well. To save his act, Grandpa opens the trunk after turning into a wolf, then closes it and gets out as himself. Grandpa declines an offer to tour with the wolf-act, because he prefers to come back to his family.

Guest stars: Robert Strauss as the Manager, Iris Adrian as the Woman in the club.

Marilyn is sent home from college because her tuition has not been fully paid. Herman goes to talk to the dean, but is mistaken by Coach Roger Denman (Frank Maxwell) for college basketball recruit Moose Mallory (Robert Easton). Believing he is clearing up the tuition problem, Herman is tricked into signing up. Coach Denman discovers that it was actually Herman he signed up and not Moose, but he'd rather keep Herman. So when the real Moose and his hick father show up, they are sent home by the Coach. When they see Herman's name in the paper, the family realize that he messed up and Marilyn still can't go back to school. The Mallorys also see the paper and they decide to take out their grievance on Herman. Herman manages to convince the Coach to tear up his contract and sign Moose.

Herman has a new Ham radio and picks up two friends of Eddie playing Spacemen on their walkie talkies. Thinking Martians have landed, he is so excited he can't sleep. Herman thinks he is on the verge of the biggest scientific breakthrough in history. Herman and Grandpa go out searching for spaceships using a radio direction finder. They find the two boys who are now dressed up in spacesuits and have a large toy spaceship. The boys are frightened and run away. Herman takes a picture of the spaceship and Grandpa brings it to the Air Force. Grandpa finds out there are no Martians and has to tell Herman.

Eddie doesn't want to go back to school. He is upset that his school nickname is Shorty. First, Grandpa tries to teach Eddie boxing, but Herman is against it. Grandpa then figures the solution is to make one of his famous secret potions. He makes one that will make Eddie grow six inches (152.4 mm) in height overnight. It grows him a beard instead. Herman takes Eddie to see Dr. Dudley, but the doctor isn't much help. The family finds a most unusual way to cure Eddie. Herman tells Eddie that it doesn't matter what you look like, it's what kind of person you are that matters.

Eddie needs an impressive pet to take to the school pet fair. Eddie can't take Spot because he won't come out from under the stairs. Grandpa suggests Igor the bat. But, Igor gets insulted by one of Herman's wisecracks and flies away. Grandpa changes himself into a bat to impersonate Igor. At school, Eddie trades him for the weekend for classmate Timmy's squirrel. When Eddie tries to get Grandpa back, he finds out that Timmy's dad took him to a laboratory in Washington. The plan is to send him up into space with a female bat. The family goes to Washington and Herman manages to get into the lab. The only problem is he takes the wrong bat. Grandpa eventually escapes the lab.

Lily asks Herman to go to the bank and withdraw all the money from their tax account. Bank manager Mr. Grover (Maurice Manson) is worried about robbers who have disguising themselves in Halloween masks. So, when Herman and Grandpa arrive at the bank, they're mistaken for the robbers. The frightened cashier gives them all the money in cash. At home, they count the money and come up with $18,300 dollars. An angry Lily explains to Herman that the correct amount of money should have been $680 dollars. Lily tells Herman to return the money to the bank the next day. Herman knows he won't be able to sleep until the money is returned. He decides to go to the bank during the night with Grandpa. They manage to get into the bank, but when they're inside of the bank safe the door closes accidentally and locks them inside. A couple of crooks arrive and blow off the door without knowing the surprise that they'll find inside. The robbers faint and the police are able to capture them later.

Lily finds an invitation inside Marilyn's bureau drawer for a "Parent's Night" taking place at her school. Marilyn says that she didn't mention it as it is a dance party and she knows that Herman isn't a great dancer. Herman finds an ad in the paper about a dance school. Herman goes to the school and has Miss Valentine as his teacher. Herman tells Lily the dance class went so well, that the school director might make him a dance teacher. Miss Valentine has Herman sign a suspicious contract. Grandpa discovers that the contract is nothing but a fraud, with Herman practically signing his life away. The director finds out that the police will be investigating his business and he thinks Herman could be in on it. He tells Herman he has no talent and tears up the contract. Disappointed, Herman decides to not go to the party, and tells Lily and Marilyn to go without him. Lily agrees, but at the porch she pretends to sprain her ankle so she could stay home with Herman.

Herman takes a correspondence course on how to become a detective. Grandpa thinks he's crazy, but Herman's already sent in an application to a local detective agency, calling himself Agent 702. Herman begins to practice, disguising himself in different ways and patrolling the streets during the night. Lily doesn't know about Herman's secret job, and suspects that he is having an affair with some woman. Lily goes to the same agency where Herman's applied for a job and asks to have him followed. But after hearing the creepy description of Herman, the boss doesn't want to use one of his own men on the case. He decides to use Agent 702. Excited by his first case, Herman has Grandpa read the description of the husband and he will sketch a picture of him. The picture looks like Herman, and they find out it was Lily who put in the request. Grandpa comes up with a plan to have Agent 702 file a favorable report on Herman Munster. Everyone is happy and the agency gives Herman another job as a body guard for a woman. But problems arise when Lily, out doing charity work, finds Herman at the woman's house.

Lilly won't feed, speak to or let Herman into their bedroom after he comes home from an office party past midnight. Grandpa tells Herman to not give in, Lilly will come around. After four days and nights of this, Marilyn and Grandpa separately encourage Lilly and Herman to see a marriage councilor. They wind up both seeing the some doctor. Lily sees Dr. Harvey Baxter (Elliott Reid) first. He tells her to play the role of peacemaker and forgive and forget. Herman sees the doctor next. Not knowing Lilly is Herman's wife, Dr. Baxter tells Herman he must assume the role of peacemaker first, not the wife. Herman and Lilly have a fight over who will be peacemaker first. Grandpa comes up with a plan to bring the two together.

The manager for a rock group called The Standells pays the Munsters $1,500 dollars to rent the house for one weekend. But the Munsters are unable to adjust to the cleanliness of their hotel, and they return home — to find a wild party.

Note: At the party the Standells perform a cover of The Beatles's "I Want to Hold Your Hand," Herman improvises a beatnik poem, and Lily sings the English folksong "He's Gone Away" while playing the harp. (Yvonne DeCarlo did her own singing in this episode.)

Herman has been promoted to manager of a branch office by his boss. But they'll have to move to Buffalo, New York and the house will have to be sold. The family agrees to sell the house, but Eddie doesn't know about it yet. Various people come to see the house, but all are frightened away. A Mr. Dennison (Bert Freed) shows up and wants to buy the house. Grandpa signs a contract not knowing that he has sold the house to a demolition company. Eddie finds out about moving and refuses to go. Grandpa calls Dennison and tells him they've changed their minds about selling. But Dennison arrives with his bulldozers to destroy the house. Herman finds a way to change Dennison's mind.

A pair of con artists want to stage a phony accident as an insurance scam. The men find Herman, and with one look, they realize they have found the perfect patsy. They tell Herman that he could become a film star if he agrees to work with them. Herman signs a contract without knowing that it's an insurance policy. Herman acts in a bunch of dangerous scenes, but he manages to survive each attempt to hurt him. Meanwhile, Grandpa and Lilly read about the con artists in the paper. They explain everything to Herman.

Leo Durocher, third base coach of the Los Angeles Dodgers, needs a power hitter for his team. He gets conked on the head by one of Herman's line drives from eight blocks away. After finding out who hit the ball, Durocher goes in person to visit Herman and asks him to try out for the team. Obviously, Herman is excited about the offer. However, the dream ends when the other players start to refuse to play with Herman. Many of them got hurt because of the way Herman prevents a man from stealing a base or how hard he throws the ball. The team just couldn't afford all the damage he would do. The family comfort Herman and tell him how much they need him.

The Munsters win a membership to the highly exclusive Mockingbird Heights Country Club. However, the membership board would like to get a close look at the family to see if they meet the club's standards. They first organize a visit for Lily and Grandpa. After Lily see some models talk about and show off what they are wearing, she does the same with her outfit. Meanwhile, Grandpa visits the bar and does some magic tricks for the bartender. Lily and Grandpa come home and tell Marilyn how rude the people were at the club. They tell Herman that they don't want to join. However, Herman and Eddie go to the club to play golf. Herman destroys the golf course with his strong swings and leaves his giant footprints in some areas. The afternoon paper talks about how something has destroyed the golf course. Herman decides he doesn't want to join a club that let's a madman roam the club.

The Munsters receive $180,000 in gold doubloons from Uncle Gilbert in Transylvania. They decide to deposit the treasure in the bank. Alan Benson, from the bank, arrives to pick up the money. Alan and Marilyn are instantly attracted to each other and start dating. Grandpa receives a mysterious call claiming that Alan plans to elope with Marilyn and that he is only interested in Uncle Gilbert's money. Grandpa wants to use a spell on Marilyn to transport her away so they can confront Alan. But everybody except Herman end up in a motel in Kansas City. When Alan arrives, he is frightened off by Herman. Marilyn is disappointed, but Uncle Gilbert arrives to cheer the family up.

Lily asks Herman to pick up Marilyn at the museum. Before he goes, he takes an experimental sleeping pill invented by Grandpa. Herman arrives late to the museum and he gets stuck inside. Looking for a phone, Herman believes that a sarcophagus is actually a phone booth. He gets stuck inside the sarcophagus and falls asleep. Eddie sees in the paper an article about an ancient mummy, with a picture of Herman sleeping inside of the sarcophagus. Lily goes to the museum and claims that the mummy is her husband. The scientists believe that Lily intends to steal their mummy. Later, Herman wakes up and scares one of the scientists. At home, Herman takes another pill. The scientist arrives with the police and Lily says that there's no mummy. But they find Herman sleeping peacefully in the laboratory, and the police take him away. After hearing a joke from one of the policeman, Herman wakes up laughing inside of the museum van and scares the scientist and the policemen.

Feeling useless, Lily wants to do something with her spare time, so she decides to find a job. She applies to various places, but none work out. Lily then applies as a model at Laszlo Brastoff Couturier and gets the job. Herman gets angry and jealous, because he believes that there will be a lot of men flirting with her. Grandpa gives Herman a pill that turns him into a Texas playboy. Then, using his magic potions, Grandpa turns into a beautiful woman, in order to help Herman in a plan to make Lily jealous. They go to the fashion show and Lily sees the two of them. Back at home, Herman tries to convince Lily that the woman was really Grandpa. Grandpa can't prove it because someone drank the rest of the potion. When Eddie comes into the room as a little girl, Lily believes their story.

Eddie volunteers Herman as a performer for his school's talent night. Since Herman has no discernible talent, Grandpa conjures up a pair of magic ballet shoes that will make him a gifted dancer. Grandpa also has a bunch of jars with magic powder for almost every style of dance. Herman agrees to try the slippers and the magic powder, but the spell fails. Eddie comes in and says he volunteered Herman as a magician. Lily asks Grandpa to help Herman, but without him knowing. Herman is a success with Marilyn as his assistant, and he even tells some jokes for his audience. However, he starts to get big-headed about his talent, so Lily and Grandpa have to teach him a lesson.

Herman purchases 10 acres (40,000 m²) in Happy Holiday Valley through a crooked magazine ad. It turns out to be a patch of wasteland in a broken-down ghost town, so the Munsters absolutely adore it. But the con artists want to get the land back when they can strike a deal to sell the area for use as a missile site. The men offer the Munsters double their money if they sell the land back to them. But, Lily says they wouldn't leave for any price. So, the crooks decide to scare the Munsters off, but nothing they do seems to bother the family. It's actually Herman who frightens the men away. In the end, Herman sells the land to the company that wanted to build the missile site.

Believing that his father is the greatest driver in the world, Eddie volunteers Herman and his car, the Munster Koach, for a drag race.

Egged on by Lily, Herman demands a raise from his boss Mr. Gateman. He is promptly fired. Fearing Lily's reaction, he pretends still to be going to work, when he is actually trying out new jobs.

Herman saves the life of a young boy, Galen, by bending the bars his head is stuck between. They become close friends, but Galen's parents think Uncle Herman is a figment of the boy's imagination.

A Russian fishing trawler picks up a scuba-diving Herman in its haul of fish and mistakes him for the missing link.

When Eddie is called "Lead Foot" by the other kids on his track team, Herman offers to become his coach.

Herman and Lily want to buy each other elaborate gifts for their 100th anniversary. Without either telling the other, they both take night jobs as ship welders to earn extra money.

Eddie borrows a tape recorder belonging to the disc-jockey father of one of his friends. Herman records a song that the disc jockey plays on his radio show the next day, becoming an unexpected hit.

While searching for a fuse box in the dungeon, Herman and Grandpa discover a secret chamber and a clue to the pirate treasure hidden on the Munsters' property. Upon finding the treasure, they end up fighting over its ownership, and Lily has to intervene.

Trying to teach Eddie about the folly of gambling, Herman bets the money in Eddie's piggy bank on a long shot. When the horse comes in a winner, it ruins Herman's lesson and entangles him in organized crime.

A lightning bolt from one of Grandpa's experiments strikes Herman in the head, disfiguring him so severely that he ends up resembling a normal person.

The "disfigured" Herman is actually Fred Gwynne minus the monster makeup. This episode was remade for The Munsters Today, starring John Schuck as Herman.

Eddie gives Marilyn a ring he found in the attic as a birthday present. Grandpa recognizes it as the Fregosi Emerald, a centuries-old ring with a Transylvanian curse.

Guest star Paul Reed reunites with series regulars Fred Gwynne and Al Lewis, all 3 having starred in Car 54, Where Are You? from 1961-1963.

Eddie, an avid fan of ghoulish TV host Zombo (Louis Nye), becomes the winner of the 'Why I Like Zombo Contest' and gets to be on The Zombo Show. Herman becomes jealous of Eddie's new hero and wants to appear equally outlandish.

Grandpa's magic transforms Eddie from a rotten trumpet player into a classical music virtuoso. But when Eddie needs to duplicate the performance for Herman's boss, Grandpa cannot remember the exact formula of the potion.

Marilyn wants to sculpt a clay bust in Herman's likeness. When she tells her art professor that the sculpture represents a living person, he plans to make a bundle from his discovery of a missing link.

Dr. Victor Frankenstein, IV (John Abbott), from Germany visits Mockingbird Heights and brings with him Johann (Fred Gwynne, in a dual role), Herman's look-alike cousin, who is far less civilized than Herman.

To cure Herman of his hiccups, Grandpa puts him into a trance. When a couple of fraternity pledges are sent to spend a night in the Munster house, they mistake him for a dummy and bring him to a sorority house.

Guest star Ken Osmond had appeared as "Eddie Haskell" in Leave It to Beaver, whose creators/producers Joseph Connelly and Robert "Bob" Mosher also produced The Munsters.