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All 39 episodes from the first season of the comedy series, about the monstrous Munster family. In this series, Herman (Fred Gwynne) suffers from insomnia and takes to walking in the park at night, while Eddie (Butch Patrick) is in danger of being expelled from school, and Grandpa (Al Lewis) undergoes a transformation when he hears the howling of the wolves on a camping trip. Episodes are: 'Munster Masquerade'; 'My Fair Munster'; 'A Walk on the Mild Side'; 'Rock-a-bye Munster'; 'Pike's Pique'; 'Low-Cal Munster'; 'Tin Can Man'; 'Herman the Great'; 'Knock Wood, Here Comes Charlie'; 'Autumn Croakus'; 'The Midnight Ride of Herman Munster'; 'The Sleeping Cutie'; 'Family Portrait'; 'Grandpa Leaves Home'; 'Herman's Rival'; 'Grandpa's Call of the Wild'; 'All-Star Munster'; 'If a Martian Answers, Hang Up'; 'Eddie's Nickname'; 'Bats of a Feather'; 'Don't Bank on Herman'; 'Dance With Me, Herman'; 'Follow That Munster'; 'Love Locked Out'; 'Come Back Little Googie'; 'Far Out Munsters'; 'Munsters on the Move'; 'Movie Star Munster'; 'Herman the Rookie'; 'Country Club Munsters'; 'Love Comes to Mockingbird Heights'; 'Mummy Munster'; 'Lily Munster, Girl Model'; 'Munster the Magnificent'; 'Herman's Happy Valley'; 'Hot Rod Herman'; 'Herman's Raise'; 'Yes Galen, There is a Herman'; and the bonus, colourised version of 'My Fair Munster'.
I am overjoyed at the prospect of owning The Munsters - The Complete First Season. This series has been and probably always will be one of my all-time favorite television shows. I can still remember growing up watching the afternoon reruns on WPIX from New York.The Munsters was created by Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher, the same team that brought Leave It To Beaver to television. Beaver was the quintessential American family sitcom of the late 50's - early 60's. Connelly and Mosher helped to establish all those nostalgic family sitcom cliches we've all come to love (or hate) in Leave It To Beaver then they went on to totally parody them in The Munsters. The first season opening credit sequence of The Munsters is a great example of the way they parodied the typical family sitcoms of the time. You see Lily Munster, housewife and mother, sending her brood off for the day in the same manner June Cleaver and Donna Reed did. Lily hands each of her loved ones their packed lunches or school books as she pinches their cheeks or gives them a little motherly kiss.Although The Munsters was considered much less sophisticated than its 60s creepy TV rival, The Addams Family, it is overall a much more entertaining series to me. Although the subversive quality of The Addams Family continues to make it an entertaining series to watch as an adult, I have to admit I didn't enjoy it as a child. The Munsters with its broad comedy and more obvious monster characters was much more fun to watch as a kid. It's worth pointing out that even though Morticia and Gomez Addams had a fiery sexual relationship on screen, Lily and Herman Munster may have been one of the only 60s TV couples to have been seen sharing the same bed (rather than the customary twin beds).The Munsters - The Complete First Season contains all 38 first season episodes (yes 38 shows in one season!) as well as the original unaired pilot (in color I think). It doesn't appear that there are too many more extras in this set which is a bit disappointing. I would have loved to have seen episode commentaries by surviving cast members, documentaries, behind-the-scenes footage, etc. Hey, maybe we will get some of those extras on the Second Season set?
