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Fuller describes his new take as "...'Modern Family' meets 'True Blood'..."
The original 1960's sitcom depicting the home life of a family of Universal Studio monsters, was created by Allan Burns and Chris Hayward, starring dramatic actor Fred Gwynne ("On The Waterfront") as good-natured Frankenstein's Monster 'Herman Munster' and Yvonne De Carlo as his vampiric, loving wife, 'Lily'.
The idea of a family of comical monsters was first suggested to Universal Studios in the late 1940's by animator Bob Clampett ("Merrie Melodies", "Beany and Cecil") who wanted to produce a series of cartoons.
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A live-action sit-com presentation was taped by MCA Television for CBS and the new series, was greenlit for 70 episodes, airing once a week in black-and-white on CBS, September 24, 1964 to May 12, 1966.
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The project didn't see development until the early 1960's, when a treatment for a similar idea was submitted to Universal Studios by "Rocky & Bullwinkle" writers Burns and Hayward. This format was later handed to writers Norm Liebman and Ed Haas, who wrote the pilot script, "Love Thy Monster", retitled as "My Fair Munster".
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"The Munsters" grew in popularity during decades of syndication, warranting a spin-off series, several TV films, comic books, magazines and a color, theatrical motion picture release.
The twist to the series was that The Munsters family, including 'Wolfman'-looking son 'Eddie' (Butch Patrick), 'Dracula'-looking Grandpa' (Al Lewis) and beautiful, normal-looking 'Marilyn' (Beverley Owen and Pat Priest), considered themselves typical working-class Americans of the era.
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