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The Worst Episodes of The Munsters

A family of friendly monsters that have misadventures all while never quite understanding why people react to them so strangely.

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  1. Background image for Pike’s Pique
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    #1 - Pike’s Pique

    S1:E5

    The gas company wants to run a pipeline 25 feet under the Munsters’ house. However, at that depth it would run through Grandpa’s dungeon lab...

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #2 - Low-Cal Munster

    S1:E6

    Herman wants to go to a reunion with his army friends. Unfortunately he can’t seem fit into his uniform. Lily doesn’t want him to go, but decides to make a deal with him. If he can lose enough weight to fit into the uniform, he can go...

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    Director:Norman Abbott
    Writer:Unknown
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    #3 - Tin Can Man

    S1:E7

    Thanks to a recommendation from an investigator of The Board of Education, Eddie is in danger of being expelled from school. The only way he can stay is if he makes an excellent project for the school’s Science Fair, so Grandpa helps him make a robot.

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    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writer:Unknown
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    #4 - Herman the Great

    S1:E8

    Herman becomes a professional wrestler called The Masked Marvel. After he shows that he has superhuman strength to a friend of Eddie’s who is the son of a pro wrestling manager. Herman uses the extra cash to save for Eddie’s college education. However Herman is so nice and gullible his opponents can take advantage of him.

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    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writer:Bob Mosher
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    #5 - Knock Wood, Here Comes Charlie

    S1:E9

    Herman has a twin brother Charlie who is a con-artist. He comes to town and ends up stays at the Munster home, which doesn’t make Herman too happy. Charlie claims to have made an invention that takes uranium from seawater, he’s looking for an investor. Herman thinks that the whole thing is a scheme to get a Lily’s $5000 inheritance, he ends up being right.

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    Writer:Unknown
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    #6 - Autumn Croakus

    S1:E10

    Grandpa is feeling lonely and depressed so he contacts a matrimonial agency to find a mate. The agency sends over a nice looking elderly woman who find Grandpa to be delightful. She turns out to be the Black Widow: she makes her living by marrying her suitors, getting them to sign a life insurance policy naming her as beneficiary, and then murdering them.

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    Writer:Tom Adair
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    #7 - The Midnight Ride of Herman Munster

    S1:E11

    After going to the car to find something Herman falls asleep in the back of his car with the keys in the ignition. The car is then stolen by bank robbers who don’t know that Herman is sleeping in the back seat. When Herman wakes up he wanders into their hideout and is thought to be Big Louie, a gang member who has taken twenty years of beatings in the boxing ring. Herman winds up as an accomplice in a bank robbery.

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    Director:Ezra Stone
    Writer:Bob Mosher
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    #8 - The Sleeping Cutie

    S1:E12

    Marilyn has insomnia and in a attempt to cure it, Grandpa accidentally gives her a Sleeping Beauty potion instead. Now Marilyn can’t wake up unless she has been kissed by a prince. Lily and Herman advertise for a prince in classified section the newspaper, but this only attracts a couple of out-of-work actors. Meanwhile, Grandpa is negotiating with an oil company for the rights to use his magic pill that turns water into gasoline.

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    Director:Norman Abbott
    Writer:Tom Adair
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    #9 - Family Portrait

    S1:E13

    The Munsters have been chosen by Event Magazine as the average American family. Grandpa is insulted by being labeled “average”. He disappears, jeopardizing the family’s photo opportunity and the large amount of prize money that came with it. When a journalist and photographer arrive at the Munster home, Herman and Lily think they are burglars.

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    Writer:Tom Adair
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    #10 - Grandpa Leaves Home

    S1:E14

    Grandpa feels neglected and decides to depart the Munster Family. In the beginning Lily and Herman believe this is just a ploy to get attention and they let Grandpa leave, expecting he’ll soon come back. Shortly afterwards, they begin to miss him and try to track him down. The find out he’s doing a magic act at a local nightclub.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #11 - Herman’s Rival

    S1:E15

    Lily thinks that Herman has lost all his savings through a bad investment – when in fact he loaned it to her brother, the Wolf Man. She decides to build-up the family’s funds by taking a palm-reading job in a tea room. In a plot twist Grandpa and Herman suspect that Lily is sneaking out of the house to have a love affair.

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    Director:Joseph Pevney
    Writer:Unknown
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    #12 - Grandpa’s Call of the Wild

    S1:E16

    Herman takes the family on a camping trip in a national park. After a dinner by the campfire, Grandpa hears the howls of the wolves and remembers his days in the old country. The next morning, Grandpa is missing. Lily realizes that he changed himself into a wolf to roam the woods with his canine friends. When she hears a news report about the capture of a rare Transylvanian wolf, Lily goes to the authorities to reclaim her father.

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    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writer:Bob Mosher
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    #13 - All-Star Munster

    S1:E17

    Herman goes to the dean’s office of Marilyn’s college to straighten out a tuition matter. When searching for the office, he wanders into the gym and is mistaken for a student basketball star who is expected for a tryout. Herman amazes the coach with his superhuman abilities and is offered a contract to play for the college team.

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    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writer:Bob Mosher
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    #14 - If a Martian Answers, Hang Up

    S1:E18

    When Herman fools around with a ham radio in Grandpa’s dungeon, he thinks he’s contacted Martians. But he is actually speaking to two kids who are fooling around with walkie-talkies and just pretending to be Martians. The kids think Herman is also a kid, and a stupid one too.

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    Director:Norman Abbott
    Writer:Bob Mosher
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    #15 - Eddie’s Nickname

    S1:E19

    Eddie wants to quit school because all the kids there call him Shorty. Grandpa helps by fixing a potion to make Eddie grow six inches overnight. Instead, the potion causes the young Munster to grow a full beard and mustache.

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    #16 - Bats of a Feather

    S1:E20

    Eddie needs an impressive pet to take to the school pet fair, but Spot, the fire-breathing monster, is too shy to come out of hiding. Eddie decides to take Igor the bat, but Igor is insulted by one of Herman’s wisecracks and flies away. Without Eddie’s knowing, Grandpa changes himself into a bat to impersonate Igor. This causes trouble when Eddie gives Grandpa to another student whose father wants to send him to outer space on a scientific mission.

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    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown
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    #17 - Don’t Bank on Herman

    S1:E21

    When Herman and Grandpa go to the bank to make a withdrawal, they are mistaken for bank robbers and handed eighteen thousand dollars in cash. When Herman gets home and realizes the wrong he’s done wrong, he can’t rest until he returns the money. When trying to bring it back in the middle of the night, Herman and Grandpa wind up locked in the bank’s vault.

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    Director:Ezra Stone
    Writer:Unknown
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    #18 - Dance With Me, Herman

    S1:E22

    In order to accompany Marilyn to her school dance, Herman decides to take dancing lessons. He goes to Happy Havemeyer’s Dancing School, where he is suckered into signing a ten-year contract for 1500 lessons (at $7.50 a lesson). Herman is under the wrong impression that he is going to become a dancing instructor for the school.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #19 - Follow That Munster

    S1:E23

    Herman goes out each night in order to practice becoming a real detective. Lily thinks he’s having an affair with another woman and hires the same detective agency Herman is working for to have Herman followed. In a Plot twist Herman gets the assignment to follow himself.

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    Director:Joseph Pevney
    Writer:Bob Mosher
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    #20 - Love Locked Out

    S1:E24

    After Herman attends an office party that goes on until the wee hours of the morning, Lily locks Herman out of their bedroom and makes him sleep on the sofa. When they are unable to reconcile, Lily and Herman each see a marriage counselor independently.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Tom Adair
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    #21 - Come Back Little Googie

    S1:E25

    Grandpa is under the impression that he’s turned Eddie’s friend Googie into a monkey. The truth is that the little boy is hiding to fool the Munsters.

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    Director:Unknown
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    #22 - Far Out Munsters

    S1:E26

    The Standells, a rock group from Hollywood, are in town for a club appearance. They want a secluded place to stay in order to escape from their screaming teenage fans. Their manager pays an exorbitant fee to the Munsters to use their house for the weekend. The Munsters pack up and relocate to a hotel, but they can’t get adjusted to its cleanliness and normality. When they arrive home prematurely, they find The Standells singing, “I Want to Hold Your Hand”, and throwing a wild party filled with far-out beatniks and hipsters. The Munsters are initially shocked, but soon find that they fit in with these freaky people – who never once question their unusual appearance.

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    Director:Joseph Pevney
    Writer:Bob Mosher
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    #23 - Munsters on the Move

    S1:E27

    In order to accept a promotion, Herman has to shuffle his family off to Buffalo. Eddie, who happens to be doing great on the baseball team, throws a temper tantrum. Since Grandpa has already sold the house to a wrecking company, the Munsters have no choice but to wage war.

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    #24 - Movie Star Munster

    S1:E28

    A pair of con artists want to stage a phony accident as an insurance company scam. All they need is someone to play the part of the victim – preferably a big stupid guy with a face that looks as if it’s been in an accident. When they stumble upon Herman, they realize they’ve found the perfect guy. Posing as a couple of movie producers, they get him to sign an accident policy by pretending it’s a movie contract for a remake of DOUBLE INDEMNITY. As the crooks devise various ways to kill off their leading man, Herman becomes a stuck-up actor.

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    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Bob Mosher
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    #25 - Country Club Munsters

    S1:E30

    The Munsters win a membership to the highly exclusive Mockingbird Heights Country Club. The membership board wants to get a close look at the family to see if they measure up to their standards, so they invite Lily and Grandpa to a fashion show. Meanwhile, Herman is invited to play golf. While Lily and Grandpa stand out like a couple of freaks, Herman sends golf balls soaring like missiles and wreaks havoc on the putting green. Afterwards, the Munsters decide that the club doesn’t meet their own standards.

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    Director:Joseph Pevney
    Writer:Unknown

Worst Episodes Summary

"Pike’s Pique" is the worst rated episode of "The Munsters". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/22/1964. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Low-Cal Munster".