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The Best Episodes of The Munsters

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The Best 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 My Fair Munster
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    #1 - My Fair Munster

    S1:E2

    Grandpa mixes up a love potion designed to make the opposite sex fall madly for anyone who drinks it.

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  2. Background image for A Walk on the Mild Side
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    #2 - A Walk on the Mild Side

    S1:E3

    Herman is suffering from insomnia. The only thing that will make him sleep is a late-night walk in the park. A 'monster' type creature has been spotted in the park at night and Lily would prefer if Herman would stay home. What she doesn’t know is that the monster is Herman!

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  3. Background image for Just Another Pretty Face
    8.1/10(232 votes)

    #3 - Just Another Pretty Face

    S2:E17

    Herman is struck in the head by a bolt of lightning from one of Grandpa’s experiments. It causes him to become so disfigured that he ends up resembling officer Francis Muldoon from CAR 54, WHERE ARE YOU? (or how Fred Gwynne looks without makeup). Lily hopes to restore Herman’s old face with plastic surgery.

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  4. Background image for Munster Masquerade
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #4 - Munster Masquerade

    S1:E1

    Marilyn’s boyfriend, Tom Daily, invites the Munster clan to a masquerade. Eddie remains at home with Mrs. Morton as his sitter. Marilyn goes as Priscilla, Lily is Little Bo Peep, Grandpa is Napoleon and Herman is King Arthur in a suit of shining armor.

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  5. Background image for Herman the Rookie
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - Herman the Rookie

    S1:E29

    Leo Durocher, manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, needs a power hitter for his team. When he gets conked on the head by one of Herman’s line drives from seven blocks away, he believes he has his man. He tracks Herman down and asks him to try out for the team. After Herman demonstrates his powerful force as a batter, Durocher comments: “I don’t know whether to sign him with the Dodgers or send him to Vietnam.”

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    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Bob Mosher
  6. Background image for Herman, the Tire-Kicker
    7.9/10(194 votes)

    #6 - Herman, the Tire-Kicker

    S2:E28

    Herman buys a convertible for Marilyn from a fly-by-night used-car dealer named Fair Deal Dan. Once he gets it home, it explodes into a piece of junk. Herman later finds out that the car is a stolen piece of junk when he is placed under arrest.

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    Director:Ezra Stone
    Writer:Tom Adair
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  8. Background image for A Visit From the Teacher
    7.9/10(196 votes)

    #7 - A Visit From the Teacher

    S2:E32

    When Eddie reads a school composition entitled “My Parents – An Average American Family” to his class, his teacher believes the boy is exhibiting symptoms of an overactive imagination. The school principal suggests that Eddie’s wild exaggerations might be motivated by an underprivileged home life. It is decided that a visit to the Munster home is in order.

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    Director:Ezra Stone
    Writer:Bob Mosher
  9. Background image for Herman’s Driving Test
    7.8/10(204 votes)

    #8 - Herman’s Driving Test

    S2:E11

    Herman gets promoted to hearse driver and has to renew his driver’s license. This requires him to take a road test, which he fails. Grandpa convinces him that he’d have better luck taking the test in a one-horse town. He turns out to be extremely correct.

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    Director:Ezra Stone
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Will Success Spoil Herman Munster?
    7.8/10(195 votes)

    #9 - Will Success Spoil Herman Munster?

    S2:E12

    Eddie borrows a tape recorder belonging to the disc-jockey father of one of his friends. Herman records a version of DRY BONES, accompanying himself on the guitar. The following day, the disc jockey plays the song on his radio show – and it becomes an instant hit. Herman identifies himself as the mystery singer and quickly turns into an egomaniacal would-be celebrity. Grandpa comes to the rescue with his Nothin’ Muffins.

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    Director:Ezra Stone
    Writer:Bob Mosher
  11. Background image for The Most Beautiful Ghoul in the World
    7.8/10(211 votes)

    #10 - The Most Beautiful Ghoul in the World

    S2:E19

    With inheritance money from Cousin Wolverine, Grandpa and Herman develop an invention for transporting an electrical current without wires. Lily and Marilyn use the rest of the money to operate their own beauty salon. Both endeavors turn out to be disasters, causing various parties to take legal action.

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    Director:Ezra Stone
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for The Fregosi Emerald
    7.8/10(199 votes)

    #11 - The Fregosi Emerald

    S2:E21

    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. Herman doesn’t believe in such a silly superstition; he is intent on proving that the ring does not bring about bad luck. He quickly regrets trying to do this.

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    Director:Ezra Stone
  13. Background image for Zombo
    7.8/10(220 votes)

    #12 - Zombo

    S2:E22

    Eddie, an avid fan of ghoulish TV host Zombo, 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. But his efforts to impress his son fail. Eddie eventually learns that Zombo is not a real person but a phony character played by an actor.

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    Director:Ezra Stone
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for A House Divided
    7.7/10(181 votes)

    #13 - A House Divided

    S2:E29

    A massive argument erupts between Grandpa and Herman after Herman accidentally destroys a go-cart the two of them constructed for Eddie. Since Grandpa claims to own half of the house, Herman draws a white line down its center and insists that Grandpa remain on his side of the line.

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    Director:Ezra Stone
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for Herman’s Sorority Caper
    7.7/10(194 votes)

    #14 - Herman’s Sorority Caper

    S2:E30

    To cure Herman of his hiccoughs, Grandpa puts him into a trance with the Transylvanian Brain Freeze. Meanwhile, a couple of fraternity pledges are sent to spend a night in the Munster house as part of their initiation. Thinking that sleeping Herman is a dummy, they bring him to a sorority house, where he awakens from his trance.

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    Director:Ezra Stone
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Herman, the Master Spy
    7.6/10(206 votes)

    #15 - Herman, the Master Spy

    S2:E2

    In this Cold War episode, a Russian fishing trawler picks up a scuba-diving Herman in its haul of fish and mistakes him for the missing link. The crew members report their find to Moscow, claiming it puts the Soviets ahead in the “missing link race”. The response from the Commissar is that Herman is an American spy.

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    Director:Ezra Stone
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for Herman’s Lawsuit
    7.6/10(185 votes)

    #16 - Herman’s Lawsuit

    S2:E31

    Herman is struck by a car. He isn’t hurt, but the car that struck him is totaled. The uninjured driver assumes she has disfigured Herman, and her attorney suggests that she try to settle with him for $10,000. When Herman receives the offer, he wrongly assumes that this is the amount he owes for the damage he caused to the car. He runs away from home rather than face the problem of financial ruin for his family.

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    Director:Ezra Stone
    Writer:Bob Mosher
  18. Background image for Herman Munster, Shutter Bug
    7.5/10(192 votes)

    #17 - Herman Munster, Shutter Bug

    S2:E4

    Herman takes up amateur photography and accidentally snaps a picture of two men making their escape from a bank robbery. Herman has visions of getting a big reward for his evidence, but the bank robbers track him down and decide to hold up with the Munsters until the heat is off. This episode revisits the show’s recurrent fascination with criminality, especially bank robberies.

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    Director:Earl Bellamy
  19. Background image for Happy 100th Anniversary
    7.5/10(189 votes)

    #18 - Happy 100th Anniversary

    S2:E6

    Herman and Lily want to buy each other an elaborate gift for their 100th Anniversary. Without telling each other, they both take night jobs as ship welders. Since the job requires them to wear protective helmets that conceal their faces, they don’t realize whom they’re dealing with when they start flirting with each other.

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    Director:Ezra Stone
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for A Man for Marilyn
    7.5/10(191 votes)

    #19 - A Man for Marilyn

    S2:E10

    To provide poor unfortunate Marilyn with a future husband, Grandpa tries to turn a frog into a prince. Conveniently, he chooses a nearsighted frog who won’t be put off by Marilyn’s hideous looks. Not realizing that the potion has failed, Grandpa and Herman mistake a passing stranger for their princely frog.

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    Director:Ezra Stone
    Writer:Tom Adair
  21. Background image for The Treasure of Mockingbird Heights
    7.5/10(181 votes)

    #20 - The Treasure of Mockingbird Heights

    S2:E14

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Herman Picks a Winner
    7.5/10(184 votes)

    #21 - Herman Picks a Winner

    S2:E16

    Herman tries to teach Eddie a lesson about the folly of gambling: he takes the money in Eddie’s piggy bank and bets it on a long shot at the racetrack. When the horse comes in a winner, it ruins the point of Herman’s lesson and leads to his entanglement with organized crime.

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    Director:Ezra Stone
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Prehistoric Munster
    7.5/10(179 votes)

    #22 - Prehistoric Munster

    S2:E25

    Herman has his ego flattered twice by his family. First, Eddie wants to enter him in the Father of the Year Contest. Next, Marilyn wants to sculpt a clay bust in his 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. Herman is summoned to his office for an examination, but he’s under the impression he’s about to receive an award and a bunch of neat prizes.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Operation Herman
    7.4/10(176 votes)

    #23 - Operation Herman

    S2:E7

    When Herman visits the hospital to see Eddie, who is having his tonsils out, he is mistaken for an accident victim and is immediately given a dose of laughing gas. Grandpa rescues him and brings him home, where Lily assumes that Herman has been drinking.

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    Director:Norman Abbott
    Writer:Bob Mosher
  25. Background image for Lily’s Star Boarder
    7.4/10(184 votes)

    #24 - Lily’s Star Boarder

    S2:E8

    Herman becomes insanely jealous of Chester, a mysterious boarder whom Lily has bought into the household in yet another of her schemes to acquire a little extra cash. After searching Chester’s room, Herman concludes that he’s a gangster. In fact, he is a lieutenant for the police department.

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    Director:Ezra Stone
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for Big Heap Herman
    7.4/10(202 votes)

    #25 - Big Heap Herman

    S2:E18

    The Munsters are heading for a vacation in Buffalo Valley when Herman gets off for a rest stop at Indian Flats. He wanders into the village of an Indian tribe that specializes in luring the tourist trade. The tribe’s eldest member mistakes Herman for an ancient spirit leader.

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    Director:Ezra Stone
    Writer:Bob Mosher

Best Episodes Summary

"My Fair Munster" is the best rated episode of "The Munsters". It scored 8.5/10 based on 2 votes. Directed by David Alexander and written by Ed Haas, Norm Liebmann, it aired on 10/1/1964. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "A Walk on the Mild Side".