7.5/10506 votes#1 - Munster Masquerade
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/1964
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.
Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Writer: Bob Mosher, Joe Connelly
7.6/10402 votes#2 - My Fair Munster
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/1964
Grandpa mixes up a love potion designed to make the opposite sex fall madly for anyone who drinks it.
Director: David Alexander
Writer: Ed Haas, Norm Liebmann
7.6/10369 votes#3 - A Walk on the Mild Side
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/1964
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!
Director: Norman Abbott
Writer: Ed Haas, Norm Liebmann
7.6/10341 votes#4 - Rock-a-Bye Munster
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/15/1964
Herman and Grandpa overhear Lily and Marilyn talking and somehow get the idea that Lily is pregnant. What’s really happening is Dr. Dudley’s son, Elmer, is coming to stay with the Munsters while Dr. Dudley and his wife are on vacation.
Director: Norman Abbott
Writer: Bob Mosher, Joe Connelly
7.5/10315 votes#5 - Pike’s Pique
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/22/1964
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...
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10308 votes#6 - Low-Cal Munster
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/29/1964
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...
Director: Norman Abbott
Writer: N/A
7.5/10299 votes#7 - Tin Can Man
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/5/1964
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.
Director: Earl Bellamy
Writer: N/A
7.6/10287 votes#8 - Herman the Great
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/12/1964
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.
Director: Earl Bellamy
Writer: Bob Mosher
7.1/10262 votes#9 - Knock Wood, Here Comes Charlie
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/19/1964
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.
Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Writer: N/A
7.4/10270 votes#10 - Autumn Croakus
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/26/1964
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.
Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Writer: Tom Adair
7.5/10257 votes#11 - The Midnight Ride of Herman Munster
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/3/1964
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.
Director: Ezra Stone
Writer: Bob Mosher
7.6/10268 votes#12 - The Sleeping Cutie
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/10/1964
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.
Director: Norman Abbott
Writer: Tom Adair
7.5/10265 votes#13 - Family Portrait
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/17/1964
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.
Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Writer: Tom Adair
7.1/10240 votes#14 - Grandpa Leaves Home
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/24/1964
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/10249 votes#15 - Herman’s Rival
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/31/1964
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.
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: N/A
7.5/10246 votes#16 - Grandpa’s Call of the Wild
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/7/1965
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.
Director: Earl Bellamy
Writer: Bob Mosher
7.6/10243 votes#17 - All-Star Munster
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/14/1965
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.
Director: Earl Bellamy
Writer: Bob Mosher
7.6/10247 votes#18 - If a Martian Answers, Hang Up
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/21/1965
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.
Director: Norman Abbott
Writer: Bob Mosher
7.4/10230 votes#19 - Eddie’s Nickname
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/28/1965
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.
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: Richard Baer
7.5/10225 votes#20 - Bats of a Feather
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/4/1965
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.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: N/A
7.4/10221 votes#21 - Don’t Bank on Herman
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/11/1965
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.
Director: Ezra Stone
Writer: N/A
7.2/10215 votes#22 - Dance With Me, Herman
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/18/1965
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10217 votes#23 - Follow That Munster
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/25/1965
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.
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: Bob Mosher
7.2/10211 votes#24 - Love Locked Out
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/4/1965
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Tom Adair
7.2/10217 votes#25 - Come Back Little Googie
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/11/1965
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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A family of friendly monsters that have misadventures all while never quite understanding why people react to them so strangely.
Genres:ComedySci-Fi & FantasyFamily
Network:CBS
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Munster Masquerade" is the best rated episode of "The Munsters" season 1. It scored 7.5/10 based on 506 votes. Directed by Lawrence Dobkin and written by Bob Mosher, Joe Connelly, it aired on 9/24/1964. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "My Fair Munster".