7.2/10208 votes#1 - Herman’s Child Psychology
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1965
Eddie is upset that his family does not treat him cruelly because he thinks this means they don’t care about him. When Eddie decides to run away from home, Herman employs a little child psychology, which naturally backfires. Various circumstances eventually lead to Herman’s getting involved with a dancing bear.
Director: Ezra Stone
Writer: Bob Mosher
7.6/10199 votes#2 - Herman, the Master Spy
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1965
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.
Director: Ezra Stone
Writer: N/A
7.2/10182 votes#3 - Bronco-Bustin’ Munster
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1965
In yet another example of Eddie’s misguided regard for his father’s natural abilities, the young Munster enters Herman’s name in the bucking bronco contest at the local rodeo. Lily is unable to talk Herman out of such a dangerous task: he is intent on being a hero to his son in spite of the fact that he’s scared stiff. Meanwhile, the promoters plan to have Herman ride a horse that is guaranteed to break every bone in his body.
Director: Ezra Stone
Writer: Bob Mosher
7.5/10186 votes#4 - Herman Munster, Shutter Bug
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/1965
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.
Director: Earl Bellamy
Writer: Dick Conway
7.2/10182 votes#5 - Herman, Coach of the Year
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1965
When Eddie is called Lead Foot by the other kids on his track team, Herman offers to become his athletic coach. While demonstrating his out-of-this-world prowess in shot put, discus-throwing and pole-vaulting, Herman causes untold destruction and makes a fool of himself. Grandpa decides to come to the rescue by creating a magic speed pill that will make Eddie a champion runner.
Director: Norman Abbott
Writer: Tom Adair
7.4/10180 votes#6 - Happy 100th Anniversary
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/1965
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.
Director: Ezra Stone
Writer: N/A
7.4/10168 votes#7 - Operation Herman
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/28/1965
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.
Director: Norman Abbott
Writer: Bob Mosher
7.4/10177 votes#8 - Lily’s Star Boarder
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/4/1965
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.
Director: Ezra Stone
Writer: N/A
7.2/10180 votes#9 - John Doe Munster
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/11/1965
A 300-pound safe drops on Herman’s head, causing him to develop amnesia. In order to get him released into her custody, Lily petitions the court to adopt Herman as her son. Until he restores his memory, he is treated as Eddie’s brother John.
Director: Earl Bellamy
Writer: Richard Baer
7.4/10186 votes#10 - A Man for Marilyn
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/18/1965
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.
Director: Ezra Stone
Writer: Tom Adair
7.8/10198 votes#11 - Herman’s Driving Test
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/25/1965
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.
Director: Ezra Stone
Writer: N/A
7.8/10187 votes#12 - Will Success Spoil Herman Munster?
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/2/1965
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.
Director: Ezra Stone
Writer: Bob Mosher
7.2/10175 votes#13 - Underground Munster
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/9/1965
The Munsters’ pet Spot runs away from home and is mistaken for a dangerous monster when he is sighted in the sewer. When Herman goes down the manhole to search for Spot, he too is mistaken for a dangerous monster. The Mayor vows to rid the city of these menaces by using TNT.
Director: N/A
Writer: Bob Mosher
7.5/10177 votes#14 - The Treasure of Mockingbird Heights
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/23/1965
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/10180 votes#15 - Herman’s Peace Offensive
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 12/30/1965
Herman advises Eddie to turn the other cheek when he gets pushed around by a bully. Shortly thereafter, Herman is the victim of a practical joke at work. Grandpa takes the situation in hand by teaching both Eddie and Herman how to box.
Director: Ezra Stone
Writer: N/A
7.5/10180 votes#16 - Herman Picks a Winner
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/6/1966
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.
Director: Ezra Stone
Writer: N/A
8.1/10218 votes#17 - Just Another Pretty Face
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/13/1966
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.
Director: Gene Reynolds
Writer: Richard Baer
7.4/10197 votes#18 - Big Heap Herman
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/20/1966
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.
Director: Ezra Stone
Writer: Bob Mosher
7.8/10205 votes#19 - The Most Beautiful Ghoul in the World
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 1/27/1966
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.
Director: Ezra Stone
Writer: N/A
7.2/10172 votes#20 - Grandpa’s Lost Wife
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/3/1966
A lady in Sioux City, Iowa, has placed an advertisement offering a reward for the return of her lost husband, who is Grandpa. Grandpa claims to have never seen this woman before in his life – but when he discovers that she’s filthy rich, he’s ready to sign an affidavit stating that she is his spouse.
Director: Ezra Stone
Writer: N/A
7.8/10191 votes#21 - The Fregosi Emerald
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/10/1966
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.
Director: Ezra Stone
Writer: Richard Baer
7.8/10213 votes#22 - Zombo
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/17/1966
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.
Director: Ezra Stone
Writer: N/A
7.2/10184 votes#23 - Cyrano de Munster
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 2/24/1966
After Herman has his poetry published in The Mortician Monthly, a shy coworker named Clyde asks him to compose love letters to help him attract the attention of a young lady he’s fallen for. Herman obliges, but soon Lily discovers samples of this mushy writing and becomes suspicious. After a re-enactment of the “hiding in the bushes” scene from CYRANO DE BERGERAC, the object of Clyde’s desire falls for Herman. Meanwhile, Herman mistakenly suspects that Clyde’s object of desire is Lily.
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: N/A
7.1/10188 votes#24 - The Musician
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 3/3/1966
Grandpa’s magic transforms Eddie from a rotten trumpet player into a classical music virtuoso. But when he needs to duplicate the potion for a command performance for Herman’s boss, Grandpa can’t remember the exact formula. Eddie is accidentally turned into a jazz-playing, jive-talking hipster.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/10175 votes#25 - Prehistoric Munster
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 3/10/1966
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.
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 2 Ratings Summary
"Herman’s Child Psychology" is the best rated episode of "The Munsters" season 2. It scored 7.2/10 based on 208 votes. Directed by Ezra Stone and written by Bob Mosher, it aired on 9/16/1965. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Herman, the Master Spy".