Castex 5 - Munsters

Here's a neat Munsters item that is rare as you might guess - The Munsters Castex 5 Casting set from 1964. You could make a pretty good living selling the statues on eBay! Not the most desirable graphics on the box, but mighty cool nonetheless.

The Two (3) Marilyns.

As you know, I am a fan of The Munsters, the CBS-TV show of the 1960s. The first Marilyn, Beverly Owens, left the series in the middle of season 1, because she was very unhappy, and wanted to marry her then boyfriend. So after 13 shows, she was let out of her contract.  She was replaced by Pat Priest in December 1964. When they were casting the movie (Munster Go Home), it was announced that Pat wasn't going to be in the film, she was pretty upset. It seems they wanted a younger Marilyn, so they went with actress Debbie Watson. I don't know... I still think Beverly Owens was the best.

Zombo!

One of my  absolute favorite episodes of The Munsters is the "Zombo" episode. Louis Nye plays a horror host of sorts for after school TV. Eddie wins an on-air contest, and gets to meet his idol!  Cool doin's. The top image is a great fan-made ad for The Zombo show. I wish I knew who did it, they really made it authentic.

The Munsters Publicity Photo

Here's a neat shot of Al Lewis sporting the make-up that was used in the (1964) pilot episode. The scaled it back after a while to a more "human" look, but I like this version. I'll bet Al didn't...