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The Munsters - Grandpa Leaves Home
episode 1.14
USA 1964
produced by Bob Mosher, Joe Connelly for Kayro-Vue Productions/CBS
directed by Norman Abbott
starring Fred Gwynne, Yvonne De Carlo, Al Lewis, Pat Priest, Butch Patrick, Robert Strauss, Bill Dungan, Iris Adrian, Nicky Blair, Bill Couch, Sarah Ross
written by Dick Conway, Roland MacLane, created by Allan Burns, Chris Hayward, developed by Norm Liebman, Ed Haas, music by Jack Marshall
TV series The Munsters, The Munsters (classic series)
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Grandpa Munster (Al Lewis) has the feeling he isn't appreciated at home
anymore, so he threatens to move out - and is quite a bit disappointed
when Herman (Fred Gwynne) and Lily (Yvonne De Carlo) appear to be
indifferent enough to let him go through with it. It's only when he's
actually gone that Herman and Lily have second thoughts about it and start
missing Grandpa. But how to get him back when they don't know where he has
gone? Fortunately, son Eddie (Butch Patrick) finds an ad in the newspaper
that shows Grandpa now works as a magician at a pretty run-down night
club. So Herman and Lily attend the show, and see one of his tricks, where
he's locked into a trunk, go horribly wrong, so that Herman has to step in
to save him. Herman's appearance and Grandpa's talent to turn into animals
make Grandpa's act the highlight of the evening after all, but Grandpa
upon that decides that family is more important than show business and
moves back in with Herman, Lily, Eddie and coiusin Marilyn (Pat Priest)
... The first episode with Pat Priest replacing Beverley Owen
as Marilyin, but truth to be told, she's hardly in it at all. That said,
the episode is not one of the better let alone more memorable ones, its
story arc is just too straight forward and too weak. That said
though, Fred Gwynne, Yvonne De Carlo and Al Lewis are all in top form and
play off as well of one another as one has by now come to expect from the
series, so there are still plenty of laughs in this to make this utterly
enjoyable - just not perfect in comparison.
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