Herman Munster The Munsters TV sitcom aired in the 1960’s. The TV Column appears Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday.What is the significance of 1313 Mockingbird Lane?ġ313 Mockingbird Lane is an American garage rock band whose name was inspired by the fictional address of the Munster Mansion in the 1964–1966 television series The Munsters. The gore factor will be dialed down a notch for those who found the first episode over the line. That makes it the most-viewed telecast of any drama in the history of basic cable.Ĭheck out all the fuss at 8 p.m. Speaking of AMC’s The Walking Dead, the extra gory Season 3 premiere last week drew an astonishing 10.9 million viewers - 15.2 million once all the encores were tallied. It’s offal, but at least it was a paycheck for Mariel Hemingway, Le-Var Burton, Ethan Suplee and French Stewart. If you want to see how truly bad zombie movies can get, check out Syfy’s Rise of the Zombies at 8 p.m. The Walking Dead is top-notch entertainment (with zombies). I saw the pilot and it wasn’t all that bad, but the suits must have realized it wasn’t ready for prime time. NBC has also killed the planned midseason Dane Cook comedy Next Caller. 14 to fill the void.Īs usual, the network refuses to officially declare the series canceled, but it is.Īlso gone. Meanwhile, Whitney returns to the lineup Nov. Never fear, Crystal the capuchin monkey is in high demand and will land on her feet. With a disappointing 3.8 million watching Animal Practice, NBC has put down the new 7 p.m. ![]() He plays a former member of Andy’s college a cappella group. Stephen Colbert guest stars on tonight’s Halloween episode at 8. to midnight and in English on mun2 at midnight. The special Halloween Grimm episode will be broadcast in Spanish on NBCUniversal’s Telemundo from 11 p.m. Kate del Castillo, star of Telemundo’s miniseries La Reina del Sur, guest-stars as a mysterious detective from New Mexico on an obsessive mission to uncover the truth. Detectives Nick Burkhardt (David Giuntoli) and Hank Griffin (Russell Hornsby) take her on. The mother’s ghost is forced to return to haunt and terrorize the living. On Grimm, the legend of La Llorona (“The Weeping Woman”) is an old tale from Latin American folklore that tells of a distraught mother who drowned her children and then herself. I’ll just pass on that NBC says “Herman brings new meaning to ‘Frankenstein.’” Grandpa actually is Dracula, making daughter Lily a vampire as well. In his case, becoming a teenager means hair all over his body every full moon. What can we expect with a re-imagining? In this case, little Eddie is a sweet, normal kid about to undergo the horrors of werewolfian puberty. ![]() She remains totally normal in the new version. Older viewers may recall that Marilyn was the only “normal” character of the Munster bunch. This new Munsters take stars Jerry O’Connell as Herman, Portia de Rossi as Lily, Eddie Izzard as Grandpa (Lily’s father), Mason Cook as Eddie, and Charity Wakefield as Marilyn. The hour-long Mockingbird Lane pilot is being shown as a Halloween special and coupled with the “haunting and terrifying” special “La Llorona” episode of Grimm that follows at 8 p.m. The Munsters lived at 1313 Mockingbird Lane in Mockingbird Heights, which explains the title of the new series. If you’re remembering Gomez, Morticia, Lurch, Uncle Fester, Wednesday, Pugsley, Thing and Cousin Itt, that was The Addams Family. The Munsters was the one with Fred Gwynne as Herman Munster and Yvonne De Carlo as his wife, Lily.Īl Lewis played Grandpa Butch Patrick was their son, Eddie and Beverley Owen and Pat Priest played the role of Lily’s niece, Marilyn Munster. I only caught the occasional episode, so to this day I get it confused with The Addams Family, a similar sitcom that ran at the same time on ABC. The Munsters ran from 1964 to 1966, when I was in high school. Instead, it’s a “re-imagining.” NBC is calling it “a visually spectacular one-hour drama with a darker edge and tone” than the original. ![]() For example, Herman won’t look like Frankenstein’s monster. That’s what we get when NBC debuts Mockingbird Lane at 7 p.m. LITTLE ROCK - What this country needs is a good remake of the classic 1960s CBS comedy The Munsters.
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