T.V.+Shows



= The Munsters  =

//**The Munsters**// is a 1960s [|American] [|family] [|television sitcom] depicting the home life of a family of [|monsters]. It starred [|Fred Gwynne] as[|Herman Munster] and [|Yvonne De Carlo] as his wife, [|Lily Munster]. The series was a satire of both traditional [|monster movies] and popular family entertainment of the era, such as //[|Leave It to Beaver] //. It ran concurrently with //[|The Addams Family] //. Although the Addamses were well-to-do, the Munsters were a more blue-collar family.[|[2]]

The idea of a family of comical [|monsters] was first suggested to [|Universal Studios] in the late 1940s by [|animator] [|Bob Clampett], who wanted to do a series of [|cartoons]. The project didn't see development until the early 1960s, when a treatment or 'format' for a similar idea was submitted to [|Universal Studios] by //<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|Rocky & Bullwinkle] // writers <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|Allan Burns] and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|Chris Hayward]. This format was later handed to writers Norm Liebman and Ed Haas, who wrote a pilot script, //Love Thy Monster//. For some time, there were executives who believed the series should be made as a <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|cartoon] and others who wanted to see it made using <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|live-action]. Finally, a presentation was filmed by <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|MCA Television] for <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|CBS], using <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|live-action]. <span style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">The series aired at night once a week in <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|black-and-white] on the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|CBS] Television Network from September 24, 1964 to May 12, 1966, for 70 episodes. It was canceled after ratings dropped to an all-time low due to the premiere of <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|ABC] 's //<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|Batman] //, which was in full <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|color]. Though ratings were low during its initial two-year run, //The Munsters// grew in popularity during decades of syndication. This popularity warranted a spin-off series, as well as several films, including one with a theatrical release.<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[|[]

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em; white-space: nowrap;"> ﻿ <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; white-space: nowrap;">Bewitched <span style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">A young-looking <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|witch] named **Samantha** (Elizabeth Montgomery) meets and marries a mortal named **Darrin Stephens** (originally Dick York, later Dick Sargent). While Samantha pledges to forsake her powers and become a typical suburban housewife, her magical family disapproves of the mixed marriage and frequently interferes in the couple's lives. Episodes often begin with Darrin becoming the victim of a spell, the effects of which wreak havoc with mortals such as his boss, clients, parents, and neighbors. By the epilogue, however, Darrin and Samantha most often embrace and confound the devious elements that failed to separate them.

<span style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"> The witches and warlocks are very long lived; while Samantha appears to be in her twenties, many episodes suggest she is actually hundreds of years old. To keep their society secret, witches avoid showing their powers in front of mortals other than Darrin. Nevertheless, the perplexing inexplicable effects of their spells and Samantha's attempts to hide their supernatural origin from mortals drive the plot of most episodes. Witches and warlocks usually use physical gestures along with their magical spells, and sometimes spoken incantations. Most notably, Samantha often "twitches" her nose to perform a spell. Modest but effective special visual effects are accompanied by music to highlight the magic.

<span style="color: #d902d9; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Lost In Space   <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lost in space is a science fiction TV show from the 1965. The show is about a family from earth in 1996 who are sent by the government to the nearest life sustaining planet so that it could be later inhabited by man. Earth had been over populated, so man looked to the stars. The "Robinson" family was inside their space ship, and in their own little containment units that kept them alive and young for the ninety year across the galaxy. Only three years into their voyage, the ship had technical difficulties and it crashed. The Robinsons then have to make a life on a distant almost barren planet. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The actors have appeared on many other television shows. The mother has been on "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour", the younger daughter was in "The Sound Of Music", the son played a small role as a neighbor boy on "Bewitched", and the doctor guest stared on "The Twilight Zone". <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I personally enjoyed the episodes of "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" and "The Twilight Zone" that had stars from "Lost In Space" appear on. I will post the "Alfred Hitchcock Hour" episode on the "TV Episodes" tab on my wiki. (The Twilight Zone is un-embed able.)