‘The Munsters’ Star Butch Patrick Looks Back on Playing Eddie

Flashback to Sept. 24, 1964. Families across America were busying themselves with Halloween preparation, scouring five and dimes in search of Ben Cooper Beatles costumes, and getting first looks at the season’s spooky new home decor. Households tuning into ABC at 7:30 that evening found some ghoulish laughs in a story about a wacky family dealing with a mad scientist, cannibal fish and a cursed alley.

The show was The Flintstones, and the second episode of the fifth season, titled “Monster Fred,” was about “Dr. Frankenstone.” Simultaneously on CBS was a program premiering about another funny family dealing with strange goings-on, this one with a “Frankenstein” of its own and some other familiar monster faces. The new show was The Munsters, and it would later skyrocket to legendary pop culture status.