‘The Munsters’: Why the Classic Monster Sitcom Still Lives On 60 Years Later

In the fall of 1964, television went crazy for goofy ghouls, wacky witches and other things that went “spoof” in the night, sending up the traditional domestic family sitcom like never before. The shows were so delightfully silly that it was almost scary.

Bewitched, starring the ethereal Elizabeth Montgomery as nose-twitching Samantha Stephens, settled in for the longest run, lasting into the early ’70s. But those with a taste for the merrily macabre had two even more outrageously frightful families to choose from: The Addams Family and The Munsters, which each ran for only two seasons…