Here Come the Munsters
| Here Come the Munsters | |
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| Directed by | Robert Ginty |
| Produced by | Leslie Belzberg John Landis |
| Written by |
Bill Prady Jim Fisher Jim Staahl |
| Starring |
Edward Herrmann Veronica Hamel Christine Taylor Robert Morse Sean O'Bryan Mary Woronov Max Grodenchik |
| Music by | Michael Skloff |
| Cinematography | Paul Maibaum |
| Edited by | Dale Beldin Marshall Harvey |
| Distributed by |
Universal Fox Broadcasting Company |
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Release date
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 October 31, 1995 |
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Running time
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96 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2,500,000 US (est.) |
Here Come the Munsters is a television film that aired on Fox October 31, 1995. It starred Edward Herrmann, Christine Taylor and Veronica Hamel. It included cameos from original Munsters surviving cast members Yvonne De Carlo, Al Lewis, Butch Patrick, and Pat Priest. The film told the story of the Munster family's arrival in America from Transylvania.
While the movie draws on many elements of the original series, it departs from the established Munsters canon.
The Munster family is tired of being persecuted back in Transylvania, and on finding part of a letter from cousin Marilyn in California, decides to head to the United States. On arrival they find that Marilyn's father, Normann Hyde, is missing, and her Mother (Herman's sister) Elsa Hyde is in a coma. Marilyn details this in the letter but Spot burned the mail (and the letter carrier) so this comes as a surprise to the Munsters.
The family must find out what has happened to Marilyn's father, and find a way to revive Elsa. They also have to try to live in new surroundings as they try to "fit in" in America.
It turns out that Norman was trying to find a way to make his "peaches and cream" daughter, Marilyn, look a little more like the rest of the clan, but somehow the experiment backfired and Norman Hyde became Brent Jekyll. This is a take on The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Brent Jekyll is running for Congress and as part of his campaign is trying to get foreigners out of America (this includes the Munsters). There is a more sinister part of the story as it seems that Hyde was sabotaged and transformed into Jekyll purposely, to bring forward a politician without a past who people would listen to.
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