The BEST episodes of The Munsters season 2

Every episode of The Munsters season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Munsters season 2!

At 1313 Mockingbird Lane, Mockingbird Heights, lived one of America's strangest sitcom families, The Munsters. Strangest looking, that is, for beneath Herman's Frankensteinian facial features, Lily's vampiric visage, Grandpa's Dracula countenance and Eddie's Wolfman looks, lurked possibly the sweetest and most sensitive sitcom family ever to grace the small-screen. This, of course, was the nub of the series: that a family so weird could overcome the everyday problems of modern living - and the fact that people ran away from them, screaming - by their generosity, gentleness and belief in traditional American values.

Last Updated: 9/17/2024Network: CBSStatus: Ended
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Prehistoric Munster
star
8.15
34 votes

#1 - Prehistoric Munster

Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/10/1966

Herman has his ego flattered twice by his family. First, Eddie wants to enter him in the Father of the Year Contest. Next, Marilyn wants to sculpt a clay bust in his likeness. When she tells her art professor that the sculpture represents a living person, he plans to make a bundle from his discovery of a missing link. Herman is summoned to his office for an examination, but he's under the impression he's about to receive an award and a bunch of neat prizes.

Directors: Joseph Pevney
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The Treasure of Mockingbird Heights
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8.01
68 votes

#2 - The Treasure of Mockingbird Heights

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/23/1965

While searching for a fuse box in the dungeon, Herman and Grandpa discover a secret chamber and a clue to the pirate treasure hidden on the Munsters' property.

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Big Heap Herman
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8.00
30 votes

#3 - Big Heap Herman

Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/20/1966

The Munsters are heading for a vacation in Buffalo Valley when Herman gets off for a rest stop at Indian Flats. He wanders into the village of an Indian tribe that specializes in luring the tourist trade. The tribe's eldest member mistakes Herman for an ancient spirit leader.

Directors: Ezra Stone
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Herman's Driving Test
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7.95
74 votes

#4 - Herman's Driving Test

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/25/1965

Herman gets promoted to hearse driver and has to renew his driver's license. This requires him to take a road test, which he fails. Grandpa convinces him that he'd have better luck taking the test in a one-horse town. He turns out to be extremely correct.

Directors: Ezra Stone
Writer: Dick Conway
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A House Divided
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7.94
32 votes

#5 - A House Divided

Season 2 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/7/1966

A massive argument erupts between Grandpa and Herman after Herman accidentally destroys a go-cart the two of them constructed for Eddie. Since Grandpa claims to own half of the house, Herman draws a white line down its center and insists that Grandpa remain on his side of the line.

Writer: Dick Conway
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Underground Munster
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7.90
69 votes

#6 - Underground Munster

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/9/1965

The Munsters' pet Spot runs away from home and is mistaken for a dangerous monster when he is sighted in the sewer. When Herman goes down the manhole to search for Spot, he too is mistaken for a dangerous monster. The Mayor vows to rid the city of these menaces by using TNT.

Directors: Don Richardson
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Herman, the Master Spy
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7.83
81 votes

#7 - Herman, the Master Spy

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1965

In this Cold War episode, a Russian fishing trawler picks up a scuba-diving Herman in its haul of fish and mistakes him for the missing link. The crew members report their find to Moscow, claiming it puts the Soviets ahead in the ""missing link race."" The response from the Commissar is that Herman is an American spy.

Directors: Ezra Stone
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Zombo
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7.82
33 votes

#8 - Zombo

Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/17/1966

Eddie, an avid fan of ghoulish TV host Zombo, becomes the winner of the ""Why I Like Zombo Contest"" and gets to be on the Zombo show. Herman becomes jealous of Eddie's new hero and wants to appear equally outlandish. But his efforts to impress his son fail. Eddie eventually learns that Zombo is not a real person but a phony character played by an actor.

Directors: Ezra Stone
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John Doe Munster
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7.78
74 votes

#9 - John Doe Munster

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/11/1965

A 300-pound safe drops on Herman's head, causing him to develop amnesia. In order to get him released into her custody, Lily petitions the court to adopt Herman as her son. Until he restores his memory, he is treated as Eddie's brother John.

Directors: Earl Bellamy
Writer: Richard Baer
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Herman's Peace Offensive
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7.77
35 votes

#10 - Herman's Peace Offensive

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/30/1965

Herman advises Eddie to turn the other cheek when he gets pushed around by a bully. Shortly thereafter, Herman is the victim of a practical joke at work. Grandpa takes the situation in hand by teaching both Eddie and Herman how to box.

Directors: Ezra Stone
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Happy 100th Anniversary
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7.67
104 votes

#11 - Happy 100th Anniversary

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/1965

Herman and Lily want to buy each other an elaborate gift for their 100th Anniversary. Without telling each other, they both take night jobs as ship welders. Since the job requires them to wear protective helmets that conceal their faces, they don't realize whom they're dealing with when they start flirting with each other.

Directors: Ezra Stone
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Will Success Spoil Herman Munster?
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7.67
39 votes

#12 - Will Success Spoil Herman Munster?

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/2/1965

Eddie borrows a tape recorder belonging to the disc-jockey father of one of his friends. Herman records a version of DRY BONES, accompanying himself on the guitar. The following day, the disc jockey plays the song on his radio show - and it becomes an instant hit. Herman identifies himself as the mystery singer and quickly turns into an egomaniacal would-be celebrity. Grandpa comes to the rescue with his Nothin' Muffins.

Directors: Ezra Stone
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A Man for Marilyn
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7.66
38 votes

#13 - A Man for Marilyn

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/18/1965

To provide poor unfortunate Marilyn with a future husband, Grandpa tries to turn a frog into a prince. Conveniently, he chooses a nearsighted frog who won't be put off by Marilyn's hideous looks. Not realizing that the potion has failed, Grandpa and Herman mistake a passing stranger for their princely frog.

Directors: Ezra Stone
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Just Another Pretty Face
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7.66
67 votes

#14 - Just Another Pretty Face

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/13/1966

Herman is struck in the head by a bolt of lightning from one of Grandpa's experiments. It causes him to become so disfigured that he ends up resembling officer Francis Muldoon from CAR 54, WHERE ARE YOU? (or how Fred Gywnne looks without makeup). Lily hopes to restore Herman's old face with plastic surgery.

Directors: Gene Reynolds
Writer: Richard Baer
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Herman Munster, Shutter Bug
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7.64
101 votes

#15 - Herman Munster, Shutter Bug

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/1965

Herman takes up amateur photography and accidentally snaps a picture of two men making their escape from a bank robbery. Herman has visions of getting a big reward for his evidence, but the bank robbers track him down and decide to hold up with the Munsters until the heat is off. This episode revisits the show's recurrent fascination with criminality, especially bank robberies.

Directors: Earl Bellamy
Writer: Dick Conway
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Eddie's Brother
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7.64
33 votes

#16 - Eddie's Brother

Season 2 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/24/1966

Eddie longs for the companionship of a younger brother, so Grandpa builds him a robot named Boris. Eddie becomes resentful of this silent, mechanical boy who is so considerate and well-behaved that he garners all of Herman's attention and admiration.

Directors: Ezra Stone
Writer: Dick Conway
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Operation Herman
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7.64
107 votes

#17 - Operation Herman

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/28/1965

When Herman visits the hospital to see Eddie, who is having his tonsils out, he is mistaken for an accident victim and is immediately given a dose of laughing gas. Grandpa rescues him and brings him home, where Lily assumes that Herman has been drinking.

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Herman's Child Psychology
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7.63
126 votes

#18 - Herman's Child Psychology

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1965

Eddie is upset that his family does not treat him cruelly because he thinks this means they don't care about him. When Eddie decides to run away from home, Herman employs a little child psychology, which naturally backfires. Various circumstances eventually lead to Herman's getting involved with a dancing bear.

Directors: Ezra Stone
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A Visit from Johann
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7.57
60 votes

#19 - A Visit from Johann

Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/17/1966

Dr. Victor Frankenstein IV from Germany visits Mockingbird Heights and brings with him Johann, Herman's look-alike cousin. Johann is quite primitive and behaves like the Frankenstein monster from the movies. It is up to Herman to try to civilize him and teach him English. Lily is not informed of this; mistaking Johann for Herman, she takes him away for a romantic weekend getaway.

Directors: Gene Reynolds
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The Most Beautiful Ghoul in the World
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7.55
60 votes

#20 - The Most Beautiful Ghoul in the World

Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/27/1966

With inheritance money from Cousin Wolverine, Grandpa and Herman develop an invention for transporting an electrical current without wires. Lily and Marilyn use the rest of the money to operate their own beauty salon. Both endeavors turn out to be disasters, causing various parties to take legal action.

Directors: Ezra Stone
Writer: Ted Bergman
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The Fregosi Emerald
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7.49
61 votes

#21 - The Fregosi Emerald

Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/10/1966

Eddie gives Marilyn a ring he found in the attic as a birthday present. Grandpa recognizes it as the Fregosi Emerald, a centuries-old ring with a Transylvanian curse. Herman doesn't believe in such a silly superstition; he is intent on proving that the ring does not bring about bad luck. He quickly regrets trying to do this.

Directors: Ezra Stone
Writer: Richard Baer
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Cyrano de Munster
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7.49
61 votes

#22 - Cyrano de Munster

Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/24/1966

After Herman has his poetry published in The Mortician Monthly, a shy coworker named Clyde asks him to compose love letters to help him attract the attention of a young lady he's fallen for. Herman obliges, but soon Lily discovers samples of this mushy writing and becomes suspicious. After a re-enactment of the ""hiding in the bushes"" scene from CYRANO DE BERGERAC, the object of Clyde's desire falls for Herman. Meanwhile, Herman mistakenly suspects that Clyde's object of desire is Lily.

Directors: Joseph Pevney
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Herman Picks a Winner
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7.47
64 votes

#23 - Herman Picks a Winner

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/6/1966

Herman tries to teach Eddie a lesson about the folly of gambling: he takes the money in Eddie's piggy bank and bets it on a long shot at the racetrack. When the horse comes in a winner, it ruins the point of Herman's lesson and leads to his entanglement with organized crime.

Directors: Ezra Stone
Writer: Dick Conway
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Grandpa's Lost Wife
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7.41
61 votes

#24 - Grandpa's Lost Wife

Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/3/1966

A lady in Sioux City, Iowa, has placed an advertisement offering a reward for the return of her lost husband, who is Grandpa. Grandpa claims to have never seen this woman before in his life - but when he discovers that she's filthy rich, he's ready to sign an affidavit stating that she is his spouse.

Directors: Ezra Stone
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The Musician
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7.40
62 votes

#25 - The Musician

Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/3/1966

Grandpa's magic transforms Eddie from a rotten trumpet player into a classical music virtuoso. But when he needs to duplicate the potion for a command performance for Herman's boss, Grandpa can't remember the exact formula. Eddie is accidentally turned into a jazz-playing, jive-talking hipster.

Directors: Ezra Stone
Writer: Richard Baer
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