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The Munster HomeMunster House - Spooky house seen on the sitcom THE MUNSTERS/CBS/1964-66. The Munster home was located at 1313 Mockingbird Lane in Mockingbird Heights, USA. It's owners were Herman Munster (Fred Gwynne) and his family members Lily (Yvonne DeCarlo) his vampire wife, her Grandpa, Vladimir Dracula (Al Lewis), their "wolfboy," Eddie (Butch Patrick), and Marilyn (Beverly Owen/Pat Priest), the "black sheep of the family" because she was blonde, beautiful and completely normal.

The home's exterior sported gargoyles atop the stone fence on each end of the property; a half-cocked vampire bat weathervane; bare trees, and a yard littered with dead leaves. Interior amenities included a telephone located in a casket standing upright in the hallway (concealed until the pull-cord is yanked); a pet Dragon that lived under the staircase; a dungeon laboratory; and a Coo-Coo clock with a raven that pops out and says "Nevermore."

On episode No. 26 "Far Out Munsters," the Munster rent out their home for a weekend to a rock group (The Standells) seeking refuge from their fans

The Munster home was built in the mid 1940s for motion pictures settings. Constructed like a shell; it has a front and back but no interior. It appeared in such movies as So Goes My Love (1946); All I Desire (1953); The Brass Bottle (1964); The Ballad of Josie (1967); Coogan's Bluff (1968); Dragnet (1987); and The Burbs (1989). It was also seen in the Alfred Hitchcock television series on an episode titled "Bang, You're Dead," and as the Lake Tahoe residence on the sitcom SHIRLEY/NBC/1979-80.

The Munster home was originally located on Colonial Street on the back lot of Universal Studios just four door down the street of the Mayfield, USA home of June and Ward Cleaver from the sitcom LEAVE IT TO BEAVER. Since the sixties, the house has been uprooted and moved to another section of the back lot and is now nearly unrecognizable to tourists in search of the original series home. 

 
     
 
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