It's the dearly departed podcast, featuring your host, historian Scott Michaels and filmmaker Mike Dorsey.

All right, it's another episode of Dearly Departed Podcast.

I'm Mike Dorsey.

I'm Scott Michaels.

And this is episode 37.

Episode 37.

Well, welcome.

It's almost Halloween for us.

It is.

Yeah, we're releasing this for Halloween.

And in honor of that, we're doing the Munsters.

Yay.

The beloved classic.

We've already done the Adams family, which technically the Adams family came out first by one

week, so we are doing them in chronological order technically in the order that they were

screwed.

Well, technically, I did. The the monsters, I was looking into this because that was like what came first, the chicken of the egg.

Right. Technically, the Adams family was created by Adams, Charles Adams, in the 30s.

But the monsters were in development in 63, and it wasn't until February 64 that they were working on the

Adams family, although they launched by a week difference, I think. But the Munsters was in development

first, which I thought was interesting. They kind of morphed, you know, at the same time. And I don't

think it was something that they were desperately trying to compete with.

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