BUT, as I shall demonstrate, The Munsters is very different. There is no doubt that Addams came first at his drawing board in the chronology I just laid out. And American International Pictures, long known for low-budget horror, was beginning to camp it up with surf musicals and a new cycle of films starring Vincent Price, including horror-humor hybrids such as The Comedy of Terrors (1964). Comics published a long line of horror titles and, perhaps more significantly Mad Magazine. Vampira began hosting old horror movies on television in 1954, and many similar corny comical horror hosts followed in her wake at local tv stations across the country. Charles Addams had been drawing his dark cartoons for The New Yorker since the late 1930s.
As it happens, that wasn’t the case.īoth shows were developed independently, less a factor of coincidence, I think than zeitgeist. “What’s the difference?!,” my best friend in high school used to rant, “They’re both shows about a family of monsters!” He used to take the position that the latter was just a rip-off of the former. But I am also equally a fan of the CBS sit-com The Munsters which ran at the exact same time (1964-1966).
Like many, I am a huge fan of the ABC sit-com The Addams Family (1964-1966).
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We may all start out as adorable, irresistible babies…but we end up as bald, pop-eyed denizens of dusty old houses full of antiques. But in the end, as we all know, it all comes down to Uncle Fester. Coogan is often celebrated for his earlier performances in such movies as The Kidand Oliver Twist. As well they should, for they are classics. Today is the birthday of Jackie Coogan ( see my full biographical blogpost here ).
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