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Season guide

The Munsters: Season 2

32 episodes Premiered Sep 16, 1965
Previously on The Munsters

Season 2 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Munsters Season 1.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season 2 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 2: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (29): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S2·E1 Mytharc

Herman’s Child Psychology

Sep 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

S2·E2 Core

Herman, the Master Spy

Sep 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

S2·E3 Core

Bronco-Bustin’ Munster

Sep 30, 1965

In yet another example of Eddie’s misguided regard for his father’s natural abilities, the young Munster enters Herman’s name in the bucking bronco contest at the local rodeo. Lily

S2·E4 Core

Herman Munster, Shutter Bug

Oct 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 evidenc

S2·E5 Core

Herman, Coach of the Year

Oct 14, 1965

When Eddie is called Lead Foot by the other kids on his track team, Herman offers to become his athletic coach. While demonstrating his out-of-this-world prowess in shot put, discu

S2·E6 Core

Happy 100th Anniversary

Oct 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

S2·E7 Core

Operation Herman

Oct 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

S2·E8 Core

Lily’s Star Boarder

Nov 4, 1965

Herman becomes insanely jealous of Chester, a mysterious boarder whom Lily has bought into the household in yet another of her schemes to acquire a little extra cash. After searchi

S2·E9 Core

John Doe Munster

Nov 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

S2·E10 Core

A Man for Marilyn

Nov 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’

S2·E11 Core

Herman’s Driving Test

Nov 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

S2·E12 Core

Will Success Spoil Herman Munster?

Dec 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 da

S2·E13 Core

Underground Munster

Dec 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

S2·E14 Core

The Treasure of Mockingbird Heights

Dec 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.

S2·E15 Core

Herman’s Peace Offensive

Dec 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 situatio

S2·E16 Core

Herman Picks a Winner

Jan 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 wi

S2·E17 Core

Just Another Pretty Face

Jan 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

S2·E18 Core

Big Heap Herman

Jan 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 l

S2·E19 Core

The Most Beautiful Ghoul in the World

Jan 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 mon

S2·E20 Core

Grandpa’s Lost Wife

Feb 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

S2·E21 Core

The Fregosi Emerald

Feb 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

S2·E22 Core

Zombo

Feb 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

S2·E23 Core

Cyrano de Munster

Feb 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 f

S2·E24 Core

The Musician

Mar 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

S2·E25 Core

Prehistoric Munster

Mar 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. Wh

S2·E26 Core

A Visit From Johann

Mar 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 Frankenste

S2·E27 Core

Eddie’s Brother

Mar 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

S2·E28 Core

Herman, the Tire-Kicker

Mar 31, 1966

Herman buys a convertible for Marilyn from a fly-by-night used-car dealer named Fair Deal Dan. Once he gets it home, it explodes into a piece of junk. Herman later finds out that t

S2·E29 Core

A House Divided

Apr 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 ho

S2·E30 Core

Herman’s Sorority Caper

Apr 14, 1966

To cure Herman of his hiccoughs, Grandpa puts him into a trance with the Transylvanian Brain Freeze. Meanwhile, a couple of fraternity pledges are sent to spend a night in the Mun

S2·E31 Mytharc

Herman’s Lawsuit

Apr 21, 1966

Herman is struck by a car. He isn’t hurt, but the car that struck him is totaled. The uninjured driver assumes she has disfigured Herman, and her attorney suggests that she try to

S2·E32 Mytharc

A Visit From the Teacher

May 12, 1966

When Eddie reads a school composition entitled “My Parents – An Average American Family” to his class, his teacher believes the boy is exhibiting symptoms of an overactive imaginat

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