coming off the previous night's 'cliffhanger' episode" airing on ABC at exactly the same time as "The Munsters" aired on CBS. Expanding on exactly how that transpired, author Fred John Del Bianco wrote in his retrospective, "50 Favs of the '60s '70s '80s," that the "Batman" series, which came along "midway through the 1965-1966 season," was structured as a "two-part weekly series," with the "second part. Speaking with Fox news, Butch Patrick made it clear that the bright, colorful, exciting, and funny "Batman" just ate up their ratings. The show turned out to be such a monster hit, that it pretty much killed "The Munsters." Dozier thought that if they played up the silliness of the concept with a straight face, it would be something that was exciting for children, while amusing adults, as he once told CBC. and then we'd all be on our merry way."īy 1966, Batman was still a tremendous hit, prompting producer William Dozier to adapt a live action, full color series about the character. But even the cast knew that this transition to technicolor wouldn't save the show - or as Butch Patrick put it in "The Munsters: America's First Family of Fright" documentary: "This was going to be our last hurrah. In fact, the powers that be behind "The Munsters" seemed keenly aware of this fact, since they chose to produce the 1966 feature length film, "Munster, Go Home," in full color (shown above). With more homes electing to go with color TVs, the days of black and white were numbered. The growing success of the series inspired consumers to buy color televisions so they could experience the Walt Disney Magic in its full glory. When the show began airing on NBC, its name was changed to "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color." The show was an anthology series that introduced a lot of Disney elements that the world still recognizes today. ![]() It allowed me to learn to deal with a little negativity in my world,” he says.In 1961, Walt Disney moved his program "Walt Disney Presents" to NBC because the network was owned by RCA and was broadcasting programs in color, according to D23. "Going back into the public school system was tough. Once the show ended, Patrick says he briefly struggled with “normal” life. The first time we walked into Universal Studios, and I saw the house, it was pretty impressive,” Patrick recalls. He was flown out to screen test with Yvonne DeCarlo, his eventual TV mother, but didn’t see the sets or meet the rest of his Munsters family until the first day of filming. Patrick had just completed a role in “The Real McCoys” and was living with his grandmother in the Midwest. Patrick was actually third in line for the role of Eddie Munster after “Lost in Space” star Bill Mumy and Nate “Happy” Derman. I knew that he was a set director for "Pee Wee's Playhouse" and that he had a dimension that people weren't aware of.” “I knew Rob (Zombie) had the capability to do it. "I promised my girlfriend I'd watch the rest of it with her,” he says. Patrick provides the voice of a robot in the reboot, though he admits he’s only watched “the first third” of the new film. The new “Munsters” film on Netflix, written and directed by Rob Zombie, has sparked renewed interest in the campy original. ![]() ![]() He recently wrapped the film “Old Man Jackson" with local filmmaker Johnny Ray Gibbs. He often visited Houston and made the drive to Galveston. Patrick lived in Austin during the late ’80s and early ’90s. Butch Patrick and his replica of the Munster Koach.
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