The Munsters
If a Martian Answers, Hang Up
TV Flash files “If a Martian Answers, Hang Up” as a desk essential hour — The Munsters (1964–1966) on CBS, season 1, episode 18, aired 1965-01-21, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E18: listed hour 18 of 70 in the The Munsters guide, hour 18 of 38 in season 1. It aired 1965-01-21 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “All-Star Munster” (S01E17). Next is “Eddie's Nickname” (S01E19).
Essential hour: “If a Martian Answers, Hang Up”. If a Martian Answers, Hang Up — mid-season sci-fi knock on the parlor door, working-class gothic still the joke's engine.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Eddies friends have new walkie talkie's and they start pretending to be Martians. Meanwhile, Herman is playing with his new ham radio set pestering people world wide and hears the kids pretending. He believes that they are really spacemen and the next day he drags Grandpa in on it.
Viewer FAQ
Where does If a Martian Answers, Hang Up sit in the The Munsters guide?
S01E18 is listed hour 18 of 70 — hour 18 of 38 in season 1, season 1 episode 18.
When did The Munsters S01E18 air?
If a Martian Answers, Hang Up aired 1965-01-21 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Where should I start?
Any Mockingbird Lane hour that puts Herman, Lily, and Grandpa in ordinary suburban mishap is the contract. Makeup plus sitcom bones — no need to serialize.
In the series
Why this series still plays
The Munsters puts Universal's creature shop in a working-class living room and plays it straight as a sitcom. Fred Gwynne's Herman, Yvonne De Carlo's Lily, and Al Lewis's Grandpa make 1313 Mockingbird Lane a blue-collar family joke, not a gothic pose. Makeup craft plus Addams-rival lore; the sweetness under the bolts still photographs.
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- Yvonne De Carlo as Lily Munster
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- Al Lewis as Grandpa
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- Butch Patrick as Eddie Munster
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- Pat Priest as Marilyn Munster
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