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Television derivatives
The Frankenstein story and its elements have been
adapted many times for television:
Boris Karloff reprised his role wearing the
Frankenstein monster makeup in a 1962 episode of Route
66 entitled Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing for Halloween.
Also appearing in the episode were Lon Chaney Jr as both
the Wolf Man and The Mummy and Peter Lorre.
Universal produced a television sitcom from 1964 to 1966
for CBS entitled The Munsters with Fred Gwynne as Herman
Munster, a character physically resembling the
Universal's cinematic depiction of Frankenstein's
monster, who was the patriarch of a family of kindly
monsters. The rest of the family included a grandfather
resembling the Universal Dracula (who may actually be
Dracula), a wife that resembles "The Bride of
Frankenstein", and a werewolf son. The Munsters' house
at 1313 Mockingbird Lane can still be seen on the
Universal Studios' backlot tour at Universal Studios in
Universal City, California.
In a 1966 episode of The Wild Wild West The Night of the
Big Blast Ida Lupino guest starred as a mad scientist
who "reanimates" dead criminals into bombs. (Her name
"Dr Faustina" is a pun on Faust.)
Frankenstein in popular culture - Tales
of Tomorrow
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