Heh, heh...okay! All right! Enough already! Yes, we're giddy over here. We're getting absolutely swamped here with e-mails tonight, and that nice-looking family (except for the one creepy-looking blonde) who lives at 1313 Mockingbird Lane is the reason.
This highly-desired series is finally coming to DVD, according to a report this afternoon by SciFiWire (a service of The SciFi Channel's website).
They say, in a report which also mentions
Night Gallery, that Universal Studios Home Video is bringing on the goods in just a few months:
A DVD set of the first season of the classic 1960s monster sitcom The Munsters is headed for DVD on Aug. 24, in time for its 40th anniversary, Universal Home Entertainment announced. The show, starring Fred Gwynne and Yvonne De Carlo, aired from 1964 to '66 on CBS and dealt with a family of wacky monsters and their seemingly normal niece. The DVD set will carry a suggested retail price of $59.98 and includes the previously unaired pilot episode, plus all 38 episodes from show's first season.
While we haven't received any information direct from Universal about this, the folks at SciFiWire are quick to point out that "Universal Home Entertainment is owned by Vivendi Universal, which also owns SCIFI.COM." Well, that's true for a short time anyway, while the NBC purchase of Universal from Vivendi is in the process of being finalized, now that the Federal Trade Commission
has approved it. ScFiWire's report is fairly detailed, but we'll keep an eye out for any additional info - and the cover art, of course - and bring that to you just as soon as we can. So stay tuned!
Our thanks to everyone who wrote us with a heads-up.
