Possessing the "face of a shriveled balloon, the figure of a string of spaghetti, and the voice of a bullfrog in mating season.", Miss Jane Hathaway always saved the day. Milton Drysedale aka "Chief" hired Miss Jane as his private and personal secretary after she graduated from Vassar. She works 24/7 much of her time is spent seeing after the wealthy Clampett family in their Beverly Hills home. Voted #38 on "50 Greatest TV Characters of All Time" list Miss Jane was always a hit. An avid bird watcher during her rare free time the spinster Hathaway was secretly in love with Jethro Clampett the nephew of oil millionare Jed Clampett.
One of the sixty's television favorite characters was Morticia Addams. Morticia was performed by Carolyn Jones for a mere two seasons but will live on forever in re-runs. Carolyn Jones took on the role the year she divorced her second husband Aaron Spelling. The role of Morticia got her a Golden Globe nomination and immortality. Voted one of television's top one hundred mothers Morticia was hardly Mrs Cleaver.
Sheathed in her Gothic hobble skirt that perfectly matched her raven hair Morticia slunk seductively through her carnivorous garden and family's eerie mansion. Morticia was raised in Salem, Massachusetts and was orignally a Frump.
An expert musician and keeper of the Addams values Morticia seduced her husband Gomez with her mastery of romance languages. Carolyn Jones was and always will be Morticia.
To millions of fans Sam Dracula is know just as Grandpa but he is really actor Al Lewis. The character of Grandpa was one of the favorite of the "Munsters" family. He was a Transylvanian Count born in 1367 but not unlike Al Lewis the actor who played him his age was fluid. He was a magician, an inventor,a successful mad scientist and a vampire. Sam Dracula married 167 but all of his wives are dead although he did claim to keep in constant contact with them. His youngest daughter is Lily (nee Dracula) Munster and is his favorite. He lives with Lily and her husband Herman whom he thinks is a dolt but does get along with. In the house with him are two of his grandchildren Eddy and Marilyn the child of another daughter who lives in the old country.
Sam's character has been portrayed by other actors but it will always be Al Lewis who is Grandpa. He went on to be Grandpa for the rest of his life saying "Hey Grandpa pays the bills!"
