http://www.thefilebucket.com/userfiles/ghost2/Munsters%20vid%20clip.wmv?PHPSESSID=7d0b5af7899d597871723882f57a11c7

That is from the original Pilot #3.

A Canadian friend of mine who reviewed the Fam of fright DVD for his site, sent the DVD to me and it has the whole version of that Pilot on it. The original version is supposed stop at the scene of Grandpa in the lab.

That's what I have on this tape that I bought on Ebay a couple of years ago. It's called "The Monsters, The Munsters Unaired Pilots, TV Commercials and Promos"
It has the Joan Marshall pilot, a different cut of the DeCarlo pilot with an eerie music score, Wayne and Shuster review, the Cheerios commercial, plus a few other things.

I don't know if they ship to non-Canadian addresses, but amazon.ca has the Family of Fright DVD set with all of the A&E Biographies and extras. The 35.99 CAD cost converts into about 29 USD, but I don't know what shipping would be.

http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002EJ7I0/qid=1113638509/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl74/702-4405208-5600015

Buy it! See what happens.

I've bought it! Hee...hee....

Usually because I live in England, I use amazon.co.uk, but sometimes if I can't get what I want from there I have used amazon.com (the usa one) and everything has always gone well... so I thought I might as well use the amazon.ca one, it's only the same again isn't it.
So I have a confirmation e-mail telling me that I can expect the delivery in the middle of May (my birthday is then!).
Won't it be a nice birthday present if it all goes well - it should do, it's there to buy and gone through, so they must have it!
Anyway I will let you know how it goes!
Anyone else having a go?
- Dracula.

They probably had pre-copies on hand that they are still allowed to sell.

The ones I have come in plain sleves and have no pictures on the discs. They were just review discs for my friends website.

Munsters#1, are the pilots contained on the first family of fright DVDs good quality? (i.e the color pilot - is it the same quality as it is on the season 1 DVDs?) or are they sourced from bad prints as used on the "The Munsters unaired pilots, TV commercials and Promos" VHS that has been offered on Ebay?

The color pilot is watchable, but no way near the Season 1 DVDs clarity.

They didn't even find a complete version of the Color Pilot, they just took the first 3 minutes of it, then transitioned it into the B&W Pilot.

I will post pictures later ;)

Season 1 DVD ~ Color Pilot

America's First Family of Fright DVD ~ Color Pilot

Looks to me like Universal had the original print and they've taken care of it all this time. The other ones look like caps from the DVD I bought of Munster Rarities. Really grainy. Thanks for posting them!

My best,
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The only thing else with poor quality on the Family of Fright DVD is the video shot Murry the "K" sketch.

Except for some "snowflakes", everything else looks pretty good.

Two sound clips of outakes from the DeCarlo pilot.

http://www.thefilebucket.com/userfiles/ghost2/Munsters%20audio%20clip%201.wma?PHPSESSID=6a5da73e81dd54bb010a656cfeb1c4d6

http://www.thefilebucket.com/userfiles/ghost2/Munsters%20audio%20clip%202.wma?PHPSESSID=6a5da73e81dd54bb010a656cfeb1c4d6

The pilot with the weird music is on the Image DVD, but it's listed as "Presentation #3", when really it's the Pilot.

I'm at work now, but when I get home, do you want me to take a screenshot of the Image DVD menus?

That'd be good. And some scenes from Presentation #3, too, if you could. They don't have to be too large.

The quality of the Pilot on the Image DVD is very good. I was impressed at it's clean-up. I'll post plenty of pictures when I get home.

Disc menus.

Pilot coming up!

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last set of photos

You're right, Munsters#1, the quality is very good. I'd say excellent. My copy on VHS doesn't have this clarity. You do a terrific job at capturing the frames, too.
Of the three takes on the Grandpa in the lab scene, this one's my favorite.
Thanks for your work.

Your Welcome!

It's a pleasure to take pictures of my favorite show, and share them with others :D

I forgot, here is the menu on disk 1.

I also had to share this picture from episode 55, my favorite episode.

The TV Guide cover!
In "Not Just Another Pretty Face", it was funny to see Fred Gwynne doing his various Herman facial expressions without the makeup. Very comical.
And who would of guessed Herman would emerge from Grandpa's restoration experiment as he did!

I know! Just Another Pretty Face is an example of how wacky some of those Season 2 episodes were. :eek:

I've redone the video clip that starts this thread with a higher quality version.

What I don't understand is, how come Image used such a grainy edited copy of the color pilot, when Universal had that nice full color version.

I think it's because Kevin Burns supplied everything for the Image DVD's, and that's as good as his copy is. I think people must have been unaware Universal had the full-length pilot, because sources always said only the first five minutes of the color pilot existed. Perhaps Universal actually has other things, like the Marineland Carnival, but just no one knows it?

Kev is a nice guy. I'm glad he cares so much for The Munsters, or otherwise the Image DVD might never have existed. I'm pretty sure it's still coming out, too. Either in the S2 DVD or as a seperate set.

Oh, by the way, the Pilot that I took all those pix of, has no opening or closing theme, it's played as shown. I have a version of that pilot with opening & closing themes, but I'm now not sure which one is the original.