Both series had strong casts. Carolyn Jones (who had been an Oscar nominee for 1957's Bachelor Party) played Morticia Frump Addams and John Astin her husband, Gomez, while Fred Gwynne was good as Herman Munster as was Yvonne De Carlo as his wife Lily. The scenes tended to be stolen by Al Lewis, an old vaudevillian at heart, as a Count Dracula Grandpa. It was also filmed in the glorious black and white of the classic Thirties Universal horror films and veteran comedy scriptwriters Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher turned in some good slapstick for the family of Transylvanian fiends transplanted to the American suburbs.