Munster, Go Home!

Popular sitcoms rarely make the grade when they are extended to feature-film length. Here's one of the few exceptions, originally made for television but deemed good enough for theatrical release. The entire TV cast (except for Debbie Watson, one of the four actresses to play Marilyn) inherit an English estate that is being used by their nefarious relatives as the centre of a counterfeiting ring. When the family turn up to inspect Munster Hall, their aristocratic next-of-kin (under the deliciously plummy command of Hermione Gingold) try and scare them away with fake apparitions and musty scares. Of course, such spookiness only makes the Munsters feel even more at home. Terry-Thomas and genre veteran John Carradine enter into the spirit of a charming, colourful and funny affair that ends with a wild car chase through the countryside.