I find this sort of stuff fascinating, here is 15 minutes of the un-aired pilot for The Munsters. Apart from it being in colour you will notice that apart from Grandpa and Herman, it has a completely different cast.
The feel of the show seems a touch darker, and the addition of colour adds so much more to the production, I'm not sure if it was a budget decision to change to B&W, but its strange to change the look of the show so dramatically for the second pilot.
And you have to wonder why they got as far as shooting a pilot before they realised that half the cast wouldn't work, even going so far as to change the name to Herman's wife to the now more familiar 'Lilly'.
Whatever the reasons for the changes, what we ended up getting turned into an iconic show which is about to get a new and more serious reboot very soon, but it's always fun to think about what could have been.
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