In the mid-1940s, Universal Studios animator Bob Clampett pitched a new cartoon to studio heads— a family-sitcom-style show about a group of monsters. The pitch sat in corporate purgatory for almost two decades until veteran Hanna Barbera writers Allan Burns and Chris Hayward, inspired by the single-panel comics of cartoonist Charles Adams and intrigued by … Continue reading 62 Years Ago, A Monstrous Cartoon Became a Live-Action Sitcom & Ran for Two Seasons (Until Batman Beat It)