Count Sam Dracula, commonly known as Grandpa,[a] is a fictional character from the American sitcom The Munsters, originally played by Al Lewis.

A running gag in both the original series and follow up The Munsters Today is his extreme age—his car, the DRAG-U-LA, bearing his gravestone, reads "born 1367–?".

Grandpa talks of having personally known various figures throughout history, including Nero, King Arthur, Richard the Lionheart and Jack the Ripper.

Grandpa's last wife, Katja, who is also Lily's mother, makes an emotional appearance in The Munsters Today in the 1990 episode "Once in a Blue Moon".

He is also referred to as "The Count" various times in The Munsters Today, most notably in the season one episode "Farewell Grandpa", when the family find out he isn't an American citizen, with the threat of being deported back to Transylvania by the U.S. government.

Many episodes of The Munsters revolve around the zany schemes Grandpa and Herman concoct, which either end successfully or result in Lily scolding the two for their failure.

Flashbacks to the events at college and to how Leonard and Grandpa met are part of the storyline in The Munsters Today episode "Never Say Die".

A running gag on the show, later adopted in The Munsters Today, is Grandpa's attempts to bite someone on the arm which usually ends in failure.

Al Lewis was the only actor from the original series to reprise his role in a 1973 unsold pilot for an animated cartoon titled The Mini-Munsters.

In 1990, Atari Corporation released Midnight Mutants, a video game featuring "Grampa" as played by Al Lewis.