The role was later played by Lee Meriwether in The Munsters Today and by Portia de Rossi in the unsold 2012 pilot Mockingbird Lane.

When away from the Munster house, she often wears a long silver cape with a hood, which in reality is a coffin lining.

Lily is the voice of reason in the Munster household, often relied upon to set problems right, and typically mediates when Herman and Grandpa squabble.

(What Lily is perceiving as lack of manners is in fact the young man's terror of seeing Marilyn's monstrous relatives).

During the course of the series, Lily works as a welder in a shipyard, a fashion model, and a palm reader in a tea room.

In one episode she forces Herman to give her money so that she and Marilyn can open a beauty parlor, but this soon goes out of business, as Lily assumes her clientele wants to look more like her.

When first cast, Gwynne and Lewis went to the producers and complained because De Carlo was a movie star of long standing and they were worried that she would not fit in.