No, The Monster Squad isn't being pitted against Harold Hill, the title character of "The Music Man" on Broadway and in the movies. Instead, this Music Man (Marty Allen) is actually a fella named Lorenzo Musica, a bit of a rib on the real-life Lorenzo Music, at the time heard but not seen on Rhoda. Writer Stanley Ralph Ross steps in front of the camera to play a comedian hosting a parody of telethons.
The opening scene of our heroes (Buck Kartalian, Michael Lane, & Henry Polic II) playing music of their own is amusing all by itself.
Ross co-wrote the script with Far Out Space Nuts creators Earle Doud & Chuck McCann. As we've previously noted, he was a writer-producer on Wonder Woman around the same time, and with this series, Ross was trying to recapture the campy spirit of Batman a decade earlier.
No rating. Didn't see this the first time.
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