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I wonder if Butch Patrick...


,,,got to keep the cool werewolf doll after the show ended?

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If he didn't, then what became of Woof-Woof?


Exactly like your father! A big, stupid, muscle-headed moron!

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Butch Patrick did not initially get to keep Woof-Woof when the show shut down production. Five years later he was working on en episode of Ironsides and the prop man gave it to him.

Butch did not keep good care of the doll, hanging it from a noose in his bedroom until it became tattered and degraded.

In the 1980s, when Munsters nostalgia kicked in and Butch got on the autograph circuit, he partnered with entrepreneur Jim Madden (owner of Chaparral Speedway in Phoenix, AZ) to produce and sell Woof-Woof reproductions limited to 100 dolls priced at $1,000 each. Butch sold the dolls at his public appearances, and they split the money 50/50. At that time, Butch sold the original Woof-Woof to Madden for an undisclosed sum. Madden had the doll professionally restored, and displayed it in his den inside a museum-quality case. As of 2012, the doll has changed hands two more times.

The original doll was made from a toy monkey purchased at Toys R Us. Munsters makeup artist Michael Westmore replaced the monkey's head with a werewolf head of his own creation. Two costumes were made for the doll, a tweed suit and pajamas/bathrobe.

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Back when "The Munsters" were on the air, Toys R Us was known as Bargain Town.



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