The premise of the 1976 sitcom "Monster Squad" is pretty wild. Fred Grandy from "The Love Boat" (and, later, a United States Representative) stars as Walt, a guileless yet ambitious criminology student who, in his spare time, has constructed a sophisticated crime computer in the basement of a local wax museum. The basement is where the museum keeps wax sculptures of famous movie monsters like Frankenstein's Creature, Dracula, and the Wolf Man. Something about the mysterious sonic oscillators in the computer, however, brings the wax figures to life. The monsters also mysteriously remember their past lives as living monsters and immediately feel guilty about all their murders and misdeeds.

To atone, the monsters decide to become a cadre of crimefighting superheroes, using Walt's criminology

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