Cantalope Cream Pie

1 3/4 cups vanilla wafer crumbs -- about 40

1/2 cup butter or margarine -- melted

1 pkg vanilla pudding - cook n serve -- (5 oz)

2 1/2 cups milk

1 small cantalope

1 cup heavy cream

Preheat oven to 375 deg. In a 10" pie plate, combune vanilla-wafer crumbs & melted butter. Press mixture into pie plate & make a slight edge. Bake crust 8-10 min.until lightly browned; cool on rack. Meanwhile, in a large saucepan, prepare pudding mix as lablel directs but use only 2 1/2 C. milk; set aside. Drain cantaloupe pieces well on paper towels; stir chunks into pudding mixture. Cover surface of pudding mixture with plastic wrap & refrigerate about 30 min. or until set. Whip cream & fold into pudding mixture, spoon intocrust. refrigerate until set. 6-8 servings.