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The Addams Family

The Addams Family
★ 8.0/10•1964•30m•TV-G•Comedy•Family
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When we’re together, every night is Halloween.

A satirical inversion of the ideal of the perfect American nuclear family, they are an eccentric wealthy family who delight in everything grotesque and macabre, and are never really aware that people find them bizarre or frightening. In fact, they themselves are often terrified by "normal" people.

Charles Addams · Writer

StatusEnded
Runtime30m
LanguageEN
First Air DateSep 18, 1964

Episodes

Episode 1 - The Addams Family Goes to SchoolE125m

The Addams Family Goes to School

Sam Hilliard, a truant officer, shows up at the Addams family home, due to the fact that Pugsley and Wednesday are not attending school. Soon he discovers he's dealing with no typical everyday family.

Sep 18, 1964

Episode 2 - Morticia and the PsychiatristE225m

Morticia and the Psychiatrist

Gomez and Morticia are shocked when Pugsley joins the boy scouts, begins playing baseball and gets a puppy. Fearing something is wrong, they turn to a psychiatrist.

Sep 25, 1964

Episode 3 - Fester's Punctured RomanceE325m

Fester's Punctured Romance

Uncle Fester puts an ad in the personals column and when he doesn't get an immediate response he's heartbroken. Later, the family mistake a cosmetics saleswoman as a respondent to the ad.

Oct 2, 1964

Episode 4 - Gomez, the PoliticianE425m

Gomez, the Politician

Sam Hilliard, the ex-truant officer, is running for city council. This puts Gomez in the campaign mood, and he decides to offer financial support.

Oct 9, 1964

Episode 5 - The Addams Family TreeE525m

The Addams Family Tree

Pugsley and Wednesday get into a fight over families with their friend Harold, who says that his family is better than theirs.

Oct 16, 1964

Episode 6 - Morticia Joins the Ladies LeagueE625m

Morticia Joins the Ladies League

Gomez and Pugsley visit an old friend of the family, who owns a circus. There, Pugsley befriends Gorgo the Gorilla who later escapes and follows Pugsley home. Meanwhile, Morticia has hopes of joining the Ladies League.

Oct 23, 1964

Episode 7 - Halloween with the Addams FamilyE725m

Halloween with the Addams Family

Two bank robbers accept an unknowing invitation and visit Morticia and Gomez on Halloween, in order to avoid being caught.

Oct 30, 1964

Episode 8 - Green-Eyed GomezE825m

Green-Eyed Gomez

Gomez throws a fit of jealousy when Morticia's former boyfriend visits.

Nov 6, 1964

Episode 9 - The New Neighbors Meet the Addams FamilyE925m

The New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family

A young couple, simple, naive, and very much in love, move into the house next to the Addams'.

Nov 13, 1964

Episode 10 - Wednesday Leaves HomeE1025m

Wednesday Leaves Home

Family worries when a flustered Wednesday runs away after being scolded for borrowing Uncle Fester's TNT.

Nov 20, 1964

Episode 11 - The Addams Family Meet the VIPsE1125m

The Addams Family Meet the VIPs

Visitors from another country regret labelling the Addams gang uncultured.

Nov 27, 1964

Episode 12 - Morticia, the MatchmakerE1225m

Morticia, the Matchmaker

Morticia plays matchmaker when her cousin Melancholia and a bachelor lawyer hoping to make a business deal both visit at the same time.

Dec 4, 1964

Episode 13 - Lurch Learns to DanceE1325m

Lurch Learns to Dance

Morticia and Gomez are supportive of Lurch and encourage him to follow his gut feeling and take dance lessons.

Dec 11, 1964

Episode 14 - Art and the Addams FamilyE1425m

Art and the Addams Family

Grandmama takes up painting and hires the distressed Sam Picasso as her teacher.

Dec 18, 1964

Episode 15 - The Addams Family Meets a BeatnikE1525m

The Addams Family Meets a Beatnik

A young biker on the run from his domineering tycoon dad ends up hiding out in the Addams house, and the Addamses couldn't be happier.

Jan 1, 1965

Episode 16 - The Addams Family Meets the Undercover ManE1625m

The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man

An undercover operative is convinced that the Addams family are spies.

Jan 8, 1965

Episode 17 - Mother Lurch Visits the Addams FamilyE1725m

Mother Lurch Visits the Addams Family

Morticia and Gomez pose as Lurch's maid and butler when his mother comes for a visit.

Jan 15, 1965

Episode 18 - Uncle Fester's IllnessE1825m

Uncle Fester's Illness

Lately, Uncle Fester's been a bit rundown, literally unable to maintain his wattage. Since Dr. Mbogo, the reliable family witch doctor, is too busy to leave Africa, the Addamses must take their chances by engaging the services of a local physician, who pays them a house call.

Jan 22, 1965

Episode 19 - The Addams Family SplurgesE1925m

The Addams Family Splurges

The Addams family hopes to vacation on the moon, but needs to raise a billion dollars. Using Gomez's new supercomputer, the family schemes to make the money by betting on horse races.

Jan 29, 1965

Episode 20 - Cousin Itt Visits the Addams FamilyE2025m

Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family

Parks Commissioner Fiske visits the Addams house seeking contributions for expansion of the city zoo. Gomez believes visiting Cousin Itt - all hairy and gibbering four feet tall of him - would be perfect as the zoo's new curator. He has the two meet, but Commissioner Fisk misunderstands the intent and mistakes Itt for a new exotic animal attraction whom he has hauled away in chains when the others aren't looking. When the family finds out what's happened, Uncle Fester is ready to administer retribution the Addams way - with a bullet from behind.

Feb 5, 1965

Episode 21 - The Addams Family in CourtE2125m

The Addams Family in Court

Grandmama is arrested for telling fortunes and soon the whole family is being held in contempt of court.

Feb 12, 1965

Episode 22 - Amnesia in the Addams FamilyE2225m

Amnesia in the Addams Family

Gomez suffers from amnesia after being hit in the head with Indian clubs, and his personality changes dramatically.

Feb 19, 1965

Episode 23 - Thing is MissingE2325m

Thing is Missing

When Thing goes missing, the family discovers he's been "thing-napped."

Mar 5, 1965

Episode 24 - Crisis in the Addams FamilyE2425m

Crisis in the Addams Family

Uncle Fester applies for a job as an insurance salesman with the same company which is threatening to cancel the Addams' policy.

Mar 12, 1965

Episode 25 - Lurch and His HarpsichordE2525m

Lurch and His Harpsichord

Lurch feels betrayed when Gomez and Morticia give their antique harpsichord to a museum.

Mar 19, 1965

Episode 26 - Morticia, the BreadwinnerE2625m

Morticia, the Breadwinner

When Morticia believes the family to be bankrupt, she sells her railroad shares to a mystery buyer to raise money.

Mar 26, 1965

Episode 27 - The Addams Family and the SpacemenE2725m

The Addams Family and the Spacemen

With reports of UFOs in the area, the Addams believe they have been visited by two Martians. Vito Scotti appears as Professor Altshuler.

Apr 2, 1965

Episode 28 - My Son, the ChimpE2825m

My Son, the Chimp

The family believes that Pugsley has been turned into a chimp.

Apr 9, 1965

Episode 29 - Morticia's Favorite CharityE2925m

Morticia's Favorite Charity

Morticia's favorite charitable organization is holding a fundraising bazaar, so Morticia persuades her family to part with their belongings in order to donate them to the charity auction.

Apr 16, 1965

Episode 30 - Progress and the Addams FamilyE3025m

Progress and the Addams Family

The Addams Family ignores notices from Arthur Henson that their house is to be condemned to make way for a freeway.

Apr 23, 1965

Episode 31 - Uncle Fester's ToupeeE3125m

Uncle Fester's Toupee

Fester's penpal drops by unexpectedly, so he must assume the false personality he has been pretending to be.

Apr 30, 1965

Episode 32 - Cousin Itt and the Vocational CounselorE3225m

Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor

Morticia and Gomez call an expert to find Cousin Itt a job after he fails at being a marriage counselor, almost splitting up Gomez and Morticia in the process.

May 7, 1965

Episode 33 - Lurch, the Teenage IdolE3325m

Lurch, the Teenage Idol

Low grunts and grumbles while at the harpsichord constitute Lurch's manner of singing. Gomez has a record company record him and soon the Addams house is surrounded by excited teenyboppers, fawning and fainting over Lurch when he becomes the newest hit sensation. All that blind adoration goes to Lurch's head, and the Addames quickly find they have a self-centered butler who won't "buttle" any longer. Could it be they've created a monster?

May 14, 1965

Episode 34 - The Winning of Morticia AddamsE3425m

The Winning of Morticia Addams

Members of the Addams household devise schemes to start a battle between Gomez and Morticia.

May 21, 1965

Actors

Carolyn Jones

Carolyn Jones

Morticia Addams

John Astin

John Astin

Gomez Addams

Jackie Coogan

Jackie Coogan

Uncle Fester

Ted Cassidy

Ted Cassidy

Lurch

Marie Blake

Marie Blake

Grandmama

Lisa Loring

Lisa Loring

Wednesday Addams

Ken Weatherwax

Ken Weatherwax

Pugsley Addams

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