The Addams Family

The Addams Family

When we’re together, every night is Halloween.

TV-G196430m8.0/10
ComedyFamily

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8.0/10(433)

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.

Production

Filmways Television

Language

EN

Status

Ended

First Aired

September 18, 1964

Last Aired

April 8, 1966

Networks

ABC

Created By

Charles Addams

Where to Watch
Region US · Lang EN
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Seasons & Episodes
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Season
The Addams Family Goes to School
E1
The Addams Family Goes to School
Air date: 1964-09-18
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.
Morticia and the Psychiatrist
E2
Morticia and the Psychiatrist
Air date: 1964-09-25
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.
Fester's Punctured Romance
E3
Fester's Punctured Romance
Air date: 1964-10-02
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.
Gomez, the Politician
E4
Gomez, the Politician
Air date: 1964-10-09
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.
The Addams Family Tree
E5
The Addams Family Tree
Air date: 1964-10-16
Pugsley and Wednesday get into a fight over families with their friend Harold, who says that his family is better than theirs.
Morticia Joins the Ladies League
E6
Morticia Joins the Ladies League
Air date: 1964-10-23
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.
Halloween with the Addams Family
E7
Halloween with the Addams Family
Air date: 1964-10-30
Two bank robbers accept an unknowing invitation and visit Morticia and Gomez on Halloween, in order to avoid being caught.
Green-Eyed Gomez
E8
Green-Eyed Gomez
Air date: 1964-11-06
Gomez throws a fit of jealousy when Morticia's former boyfriend visits.
The New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family
E9
The New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family
Air date: 1964-11-13
A young couple, simple, naive, and very much in love, move into the house next to the Addams'.
Wednesday Leaves Home
E10
Wednesday Leaves Home
Air date: 1964-11-20
Family worries when a flustered Wednesday runs away after being scolded for borrowing Uncle Fester's TNT.
The Addams Family Meet the VIPs
E11
The Addams Family Meet the VIPs
Air date: 1964-11-27
Visitors from another country regret labelling the Addams gang uncultured.
Morticia, the Matchmaker
E12
Morticia, the Matchmaker
Air date: 1964-12-04
Morticia plays matchmaker when her cousin Melancholia and a bachelor lawyer hoping to make a business deal both visit at the same time.
Lurch Learns to Dance
E13
Lurch Learns to Dance
Air date: 1964-12-11
Morticia and Gomez are supportive of Lurch and encourage him to follow his gut feeling and take dance lessons.
Art and the Addams Family
E14
Art and the Addams Family
Air date: 1964-12-18
Grandmama takes up painting and hires the distressed Sam Picasso as her teacher.
The Addams Family Meets a Beatnik
E15
The Addams Family Meets a Beatnik
Air date: 1965-01-01
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.
The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man
E16
The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man
Air date: 1965-01-08
An undercover operative is convinced that the Addams family are spies.
Mother Lurch Visits the Addams Family
E17
Mother Lurch Visits the Addams Family
Air date: 1965-01-15
Morticia and Gomez pose as Lurch's maid and butler when his mother comes for a visit.
Uncle Fester's Illness
E18
Uncle Fester's Illness
Air date: 1965-01-22
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.
The Addams Family Splurges
E19
The Addams Family Splurges
Air date: 1965-01-29
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.
Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family
E20
Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family
Air date: 1965-02-05
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.
The Addams Family in Court
E21
The Addams Family in Court
Air date: 1965-02-12
Grandmama is arrested for telling fortunes and soon the whole family is being held in contempt of court.
Amnesia in the Addams Family
E22
Amnesia in the Addams Family
Air date: 1965-02-19
Gomez suffers from amnesia after being hit in the head with Indian clubs, and his personality changes dramatically.
Thing is Missing
E23
Thing is Missing
Air date: 1965-03-05
When Thing goes missing, the family discovers he's been "thing-napped."
Crisis in the Addams Family
E24
Crisis in the Addams Family
Air date: 1965-03-12
Uncle Fester applies for a job as an insurance salesman with the same company which is threatening to cancel the Addams' policy.
Lurch and His Harpsichord
E25
Lurch and His Harpsichord
Air date: 1965-03-19
Lurch feels betrayed when Gomez and Morticia give their antique harpsichord to a museum.
Morticia, the Breadwinner
E26
Morticia, the Breadwinner
Air date: 1965-03-26
When Morticia believes the family to be bankrupt, she sells her railroad shares to a mystery buyer to raise money.
The Addams Family and the Spacemen
E27
The Addams Family and the Spacemen
Air date: 1965-04-02
With reports of UFOs in the area, the Addams believe they have been visited by two Martians. Vito Scotti appears as Professor Altshuler.
My Son, the Chimp
E28
My Son, the Chimp
Air date: 1965-04-09
The family believes that Pugsley has been turned into a chimp.
Morticia's Favorite Charity
E29
Morticia's Favorite Charity
Air date: 1965-04-16
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.
Progress and the Addams Family
E30
Progress and the Addams Family
Air date: 1965-04-23
The Addams Family ignores notices from Arthur Henson that their house is to be condemned to make way for a freeway.
Uncle Fester's Toupee
E31
Uncle Fester's Toupee
Air date: 1965-04-30
Fester's penpal drops by unexpectedly, so he must assume the false personality he has been pretending to be.
Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor
E32
Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor
Air date: 1965-05-07
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.
Lurch, the Teenage Idol
E33
Lurch, the Teenage Idol
Air date: 1965-05-14
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?
The Winning of Morticia Addams
E34
The Winning of Morticia Addams
Air date: 1965-05-21
Members of the Addams household devise schemes to start a battle between Gomez and Morticia.

Cast

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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