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The Addams Family

When we’re together, every night is Halloween.

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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.

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Starring

Carolyn Jones, John Astin, Jackie Coogan

Created by

Charles Addams

Season 1

Season 1 consists of 34 episodes and established the iconic characters and the show's subversive humor: that the "monstrous" Addams family was actually the most loving, stable, and well-adjusted family on television compared to their "normal" neighbors.

1.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.

25 minSep 18, 1964

2.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.

25 minSep 25, 1964

3.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.

25 minOct 2, 1964

4.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.

25 minOct 9, 1964

5.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.

25 minOct 16, 1964

6.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.

25 minOct 23, 1964

7.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.

25 minOct 30, 1964

8.Green-Eyed Gomez

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

25 minNov 6, 1964

9.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'.

25 minNov 13, 1964

10.Wednesday Leaves Home

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

25 minNov 20, 1964

11.The Addams Family Meet the VIPs

Visitors from another country regret labelling the Addams gang uncultured.

25 minNov 27, 1964

12.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.

25 minDec 4, 1964

13.Lurch Learns to Dance

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

25 minDec 11, 1964

14.Art and the Addams Family

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

25 minDec 18, 1964

15.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.

25 minJan 1, 1965

16.The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man

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

25 minJan 8, 1965

17.Mother Lurch Visits the Addams Family

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

25 minJan 15, 1965

18.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.

25 minJan 22, 1965

19.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.

25 minJan 29, 1965

20.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.

25 minFeb 5, 1965

21.The Addams Family in Court

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

25 minFeb 12, 1965

22.Amnesia in the Addams Family

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

25 minFeb 19, 1965

23.Thing is Missing

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

25 minMar 5, 1965

24.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.

25 minMar 12, 1965

25.Lurch and His Harpsichord

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

25 minMar 19, 1965

26.Morticia, the Breadwinner

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

25 minMar 26, 1965

27.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.

25 minApr 2, 1965

28.My Son, the Chimp

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

25 minApr 9, 1965

29.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.

25 minApr 16, 1965

30.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.

25 minApr 23, 1965

31.Uncle Fester's Toupee

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

25 minApr 30, 1965

32.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.

25 minMay 7, 1965

33.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?

25 minMay 14, 1965

34.The Winning of Morticia Addams

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

25 minMay 21, 1965

The Addams Family

ComedyFamily

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.

When we’re together, every night is Halloween.

Information

Released
Sep 18, 1964
Episode length
30m
Seasons
2
Episodes
64
Status
Ended

Language & origin

Original audio
English
Country
US
Rating
TV-G
Created by
Charles Addams

Networks

Network
ABC

People in this story

Carolyn JonesMorticia Addams
John AstinGomez Addams
Jackie CooganUncle Fester
Ted CassidyLurch
Marie BlakeGrandmama
Lisa LoringWednesday Addams
Ken WeatherwaxPugsley Addams

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