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The Addams Family

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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.

Created by:
Charles Addams
Cast:
Carolyn Jones, John Astin, Jackie Coogan, Ted Cassidy
Language:
English
Country:
United States of America
Network:
ABC

Episode guide

Seasons

3 available

Season 1

Episodes

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Episode 1

★ 7.5

The Addams Family Goes to School

1964-09-18 · 25m

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.

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Episode 2

★ 7.6

Morticia and the Psychiatrist

1964-09-25 · 25m

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.

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Episode 3

★ 7.3

Fester's Punctured Romance

1964-10-02 · 25m

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.

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Episode 4

★ 7.3

Gomez, the Politician

1964-10-09 · 25m

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.

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Episode 5

★ 7.5

The Addams Family Tree

1964-10-16 · 25m

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

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Episode 6

★ 7.3

Morticia Joins the Ladies League

1964-10-23 · 25m

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.

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Episode 7

★ 7.7

Halloween with the Addams Family

1964-10-30 · 25m

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

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Episode 8

★ 7.8

Green-Eyed Gomez

1964-11-06 · 25m

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

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Episode 9

★ 7.4

The New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family

1964-11-13 · 25m

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

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Episode 10

★ 7.6

Wednesday Leaves Home

1964-11-20 · 25m

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

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Episode 11

★ 7.4

The Addams Family Meet the VIPs

1964-11-27 · 25m

Visitors from another country regret labelling the Addams gang uncultured.

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Episode 12

★ 7.6

Morticia, the Matchmaker

1964-12-04 · 25m

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

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Episode 13

★ 7.2

Lurch Learns to Dance

1964-12-11 · 25m

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

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Episode 14

★ 7.0

Art and the Addams Family

1964-12-18 · 25m

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

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Episode 15

★ 7.4

The Addams Family Meets a Beatnik

1965-01-01 · 25m

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.

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Episode 16

★ 7.4

The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man

1965-01-08 · 25m

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

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Episode 17

★ 7.0

Mother Lurch Visits the Addams Family

1965-01-15 · 25m

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

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Episode 18

★ 7.5

Uncle Fester's Illness

1965-01-22 · 25m

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.

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Episode 19

★ 7.2

The Addams Family Splurges

1965-01-29 · 25m

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.

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Episode 20

★ 6.5

Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family

1965-02-05 · 25m

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.

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Episode 21

★ 7.0

The Addams Family in Court

1965-02-12 · 25m

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

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Episode 22

★ 6.0

Amnesia in the Addams Family

1965-02-19 · 25m

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

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Episode 23

★ 7.0

Thing is Missing

1965-03-05 · 25m

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

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Episode 24

★ 6.6

Crisis in the Addams Family

1965-03-12 · 25m

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

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Episode 25

★ 6.8

Lurch and His Harpsichord

1965-03-19 · 25m

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

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Episode 26

★ 6.2

Morticia, the Breadwinner

1965-03-26 · 25m

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

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Episode 27

★ 6.8

The Addams Family and the Spacemen

1965-04-02 · 25m

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

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Episode 28

★ 6.5

My Son, the Chimp

1965-04-09 · 25m

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

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Episode 29

★ 6.8

Morticia's Favorite Charity

1965-04-16 · 25m

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.

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Episode 30

★ 6.8

Progress and the Addams Family

1965-04-23 · 25m

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

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Episode 31

★ 7.4

Uncle Fester's Toupee

1965-04-30 · 25m

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

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Episode 32

★ 6.5

Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor

1965-05-07 · 25m

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.

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Episode 33

★ 6.5

Lurch, the Teenage Idol

1965-05-14 · 25m

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?

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Episode 34

★ 6.2

The Winning of Morticia Addams

1965-05-21 · 25m

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

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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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