The Addams Family
“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.
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Seasons
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
7.418-09-196425 minSam 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 typ...
2.Morticia and the Psychiatrist
7.625-09-196425 minGomez 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.
3.Fester's Punctured Romance
7.302-10-196425 minUncle 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...
4.Gomez, the Politician
7.309-10-196425 minSam Hilliard, the ex-truant officer, is running for city council. This puts Gomez in the campaign mood, and he decides to offer financial support.
5.The Addams Family Tree
7.516-10-196425 minPugsley and Wednesday get into a fight over families with their friend Harold, who says that his family is better than theirs.
6.Morticia Joins the Ladies League
7.323-10-196425 minGomez 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...
7.Halloween with the Addams Family
7.730-10-196425 minTwo bank robbers accept an unknowing invitation and visit Morticia and Gomez on Halloween, in order to avoid being caught.
8.Green-Eyed Gomez
7.806-11-196425 minGomez throws a fit of jealousy when Morticia's former boyfriend visits.
9.The New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family
7.413-11-196425 minA young couple, simple, naive, and very much in love, move into the house next to the Addams'.
10.Wednesday Leaves Home
7.620-11-196425 minFamily worries when a flustered Wednesday runs away after being scolded for borrowing Uncle Fester's TNT.
11.The Addams Family Meet the VIPs
7.427-11-196425 minVisitors from another country regret labelling the Addams gang uncultured.
12.Morticia, the Matchmaker
7.604-12-196425 minMorticia plays matchmaker when her cousin Melancholia and a bachelor lawyer hoping to make a business deal both visit at the same time.
13.Lurch Learns to Dance
7.211-12-196425 minMorticia and Gomez are supportive of Lurch and encourage him to follow his gut feeling and take dance lessons.
14.Art and the Addams Family
7.018-12-196425 minGrandmama takes up painting and hires the distressed Sam Picasso as her teacher.
15.The Addams Family Meets a Beatnik
7.401-01-196525 minA 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.
16.The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man
7.408-01-196525 minAn undercover operative is convinced that the Addams family are spies.
17.Mother Lurch Visits the Addams Family
7.015-01-196525 minMorticia and Gomez pose as Lurch's maid and butler when his mother comes for a visit.
18.Uncle Fester's Illness
7.522-01-196525 minLately, 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 mu...
19.The Addams Family Splurges
7.229-01-196525 minThe 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 rac...
20.Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family
6.505-02-196525 minParks 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...
21.The Addams Family in Court
7.012-02-196525 minGrandmama is arrested for telling fortunes and soon the whole family is being held in contempt of court.
22.Amnesia in the Addams Family
6.019-02-196525 minGomez suffers from amnesia after being hit in the head with Indian clubs, and his personality changes dramatically.
23.Thing is Missing
7.005-03-196525 minWhen Thing goes missing, the family discovers he's been "thing-napped."
24.Crisis in the Addams Family
6.612-03-196525 minUncle Fester applies for a job as an insurance salesman with the same company which is threatening to cancel the Addams' policy.
25.Lurch and His Harpsichord
6.819-03-196525 minLurch feels betrayed when Gomez and Morticia give their antique harpsichord to a museum.
26.Morticia, the Breadwinner
6.226-03-196525 minWhen Morticia believes the family to be bankrupt, she sells her railroad shares to a mystery buyer to raise money.
27.The Addams Family and the Spacemen
6.802-04-196525 minWith reports of UFOs in the area, the Addams believe they have been visited by two Martians. Vito Scotti appears as Professor Altshuler.
28.My Son, the Chimp
6.509-04-196525 minThe family believes that Pugsley has been turned into a chimp.
29.Morticia's Favorite Charity
6.816-04-196525 minMorticia'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 a...
30.Progress and the Addams Family
6.823-04-196525 minThe Addams Family ignores notices from Arthur Henson that their house is to be condemned to make way for a freeway.
31.Uncle Fester's Toupee
7.430-04-196525 minFester's penpal drops by unexpectedly, so he must assume the false personality he has been pretending to be.
32.Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor
6.507-05-196525 minMorticia 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.
33.Lurch, the Teenage Idol
6.514-05-196525 minLow 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 teen...
34.The Winning of Morticia Addams
6.221-05-196525 minMembers of the Addams household devise schemes to start a battle between Gomez and Morticia.
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