Episode Data

The Addams Family

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Season 0

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  18: TV Spot - Crest Toothpaste

  Commercial from 1965

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  19: TV Spot - Tostitos Chilada Flavor Tortilla Chips

  Commercial from 1986

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  20: TV Spot - Nestle Crunch

  Commercial from 1994

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  21: TV Spot - Honda Odyssey

  Japanese Commercial from 1995

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  22: TV Spot - M&Ms

  Commercial from 2007

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  23: TV Spot - Cheerios

  Cereal Commercial

• _{Friday, September 18th, 1964}

  26: Guest Star Seance

  A round of frequent guest stars is viewed, with trivia and other starring credits, through the Morticia's crystal ball.

• _{Friday, September 24th, 1965}

  24: Tombstone Triva on Morticia's Romance (Part 1)

  Tombstone Triva pops up during a viewing of Season 2, Episode 2 Morticia's Romance (Part 1).

• _{Friday, March 11th, 1966}

  25: Tombstone Triva on Cat Addams

  Tombstone Triva pops up during a viewing of Season 2, Episode 26 Cat Addams.

• _{Sunday, October 30th, 1977}

  1: Halloween with the New Addams Family

  A revival of the popular '60s TV comedy series "The Addams Family" has them preparing for Halloween in their own inimitable way. Halloween with the New Addams Family was a 1977 NBC TV-movie. This TV-movie has John Astin, Carolyn Jones, Jackie Coogan, Ted Cassidy, Lisa Loring, and Ken Weatherwax reprising their roles from the 1960s series The Addams Family. Blossom Rock was ill at the time of the production causing her role of Grandmama to be portrayed by Jane Rose.

• _{Wednesday, November 18th, 1992}

  9: The Addams Family Album with John Astin

  John Astin reminisces about the TV series in this little-known retrospective that aired on a local station in Chicago on November 18, 1992.

• _{Tuesday, November 13th, 2007}

  10: Thing and Cousin Itt Select Scene Commentary on "Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor"

  Thing and Cousin Itt Select Scene Commentary on "Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor"

• _{Tuesday, November 13th, 2007}

  11: Thing and Cousin Itt Select Scene Commentary on "My Son, the Chimp"

  Thing and Cousin Itt Select Scene Commentary on "My Son, the Chimp"

• _{Tuesday, November 13th, 2007}

  12: Thing and Cousin Itt Select Scene Commentary on "My Fair Cousin Itt"

  Thing and Cousin Itt Select Scene Commentary on "My Fair Cousin Itt"

• _{Tuesday, November 13th, 2007}

  13: Thing and Cousin Itt Select Scene Commentary on "Ophelia Finds Romance"

  Thing and Cousin Itt Select Scene Commentary on "Ophelia Finds Romance"

• _{Tuesday, November 13th, 2007}

  14: Thing and Cousin Itt Select Scene Commentary on "Lurch's Little Helper" - You Rang?

  Thing and Cousin Itt Select Scene Commentary on "Lurch's Little Helper" - You Rang?

• _{Tuesday, November 13th, 2007}

  15: Thing and Cousin Itt Select Scene Commentary on "Lurch's Little Helper" - You Rang... Again?

  Thing and Cousin Itt Select Scene Commentary on "Lurch's Little Helper" - You Rang... Again?

• _{Tuesday, November 13th, 2007}

  16: Thing and Cousin Itt Select Scene Commentary on "Morticia's Dilemma"

  Thing and Cousin Itt Select Scene Commentary on "Morticia's Dilemma"

• _{Tuesday, November 13th, 2007}

  6: Theme Song Karaoke

  Sing-a-long with words

• _{Tuesday, November 13th, 2007}

  7: Cast Interviews

  Movieguy interviews the cast of the TV show The Addams Family for the DVD release of The Addams Family Volume One.

• _{Tuesday, November 13th, 2007}

  8: Snap, Snap

  Vic Mizzy tell about his creation of the iconic theme.

• _{Tuesday, November 13th, 2007}

  2: Mad About The Addams

  A look back at the series and how it changed how modern comedies were produced. It talks of its start as a dark comic to become one of TV's most beloved families of "weird."

• _{Tuesday, November 13th, 2007}

  4: You Rang, Mr. Addams

  A short documentary about Charles Addams, the cartoonist who created the ghoulish characters of the Addams Family.

• _{Tuesday, November 13th, 2007}

  3: The Addams Family Portrait

• _{Tuesday, October 20th, 2009}

  5: Musical Discussion with Vic Mizzy

  Composer Vic Mizzy (1916-2009) was interviewed by the Archive in 2004. In this excerpt from his two-hour interview, he talks about composing one of the most recognizable theme songs of all time-- The Addams Family.

Season 1

• _{Friday, September 18th, 1964}

  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.

• _{Friday, September 25th, 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.

• _{Friday, October 2nd, 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 Addams family mistakes a cosmetics saleswoman as a respondent to the ad.

• _{Friday, October 9th, 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.

• _{Friday, October 16th, 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 their family. This prompts the Addams family to look back in their family tree.

• _{Friday, October 23rd, 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.

• _{Friday, October 30th, 1964}

  7: Halloween with the Addams Family

  It was a dark and stormy Halloween night when Gomez recieves a new carving knife in the mail.

• _{Friday, November 6th, 1964}

  8: Green-Eyed Gomez

  Lionel Barker, an old friend of Morticia' s, arrives at the house and Gomez is jealous of him.

• _{Friday, November 13th, 1964}

  9: The New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family

  Hubert and Amanda Peterson are newlyweds, and they have leased the house next door. Their bliss starts to erode immediately when they see the Family washing their pet octopus and Fester testing dynamite caps.

• _{Friday, November 20th, 1964}

  10: Wednesday Leaves Home

  Wednesday packs up her spider and runs away after being scolded for using Uncle Fester's blasting caps instead of her own.

• _{Friday, November 27th, 1964}

  11: The Addams Family Meet the V.I.P.'s

  Visiting dignitaries from an Iron Curtain country want to see a ""typical"" American family. Mr. Harris, the Government agent, is resistant to the idea. Mr. Haan insists, so they get out the phone book and randomly select a name. They land on the Addams listing.

• _{Friday, December 4th, 1964}

  12: Morticia, the Matchmaker

  Cousin Melancholia comes to seek solace at the Addams home. Melancholia's fiancee, Fred, has left to join the Foreign Legion. Morticia is determined to find her a new man and phones up Hasty Marriage.

• _{Friday, December 11th, 1964}

  13: Lurch Learns to Dance

  Gomez and Morticia are concerned when Lurch refuses to go to the annual Butler's Ball. They then learn the reason, Lurch can't dance. The Addams family then tries to help him by teaching him how to dance.

• _{Friday, December 18th, 1964}

  14: Art and the Addams Family

  Morticia has taken up painting and Gomez has art critic Bosley Swain evaluate her.

• _{Friday, January 1st, 1965}

  15: The Addams Family Meets a Beatnik

  Rockland ""Rocky"" Cartwright III, a beatnik, crashes his motorbike in front of the Addams' house.

• _{Friday, January 8th, 1965}

  16: The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man

  Hollister is an undercover operative who's been picking up odd radio signals from the Addams house. Convinced they're spies, he recruits the postman, Briggs, to help.

• _{Friday, January 15th, 1965}

  17: Mother Lurch Visits the Addams Family

  Lurch's mother is coming to visit, and he confesses that she doesn't know he's just the servant.

• _{Friday, January 22nd, 1965}

  18: Uncle Fester's Illness

  Fester is becoming sick- He can't even run the trains.

• _{Friday, January 29th, 1965}

  19: The Addams Family Splurges

  Gomez and Pugsley build a new computer, Wizzo, because the family wants somewhere new and interesting to visit.

• _{Friday, February 5th, 1965}

  20: Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family

  Cousin Itt arrives for a visit and settles into the attic. He's good at magic tricks, but restless.

• _{Friday, February 12th, 1965}

  21: The Addams Family in Court

  Grandma's been telling fortunes as Madame Bovary, helped by Thing. She's even set up a tent in the living room. Morticia is appalled and wants her to stop. It's too late, though, as the police arrest her.

• _{Friday, February 19th, 1965}

  22: Amnesia in the Addams Family

  Gomez is juggling with his Indian clubs and hits himself on the head knocking himself unconscious. When he comes to, his personality has drastically changed.

• _{Friday, March 5th, 1965}

  23: Thing Is Missing

  After Fester accidentaily insults Thing, Thing disappears and Gomez plays Sherlock Holmes to deduce who did it.

• _{Friday, March 12th, 1965}

  24: Crisis in the Addams Family

  Fester's in trouble for breaking the water mains for the fourth time in a row. Their insurance policy pays for the repair, but is canceled afterward.

• _{Friday, March 19th, 1965}

  25: Lurch and His Harpsichord

  Lurch' s harpsichord turns out to be a rare survivor of an extinct make, so Gomez is persuaded to donate it to the local museum. Lurch is left inconsolable, so the Family attempts to get him interested in other pursuits.

• _{Friday, March 26th, 1965}

  26: Morticia, the Breadwinner

  The stockmarket has collapsed, and thousands of people are going broke. Fester and Morticia think that the Family has lost all its money, so Morticia rallies the Family to make money without telling Gomez, as it would upset him.

• _{Friday, April 2nd, 1965}

  27: The Addams Family and the Spacemen

  There have been sightings of UFOs, and when Mr. Hinckley and Mr. Gilbert, investigators from the MSO (Mysterious Space Objects), comes across the Family on a moonlight picnic and snail hunt, they think that Lurch and Cousin Itt are aliens.

• _{Friday, April 9th, 1965}

  28: My Son, the Chimp

  Fester's working on a new experiment when something goes wrong.

• _{Friday, April 16th, 1965}

  29: Morticia's Favorite Charity

  There's a local charity auction being run by Mr Henson, and the Addams Family hears about it. He doesn't want their help, but they insist on donating items to it after Morticia complains that the attic is too full and needs cleaning out.

• _{Friday, April 23rd, 1965}

  30: Progress and the Addams Family

  Mr. Henson has now been made city Commissioner, and he condemns the Addams Family house to evict them and build a freeway in its place.

• _{Friday, April 30th, 1965}

  31: Uncle Fester's Toupee

  Fester's pen-pal Madelyn Cavendish Beauregard Faversham Firestone Smith, from Paris, Illinois, is coming to visit him, and he's told her he's a handsome, romantic type with a lot of hair.

• _{Friday, May 7th, 1965}

  32: Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor

  Cousin Itt is trying to decide on a career, and they call in Mr. Phelps, a vocational guidance expert.

• _{Friday, May 14th, 1965}

  33: Lurch, the Teenage Idol

  Lurch records a song at the harpsichord which eventually attracts swarms of screaming teenage fans to the house.

• _{Friday, May 21st, 1965}

  34: The Winning of Morticia Addams

  Fester reads an article that claims that apparently happy marriages are dangerous, because there is sickness hidden within. Since Gomez and Morticia are so happy, Fester thinks he'd better help out and make them have a few fights for their own good.

Season 2

• _{Friday, September 17th, 1965}

  1: My Fair Cousin Itt

  Gomez has written a play for the Family to celebrate Wednesday's birthday.

• _{Friday, September 24th, 1965}

  2: Morticia's Romance (1)

  On Morticia and Gomez's thirteenth wedding anniversary, Morticia tells the children a bedtime story of how she and Gomez met.

• _{Friday, October 1st, 1965}

  3: Morticia's Romance (2)

  Wednesday and Pugsley refuse to go to sleep until they are told the rest of the story of their parents' romance.

• _{Friday, October 8th, 1965}

  4: Morticia Meets Royalty

  Princess Millicent von Schlepp arrives for a visit in her sedan chair.

• _{Friday, October 15th, 1965}

  5: Gomez, the People's Choice

  Gomez is insulted by his latest tax bill, which is only $84, and complains to Mayor Henson, who misunderstands and offers him a rebate, convincing Gomez and Morticia that he's incompetent.

• _{Friday, October 22nd, 1965}

  6: Cousin Itt's Problem

  Cousin Itt is shedding hair, and the family is worried that he'll lose his great good looks along with his hair. Fester gets out his chemistry set to produce a batch of hair restorer and prevent a disaster.

• _{Friday, October 29th, 1965}

  7: Halloween... Addams Style

  It's Halloween and, despite salamander sandwiches and a fresh porcupine taffy, Wednesday's upset.

• _{Friday, November 5th, 1965}

  8: Morticia, the Writer

  Morticia disapproves of the books the children are assigned from school, since they portray giants, goblins, and ghouls, as the bad guys.

• _{Friday, November 12th, 1965}

  9: Morticia, the Sculptress

  Morticia wants to do something to add to life artisticaily, so she decides to take up sculpting.

• _{Friday, November 19th, 1965}

  10: Gomez, the Reluctant Lover

  Pugsley is all melancholic because he's in love with his teacher, Miss Dunbar.

• _{Friday, November 26th, 1965}

  11: Feud in the Addams Family

  Prominent Boston socialite Abigail Addams (cousin by marriage) is in a feud with the Gomez Addams branch of the family, and is threatening to sue Gomez for his millions.

• _{Friday, December 3rd, 1965}

  12: Gomez, the Cat Burglar

  Gomez sleepwalks thanks to Grandmama's Yak stew, while news of a cat burglar on the loose sets Morticia on the path to finding a cure.

• _{Friday, December 10th, 1965}

  13: Portrait of Gomez

  Strife magazine calls to tell Gomez that they're sending a photographer round, and he thinks he's been chosen their Man of the Year.

• _{Friday, December 17th, 1965}

  14: Morticia's Dilemma

  There's a letter for Gomez from Camplona, Spain - an old family friend, Don Xavier Francisco de la Mancha Molines and his daughter is coming to visit.

• _{Friday, December 24th, 1965}

  15: Christmas with the Addams Family

  Uncle Fester is chosen to slide down the chimney dressed as Santa Claus to prove the existence of St. Nick to the children. Fester gets stuck in the chimney, so Gomez, Lurch, Cousin Itt, and even Morticia and Grandmama each don a red suit and appear to the children.

• _{Friday, December 31st, 1965}

  16: Uncle Fester, Tycoon

  Fester gets a letter from another of his pen-pals, Diana the bearded lady. Overcome with emotion, he proposes to her by mail. After being accused of being unable to support her, Fester decides he has to get a job.

• _{Friday, January 7th, 1966}

  17: Morticia and Gomez vs. Fester and Grandmama

  Two weeks of unfavorable weather (blue skies and sunshine) keep the Addams children stuck indoors, where Morticia and Gomez believe Fester and Grandmama spoil them too much.

• _{Friday, January 14th, 1966}

  18: Fester Goes on a Diet

  Pugsley has been exercising, much to his parents' disapproval, when Fester gets a letter from his French pen-pal, Yvette, who is coming to visit. So he decides he has to get into shape, with the help of TV fitness guru Jack La Grann.

• _{Friday, January 21st, 1966}

  19: The Great Treasure Hunt

  In the attic the Family discovers Great-Grandfather Pegleg' s old sea chest, and there's a treasure map in it. Morticia wants to search for the treasure, but half the map is missing, so the search for the second half begins.

• _{Friday, January 28th, 1966}

  20: Ophelia Finds Romance

  Ophelia needs help with her latest romance, Horatio Bartholomew, whom she met at a Lonely Hearts' Club, but Grandma Frump objects to him, and Gomez and Morticia both think he's a phony, and try to convince Itt to marry Ophelia instead.

• _{Friday, February 4th, 1966}

  21: Pugsley's Allowance

  Pugsley wants some money and offers to work for it. This horrifies his parents, Addams don't work! They agree to let him work to teach him a lesson.

• _{Friday, February 11th, 1966}

  22: Happy Birthday, Grandma Frump

  Granny Frump's birthday is coming up and she's been invited over. Gomez and Morticia plan to send her to a beauty spa, but Pugsley thinks she's heading for the retirement home.

• _{Friday, February 18th, 1966}

  23: Morticia, the Decorator

  Morticia is caught up in the National Beautification Program and decides to become a decorator.

• _{Friday, February 25th, 1966}

  24: Ophelia Visits Morticia

  Ophelia is still having problems getting a man. As Gomez observes: 'In the school of romance, I'm afraid she's just a drop-out'. Ophelia's latest beau, Montrose, has left her (the sixth this year), for the Peace Corps.

• _{Friday, March 4th, 1966}

  25: Addams Cum Laude

  The school principal threatens to expel the children after they've been playing with dynamite caps.

• _{Friday, March 11th, 1966}

  26: Cat Addams

  Kitty Cat seems to have a loss of appetite. At first, they suspect that he's just lonely, and try to find him a wife. However, Cousin Itt tells them that Kitty Cat may just have a cold.

• _{Friday, March 18th, 1966}

  27: Lurch's Little Helper

  Morticia is afraid that they are overworking Lurch, so Gomez builds him a robot assistant.

• _{Friday, March 25th, 1966}

  28: The Addams Policy

  Morticia has a new flame thrower, which Fester tests, setting their polar bear on fire. They make a claim to their insurance company, infuriating Mr. Henson, the manager, because his clerk, Joe Digby, had forgotten to cancel the Family's coverage.

• _{Friday, April 1st, 1966}

  29: Lurch's Grand Romance

  Morticia's old school chum Tiny Trivia arrives for a visit. She's into show-biz and very theatrical. Lurch fails for her, but she has no time for him.

• _{Friday, April 8th, 1966}

  30: Ophelia's Career

  Ophelia arrives in tears as usual, as she's been jilted again. Morticia thinks she should take up a career to distract her from her bad track record with men.