The Addams Family
1964 - 1966
Follows the everyday lives of a creepy, kooky, mysterious, spooky, and altogether ooky family. Based on the comics by Charles Addams.
- Stars: John Astin, Carolyn Jones, Jackie Coogan, Blossom Rock, Ted Cassidy, Lisa Loring, Ken Weatherwax
- Created by: David Levy
- Tags: adaptation, family, scifi/fantasy
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Season 1
- Mail-order Bride: Episode 3, "Fester's Punctured Romance" (1964). Uncle Fester is lonely, so he writes a letter to a "lonely hearts" column, mistaking it for a mail-order bride service. When a cosmetics saleswoman comes to the door, everyone mistakes her for Fester's mail-order bride.
- Mounting the Hustings: Episode 4, "Gomez, the Politician" (1964). Gomez throws his support (and cash) behind a candidate for city council, but only if he can decide how the money is spent.
- Dance Lessons: Episode 13, "Lurch Learns to Dance" (1964). Lurch doesn't want to attend the annual butler's ball because he doesn't know how to dance, so Gomez and Morticia insist on teaching him.
- Lie for Me: Episode 17, "Mother Lurch Visits the Addams Family (1964). When Lurch receives a letter from his mother saying she's coming to visit, he reveals to the Addamses that he told her he owns the house. So, Gomez and Morticia send the rest of the family away and pretend to be Lurch's servants to please his mother.
- Bad Bet: Episode 19, "The Addams Family Splurges" (1965). The Addamses want to take a vacation on the moon and need to raise over $1 billion, so they decide to place some bets on horse races. Their horses net them over $8 million, but they find out their business manager never placed the bets because he was sure they would lose all their money.
- Amnesia: Episode 22, "Amnesia in the Addams Family" (1965). When Gomez accidentally hits himself in the head with two indian clubs during his new exercise routine, he loses not only his memory but his whole personality, making him act like a regular person.
- American Gigolo: Episode 26, "Morticia, the Breadwinner" (1965).When Morticia and Fester mishear a conversation between Gomez and his stockbroker, they thing the family's broke, so they decide to start businesses to make some money. Fester starts his own escort service, but he just scares any potential customers away.
- Monkeying Around: Episode 28, "My Son, the Chimp" (1965). When an explosion from one of Uncle Fester's magic spells sends Pugsley through a trapdoor, leaving an escaped chimp wearing Pugsley's shirt in his place, Fester thinks he accidentally turned Pugsley into a chimp.
- Séance: Episode 28, "My Son, the Chimp" (1965). When Pugsley goes missing, the family holds a séance to try to find him.
- Catfish: Episode 31, "Uncle Fester's Toupée" (1965) When Fester's pen pal, Madelyn, decides to come visit him, he reveals to Morticia and Gomez that he stretched the truth in his letters, and Madelyn thinks he's a "Carey Grant" type and former football player with a full head of hair.
- Toupée or Not Toupée: Episode 31, "Uncle Fester's Toupée" (1965). Uncle Fester's pen pal is coming to meet him for the first time, and he's told her a few lies about his appearance, so he wears an over-the-top toupée in attempt to match his phoney persona.
- Rorschach Test: Episode 32, "Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor" (1965). Cousin Itt can't figure out what career he should have, so Morticia and Gomez introduce him to a vocational counselor, who gives him a Rorschach test.
- 15 Minutes of Fame: Episode 33, "Lurch, the Teenage Idol" (1965). When a record producer hears Lurch humming and playing the harpsichord, Lurch becomes an overnight pop star and starts shirking his butler duties.
- Wrong Card: Episode 34, "The Winning of Morticia Addams" (1965). When a quack marriage counselor hits on Morticia, Gomez challenges him to a duel and tries to hand him his card, but instead he hands him a card for "Validated one-hour parking at Joe's."
Season 2
- My Fair Lady: Episode 1, "My Fair Cousin Itt" (1965). Gomez wants Cousin Itt to star in his play, but the director refuses because he can't understand anything Itt says. So Morticia helps Itt learn how to speak properly.
- I'm My Own Grandpa: Episodes 2-3, "Morticia's Romance" (1965). Carolyn Jones plays both Morticia Addams and her sister, Ophelia Frump.
- Election: Episode 5, "Gomez, the People's Choice" (1965). After a disappointing meeting with the mayor, Gomez decides to run for mayor himself.
- Séance: Episode 7, "Halloween - Addams Style" (1965). When a neighbor tells Wednesday there's no such thing as witches, the family holds a séance to summon their late Aunt Singe, who was a witch herself.
- Author, Author: Episode 8, "Morticia, the Writer" (1965). Morticia is appalled by the wholesome, happy books Wednesday and Pugsley are reading in school, so she decides to re-write some classic children's stories, but her dedication to her work leaves no time for her to spend with Gomez, and he worries her future success as an author will take her away from him.
- Vanity Press: Episode 8, "Morticia, the Writer" (1965). Gomez sends Morticia's writing to a publisher, who shows up at their house and says he wants to publish it immediately, but first he wants them to pay him $5,000.
- When I Paint My Masterpiece: Episode 9, "Morticia, the Sculptress" (1965). Morticia decides to become a sculptor, and she's very proud of her lumpy masterpieces, but the local art critic snubs her work, so Gomez pays Sam Picasso to pose as a buyer and convince Morticia she has talent.
- Hot for Teacher: Episode 10, "Gomez, the Reluctant Lover" (1965). Pugsley gives a love letter to his teacher.