The Addams Family
The Addams Family is the creation of American cartoonist Charles Addams, whose cartoons appeared in The New Yorker magazine. 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. The Addams Family consisted of Gomez (John Astin) and Morticia Addams (Carolyn James) and their two children, Pugsley (Ken Weatherwax) and Wednesday (Lisa Loring). Also included are Uncle Fester (Jackie Coogan), Grandmama (Blossom Rock), the hairy Cousin Itt (Felix Silla), and the butler, Lurch (Ted Cassidy) and Thing! The series lasted two seasons and was later transformed into the 1991 feature film starring Raul Julia and Angelica Huston.
Genre: Comedy
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Episode 34
The Winning of Morticia Addams
aired: Fri, Feb 1, 2008
Uncle Fester is distraught when he reads a disturbing article in a magazine. A certain psychologist has proclaimed that the happiest-seeming marriages are actually the ones at the most risk of ending in divorce. There has never been a more blissful union than that of Gomez and Morticia, so Fester gets all the household members to devise schemes to force a battle between the two. When all their efforts only seem to be bringing the loving couple closer together, Fester gets desperate and introduces another man into the picture.
Episode 33
Lurch, The Teenage Idol
aired: Fri, Feb 1, 2008
The family has always taken pleasure in Lurch's harpsichord playing, but they didn't know his talent extended into his vocal chords. A thrilled Gomez and Morticia invite music promoter, Mizzy Bickle, to hear Lurch perform, and Bickle declares that Lurch is destined to be the next great pop sensation. In practically no time, a record is released and Lurch is thrown into the spotlight, bringing hordes of screaming (and fainting) teenage girls to the Addams home. Uncle Fester thinks they're being invaded and takes up battlestations, but Lurch calms the crowd by taking his place at the harpsichord bench and rewarding his fans with a song to end all songs.
Episode 32
Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor
aired: Fri, Feb 1, 2008
Morticia and Gomez are worried about Cousin Itt. He has seemed depressed lately, sleeping away entire days alone in his tiny room. They decide that what Itt needs is a career to occupy his time. The two agree that Itt would make an excellent marriage counselor and pretend to be a couple with a failing marriage. However, when Itt's "counseling" causes them to fight, they find that they were wrong, so they seek the assistance of a professional vocational counselor to help Itt find his perfect career match.
Episode 31
Uncle Fester's Toupee
aired: Fri, Feb 1, 2008
Uncle Fester has been corresponding with a woman named Madelyn from Paris, Illinois. In his letters he has described himself as being a "Cary Grant type," that is, handsome, heroic, and romantic. Needless to say, when she writes to tell him that she is coming for a visit, he panics. Gomez and Morticia decide that all Fester really needs to bolster his already attractive features is a hairpiece, so the three scramble to find him the perfect wig, trying out everything from a crew cut to a Beatles-style mop top.
Episode 30
Progress and the Addams Family
aired: Fri, Feb 1, 2008
The Addams Family have been ignoring notices informing them that their house is to be condemned. Then, when a series of explosions cannot be traced to any member of the family, they learn that Mr. Henson, their ex-insurance man and now City Commissioner, is the one responsible. He plans to build a freeway through their home, hoping that this will force them out of town, but when he learns of Gomez's plans to move the mansion to another lot and create new swamps, he realizes that getting rid of the Addams family is much easier said than done.
Episode 29
Morticia's Favorite Charity
aired: Fri, Feb 1, 2008
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.
Episode 28
My Son, The Chimp
aired: Fri, Feb 1, 2008
An organ grinder's chimpanzee has escaped his owner and wandered into the Addams' home. Pugsley befriends the primate and the pair go to see Uncle Fester who is practicing conjuring spells in the playroom. When one of Fester's incantations causes an explosion - throwing Pugsley into a secret room - it leads a bewildered Fester to believe he has turned his nephew into a chimp! Soon, Morticia and Gomez are treating the monkey as though he were their son, welcoming him to the dinner table and assigning him chores.
Episode 27
The Addams Family and the Spacemen
aired: Fri, Feb 1, 2008
Pugsley is having fun playing with his rockets. Unfortunately, the explosions prompt the neighbors to report unidentified flying objects to the Mysterious Space Objects headquarters. The M.S.O. sends two of their agents to investigate, and they end up stumbling upon the Addams family out enjoying a moonlight picnic and snail hunt. Their odd behavior convinces the agents that the Addams are Martians, and Gomez, in turn, suspects that the strangely uniformed inquisitors are also alien beings and locks them up while he goes to call M.S.O. himself.
Episode 26
Morticia, The Breadwinner
aired: Fri, Feb 1, 2008
The news is everywhere: the bottom has fallen out of the stock market and thousands of people are now broke. When Morticia overhears Gomez speaking on the phone with his broker, she jumps to the conclusion that the family has lost its fortune. She gathers the family and rallies them to find ways of earning some extra income. She volunteers to give fencing and dancing lessons, Lurch and Fester decide to run an escort service, Grandmama embarks on a career as a hairstylist, and the kids also contribute by running a poison drink stand.
Episode 25
Lurch and His Harpsichord
aired: Fri, Feb 1, 2008
Gomez and Morticia learn that their family's harpsichord is the only surviving piece of a near-extinct and antique make. They are persuaded to donate the instrument to the local museum, practically destroying Lurch. He becomes utterly inconsolable even though the family tries all they can to cheer him up. They introduce him to other activities such as drumming and needlepoint, but when it becomes clear that nothing is working, Gomez and Uncle Fester decide to build Lurch a new harpsichord from scratch.
Episode 24
Crisis In The Addams Family
aired: Fri, Feb 1, 2008
While goofing around in the play room, Uncle Fester explodes the mansion's water main - for the fourth time. The Addams' home insurance company is fed up with their frequently occurring "accidents" and is threatening to cancel their policy. Feeling guilty, Fester decides to apply for a job as a salesman with the same company in order to save the family's policy, and manages somehow to convince his interviewer that he is qualified for the position.
Episode 23
Thing Is Missing
aired: Fri, Feb 1, 2008
After a small falling out with Uncle Fester, Thing suddenly disappears! He's not in his box and not a trace of him can be found. Morticia fears foul play, and Gomez begins his own investigation into the matter - with all members of the household under suspicion. Later, when a ransom note shows up at the Addams door, the family hires a private detective to try and crack the case.
Episode 22
Amnesia In the Addams Family
aired: Fri, Feb 1, 2008
Gomez has begun a new exercise routine of juggling Indian clubs, but when one knocks him on the head, he forgets his Addams heritage and begins acting - gasp! - "normal." Dismayed at the new, "pretty" gowns Gomez is buying for her, and his comments about the house looking like a condemned museum, Morticia rallies the the family to try and hit Gomez on the head again in order for him to regain his memory. Gomez, though, thinks the family is out to kill him.
Episode 21
The Addams Family in Court
aired: Fri, Feb 1, 2008
Grandmama has started her own business as a fortune-teller, setting up a large tent in the Addams' living room and going by the name of Madame Bovary. Just as Morticia comes in to scold and stop her antics, an undercover policeman arrests Grandmama for fraud and hauls her off to jail. Gomez decides to act as her defense attorney and the entire family goes to court to show their support. Not surprisingly, the court session - and the judge - end up in shambles.
Episode 20
Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family
aired: Fri, Feb 1, 2008
Gomez and Morticia are thrilled to learn that their beloved Cousin Itt is coming for a visit. In order to get Itt to stay around longer, Morticia gets the family to try and find Itt a job in town. Gomez uses his influence with Park Commissioner Fiske to get Itt a job as the zoo curator, but when Itt shows up for work, the zookeepers are convinced the Addams' cousin is an exhibit which should be confined to a cage.
Episode 19
The Addams Family Splurges
aired: Fri, Feb 1, 2008
Gomez and Morticia want their next family vacation to be somewhere new and exciting, somewhere they've never been before. Then it hits them: they'll go to the moon! However, when Gomez consults the computer Pugsley has built to see what the trip would cost, they find they can't afford the billion dollar price tag. Uncle Fester volunteers to contribute $21.13, but they still have a long way to go. Then Morticia comes up with a plan to place a $2,000 bet on the daily double at the race track in order to come up with the rest of the cash.
Episode 18
Uncle Fester's Illness
aired: Fri, Feb 1, 2008
The Addams family are all excited to go on a weekend outing, but the plans are changed abruptly when Uncle Fester suddenly comes down with a mysterious ailment: he is without any electricity! Morticia prescribes a bowl of porcupine mold, and both she and Gomez agree that moon ray exposure would be beneficial, but nothing seems to work. Out of ideas, and with Thing seeming to be suffering as well, Morticia and Gomez seek outside help, but they aren't sure whether they should call a doctor or an electrician!
Episode 17
Mother Lurch Visits the Addams Family
aired: Fri, Feb 1, 2008
Lurch receives a letter from his mother informing him that she is coming for a visit. He confesses to Gomez and Morticia that his mother doesn't know that he is simply a servant. Thankfully, Morticia gets an idea that will help Lurch keep up appearances: Lurch will act as the master of the house while she poses as the maid, and Gomez pretends to be the butler. Unfortunately, the plan's execution proves difficult. Lurch has trouble breaking old habits and things only get worse when his tiny, fire-eating mother finally arrives and demands that his employers wait on her boy hand-and-foot.
Episode 16
The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man
aired: Fri, Feb 1, 2008
Pugsley has a new toy: a powerful radio able to communicate with people all over the world. A government agent named Hollister picks up the signals coming from the Addams home and becomes convinced that the Addams mansion is full of spies. He hires both the postman, Mr. Briggs, and the plumber, Mr. Conkey, to infiltrate the Addams home and learn what they are up to. As can be expected, his plan completely backfires, and his reluctant undercover agents flee the Addams home.
Episode 15
The Addams Family Meets a Beatnik
aired: Fri, Feb 1, 2008
When a young man named "Rocky" crashes his motorcycle into a tree in the Addams' yard, they allow him to stay at the mansion to recuperate. Although Rocky finds them odd - and the family feels the same about him - it isn't long before the two different parties become fond of each other's company. Then Gomez discovers that the beatnik is actually Rockland Cartwright III, the son of a wealthy business tycoon and that the young Cartwright is hiding from his father who doesn't accept him.
Episode 14
Art and the Addams Family
aired: Fri, Feb 1, 2008
Grandmama has taken up a new hobby: painting! Impressed with her work, Gomez brings in art critic, Bosley Swain, to take a look. Swain advises Grandmama to take some lessons, so Gomez calls "Picasso" and invites him over to teach Grandmama how to paint in the abstract. However, the man who shows up at the mansion is SAM Picasso who ignores Grandmama and Morticia and focuses mainly on eating. Swain informs Gomez that Sam is a fake and tells him to "throw the bum out," but the family decides to prove the critic wrong.
Episode 13
Lurch Learns to Dance
aired: Fri, Feb 1, 2008
It is time again for the annual Butler's Ball, but Lurch refuses to go. Gomez and Morticia are surprised by his refusal, and after some prodding, learn the reason for his hesitation. It seems that Lurch is something of a wallflower at social functions because he can't dance. After a disastrous experience with a dance instructor, Gomez, Morticia, and Wednesday each try their hand at showing Lurch some moves in an effort to transform him from a lumbering giant into a veritable gazelle.
Episode 12
Morticia, The Matchmaker
aired: Fri, Feb 1, 2008
Morticia's homey cousin, Melancholia, pays a visit to the Addams home in order to pull herself back together after her fiancee leaves her to join the Foreign Legion - as many other suitors had done before. To help cheer her up, Morticia decides to play matchmaker, and she and Gomez arrange a dinner date for Melancholia and Charles Harvey. Once at the Addams mansion, Harvey attempts many escapes but is constantly pulled back by the Addams family and even his boss.
Episode 11
The Addams Family Meets the V.I.P.'s
aired: Fri, Feb 1, 2008
Official visitors from an unfriendly nation receive the shock of their lives when they decide to exploit the Addams Family as an average, uncultured American family. The visitors are shaken up by Morticia's carnivorous plants and Uncle Fester's penchant for jolts of electricity, not to mention some of the extended family like Lurch and Thing. As happens with most visitors to the Addams home, the visiting dignitaries end up running screaming from the mansion.
Episode 10
Wednesday Leaves Home
aired: Fri, Feb 1, 2008
The family faces a crisis when Wednesday packs up her pet spider, Homer, and runs away from home after being scolded for playing with Uncle Fester's dynamite instead of her own. Gomez and Morticia try to file a missing persons report but end up making an anxious detective consider early retirement instead. It isn't long before they find out that Wednesday hasn't run away at all but has only been hiding out with Pugsley in his room.
Episode 9
New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family
aired: Fri, Feb 1, 2008
A pair of newlyweds, Amanda and Hubert Peterson, leases the house next door to the Addams Family mansion, but their honeymoon loses its tranquility when Uncle Fester unexpectedly enters their house through a secret tunnel. The Addams invite their new neighbors over to their home, but the young couple flees in terror at the sight of Lurch, Grandmama sharpening her ax, and Morticia and Gomez bathing the octopus.
Episode 8
Green-Eyed Gomez
aired: Fri, Feb 1, 2008
When Morticia's old friend, Lionel Barker, comes to visit the Addams mansion, Gomez becomes jealous. Barker, however, is con-man who is not out for romance, but money, and soon his attentions are turned from Morticia to Mildred, the new maid, much to the relief of Gomez. Barker has learned that Mildred has a small fortune in stocks, and he and Mildred are soon married. However, the new couple's happiness is short-lived when all of Mildred's stocks suddenly plummet.
Episode 7
Halloween With the Addams Family
aired: Fri, Feb 1, 2008
It's the Addams' favorite night of the year: Halloween! While Grandmama is out trick-or-treatng with Wednesday and Pugsley, a pair of bank robbers on the run decide to hide out at the Addams mansion. The two burglars are welcomed as Halloween trick-or-treaters, and when they see Gomez's desk full of money, they decide to add some Addams cash and jewelry to their bank loot. However, the creepy atmosphere of the house, Morticia's smoldering holiday punch, and Lurch's ominous presence impel the crooks to rethink their plans.
Episode 6
Morticia Joins the Ladies League
aired: Fri, Feb 1, 2008
When Gomez and Pugsley go to the circus, Pugsley ends up befriending Gorgo the Gorilla who later escapes and follows the Addams men home. Gorgo is eventually made a part of the family, shocking the women of the Ladies League whom Morticia has invited over for tea with the hope of becoming a member. Soon Gorgo is doing all the household chores, much to the dismay of Lurch.
Episode 5
The Addams Family Tree
aired: Fri, Feb 1, 2008
Pugsley and Wednesday start a row at a birthday party when their gift of a tarantula upsets Harold, the birthday boy. The strange gift causes Harold's parents to insist that the Addams children lack breeding and, therefore, are no longer allowed to play with their son. Gomez and Morticia then hire a genealogist to trace their heritage in order to prove the Pomeroys wrong.
Episode 4
Gomez, the Politician
aired: Fri, Feb 1, 2008
The Addams family gets into politics when Gomez learns that ex-truant officer, Mr. Hilliard, is running for city council. He enthusiastically volunteers to contribute funds and campaign for Hilliard, but Morticia is a bit concerned. One of Hilliard's platform issues is the draining of the city's swamps, but Morticia likes "the lovely bogs." Gomez assures her there is nothing to worry about as all politicians do the opposite of their campaign promises. Hilliard says as much himself when he drops by the Addams mansion. His intention had been to keep the Addams from getting involved in his campaign at all, but every effort he makes to dissuade them only increases their fervor: they offer their pet lion, Kitty Cat, to be their mascot, and Lurch and Uncle Fester even write a song!
Episode 3
Fester's Punctured Romance
aired: Fri, Feb 1, 2008
Uncle Fester decides it is time to find himself a bride. He begins his search by taking out a personal ad in the newspaper. Gomez and Morticia, having been happily married for quite some time, enthusiastically help him with his quest. The entire family soon gets in on the fun, making preparations for Fester's impending nuptials. But when the ad goes unanswered, Fester is heartbroken. Then, a beautiful saleswoman arrives at the mansion, and Fester, Gomez, and Morticia mistakenly assume she is there to answer the ad and begin conducting an interview. Needless to say, they are quite shocked to hear some of the things she has to say.
Episode 2
Morticia and The Psychiatrist
aired: Fri, Feb 1, 2008
Morticia thinks something is wrong with Pugsley when she notices him ignoring his pet octopus, Aristotle, but uneasiness soon grows into utter distress when Pugsley's alarming actions escalate. He joins the Boy Scouts, begins playing baseball, and - gasp! - is seen out in the yard playing with a "p-u-p-p-y." Being the concerned and loving parents they are, Gomez and Morticia solicit the aid of child psychologist, Dr. Black, to help them set Pugsley straight. The doctor advises them to cater to Pugsley's childish whims as he will eventually grow tired of and abandon them. They try to follow his advice, but when it doesn't seem to be having any effect, they request he come over for a house call.
Episode 1
The Addams Family Goes To School
aired: Fri, Feb 1, 2008
The local school board gets wind of the young Addams children staying home from school, so they send Mr. Hilliard, the truant officer, to investigate. After visiting the Addams mansion and seeing their strange decor and even stranger behavior, he flees from their home and tells the school board they'd be better off with the Addams children staying home. The women on the board don't believe Hilliard's wild story and manage to convince Gomez and Morticia to send Pugsley and Wednesday to school. When Wednesday returns home in tears after being read a fairy tale where a dragon is brutally murdered by a knight, Gomez and Morticia are horrified. They call on Hilliard to help them ban fairy tale violence from the classroom.
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