The Addams Family
“When we’re together, every night is Halloween.”
About
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.
Cast
Carolyn Jones
as Morticia Addams
John Astin
as Gomez Addams
Jackie Coogan
as Uncle Fester
Ted Cassidy
as Lurch
Marie Blake
as Grandmama
Lisa Loring
as Wednesday Addams
Ken Weatherwax
as Pugsley Addams
Seasons
Season 1
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.
Season 2
Season 2 of The Addams Family (1965–1966) continued the sitcom's run of 30 episodes, leaning further into the absurd and cementing the show’s legacy as a cult classic. While 1960s television was rarely serialized, Season 2 expanded the lore of the Addams world and introduced more of their extended, "unusual" family members.
Episodes
Season 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.
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.
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 family mistake a cosmetics saleswoman as a respondent to the ad.
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.
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 theirs.
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.
Halloween with the Addams Family
Two bank robbers accept an unknowing invitation and visit Morticia and Gomez on Halloween, in order to avoid being caught.
Green-Eyed Gomez
Gomez throws a fit of jealousy when Morticia's former boyfriend visits.
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