The Addams Family TV Show.
I do like this ghoulish sitcom but it's nowhere near as funny as "The Munsters."
John Astin and Carolyn Jones are very good in particular.
John Astin and Carolyn Jones are very good in particular.
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- CreatorDavid LevyStarsJohn AstinCarolyn JonesJackie CooganThe misadventures of a blissfully macabre but extremely loving family.
- DirectorSidney LanfieldStarsCarolyn JonesJohn AstinJackie CooganFester's been sly and secretive lately, more than usual, and has also taken to intercepting the daily newspaper deliveries. He's been scanning the lonely hearts columns looking for a bride. Fester finally fesses up and writes a letter, with Gomez happy to snap the picture to adjoin it. Days pass without a response. When Miss Carver appears at the door, she's mistaken for Fester's correspondent - a desperate wanna-be housewife with suitcase in hand ready to move in. She's actually a door-to-door cosmetics saleswoman, and her smooth and mildly seductive sales pitch, with a 90-day plan to make over Fester, is mistaken for a callous disregard in matters of the heart. When she discovers what she's been mistaken for, she flees, never to return.
- DirectorJerry HopperStarsCarolyn JonesJohn AstinAllyn JoslynElection day is nearing, and Gomez is getting very excited. He puts up all his old campaign posters; notably, all of Gomez's favorite candidates were losers. Sam Hilliard is running for city council, and Gomez throws his support behind the man. Hilliard is eager to get his hands on Gomez's campaign contributions. However, Gomez declares that he'd like to see the money spent in certain ways. After hearing some of the Addams' suggestions, Hilliard wishes they would stay away from his campaign altogether.
- DirectorArthur HillerStarsCarolyn JonesJohn AstinAllyn JoslynThe local truant officer forces Wednesday and Pugsley to attend public school to their parents' consternation.
- DirectorJerry HopperStarsCarolyn JonesJohn AstinJackie CooganPugsley and Wednesday attend a birthday party for neighbor Harold Pomeroy. Though Morticia instructs her children to be modest about their advantages, it's not an attitude reflected by the Pomeroys, who call them kooks and proclaim them inferior. Incensed, Gomez hires Mr. Pomeroy's genealogist, Professor Simms, to examine the Addams' family tree for ancestors to flaunt at them. In the interim, Mr. Pomeroy completely changes his manner due to oil he thinks he's found on land owned by Gomez. Before the two meet up to discuss business, Simms spills the beans on several unsavory characters in Pomeroy's family tree, which only serves to impress Gomez and Morticia. The Pomeroys really ARE better than the Addams. It later influences the discussion of the land purchase, prompting Gomez to gush over Pomeroy's blood-thirty ancestors while Pomeroy, mortified, drives up his own price to keep Gomez from talking further.
- DirectorJean YarbroughStarsCarolyn JonesJohn AstinJackie CooganPugsley and Gomez visit Oscar Webber, who owns a failing circus. Pugsley befriends Gorgo, a gorilla. Gorgo follows them back to the Addams' house. Gomez hopes to find a spot for Gorgo in the household. To the dismay of Lurch, Gorgo shows some aptitude for some of the butler's tasks. Meanwhile, Morticia aspires to join a social club for women, The Ladies' League. When the ladies visit Morticia at home, will Gorgo's style of service impress the guests?
- DirectorSidney LanfieldStarsCarolyn JonesJohn AstinDon RicklesOn Halloween night, two robbers accept the Addams' unknowing invitation to celebrate in their home to hide out from the Law.
- DirectorJerry HopperStarsCarolyn JonesJohn AstinJackie CooganWhen Moticia's childhood friend, Lionel Barker, visits, Gomez views him as an old beau and current rival. Fearing he and Morticia might run off together, Gomez hires Mildred, an awkwardly man-crazy maid, to pull Lionel from Morticia, which doesn't work. When Morticia catches Gomez giving Mildred love lessons, she thinks her marriage is on the rocks. What neither realize is that Lionel's a white-collar con-man out to bilk Gomez.
- 1964–196625m7.5 (393)TV EpisodeDirectorJean YarbroughStarsCarolyn JonesJohn AstinCynthia PepperNewlyweds discover to their horror that the landlords of their newly-leased house are their bizarrely frightening next-door neighbors, the Addamses.
- DirectorSidney LanfieldStarsCarolyn JonesJohn AstinJackie CooganWhen a disgruntled Wednesday pretends to run away, her parents call the police and drive a cranky Missing Persons detective batty.
- DirectorSidney LanfieldStarsCarolyn JonesJohn AstinJackie CooganTwo suspicious Soviet dignitaries demand to visit a typical American they have picked at random, and end up visiting the Addams Family as a result.
- DirectorJerry HopperStarsCarolyn JonesJohn AstinJackie CooganWhen a bachelor lawyer hoping to make a business deal visits, he finds himself the unwilling target of Morticia's matchmaking when her cousin Melancholia arrives, distraught after being jilted.
- DirectorSidney LanfieldStarsCarolyn JonesJohn AstinJackie CooganLurch receives his annual invitation to The Butlers' Ball, which he ignores as usual because he can't dance. Morticia is determined he accept this year's invitation to avoid the reclusive direction in which he's headed. To that end, a dance teacher is hired, but when that doesn't work (due to frequent fainting spells), the whole family rallies to Lurch's cause, to the endangerment of innocent furniture and healthy vertebrae everywhere.
- DirectorSidney LanfieldStarsCarolyn JonesJohn AstinJackie CooganWhen an outraged art critic recommends that Mama get a teacher to help her paint better, Gomez gladly hires none other than Picasso for Mama. Not Pablo Picasso, Sam Picasso, a penniless non-talent who's more than willing to be flown to affluent America to teach in exchange for free room and board. Despite outside opinions to the contrary, Gomez believes Sam is an undiscovered master. Consequently, Sam soon finds himself locked in the Addams' basement until such time as he "finds himself" and starts cranking out masterpieces.
- 1964–196625m7.4 (319)TV EpisodeDirectorSidney LanfieldStarsCarolyn JonesJohn AstinJackie CooganA 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.
- 1964–196625m7.1 (289)TV EpisodeDirectorArthur LubinStarsCarolyn JonesJohn AstinJackie CooganThe feds get interested in the Addams Family due to Pugsley's ham radio, powered by Uncle Fester, sending out mysterious "coded" messages world wide. Agent Hollister enlists the aid of a few private citizens to suss out the Addams domain without raising their suspicions, but it doesn't work. The Addamses become aware that something's not right and call in the feds.
- 1964–196625m7.6 (328)TV EpisodeDirectorSidney LanfieldStarsCarolyn JonesJohn AstinJackie CooganLurch's mother comes to visit the Addams family. Paralyzed by shame, Lurch is unable to admit to Gomez his mistake: Lurch has told his mother that he owns the big house. Gomez gamely suggests a role reversal: Lurch will act like the man of the house, and Gomez and Morticia will act as his servants. Once Lurch's mother arrives, Gomez senses his mistake. The old woman treats Gomez and Morticia poorly, and the husband and wife strongly wish they had never gone along with the act.
- DirectorSidney LanfieldStarsCarolyn JonesJohn AstinJackie CooganLately, 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 must take their chances by engaging the services of a local physician, who pays them a house call.
- DirectorSidney LanfieldStarsCarolyn JonesJohn AstinJackie CooganThe 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 races.
- 1964–196625m7.5 (301)TV EpisodeDirectorSidney LanfieldStarsCarolyn JonesJohn AstinJackie CooganParks 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 him - would be perfect as the zoo's new curator. He has the two meet, but Commissioner Fisk misunderstands the intent and mistakes Itt for a new exotic animal attraction whom he has hauled away in chains when the others aren't looking. When the family finds out what's happened, Uncle Fester is ready to administer retribution the Addams way - with a bullet from behind.
- DirectorNat PerrinStarsCarolyn JonesJohn AstinJackie CooganWhile Gomez and Morticia were away bat hunting, Mama resumed her old bad habit of fortune telling, which soon snags her an arrest on a municipal code violation. In her hour of need, the family rallies to her side as none other than Gomez "Loophole" Addams - who's never lost a case (nor won one either) - dusts off his law degree to defend her in court.
- DirectorSidney LanfieldStarsCarolyn JonesJohn AstinJackie CooganAn accident with his new set of old Indian clubs gives Gomez amnesia and a complete shift in aesthetics. It, unfortunately, coincides with the new million dollar double indemnity insurance policy he's just drawn up to benefit Morticia, causing the amnesic Gomez - aghast at his macabre home and family - to think his life's in jeopardy. A second blow on the head might return him to normal. Unfortunately for Gomez there are plenty of clubs with just as many loving family members skulking about, keen to restore his sanity.
- DirectorSidney LanfieldStarsCarolyn JonesJohn AstinJackie CooganWhen Thing goes missing, the family discovers he's been "thing-napped."
- DirectorSidney LanfieldStarsCarolyn JonesJohn AstinJackie CooganOnce again, Fester's cannon has wrecked the plumbing. The Arthur J. Henson Insurance Agency, subsidiary of Excelso Fidelity Insurance, is outraged by yet another in a series of payouts on the Addams policy, but a clause in the small print enables them to finally cancel it. Fester's allowance is subsequently suspended, so he gets a job - as an insurance salesman for Henson Insurance. It's not hard to guess to whom he sells his first policy, which has the head of the company in an uproar and storming his way to the Addams house to wheedle out of it.
- DirectorSidney LanfieldStarsCarolyn JonesJohn AstinJackie CooganLurch feels betrayed when Gomez and Morticia give their antique harpsichord to a museum.