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The Addams Family

Based on cartoon characters created by Charles Addams for "The New Yorker" magazine, this series introduces us to "The Addams Family," with father Gomez, mother Morticia, their children Pugsley and Wednesday, and an extended macabre family that includes zany Uncle Fester, witchy Grandmama, hairy Cousin It, their creepy butler Lurch, and a disembodied hand named "Thing."
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  1. S1 E1 - The Addams Family Goes To School
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    September 17, 1964
    26min
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    Morticia decides to keep the children home from school after she sees the fairy tales they have to read. When the truant officer comes to investigate, he is shocked at what he finds.
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  2. S1 E2 - Morticia and The Psychiatrist
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    September 24, 1964
    26min
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    Pugsley abandons his pet octopus for a puppy and, distraught, Morticia seeks the counsel of a psychiatrist.
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  3. S1 E3 - Fester's Punctured Romance
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    October 1, 1964
    26min
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    Uncle Fester convinces Gomez and Morticia that it is time for him to find a mate. Fester conducts his search by putting an ad in a news-paper.
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  4. S1 E4 - Gomez, the Politician
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    October 8, 1964
    26min
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    Election fever grips the Addams household, as Gomez supports the council candidate whose campaign promise is to drain the town's disgusting bogs. Morticia, who likes "the lovely bogs," labels the candidate an extremist.
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  5. S1 E5 - The Addams Family Tree
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    October 15, 1964
    26min
    13+
    Pugsley and Wednesday start a row at a birthday party when their gift upsets Harold, the birthday boy. Harold's parents decide that the Addams children lack breeding and forbid them playing together.
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  6. S1 E6 - Morticia Joins the Ladies League
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    November 17, 1998
    26min
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    Gorgo, an escaped circus gorilla, is accepted as one of the family which shocks the Ladies League members Morticia's invited to tea.
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  7. S1 E7 - Halloween With the Addams Family
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    October 29, 1964
    26min
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    A pair of bank robbers are welcomed as Halloween trick-or-treaters by Morticia and Gomez.
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  8. S1 E8 - Green Eyed Gomez
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    November 5, 1964
    26min
    13+
    When Lionel Barker, a former suitor of Morticia's, shows up, Gomez is jealous. But he's soon calmed when he learns that Barker is after Mildred, the new maid.
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  9. S1 E9 - New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family
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    November 12, 1964
    26min
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    A pair of newlyweds leases the house next door to the Addams Family. But the honeymoon loses its tranquility when Uncle Fester enters their house through a tunnel.
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  10. S1 E10 - Wednesday Leaves Home
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    November 19, 1964
    26min
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    The family faces a crisis when Wednesday packs her spider and runs away (after being scolded for playing with Uncle Fester's TNT instead of her own).
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  11. S1 E11 - The Addams Family Meets the V.I.P.'s
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    November 26, 1964
    26min
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    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.
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  12. S1 E12 - Morticia, The Matchmaker
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    December 3, 1964
    26min
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    Morticia's cousin, Melancholia, wants to marry Clarence P. Harvey after most of her marital prospects have joined the Foreign Legion.
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  13. S1 E13 - Lurch Learns to Dance
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    December 10, 1964
    26min
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    Lurch takes dancing lessons at Gomez and Morticia's suggestion, after he admits to being a wallflower.
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  14. S1 E14 - The Addams Family Meets a Beatnik
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    December 31, 1964
    25min
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    A beatnik crashes his motorbike into a tree and recuperates at the Addams house. Each regards the other as an oddity.
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  15. S1 E15 - Art and the Addams Family
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    December 17, 1964
    26min
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    Grandmama's paintings leave an art critic speechless, so Gomez sends for his friend, Sam Picasso, to teach Grandmama to paint in the abstract.
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  16. S1 E16 - The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man
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    January 7, 1965
    26min
    13+
    The postman is hired by the government to do undercover work in the Addams house. He investigates rumors that coded radio messages are being sent from the house.
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  17. S1 E17 - Mother Lurch visits the Addams Family
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    January 14, 1965
    26min
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    Lurch's tiny fire-eating mother visits and demands that Lurch's employers wait on her boy hand-and-foot.
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  18. S1 E18 - Uncle Fester's Illness
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    January 21, 1965
    26min
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    Uncle Fester's electrical output fails abruptly. His relatives don't know whether to call a doctor or an electrician to bring Fester back to full wattage.
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  19. S1 E19 - The Addams Family Splurges
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    January 28, 1965
    26min
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    The family would like to vacation on the moon, but the billion dollar travel cost is slightly prohibitive.
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  20. S1 E20 - Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family
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    February 4, 1965
    26min
    13+
    Gomez uses his influence to promote Cousin Itt for a job as curator of the local zoo but the zookeepers think Itt should be on display.
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  21. S1 E21 - The Addams Family in Court
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    February 11, 1965
    25min
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    Grandmama is hauled off to jail for setting up a fortune-telling booth in the Addamses' living room. Gomez acts as her attorney.
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  22. S1 E22 - Amnesia In the Addams Family
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    February 19, 1965
    26min
    13+
    Gomez loses his memory after hitting his head. The Addamses take turns hitting Gomez on the head trying to help him regain his memory.
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  23. S1 E23 - Thing is Missing
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    March 4, 1965
    26min
    13+
    Thing disappears from his box. Failing to find a single trace of Thing, Gomez conducts an investigation.
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  24. S1 E24 - Crisis in the Addams Family
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    March 11, 1965
    26min
    13+
    Uncle Fester applies for a job as an insurance salesman with the same company which is threatening to cancel the Addamses' policy.
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  25. S1 E25 - Lurch and His Harpsicord
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    March 18, 1965
    26min
    13+
    Lurch becomes inconsolable when Gomez donates the family harpsichord to a collector. Gomez and Fester decide to build a new harpsichord.
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Content advisory
Violencefrightening scenessmokingfoul language
Subtitles
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Directors
Arthur Hiller
Producers
Nat PerrinDavid Levy
Cast
John AstinCarolyn JonesJackie CooganKen WeatherwaxLisa LoringTed CassidyMarie Blake
Studio
MGM - TV
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