The Addams Family

Thing disappears from his box.

Gomez decides to bolster Cousin Itt's failing ego by making him the star of a production aimed as a birthday surprise for Wednesday.

While Morticia and Gomez are celebrating their 13th wedding anniversary, she tells Wednesday and Pugsley a bedtime story of how she and Gomez first met. In this episode, Carolyn Jones plays Morticia, Morticia as a 22-year-old, and sister Ophelia.

Uncle Fester applies for a job as an insurance salesman with the same company which is threatening to cancel the Addams'' policy (because Fester keeps blowing things up).

Wednesday and Pugsley refuse to go to bed until they hear the rest of the courtship story. Morticia resumes the tale via flashback, including the ceremony beginning with Ophelia Frump, Morticia's balmy sister, as the bride.

Lurch becomes inconsolable when Gomez donates the family harpsichord to a collector.

When Morticia hears the stock market has crashed, she assumes that Gomez has been financially wiped out and rallies the family to help make money.

Romance seems close for Thing, the Addams right-hand-in-a-box, when Gomez's aunt arrives for a visit accompanied by Lady Fingers, her handmaiden. Thing enjoys the visit most because it gives him a chance to hold hands with one of his own kind.

While enjoying a moonlight picnic and snail hunt, the Addams Family is mistaken for Martians by uniformed investigators from Mysterious Space Objects Headquarters. In turn, Gomez and the clan regard their inquisitors with suspicion.

Morticia and Gomez visit Mayor Henson to complain that their property tax is ridiculously low. After the Mayor proves his incompetence by offering a refund, Gomez is persuaded to become a candidate for the office.

An organ grinder's fugitive monkey leads Fester to believe that he has turned Pugsley into a monkey.

During a welcome home party for Cousin Itt, Morticia notices that the diminutive guest of honor seems to be losing his hair. Uncle Fester experiments with his chemistry set to produce a concoction that grows hair and tries the remedy on Itt.

Wednesday and Pugsley return in tears from trick-or-treating because a neighbor has told them there is no such thing as a witch. Morticia and Gomez plan to prove to the children that they do exist--by summoning a witch to a séance.

Morticia's favorite charity is having an auction--so Morticia persuades her family to part with things to sell. Donations include Wednesday's headless doll, the old flogging table, a stuffed vulture and Uncle Fester's dynamite.

The Addams Family ignores notices that their house is to be condemned to make way for a freeway.

Determined to correct the dreadful literature that Wednesday and Pugsley are exposed to, Morticia sets out to create a new literary world. Gomez fears that his wife's first manuscript is so good, that once the publisher reads it, he will lose her.

Uncle Fester's Midwestern pen pal, Madelyn, is coming to visit. Fester panics, as he has described himself as handsome, heroic and romantic.

In need of artistic fulfillment, Morticia takes up sculpting. An art critic views her first endeavor--a three-eyed Gomez statue--and clubs it with his cane. Gomez, who won't have Morticia's heart broken gets, a seedy art dealer to buy it.

Morticia and Gomez are worried about Cousin Itt--because he spends his days sleeping and dreaming in his tiny room.

Pugsley copies one of his dad's old love letters and sends it to his teacher. Miss Dunbar comes to visit the Addams home and confesses to Gomez that no man has ever fallen so in love with her, leading Morticia to pretend to be the jealous wife.

After Wednesday befriends a new boy her age, Robespierre Courtney, Morticia invites his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Courtney, to visit the Addams house for tea. Unbeknownst to them, the Courtney's are hoping to meet a number of the social set.

A recording company's platter of Lurch's gravelly voice brings a screaming mob of teenage fans to the Addams house.

There is a neighborhood burglar on the loose, and Morticia has reason to believe it could be Gomez. Morticia decides to probe his subconscious mind for a key to his criminality after she and Uncle Fester discover loot hidden in the storeroom.

Taken in by a psychologist's pronouncement that the only happily married couples are those who fight members of the Addams household devise schemes to start a battle between Gomez and Morticia.

Morticia's pet plant Cleopatra gobbles up her favorite photo of Gomez from the family album. When the original photographer is found and asked to make a duplicate picture, it is discovered that he is now with the Department of Motor Vehicles.