The Addams Family

1The Addams Family Goes to School

25 minSep 18, 1964★ 7.5

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.

2Morticia and the Psychiatrist

25 minSep 25, 1964★ 7.7

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.

3Fester's Punctured Romance

25 minOct 2, 1964★ 7.3

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.

4Gomez, the Politician

25 minOct 9, 1964★ 7.3

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.

5The Addams Family Tree

25 minOct 16, 1964★ 7.5

Pugsley and Wednesday get into a fight over families with their friend Harold, who says that his family is better than theirs.

6Morticia Joins the Ladies League

25 minOct 23, 1964★ 7.3

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.

7Halloween with the Addams Family

25 minOct 30, 1964★ 7.7

Two bank robbers accept an unknowing invitation and visit Morticia and Gomez on Halloween, in order to avoid being caught.

8Green-Eyed Gomez

25 minNov 6, 1964★ 7.8

Gomez throws a fit of jealousy when Morticia's former boyfriend visits.

9The New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family

25 minNov 13, 1964

A young couple, simple, naive, and very much in love, move into the house next to the Addams'.

10Wednesday Leaves Home

25 minNov 20, 1964

Family worries when a flustered Wednesday runs away after being scolded for borrowing Uncle Fester's TNT.

11The Addams Family Meet the VIPs

25 minNov 27, 1964

Visitors from another country regret labelling the Addams gang uncultured.

12Morticia, the Matchmaker

25 minDec 4, 1964

Morticia plays matchmaker when her cousin Melancholia and a bachelor lawyer hoping to make a business deal both visit at the same time.

13Lurch Learns to Dance

25 minDec 11, 1964

Morticia and Gomez are supportive of Lurch and encourage him to follow his gut feeling and take dance lessons.

14Art and the Addams Family

25 minDec 18, 1964

Grandmama takes up painting and hires the distressed Sam Picasso as her teacher.

15The Addams Family Meets a Beatnik

25 minJan 1, 1965

A 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.

16The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man

25 minJan 8, 1965

An undercover operative is convinced that the Addams family are spies.

17Mother Lurch Visits the Addams Family

25 minJan 15, 1965★ 7.0

Morticia and Gomez pose as Lurch's maid and butler when his mother comes for a visit.

18Uncle Fester's Illness

25 minJan 22, 1965★ 7.5

Lately, 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.

19The Addams Family Splurges

25 minJan 29, 1965

The 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.

20Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family

25 minFeb 5, 1965

Parks 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.

21The Addams Family in Court

25 minFeb 12, 1965

Grandmama is arrested for telling fortunes and soon the whole family is being held in contempt of court.

22Amnesia in the Addams Family

25 minFeb 19, 1965

Gomez suffers from amnesia after being hit in the head with Indian clubs, and his personality changes dramatically.

23Thing is Missing

25 minMar 5, 1965

When Thing goes missing, the family discovers he's been "thing-napped."

24Crisis in the Addams Family

25 minMar 12, 1965

Uncle Fester applies for a job as an insurance salesman with the same company which is threatening to cancel the Addams' policy.

25Lurch and His Harpsichord

25 minMar 19, 1965

Lurch feels betrayed when Gomez and Morticia give their antique harpsichord to a museum.

26Morticia, the Breadwinner

25 minMar 26, 1965

When Morticia believes the family to be bankrupt, she sells her railroad shares to a mystery buyer to raise money.

27The Addams Family and the Spacemen

25 minApr 2, 1965

With reports of UFOs in the area, the Addams believe they have been visited by two Martians. Vito Scotti appears as Professor Altshuler.

28My Son, the Chimp

25 minApr 9, 1965

The family believes that Pugsley has been turned into a chimp.

29Morticia's Favorite Charity

25 minApr 16, 1965

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.

30Progress and the Addams Family

25 minApr 23, 1965

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

31Uncle Fester's Toupee

25 minApr 30, 1965

Fester's penpal drops by unexpectedly, so he must assume the false personality he has been pretending to be.

32Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor

25 minMay 7, 1965

Morticia and Gomez call an expert to find Cousin Itt a job after he fails at being a marriage counselor, almost splitting up Gomez and Morticia in the process.

33Lurch, the Teenage Idol

25 minMay 14, 1965

Low grunts and grumbles while at the harpsichord constitute Lurch's manner of singing. Gomez has a record company record him and soon the Addams house is surrounded by excited teenyboppers, fawning and fainting over Lurch when he becomes the newest hit sensation. All that blind adoration goes to Lurch's head, and the Addames quickly find they have a self-centered butler who won't "buttle" any longer. Could it be they've created a monster?

34The Winning of Morticia Addams

25 minMay 21, 1965

Members of the Addams household devise schemes to start a battle between Gomez and Morticia.