The Addams Family (1964 - 1966)

Country of Origin: USA
Dates of Original Broadcast: 18 September 1964 - 8 April 1966
Number of Seasons: 2
Total Number of Episodes: 64
Average Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: black and white 35mm 1.33:1
Sound: mono

The Addams' are far from your usual family - dark, morbid and obsessed with pain and death, they shock their neighbours and any passing visitors. But underneath it all, it seems, they're just like the rest of us - they just happen to have a seven foot tall butler and a disembodied hand running about the place...

Sharp, witty and satirical, The Addams Family played subtle and clever games with the already well-established model of US television sitcoms. The cast are simply perfect, the scripts invariably hilarious and the reactions of visitors to the Addams mansion a telling indictment of the intolerance of some sectors of 50s American society.

SEASON ONE (1964 - 1965)
The Addams Family Goes to School (18 September 1964)
Morticia and the Psychiatrist (25 September 1964)
Fester's Punctured Romance (2 October 1964)
Gomez, the Politician (9 October 1964)
The Addams Family Tree (16 October 1964)
Morticia Joins the Ladies League (23 October 1964)
Halloween with the Addams Family (30 October 1964)
Green-Eyed Gomez (6 November 1964)
The New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family (13 November 1964)
Wednesday Leaves Home (20 November 1964)
The Addams Family Meet the V.I.P's (27 November 1964)
Morticia, the Matchmaker (4 December 1964)
Lurch Learns to Dance (11 December 1964)
Art and the Addams Family (18 December 1964)
The Addams Family Meets a Beatnik (1 January 1965)
The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man (8 January 1965)
Mother Lurch Visits the Addams Family (15 January 1965)
Uncle Fester's Illness (22 January 1965)
The Addams Family Splurges (29 January 1965)
Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family (5 February 1965)
The Addams Family in Court (12 February 1965)
Amnesia in the Addams Family (19 February 1965)
Thing Is Missing (5 March 1965)
Crisis in the Addams Family (12 March 1965)
Lurch and His Harpsichord (19 March 1965)
Morticia, the Breadwinner (26 March 1965)
The Addams Family and the Spacemen (2 April 1965)
My Son, the Chimp (9 April 1965)
Morticia's Favorite Charity (16 April 1965)
Progress and the Addams Family (23 April 1965)
Uncle Fester's Toupee (30 April 1965)
Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor (7 May 1965)
Lurch, the Teenage Idol (14 May 1965)
The Winning of Morticia Addams (21 May 1965)

SEASON TWO (1965 - 1966)
My Fair Cousin Itt (17 September 1965)
Morticia's Romance Part 1 (24 September 1965)
Morticia's Romance Part 2 (1 October 1965)
Morticia Meets Royalty (8 October 1965)
Gomez, the People's Choice (15 October 1965)
Cousin Itt's Problem (22 October 1965)
Halloween-Addams Style (29 October 1965)
Morticia, the Writer (5 November 1965)
Morticia, the Sculptress (12 November 1965)
Gomez, the Reluctant Lover (19 November 1965)
Feud in the Addams Family (26 November 1965)
Gomez, the Cat Burglar (3 December 1965)
Portrait of Gomez (10 December 1965)
Morticia's Dilemma (17 December 1965)
Christmas with the Addams Family (24 December 1965)
Uncle Fester, Tycoon (31 December 1965)
Morticia and Gomez vs. Fester and Grandmama (7 January 1966)
Fester Goes on a Diet (14 January 1966)
The Great Treasure Hunt (21 January 1966)
Ophelia Finds Romance (28 January 1966)
Pugsley's Allowance (4 February 1966)
Happy Birthday, Grandma Frump (11 February 1966)
Morticia, the Decorator (18 February 1966)
Ophelia Visits Morticia (25 February 1966)
Addams Cum Laude (4 March 1966)
Cat Addams (11 March 1966)
Lurch's Little Helper (18 March 1966)
The Addams Policy (25 March 1966)
Lurch's Grand Romance (1 April 1966)
Ophelia's Career (8 April 1966)

USA
Laserdisc Availability: Criterion Television (CTV 1004L; includes - two full episodes (Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family and Amnesia in the Addams Family); clips from Season One episodes; commentary by David Levy, Herb Brower, John Astin, Lisa Loring, Ken Weatherwax, Ted Cassidy, Tony Magro, Vito Scotti and Vic Mizzy; excerpts from The Addams Family Chronicles by Steve Cox; behind-the-scenes and publicity photos; footage from The Addams Family (1973); footage from Halloween with the Addams Family (1977); trailers for The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993)); Lumivision (Volume 1: LVD 9216); Lumivision (Volume 2: LVD 9217); Lumivision (Volume 3: LVD 9218); Lumivision (Volume 4: LVD 9260); Lumivision (Volume 5: LVD 9261); Lumivision (Volume 6: LVD 9262)

1992
June
18: USA - laserdisc release (Lumivision (LVD 9216))

July
3: USA - laserdisc release (Lumivision (LVD 9217); Lumivision (LVD 9218))

1993
February
10: USA - laserdisc release (Lumivision (LVD 9260))

May
12: USA - laserdisc release (Lumivision (LVD 9261))

July
28: USA - laserdiscrelease (Lumivision (LVD 9262))

1994
October
12: USA - laserdisc release (Criterion Television (CTV 1004L))

Die Addams Family - German title
La famille Addams - French title
Az Addams család - Hungarian title
Az Addams family - Hungarian title
La famiglia Addams - Italian title
Familjen Addams - Swedish title

SEE ALSO
The Addams Family (1973 - 1975)
The Addams Family (1991a)
The Addams Family (1991b)
The Addams Family (1992)
Addams Family Reunion (1998)
Addams Family Values (1993)
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)
Halloween with the New Addams Family (1977)
The Haunting (1999)
The Munsters (1964-1966)
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996)
The New Addams Family (1998)
Scrooged (1988)
Il silenzio dei prosciutti (1994)
Vampire Raiders: Ninja Queen (1989)

FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Harry and the Hendersons (1987)

BOOKS

Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy pp.19-20
credits, episode guide

butlers, cartoons into television, children, disembodied hands, families, the occult

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008