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Season 1

The Addams Family — Season 1

Sep 18, 1964

Season 1 consists of 34 episodes and established the iconic characters and the show's subversive humor: that the "monstrous" Addams family was actually the most loving, stable, and well-adjusted family on television compared to their "normal" neighbors.

  • The Addams Family Goes to School

    1. The Addams Family Goes to School

    Sep 18, 1964

    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.

    25m
  • Morticia and the Psychiatrist

    2. Morticia and the Psychiatrist

    Sep 25, 1964

    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.

    25m
  • Fester's Punctured Romance

    3. Fester's Punctured Romance

    Oct 02, 1964

    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.

    25m
  • Gomez, the Politician

    4. Gomez, the Politician

    Oct 09, 1964

    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.

    25m
  • The Addams Family Tree

    5. The Addams Family Tree

    Oct 16, 1964

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

    25m
  • Morticia Joins the Ladies League

    6. Morticia Joins the Ladies League

    Oct 23, 1964

    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.

    25m
  • Halloween with the Addams Family

    7. Halloween with the Addams Family

    Oct 30, 1964

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

    25m
  • Green-Eyed Gomez

    8. Green-Eyed Gomez

    Nov 06, 1964

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

    25m
  • The New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family

    9. The New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family

    Nov 13, 1964

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

    25m
  • Wednesday Leaves Home

    10. Wednesday Leaves Home

    Nov 20, 1964

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

    25m
  • The Addams Family Meet the VIPs

    11. The Addams Family Meet the VIPs

    Nov 27, 1964

    Visitors from another country regret labelling the Addams gang uncultured.

    25m
  • Morticia, the Matchmaker

    12. Morticia, the Matchmaker

    Dec 04, 1964

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

    25m
  • Lurch Learns to Dance

    13. Lurch Learns to Dance

    Dec 11, 1964

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

    25m
  • Art and the Addams Family

    14. Art and the Addams Family

    Dec 18, 1964

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

    25m
  • The Addams Family Meets a Beatnik

    15. The Addams Family Meets a Beatnik

    Jan 01, 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.

    25m
  • The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man

    16. The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man

    Jan 08, 1965

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

    25m
  • Mother Lurch Visits the Addams Family

    17. Mother Lurch Visits the Addams Family

    Jan 15, 1965

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

    25m
  • Uncle Fester's Illness

    18. Uncle Fester's Illness

    Jan 22, 1965

    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.

    25m
  • The Addams Family Splurges

    19. The Addams Family Splurges

    Jan 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.

    25m
  • Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family

    20. Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family

    Feb 05, 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.

    25m
  • The Addams Family in Court

    21. The Addams Family in Court

    Feb 12, 1965

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

    25m
  • Amnesia in the Addams Family

    22. Amnesia in the Addams Family

    Feb 19, 1965

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

    25m
  • Thing is Missing

    23. Thing is Missing

    Mar 05, 1965

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

    25m
  • Crisis in the Addams Family

    24. Crisis in the Addams Family

    Mar 12, 1965

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

    25m
  • Lurch and His Harpsichord

    25. Lurch and His Harpsichord

    Mar 19, 1965

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

    25m
  • Morticia, the Breadwinner

    26. Morticia, the Breadwinner

    Mar 26, 1965

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

    25m
  • The Addams Family and the Spacemen

    27. The Addams Family and the Spacemen

    Apr 02, 1965

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

    25m
  • My Son, the Chimp

    28. My Son, the Chimp

    Apr 09, 1965

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

    25m
  • Morticia's Favorite Charity

    29. Morticia's Favorite Charity

    Apr 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.

    25m
  • Progress and the Addams Family

    30. Progress and the Addams Family

    Apr 23, 1965

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

    25m
  • Uncle Fester's Toupee

    31. Uncle Fester's Toupee

    Apr 30, 1965

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

    25m
  • Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor

    32. Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor

    May 07, 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.

    25m
  • Lurch, the Teenage Idol

    33. Lurch, the Teenage Idol

    May 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?

    25m
  • The Winning of Morticia Addams

    34. The Winning of Morticia Addams

    May 21, 1965

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

    25m

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