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SEASON 1 – ABC

Created by David Levy

This series is based on the cartoon strip of the same name by Charles Addams, published in the “New Yorker” magazine

Theme song: “The Addams Family” theme by Vic Mizzy

• 001. The Addams Family Goes to School – 9/18/1964
  • Mr. Sam Hilliard (Allyn Joslyn) visits the gloomy home of the Addams family on Cemetery Lane because they have an 8-year old son Pugsley (Ken Weatherwax) and 6-year old Wednesday (Lisa Loring) who have not been enrolled in Sherwood Elementary School. Hilliard meets the kids’ parents Gomez (John Astin) and Morticia “Tish” (Carolyn Jones), Uncle Fester (Jackie Coogan), Grandmama Addams (Blossom Rock aka Marie Blake), and the family butler Lurch (Ted Cassidy) as well as witnessing all sorts of eerie strangeness and supernatural happenings that the family seems to think are normal. He flees when he is nearly hit by a flying knife thrown by Uncle Fester. Tish is all for sending the kids to school and so they meet with the vice principal Miss Comstock (Madge Blake) and enroll the kids in school. But when Wednesday comes home crying because of the book Grimm’s Family Tales, which features a dragon getting slayed. Lurch brings Hilliard back to their home where they confront him about the violent books in the school. The school ultimately takes the Addams’ advice. Ted Cassidy‘s arm portrays the family’s pet disembodied hand Thing. Rolfe Sedan is Mr. Briggs the postman. Nydia Westman is Miss Morrison. 3/24/15

• 002. Morticia and the Psychiatrist – 9/25/1964
  • Gomez and Patricia are extremely distraught and disappointed with Pugsley – now 10 years old – when they find out that he wants to join the Eagle Scouts. When Pugsley ignores his pet octopus Aristotle to play with a puppy, Gomez tires to have a talk with him and Morticia reads him a soothing bedtime story: The Raven. They turn to child psychologist Dr. Harold Black (George Petrie), who suggests that the folks cater to Pugsley’s every whim. But when Pugsley refuses to blow up his father’s model train and continues bringing typical boy toys into the house, they invite the doctor to come visit. The doctor assumes that the family’s assortment of oddities and curios are what Pugsley is bringing into the house, and that the dynamite that Uncle Fester is trying to give Pugsley, are all part of the whims they are catering to. Dr. Black has a chat with Pugsley during which Pugsley recounts many of his bizarre activities and detonates the dynamite. The doctor assumes that this is Pugsley’s catharsis and that he is back to normal. Morticia later reads that Dr. Black has gone back to school. Pugsley happily dons werewolf mask signaling his return to ‘normalcy’. 3/24/15
• 003. Fester’s Punctured Romance – 10/2/1964
  • Fester is spoiling the kids, compensating for the fact that he feels no one needs him. He places an ad in the lonely hearts column for a potential bride, with Gomez taking a photo of him to submit. The family prepares for the wedding by preparing gifts and pulling out their old wedding cake. Uncle Fester gets discouraged when no one has answered his ad after one day, but when a cosmetics saleslady named Miss Carver (Merry Anders) arrives at the house, everyone assumes that she is the mail-order bride and that her cosmetic bag is her luggage for her to move right in. Uncle Fester isn’t attracted to her and tries to reject her, but she thinks he is rejecting the cosmetics. Finally she hears Gomez encourage Uncle Fester to try kissing her, and she immediately flees. Gomez introduces Fester to Zen Yoga which takes his mind off his loneliness. Robert Nunn is the newspaper boy. 3/28/15
• 004. Gomez, the Politician – 10/9/1964
  • It’s election season and Gomez gets in the spirit by putting up posters in the playroom of all of the losing candidates that the family has supported over the years. Gomez’ latest support is going toward Leonard G. Quimby for City Council, but a campaigner named George Bass (Eddie Quillan) stops by promoting his candidate Sam L. Hilliard, the Addams’ old friend from the school board. Hilliard wants nothing to do with the Addamses, but Bass convinces him that he needs their contributions. The Addams are willing to donate $20,000 but want to be involved in the campaign. Hilliard refuses their help and tries to discourage them by telling them that he will not make good on his promises to drain the swamps and fix the street lights. This intensifies their commitment, and they send Lurch, Fester, and Grandmama out to campaign. Hilliard heads to the Addams’ house to call them off the campaign, but Bass phones to tell him that he’s lost the election, which Quimby credits to the Addamses. Despite a newspaper report that Hilliard is going to leave town, he later phones the Addams to tell him he’s glad he lost because he was appointed head of the school board. Bill Baldwin is the TV announcer. Bob LeMond is the reporter. 3/28/15
• 005. The Addams Family Tree – 10/16/1964
  • Pugsley and Wednesday head off to the birthday party of Harold Pomeroy (Kim Tyler) with a tarantula as a gift, but they soon return after getting into a fight with Harold when he tells the kids that his family is better than theirs. Harold’s father Cecil (Frank Nelson) comes over to complain, but when the Addamses apologize, he cordially stays a visit until Harold falls through a gallows trap door at which point he storms out. Cecil’s talk of his family prominence gets the Addamses curious about their heritage so they enlist a genealogist named Professor Simms (Jonathan Hole) to trace their history. It is naturally sordid, but Simms also confesses that he has found quite a few bad eggs in the Pomeroy line as well. This gives the Addamses new respect for Pomeroy, who now finds out from a contact that some of the Addams’ land adjacent to his contains oil. Pomeroy returns hoping to make amends and get the land for what they had paid for it, but when the Addamses confess their admiration for Pomeroy’s seedy ancestors, Pomeroy thinks he’s being blackmailed and pays three times what the land cost. Gomez later tells Moriticia while sword-fighting that the land had already been checked multiple times for oil and that it was dry. 6/23/15
• 006. Morticia Joins the Ladies League – 10/23/1964
  • Gomez takes Pugsley to the circus run by his old friend Oscar Webber (Peter Leeds). Although the circus is run down and Webber has lost most of his acts, Pugsley is especially taken with Gorgo the Gorilla (George Barrows). Meanwhile Morticia gets lonely and calls Mrs. Magruder (Dorothy Neumann) to see if she can join the Ladies League. Gorgo ends up showing up at the Addams’ home, much to the chagrin of Lurch who feels threatened, and even more so when Gorgo starts doing Lurch’s chores. Mrs. Magruder and her friend Mrs. Page (Pearl Shear) come visit Morticia but are scared off by Gorgo, who has pushed Lurch in a closet and is now serving the tea. Morticia is initially angry because she thinks that Gorgo served it sloppily, but then tries to cheer him up by letting him iron the laundry. Webber comes to retrieve Gorgo and is initially angry that Gorgo has been domesticated… but Gorgo ends up saving his circus when he presents him to the public ironing clothes. 6/23/15
• 007. Halloween with the Addams Family – 10/30/1964
  • It’s Halloween night and Gomez carves the pumpkin based on Uncle Fester’s head, Morticia and Lurch prepare the food, and Grandmama takes Pugley and Wednesday, dressed as normal people, out for Trick or Treat. Two men named Marty (Skip Homeier) and Claude (Don Rickles) are fleeing from the police with a bagful of cash, and when they run out of gas are forced to seek refuge in the Addams house. When Gomez mistakes their bag of money for their Trick or Treat bags, Gomez adds more money to it from his drawer-full of cash. Although creeped out, they decide to stick around and try to steal the rest of the Addams money. They are forced to endure Gomez’s poetry reading and bobbing-for-crabs in order to continue to elude the police. During a game of hide-and-seek, they steal the money, but are locked in by Thing. Finally they run outside and turn themselves in the first chance they get. 8/20/15
• 008. Green-Eyed Gomez – 11/6/1964
  • Morticia is expecting a visit from her childhood friend Lionel Barker (Del Moore), who privately confides to his friend Charlie (Jimmy Ames) that he’s going to try and con the Addams family out of money by selling them phony stock. Lionel charms Morticia to the point of driving Gomez mad with jealousy. He tries to get Lionel to leave by fixing up his room nice – which Lionel only appreciates – and then by hiring a homely maid named Mildred (Pattie Chapman), who doesn’t interest him. Gomez then enlists Lurch and Uncle Fester to help him commit suicide. When that fails, he makes a final plea to Morticia, who now thinks that Gomez is in love with Mildred. Each realizes that they are only in love with one another. Lionel finds out that Mildred is big into stocks and the two end up getting married. Gomez mentions later that all of Mildred’s stocks have bottomed out. 8/20/15
• 009. The New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family – 11/13/1964
  • Newlyweds Hubert (Peter Brooks) and Amanda Peterson (Cynthia Pepper) move in next door to the Addams house and are immediately spooked by the explosions going on there. When Uncle Fester tunnels into their living room, Amanda hits him on the head with her skillet. Morticia deduces that they are nervous because they are on their honeymoon and has Lurch invite them over for bridge. The Petersons try to get out of their lease with their rental agent Mr. Wentworth (Eddie Marr), but it turns out that Gomez owns the house they moved into. More freakish goings-on cause the Petersons to flee during bridge, and Hubert finally tells Gomez that they need out of the lease because he is being transferred to Hong Kong. Gomez solves that by buying his company. Eventually the Petersons simply disappear, leaving all of the furnishings that the Addams gave them for wedding gifts on the Addams front lawn. 11/19/15
• 010. Wednesday Leaves Home – 11/20/1964
  • Wednesday detonates some of Uncle Fester’s dynamite caps, and as punishment she gets her spider Homer taken away for two weeks. In retaliation Wednesday runs away from home, but secretly camps out in Pugsley’s room. Morticia gets worried and calls Sgt. Haley (Jesse White) who specializes in missing persons. However by the time he arrives at the Addams house, they have realized that Wednesday is actually there. When her parents try to use psychology to get Wednesday to officially come back, she runs away for real. Morticia places another call to Haley, just as Officer Johnson (Ray Kellogg) brings Wednesday into the station. Haley heads to the Addams house to cite them for not knowing Wednesday is really gone, but Uncle Fester picks her up from the station and get her home… just in time for Haley to see her outside playing. Unable to take anymore, Haley turns his badge over to the Addams and they add it to their collection. 11/20/15
• 011. The Addams Family Meets the VIPs – 11/27/1964
  • Gomez has grown bored with his stagnant hobbies, and Morticia suggests inviting their old friend Roger Harris (Frank Wilcox) over for a visit. Gomez points out that he now works for the government and is busy hosting two foreign diplomats, Miri Haan (Vito Scotti) and Ila Klarpe (Stanley Adams) on a tour of the city. The diplomats doubt the authenticity of what Harris is showing them, and want to get a real feel for how that average Americans live. Randomly selecting a name in the phone booth, they end up picking the Addams, and against Harris’ better judgement, he brings them for a visit to the Addams house. Thinking that they are typical Americans, they witness Cleopatra the intelligent plant, Thing, Uncle Fester re-charging himself electrically, Lurch’s super-human strength, and Pugsley’s disintegrator gun. Harris overhears the diplomats discussing their new respect for Americans based on seeing how advanced this ‘average’ family is. 1/19/16
• 012. Morticia, the Matchmaker – 12/4/1964
  • Morticia’s cousin Melancholia (Hazel Shermet) shows up at their house reporting that her fiancee Fred (Hal Baylor) took off to join the Foreign Legion and took back her engagement ring. Morticia and Gomez immediately start looking for a replacement husband for her, starting off by calling random numbers, consulting an agency, trying to set her up with Lurch and Thing, and using Grandmama’s love dust. Meanwhile insurance agent James Ferguson (Barry Kelley) sends his underling Charles P. Harvey (Lee Goodman) to the Addams house to option some of his African land for one of their clients. Harvey tries every ploy possible to not have to visit the Addams house, but Ferguson pressures him. The Addams naturally try to set Harvey up with Melancholia, who receives a makeover so that she looks just like Morticia. Under fear of not obtaining the land, Harvey does his best to tolerate the matchmaking, until Fred shows up announcing that he is still Melancholia’s fiancee. He had actually only joined the American Legion and merely returned the ring for one that didn’t turn her finger green. He punches Harvey to re-claim his bride. Gomez feels bad and turns over the African land to him, and Morticia offers to set Harvey up with another relative and send more business his way… but Harvey has quit to join the Foreign Legion himself. Leonard Breman is the cab driver. 1/20/16
• 013. Lurch Learns to Dance – 12/11/1964
  • When Lurch refuses an invitation to the Butler’s Ball, a masquerade affair, because he claims to be a wallflower who can’t dance, Gomez and Morticia intervene and insist that he go. They send for an instructress from the Fred Walters Dance Studio, but Mr. Walters (Jimmy Cross) only has a rookie instructor named Sally O’Rourke (Penney Parker), who faints upon arrival. Once she is woken up with smelling salts and starts to teach Lurch, he faints. Wednesday then teaches him ballet, but he nearly destroys the living room. Morticia teaches him the Twist, but Lurch throws out his back. Gomez then steps in and teaches him the Tango, but Gomez throws his own back out. Wednesday dresses Lurch as a schoolboy for the dance, and Morticia sneaks in wearing a harem costume. In disguise, Morticia asks Lurch to dance and they end up winning the Fred Walters trophy for first place in the tango contest. Morticia and Gomez reward themselves at home with his-and-hers spike beds. Later Sally calls to say that she got a full-time contract with Fred Walters when he heard that her stundent Lurch had won the contest. Assistant director Jack Voglin fills in as Thing in this episode. 3/30/16
• 014. Art and the Addams Family – 12/18/1964
  • Grandmama wants a second opinion of her artwork so Gomez calls in his friend Bosley Swain (Hugh Sanders), who only can suggest that she seek an art teacher. Gomez goes in search of Picasso to be her tutor. He and Grandmama dial Spain where they get hold of Sam Picasso (Vito Scotti), a man ready to hang himself. He snaps up the opportunity to come to America to be her art teacher, despite his lack of experience. Swain returns to see Grandmama’s new work, and tries to warn the Addams that Picasso is an impostor. Gomez gets the idea to lock Picasso in the basement and paint to bring out his genius. He attempts to escape several times, getting close to succeeding through one of Pugsley’s tunnels, before he is caught by Lurch. Wednesday paints on Picasso’s canvas during his absence, and when the Addams send for Swain again, he now raves about the artwork and buys all of the paintings from him. Picasso rushes back to Spain to be a bullfighter, taking the art money with him. 3/31/16
• 015. The Addams Family Meets a Beatnik – 1/1/1965
  • A beatnik named Rocky Cartwright III (Tom Lowell) crashes his motorcycle into the front yard of the Addams. Uncle Fester helps him repair the bike, but he has to wait for one missing part, and Morticia tends to his wounds. Rocky thinks the family is scary and crazy, whereas they enjoy his hippie vernacular. Meanwhile his father Rockland Cartwright II (Barry Kelley), a rich oil tycoon, is searching for Rocky to bring him back home. When the elder Cartwright shows up at the Addams’ house, Pugsley and Wednesday tell a white lie in order not to give away his whereabouts. Gomez and Morticia learn that it is Rocky’s birthday and they send for his father to throw Rocky a surprise party. By this time Rocky has grown fond of the Addamses, but when he sees his father, he is not happy at all. Rocky tells his father how the Addams have accepted him the way he is, and that he has no intention in going back home. Mr. Cartwright feels guilty about this, and when Rocky realizes this, he gives all of his beatnik property to the Addams and heads out with his father, later going to work for him. Barry Brooks is Sgt. Benson. 7/1/16
• 016. The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man – 1/8/1965
  • CIA field agent P.J. Hollister (George Neise) intercepts suspicious transmissions coming from the Addams house and sends the postman Mr. Briggs inside to go through their mail and gather information. Briggs gets spooked by all of the creepy happenings in the house and runs back out. Hollister then sends in the plumber Mr. Conkey (Norman Leavitt) under the guise of him finally fixing Kitty’s water fountain. The Addams intercept Conkey’s transmissions back to Hollister, and when Conkey runs out in a panic, the Addams assume that he is no good and report him to the CIA. This ends up back in Hollister’s hands, and he assumes that the Addams want to make a confession. When they mention that they fear that Conkey and Briggs are spies, Hollister admits that he had hired them. The Addams then make a citizen’s arrest on Hollister and hold him in their stocks. They are informed by the CIA that Hollister is legitimate, so they let him go. The Addamses later receive a letter from Hollister thanking them for getting him into a ‘rest home’. 7/1/16
• 017. Mother Lurch Visits the Addams Family – 1/15/1965
  • Lurch is depressed because his mother (Ellen Corby) is coming for a visit and he has told her that he owns the Addams mansion. Gomez and Morticia agree to pose as the butler and maid to continue to fool her. Although Lurch is very uncomfortable in his role as master of the house, the Addamses coach him ordering them around, acting sophisticated, and even flirting with Morticia. Uncle Fester and Grandmama take the kids and hide out in the guest house. When Lurch’s mother arrives, she immediately begins barking orders and eventually convinces Lurch to fire the Addamses. After sending for new help, Mother Lurch thinks that Grandmama and Fester are the new servants, even though they had gone in posing as neighbors to tell her how great Gomez and Morticia are. Grandmama and Fester accept the positions of the new maid and butler. After Mother Lurch departs, Lurch has trouble getting out of his role as master of the house, and keeps telling the Addamses that they are fired. 9/22/16
• 018. Uncle Fester’s Illness – 1/22/1965
  • As the Addams prepare for their family outing to go caving, Uncle Fester discovers that he no longer has enough charge in him to power Pugsley’s toy trains, thus worrying that he won’t be able to light the way in the caves. Morticia suggests he that they all go ‘moon-bathing’ but this doesn’t make him feel better. When Thing starts to feel ill too, Morticia fears an epidemic and tries to get hold of their witchdoctor Dr. Mbogo, but he has stopped doing house calls. They consult an actual doctor, Dr. Milford (Lauren Gilbert) and comes over to check on Fester, surprised at his many anomalies: a temperature of negative three, a pulse that sounds like a submarine signal, and exploding the blood pressure device. When Fester eats the thermometer, the mercury in it seems to cure him immediately. The Addamses think Milford is a genius, asking him to check on Thing, which scares him and sends him running. With the outing back on, Thing is no longer depressed and gets back to normal as well. Loyal T. Lucas is the hunter. 9/22/16
• 019. The Addams Family Splurges – 1/29/1965
  • Bored at home, the Addams family try to plan a vacation but feel like they’ve been everywhere possible… so decide to take a trip to the moon. Gomez consults this computer Mr. Whizzo to find out the cost which turns out to be $1,000,000,021.13. They consult their investment broker Ralph J. Hulen (Roland Winters) to check the feasibility and decide that they can only save this amount by betting on the horses and hitting eight winners every day for a month, using Mr. Whizzo to predict the winners. Although Hulen’s partner Harwood Widdy (Olan Soule) warns him to place the bet, Hulen doesn’t place the bet trying to protect their money. Hulen joins the Addams at their house where they track their bets and winnings that have reached over eight million dollars, and tries to feel them out about how they’d feel if the best weren’t placed. Morticia thinks the betting is upsetting Hulen, so they decide to call it off… with Hulen owing them eight million. When Hulen finds out that the next horse race coming up features a lame horse that they’ve bet on and tries to encourage them to resume betting. Their horse Granny’s Lover starts out dead last but rallies, much to the horror of Hulen. When Granny’s Lover wins, Hulen faints, but then the announcement is made that the winner has been disqualified taking their total to zero. The Addams change their vacation plans and decide to go fishing, so they call Hulen again to have him go purchase a nuclear submarine for them. 12/19/16
• 020. Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family – 2/5/1965
  • The Addams get a letter from their Cousin Itt (Felix Silla / voiced by Anthony Magro), a long-haired individual that only seems to mumble and squeak, indicating that he will be arriving that day for a visit. Before he arrives, they also get a visit from Park Commissioner Fiske (Alan Reed) for a donation for the City Zoo and Gomez gives him $150,000 plus money for fare. Itt arrives, does a quick magic show, and then is ready to depart, but Morticia worries that Itt should try settling down so she calls Fiske to offer Itt up as the new zoo curator. Fiske comes to meet Itt and assumes that he will be a zoo exhibit. Uncle Fester visits the zoo and assumes that Itt’s cage is his fancy office. The Addams then hear an announcement on the radio about an escaped wild animal, so they take precautions to arm themselves in their house. Itt shows up at the house, and the Addams still believe that Itt, as the curator, let the creature get away from the zoo. Fiske shows up at the house to warn the Addams that Itt was seen entering their house, but soon the truth comes to light. Fester wants to shoot Fiske, and Gomez wants to call the Governor, until they find out that Itt actually liked the cage and just came home to pick up his military brushes. However Morticia won’t let Itt return to the zoo since she feels it is unbecoming of an Addams. 12/19/16
• 021. The Addams Family in Court – 2/12/1965
  • Gomez and Morticia return for a bat hunting trip, only to find that Grandmama has set up a fortune telling tent in the living room, posing as Madame Bovary. Lieutenant James Poston (James Flavin) poses as a customer and arrests Grandmama and hauls her off to jail, and Gomez prepares to defend her in court. He also takes the case of one of Grandmama’s customers (Lela Bliss), who was arrested for jaywalking as Grandmama had predicted. Judge Harvey Saunders (Hal Smith) hears the case, but has no patience for Gomez’s courtroom antics… and his threat to appeal no matter what the verdict is. Morticia tries to take over, but Saunders doesn’t fall for her accusing Poston of fraud either. He finds Grandmama guilty… until his wife enters and turns out to be Grandmama’s customer who was arrested. She forces him to release Grandmama, stating that she had correctly predicted that she would be arrested. Morticia uses the crystal ball to determine that Saunders is still a judge… at the county fair. Gail Bonney is the police woman. Ray Walker is the bailiff. 3/29/17
• 022. Amnesia in the Addams Family – 2/19/1965
  • Just after signing a million dollar life insurance policy, Gomez accidentally hits himself in the head with Indian clubs and comes down with a case of amnesia. Gomez finds his surroundings ghastly, and behaves like more conventional man shocked by the strange people, plants, animals, and things found around the house. After getting used to the fact that Morticia is his wife, he buys her some conventional dresses, and despite her disdain for them, she feigns liking them. Morticia learns that striking Gomez in the same place could restore him, but can’t bring herself to do it… so Uncle Fester does it, and in fact restores his original personality. However Lurch, Grandmama, and the kids have the same idea, resulting in his personality shifting back and forth each time he is hit. Morticia decides to hit him again once and for all, but hits Fester instead, and leaves Gomez thinking that Morticia is trying to kill him for the insurance money. As he runs from her, he runs into the suit of armor and gets his memory back for the final time. However Fester now can’t remember who he is. 3/29/17
• 023. Thing Is Missing – 3/5/1965
  • When Uncle Fester criticizes the way Thing scratches his head, Thing starts to feel down, and then disappears. Gomez assumes that he is kidnapped and tries to file a report with a detective (Ray Kellogg), but since Gomez can’t describe Thing satisfactorily, they can’t help. They then put an ad in the paper for a missing Thing, but only wind up getting an array of junk delivered to them. Eventually they get a ransom note and hire detective Sam Diamond (Tommy Farrell) to deliver the ransom diamonds at the cemetery at midnight. Diamond returns freaked out after having delivered the money to a hand. Thing returns with the diamonds, and admits that it was only trying to find out if it was wanted enough for them to pay the ransom. The family lines up give Thing welcome-home gifts, and Gomez and Morticia take it to a fancy concert. Charles Wagenheim is Mr. Boswell. 10/16/17
• 024. Crisis in the Addams Family – 3/12/1965
  • While playing with Gomez, Uncle Fester destroys the plumbing in the house with his cannon. Gomez files a claim with his agent Horace Beesley (Eddie Quillan), who is berated by his boss Arthur J. Henson (Parley Baer) for all of the payouts they’ve made to the Addams. Beesley finds a loophole that if they pay out this twelfth payment, they can cancel the policy. Meanwhile for the damage he did, Fester’s allowance is suspended, and he is forced to get a job… with Henson’s insurance firm. Unable to sell his insurance and feeling down, Gomez buys a policy from him. When Henson finds out, he hits the ceiling, and he and Beesley pay a visit to the Addamses to try and refund their money. Gomez thinks it looks good for Fester to make the sale, so he attempts to double the policy. When Henson finds out that Fester is the family’s Uncle, the tries to report them for fraud. Gomez finds out that he actually owns the company of which Henson’s company is a subsidiary. Gomez decides to take a more active interest and promotes Beesley to be Henson’s boss. Fester later blows another hole into the plumbing with his cannon, but tells Gomez he can use the insurance that he bought from his company to get it fixed. Bebe Kelly is the secretary. 10/16/17
• 025. Lurch and His Harpsichord – 3/19/1965
  • A museum curator named Oscar Belmont (Byron Foulger) hears Lurch playing the harpsichord as he passes by the house, and stops by to pay his admiration. Feeling charitable the Addamses donate the instrument to Belmont’s museum. However when they notify Lurch, he is heartbroken and tells them he is quitting. They talk him out of it, but when they see how crestfallen he is, they tries to fill the void in his life by other means like drumming or knitting. When that doesn’t work, Gomez and Fester attempt to build him a new harpsichord and tell him that it is the original. Lurch is touched that they have decided not to part with his harpsichord. When the movers (Leonard Bremen, Ray Galvin) show up to pick up the harpsichord a day early, Lurch feels betrayed, and tearfully has them take the one that was built for him. When Gomez and Morticia convince Lurch to stay and calls the museum to try to get the harpsichord back, they find out that Belmont has tries to sell it to the museum for $15,000 and was arrested for fraud since he had tries to sell the fake. 5/22/18
• 026. Morticia, the Breadwinner – 3/26/1965
  • As a result of a stock market dive, Morticia and Fester misunderstand a conversation they overhear between Gomez and his stockbroker Mr. Blooker (Milton Frome) and think that Gomez has lost his fortune. In reality Gomez anonymously is trying to buy controlling interest in a railroad to crash, as Morticia looks for ways to raise money on her own. Lurch and Fester attempt an escort service but quickly scare off two female customers (Maxine Semon, Ceil Cabot), while Wednesday and Pugsley set up a stand to sell Henbane on the Rocks and nearly poison a man (John J. Fox). Morticia and Grandmama don’t have much luck at all giving fencing lessons and beauty tip, respectively. With Gomez still on a spending spree, Morticia’s resolve to raise money intensifies and she breaks into the safe planning to sell off the family jewels. She finds the railroad stock that Gomez has recently purchased and tries to sell it through Blooker. With Gomez on the hunt to purchase more of the the same stock, Blooker is willing to offer her top dollar for the shares. Between Gomez’s offer, and Gomez and Fester’s counter-offers, they drive the price up to a million dollars. Before the transaction is even completed, the railroad falls into a swamp. 5/22/18
• 027. The Addams Family and the Spaceman – 4/2/1965
  • Gomez and Morticia take Lurch, Uncle Fester, and Cousin Itt on a midnight picnic and snail hunt, but when they hear a radio announcement from the M.S.O. – Bureau of Mysterious Space Objects – that there have been UFO’s spotted over Cemetery Ridge nair their property, they decide to picnic there and see if they can see anything. The UFO’s are actually missiles being launched by Pugsley out his window, but the reports prompt the M.S.O. to send their men Mr. Hinckley (Tim Herbert) and Mr. Gilbert (Jimmy Cross) to investigate. When they arrive, the spot the family picnic and their unusual behavior and assume they are Martians. Likewise the Addamses assume the men could be aliens in disguise, and bring them back to their house to hold them and call the M.S.O. Professor Altshuler (Vito Scotti) comes to the house to investigate and he too assumes it is the Addams who are the Martians. Once he realizes that the Addams are human and that the men being held are his own M.S.O. agents, he calls off a military strike. Later the Addams receive a thank you note from the M.S.O., as Pugsley continues to fire his missiles out the window. 1/1/19
• 028. My Son, the Chimp – 4/9/1965
  • Pugsley can’t seem to get anyone’s attention to show his card trick. Meanwhile an organ grinder’s monkey randomly wanders into Pugsley’s room. Pugsley speculates that the monkey was sent by his old friend Gorgo the Gorilla, so he dresses him in a look-alike shirt and lets him wander around the mansion. Pugsley attempts to show his card trick to Uncle Fester, as he is working on his conjuring spells. When one of his spells explodes, it sends Pugsley through a rotating wall, where he spend the afternoon entertained by comic books he finds inside. Fester however sees the monkey and assumes that his spell has turned Pugsley into one. Although Morticia and Gomez see some humor in it, they demand that Fester turn him back. Fester of course is unable to, so he tries to go a different route and conducts a seance to communicate with Pugsley in a different astral plane. Pugsley is able to communicate through the wall, but it is of no help whatsoever. Eventually Fester leans on the wall, and Pugsley comes out when it rotates. Fester escapes by clawing through the wall three days later. Moritica knits a gift for Wednesday’s new boyfriend Woodrow (Robert Nunn), the invisible son of the Invisible Man. 1/1/19
• 029. Morticia’s Favorite Charity – 4/16/1965
  • Morticia scours the cellar looking for things to give to the charity bazaar, at first just looking for junk, then deciding that the spirit of giving dictates that they give away items they treasure. Mr. Henson is running the auction and had purposely bypassed asking them for donations, but his co-worker Mrs. Atherton (Maida Severn) welcomes their donations with open arms. Morticia gets everyone in the family on board with donating, Henson and his truck driver Jason (John Lawrence) go to the house to retrieve the goods. In order to save his moose head and rear, Gomez offers up Pugsley’s moose head clock. This upsets Pugsley and feeling depressed, he goes up the chimney and refuses to come down. Unbeknownst to each other, Morticia and Gomez decide to try to get the clock back for him by bidding on it, but when they wind up bidding against each other, the collector Mr. Clayton (Donald Foster) outbids both of them with $1100, when Henson prematurely closes the bidding. Henson later realizes the clock is worthless and pays Lurch $5 to take it off his hands. This cheers up Pugsley immediately and he comes down from the chimney. 1/3/20
• 030. Progress and the Addams Family – 4/23/1965
  • Uncle Fester attends a City Council meeting and reports that Mr. Henson, who is now the City Commissioner, is putting in a new freeway. The Addams later get a letter indicating that the freeway will be going through their property, and City Hall has asked them to vacate the house. Gomez thinks it must be an error and tears up the note. Soon construction workers Scotty (John Hart) and Mike (Richard Reeves) are blowing up areas around the house, and discussing the genius of Henson purposely routing the freeway through the Addams’ house in order to get rid of them. When the workers end up in the house getting ready to blow it up, Gomez throws them out and sends a message to Henson that he’ll have to blow up the family if he wants a freeway running through his house. An incensed Mr. Henson visits the house and tells them that the city is perfectly withing their rights. Lurch suggests that they simply move the house to another location. Gomez thinks it is a great idea and decides to buy to move the property to the land next door the Hensons. They invite Henson and his wife Phoebe (Natalie Masters) over for dinner to break the news. As the move is in motion and the house has been lifted onto a truck, Henson interrupts the move to tell them that he has persuaded the City Council to re-route the freeway. Furthermore he buys up the land next to his house for one and a half times what Gomez paid for it. The freeway ends up being routed through the Mayor’s house. 1/3/20
• 031. Uncle Fester’s Toupee – 4/30/1965
  • Uncle Fester is nervous when his pen pal Madelyn Cavendish Beauregard Faversham Firestone Smith (Elisabeth Fraser) from Paris, Illinois wants to come visit, because he has told her that he is an athletic Cary Grant type. He tries to get out of it, but Morticia decides to persuade him by buying him a toupee. She invites hair salesman Max (Frederic Downs) to come show them some samples. He is scared off when Kitty comes downstairs, and he runs out leaving behind all of the toupees. Fester tries several on and finally find one that he is willing wear. However when Morticia finds out that Madelyn has had five husbands who committed suicide, she becomes concerned that they made him too attractive. Fester goes to great lengths to keep his toupee concealed, but he gets as excited as Gomez does when she speaks French, and at one point he becomes so passionate that it falls off. He manages to get it back on without her noticing. Morticia expresses her concert to Gomez while they are bowling in the living room. Before Fester and Madelyn can elope, Morticia and Gomez have a talk with Madelyn how he needs to maintain his electrical charge, relaxes in his treehouse, and enjoys his favorite dinner eye of newt. Fester comes downstairs on his motorcycle and his toupee falls off while driving down the stairs. This is the last straw and Marilyn tells him to get lost. On her way out, Thing reclaims her engagement ring. Morticia uses the remaining wigs for target practice, one of which is on top of Fester’s head. Fester drowns his sorrows by taking up horseback riding on a mule. 7/27/20
• 032. Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor – 5/7/1965
  • Cousin Itt sleeps while Morticia does her Mexican hat dance. Gomez and Morticia worry that Itt may be bored, and wonder if he might like to find a job that suits him. Morticia thinks that he would make a great marriage counselor, so Lurch wakes him up, and Morticia talks him out of wanting to be a stewardess. She and Gomez role play to see if he gives good advice. However as Gomez portrays a husband named Henry who thinks his wife spends too much money, Morticia becomes offended and won’t let Gomez in their bedroom that night. He is forced to sleep on the loveseats. The next morning they make up, but they realize that Itt would not make a good marriage counselor, so they look up a vocational counselor named Mortimer Phelps (Richard Deacon) who come to the house to assess Itt. When he sees him, he wants no part of it, but when Gomez tells him that money is no object, suddenly he is ready to get to work. He gives Itt a psychiatric evaluation using Rorshach blots and test blocks, and soon Mortimer comes to enjoy and respect Cousin Itt, although he has trouble keeping Gomez and Morticia quiet during the tests. After three hours analyzing data, Phelps announces that with Itt’s special skills, he could be anything that he wants, but the number one job for him would… marriage counselor. Gomez has Lurch throw Phelps out of the house, and Itt decides to go to the South Seas to do some painting. After while there, he becomes a tour guide. Although Gomez nor Morticia can master the test block the way Itt did, Wednesday seems to have no problem. 7/27/20
• 033. Lurch, the Teen Idol – 5/14/1965
  • Morticia suddenly realizes that Lurch’s music that consists of his harpsichord playing along with a grunting and croaking sound makes good music. Gomez phones record producer Mizzy Bickle (Herkie Styles) and he and his assistant Gladys (Laurie Mitchell) agree that he has a marketable sound, so they come see him. Lurch is resistant to come to the studio to record but eventually gives in. Soon he is a teen radio sensation and the house is surrounded by fans. Although he initially wants to hide from them, he takes a peek at the mass gathered for him and almosts musters a smile. He decides to practice music even more, so his butler job takes a back seat, causing Fester to try and make his own lunch and everyone else to pick up the slack. Gomez is ready to give him an ultimatum about losing his job, when word comes from Mizzy that Lurch will embarking on a world tour. Lurch becomes so excited that he loses his voice. The family tries various remedies, but it is Grandmama’s pin-sticking that cures him. He sadly packs his things and gets ready to leave, but when he is attacked by his fans upon departure, he returns and decides to stay. Later he plays Home Sweet Home on the harpsichord while the family sings, but he vows to remain quiet by taping his mouth shut while the fans are still outside. Fans include Susie (Noanna Dix), Claire (Pam McMyler), Joan (Jacque Palmer), and Tommy (Patrick Moore). 11/10/20
• 034. The Winning of Morticia Addams – 5/21/1065
  • When Fester reads an article in a magazine that says that couples that never fight are miserable deep down inside, he consults with Grandmama, Lurch, and Thing, and they all agree they need to instigate them to fight. Thing stals two of Gomez’s chess pieces off the board to make it look like Morticia cheated, but it only leads to them having a stalemate, which makes Gomez feel closer to Morticia. Fester cancels Gomez’s membership with his Zen Yogi club, and when the master Drashi Dumo (Jan Arvan) visits and tells Gomez that his wife had cancelled it, Gomez supports her decision and says that will give them more time to take a second honeymoon up the Amazon. Fester then goes to see Dr. Francois Chalon (Lee Bergere), who thinks that Fester is trying set him up to take Moriticia out of a dying marriage. When he arrives and begins flirting with her, Gomez is oblivious until Fester points it out. Instead of being angry at Morticia, Gomez challenges Chalon to a rapier duel. Fester tells Gomez that Chalon is the best swordsman in France, and tries to get Gomez out of the duel by bending his sword and injuring his wrist. Morticia looks to Cousin Itt for advice, but he only suggests a duel. She then goes to Chalon to try and get him to call it off, and he suddenly realizes she is still in love with him, so he bows out and tells Fester that they have no problems. Gomez returns to practicing Zen Yogi from the chandelier, which comes crashing to the floor. 11/11/20

SEASON 2

• 035. My Fair Cousin Itt – 9/17/1965
  • With Wednesday’s birthday coming up, Gomez wants to put on a play the he is writing called Claude and Mabel, which is identical to Romeo and Juliet. Gomez gives the part of Mabel to Morticia. Cousin Itt is down on himself and his ability to act, so in order to boost his confidence, Gomez offers him the pary of Claude. He gives Uncle Fester the understudy of Claude, and Lurch gets the part of the second understudy. Naturally, both Uncle Fester and Cousin Itt turn up missing. Thing helps Gomez and Morticia find them, locked inside the torture chamber, a victim of Lurch who wants to take over the part. Gomez also engages the help of 1930’s director Eric Von Bissell (Sig Ruman), but once his agent Bennie (Jimmy Cross) gets him to the house, he balks at doing an amateur play… until Gomez offers him $60,000 for his service. Gomez and Morticia then wisely agree with Von Bissell that Itt’s voice might be a problem. They work with him, having him put marbles in his mouth. After he swallows the first handful, he winds up with a tremendous Shakespearean voice. This goes straight to his head and he becomes difficult to work with. Gomez mentions bringing in a big producer like Sam Derrick (Douglas Evans), which finally causes Von Bissell to walk out and leave behind all of the money. Itt refuses to perform a silly play when he can put his efforts into Broadway, leaving Wednesday disappointed. When Derrick shows up, he sees Itt performing in his trained voice, but he wants him for a horror movie called The Hairy Beast from the Mars Canal rather than a haughty Shakespearean performance. Itt becomes so angry, that his voices returns to its correct timbre. Gomez continues writing plays that sound exactly like Shakespeare’s. 3/1/21
• 036. Morticia’s Romance: Part 1 – 9/24/1965
  • It is Gomez and Morticia’s thirteenth wedding anniversary and the entire family gets up at midnight to help celebrate and listen to the story again of how the pair met. Flashing back to a time when a sickly Gomez, Grandmama, Thing, and Lurch lived in the same mansion, Grandmama tells Gomez that she has a surprise visitor coming. It turns out to be her friend Granny Frump (Margaret Hamilton) who is bringing her daughter Ophelia (Carolyn Jones) to be courted by Gomez. Ophelia is rough and tumble and takes delight in flinging Gomez across the room, while Gomez notes how much he has in common with Ophelia’s younger 22-year old sister Morticia. As Ophelia attempts to play hide and seek, Gomez keeps wandering back into see Morticia as she cuts the flowers off the roses, feeds her plant Cleopatra, tends to her lion Kitty Cat, and plays with her beheaded dolls. Eventually Gomez is forced to propose to Ophelia, while she has his arm twisted… literally. Once he hears Morticia speak French, it drives him crazy with arousal and he knows he must get out of the engagement so he can be with Morticia. Morticia consults her Uncle Fester for advice while he is tightening a vice on his head, but he simply says to leave Gomez, as anyone who would marry Ophelia must be crazy. Gomez asks his Cousin Itt for advice, and he simply says that Gomez should shoot himself, so an optimistic Gomez sets out to do just that. At that point, we return to the current time, and Morticia sends everyone to bed and promises to finish the story at another time. NOTE: This is the first of a two-part episode. 2/21/20
• 037. Morticia’s Romance: Part 2 – 9/24/1965
  • In the middle of the night, Morticia is up painting while Gomez plays pinball, when the kids wake up again and want them to continue the story of their meeting. They flash back to the wedding plans, during which Granny works with Grandmama to settle the dowry, and Gomez admits to Morticia that he wants to marry her. Uncle Fester comes over and tries to hook up Ophelia with Cousin Itt. They go for a walk to pick weeds in the garden, and end up falling into quicksand together. As they get cleaned up, Cousin Itt shrinks under the dryer, which gives Gomez the idea to disappear within the house. Morticia finds him in the cellar caves where he is hanging out with Cousin Fungus. She talks Gomez into going through with what he has started, and Uncle Fester holds him at gunpoint to go through the marriage, citing the fact that they can’t have a jilted Frump. Gomez tries to practice on how he will stand up for himself and refuse the marriage, but Fester holds Gomez to his promise to Ophelia. The minister (Edward Schaaf) is brought in and begins the ceremony, but Gomez declares that Ophelia is too good for him, prompting her to confess that she has fallen for Itt. They go on to have a Summer romance, while Gomez and Morticia do in fact get married that day. NOTE: This is the second of a two-part episode. 2/21/20
• 038. Morticia Meets Royalty – 10/8/1965
  • As Gomez works toward completing his Sonata for Three Hands, Morticia receives a letter from Gomez’s Aunt Millie from Iowa, otherwise known as Princess Millicent (Elvia Allman) because she married Prince Von Shlepp, who quickly became a pauper who squandered Millie’s investments and left her with nothing more than worthless oil stock. Although Millicent is mooching off of relatives, when she arrives she demands all of the respect of royalty, and Gomez and Morticia do their utmost to appease her. They dress in royal clothes, put Lurch in short pants, dress the kids like pages, and have Uncle Fester perform as a jester. Millie brings along her ‘hand maiden’ known as Lady Fingers, and Morticia quickly points out that she will be a perfect match for Thing. The two hands tiptoe around each other, and then blossom into a full-blown romance. The others in the house finally tire of Millicent, so no one is disappointed when she decides to leave because she’s not getting the respect she deserves. Once she is gone however, Gomez reports that her oil stock has become valuable and she is rich again. Still, the only one to miss her there is Thing, who longs for Lady Fingers. They call Millicent back for Thing’s sake, and she naturally thinks they are now after her money. Thing is thrilled to see Lady Fingers’ box again, but when he knocks on her door, there is a withered old claw inside who goes by the name Esmerelda. Millicent explains that she had to let Lady Fingers go because she was so mopey after they left. When Millicent’s jewelry starts to disappear, Gomez and Morticia expose Esmerelda as a thief. Millicent apologizes to Thing, who had left to retrieve Lady Fingers. Millicent offers to take Lady Fingers on a trip around the world, and invites Thing to marry her and join them. Thing however says he’s staying with the Addamses, and puts an engagement ring on Lady Fingers’ finger and promises to wait for her. Gomez continues to dress royally by wearing a suit of armor, but finds he can’t respond as quickly when Morticia speaks French. 3/2/21
• 039. Gomez, the People’s Choice – 10/15/1965
  • The Addams receive a tax bill in the mail, and are disappointed when it is only for $84. The think it is an insult to the house and that it should be for $8400 or $84,000. Morticia calls the tax department to try and get it corrected, but it turns out is should only be for $8.40. Gomez and Morticia head over to see Mayor Arthur J. Henson, who agrees to see them despite his assistant Clyde Arbogast’s (Eddie Quillan) recommendation that he blow them off. However when Henson offers to cut the bill in half, eliminate, or issue a refund, they are insulted all over again. They believe he is corrupt, so Morticia suggests that Gomez run against him for Mayor. Fester pulls out their giant computer Mr. Whizzo for advice to help Gomez wind the election. Gomez sends Fester and Grandmama out to gather names to be put on the ballot, and then he speaks to a reporter named Brown (Jack Barry) from The Sun. Despite the fact that he can barely answer the simplest of questions, the reporter is shocked to find out that two construction workers (Leonard Breman, Bart Greene) are both voting for him. When the Mayor realizes that Gomez is a real threat, Clyde recommends that the have a televised debate. Gomez agrees, but as he tries to find the words for his speech, he starts acting strangely and seems stressed out. Morticia then vows to Fester that she’ll get him out of the election. When the reporters show up. she sends Grandmama to act like a pauper that Gomez is forcing to scrub floors, Fester pretends to have just gotten out of jail, and Morticia comes out with a fake black eye and says that Gomez is a brute. Brown tells the Henson that he’ll be reporting that Gomez should be the winner, believing that all of the craziness is actually just satire on the state of the government. Henson decides to resign so that he can make a bid later, but then Fester reveals that the names he gathered on the survey were from headstones in the cemetery, rendering him ineligible. 6/29/21
• 040. Cousin Itt’s Problem – 10/22/1965
  • After spending some time sword fighting with Lurch, Gomez starts preparing for Cousin Itt’s return from sponge diving in the South Seas. He and Morticia buy him a new dog, and the throw him a party to celebrate his return. As they are cutting the cake with an axe, they realize that Cousin Itt is shedding his hair all over the place. Soon a delivery boy (Frankie Darro) delivers a chemistry set to Uncle Fester, who goes to work to invent a cure for baldness. Cousin Itt feels terrible about his hair, so Morticia offers him money. Cousin Itt suggests they donate the money for the Society for the Prevention of Baldness, so Morticia contacts Mrs. Dragwater (Meg Wyllie) from the Welfare Committee. Gomez seems to perfect his new creation, as he successfully grows hair on a billiard ball, a painting, the stuffed turtle, and a doorknob, himself, and Cousin Itt. When Mrs. Dragwater shows up, she tells Morticia that she knows of no society to prevent baldness. Gomez asks her out on a date, but when Cousin Itt also asks her for a date, she flees. Gomez and Morticia that the hair that Fester grew on the painting has fallen off, and soon they realize that the hair is falling off everyone and everything. This doesn’t affect Itt that much however, when they realize that the hair they found had been shed from the dog, and not Itt after all. Fester is heartbroken that his new hair has fallen out. Mrs. Dragwater calls and cancels her date with Fester and says she’s going back to her husband, which is somewhat of a relief. They all celebrate by having a midnight picnic in the swamp, followed by a night of moonbathing. 6/30/21  
• 041. Halloween – Addams Style – 10/29/1965
  • The Addams are preparing for Halloween: Fester and Gomez are playing bobbing-for-apples on a see-saw, Gomez is carving a Fester pumpkin, and the family is making bite-size salamander sandwiches, porcupine taffy, and punch for the trick-or-treaters. Wednesday comes home from making her practice rounds all upset because Mr. Thompson told her that there are no such thing as witches. Gomez calls over and yells at Thompson, but then starts to wonder himself. Morticia reminds him of their late Aunt Singe, burned at the stake in Salem, and decides to hold a séance to prove that witches exist. Grandmama thinks it is futile to call up Aunt Singe on Halloween night, as she will be too busy to answer. She arranges with Lurch to fake it and have him pose as Aunt Singe. They bring in their Cousin Cackle (Don McArt) to participate. Wednesday gets excited when she hears Lurch posting as Singe, and she invites her to come visit in person, an an unthinking Lurch accepts the invitation. Gomez and Morticia agree they’d better have a backup plan in case she doesn’t come, so they go out and buy Wednesday a horse. Meanwhile, Henry (Bob Jellison) and Penelope Sandhurst (Yvonne Peattie) are on an adult scavenger hunt, and Penelope, dressed as a witch, visits the Addams house and is mistaken for Aunt Singe. She faints after seeing the lion and Cousin Cackle, and flees the house… but they still all believe it was Singe. Later, Mr. Thompson calls and apologizes after seeing Grandmama on the roof, thinking that there are witches after all. 11/23/21
• 042. Morticia, the Writer – 11/5/1965
  • Pugsley and Wednesday are upset because all the books they get assigned in school speak ill of witches, goblins, and giants. Morticia decides to put an end to this by authoring her own collection of books. She knocks her first one, Cinderella, the Juvenile Delinquent, out in less than three days. Gomez starts to worry that if she becomes a success, he will never see her, as she will always be writing in the cave or will be on book tours. He and Fester decide to tamper with the book, to make the creatures appear to be sniveling and disgusting. Soon an agent named Mr. Boswell (Peter Bonerz) arrives and wants to publish the book. However, he needs $5000 from Morticia. Gomez knows he’s a bunco artist, but gives him $10,000 anyway, thinking that will get rid of him once and for all. Morticia goes back to work, and stays busy in the cave for three weeks, knocking out eight more books. Much to Gomez’s surprise, Boswell returns with Morticia’s first check for $2000, and a contract for her next ten books. However, when she take a look at the book and see how it has been changes, she throws it in the fire and renounces being an authoress, much to Gomez’s relief. Later, the kids come home with their mother’s book that they find in the library, and Gomez finally admits that he wrote it. Morticia is okay with it, as she assumes he just did it to prove that publishers today will only print junk. 11/23/21
• 043. Morticia, the Sculptress – 11/12/1965
  • Morticia is bored and is looking for a creative outlet to leave her mark on the world. Using Michelangelo as an example, she decides to become a sculptress. Gomez buys her a giant rock from the quarry, along with a chisel and hammer and she gets to work. She chisels away for the next three months, and by that time the rock looks almost identical to the way that it started. Gomez brings in art critic Bosley Sanders, but he in unimpressed and simply strikes the sculpture with his cane and advises Gomez that he should blow it up. Gomez doesn’t want Morticia’s feelings to be hurt, so he and Grandpa suggest buying the piece themselves. Instead Gomez pays art dealer Sam Picasso $200 to take Gomez’s $50,000 in cash and pretend he has a buyer for it. Gomez thinks the money will go back in his petty cash fund, but Morticia insists that she earned it, and that the money will go to help support other starving artists. This routine repeats itself until Gomez starts to run short of money and he has to start selling off his assets. Gomez then insists that Morticia is spending too much time on her artwork, and as a result of her constant output, she is saturating the market. Gomez wants to return to their old lives where they could dance all night if they wanted. Morticia continues working and attempts a sculpture of Lurch, but pieces of the rock keep falling off. One night she is up until 3am, and Gomez again pleads for her to put sculpting aside, citing her inability to function as a mother. However, she isn’t fully convinced until she finds out that Pugsley and Wednesday have been baking fudge in the kitchen, a practice she finds disgusting. Gomez makes back $600,000 with an accidental stock investment, and Morticia wants to use the money to buy back all of her ‘statues’. 5/7/22
• 044. Gomez, the Reluctant Lover – 11/19/1965
  • As Gomez it taking delight in having Morticia drill his teeth, Uncle Fester enters the room to tell them that there is something wrong with Pugsley, who is laying on a bed of nails staring off into space and is not speaking. When his parents go to check on him, he finally reveals that he is in love. Morticia initially wants to help him compose a love note to his crush, but upon reading them, she quickly finds them too spicy so takes them all away. However, she accidentally leaves on of the letters behind, and Pugsley uses it word-for-word to compose a letter for his crush… who winds up being his teacher Isobel Dunbar (Jill Andre). When she gets the letter, she takes it to the principal J. Laurel Jennings (Thomas Browne Henry), who suggests that she have a meeting with the Addamses, and promises her he’d join her at the house to help. She arrives first and reads the letter to Gomez, who can recite it word for word already, since it was actually him who had originally written it. Ms. Dunbar misunderstands and thinks that Gomez is pursuing her, an idea she finds much more attractive. She throws herself at Gomez, as Morticia walks into the room. She is more than understanding and suggests that she stay for dinner with them. She also tells Gomez that he needs to pretend to reciprocate her feelings in order not to hurt hers. She tells him that if he goes too far, she will tell him to stop. When Uncle Fester sees Gomez wooing her, he runs off and tells Morticia how thick he is pouring it on. She tells Fester to tell him “Don’t! Stop!”, which Gomez interprets as “Dont’ stop!”. She tries to tell him herself to back off, but Gomez thinks she is just acting at playing the role of the jealous wife. This goes on until Morticia is nearly ready to move out. Gomez can’t bring himself to go any further, especially when he hears Morticia speak French. Mr. Jennings finally shows up, and when he sees Ms. Dunbar without her glasses, he becomes smitten with her himself. Gomez convinces Morticia that he was only doing what she though he wanted her to, and tells her that he could barely restrain himself from Morticia when she spoke French. They later get a postcard from Ms. Dunbar stating that she is completely over Gomez. Pugsley then heads out to mail a letter to his new teacher. 5/8/22
• 045. Feud in the Addams Family – 11/26/1965
  • Gomez tells Morticia about a cousin-by-marriage named Abigail Quincy Addams, a member of the Boston contingent of their family who is trying to go to court to have Gomez removed as executor of the family fortune. Uncle Fester reads in the paper that Abigail is coming into town, and Morticia initially thinks they should invite her over for a visit, but when Morticia realizes the depth of the family’s hate for her, she decides they won’t see her. Meanwhile, Pugsley is teasing Wednesday because she has a crush on a neighbor boy named Robespierre Courtney (Kevin Tate). Morticia invites Robespierre’s parents Henry (Fred Clark) and Eleanor (Virginia Gregg) over for tea, and they are delighted because Mrs. Courtney thinks they might get a chance to meet society matron Abigail Adams. Morticia thinks she is interested in meeting Grandmama rather than Abigail. The family all give Wednesday pointers on how to win over a man including dancing, curtseying, shooting, and throwing love dust in his face. When the family comes over, Wednesday takes Robespierre to play with her electric train while the Addams entertain the Courtneys. They introduce them to Cousin Itt, Fester, and Grandmama, who has been wrestling an alligator. Thinking that the Courtneys might be working for Abigail and carrying bugs, Uncle Fester manages to douse Mrs. Courtney in pen ink, and then breaks all of Mr. Courtney’s pens in half. Gomez then tries to win over Mr. Courtney by having him invest in Consolidated Lint and National Dust. He loses a fortune quickly, so Gomez tells him he’ll cover for him. The Courtneys decide they’ve had enough, so they call Robespierre, who has been forced to blow up the train and get in the guillotine. After they storm out, Morticia worries about Wednesday, but she lost interested in Robespierre when he wouldn’t play with Pugsley’s octopus. They later read in the paper that Abigail has returned to Boston, opting not to go after the family fortune. They assume it is because the Courtneys gave them a good report. 9/1/22
• 046. Gomez, the Cat Burglar – 12/3/1965
  • After a hearty dinner of yak stew, Gomez turns in early, and that night Morticia spots him getting up and sleepwalking. He leaves the house and doesn’t return until 4am. The next morning they read in the newspaper about a cat burglar who is robbing the neighbors. Morticia worries that if Gomez is sleepwalking, he might run into the dangerous burglar. In order to prevent this, Uncle Fester vows to say awake in front of Gomez’s bedroom door. Naturally, he falls fast asleep and not even Grandmama accidentally setting him on fire wakes him up. Gomez gets out again, and this time Morticia and Fester find that Gomez has loaded their storeroom with all of the loot that he has stolen. Grandmama realizes that Gomez’s father suffered from the same affliction whenever he at her yak. Morticia tries to hypnotize Gomez to find the source of his kleptomania, and while her snake charming flute only manages to put Fester and Grandmama to sleep, Gomez puts himself to sleep with his bugle. They learn that Gomez has been reading Robin Hood and is emulating his hero when he steals. Since he hasn’t finished the book yet, he isn’t aware that he’s supposed to give the loot to the poor. Gomez goes to sleep in the storeroom that night, but sneaks out the hidden exit and hits the streets again. This time he is followed by Sgt. Rogers (Ken Mayer) and Officer Hix (Bill White Jr.). Morticia tells Gomez that he’s been sleepwalking and stealing, much to his surprise. Gomez disguises himself as an old man and claims to be Morticia’s grandfather Alonzo. The officers shows them the list of everyone who has been robbed and a list of what they’ve taken. The cops pull off Gomez’s disguise and are ready to arrest him, but Morticia hypnotizes the officers, and then sends them out to return all of the loot to the rightful owners. 9/1/22
• 047. Portrait of Gomez – 12/10/1965
  • While the family is outside at night moon bathing, they get a phone call from a photographer Strife magazine, but the caller doesn’t say what he wanted. The family assumes it is because he wanted to take a photo of Gomez because he has been made the magazine’s Man of the Year. Morticia thinks that people usually look terrible on the covers of Strife, so Gomez suggests that they go through the family album and find a photo of their own. They find one that they agree is perfect for the album cover, but Cleopatra eats it before they can get it out of the room. They decide to find the photographer Wolfgang Krumstrass who took that photo and have him take another, but when they arrive at his studio, they find it abandoned because he has gone out of business. Gomez becomes depressed and hangs from the chandelier for several days, until Uncle Fester claims he can take a great photo of Gomez. They try for a photo shoot, but when the camera collapses, Gomez had to lower himself to the ground for the photo. Gomez quickly returns to the chandelier. Morticia then hires a detective to find Krumstrass, and he tracks him down to the DMV, where he is currently taking photos of customers for their driver’s licenses. Unfortunately, Gomez has had no desire to drive, and has destroyed cars he has attempted to do so. He practices driving using a plunger as a gear shift, a steering wheel, and Fester’s hands as pedals. When he finally gets behind the wheel of a real car to take the test in, he has no idea how to handle it correctly. At the DMV, he passes his written test in ten seconds, but when he gets in the car with the examiner (Tom D’Andrea), he zooms the car around, screeching around corners, hitting signs and branches, and knocking the examiner into the back seat. The examiner tells him he has no idea why he’d want to drive, and Gomez tells him it is just for the photograph. The examiner tells him that Krumstrass was fired the day he was hired. Morticia then paints a picture of Gomez, showing him standing on his head for the magazine cover. Later, the Strife photographer (Ralph Montgomery) shows up to take his picture, but it is not Gomez he wants. It is the house, as they are doing a feature on haunted houses. They find this to be even better news, as it is a salute to the whole family. NOTE: Roger Arroyo portrays Cousin Itt in this episode. 12/20/22
• 048. Morticia’s Dilemma – 12/17/1965
  • As Morticia is practicing hitting a cigar out of Gomez’s mouth with a bullwhip, she receives a letter from Pamplona, Spain from Don Xavier Francisco del la Manch Molinas (Anthony Caruso) indicating that he is arriving for a visit the next day. His family and the Addams were best friends back in Spain, and he plans to bring along his daughter Consuella (Yardena) and her chaperone Maria (Bella Bruck) the Duenna for Consuella’s wedding. Little does anyone know that Molinas plans to marry his daughter to Gomez thanks to a deal he struck with Gomez’s Grandpapa when he was a child. Due to language barriers and misunderstandings, Gomez and Morticia believe that Consuella is marrying someone else, and the Molinases believe that Gomez and Morticia are brother and sister. However, Morticia finally realizes Consuella’s intentions, and then overhears Gomez talking about his secretaries all over Spain, she believes that he has women all of the world and intends to marry Consuella as well. Morticia goes to see Cousin Itt for advice, and he suggest that Morticia shoot him with a rifle. Morticia chooses to scare him instead. She paints of him in jail, the reads a book called The Law of Bigamy in his presence, and finally reads a newspaper with the headline “Jealous Wife Shoots Husband” and draws his attention to it. All of this escapes him since he still doesn’t know Consuella’s attention. Gomez brings a flamenco dancer named Senor Cardova (Carlos Rivas) to entertain the guests. He dances as Consuella play guitar, and soon they have hit it off, but since she is betrothed to Gomez, she can’t act on it. Molinas then makes the announcement that Gomez will soon be his son-in-law, much to Gomez’s surprise. When he tells Molinas that he is married to Morticia, Molinas challenges him to a duel. As Molinas tries to shoot, Thing hits his gun away and he fires into the air. Gomez then fires into the air as well, causing the chandelier to land on Senor Cardova. Molinas then takes the IOU dowry from Gomez and hands it to Cardova. He won’t accept IOUs, so Morticia insists that they give the young couple a gift in cash for the amount of the IOU.  12/20/22
• 049. Christmas with the Addams Family – 12/24/1965
  • The Addams family are preparing for the holidays and going through the presents that they’ve purchased. The Maharajah sends a gift basket, rope, and flute so that they can play music like a snake charmer, but it only works for Morticia. The neighbor Mr. Thompson has told Pugsley and Wednesday that Santa Claus doesn’t exist, which upsets Gomez and Morticia. They run it by Uncle Fester, who is putting up a Christmas tree completely devoid of any bristles. He agrees that this is bad for the children, and although everyone expects the real Santa to show up, Gomez and Morticia suggest that they have a backup Santa at the ready. Uncle Fester reluctantly agrees to play the role for the kids, so they call up a costumer and send Fester over to get his costume. He returns dressed as Santa and attempts to make his entrance through the chimney. Unfortunately, he gets stuck at the top, which is made even more uncomfortable when the kids make a fire in the fireplace. As they await Fester’s arrival, Morticia leads them in a rendition of Deck the Halls, as Lurch plays the harpsichord. When they start to suspect that Fester isn’t going to show up, the entire family thinks how much they need to make sure a Santa does in fact come to the house. Gomez goes out and buys the Santa suit from a Santa (Gregg Martel) at the mission for $25,000. Pugsley and Wednesday are also losing faith in seeing any Santa, so they write him a note. Gomez, Morticia, Grandmama, Lurch, and Cousin Itt all show up dressed in Santa garb, each of them giving the kids a doll and a bow and arrow set. The kids recognize all of them but aren’t sure what to make of it. Eventually, they all convene in the living room… just as Fester comes crashing through the fireplace. Everyone laments the fact that the real Santa never showed up, but then they notice that the tree is completely trimmed, stocked with gifts, and surrounded by snow. Morticia enjoys her new stand-up bass, while Gomez utilizes his fancy new cigarette lighter, and the kids play with their new chemistry set. The entire group sings We Wish You a Merry Christmas. 6/8/23
• 050. Uncle Fester, Tycoon – 12/31/1965
  • Morticia is working on her levitation with Gomez, until he comes crashing to the ground. The mail arrives and Gomez receives a a new croquet mallet, while Fester receives a giant picture of his latest love, a bearded lady named Diana whom he hopes to marry. When he sends her a note that contains a marriage proposal, Morticia starts to question his judgement since he doesn’t make any money and could never support a wife. In order to dissuade him, Morticia disguises herself as Diana’s bearded mother and comes to ‘visit’ Uncle Fester. She questions him about what he does for a living, and when she learns it is nothing, she reads him the riot act about pursuing her daughter when he makes no money. Fester decides to better himself, so he sends away for a correspondence course record from Greer Business College. After listening to their records, he is suddenly ready for the business world… and proves it by setting up a meeting with tycoon Thaddeus P. Logan (Roy Roberts) and the going to his office and manages to broker a deal with a guy named J.D. on the phone, from whom he gets a maximum price for a stock. Fester is aggressive enough to make all of the demands for working for Logan, and then goes home and sets up a desk with multiple phones. At one point, he gets on two separate lines and winds up negotiating with himself. Morticia thinks that Fester is going crazy so goes and gets a psychologist named Dr. Brown (Harold Peavy), who says he will come see Uncle Fester, and advises her to not let on that he is a doctor. Meanwhile, Mr. Logan shows up to give Fester his assignments, but Gomez thinks that Logan is the psychologist. He gets witness the household in all of their crazy glory, culminating with Fester driving into the living room on his motorcycle with an ignited ligth bulb in his mouth. When he sees Thing, Logan bids a hasty farewell, and the Brown shows up. They all assume that he was sent by Logan, whom they assume was the actual Dr. Brown. They assure Brown that everything is alright with Fester, even as everything is just as strange as always. 6/8/23
• 051. Morticia and Gomez vs. Fester and Grandmama – 1/7/1966
  • The weather is warm and the skies are blue, which means the Addams family is confined to their home. While Morticia and Gomez keep themselves entertained playing indoor games, the kids are getting bored. When Grandmama offers to take them to the moat and wrestle alligators in the quicksand, Morticia starts to think that she is spoiling the kids. In addition, Uncle Fester braves the elements to go get a new supply of dynamite for the kids. When Morticia and Gomez find out that the Gulf Coast states are going to be hit by Hurricane Zsa Zsa, they want to go experience it, but realize that the kids are still in school, and they don’t want to inconvenience Uncle Fester and Grandmama. Morticia engages a service to provide a governess named Miss Inez Thudd (Irene Tedrow). However, she can’t come until the next day so they delay the trip by a day. Fester and Grandmama find out that they aren’t trusted with watching the kids and decide to move out. They decide to get into the safe to sell off the Great Star of the East ruby. Unfortunately, it is not in the safe, and they remember that they used it to throw at a cat that howled during the night. Without the money, they realize they can’t leave, so they divide the house in half and each pair stay on their own side and won’t speak to each other. Thudd shows up and is every bit as creepy as the Addams themselves. They are happy with their choice and they head south to enjoy the hurricane at the Last Chance Motel. The proprietor (Loyal T. Lucas) tells them that they’re the first guests there in two years and warns them to watch out for the badger trap under the bed. When Morticia begins to unpack, she realizes that she accidentally took Thudd’s bag instead of her own. Inside she finds such horrible things as vitamins, Mother Goose books, sugar plums, and a Dr. Spock book. They realize that Thudd must be a fraud, so they rush home immediately. They find that Fester and Grandmama realized Thudd’s ruse and fired her immediately. Morticia and Gomez are eternally grateful and tell them that they love them and that the children need them. Fester agrees to stay as long as they stop treating him like a child, and he demands his dynamite back. As he family is playing indoor volleyball, Hurricane Zsa Zsa catches up to them, so everyone heads outdoors.10/5/23
• 052. Fester Goes on a Diet – 1/14/1966
  • Pugsley is caught exercising because his girlfriend Marie called him ‘fatso’. Morticia tells him that he should be judged by his inner strength rather than his outward appearance. She uses Gomez as an example, which he accomplishes through Zen Yogi. Uncle Fester, who has received a letter from his French pen pal Yvette (Peggy Mondo) with the Folies-Bergere, who tells him that he needs to go on a diet, attempts to stand on his head utilizing Zen Yogi, but keeps falling, creating a ruckus. Fester confides in Lurch that he only has a couple of days to get into shape before Yvette comes to visit him, so he will go on a crash course of exercise and keep it secret from Gomez and Morticia. He uses Jack La Lanne‘s (himself) TV show to help him with his calisthenics. When he is caught, Morticia tells Gomez to return the TV to the junk man. Jack La Lanne comes to the house at Fester’s request to help him in person. La Lanne gives Fester a book called The Astronaut’s Guide and tells him to do double what it says. Lurch guides him through using a vibrating belt machine, deep knee bends, and a chest pulley. Gomez and Morticia try and figure out what is going on,so they send for Dr. Motley (William Keene) to give Fester an examination. Motley finds that he can see directly through Fester’s head, before running out of the house. Morticia then gets the idea to hypnotize him to figure out what is happening in his psyche. When he refers to the Astronaut Guide, they assume he is working for NASA’s space program. They try to save him from his folly by calling a NASA general to talk him out of using Fester on the next moonshot, but he just hangs up on them. Fester finally tells Gomez and Morticia about Yvette’s visit. When she shows up, Fester is surprised that she is a very plump woman herself. She tells Fester that she is merely a costume designer with the Folies-Bergere, and that when she told him to go on a diet, she meant for him to gain weight and not to lose it. Since he is all ‘skin and bones’, she isn’t attracted to him and leaves. Gomez tells him to forget the dieting and exercising, and to give Zen Yogi another try. The Addams get their TV back from the junkman so they can watch the moonshot. When the rocket takes off, so does Uncle Fester… right through the roof. 10/5/23
• 053. The Great Treasure Hunt – 1/21/1966
  • While spending a romantic evening in the attic during a thunderstorm, Gomez and Morticia come across an old sea chest that belonged to Great-Grandfather Pegleg. Inside it they find an old treasure map to his Spanish Gold that appears to be located in Sargasso Strait. Gomez proposes that they hit the high seas to go after the treasure, but they then realize that they only possess half of the map. The family splits up in the house and they all go on a search for the map. While Uncle Fester finds an old bottle of rum, Gomez eventually comes across the other half of the map. They then look in the classified ads and find Captain Grimby’s Charter Boat Service. They call up Captain Grimby (Nestor Paiva), and he comes to house and brings his first mate Mr. Brack (Richard Reeves). After the sea salts meet the family and discover their strange way, they seem to not be interested in making the journey, but as soon as Gomez tells them that they are looking at up to ten million dollars in gold, they suddenly become interested. After they leave, Gomez puts the map in the safe that Uncle Fester has rigged with dynamite. The men privately discuss the treasure and decide to return to the Addams’ house and steal the map. When they return, Uncle Fester thinks they have friendly motives, even when they try to torture him in the head rack. Then when they pull a gun, Fester tells them the location of the map and gives them the combination… but the safe explodes in their faces. In retaliation of Grimby and Brack’s thievery, they decide to buy their own boat. Then they find a book inside the safe that is Great Grandfather Pegleg’s secret code book. By matching the codes up to the map and then bisecting the transit, they realize that the treasure is inside their own house. The dig a hole in their basement, and after several foot injuries, they find a chest full of gold-wrapped candy. 2/5/24
• 054. Ophelia Finds Romance – 1/28/1966
  • Gomez and Morticia receive a telegram from Morticia’s sister Ophelia telling her that she is in trouble, but it doesn’t go into detail why. Within minutes, Ophelia shows up at the house and tells that she is in love with a rich man named Horatio Bartholomew (Robert Nichols), an Englishman with class and charm who attended the University of Heidelberg, but one of whom her mother Frump doesn’t approve because she assumes there must be something wrong with him if he is in love with Ophelia. Morticia and Gomez start to believe he must be a fraud as well since he and Ophelia met at a lonely-hearts club. Gomez calls financial authorities Brad and Dunstreet to inquire about Bartholomew, but they claim they’ve never heard of him. Now fully convinced he is a fraud, they call in Cousin Itt to see if he would be interested in dating Ophelia, but as soon as he hears her name, he scurries back up the chimney. Gomez decides to prove that he’s phony and challenges him to a fencing competition since all Heidelberg men are expert swordsmen. Bartholomew makes quick work of Gomez and soundly defeats him. Gomez then tries to see if he is really rich by playing high stakes poker with him. When Bartholomew wins a big hand with a pair of twos and then donates the money to the poor, Gomez deduces he must have some money after all. Morticia then tries to seduce him to see if he is a philanderer, but he passes that test as well. Brand and Dunstreet then call Gomez back and tell him that they made a mistake when looking for information about Bartholomew as they thought his name was Harold rather than Horatio. It turns out that he is the second richest man in the world. Gomez offers his apologies for misjudging Bartholomew and offers to make him a member of the Zen-Yogi society. They then offer to swing from a chandelier with him or have a romp in the swamp. When he turns his nose up at all three of those things, Ophelia decides that he’s not the man for her after all even if he is rich. The Addams later get a letter from Ophelia stating that she’s met another man; this one believes he’s Napoleon. 2/8/24

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