The misadventures of a blissfully macabre but extremely loving family.
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It's midnight on the 13th wedding anniversary of Gomez and Morticia. The whole family is up in celebration, and the happy couple are obliged to tell the story of how they first met, how Grandmama and...
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Title: The Addams Family (1964–1966)
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1 win & 3 nominations.
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| Complete series cast summary: | |||
| Carolyn Jones | ... | Morticia Addams / ... 64 episodes, 1964-1966 | |
| John Astin | ... | Gomez Addams 64 episodes, 1964-1966 | |
| Jackie Coogan | ... | Uncle Fester 64 episodes, 1964-1966 | |
| Ted Cassidy | ... | Lurch 64 episodes, 1964-1966 | |
| Marie Blake | ... | Grandmama 64 episodes, 1964-1966 | |
| Lisa Loring | ... | Wednesday Addams 64 episodes, 1964-1966 | |
| Ken Weatherwax | ... | Pugsley Addams 64 episodes, 1964-1966 | |
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Thing | ... | Itself 64 episodes, 1964-1966 |
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The Addams Family is not your typical family: it takes delight in most of the things of which normal people would be terrified. Gomez Adams is an extremely wealthy man and is able to indulge his wife Morticia's every desire, whether it's cultivation of poisonous plants or a candlelit dinner in a graveyard. People visiting the Addams Family just don't seem to appreciate the 7-foot-tall butler named Lurch or the helping hand (which is just a disembodied hand named Thing). Written by Murray Chapman <muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au>
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Charles Addams never named his characters, but he had to come up with names for the characters on the TV show (it was one of the few contributions he made to the series). Within a week he decided on all of them - except for Mr. Addams, who almost wound up being called Repelli (for "repellent") instead of Gomez. See more »Goofs
Fester is sometimes referred to as being an Addams, but he is from Morticia's family, named Frump. See more »Quotes
Gomez: Now, if you'll observe, my dear, croquet is a combination of TWO things: balance, timing, peripheral vision, superb coordination, and a killer's instinct!See more »
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18 September 1964 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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General Service Studios - 1040 N. Las Palmas, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA See more »Company Credits
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The Addamses are a delightfully ghoulish family. Father Gomez (John Astin) clears his throat with a sword, mother Morticia (Carolyn Jones) owns several carnivorous plants, and servant Lurch (Ted Cassidy) somberly replies "You rang?" whenever someone rings the bell. And of course, there's their pet, a severed hand named Thing. The family spends their days engaging in activities that most would find weird (to be certain, everything that's normal to us is weird to them). For example, Uncle Fester (Jackie Coogan) likes to rest on a bed on nails. They go through their everyday lives (uh, lives?) doing the sorts of things that most people do, just differently (to say the least).
Among other things, "The Addams Family" was actually better than "The Munsters" (it was cleverer and not so silly). This truly represented a break from the "ideal American family" mold that had previously dominated TV, especially since Gomez and Morticia often got slinky with each other. Definitely watch it whenever it's on (TV Land is currently rerunning it).