8.0/10296 votesLoading...#1 - Morticia's Romance (1)
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/1965
On Morticia and Gomez's thirteenth wedding anniversary, Morticia tells the children a bedtime story of how she and Gomez met.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons
8.0/10295 votesLoading...#2 - Christmas with the Addams Family
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 12/24/1965
Uncle Fester is chosen to slide down the chimney dressed as Santa Claus to prove the existence of St. Nick to the children. Fester gets stuck in the chimney, so Gomez, Lurch, Cousin Itt, and even Morticia and Grandmama each don a red suit and appear to the children.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons
7.9/10271 votesLoading...#3 - Morticia's Romance (2)
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1965
Wednesday and Pugsley refuse to go to sleep until they are told the rest of the story of their parents' romance.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons
7.8/10478 votesLoading...#4 - Halloween with the Addams Family
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/30/1964
Two bank robbers accept an unknowing invitation and visit Morticia and Gomez on Halloween, in order to avoid being caught.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Phil Leslie, Keith Fowler
7.8/10379 votesLoading...#5 - Lurch Learns to Dance
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/11/1964
Morticia and Gomez are supportive of Lurch and encourage him to follow his gut feeling and take dance lessons.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Jay Dratler, Jerry Seelen, Charles R. Marion
7.8/10290 votesLoading...#6 - Lurch, the Teenage Idol
Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 5/14/1965
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?
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Phil Leslie
7.8/10243 votesLoading...#7 - Lurch's Grand Romance
Season 2 Episode 29 - Aired 4/1/1966
Morticia's school chum Trivia visits. Lurch is obviously smitten by her, but Trivia's interest is entirely in show business. Moticia decides to change Trivia's mind by making Lurch more exciting than show biz. She enlists others in the family to help, including Grandmama, whose love potion makes the biggest and wildest impact of all.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Gene Thompson, Arthur Weingarten
7.7/10731 votesLoading...#8 - The Addams Family Goes to School
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1964
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.
Director: Arthur Hiller
Writer: Seaman Jacobs, Ed James
7.7/10372 votesLoading...#9 - The Addams Family Meet the VIPs
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/27/1964
Visitors from another country regret labelling the Addams gang uncultured.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Phil Leslie, Keith Fowler
7.7/10282 votesLoading...#10 - Lurch and His Harpsichord
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/19/1965
Lurch feels betrayed when Gomez and Morticia give their antique harpsichord to a museum.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons
7.7/10217 votesLoading...#11 - Morticia, the Decorator
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 2/18/1966
To sell the neighboring Addams Family an insurance policy, agent Joe Digby allows Morticia to redecorate his home.
Director: Sidney Salkow
Writer: Gene Thompson
7.6/10368 votesLoading...#12 - Wednesday Leaves Home
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/20/1964
Family worries when a flustered Wednesday runs away after being scolded for borrowing Uncle Fester's TNT.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons
7.6/10346 votesLoading...#13 - Mother Lurch Visits the Addams Family
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/15/1965
Morticia and Gomez pose as Lurch's maid and butler when his mother comes for a visit.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Jameson Brewer
7.6/10315 votesLoading...#14 - Amnesia in the Addams Family
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/19/1965
Gomez suffers from amnesia after being hit in the head with Indian clubs, and his personality changes dramatically.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Phil Leslie, Keith Fowler
7.6/10264 votesLoading...#15 - Morticia, the Breadwinner
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/26/1965
When Morticia believes the family to be bankrupt, she sells her railroad shares to a mystery buyer to raise money.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Phil Leslie
7.6/10267 votesLoading...#16 - Progress and the Addams Family
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 4/23/1965
The Addams Family ignores notices from Arthur Henson that their house is to be condemned to make way for a freeway.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Ben Gershman, Bill Freedman, Cecil Beard, Clark Haas
7.6/10260 votesLoading...#17 - Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 5/7/1965
Morticia and Gomez call an expert to find Cousin Itt a job after he fails at being a marriage counselor, almost splitting up Gomez and Morticia in the process.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons
7.6/10235 votesLoading...#18 - Gomez, the People's Choice
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1965
Morticia and Gomez visit Mayor Henson to complain that their property tax is ridiculously low. After the Mayor proves his incompetence by offering a refund Gomez is persuaded to become a candidate for the office.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Henry Sharp, Joseph Vogel
7.6/10248 votesLoading...#19 - Halloween - Addams Style
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/1965
Morticia and Gomez can't produce immediate proof to the contrary when the neighbour tells the children there are no witches and goblins.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons
7.6/10235 votesLoading...#20 - Feud in the Addams Family
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/26/1965
The Courtneys make social advances toward the Addams Family, mistakenly believing that the socially prominent Abigail Quincy Adams resides there.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Rick Richardson, Jerry Gottler
7.6/10224 votesLoading...#21 - Gomez, the Cat Burglar
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/3/1965
Gomez is having some sleepwalking issues brought on by Grandma's famous yak stew. The house descends into chaos when a connection is made between a recent spat of cat burglaries and Gomez's nighttime adventures. Morticia goes on the search for a cure before Gomez gets caught and branded a criminal.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Phil Leslie
7.6/10221 votesLoading...#22 - Morticia and Gomez vs. Fester and Grandmama
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/7/1966
The Addams mansion becomes a battlefield when Gomez and Morticia tell Grandmama and Uncle Fester that they think they are spoiling Pugsley and Wednesday.
Director: Sidney Salkow
Writer: Sloan Nibley, Preston Wood, Lila Garrett, Bernie Kahn
7.6/10222 votesLoading...#23 - The Great Treasure Hunt
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 1/21/1966
Discovering a treasure map in the sea chest of Great-Great-Grandfather Peg-Leg Addams the pirate, Gomez and Morticia decide to hire a boat to go look for it.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons
7.6/10215 votesLoading...#24 - Pugsley's Allowance
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/4/1966
Pugsley wants to find a job to the horror of his parents.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons
7.6/10218 votesLoading...#25 - Happy Birthday, Grandma Frump
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/11/1966
Granny Frump mistakenly believes that Gomez and Morticia are sending her to a home for the aged for her birthday.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Elroy Schwartz
The Best Episodes of The Addams Family
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A satirical inversion of the ideal of the perfect American nuclear family, they are an eccentric wealthy family who delight in everything grotesque and macabre,...
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Best Episodes Summary
"Morticia's Romance (1)" is the best rated episode of "The Addams Family". It scored 8/10 based on 296 votes. Directed by Sidney Lanfield and written by Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons, it aired on 9/24/1965. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Christmas with the Addams Family".