The Best Episodes of The Addams Family

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Visitors from another country regret labelling the Addams gang uncultured.

Director: Sidney Lanfield

Writer: Phil Leslie, Keith Fowler

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

Director: Sidney Lanfield

Writer: Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons

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

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

Director: Sidney Lanfield

Writer: Jameson Brewer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To sell the neighboring Addams Family an insurance policy, agent Joe Digby allows Morticia to redecorate his home.

Director: Sidney Salkow

Writer: Gene Thompson

A former truant officer named Sam Hilliard heads a private school where Wednesday and Pugsley are enrolled. When Hilliard breaks under the strain of dealing with the Addams children, Gomez buys the school.

Director: Sidney Lanfield

Writer: Sloan Nibley, Bill Lutz

Morticia's concern that Lurch is overworked leads Gomez to the operating table to assemble a custom-built secondary butler. Lurch lets the robot do all the work and then begins to feel that he isn't needed anymore.

Director: Sidney Lanfield

Writer: Phil Leslie