All Episodes of The Addams Family
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Season 1
7.7/10728 votesLoading...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
7.5/10539 votesLoading...Morticia and the Psychiatrist
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1964
Gomez and Morticia are shocked when Pugsley joins the boy scouts, begins playing baseball and gets a puppy. Fearing something is wrong, they turn to a psychiatrist.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons
7.4/10477 votesLoading...Fester's Punctured Romance
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1964
Uncle Fester puts an ad in the personals column and when he doesn't get an immediate response he's heartbroken. Later, the family mistake a cosmetics saleswoman as a respondent to the ad.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Jameson Brewer
7.3/10438 votesLoading...Gomez, the Politician
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/1964
Sam Hilliard, the ex-truant officer, is running for city council. This puts Gomez in the campaign mood, and he decides to offer financial support.
Director: Jerry Hopper
Writer: Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons
7.5/10444 votesLoading...The Addams Family Tree
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/1964
Pugsley and Wednesday get into a fight over families with their friend Harold, who says that his family is better than theirs.
Director: Jerry Hopper
Writer: Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons, Lou Huston
7.3/10411 votesLoading...Morticia Joins the Ladies League
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/23/1964
Gomez and Pugsley visit an old friend of the family, who owns a circus. There, Pugsley befriends Gorgo the Gorilla who later escapes and follows Pugsley home. Meanwhile, Morticia has hopes of joining the Ladies League.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Phil Leslie, Keith Fowler
7.8/10476 votesLoading...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
7.5/10398 votesLoading...Green-Eyed Gomez
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/6/1964
Gomez throws a fit of jealousy when Morticia's former boyfriend visits.
Director: Jerry Hopper
Writer: Phil Leslie, Keith Fowler
7.5/10411 votesLoading...The New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/13/1964
A young couple, simple, naive, and very much in love, move into the house next to the Addams'.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons
7.6/10366 votesLoading...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
7.7/10371 votesLoading...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
7.3/10357 votesLoading...Morticia, the Matchmaker
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/4/1964
Morticia plays matchmaker when her cousin Melancholia and a bachelor lawyer hoping to make a business deal both visit at the same time.
Director: Jerry Hopper
Writer: Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons
7.8/10378 votesLoading...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
7.0/10315 votesLoading...Art and the Addams Family
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/18/1964
Grandmama takes up painting and hires the distressed Sam Picasso as her teacher.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons
7.4/10333 votesLoading...The Addams Family Meets a Beatnik
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/1/1965
A young biker on the run from his domineering tycoon dad ends up hiding out in the Addams house, and the Addamses couldn't be happier.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Sloan Nibley, Henry Sharp
7.1/10303 votesLoading...The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/8/1965
An undercover operative is convinced that the Addams family are spies.
Director: Arthur Lubin
Writer: Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons
7.6/10345 votesLoading...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
7.4/10315 votesLoading...Uncle Fester's Illness
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/22/1965
Lately, Uncle Fester's been a bit rundown, literally unable to maintain his wattage. Since Dr. Mbogo, the reliable family witch doctor, is too busy to leave Africa, the Addamses must take their chances by engaging the services of a local physician, who pays them a house call.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Bill Lutz
7.2/10295 votesLoading...The Addams Family Splurges
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/29/1965
The Addams family hopes to vacation on the moon, but needs to raise a billion dollars. Using Gomez's new supercomputer, the family schemes to make the money by betting on horse races.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Lou Huston, George Haight
7.5/10317 votesLoading...Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/5/1965
Parks Commissioner Fiske visits the Addams house seeking contributions for expansion of the city zoo. Gomez believes visiting Cousin Itt - all hairy and gibbering four feet tall of him - would be perfect as the zoo's new curator. He has the two meet, but Commissioner Fisk misunderstands the intent and mistakes Itt for a new exotic animal attraction whom he has hauled away in chains when the others aren't looking. When the family finds out what's happened, Uncle Fester is ready to administer retribution the Addams way - with a bullet from behind.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Anthony Wilson, Henry Sharp
7.3/10300 votesLoading...The Addams Family in Court
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/12/1965
Grandmama is arrested for telling fortunes and soon the whole family is being held in contempt of court.
Director: Nat Perrin
Writer: Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons
7.6/10315 votesLoading...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
7.3/10277 votesLoading...Thing is Missing
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/5/1965
When Thing goes missing, the family discovers he's been "thing-napped."
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Bill Lutz, Lorraine Edwards
7.2/10271 votesLoading...Crisis in the Addams Family
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/12/1965
Uncle Fester applies for a job as an insurance salesman with the same company which is threatening to cancel the Addams' policy.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Sloan Nibley, Preston Wood
7.7/10281 votesLoading...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
7.6/10263 votesLoading...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
7.5/10263 votesLoading...The Addams Family and the Spacemen
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 4/2/1965
With reports of UFOs in the area, the Addams believe they have been visited by two Martians. Vito Scotti appears as Professor Altshuler.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons
7.3/10258 votesLoading...My Son, the Chimp
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/9/1965
The family believes that Pugsley has been turned into a chimp.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Henry Sharp, Don Quinn
7.3/10257 votesLoading...Morticia's Favorite Charity
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/16/1965
Morticia's favorite charitable organization is holding a fundraising bazaar, so Morticia persuades her family to part with their belongings in order to donate them to the charity auction.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Jameson Brewer, Elroy Schwartz
7.6/10267 votesLoading...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
7.4/10255 votesLoading...Uncle Fester's Toupee
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 4/30/1965
Fester's penpal drops by unexpectedly, so he must assume the false personality he has been pretending to be.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons
7.6/10259 votesLoading...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
7.8/10289 votesLoading...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
7.2/10248 votesLoading...The Winning of Morticia Addams
Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 5/21/1965
Members of the Addams household devise schemes to start a battle between Gomez and Morticia.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Jameson Brewer, Charles R. Marion