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The Best Episodes of The Addams Family Season 1

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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, and are never really aware that people find them bizarre

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Addams Family Season 1 Episode 13 - Lurch Learns to Dance
    7.9/10(449 votes)

    S1:E13

    Morticia and Gomez are supportive of Lurch and encourage him to follow his gut feeling and take dance lessons.

    Director:Sidney Lanfield
    Writers:Jay Dratler, Charles R. Marion, Jerry Seelen

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  2. The Addams Family Season 1 Episode 1 - The Addams Family Goes to School
    7.8/10(898 votes)

    S1:E1

    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
    Writers:Ed James, Seaman Jacobs

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  3. The Addams Family Season 1 Episode 7 - Halloween with the Addams Family
    7.8/10(577 votes)

    S1:E7

    Two bank robbers accept an unknowing invitation and visit Morticia and Gomez on Halloween, in order to avoid being caught.

    Director:Sidney Lanfield
    Writers:Phil Leslie, Keith Fowler

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  4. The Addams Family Season 1 Episode 11 - The Addams Family Meet the VIPs
    7.8/10(445 votes)

    S1:E11

    Visitors from another country regret labelling the Addams gang uncultured.

    Director:Sidney Lanfield
    Writers:Phil Leslie, Keith Fowler

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  5. The Addams Family Season 1 Episode 33 - Lurch, the Teenage Idol
    7.8/10(345 votes)

    S1:E33

    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

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  6. The Addams Family Season 1 Episode 10 - Wednesday Leaves Home
    7.6/10(441 votes)

    S1:E10

    Family worries when a flustered Wednesday runs away after being scolded for borrowing Uncle Fester's TNT.

    Director:Sidney Lanfield
    Writers:Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons

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  7. The Addams Family Season 1 Episode 17 - Mother Lurch Visits the Addams Family
    7.6/10(418 votes)

    S1:E17

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

    Director:Sidney Lanfield
    Writer:Jameson Brewer

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  8. The Addams Family Season 1 Episode 22 - Amnesia in the Addams Family
    7.6/10(377 votes)

    S1:E22

    Gomez suffers from amnesia after being hit in the head with Indian clubs, and his personality changes dramatically.

    Director:Sidney Lanfield
    Writers:Phil Leslie, Keith Fowler

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  9. The Addams Family Season 1 Episode 25 - Lurch and His Harpsichord
    7.6/10(338 votes)

    S1:E25

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

    Director:Sidney Lanfield
    Writers:Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons

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  10. The Addams Family Season 1 Episode 30 - Progress and the Addams Family
    7.6/10(322 votes)

    S1:E30

    The Addams Family ignores notices from Arthur Henson that their house is to be condemned to make way for a freeway.

    Director:Sidney Lanfield
    Writers:Ben Gershman, Cecil Beard, Clark Haas, Bill Freedman

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  11. The Addams Family Season 1 Episode 32 - Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor
    7.6/10(321 votes)

    S1:E32

    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
    Writers:Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons

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  12. The Addams Family Season 1 Episode 2 - Morticia and the Psychiatrist
    7.5/10(665 votes)

    S1:E2

    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
    Writers:Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons

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  13. The Addams Family Season 1 Episode 5 - The Addams Family Tree
    7.5/10(540 votes)

    S1:E5

    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
    Writers:Harry Winkler, Lou Huston, Hannibal Coons

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  14. The Addams Family Season 1 Episode 8 - Green-Eyed Gomez
    7.5/10(478 votes)

    S1:E8

    Gomez throws a fit of jealousy when Morticia's former boyfriend visits.

    Director:Jerry Hopper
    Writers:Phil Leslie, Keith Fowler

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  15. The Addams Family Season 1 Episode 9 - The New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family
    7.5/10(487 votes)

    S1:E9

    A young couple, simple, naive, and very much in love, move into the house next to the Addams'.

    Director:Jean Yarbrough
    Writers:Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons

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  16. The Addams Family Season 1 Episode 15 - The Addams Family Meets a Beatnik
    7.5/10(400 votes)

    S1:E15

    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
    Writers:Sloan Nibley, Henry Sharp

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  17. The Addams Family Season 1 Episode 20 - Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family
    7.5/10(382 votes)

    S1:E20

    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
    Writers:Anthony Wilson, Henry Sharp

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  18. The Addams Family Season 1 Episode 26 - Morticia, the Breadwinner
    7.5/10(322 votes)

    S1:E26

    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

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  19. The Addams Family Season 1 Episode 27 - The Addams Family and the Spacemen
    7.5/10(315 votes)

    S1:E27

    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
    Writers:Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons

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  20. The Addams Family Season 1 Episode 3 - Fester's Punctured Romance
    7.4/10(586 votes)

    S1:E3

    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

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  21. The Addams Family Season 1 Episode 4 - Gomez, the Politician
    7.4/10(538 votes)

    S1:E4

    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
    Writers:Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons

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  22. The Addams Family Season 1 Episode 18 - Uncle Fester's Illness
    7.4/10(385 votes)

    S1:E18

    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

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  23. The Addams Family Season 1 Episode 31 - Uncle Fester's Toupee
    7.4/10(311 votes)

    S1:E31

    Fester's penpal drops by unexpectedly, so he must assume the false personality he has been pretending to be.

    Director:Sidney Lanfield
    Writers:Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons

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  24. The Addams Family Season 1 Episode 6 - Morticia Joins the Ladies League
    7.3/10(501 votes)

    S1:E6

    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
    Writers:Phil Leslie, Keith Fowler

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  25. The Addams Family Season 1 Episode 12 - Morticia, the Matchmaker
    7.3/10(431 votes)

    S1:E12

    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
    Writers:Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Lurch Learns to Dance" is the best rated episode of "The Addams Family" season 1. It scored 7.9/10 based on 449 votes. Directed by Sidney Lanfield and written by Jay Dratler, Charles R. Marion, Jerry Seelen, it aired on 12/11/1964. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Addams Family Goes to School".