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The Best Episodes of The Addams Family Season 1

Every episode of The Addams Family Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Addams Family Season 1!

The Best Episodes of The Addams Family Season 1

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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  1. Background image for The Addams Family Goes to School
    7.8/10(805 votes)

    #1 - The Addams Family Goes to School

    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.

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  2. Background image for Morticia and the Psychiatrist
    7.5/10(601 votes)

    #2 - Morticia and the Psychiatrist

    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.

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  3. Background image for Fester's Punctured Romance
    7.4/10(533 votes)

    #3 - Fester's Punctured Romance

    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.

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  4. Background image for Gomez, the Politician
    7.3/10(488 votes)

    #4 - Gomez, the Politician

    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.

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  5. Background image for The Addams Family Tree
    7.5/10(495 votes)

    #5 - The Addams Family Tree

    S1:E5

    Pugsley and Wednesday get into a fight over families with their friend Harold, who says that his family is better than theirs.

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  6. Background image for Morticia Joins the Ladies League
    7.3/10(460 votes)

    #6 - Morticia Joins the Ladies League

    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.

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  8. Background image for Halloween with the Addams Family
    7.8/10(522 votes)

    #7 - Halloween with the Addams Family

    S1:E7

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

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  9. Background image for Green-Eyed Gomez
    7.5/10(437 votes)

    #8 - Green-Eyed Gomez

    S1:E8

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

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  10. Background image for The New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family
    7.5/10(451 votes)

    #9 - The New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family

    S1:E9

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

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  11. Background image for Wednesday Leaves Home
    7.6/10(402 votes)

    #10 - Wednesday Leaves Home

    S1:E10

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

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  12. Background image for The Addams Family Meet the VIPs
    7.7/10(407 votes)

    #11 - The Addams Family Meet the VIPs

    S1:E11

    Visitors from another country regret labelling the Addams gang uncultured.

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  13. Background image for Morticia, the Matchmaker
    7.3/10(392 votes)

    #12 - Morticia, the Matchmaker

    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.

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  14. Background image for Lurch Learns to Dance
    7.8/10(414 votes)

    #13 - Lurch Learns to Dance

    S1:E13

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

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  15. Background image for Art and the Addams Family
    7.0/10(346 votes)

    #14 - Art and the Addams Family

    S1:E14

    Grandmama takes up painting and hires the distressed Sam Picasso as her teacher.

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  16. Background image for The Addams Family Meets a Beatnik
    7.4/10(363 votes)

    #15 - The Addams Family Meets a Beatnik

    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.

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  17. Background image for The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man
    7.2/10(333 votes)

    #16 - The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man

    S1:E16

    An undercover operative is convinced that the Addams family are spies.

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  18. Background image for Mother Lurch Visits the Addams Family
    7.6/10(382 votes)

    #17 - Mother Lurch Visits the Addams Family

    S1:E17

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

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  19. Background image for Uncle Fester's Illness
    7.3/10(345 votes)

    #18 - Uncle Fester's Illness

    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.

    Writer:Bill Lutz
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  20. Background image for The Addams Family Splurges
    7.2/10(323 votes)

    #19 - The Addams Family Splurges

    S1:E19

    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.

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  21. Background image for Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family
    7.5/10(351 votes)

    #20 - Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family

    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.

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  22. Background image for The Addams Family in Court
    7.3/10(329 votes)

    #21 - The Addams Family in Court

    S1:E21

    Grandmama is arrested for telling fortunes and soon the whole family is being held in contempt of court.

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  23. Background image for Amnesia in the Addams Family
    7.6/10(343 votes)

    #22 - Amnesia in the Addams Family

    S1:E22

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

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  24. Background image for Thing is Missing
    7.3/10(306 votes)

    #23 - Thing is Missing

    S1:E23

    When Thing goes missing, the family discovers he's been "thing-napped."

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  25. Background image for Crisis in the Addams Family
    7.2/10(296 votes)

    #24 - Crisis in the Addams Family

    S1:E24

    Uncle Fester applies for a job as an insurance salesman with the same company which is threatening to cancel the Addams' policy.

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  26. Background image for Lurch and His Harpsichord
    7.6/10(305 votes)

    #25 - Lurch and His Harpsichord

    S1:E25

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

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"The Addams Family Goes to School" is the best rated episode of "The Addams Family" season 1. It scored 7.8/10 based on 805 votes. Directed by Arthur Hiller and written by Seaman Jacobs, Ed James, it aired on 9/18/1964. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Morticia and the Psychiatrist".