The Best Episodes of The Addams Family Season 1

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Jerry Hopper

Writer: Phil Leslie, Keith Fowler

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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