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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!

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,...
Genres:ComedyFamily
Network:ABC

Season 1 Ratings Summary

"The Addams Family Goes to School" is the best rated episode of "The Addams Family" season 1. It scored 7.7/10 based on 731 votes. Directed by Arthur Hiller and written by Seaman Jacobs, Ed James, it aired on 9/18/1964. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Morticia and the Psychiatrist".

  • The Addams Family Goes to School
    7.7/10731 votes

    #1 - 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

  • Morticia and the Psychiatrist
    7.5/10541 votes

    #2 - 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

  • Fester's Punctured Romance
    7.4/10479 votes

    #3 - 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

  • Gomez, the Politician
    7.3/10440 votes

    #4 - 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

  • The Addams Family Tree
    7.5/10445 votes

    #5 - 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

  • Morticia Joins the Ladies League
    7.3/10413 votes

    #6 - 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

  • Halloween with the Addams Family
    7.8/10478 votes

    #7 - 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

  • Green-Eyed Gomez
    7.5/10399 votes

    #8 - 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

  • The New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family
    7.5/10413 votes

    #9 - 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

  • Wednesday Leaves Home
    7.6/10368 votes

    #10 - 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

  • The Addams Family Meet the VIPs
    7.7/10372 votes

    #11 - 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

  • Morticia, the Matchmaker
    7.3/10358 votes

    #12 - 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

  • Lurch Learns to Dance
    7.8/10379 votes

    #13 - 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

  • Art and the Addams Family
    7.0/10316 votes

    #14 - 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

  • The Addams Family Meets a Beatnik
    7.4/10333 votes

    #15 - 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

  • The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man
    7.1/10303 votes

    #16 - 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

  • Mother Lurch Visits the Addams Family
    7.6/10346 votes

    #17 - 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

  • Uncle Fester's Illness
    7.4/10315 votes

    #18 - 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

  • The Addams Family Splurges
    7.2/10295 votes

    #19 - 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

  • Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family
    7.5/10317 votes

    #20 - 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

  • The Addams Family in Court
    7.3/10300 votes

    #21 - 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

  • Amnesia in the Addams Family
    7.6/10315 votes

    #22 - 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

  • Thing is Missing
    7.3/10278 votes

    #23 - 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

  • Crisis in the Addams Family
    7.2/10273 votes

    #24 - 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

  • Lurch and His Harpsichord
    7.7/10282 votes

    #25 - 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