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The Best Episodes of The Addams Family Season 1

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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,...
  1. 7.8/10(747 votes)

    #1 - The Addams Family Goes to School

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    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. 7.8/10(483 votes)

    #2 - Halloween with the Addams Family

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    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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  3. 7.8/10(387 votes)

    #3 - Lurch Learns to Dance

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    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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  4. 7.8/10(293 votes)

    #4 - Lurch, the Teenage Idol

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    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?

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  5. 7.7/10(378 votes)

    #5 - The Addams Family Meet the VIPs

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    S1:E11

    Visitors from another country regret labelling the Addams gang uncultured.

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  6. 7.7/10(285 votes)

    #6 - Lurch and His Harpsichord

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    S1:E25

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

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  8. 7.6/10(373 votes)

    #7 - Wednesday Leaves Home

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    S1:E10

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

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  9. 7.6/10(351 votes)

    #8 - Mother Lurch Visits the Addams Family

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    S1:E17

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

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  10. 7.6/10(319 votes)

    #9 - Amnesia in the Addams Family

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    S1:E22

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

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  11. 7.6/10(267 votes)

    #10 - Morticia, the Breadwinner

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    S1:E26

    When Morticia believes the family to be bankrupt, she sells her railroad shares to a mystery buyer to raise money.

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  12. 7.6/10(269 votes)

    #11 - Progress and the Addams Family

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    S1:E30

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

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  13. 7.6/10(263 votes)

    #12 - Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor

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    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.

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  14. 7.5/10(548 votes)

    #13 - Morticia and the Psychiatrist

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    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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  15. 7.5/10(453 votes)

    #14 - The Addams Family Tree

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    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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  16. 7.5/10(403 votes)

    #15 - Green-Eyed Gomez

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    S1:E8

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

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  17. 7.5/10(419 votes)

    #16 - The New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family

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    S1:E9

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

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  18. 7.5/10(323 votes)

    #17 - Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family

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    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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  19. 7.5/10(265 votes)

    #18 - The Addams Family and the Spacemen

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    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.

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  20. 7.4/10(486 votes)

    #19 - Fester's Punctured Romance

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    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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  21. 7.4/10(339 votes)

    #20 - The Addams Family Meets a Beatnik

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    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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  22. 7.4/10(318 votes)

    #21 - Uncle Fester's Illness

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    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.

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    Writer:Bill Lutz
  23. 7.4/10(258 votes)

    #22 - Uncle Fester's Toupee

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    S1:E31

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

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  24. 7.3/10(447 votes)

    #23 - Gomez, the Politician

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    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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  25. 7.3/10(421 votes)

    #24 - Morticia Joins the Ladies League

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    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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  26. 7.3/10(363 votes)

    #25 - Morticia, the Matchmaker

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    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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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 747 votes. Directed by Arthur Hiller and written by Seaman Jacobs, Ed James, it aired on 9/18/1964. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Halloween with the Addams Family".