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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!

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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 Fan Favorite
7.2/10(9 votes)
#1 - The Addams Family Goes to School
S1:E19/18/1964
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
Writers:Seaman Jacobs, Ed James
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Director:Arthur Hiller
Writers:Seaman Jacobs, Ed James
7.4/10(7 votes)
#2 - Morticia and the Psychiatrist
S1:E29/25/1964
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
Writers:Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons
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Director:Jean Yarbrough
Writers:Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons
7.2/10(6 votes)
#3 - Fester's Punctured Romance
S1:E310/2/1964
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
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Director:Sidney Lanfield
Writer:Jameson Brewer
7.0/10(5 votes)
#4 - Gomez, the Politician
S1:E410/9/1964
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
Writers:Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons
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Director:Jerry Hopper
Writers:Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons
7.0/10(5 votes)
#5 - The Addams Family Tree
S1:E510/16/1964
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
Writers:Harry Winkler, Lou Huston, Hannibal Coons
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Director:Jerry Hopper
Writers:Harry Winkler, Lou Huston, Hannibal Coons
7.2/10(6 votes)
#6 - Morticia Joins the Ladies League
S1:E610/23/1964
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
Writers:Phil Leslie, Keith Fowler
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Director:Jean Yarbrough
Writers:Phil Leslie, Keith Fowler

The 20 BEST Episodes of The Addams Family

7.3/10(6 votes)
#7 - Halloween with the Addams Family
S1:E710/30/1964
Two bank robbers accept an unknowing invitation and visit Morticia and Gomez on Halloween, in order to avoid being caught.
Director:Sidney Lanfield
Writers:Phil Leslie, Keith Fowler
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Director:Sidney Lanfield
Writers:Phil Leslie, Keith Fowler
7.4/10(5 votes)
#8 - Green-Eyed Gomez
S1:E811/6/1964
Gomez throws a fit of jealousy when Morticia's former boyfriend visits.
Director:Jerry Hopper
Writers:Phil Leslie, Keith Fowler
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Director:Jerry Hopper
Writers:Phil Leslie, Keith Fowler
7.0/10(4 votes)
#9 - The New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family
S1:E911/13/1964
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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Director:Jean Yarbrough
Writers:Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons
7.0/10(4 votes)
#10 - Wednesday Leaves Home
S1:E1011/20/1964
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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Director:Sidney Lanfield
Writers:Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons
7.2/10(4 votes)
#11 - The Addams Family Meet the VIPs
S1:E1111/27/1964
Visitors from another country regret labelling the Addams gang uncultured.
Director:Sidney Lanfield
Writers:Phil Leslie, Keith Fowler
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Director:Sidney Lanfield
Writers:Phil Leslie, Keith Fowler
7.0/10(4 votes)
#12 - Morticia, the Matchmaker
S1:E1212/4/1964
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
Writers:Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons
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Director:Jerry Hopper
Writers:Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons
7.2/10(4 votes)
#13 - Lurch Learns to Dance
S1:E1312/11/1964
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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Director:Sidney Lanfield
Writers:Jay Dratler, Charles R. Marion, Jerry Seelen
7.0/10(4 votes)
#14 - Art and the Addams Family
S1:E1412/18/1964
Grandmama takes up painting and hires the distressed Sam Picasso as her teacher.
Director:Sidney Lanfield
Writers:Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons
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Director:Sidney Lanfield
Writers:Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons
7.0/10(4 votes)
#15 - The Addams Family Meets a Beatnik
S1:E151/1/1965
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
Writers:Sloan Nibley, Henry Sharp
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Director:Sidney Lanfield
Writers:Sloan Nibley, Henry Sharp
7.0/10(4 votes)
#16 - The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man
S1:E161/8/1965
An undercover operative is convinced that the Addams family are spies.
Director:Arthur Lubin
Writers:Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons
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Director:Arthur Lubin
Writers:Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons
7.0/10(5 votes)
#17 - Mother Lurch Visits the Addams Family
S1:E171/15/1965
Morticia and Gomez pose as Lurch's maid and butler when his mother comes for a visit.
Director:Sidney Lanfield
Writer:Jameson Brewer
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Director:Sidney Lanfield
Writer:Jameson Brewer
7.2/10(5 votes)
#18 - Uncle Fester's Illness
S1:E181/22/1965
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
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Director:Sidney Lanfield
Writer:Bill Lutz
6.5/10(4 votes)
#19 - The Addams Family Splurges
S1:E191/29/1965
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
Writers:Lou Huston, George Haight
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Director:Sidney Lanfield
Writers:Lou Huston, George Haight
6.0/10(3 votes)
#20 - Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family
S1:E202/5/1965
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
Writers:Anthony Wilson, Henry Sharp
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Director:Sidney Lanfield
Writers:Anthony Wilson, Henry Sharp
6.0/10(3 votes)
#21 - The Addams Family in Court
S1:E212/12/1965
Grandmama is arrested for telling fortunes and soon the whole family is being held in contempt of court.
Director:Nat Perrin
Writers:Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons
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Director:Nat Perrin
Writers:Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons
6.0/10(3 votes)
#22 - Amnesia in the Addams Family
S1:E222/19/1965
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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Director:Sidney Lanfield
Writers:Phil Leslie, Keith Fowler
6.0/10(3 votes)
#23 - Thing is Missing
S1:E233/5/1965
When Thing goes missing, the family discovers he's been "thing-napped."
Director:Sidney Lanfield
Writers:Bill Lutz, Lorraine Edwards
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Director:Sidney Lanfield
Writers:Bill Lutz, Lorraine Edwards
6.5/10(4 votes)
#24 - Crisis in the Addams Family
S1:E243/12/1965
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
Writers:Sloan Nibley, Preston Wood
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Director:Sidney Lanfield
Writers:Sloan Nibley, Preston Wood
6.0/10(3 votes)
#25 - Lurch and His Harpsichord
S1:E253/19/1965
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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Director:Sidney Lanfield
Writers:Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons

Season 1 Ratings Summary

"The Addams Family Goes to School" is the best rated episode of "The Addams Family" season 1. It scored 7.2/10 based on 9 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".