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The Worst Episodes of The Addams Family

Every episode of The Addams Family ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of The Addams Family!

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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Network:ABC

Worst Episodes Summary

"Art and the Addams Family" is the worst rated episode of "The Addams Family". It scored 7/10 based on 316 votes. Directed by Sidney Lanfield and written by Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons, it aired on 12/18/1964. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man".

  • Art and the Addams Family
    7.0/10316 votes
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    #1 - 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 the Undercover Man
    7.1/10303 votes
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    #2 - 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

  • The Addams Family Splurges
    7.2/10295 votes
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    #3 - 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

  • Crisis in the Addams Family
    7.2/10273 votes
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    #4 - 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

  • The Winning of Morticia Addams
    7.2/10248 votes
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    #5 - The Winning of Morticia Addams

    Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 5/21/1965

    Members of the Addams household devise schemes to start a battle between Gomez and Morticia.

    Director: Sidney Lanfield

    Writer: Jameson Brewer, Charles R. Marion

  • Morticia, the Sculptress
    7.2/10224 votes
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    #6 - Morticia, the Sculptress

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/12/1965

    Morticia takes up sculpting, and Gomez, wanting her to believe she's good at it, pays an art collector to buy them.

    Director: Sidney Lanfield

    Writer: Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons

  • Gomez, the Politician
    7.3/10440 votes
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    #7 - 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

  • Morticia Joins the Ladies League
    7.3/10413 votes
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    #8 - 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

  • Morticia, the Matchmaker
    7.3/10358 votes
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    #9 - 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

  • The Addams Family in Court
    7.3/10300 votes
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    #10 - 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

  • Thing is Missing
    7.3/10278 votes
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    #11 - 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

  • My Son, the Chimp
    7.3/10258 votes
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    #12 - My Son, the Chimp

    Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/9/1965

    The family believes that Pugsley has been turned into a chimp.

    Director: Sidney Lanfield

    Writer: Henry Sharp, Don Quinn

  • Morticia's Favorite Charity
    7.3/10257 votes
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    #13 - Morticia's Favorite Charity

    Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/16/1965

    Morticia's favorite charitable organization is holding a fundraising bazaar, so Morticia persuades her family to part with their belongings in order to donate them to the charity auction.

    Director: Sidney Lanfield

    Writer: Jameson Brewer, Elroy Schwartz

  • Morticia Meets Royalty
    7.3/10241 votes
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    #14 - Morticia Meets Royalty

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/1965

    Gomez's aunt Princess Millicent visits with her hand maiden Lady Fingers, who is a perfect match for Thing.

    Director: Sidney Lanfield

    Writer: Leo Rifkin

  • Portrait of Gomez
    7.3/10227 votes
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    #15 - Portrait of Gomez

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/10/1965

    Morticia's pet plant Cleopatra gobbles up her favourite photo of Gomez from the family album. When the original photographer is found and asked to make a duplicate picture, it is discovered that he is now with the Department of Motor Vehicles.

    Director: Sidney Salkow

    Writer: Bill Lutz, Henry Sharp, Leo Salkin

  • Fester Goes on a Diet
    7.3/10224 votes
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    #16 - Fester Goes on a Diet

    Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/14/1966

    For his impending visit from pen pal Yvette of the Folies Bregeré, Uncle Fester is secretly trying to whip himself into shape, even recruiting guidance from fitness guru Jack LaLanne himself. With all the sudden dieting and exercise going on, Morticia and Gomez know something's up but think Fester's trying to join the space program.

    Director: Sidney Lanfield

    Writer: Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons

  • Ophelia Visits Morticia
    7.3/10221 votes
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    #17 - Ophelia Visits Morticia

    Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 2/25/1966

    Ophelia's upset that her latest beau, Montrose, has gone off to join the Peace Corps. His looking so much like Uncle Fester gives Fester the idea to join the Peace Corps as well. Ophelia's all excited that Fester, once in, can look for her Monstrose, but can Fester pass the entrance exam?

    Director: Sidney Lanfield

    Writer: Arthur Weingarten

  • Ophelia's Career
    7.3/10213 votes
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    #18 - Ophelia's Career

    Season 2 Episode 30 - Aired 4/8/1966

    Ophelia visits, upset as usual. He latest boyfriend has left her, as usual, and the family tries to find something she's good at.

    Director: Sidney Lanfield

    Writer: Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons

  • Fester's Punctured Romance
    7.4/10479 votes
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    #19 - 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

  • The Addams Family Meets a Beatnik
    7.4/10333 votes
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    #20 - 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

  • Uncle Fester's Illness
    7.4/10315 votes
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    #21 - 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

  • Uncle Fester's Toupee
    7.4/10256 votes
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    #22 - Uncle Fester's Toupee

    Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 4/30/1965

    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

  • Cousin Itt's Problem
    7.4/10238 votes
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    #23 - Cousin Itt's Problem

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/22/1965

    Cousin Itt is shedding hair, and the family is worried that he'll lose his great good looks along with his hair. Fester gets out his chemistry set to produce a batch of hair restorer and prevent a disaster.

    Director: Sidney Lanfield

    Writer: Carol Henning, Ed Ring, Mitch Persons

  • Ophelia Finds Romance
    7.4/10222 votes
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    #24 - Ophelia Finds Romance

    Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 1/28/1966

    Ophelia brings a new beau to show off, but the Addams believe him to be a fraud.

    Director: Sidney Lanfield

    Writer: Harry Winkler, Hannibal Coons

  • Cat Addams
    7.4/10222 votes
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    #25 - Cat Addams

    Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 3/11/1966

    A doctor is summoned to examine Kitty Kat, the ailing lion pet of the Addams Family. Morticia soon decides that it is the cringing doctor who needs help, so human members of the family feign illnesses to build his confidence.

    Director: Stanley Z. Cherry

    Writer: Luther Davis