7.0/10316 votesLoading...#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
7.1/10304 votesLoading...#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
7.2/10297 votesLoading...#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
7.2/10273 votesLoading...#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
7.2/10250 votesLoading...#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
7.2/10225 votesLoading...#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
7.3/10441 votesLoading...#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
7.3/10415 votesLoading...#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
7.3/10359 votesLoading...#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
7.3/10301 votesLoading...#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
7.3/10278 votesLoading...#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
7.3/10258 votesLoading...#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
7.3/10257 votesLoading...#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
7.3/10242 votesLoading...#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
7.3/10228 votesLoading...#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
7.3/10225 votesLoading...#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
7.3/10221 votesLoading...#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
7.3/10213 votesLoading...#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
7.4/10481 votesLoading...#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
7.4/10334 votesLoading...#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
7.4/10316 votesLoading...#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
7.4/10257 votesLoading...#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
7.4/10239 votesLoading...#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
7.4/10222 votesLoading...#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
7.4/10222 votesLoading...#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
The Worst Episodes of The Addams Family
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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,...
Genres:ComedyFamily
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".