The Best Episodes Written By Hannibal Coons

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: Hannibal Coons

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

Director: Sidney Lanfield

Writer: Hannibal Coons

Uncle Fester is chosen to slide down the chimney dressed as Santa Claus to prove the existence of St. Nick to the children. Fester gets stuck in the chimney, so Gomez, Lurch, Cousin Itt, and even Morticia and Grandmama each don a red suit and appear to the children.

Director: Sidney Lanfield

Writer: Hannibal Coons

With reports of UFOs in the area, the Addams believe they have been visited by two Martians. Vito Scotti appears as Professor Altshuler.

Director: Sidney Lanfield

Writer: Hannibal Coons

On Morticia and Gomez's thirteenth wedding anniversary, Morticia tells the children a bedtime story of how she and Gomez met.

Director: Sidney Lanfield

Writer: Hannibal Coons

Wednesday and Pugsley refuse to go to sleep until they are told the rest of the story of their parents' romance.

Director: Sidney Lanfield

Writer: Hannibal Coons

When Morticia begins writing twisted tales for children, Gomez tries to sabotage her career.

Director: Sidney Lanfield

Writer: Hannibal Coons

Pugsley wants to find a job to the horror of his parents.

Director: Sidney Lanfield

Writer: Hannibal Coons

After Uncle Fester's flame thrower destroys the family's stuffed bear, insurance executive Hensen tries to weasel out of the policy.

Director: Sidney Lanfield

Writer: Hannibal Coons

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: Hannibal Coons

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: Hannibal Coons

Business is bad at the Shady Rest and Kate needs to make a $200 bank loan payment. Uncle Joe meets Henrietta Boswell and Gertrude Hawley, who are lost and looking for Madame Bovary's Hideaway Reducing Farm. He convinces them that the Shady Rest is the most exclusive reducing farm and charges them $200 for a week. The catch is that Uncle Joe provides them with a money back guarantee. Uncle Joe tries to hide from Kate why the women are staying at the hotel. With a rigged scale, Joe has to convince the two that the secret to weight loss is to eat whatever they want as long as it is combined with turnip greens. He also has them do what would normally be considered all his chores. Ultimately, the two women do whatever they can to find what they believe is Kate's miracle weight loss and youth secret.

Director: Guy Scarpitta

Writer: Hannibal Coons

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

Director: Jean Yarbrough

Writer: Hannibal Coons

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

Director: Sidney Lanfield

Writer: Hannibal Coons

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: Hannibal Coons

Grandmama takes up painting and hires the distressed Sam Picasso as her teacher.

Director: Sidney Lanfield

Writer: Hannibal Coons

An undercover operative is convinced that the Addams family are spies.

Director: Arthur Lubin

Writer: Hannibal Coons

Grandmama is arrested for telling fortunes and soon the whole family is being held in contempt of court.

Director: Nat Perrin

Writer: Hannibal Coons

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

Director: Sidney Lanfield

Writer: Hannibal Coons

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.

Director: Sidney Lanfield

Writer: Hannibal Coons

Morticia and Gomez can't produce immediate proof to the contrary when the neighbour tells the children there are no witches and goblins.

Director: Sidney Lanfield

Writer: Hannibal Coons

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: Hannibal Coons

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: Hannibal Coons

Discovering a treasure map in the sea chest of Great-Great-Grandfather Peg-Leg Addams the pirate, Gomez and Morticia decide to hire a boat to go look for it.

Director: Sidney Lanfield

Writer: Hannibal Coons

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

Director: Sidney Lanfield

Writer: Hannibal Coons