The Addams Family Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
Episode 1 - The Addams Family Goes To SchoolMorticia and Gomez decide to keep Wednesday and Pugsley home from school after Morticia sees the fairy tales they have to read. When the truant officer comes to investigate, he is shocked at what he finds. |
Episode 2 - Morticia And The PsychiatristMorticia calls a psychiatrist after she fears Pugsley is becoming normal after he abandons his pet octopus for a puppy and is seen wearing a Boy Scout uniform, playing with a baseball bat, and helping an old lady cross the street. |
Episode 3 - Fester's Punctured RomanceUncle Fester, who has become lonely, convinces Gomez and Morticia that it is time for him to find a bride. He decides to put an ad in the newspaper, looking for love. But things go awry when a door-to-door saleswoman comes by. |
Episode 4 - Gomez, The PoliticianElection fever grips the Addams household, as Gomez (John Astin) supports the council candidate whose campaign promise is to drain the town's disgusting bogs. Morticia (Carolyn Jones), who likes "the lovely bogs," labels the candidate an extremist. |
Episode 5 - The Addams Family TreePugsley and Wednesday start a row at a party when their gift of a tarantula upsets Harold, the birthday boy. Harold's parents insist that the Addams children lack breeding and, therefore, are no longer allowed to play with their son. |
Episode 6 - Morticia Joins The Ladies LeagueAfter Pugsley befriends Gorgo, a circus gorilla, Gorgo decides to follow Pugsley and Gomez home, where is accepted as one of the family. But Gorgo gives Morticia's tea guests, the Ladies League members, quite a shock. |
Episode 7 - Halloween With The Addams FamilyA pair of bank robbers are welcomed as Halloween trick-or-treaters by Morticia and Gomez. The creepy atmosphere of the house, Morticia's smoldering holiday punch and Lurch's ominous presence impel the crooks to abandon their plans. |
Episode 8 - Green Eyed GomezWhen Lionel Barker, a former suitor of Morticia's, shows up, Gomez is jealous. But he's soon calmed when he learns that Barker is after Mildred, the new maid. The Addamses then discover that Barker is a con man--after Mildred's money, not her love. |
Episode 9 - New Neighbors Meet The Addams FamilyNewlyweds move in next door. But the honeymoon loses its tranquility when Uncle Fester enters their house through a tunnel and they flee in terror at the sight of Lurch, Grandmama sharpening her ax, and Morticia and Gomez bathing the octopus. |
Episode 10 - Wednesday Leaves HomeThe family faces a crisis when Wednesday packs her spider and runs away (after being scolded for playing with Uncle Fester's TNT). When they try to file a missing person report, a detective is anxious to retire early due to their story. |
Episode 11 - The Addams Family Meets The V.I.P.'sOfficial visitors from an unfriendly nation receive the shock of their lives when they decide to exploit the Addams Family as an average uncultured family. The visitors are shaken up by Morticia's carnivorous plants among other things. |
Episode 12 - Morticia, The MatchmakerMorticia's cousin, Melancholia, wants to marry Clarence P. Harvey after most of her marital prospects have joined the Foreign Legion. Clarence recoils when Melancholia puts on a campaign to win him, backed by Morticia, Gomez and Clarence's boss. |
Episode 13 - Lurch Learns To DanceLurch becomes a veritable gazelle when he takes dancing lessons at Gomez and Morticia's suggestion, after he admits to being a wallflower at social functions. Each member of the Addams Family teaches Lurch a different step. |
Episode 14 - Art And The Addams FamilyGrandmama's paintings leave an art critic speechless, so Gomez sends for his friend, Sam Picasso, to teach Grandmama to paint in the abstract. The starving artist ignores Grandmama's and Morticia's work as he eats and paints. |
Episode 15 - The Addams Family Meets A BeatnikRockland Cartright III is a beatnik who crashes his motorbike into a tree and recuperates at the Addams house. Each regards the other as an oddity, although the family learns to appreciate certain aspects of Rockland's life. |
Episode 16 - Addams Family Meets The Undercover ManMr. Briggs, the postman, is hired by the government to do undercover work in the Addams house. While pretending to be a stamp collector, he investigates rumors that coded radio messages are being sent from the house. |
Episode 17 - Mother Lurch Visits The Addams FamilyLurch's tiny fire-eating mother visits and demands that Lurch's employers wait on her boy hand-and-foot after Lurch leads her to believe that it's his house. Lurch revels in the unexpected attention he gets from Morticia and Gomez. |
Episode 18 - Uncle Fester's IllnessUncle Fester's electrical output fails abruptly. Should they call a doctor or an electrician to bring Fester back? Morticia prescribes a bowl of porcupine mold, and both she an Gomez agree that long exposure to moon rays would be beneficial. |
Episode 19 - The Addams Family SplurgeThe family would like to vacation on the moon, but the billion dollar travel cost is slightly prohibitive. Uncle Fester volunteers $21.13 and Morticia, using Gomez's new supercomputer, suggests placing a $2,000 bet on the daily double horse race. |
Episode 20 - Cousin Itt Visits The Addams FamilyCousin Itt is advocated as curator of the local zoo. Gomez uses his influence with Park Commissioner Fisk (guest star Alan Reed) to promote Itt for the job, but the zookeepers are convinced the Addamses' cousin should be confined to a cage. |
Episode 21 - The Addams Family In CourtGrandmama (Blossom Rock) is hauled off to jail for setting up a fortune-telling booth in the Addamses' living room. Gomez (John Astin) volunteers to act as attorney, and the court session becomes a shambles. |
Episode 22 - Amnesia In The Addams FamilyGomez (John Astin) loses his memory after hitting his head; he fails to recognize Morticia (Carolyn Jones), and says the house looks like a condemned museum. The Addamses take turns hitting Gomez on the head trying to help him regain his memory. |
Episode 23 - Thing Is MissingThing disappears from his box. Failing to find a single trace of Thing, Gomez (John Astin) conducts an investigation--with all members of the household under suspicion. Also starring Carolyn Jones, Jackie Coogan, and Ted Cassidy. |
Episode 24 - Crisis In The Addams FamilyUncle Fester applies for a job as an insurance salesman with the same company which is threatening to cancel the Addamses' policy (because Fester keeps blowing things up). Fester convinces the company interviewer that he is qualified for the job. |
Episode 25 - Lurch and His HarpsichordLurch becomes inconsolable when Gomez donates the family antique harpsichord to a collector. Gomez and Morticia offer Lurch a balalaika and a set of drums. When this proves unsatisfactory, Gomez and Fester decide to build a new harpsichord. |
Episode 26 - Morticia, The BreadwinnerWhen Morticia hears the stock market has crashed, she assumes that Gomez has been financially wiped out and rallies the family to help make money. Morticia gives lessons, Lurch and Fester run an escort service, and the kids run a poison drink stand. |
Episode 27 - The Addams Family and the SpacemanMientras disfrutan de un picnic a la luz de la luna y cazan caracoles, investigadores de la Sede Central de Objetos Misteriosos confunden a los Addams con seres de otro planeta. Homero y su familia desconfĂan de los uniformados. |
Episode 28 - My Son, The ChimpAn organ grinder's fugitive monkey leads Fester to believe that he has turned Pugsley into a monkey. Morticia and Gomez treat the monkey as though he were their son, welcoming him to the dinner table and giving him Pugsley's chores. |
Episode 29 - Morticia's Favorite CharityMoriticia's favorite charity is having an auction--so Morticia persuades her family to part with things to sell. Donations include Wednesday's headless doll, the old flogging table, a stuffed vulture and Uncle Fester's dynamite. |
Episode 30 - Progress and the Addams FamilyThe Addams Family ignores notices that their house is to be condemned to make way for a freeway. When sudden explosions cannot be traced to any member of the family but, instead, to city workmen, Gomez is forced to consider moving the house. |
Episode 31 - Uncle Fester's ToupeeUncle Fester's pen pal, Madelyn, is coming to visit. Fester panics, as he has described himself as handsome, heroic and romantic. Gomez and Morticia agree that all Fester needs is a toupee and they help him make several styles. |
Episode 32 - Cousin Itt and the Vocational CounselorMorticia and Gomez are worried about Cousin Itt because he spends his days sleeping and dreaming in his tiny room. They decide that Itt would make an excellent marriage counselor, and pretend to be a couple with a failing marriage. |
Episode 33 - Lurch, The Teenage IdolA recording company's platter of Lurch's gravelly voice brings a screaming mob of teenage fans to the Addams house. To calm the crowd, Lurch seats himself at the harpsichord and rewards his fans with a song to end all songs. |
Episode 34 - The Winning of Morticia AddamsTaken in by a psychologist's pronouncement that the only happily married couples are those who fight members of the Addams household devise schemes to start a battle between Gomez (John Astin) and Morticia (Carolyn Jones). |
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