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Year: 1964  |  1965  |  1966


Season 1


"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 1: Episode 1 -- Gomez and Morticia don't understand why Pugsley and Wednesday need to go to school. They're getting all the education they need right at home. Unfortunately, society disagrees.

Season 1, Episode 1: The Addams Family Goes to School

Original Air Date—18 September 1964
Sam Hilliard, a truant officer, visits the Addams family because neither of the children has ever set foot in school. He convinces Morticia and Gomez to meet with the principal, Miss Comstock. Miss Comstock, who doesn't think much of Mr. Hilliard, persuades the Addams to put Wednesday and Pugsley in school, but also asks Hilliard to revisit the Addams home. The Addams children are disturbed by the Grimms' fairy tales that are read at school; they think that dragons are really being killed. Hilliard is frightened by the Addams, especially Lurch and the loud gong that summons him, but he is most shocked when Gomez suggests that he try the wrack for relaxation.

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 1: Episode 2 -- Morticia and Gomez seek the counsel of child psychologist, Dr. Black, when Pugsley starts displaying some shocking behavior.

Season 1, Episode 2: Morticia and the Psychiatrist

Original Air Date—25 September 1964

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 1: Episode 3 -- Uncle Fester announces to Gomez and Morticia that it is time for him to find a mate.

Season 1, Episode 3: Fester's Punctured Romance

Original Air Date—2 October 1964

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 1: Episode 4 -- Election fever grips the Addams household when Gomez and Morticia decide to help their dear old friend, Mr. Hilliard, in his campaign for city council.

Season 1, Episode 4: Gomez, the Politician

Original Air Date—9 October 1964
Election day is nearing, and Gomez is getting very excited. He puts up all his old campaign posters; notably, all of Gomez's favorite candidates were losers. Sam Hilliard is running for city council, and Gomez throws his support behind the man. Hilliard is eager to get his hands on Gomez's campaign contributions. However, Gomez declares that he'd like to see the money spent in certain ways. After hearing some of the Addams' suggestions, Hilliard wishes they would stay away from his campaign altogether.

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 1: Episode 5 -- When Pugsley and Wednesday are barred from a friend's home due to an apparent "lack of breeding," Gomez and Morticia hire a genealogist to prove otherwise.

Season 1, Episode 5: The Addams Family Tree

Original Air Date—16 October 1964

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 1: Episode 6 -- When an escaped circus gorilla joins the Addams household, he ends up jeopardizing Morticia's chances of joining the Ladies League - and Lurch's job.

Season 1, Episode 6: Morticia Joins the Ladies League

Original Air Date—23 October 1964
Pugsley and Gomez visit Oscar Webber (played by Peter Leeds), who owns a failing circus. Pugsley befriends Gorgo, a gorilla. Gorgo follows them back to the Addams' house. Gomez hopes to find a spot for Gorgo in the household. To the dismay of Lurch, Gorgo shows some aptitude for some of the butler's tasks. Meanwhile, Morticia aspires to join a social club for women, The Ladies' League. When the ladies visit Morticia at home, will Gorgo's style of service impress the guests?

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 1: Episode 7 -- The Addams family are all busy preparing for their favorite holiday: Halloween! Their celebration is bolstered by a pair of bank robbers who they welcomed as trick-or-treaters.

Season 1, Episode 7: Halloween with the Addams Family

Original Air Date—30 October 1964

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 1: Episode 8 -- When Morticia's old friend, Lionel Barker, visits the Addams home, Gomez nearly goes insane with envy, but his fears are calmed when Barker turns his attentions to the new maid.

Season 1, Episode 8: Green-Eyed Gomez

Original Air Date—6 November 1964

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 1: Episode 9 -- A pair of newlyweds leases the house next door to the Addams mansion, but the honeymoon is suddenly over when Uncle Fester comes for a surprise visit through a tunnel.

Season 1, Episode 9: The New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family

Original Air Date—13 November 1964

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 1: Episode 10 -- The family faces a crisis when Wednesday packs her spider and runs away after being scolded for playing with Uncle Fester's dynamite instead of her own.

Season 1, Episode 10: Wednesday Leaves Home

Original Air Date—20 November 1964

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 1: Episode 11 -- Official visitors from an unfriendly nation receive the shock of their lives when they decide to exploit the Addams Family as an average, uncultured American family.

Season 1, Episode 11: The Addams Family Meet the VIPs

Original Air Date—27 November 1964

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 1: Episode 12 -- Morticia's homey cousin, Melancholia, pays a visit to the Addams home after her fiancee leaves her to join the Foreign Legion.

Season 1, Episode 12: Morticia, the Matchmaker

Original Air Date—4 December 1964

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 1: Episode 13 -- Gomez and Morticia are surprised when Lurch refuses to go to the annual Butler's Ball. When they learn that the reason is his inability to dance, they decide to get him some lessons.

Season 1, Episode 13: Lurch Learns to Dance

Original Air Date—11 December 1964

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 1: Episode 14 -- When Grandmama is advised to take painting lessons, Gomez calls in Picasso, but the man who shows up is a Sam Picasso, and he shares only one thing with the actual genius: his name.

Season 1, Episode 14: Art and the Addams Family

Original Air Date—18 December 1964

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 1: Episode 15 -- The Addams family are taken in by a charming young beatnik named "Rocky," when he crashes his motorcycle into a tree and is allowed to recuperate at the Addams house.

Season 1, Episode 15: The Addams Family Meets a Beatnik

Original Air Date—1 January 1965

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 1: Episode 16 -- When a government agent picks up strange radio signals coming from the Addams home, he is convinced that the Addams family are spies and hires local servicemen to investigate.

Season 1, Episode 16: The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man

Original Air Date—8 January 1965

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 1: Episode 17 -- When Lurch's mother's visit prompts Lurch to confess that she is unaware of his service work, Morticia plans for she and Gomez to switch roles with Lurch during Mother Lurch's stay.

Season 1, Episode 17: Mother Lurch Visits the Addams Family

Original Air Date—15 January 1965
Lurch's mother comes to visit the Addams family. Paralyzed by shame, Lurch is unable to admit to Gomez his mistake: Lurch has told his mother that he owns the big house. Gomez gamely suggests a role reversal: Lurch will act like the man of the house, and Gomez and Morticia will act as his servants. Once Lurch's mother arrives, Gomez senses his mistake. The old woman treats Gomez and Morticia poorly, and the husband and wife strongly wish they had never gone along with the act.

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 1: Episode 18 -- When Uncle Fester's electrical output fails abruptly, his relatives don't know whether to call a doctor or an electrician to bring Fester back to full wattage.

Season 1, Episode 18: Uncle Fester's Illness

Original Air Date—22 January 1965

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 1: Episode 19 -- Gomez and Morticia have come up with a brilliant idea for their next family vacation: a trip to the moon! The only problem is the billion dollars the trip will cost...

Season 1, Episode 19: The Addams Family Splurges

Original Air Date—29 January 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.

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 1: Episode 20 -- When Cousin Itt comes to visit with the Addams Family, Gomez and Morticia try have him stay longer by finding him a local job.

Season 1, Episode 20: Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family

Original Air Date—5 February 1965

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 1: Episode 21 -- The justice system will never be the same after the Addams family makes their appearance in court to defend Grandmama who has been jailed for fortune-telling.

Season 1, Episode 21: The Addams Family in Court

Original Air Date—12 February 1965

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 1: Episode 22 -- When Gomez loses his memory after hitting his head, he begins acting "normal," much to the dismay of his family - and most especially Morticia.

Season 1, Episode 22: Amnesia in the Addams Family

Original Air Date—19 February 1965

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 1: Episode 23 -- After an altercation with Uncle Fester, Thing suddenly disappears from his box, and the family begins to suspect foul play.

Season 1, Episode 23: Thing Is Missing

Original Air Date—5 March 1965

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 1: Episode 24 -- Uncle Fester applies for a job as an insurance salesman with the same company which is threatening to cancel the Addams' policy due to Fester's penchant for explosions.

Season 1, Episode 24: Crisis in the Addams Family

Original Air Date—12 March 1965

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 1: Episode 25 -- It is discovered that the Addams family's harpsichord is the sole survivor of an antique make, so Gomez and Morticia donate it to a museum, and poor Lurch is left heartbroken.

Season 1, Episode 25: Lurch and His Harpsichord

Original Air Date—19 March 1965

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 1: Episode 26 -- When Morticia hears the stock market has crashed, she assumes that Gomez has been financially wiped out and rallies the family to help make extra money.

Season 1, Episode 26: Morticia, the Breadwinner

Original Air Date—26 March 1965

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 1: Episode 27 -- While enjoying a moonlight picnic and snail hunt, the members of the Addams Family are mistaken for Martians by investigators from Mysterious Space Objects.

Season 1, Episode 27: The Addams Family and the Spaceman

Original Air Date—2 April 1965

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 1: Episode 28 -- An organ grinder's fugitive monkey wanders into the Addams mansion, befriending Pugsley and eventually leading Uncle Fester to believe that he has turned Pugsley into a chimp.

Season 1, Episode 28: My Son, the Chimp

Original Air Date—9 April 1965

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 1: Episode 29 -- 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.

Season 1, Episode 29: Morticia's Favorite Charity

Original Air Date—16 April 1965

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 1: Episode 30 -- Mr. Henson, the Addams' ex-insurance man and now City Commissioner, condemns the Addams home, hoping to get rid of the family and build a freeway in the mansion's place.

Season 1, Episode 30: Progress and the Addams Family

Original Air Date—23 April 1965
The city is planning to put a freeway through the Addams' neighborhood. In fact, the Addams' house is slated for demolition. Gomez and Morticia must find a solution, or else the house will be destroyed. Arthur J. Henson, city commissioner, visits with his assistant Beasley, to underscore the point: the Addams must move out. Unwilling to leave their precious home, Gomez and Morticia arrive at an idea: have the house moved to another location. Gomez buys the vacant lot next to Arthur Henson's home, and he pays to have their house moved there.

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 1: Episode 31 -- Uncle Fester has been telling his pen pal that he is a "Cary Grant type," so when he learns she is coming to visit, he panics, and Gomez and Morticia scramble to find him a wig.

Season 1, Episode 31: Uncle Fester's Toupee

Original Air Date—30 April 1965

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 1: Episode 32 -- Morticia and Gomez are worried about Cousin Itt when they find that he has been sleeping and dreaming entire days away in his tiny room.

Season 1, Episode 32: Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor

Original Air Date—7 May 1965

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 1: Episode 33 -- We knew Lurch could play a mean harpsichord, but who knew he could sing? His gravelly voice becomes the newest sensation, bringing mobs of teenage girls to the Addams mansion.

Season 1, Episode 33: Lurch, the Teenage Idol

Original Air Date—14 May 1965

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 1: Episode 34 -- When Uncle Fester reads a magazine article stating that the happiest marriages are at the most risk of ending in divorce, he does all he can to force Gomez and Morticia to fight.

Season 1, Episode 34: The Winning of Morticia Addams

Original Air Date—21 May 1965

Season 2


"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 2: Episode 1 -- When Gomez attempts to boost Cousin Itt's failing ego by casting him as the lead in a play for Wednesday's birthday, the promise of celebrity soon goes to Itt's head.

Season 2, Episode 1: My Fair Cousin Itt

Original Air Date—17 September 1965

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 2: Episode 2 -- It is Gomez and Morticia's 13th wedding anniversary, and their children want a bedtime story, so Morticia obliges with the tale of how she and Gomez first met and fell in love.

Season 2, Episode 2: Morticia's Romance: Part 1

Original Air Date—24 September 1965

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 2: Episode 3 -- Unfortunately for Gomez, Wednesday and Pugsley refuse to go to sleep until they hear the conclusion of the tale of his and Morticia's courtship.

Season 2, Episode 3: Morticia's Romance: Part 2

Original Air Date—1 October 1965

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 2: Episode 4 -- The visit of Gomez's aunt, Princess Millicent, becomes a royal pain in the butt, but Thing hopes the visit never ends, as he has taken a liking to Millicent's handmaiden, Lady Fingers.

Season 2, Episode 4: Morticia Meets Royalty

Original Air Date—8 October 1965

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 2: Episode 5 -- When Gomez receives his property tax bill, he decides that their town's mayor, Mr. Henson, is completely incompetent, and, with some prodding by Morticia, decides to run for office.

Season 2, Episode 5: Gomez, the People's Choice

Original Air Date—15 October 1965

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 2: Episode 6 -- Cousin Itt is back, and the family is overjoyed, but the happiness doesn't last when Morticia notices that Itt seems to be losing his hair, endangering his uniquely good looks.

Season 2, Episode 6: Cousin Itt's Problem

Original Air Date—22 October 1965

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 2: Episode 7 -- Gomez and Morticia are outraged when Wednesday comes home from trick-or-treating in tears after a neighbor tells her witches don't really exist.

Season 2, Episode 7: Halloween - Addams Style

Original Air Date—29 October 1965

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 2: Episode 8 -- Determined to correct the dreadful, dragon-slaying type of literature that Wednesday and Pugsley are exposed to, Morticia sets out to create a new literary world for children.

Season 2, Episode 8: Morticia, the Writer

Original Air Date—5 November 1965

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 2: Episode 9 -- Morticia is bored and lacking artistic fulfillment. She decides she needs a hobby to snap herself out of her funk and so takes up sculpting.

Season 2, Episode 9: Morticia, the Sculptress

Original Air Date—12 November 1965

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 2: Episode 10 -- Pugsley is in love with his teacher, Miss Dunbar, and tries to woo her by copying and sending one of Gomez's old love letters, getting his father into a variety of compromising positions.

Season 2, Episode 10: Gomez, the Reluctant Lover

Original Air Date—19 November 1965

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 2: Episode 11 -- Morticia invites the family of Wednesday's crush over for tea, and they accept, thinking they'll be able to meet Gomez's socially prominent cousin, Abigail Quincy Adams.

Season 2, Episode 11: Feud in the Addams Family

Original Air Date—26 November 1965

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 2: Episode 12 -- The family take up their battlestations when they hear news of a cat burglar loose in the neighborhood but are faced with a dilemma when they discover the crook may be Gomez.

Season 2, Episode 12: Gomez, the Cat Burglar

Original Air Date—3 December 1965

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 2: Episode 13 -- Gomez believes he has been chosen as Strife magazine's "Man of the Year," so he and Morticia try to track down their favorite photographer to take Gomez's portrait for the magazine.

Season 2, Episode 13: Portrait of Gomez

Original Air Date—10 December 1965

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 2: Episode 14 -- Gomez and the family welcomes an old family friend, Don Xavier Molines, and his daughter, Consuela, to their home, not knowing that the Don has come to see Gomez wed to Consuela.

Season 2, Episode 14: Morticia's Dilemma

Original Air Date—17 December 1965

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 2: Episode 15 -- Fester, as Santa, gets stuck in the chimney.

Season 2, Episode 15: Christmas with the Addams Family

Original Air Date—24 December 1965

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 2: Episode 16 -- Uncle Fester is so smitten with one of his many pen pals, Diana, the Bearded Lady, that he proposes to her by mail and begins work in order to support her.

Season 2, Episode 16: Uncle Fester, Tycoon

Original Air Date—31 December 1965

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 2: Episode 17 -- The Addams mansion becomes a battlefield when Gomez and Morticia tell Grandmama and Uncle Fester that they think they are spoiling Pugsley and Wednesday.

Season 2, Episode 17: Morticia and Gomez vs. Fester and Grandmama

Original Air Date—7 January 1966

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 2: Episode 18 -- Morticia and Gomez are absolutely bewildered - and a bit worried - when they see Uncle Fester trying to diet and exercise with the help of television fitness guru, Jack La Lanne.

Season 2, Episode 18: Fester Goes on a Diet

Original Air Date—14 January 1966

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 2: Episode 19 -- Morticia and Gomez find a treasure map that once belonged to their Great-Grandfather Pegleg and hire Captain Grimby and charter his ship to take them to find the treasure.

Season 2, Episode 19: The Great Treasure Hunt

Original Air Date—21 January 1966

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 2: Episode 20 -- It seems Ophelia has found true love at last! She is madly in love with Horatio Bartholomew, a man she met at a Lonely Hearts Club, and brings him to the mansion to meet the family.

Season 2, Episode 20: Ophelia Finds Romance

Original Air Date—28 January 1966

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 2: Episode 21 -- Gomez and Morticia are mortified when Pugsley announces his desire to find a job and make money. They decide to allow their son to work in order to teach him a lesson.

Season 2, Episode 21: Pugsley's Allowance

Original Air Date—4 February 1966

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 2: Episode 22 -- Morticia and Gomez have a wonderful surprise for Grandma Frump's birthday. They plan to send her to a beauty spa, but the poor woman thinks they want to ship her off to an old folks' home!

Season 2, Episode 22: Happy Birthday, Grandma Frump

Original Air Date—11 February 1966

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 2: Episode 23 -- When Gomez invites neighbors, the Digbys, to the mansion, Mrs. Digby politely compliments the decor, prompting Morticia to offer her decorating skills for their home.

Season 2, Episode 23: Morticia, the Decorator

Original Air Date—18 February 1966

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 2: Episode 24 -- Ophelia visits the Addams mansion, distraught after having lost yet another man, Montrose, to the Peace Corps. Fester offers to join up as well to find Montrose and return him to her.

Season 2, Episode 24: Ophelia Visits Morticia

Original Air Date—25 February 1966

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 2: Episode 25 -- Gomez and Morticia learn that their dear old friend and former truant officer, Mr. Hilliard, is now running a private school and agree that Pugsley and Wednesday must be enrolled there.

Season 2, Episode 25: Addams Cum Laude

Original Air Date—4 March 1966

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 2: Episode 26 -- Morticia is concerned because the family's pet lion, Kitty Cat, seems to have lost his appetite. After trying some home remedies, the family calls in the aid of a local veterinarian.

Season 2, Episode 26: Cat Addams

Original Air Date—11 March 1966

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 2: Episode 27 -- When Morticia tells Gomez she fears Lurch is being overworked, Gomez builds Lurch a giant robot assistant named Smiley to help Lurch with all the household tasks.

Season 2, Episode 27: Lurch's Little Helper

Original Air Date—18 March 1966

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 2: Episode 28 -- Gomez starts his own insurance company when their insurance agent refuses to replace the stuffed bear Uncle Fester accidentally incinerated while playing with Morticia's flame thrower.

Season 2, Episode 28: The Addams Policy

Original Air Date—25 March 1966

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 2: Episode 29 -- Lurch falls in love when Morticia's old school chum, Tiny Trivia, comes to visit. Unfortunately, the showbiz-obsessed pixie has no time for, or interest in, the lovable giant.

Season 2, Episode 29: Lurch's Grand Romance

Original Air Date—1 April 1966

"The Addams Family" (1964): Season 2: Episode 30 -- Poor, poor Ophelia has been jilted again. Afraid her sister is doomed for continual unhappiness with the pursuit of men, Morticia suggests Ophelia embark on a career instead.

Season 2, Episode 30: Ophelia's Career

Original Air Date—8 April 1966

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