
The Addams Family
Season 1 consists of 34 episodes and established the iconic characters and the show's subversive humor: that the "monstrous" Addams family was actually the most loving, stable, and well-adjusted family on television compared to their "normal" neighbors.
Sam Hilliard, a truant officer, shows up at the Addams family home, due to the fact that Pugsley and Wednesday are not attending school. Soon he discovers he's dealing with no typical everyday family.
Guest Stars:
Rolfe Sedan, Allyn Joslyn, Madge Blake, Nydia Westman
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.
Guest Stars:
George Petrie
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.
Guest Stars:
Merry Anders, Robert Nunn
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.
Guest Stars:
Bob LeMond, Allyn Joslyn, Bill Baldwin, Eddie Quillan
Pugsley and Wednesday get into a fight over families with their friend Harold, who says that his family is better than theirs.
Guest Stars:
Rolfe Sedan, Frank Nelson, Kim Tyler, Jonathan Hole
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.
Guest Stars:
Peter Leeds, George Barrows, Dorothy Neumann, Pearl Shear
Two bank robbers accept an unknowing invitation and visit Morticia and Gomez on Halloween, in order to avoid being caught.
Guest Stars:
Don Rickles, George Barrows, Skip Homeier
Gomez throws a fit of jealousy when Morticia's former boyfriend visits.
Guest Stars:
Del Moore, Pattee Chapman, Jimmy Ames
A young couple, simple, naive, and very much in love, move into the house next to the Addams'.
Guest Stars:
Cynthia Pepper, Eddie Marr, Peter Brooks
Family worries when a flustered Wednesday runs away after being scolded for borrowing Uncle Fester's TNT.
Guest Stars:
Jesse White, Ray Kellogg
Visitors from another country regret labelling the Addams gang uncultured.
Guest Stars:
Stanley Adams, Vito Scotti, Frank Wilcox
Morticia plays matchmaker when her cousin Melancholia and a bachelor lawyer hoping to make a business deal both visit at the same time.
Guest Stars:
Barry Kelley, Hal Baylor, Hazel Shermet, Lee Goodman, Leonard Bremen
Morticia and Gomez are supportive of Lurch and encourage him to follow his gut feeling and take dance lessons.
Guest Stars:
Jimmy Cross, Penny Parker
Grandmama takes up painting and hires the distressed Sam Picasso as her teacher.
Guest Stars:
Hugh Sanders, Vito Scotti
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.
Guest Stars:
Barry Kelley, Tom Lowell, Barry Brooks
An undercover operative is convinced that the Addams family are spies.
Guest Stars:
George N. Neise, Norman Leavitt, Rolfe Sedan
Morticia and Gomez pose as Lurch's maid and butler when his mother comes for a visit.
Guest Stars:
Ellen Corby
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.
Guest Stars:
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.
Guest Stars:
Olan Soule, Roland Winters, Bill Baldwin
Parks Commissioner Fiske visits the Addams house seeking contributions for expansion of the city zoo. Gomez believes visiting Cousin Itt - all hairy and gibbering four feet tall of him - would be perfect as the zoo's new curator. He has the two meet, but Commissioner Fisk misunderstands the intent and mistakes Itt for a new exotic animal attraction whom he has hauled away in chains when the others aren't looking. When the family finds out what's happened, Uncle Fester is ready to administer retribution the Addams way - with a bullet from behind.
Grandmama is arrested for telling fortunes and soon the whole family is being held in contempt of court.
Guest Stars:
James Flavin, Hal Smith, Lela Bliss, Gail Bonney, Ray Walker
Gomez suffers from amnesia after being hit in the head with Indian clubs, and his personality changes dramatically.
When Thing goes missing, the family discovers he's been "thing-napped."
Guest Stars:
Tommy Farrell, Charles Wagenheim, Ray Kellogg
Uncle Fester applies for a job as an insurance salesman with the same company which is threatening to cancel the Addams' policy.
Guest Stars:
Parley Baer, Eddie Quillan, Bebe Kelly, Richard Cowl
Lurch feels betrayed when Gomez and Morticia give their antique harpsichord to a museum.
Guest Stars:
Byron Foulger, Leonard Bremen, Ray Galvin
When Morticia believes the family to be bankrupt, she sells her railroad shares to a mystery buyer to raise money.
Guest Stars:
Milton Frome, Ceil Cabot, John J. Fox, Maxine Semon
With reports of UFOs in the area, the Addams believe they have been visited by two Martians. Vito Scotti appears as Professor Altshuler.
Guest Stars:
Bob LeMond, Felix Silla, Jimmy Cross, Anthony Magro, Tim Herbert
The family believes that Pugsley has been turned into a chimp.
Guest Stars:
Robert Nunn
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.
Guest Stars:
Parley Baer, Donald Foster, Maida Severn, John Lawrence, Caryl Lincoln
The Addams Family ignores notices from Arthur Henson that their house is to be condemned to make way for a freeway.
Guest Stars:
Parley Baer, John Hart, Natalie Masters, Richard Reeves
Fester's penpal drops by unexpectedly, so he must assume the false personality he has been pretending to be.
Guest Stars:
Elisabeth Fraser, Frederic Downs
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.
Guest Stars:
Felix Silla, Richard Deacon
Low grunts and grumbles while at the harpsichord constitute Lurch's manner of singing. Gomez has a record company record him and soon the Addams house is surrounded by excited teenyboppers, fawning and fainting over Lurch when he becomes the newest hit sensation. All that blind adoration goes to Lurch's head, and the Addames quickly find they have a self-centered butler who won't "buttle" any longer. Could it be they've created a monster?
Loyal T. Lucas, Lauren Gilbert
Guest Stars:
Felix Silla, Alan Reed, Bill Baldwin, Anthony Magro
Guest Stars:
Patrick Moore