The Addams Family — Season 1

Aired 18 September 1964 • 25 min

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.

Aired 25 September 1964 • 25 min

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.

Aired 2 October 1964 • 25 min

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.

Aired 9 October 1964 • 25 min

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.

Aired 16 October 1964 • 25 min

Pugsley and Wednesday get into a fight over families with their friend Harold, who says that his family is better than theirs.

Aired 23 October 1964 • 25 min

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.

Aired 30 October 1964 • 25 min

Two bank robbers accept an unknowing invitation and visit Morticia and Gomez on Halloween, in order to avoid being caught.

Aired 6 November 1964 • 25 min

Gomez throws a fit of jealousy when Morticia's former boyfriend visits.

Aired 13 November 1964 • 25 min

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

Aired 20 November 1964 • 25 min

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

Aired 27 November 1964 • 25 min

Visitors from another country regret labelling the Addams gang uncultured.

Aired 4 December 1964 • 25 min

Morticia plays matchmaker when her cousin Melancholia and a bachelor lawyer hoping to make a business deal both visit at the same time.

Aired 11 December 1964 • 25 min

Morticia and Gomez are supportive of Lurch and encourage him to follow his gut feeling and take dance lessons.

Aired 18 December 1964 • 25 min

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

Aired 1 January 1965 • 25 min

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.

Aired 8 January 1965 • 25 min

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

Aired 15 January 1965 • 25 min

Morticia and Gomez pose as Lurch's maid and butler when his mother comes for a visit.

Aired 22 January 1965 • 25 min

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.

Aired 29 January 1965 • 25 min

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.

Aired 5 February 1965 • 25 min

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.

Aired 12 February 1965 • 25 min

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

Aired 19 February 1965 • 25 min

Gomez suffers from amnesia after being hit in the head with Indian clubs, and his personality changes dramatically.

Aired 5 March 1965 • 25 min

When Thing goes missing, the family discovers he's been "thing-napped."

Aired 12 March 1965 • 25 min

Uncle Fester applies for a job as an insurance salesman with the same company which is threatening to cancel the Addams' policy.

Aired 19 March 1965 • 25 min

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

Aired 26 March 1965 • 25 min

When Morticia believes the family to be bankrupt, she sells her railroad shares to a mystery buyer to raise money.

Aired 2 April 1965 • 25 min

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

Aired 9 April 1965 • 25 min

The family believes that Pugsley has been turned into a chimp.

Aired 16 April 1965 • 25 min

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.

Aired 23 April 1965 • 25 min

The Addams Family ignores notices from Arthur Henson that their house is to be condemned to make way for a freeway.

Aired 30 April 1965 • 25 min

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

Aired 7 May 1965 • 25 min

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.

Aired 14 May 1965 • 25 min

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?

Aired 21 May 1965 • 25 min

Members of the Addams household devise schemes to start a battle between Gomez and Morticia.