The Addams Family

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The Addams Family centers around one of the two "creepy" families that premiered on television in 1964. ABC aired The Addams Family and CBS aired The Munsters. more »

The Addams Family centers around one of the two "creepy" families that premiered on television in 1964. ABC aired The Addams Family and CBS aired The Munsters.

The Addams Family consisted of Gomez and Morticia Addams and their two children, Pugsley and Wednesday. Also included are Uncle Fester, Grandmama, the hairy Cousin Itt, the butler Lurch and Thing!

The series is based on a one-panel cartoon created by Charles Addams that had appeared in The New Yorker magazine since the 1930s. The show's title came from the cartoonist's name; The family in the cartoon is never referred to by name. The finger-snapping theme song was written by Vic Mizzy, who also write the theme for Green Acres.

The series lasted two seasons, yet gained much more success in syndication. The series was later transformed into a the 1991 feature film starring Raul Julia and Angelica Huston.

ABC Broadcast History:
Sept 1964-Sept 1966 Fridays 8:30 p.m.less «

• TV's best ever comic writing?

  The Addams Family was some of TV's finest comic writing ever, also the era's supreme example of alternative-thinking social...more »

  The Addams Family was some of TV's finest comic writing ever, also the era's supreme example of alternative-thinking social satire. For this bourgeois family, good was bad, bad was good, black was white. Who will ever forget Gomez's delight at blowing up his train set? But you may not recall one episode: the show opens with Morticia sharing her husband's thrill at the lead-up to the inevitable rail disaster, yet she is shocked when, after he pushes the TNT plunger, Gomez is, for once, clearly dissatisfied. Morticia: 'But, Gomez! I thought it was one of your finest wrecks!' Gomez: 'Aw, I dunno, Tish. Sometimes I think you've seen one train-wreck, you've seen 'em all.' Morticia: 'Gomez! How can you say such a thing?!' Gomez: (whispering ashamedly) 'Sometimes I almost wish they'd miss.' And we were privileged to all this as kids. Justin Sheedy http://crackernight.com less «

  JustinSheedy1 Last online Mar 19, 2009
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• thing

  Lurch, Ted cassidy also played thing

  Lurch, Ted cassidy also played thingless «

  tom0212353 Last online Jun 16, 2008
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• i finally got it.

  i noticed that the discs are 2 sided how is that possable? and i also noticed that it says volume one, when is vol 2 coming out?

  i noticed that the discs are 2 sided how is that possable? and i also noticed that it says volume one, when is vol 2 coming out? less «

  Spire88 Last online May 14, 2009
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  9.5 Superb

  They're creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky, they're all together ooky, The Addams Family. Their house is a museum when people come to see 'em, they really are a screamum, the Addams Family. hide « show »

  Monsters made fun. Sensually delightful, Gomez and Morticia are madly in love with each other and show more faithfulness towards each other than many more "normal" couples. Culturally sophisticated, the family is learned in the arts of Medicine, Horticulture, Music, Dance, and Art. They practice the fine sport of fencing; support the environment by protecting endangered species such as Lions and Dragons, and who could forget Morticia's carnivorous plants? Uncle Fester conserves electricity by being the family's generator. Mama does the cooking and is also the family physician. Pugsley is the family's demolition expert who may one day discover oil during one of his explosions. Wednesday is the precocious younger child who sees eveything. Then there is darling Lurch, the butler, and Thing the . . . well . . .thing, who pops up in the most unusual places - usually with the mail, or a guest's hat. Of course, there is Cousin It, the walking hair-mound, and Ophelia the golden throated singer. With such a family who could ever be bored? Frightened maybe, terrorized . . . definitely, but never, ever bored! Well worth the effort of finding and watching again!

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  danorviel Added Dec 24, 2008 All my reviews
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  9.5 Superb

  Gomez: The ideal dad hide « show »

  Gomez Addams is my role model. Well, actually I'm nothing like Gomez, but I'd like to try. Maybe I'll go blow up a model train this afternoon. And start raising piranhas, and smoking cigars. But it's not all the accessories that I envy so much as Gomez' boundless and intense enthusiasm for everything. Nothing could upset him; he was just thrilled about everything -- blossom-less roses, explosions in the basement, daughter Wednesday taking up home surgery -- it was all great to the gleaming-eyed Gomez.
  
  '60s television is such a strange place. On the one hand you've got Bewitched, on the other, something like this. The Addams Family was like an island of barbarism in a sea of sitcom domesticity, and I will always appreciate it for that.

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  peterh32 Added Sep 23, 2008 All my reviews
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  8.7 Great

  thhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhis rocks!!!!go the addams family!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hide « show »

  this show rocks!but i miss it!!!wahhhh!i wish this did not end it!!!!i love this show!!i wish they did not end it.i am sad!!!my favorite charter was Thing!!!!Thing was aways helping the family!i love thing!thing rocks!if they stared the show with the same people i'll be watching there eating popcorn!laghing at Thing because he s funny!wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!toooooo bad they ended it.ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!i love this show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!thanx.i am mad they ended it.............you think it it was gana last longer but it did not!go thing!!!!!!i know who played him!goooo the a.d.d.a.m.s. f.a.i.m.i.l.y!sooooo sorry who love them it ended!me and my mom really love it!it was gone 1960.

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  smartgirl789 Added Aug 17, 2008 All my reviews
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  10 Perfect

  I absolutely love this show! hide « show »

  Addams family has something special about them - not that they are strange, creepy or so... but they are such a real loving family. Gomez and Morticia is a perfect, loving married couple. And they all are wonderful, kind people who live full life, opposite to some other "normal" people. This show is very well written. Its for everyone - children and adults. But quite a lot of things are for older viewers, not very small children - political themes, for instance... Characters are great. Gomez- impulsive and energetic, always ready to do something new. Morticia - the main word to describe her, would be - elegant. She can be as energetic as Gomez, but in a bit different way - she is more stable and realistic - cool and beautiful. Uncle Fester gives some crazier and creepier component to this family. Lurch is an awesome, original character itself. He has his own "style". This show is unique, funny AND CLEVER - not just another dull comedy.
  When you watch them you just want to be a part of their family.

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  Geritte Added Dec 31, 2007 All my reviews
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  9 Superb

  i miss this show hide « show »

  i saw this show on nick at nite is so funny show. i watch it when nick line up finish. i loved this show when i was little kid. it about weird family living in one house. mom and dad and 2 kids name Pugsley and Wednesday and other cast in it. i want to see this show to come back on tv again but it will be same thing i saw when i saw a kid. i saw the movie and i love it to. i hope there is remake of it. this show should come back on tv.

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  firetoon12 Added Oct 5, 2007 All my reviews