List of The Addams Family episodes

When Gomez and Morticia keep Wednesday and Pugsley home from school, truant officer Sam Hilliard (Allyn Joslyn) pays a visit. After Gomez and Morticia are persuaded to let the kids go to school, they take action after a fairy tale book that depicts a violent action where a knight slaying a dragon saddens Wednesday.

Madge Blake guest-stars as the principal Miss Comstock, Nydia Westman as Miss Morrison, and Rolfe Sedan as the postman.

Gomez and Morticia call in a child psychiatrist Dr. Black (George O. Petrie) when they fear that Pugsley is becoming normal.

Cartoon reference: The Pugsley character is in a Boy Scout uniform saluting in front of a mirror. The parents watch from an open door. The caption reads "Well, he certainly doesn't take after my side of the family."

Uncle Fester is looking for love, but when door-to-door saleslady Miss Carver (Merry Anders) comes knocking, he and the family are not certain she is his type.

Family mentioned: Cousin Eustace (Morticia knits a sweater with a long neck). Grandpa Squint and Aunt Vendetta (who may or may not be alive, causing Gomez to check).

Election day is nearing, and the Addams' proud tradition of backing losing candidates continues when Sam L. Hillard (Allyn Joslyn) runs for city council.

Family mentioned: Cousin Grisly's portrait of him facing a firing squad. Uncle "Kiss of Death" Blight who masterminded the presidential campaigns of Al Smith, Wendell Willkie and Adlai Stevenson. Grandpa Squint, whom Abraham Lincoln supposedly begged for his political support but instead backed Stephen Douglas; Squint's role in the 1860 presidential election implies that he was born in the 1840s or earlier, yet Morticia mentions having had a conversation with him at some earlier point in her marriage to Gomez, at which point Squint would have been over a century old.

A family rivalry with the Pomeroys prompts Gomez to trace his family's ancestry. This causes the Addams Family to enlist a genealogist to trace their family history.

Frank Nelson guest-stars as Mr. Pomeroy.

Family mentioned: Cousin Bleak (who had a middle eye that drooped), Morticia's Cousin Curdle (implied to have at least one eye in the back of her head), Cousin Farouk (named as the owner of the leg jutting from the stuffed swordfish on the wall), Aunt Blemish (who is mistaken for a barn in a photo), Grandpa Slurp (mistaken for two people in a photo, has bucked teeth and a receding chin), Gomez's Cousin Clot (who was sentenced to the electric chair), Grand-Uncle Grisly (who was a traitor but only did it for the money), an unnamed family of Addamses who live up the Amazon river where the head of its family went missing, Mamoud Kali Pashka Addams (the Firebug of the Bosporus who burned the Library of Alexandria in 270 AD), Black Bart Addams and Bloody Addams (presumably pirates).

Morticia's lunch with the Ladies League is discovered by Pugsley's new friend Gorgo the Gorilla who had escaped from a failing circus--and learns enough domestic skills to unnerve Lurch.

A newlywed couple move in next door and are frightened by the family, so they attempt to break their lease.

When Wednesday is punished for using Uncle Fester's explosives, she threatens to run away from home, but Pugsley persuades her to hide in his room instead. Later she leaves the house but is picked up and taken to the police station, where she is interrogated by Sgt. Haley (Jesse White), a detective from the police department's missing persons bureau.

A pair of foreign dignitaries (Stanley Adams and Vito Scotti) want to meet a normal American family. That normal family happens to be the Addams.

Family mentioned: Fester's Cousin Creep who was lost to a ray gun.

Romance: This is the first episode in which Gomez reacts specifically to Morticia's use of French, "Tish, when you speak French you drive me wild!", kissing her arm.

Morticia's cousin Melancholia comes to stay after breaking up with her fiancé.

Morticia and Gomez encourage Lurch to attend the annual Butlers' Ball and teach him how to dance in preparation.

Note: Slapstick comedy of Lurch learning to dance. The teacher sent by the Fred Walters Dance Studio faints upon seeing Lurch, and then again upon seeing Pugsley's horned toad, and then when she sees Thing. The scene of Wednesday and Lurch performing ballet is unforgettable.

Grandmama takes up painting and hires Picasso — Sam Picasso (Vito Scotti)— as her teacher.

Family mentioned: Fester makes an urn for his Grandfather Malaplop — who is not dead yet.

Pugsley's ham radio hobby inadvertently convinces an undercover operative (George N. Neise) that the Addams family are spies and recruits local tradespeople to infiltrate the house like the postman Mr. Briggs (Rolfe Sedan) and the plumber Mr. Conkey (Norman Leavitt).

Family mentioned: Gomez shoots a bullet-hole silhouette of Uncle Flub, who has a "fine, sensitive drooping chin," is prone to tremble, and cannot write; the fact that Morticia is aware of this last fact and Gomez is not, implies Flub is Morticia's uncle.

Morticia and Gomez pose as Lurch's maid and butler when his mother (Ellen Corby) comes for a visit, and Lurch takes only too well to the concept of being head of household.

Family mentioned: Morticia's Cousin Slimy (who has two heads), Gomez's Cousin Manuel (who was a pyromaniac), Cousin Imar (three arms and went to Princeton University; previously mentioned in "The Addams Family Goes to School").

Romance: This is the first episode in which Morticia "drives me wild" becomes a regular gag with Gomez kissing Morticia's arm, as some permutation of the shtick appears four times in the episode.

Having gone everywhere else on their vacations, the Addams family plan a vacation to the moon. To fund this trip, the family propose to their broker Ralph J. Hulen (Roland Winters), a plan to raise money by betting on eight champion racehorses (picked out by Whizzo, a computer built by Gomez and Pugsley) competing in every broadcast horse race.

Romance: contains the first full development of the French shtick which occurs with regularity in the series: "Tish! When you speak French you drive me wild! Speak some more French, Tish! Anything! Tout à l'heure. La plume de ma tante. Mademoiselle from Armentieres! Anything!"

Pint-sized Cousin Itt visits, and Gomez and Morticia try to get him a job as a zoo curator.

Alan Reed (Fred Flintstone) guest-stars.

Grandmama is arrested by an undercover police officer named Lt. Poston for telling fortunes and soon the whole family is being held in contempt of court.

Hal Smith guest-stars as Judge Harvey Saunders. Familiar faces Lela Bliss, who plays Judge Saunders' wife ("Harrr-VEY!"), Gail Bonney[1] and Ray Walker also appear.

Family mentioned: Mamoud Kali Pashka Addams, the "Firebug of the Bosporus" who was previously mentioned in "The Addams Family Tree." Morticia's Cousin Cringe who ate the hacksaw in the cake that was made for him and later developed a taste for them.

A mishap with his new exercise clubs causes Gomez to lose his memory and become normal.

When Thing disappears after feeling neglected, the family believe he has been "thingnapped," and hire the famous detective Sam...Diamond (Tommy Farrell).

Note: Their address is shown as "0001 Cemetery Lane". Thing's full name is "Thing T. Thing" and the T stands for Thing.

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 and Eddie Quillan make their first appearance together on the show as bumbling insurance bureaucrats Arthur J. Henson and Horace Beesley.

Family mentioned: Admiral John Paul Addams, who fought in a sea battle against Hideki Tojo's forces and the German Flotilla where his inspiring words before battle were "If you need me, I'll be in my cabin." It was mentioned that he was hanged 200 years ago. The gag where the cannon shot sinks the ship in the painting is similar to one in W. C. Fields's International Hotel.

A museum owner named Mr. Belmont (Byron Foulger) takes an interest in Lurch's Krupnik harpsichord, so the Addams family plan to donate it to the museum much to Lurch's horror.

Note: Gomez remarks that the harpsichord's measurements are exactly as Morticia's: 36-21-36. Established actors Leonard (credited as Lennie) Bremen and Ray Galvin appear as a couple of bumbling moving men who are fearful of Lurch. Lurch gets a drum kit as a replacement for the harpsichord and shows that he knows his way around it, but doesn't really play anything. Gomez and Fester get themselves tangled together in a jointed ruler, an old vaudeville routine [2] .

A newspaper story about a stock market tumble panics Fester and Morticia into believing Gomez is bankrupt. He's actually trying to buy a railroad. Morticia discovers she holds shares in the railroad and tries to sell them to raise money for the family, unaware that Gomez is the buyer.

Guest-starring Milton Frome as Mr. Blooker. Actors John "Red" Fox, Maxine Semon and Ceil Cabot also appear.

In-joke: When Fester and Morticia are trying to decide on a fake name, Morticia suggests "Jones."

With reports of UFOs in the area, the Addams believe they have been visited by two Martians.

Vito Scotti appears as Professor Altshuler.

Note: The Addams are seen smoking from a hookah.

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

Family mentioned: Gomez's Great-Aunt Deliria, who was engaged to a chimpanzee (but got jilted).

Morticia's favorite charitable organization, run by Arthur Henson, is holding a fundraising bazaar, so Morticia persuades her family to part with their belongings in order to donate them to the charity auction.

Note: The moose head with the awry antler is named Pierre; his hind end is a clock.

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

Note: Parley Baer once again guest-stars as Arthur Henson. Natalie Masters plays his wife, Phoebe. John Hart and Richard Reeves (billed as Dick Reeves) are the demolition men assigned to blow up the house. Gomez is seen lighting a cigar with an old-fashioned blowtorch. City Commissioner Arthur Henson says "Thank you" to Thing when Thing returns his hat.

Fester's pen-pal Madelyn Cavendish Beauregard Faversham Firestone Smith (Elisabeth Fraser) writes that she will visit, and Fester has told her several lies in their correspondence. Mostly he is concerned that he has no hair, and he said that he was an athlete. When she drops by unexpectedly, he must assume his false appearance and personality.

Notes: Established actor Frederic Downs plays the toupee salesman who makes a house call. Gomez and Morticia bowl in the living room, without a bowling alley, and both perform feats that might be called supernatural. Morticia implies that Fester's pen-pal Madelyn (who has had five husbands) is nothing more than a gold-digger. Fester puts a large "Y" in the front of his coat, and has Lurch bring out a tackling dummy with a large "H" on its jersey.

Morticia and Gomez call an expert, Mortimer Phelps (Richard Deacon), to find Cousin Itt a job after he fails at being a marriage counsellor, almost splitting up Gomez and Morticia in the process.

Notes: Lurch goes to Cousin Itt's room, where he can't stand up, and speaks Cousin Itt's language. Later, the vocational counselor discovers he can understand and speak to Itt, too. Gomez looks very much like Groucho Marx in Duck Soup when he wears an old-fashioned nightgown and a nightcap with a tassel.

Itt, Fester, and Lurch all vie for the lead in Gomez's new play.

On the occasion of their 13th wedding anniversary, Morticia recalls the story of how she and Gomez first met and fell in love. Margaret Hamilton guest-stars.

Family mentioned: Gomez's Aunt Trivia (last mentioned in "Lurch and His Harpsichord") who Gomez (in the flashback sequence) claims sent them a dozen broken cup handles; Gomez refers to her as "our" aunt, implying that she might be Grandmama's aunt and thus Gomez's great-aunt.

Morticia's tale continues as she remembers how Gomez nearly married her sister Ophelia instead of her and what they had to do to get Ophelia to love someone else.

Family mentioned: Morticia's, or perhaps Fester's, Aunt Phobia (who had two right feet; last mentioned in "Morticia, the Breadwinner") who married Uncle Tic (who had two left feet); Fester, at least, believes the marriage to have been a mistake. Another reference to Aunt Trivia (Grandmama mentions her funeral). Gomez's Cousin Fungus (who lived in the cave at the back of the Addams Mansion's tunnels for 30 years).

Cartoon reference: Wednesday cuts a chain of paper dolls and one oddly has three legs. No caption.

Gomez runs against Arthur Henson (Parley Baer) for mayor.

Terror strikes Cousin Itt as he begins to lose his hair. Uncle Fester develops a hair-growing formula with his new chemistry set.

Wednesday is devastated when a neighbor named Mr. Thompson tells her that there are no such things as witches. Cousin Cackle makes a rare appearance. Yvonne Peattie and Bob Jellison guest-star.

Family mention: Morticia's Great-Great-Great Aunt Singe, who was burned at Salem, is described as a witch and whose ashes are in an urn. Clump (Uncle Fester's deceased brother who he claimed was the "quiet one" when they held a seance to talk to him). Cousin Cackle has lived in the caves beneath the mansion for decades, implying that he and Cousin Fungus (mentioned in "Morticia's Romance, Part 1") might be one and the same.

Morticia takes up sculpting and Gomez, wanting her to believe she is good at it, pays Sam Picaso (Vito Scotti) to buy them.

Wednesday crushes on classmate Robespierre Courtney, but his parents (Fred Clark, Virginia Gregg) are more interested in social climbing with the Addams family---because they think socialite Abigail Quincy Adams is a relative living with the family.

There is a neighborhood burglar on the loose, and Morticia has reason to believe it may be Gomez.

Family reference: Mr. Addams (Gomez's father, presumably Grandmama's husband) who enjoyed yak gravy on "glutton" bread, (not gluten the way he ate it)

Gomez seeks a special photographer to capture his portrait for Strife Magazine.

Gomez plays host to Don Xavier Molines (Anthony Caruso), a family friend during his childhood in Spain, and his daughter Consuela who is to marry Gomez.

Family reference: Gomez's Grandpapa (whether this was Grandpa Squint from "Fester's Punctured Romance," "Gomez the Politician," "Amnesia in the Addams Family" or Grandpa Slurp from "The Addams Family Tree" is unspecified) who signed the marriage contract. Cousin Crimp, previously mentioned in "Lurch and his Harpsichord" and "Morticia, the Breadwinner," whom Gomez mistakes for himself in Morticia's jail painting.

Not wanting the children to be disappointed after hearing once again from Mr. Thompson that there's no such thing as Santa Claus, each member of the family dresses up as him to prove to Wednesday and Pugsley that he's real.

Family mentioned: Cousin Caliban whose head sculpture is a gift for Grandmama (implying that Caliban is Gomez's cousin on his mother's side); sculptor did not do the other head. Aunt Singe from "Halloween - Addams Style" is mentioned where it was mentioned by Morticia that there were no witches until she was conjured.

Cartoon References: #1 Morticia decorates a bare Christmas tree, no caption. #2 The children stoke the fireplace. The caption reads The little dears, they still believe in Santa Claus.

Fester takes a correspondence course and boldly storms the gates of the business world.

Roy Roberts appears as business executive Thaddeus Logan.

The Addams mansion becomes a battlefield when Gomez and Morticia tell Grandmama and Uncle Fester that they think they are spoiling Pugsley and Wednesday. Irene Tedrow plays Inez Thudd, the governess.

When Fester vows to get in shape for a visit from his pen pal, Morticia jumps to an out-of-this-world conclusion. Fester's pen pal Evette from the Folies Bergère makes an appearance. Jack LaLanne guest-stars as himself.

The Addams Family hire a shady captain and his first mate to help them find a buried treasure.

Roger Arroyo plays Cousin Itt in this episode.

Pugsley shocks his parents when he announces that he wants to find a job. When Pugsley convinces Wednesday to help, one of their jobs involves doing housework for the Henson family.

Gomez and Morticia take over management of a private school run by Sam Hilliard (Allyn Joslyn).

Lurch may be out of a job when Gomez builds a robot ("played" by Robby the Robot) to help around the house.

Lurch suffers from unrequited love over Trivia (Diane Jergens, in her last on-screen appearance), Morticia's visiting school chum who only has eyes for show business.

Note: Trivia, a non-relative, shares a name with both Aunt Trivia "Lurch and His Harpsichord" and "Morticia's Romance: Part 1" and Cousin Trivia who was previously mentioned in "Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor.

When Ophelia laments that she has been jilted, Morticia suggests a career as an alternative to marriage.

In this reunion special, the Addams Family, Gomez and Morticia's latest children Wednesday Jr. and Pugsley Jr., and Gomez' younger brother Pancho (Henry Darrow) celebrate Halloween and the legend of Cousin Shy. At the same time, a criminal named "Bones" Lafferty (Parley Baer) and his gang plan to target the Addams Family fortune.