Addams Family Episode Guide

Season: 1, 2

 

 

Season One:


1. The Addams Family Goes to School (Original airdate September 18, 1964)
Sam Hilliard is the truant officer for the Sherwood School, and he arrives at the Addams Family house to investigate the fact that Wednesday and Pugsley have never been to school.


2. Morticia and the Psychiatrist (Original airdate September 25, 1964)
When Pugsley abandons his pet octopus, adopts a puppy, wear a Boy Scout uniform, and plays baseball, Gomez and Morticia fear their child is becoming normal. Distraught, they seek counsel from Dr. Black, a Child Psychiatrist.


3. Fester's Punctured Romance (Original airdate October 2, 1964)
Uncle Fester decides it's time for him to find a mate. Through a matrimonial column in the newspaper, he conducts a search and mistakes Miss Carver, a door-to-door cosmetics saleslady, for someone replying to his ad.


4. Gomez, the Politician (Original airdate October 9, 1964)
Sam Hilliard is running for the city council his campaigner George Bass calls Gomez and accidentally convinces him that Hilliard is a loser. The Addams' history of backing losing candidates stirs Gomez's patriotic soul. Gomez and the family back Mr. Hilliard.


5. The Addams Family Tree (Original airdate October 16, 1964)
Wednesday and Pugsley get in a fight with Harold Pomeroy at his birthday party when he states that his family is better than theirs. Gomez wants to challenge Pomeroy to a duel for besmirching the Addams Family's honor. Fester thinks that a duel is too risky and offers to shoot Pomeroy in the back. Pomeroy arrives and Gomez instead apologizes. Gomez is disturbed when Pomeroy haughtily lauds the Pomeroy ancestry that is being traced by Professor Simms. Gomez decides to trace the Addams Family tree and hires Professor Simms also.


6. Morticia Joins the Ladies League (Original airdate October 23,1964)
Gomez visits his old friend Oscar Webber at his circus, which has gone downhill. Pugsley plays with Gorgo 'The Killer Gorilla' and the two become friends. Meanwhile, Morticia has invited the Ladies League to tea. They're on a membership drive and agree to come. Gorgo breaks out of the circus to visit his pal Pugsley, to Lurch's disapproval. Lurch feels even worse when Gorgo does a better job of the laundry than he's ever done. The Ladies League arrives for tea, but they aren't prepared to see a gorilla serve it.


7. Halloween with the Addams Family (Original airdate October 30, 1964)
Two bank robbers try to hide out at the Addams house after their car runs out of gas. They are mistaken for trick-or-treaters by Gomez and Morticia. Gomez offers them treats, but sees that their bag is full of money. He apologizes for being cheap and gives them several hundred dollars. Marty and Claude then plan to rob the family before making their getaway.


8. Green-Eyed Gomez (Original airdate November 6, 1964)
Lionel Barker, an old friend of Morticia' s, arrives at the house. Gomez is jealous of him, but he's actually a con man, working with his partner, Charlie, come to fleece the family. Gomez tries to drive him out by making him comfortable, and when that doesn't work he decides that jealousy can work both ways. He hires a maid, Mildred, in an effort to make Morticia jealous, but the maid just drives Gomez crazy.


9. The New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family (Original airdate November 13, 1964)
Hubert and Amanda Peterson are newlyweds, and they have leased the house next door. Their bliss starts to erode immediately when they see the Family washing their pet octopus and Fester testing dynamite caps. Hubert tries to get out of the lease, but Gomez turns out to be the landlord and won't hear of it.


10. Wednesday Leaves Home (Original airdate November 20,1964)
Wednesday packs up her spider and runs away after being scolded for using Uncle Fester's blasting caps instead of her own. Fester finds Wednesday hiding in Pugsley' s room. Morticia decides to use reverse psychology on Wednesday, who promptly runs away for real.


11. The Addams Family Meet the V.I.P's (Original airdate November 27, 1964)
Visiting dignitaries from an Iron Curtain country want to see a "typical" American family. Mr. Harris, the Government agent, is resistant to the idea. Mr. Haan insists, so they get out the phone book and randomly select a name. They land on the Addams listing.


12. Morticia, the Matchmaker (Original airdate December 4,1964)
Cousin Melancholia comes to seek solace at the Addams home. Melancholia's fiancé, Fred, has left to join the Foreign Legion. Morticia is determined to find her a new man and phones up Hasty Marriage. Gomez, meanwhile, receives a call from his lawyer, Charles P. Harvey, regarding Gomez's Game Preserve in Nairobi. Harvey hates to go over, but his firm needs Gomez's approval for a big deal. Gomez doesn't want to deal with business matters until Melancholia's problem is solved.


13. Lurch Learns to Dance (Original airdate December 11, 1964)
Lurch is about to turn down his annual invitation to the Butlers Ball as usual. The Ball this year is a costume party. He admits he doesn't go because he can't dance. Gomez insists on rectifying this and calls the Fred Walters Dance School. Sally, one of his teachers, has been mouthing off to the clients, he gives her one last chance to change her attitude. She is sent to the Addams home.


14. Art and the Addams Family (Original airdate December 18,1964)
Morticia has taken up painting and Gomez has art critic Bosley Swain evaluate her Swain tactfully suggests a teacher, and Grandma calls Spain for Picasso, getting oddball Sam Picasso instead.


15. The Addams Family Meets a Beatnik (Original airdate January 1, 1965)
Rockland "Rocky" Cartwright III, a beatnik, crashes his motorbike in front of the Addams' house. He hurts his leg and and damaged his motorcycle. The family takes him in and has him stay overnight to recuperate.


16. The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man (Original airdate January 8,1965)
Hollister is an undercover operative who's been picking up odd radio signals from the Addams house. Convinced they're spies, he recruits the postman, Briggs, to help.


17. Mother Lurch Visits the Addams Family (Original airdate January 15,1965)
Lurch's mother is coming to visit, and he confesses that she doesn't know he's just the servant. Morticia sees no problem: he can pretend the house is his, and she'll be maid and Gomez the butler, while the others move out to the cottage.


18. Uncle Fester's Illness (Original airdate January 22, 1965)
Fester's feeling ill and losing his voltage. Morticia suggests a good moonbathing, but he only gets moonburn. The Gomez calls the family doctor Dr. Mbongo who has returned to Africa. Reluctantly, Fester agrees to see a normal doctor, but doesn't care for Dr. Milford.


19. The Addams Family Splurges (Original airdate January 29, 1265)
Gomez and Pugsley build a new computer, Wizzo, because the family wants somewhere new and interesting to visit. Wizzo suggests the Moon, and the family love the idea. Their financial advisor, Hulen, tries to talk them out of it because they'd need billions.


20. Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family (Original airdate February 5, 1965)
Cousin Itt arrives for a visit and settles into the attic. He's good at magic tricks, but restless. Morticia thinks they should get him a job to keep him longer, but what - 'Too short for an actor, too tall for a producer,' she sighs. Gomez ponders the idea that Itt could join the Beatles. Then they discover he has a way with animals and think he'd be perfect for a curator's job at the zoo.


21. The Addams Family in Court (Original airdate February 12,1965)
Grandma's been telling fortunes as Madame Bovary, helped by Thing. She's even set up a tent in the living room. Morticia is appalled and wants her to stop. It's too late, though, as the police arrest her.


22. Amnesia in the Addams Family (Original airdate February 19, 1965)
Gomez is juggling with his Indian clubs and hits himself on the head knocking himself unconscious. When he comes to, his personality has drastically changed. He's now acting like a normal person.


23. Thing Is Missing (Original airdate March 5, 1965)
After Fester accidentally insults Thing, Thing disappears. Gomez plays Sherlock Holmes to deduce who did it, deciding it must be Lurch because the butler always does it. Gomez offers a reward, and gets lots of things, but no Thing. Then a ransom note arrives, and Gomez realizes: 'He's been Thingnapped!'


24. Crisis in the Addams Family (Original airdate March 12, 1965)
Fester's in trouble for breaking the water mains for the fourth time in a row. Their insurance policy pays for the repair, but is canceled afterward. Fester feels bad that the insurance coverage has been canceled and decides he'd better get a job to pay for a new policy himself, so he becomes an insurance salesman.


25. Lurch and His Harpsichord (Original airdate March 19,1965)
Lurch' s harpsichord turns out to be a rare survivor of an extinct make, so Gomez is persuaded to donate it to the local museum. Lurch is left inconsolable, so the Family attempts to get him interested in other pursuits, like drums and needlepoint.


26. Morticia, the Breadwinner (Original airdate March 26, 1965)
The stock market has collapsed, and thousands of people are going broke. Fester and Morticia think that the Family has lost all its money, while Gomez has bought a railroad to play with. Morticia rallies the Family to make money without telling Gomez, as it would upset him.


27. The Addams Family and the Spacemen (Original airdate April 2,1965)
There have been sightings of UFOs, and when Mr. Hinckley and Mr. Gilbert, investigators from the MSO (Mysterious Space Objects), comes across the Family on a moonlight picnic and snail hunt. They think that Lurch and Cousin Itt are aliens.


28. My Son, the Chimp (Original airdate April 9,1965)
Fester's working on a new experiment when something goes wrong. An organ grinder's chimp wanders into the house when Fester's experiment blows up. Pugsley was watching, and was knocked through a wall. When the smoke clears, Fester sees the chimp and thinks he's transformed Pugsley into the chimp.


29. Morticia's Favorite Charity (Original airdate April 16,1965)
There's a local charity auction being run by Mr. Henson, and the Addams Family hears about it. He doesn't want their help, but they insist on donating items to it, Morticia complained that the attic it too full and needed cleaning.


30. Progress and the Addams Family (Original airdate April 23,1965)
Mr. Henson has now been made city Commissioner, and he condemns the Addams Family house to evict them and build a freeway in its place. Gomez has ignored notices of condemnation. When the Adamses hear a series of loud explosions not traceable to any family members, they discover that the trees around the house are being blown up. When the demolition crew tries to set up the charges to destroy the house, Gomez has them thrown out. Mr. Henson comes over, giving them 24 hours to vacate.


31. Uncle Fester's Toupee (Original airdate April 30,1965)
Fester's pen-pal Madelyn Cavendish Beauregard Faversham Firestone Smith, from Paris, Illinois is coming to visit him. He's told her he's a handsome, romantic type with a lot of hair and is very athletic. Gomez and Morticia convince Fester he needs a hairpiece and Gomez calls in Max, a toupee salesman.


32. Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor (Original airdate May 7, 1965)
Itt is trying to decide on a career. Morticia suggests he become a marriage counselor, and she and Gomez pretend to have problems for Itt to solve. 'You just think of me as a plaything', she accuses Gomez. Itt manages only to make matters worse, and Gomez and Morticia spend the night apart. Both make up in the morning, but realize Itt isn't cut out to be a marriage counselor. They call in Mr. Phelps, a vocational guidance expert.


33. Lurch, the Teenage Idol (Original airdate May 14, 1965)
Lurch records a song at the harpsichord which eventually attracts swarms of screaming teenage fans to the house. The rest of the family thinks it is an invasion. Morticia has a wonderful thought - Lurch is such a marvelous musician, would he not make a great pop star?


34. The Winning of Morticia Addams (Original airdate May 21,1965
Fester reads an article that claims that apparently happy marriages are dangerous, because there is sickness hidden within. Since Gomez and Morticia are so happy, Fester thinks he'd better help out and make them have a few fights for their own good.

Season 2

35. My Fair Cousin Itt (Original airdate September 17,1965)
Gomez has written a play for the Family to celebrate Wednesday's birthday. Cousin Itt, Fester and Lurch all want to be the hero. Cousin Itt is brilliant as the hero, Claude, much to Fester's disgust, he wanted the role. Now all they need is a director, so Gomez decides to hire a professional. Erich von Bissell, who wants to rekindle his faded career, and thinks the play beneath him until Gomez offers $50,000.


36. Morticia's Romance (Part 1) (Original airdate (September 24, 1965)
On Morticia and Gomez's thirteenth wedding anniversary, Morticia tells the children a bedtime story of how she and Gomez met.


37. Morticia's Romance (Part 2) (Original airdate October 1, 1965)
Wednesday and Pugsley refuse to go to sleep until they are told the rest of the story of their parents' romance.


38. Morticia Meets Royalty (Original airdate October 8,1965)
Princess Millicent von Schlepp arrives for a visit in her sedan chair. She's a snob, even though her husband squandered all her money but oil stocks. She has a literal handmaiden, Lady Fingers, a hand that Thing falls desperately in love with. 


39. Gomez, the People's Choice (Original airdate October 15,1965)
Gomez is insulted by his latest tax bill, which is only $84, and complains to the mayor Henson. Mayor Henson misunderstands and offers him a rebate, convincing Gomez and Morticia that he's incompetent. Morticia convinces Gomez to run for office.

 
40. Cousin Itt's Problem (Original airdate October 22,1965)
Cousin Itt is shedding hair, and the Family is worried that he'll lose his great good looks along with his hair. Fester gets out his chemistry set to produce a batch of hair restorer and prevent a disaster.


41. Halloween-Addams Style (Original airdate October 29, 1965)
Mrs. Sandhurst, one of the neighbors, shocks Wednesday by telling her that there are no such things as witches.


42. Morticia, the Writer (Original airdate November 5, 1965)
Morticia disapproves of the books the children are assigned from school, since they portray giants, goblins and ghouls as the bad guys. She sets up an office in a cave and starts writing better stories such as 'The Good Giant Slays Sir Lancelot' and 'Cinderella, The Teenage Delinquent'.


43. Morticia, the Sculptress (Original airdate November 12, 1965)
Morticia wants to do something to add to life artistically, so she decides to take up sculpting. Lurch carries in a huge rock for her and she sets to work.


44. Gomez, the Reluctant Lover (Original airdate November 19,1965)
Pugsley is all melancholic because he's in love with his teacher, Miss Dunbar. Gomez tries to cheer him by buying him a pneumatic drill, but Pugsley already has one. Pugsley tries to write a love letter, but he can't get it right, so he copies one of his father's old ones to his mother. 


45. Feud in the Addams Family (Original airdate November 26,1965)
Aunt Abigail Addams wants to have Gomez removed as the head of the Family fortune, and is in town on a visit.


46. Gomez, the Cat Burglar (Original airdate December 3,1965)
After a large meal, Gomez gets sleepy. That night, he sleepwalks, and when he returns doesn't get up till four in the afternoon. The news is filled with the story of a cat burglar on the loose. Fester and Morticia find the stolen loot in their basement, and are afraid Gomez is the cat burglar sought by the police. 


47. Portrait of Gomez (Original airdate December 10, 1965)
Strife magazine calls to tell Gomez that they're sending a photographer round. He thinks he's been chosen their Man of the Year.


48. Morticia's Dilemma (Original airdate December 17, 1965)
There's a letter for Gomez from Camplona, Spain - an old family friend, Don Xavier Francisco de la Mancha Molines is coming to visit. Don Xavier's daughter, Consuela, is getting married and has assumed it's to Gomez.


49. Christmas with the Addams Family (Original airdate December 24, 1965)
Uncle Fester is chosen to slide down the chimney dressed as Santa Claus to prove the existence of St. Nick to the children. Fester gets stuck in the chimney, so Gomez, Lurch, Cousin Itt, and even Morticia and Grandmamma each don a red suit and appear to the children.


50. Uncle Fester, Tycoon (Original airdate December 31, 1965)
Fester gets a letter from another of his pen-pals, Diana the bearded lady. Overcome with emotion, he proposes to her by mail. Morticia is worried about him and poses as Diana's mother (complete with beard) to try and talk him out of it. 


51. Morticia and Gomez vs. Fester and Grandmamma (Original airdate January 7, 1966)
When a hurricane hits the Gulf Coast, Gomez and Morticia aim to go and enjoy it, employing Miss Thudd to look after the children. Fester and Grandmamma are insulted and threaten to leave. Since they have no money, they decide to split the house instead, painting a line down their half .


52. Fester Goes on a Diet (Original airdate January 14,1966)
Fester gets a letter from his French pen-pal, Yvette, who is coming to visit. He decides he has to get into shape, with the help of TV fitness guru Jack La Grann. Gomez and Morticia can't understand why he's doing this and think he's ill. They call in Dr. Motley.


53. The Great Treasure Hunt (Original airdate January 21, 1966)
In the attic the Family discovers Great-Grandfather Pegleg's old sea chest. There's a treasure map in it. Morticia wants to search for the treasure, but half the map is missing, so the first search is for the rest of the map.


54. Ophelia Finds Romance (Original airdate January 28, 1966)
Ophelia needs help with her latest romance. She met Horatio Bartholomew at a Lonely Hearts' Club, and Grandma Frump objects to him. Gomez and Morticia both think he's a phony, but she won't listen to them, and prefers Grandmamma's opinion because Grandmamma likes him.


55. Pugsley's Allowance (Original airdate February 4, 1966)
Pugsley wants some money and offers to work for it. This horrifies his parents, Addams don't work! 

 
56. Happy Birthday, Grandma Frump (Original airdate February 11,1966)
Annoyed by not being asked to contribute to a charity drive, Gomez decides he'll build his own old folks' home. Meanwhile, Granny Frump's birthday is coming up and she's been invited over. Gomez and Morticia plan to send her to a beauty spa, but Pugsley thinks she's heading for the retirement home.


57. Morticia, the Decorator (Original airdate February 18, 1966)
Their new neighbors are the Digbys, and he's an insurance salesman. Gomez asks him to insure their art collection for a million dollars, and invites him to visit with his wife. They're taken aback by the Addams's house, and Mrs. Digby explains that they have to decorate their home. Morticia offers to help.

 
58. Ophelia Visits Morticia (Original airdate February 25,1966)
Ophelia is still having problems getting a man. Ophelia's latest beau, Montrose, has left her for the Peace Corps. Fester decides to help her by joining the Peace Corps to enable him to look for Montrose.


59. Addams Cum Laude (Original airdate March 4, 1966)
The school principal threatens to expel the children after they've been playing with dynamite caps. 


60. Cat Addams (Original airdate March 11, 1966)
Kitty Kat, the Family's pet lion, is feeling ill and off his food. Gomez first tries to call a Jungle Doctor in Africa to make a house call. The doctor won't make a house call from Africa so Grandmamma insists on calling in the best medical advice that Gomez's money can buy, Dr. Gunderson.


61. Lurch's Little Helper (Original airdate March 18, 1966)
Morticia is afraid that they are overworking Lurch, so Gomez builds him a robot assistant. Lurch doesn't like 'Smiley until he realizes he's now the Head Butler.


62. The Addams Policy (Original airdate March 25, 1966)
Morticia has a new flame thrower, which Fester tests, setting their polar bear on fire. They make a claim to their insurance company, infuriating Mr. Henson the manager. His clerk, Joe Digby, had forgotten to cancel the Family's coverage. 

 
63. Lurch's Grand Romance (Original airdate April 1,1966)
Morticia's old school chum Tiny Trivia arrives for a visit. She's into show-biz and very theatrical. Lurch fails for her, but she has no time for him.


64. Ophelia's Career (Original airdate April 8, 1966)
Ophelia arrives in tears as usual, as she's been jilted again. Morticia thinks she should take up a career to distract her from her bad track record with men.
 

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