Carolyn Jones
Morticia Addams
Series SeasonSeason 1 episodes1964
The Addams Family
Season 1
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.
Episodes
Each episode has its own detail page.
Episode 125 min1964-09-18
The Addams Family Goes to School
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.
Episode 225 min1964-09-25
Morticia and the Psychiatrist
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.
Episode 325 min1964-10-02
Fester's Punctured Romance
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.
Episode 425 min1964-10-09
Gomez, the Politician
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.
Episode 525 min1964-10-16
The Addams Family Tree
Pugsley and Wednesday get into a fight over families with their friend Harold, who says that his family is better than theirs.
Episode 625 min1964-10-23
Morticia Joins the Ladies League
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.
Episode 725 min1964-10-30
Halloween with the Addams Family
Two bank robbers accept an unknowing invitation and visit Morticia and Gomez on Halloween, in order to avoid being caught.
Episode 825 min1964-11-06
Green-Eyed Gomez
Gomez throws a fit of jealousy when Morticia's former boyfriend visits.
Episode 925 min1964-11-13
The New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family
A young couple, simple, naive, and very much in love, move into the house next to the Addams'.
Episode 1025 min1964-11-20
Wednesday Leaves Home
Family worries when a flustered Wednesday runs away after being scolded for borrowing Uncle Fester's TNT.
Episode 1125 min1964-11-27
The Addams Family Meet the VIPs
Visitors from another country regret labelling the Addams gang uncultured.
Episode 1225 min1964-12-04
Morticia, the Matchmaker
Morticia plays matchmaker when her cousin Melancholia and a bachelor lawyer hoping to make a business deal both visit at the same time.
Episode 1325 min1964-12-11
Lurch Learns to Dance
Morticia and Gomez are supportive of Lurch and encourage him to follow his gut feeling and take dance lessons.
Episode 1425 min1964-12-18
Art and the Addams Family
Grandmama takes up painting and hires the distressed Sam Picasso as her teacher.
Episode 1525 min1965-01-01
The Addams Family Meets a Beatnik
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.
Episode 1625 min1965-01-08
The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man
An undercover operative is convinced that the Addams family are spies.
Episode 1725 min1965-01-15
Mother Lurch Visits the Addams Family
Morticia and Gomez pose as Lurch's maid and butler when his mother comes for a visit.
Episode 1825 min1965-01-22
Uncle Fester's Illness
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.
Episode 1925 min1965-01-29
The Addams Family Splurges
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.
Episode 2025 min1965-02-05
Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family
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.
Episode 2125 min1965-02-12
The Addams Family in Court
Grandmama is arrested for telling fortunes and soon the whole family is being held in contempt of court.
Episode 2225 min1965-02-19
Amnesia in the Addams Family
Gomez suffers from amnesia after being hit in the head with Indian clubs, and his personality changes dramatically.
Episode 2325 min1965-03-05
Thing is Missing
When Thing goes missing, the family discovers he's been "thing-napped."
Episode 2425 min1965-03-12
Crisis in the Addams Family
Uncle Fester applies for a job as an insurance salesman with the same company which is threatening to cancel the Addams' policy.
Episode 2525 min1965-03-19
Lurch and His Harpsichord
Lurch feels betrayed when Gomez and Morticia give their antique harpsichord to a museum.
Episode 2625 min1965-03-26
Morticia, the Breadwinner
When Morticia believes the family to be bankrupt, she sells her railroad shares to a mystery buyer to raise money.
Episode 2725 min1965-04-02
The Addams Family and the Spacemen
With reports of UFOs in the area, the Addams believe they have been visited by two Martians. Vito Scotti appears as Professor Altshuler.
Episode 2825 min1965-04-09
My Son, the Chimp
The family believes that Pugsley has been turned into a chimp.
Episode 2925 min1965-04-16
Morticia's Favorite Charity
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.
Episode 3025 min1965-04-23
Progress and the Addams Family
The Addams Family ignores notices from Arthur Henson that their house is to be condemned to make way for a freeway.
Episode 3125 min1965-04-30
Uncle Fester's Toupee
Fester's penpal drops by unexpectedly, so he must assume the false personality he has been pretending to be.
Episode 3225 min1965-05-07
Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor
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.
Episode 3325 min1965-05-14
Lurch, the Teenage Idol
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?
Episode 3425 min1965-05-21
The Winning of Morticia Addams
Members of the Addams household devise schemes to start a battle between Gomez and Morticia.