The BEST episodes of The Addams Family
Every episode of The Addams Family ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Addams Family!
A satirical inversion of the ideal of the perfect American nuclear family, they are an eccentric wealthy family who delight in everything grotesque and macabre, and are never really aware that people find them bizarre or frightening. In fact, they themselves are often terrified by "normal" people. Based on the creation of the American cartoonist Charles Addams' New Yorker single panel comics of the same name.
#1 - Ophelia Finds Romance
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/28/1966
Ophelia needs help with her latest romance, Horatio Bartholomew, whom she met at a Lonely Hearts' Club, but Grandma Frump objects to him, and Gomez and Morticia both think he's a phony, and try to convince Itt to marry Ophelia instead.
#2 - Amnesia in the Addams Family
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/19/1965
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.
#3 - Morticia and Gomez vs. Fester and Grandmama
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/7/1966
Two weeks of unfavorable weather (blue skies and sunshine) keep the Addams children stuck indoors, where Morticia and Gomez believe Fester and Grandmama spoil them too much.
#4 - Morticia Meets Royalty
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/1965
Princess Millicent von Schlepp arrives for a visit in her sedan chair.
#5 - Morticia's Romance (2)
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1965
Wednesday and Pugsley refuse to go to sleep until they are told the rest of the story of their parents' romance.
#6 - Lurch, the Teenage Idol
Season 1 - Episode 33 - Aired 5/14/1965
Lurch records a song at the harpsichord which eventually attracts swarms of screaming teenage fans to the house.
#7 - Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor
Season 1 - Episode 32 - Aired 5/7/1965
Cousin Itt is trying to decide on a career, and they call in Mr. Phelps, a vocational guidance expert.
#8 - The Addams Family in Court
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/12/1965
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.
#9 - The Addams Family Meet the V.I.P.'s
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/27/1964
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.
#10 - Morticia, the Matchmaker
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/4/1964
Cousin Melancholia comes to seek solace at the Addams home. Melancholia's fiancee, Fred, has left to join the Foreign Legion. Morticia is determined to find her a new man and phones up Hasty Marriage.
#11 - The Addams Family Meets a Beatnik
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/1/1965
Rockland ""Rocky"" Cartwright III, a beatnik, crashes his motorbike in front of the Addams' house.
#12 - The Addams Family Splurges
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/29/1965
Gomez and Pugsley build a new computer, Wizzo, because the family wants somewhere new and interesting to visit.
#13 - The Addams Family and the Spacemen
Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/2/1965
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.
#14 - Morticia's Romance (1)
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/1965
On Morticia and Gomez's thirteenth wedding anniversary, Morticia tells the children a bedtime story of how she and Gomez met.
#15 - The Addams Family Goes to School
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1964
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.
#16 - The Winning of Morticia Addams
Season 1 - Episode 34 - Aired 5/21/1965
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.
#17 - Uncle Fester's Toupee
Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/30/1965
Fester's pen-pal Madelyn Cavendish Beauregard Faversham Firestone Smith, from Paris, Illinois, is coming to visit him, and he's told her he's a handsome, romantic type with a lot of hair.
#18 - Progress and the Addams Family
Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/23/1965
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.
#19 - My Son, the Chimp
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/9/1965
Fester's working on a new experiment when something goes wrong.
#20 - Lurch and His Harpsichord
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/19/1965
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.
#21 - Thing Is Missing
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/5/1965
After Fester accidentaily insults Thing, Thing disappears and Gomez plays Sherlock Holmes to deduce who did it.
#22 - Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/5/1965
Cousin Itt arrives for a visit and settles into the attic. He's good at magic tricks, but restless.
#23 - Uncle Fester's Illness
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/22/1965
Fester is becoming sick- He can't even run the trains.
#24 - The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/8/1965
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.
#25 - Wednesday Leaves Home
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/20/1964
Wednesday packs up her spider and runs away after being scolded for using Uncle Fester's blasting caps instead of her own.