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 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - Morticia Meets Royalty
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/1965
Princess Millicent von Schlepp arrives for a visit in her sedan chair.
#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 - 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.
#9 - Morticia, the Decorator
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/18/1966
Morticia is caught up in the National Beautification Program and decides to become a decorator.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - Halloween... Addams Style
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/1965
It's Halloween and, despite salamander sandwiches and a fresh porcupine taffy, Wednesday's upset.
#14 - The Great Treasure Hunt
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/21/1966
In the attic the Family discovers Great-Grandfather Pegleg' s old sea chest, and there's a treasure map in it. Morticia wants to search for the treasure, but half the map is missing, so the search for the second half begins.
#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 - Art and the Addams Family
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/18/1964
Morticia has taken up painting and Gomez has art critic Bosley Swain evaluate her.
#17 - Mother Lurch Visits the Addams Family
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/15/1965
Lurch's mother is coming to visit, and he confesses that she doesn't know he's just the servant.
#18 - Lurch's Grand Romance
Season 2 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/1/1966
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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - Morticia Joins the Ladies League
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/23/1964
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.
#22 - Addams Cum Laude
Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/4/1966
The school principal threatens to expel the children after they've been playing with dynamite caps.
#23 - Gomez, the People's Choice
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1965
Gomez is insulted by his latest tax bill, which is only $84, and complains to Mayor Henson, who misunderstands and offers him a rebate, convincing Gomez and Morticia that he's incompetent.
#24 - Green-Eyed Gomez
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/6/1964
Lionel Barker, an old friend of Morticia' s, arrives at the house and Gomez is jealous of him.
#25 - Morticia's Dilemma
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/17/1965
There's a letter for Gomez from Camplona, Spain - an old family friend, Don Xavier Francisco de la Mancha Molines and his daughter is coming to visit.