The BEST episodes of The Addams Family season 1
Every episode of The Addams Family season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Addams Family season 1!
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 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#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 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - My Son, the Chimp
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/9/1965
Fester's working on a new experiment when something goes wrong.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - Uncle Fester's Illness
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/22/1965
Fester is becoming sick- He can't even run the trains.
#20 - 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.
#21 - Lurch Learns to Dance
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/11/1964
Gomez and Morticia are concerned when Lurch refuses to go to the annual Butler's Ball. They then learn the reason, Lurch can't dance. The Addams family then tries to help him by teaching him how to dance.
#22 - The New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/13/1964
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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - Halloween with the Addams Family
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/30/1964
It was a dark and stormy Halloween night when Gomez recieves a new carving knife in the mail.
#25 - 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.