The BEST episodes written by Harry Winkler

Charley Abandons the Cannonball
star
8.60
5 votes

#1 - Charley Abandons the Cannonball

Petticoat Junction - Season 1 - Episode 31

Feeling neglected, Charley quits his job as engineer of the Cannonball.

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Sergeant Emma
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8.04
18 votes

#2 - Sergeant Emma

The Brady Bunch - Season 3 - Episode 20

Alice takes a vacation, leaving her duties to her cousin Emma. But the Bradys have trouble adjusting to Emma's militaristic style.

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Morticia, the Playwright
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8.00
1 votes

#3 - Morticia, the Playwright

The New Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 49

Disturbed by the fairy tales her children are about to perform at school, Morticia decides to write her own play. It's Gotcha week, so Fester and Gomez are competitively pulling practical jokes on each other.

Cousin Itt's Problem
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8.00
1 votes

#4 - Cousin Itt's Problem

The New Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 48

Cousin Itt is in danger of losing his job as a shampoo spokesman when he starts to lose hair.

Christmas with the Addams Family
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8.00
1 votes

#5 - Christmas with the Addams Family

The New Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 27

Christmas is coming. The happiness of it horrifies the family, but the gift-giving and holiday spirit is still there. Pugsley sees his belief in Santa dashed, and the family enlists Fester to dress up as Santa for him...what a sight!

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Morticia, the Sculptress
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8.00
1 votes

#6 - Morticia, the Sculptress

The New Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 37

In need of artistic fulfillment, Morticia takes up sculpting. Gomez, who won't have Morticia's heart broken, gets Sandy Warhol, a seedy art dealer, to buy it with Gomez's own money. When Warhol commissions more sculptures, Morticia spends all of her time chiseling away and completely neglects her family.

The Snooperstar
star
7.94
12 votes

#7 - The Snooperstar

The Brady Bunch - Season 5 - Episode 20

Marcia plants a bogus story in her diary to trap the snooping Cindy, which leads Cindy to believe a talent scout wants her to be the next Shirley Temple.

Last Chance Farm
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7.89
9 votes

#8 - Last Chance Farm

Petticoat Junction - Season 1 - Episode 20

Uncle Joe tells two plump ladies that the Shady Rest is a reducing farm.

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Betty Jo's First Love
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7.86
7 votes

#9 - Betty Jo's First Love

Petticoat Junction - Season 1 - Episode 23

Betty Jo's first crush is more interested in tinkering with cars than romance.

Ophelia Finds Romance
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7.83
33 votes

#10 - Ophelia Finds Romance

The Addams Family - Season 2 - Episode 20

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.

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Morticia's Romance (2)
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7.81
104 votes

#11 - Morticia's Romance (2)

The Addams Family - Season 2 - Episode 3

Wednesday and Pugsley refuse to go to sleep until they are told the rest of the story of their parents' romance.

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The Hooterville Flivverball
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7.80
5 votes

#12 - The Hooterville Flivverball

Petticoat Junction - Season 1 - Episode 28

Uncle Joe tries to start his own railroad, powered by Orville Miggs' broken-down car.

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Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor
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7.76
66 votes

#13 - Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor

The Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 32

Cousin Itt is trying to decide on a career, and they call in Mr. Phelps, a vocational guidance expert.

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Beaver's Newspaper
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7.75
44 votes

#14 - Beaver's Newspaper

Leave It to Beaver - Season 2 - Episode 30

While cleaning in the garage, Beaver and Wally come across an old typewriter. Beaver decides to fix it up and begin his own newspaper with Larry. However, Wally stands in his way by claiming the typewriter is his property.

Morticia, the Matchmaker
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7.70
97 votes

#15 - Morticia, the Matchmaker

The Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 12

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.

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The Addams Family in Court
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7.70
76 votes

#16 - The Addams Family in Court

The Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 21

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.

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The Addams Family and the Spacemen
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7.67
76 votes

#17 - The Addams Family and the Spacemen

The Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 27

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.

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Top Secret
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7.67
3 votes

#18 - Top Secret

My Three Sons - Season 4 - Episode 15

Steve has to fly to Washington and is given a top secret military project. Steve tells the Pentagon brass that he would attract the least attention by just doing the work at home. While Bub is just beside himself with curiosity, Chip suddenly becomes the target for security men.

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The Addams Policy
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7.67
30 votes

#19 - The Addams Policy

The Addams Family - Season 2 - Episode 28

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, because his clerk, Joe Digby, had forgotten to cancel the Family's coverage.

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Have Library, Will Travel
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7.63
8 votes

#20 - Have Library, Will Travel

Petticoat Junction - Season 2 - Episode 3

Uncle Joe has grown extremely fond of pretty librarian Phyllis Marsh, who has set up a traveling library in the baggage car of the Hooterville Cannonball

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Art and the Addams Family
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7.59
59 votes

#21 - Art and the Addams Family

The Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 14

Morticia has taken up painting and Gomez has art critic Bosley Swain evaluate her.

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The Great Treasure Hunt
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7.59
38 votes

#22 - The Great Treasure Hunt

The Addams Family - Season 2 - Episode 19

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.

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Halloween... Addams Style
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7.56
43 votes

#23 - Halloween... Addams Style

The Addams Family - Season 2 - Episode 7

It's Halloween and, despite salamander sandwiches and a fresh porcupine taffy, Wednesday's upset.

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Morticia's Romance (1)
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7.50
103 votes

#24 - Morticia's Romance (1)

The Addams Family - Season 2 - Episode 2

On Morticia and Gomez's thirteenth wedding anniversary, Morticia tells the children a bedtime story of how she and Gomez met.

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Christmas with the Addams Family
star
7.50
34 votes

#25 - Christmas with the Addams Family

The Addams Family - Season 2 - Episode 15

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 Grandmama each don a red suit and appear to the children.

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Lurch and His Harpsichord
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7.49
75 votes

#26 - Lurch and His Harpsichord

The Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 25

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.

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The Show Must Go On??
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7.48
15 votes

#27 - The Show Must Go On??

The Brady Bunch - Season 4 - Episode 7

The high school puts on a "Family Frolics" show, with Marcia and Carol performing a routine together while Greg and Mike team up for their own.

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Wednesday Leaves Home
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7.43
95 votes

#28 - Wednesday Leaves Home

The Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 10

Wednesday packs up her spider and runs away after being scolded for using Uncle Fester's blasting caps instead of her own.

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Gomez, the Politician
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7.39
179 votes

#29 - Gomez, the Politician

The Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 4

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.

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Pugsley's Allowance
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7.36
33 votes

#30 - Pugsley's Allowance

The Addams Family - Season 2 - Episode 21

Pugsley wants some money and offers to work for it. This horrifies his parents, Addams don't work! They agree to let him work to teach him a lesson.

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Uncle Fester's Toupee
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7.33
67 votes

#31 - Uncle Fester's Toupee

The Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 31

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.

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The New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family
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7.33
104 votes

#32 - The New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family

The Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 9

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.

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The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man
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7.29
84 votes

#33 - The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man

The Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 16

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.

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Morticia, the Sculptress
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7.29
35 votes

#34 - Morticia, the Sculptress

The Addams Family - Season 2 - Episode 9

Morticia wants to do something to add to life artisticaily, so she decides to take up sculpting.

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The Addams Family Tree
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7.28
210 votes

#35 - The Addams Family Tree

The Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 5

Pugsley and Wednesday get into a fight over families, with their friend Harold, who says that his family is better than their family. This prompts the Addams family to look back in their family tree.

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Morticia and the Psychiatrist
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7.26
451 votes

#36 - Morticia and the Psychiatrist

The Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 2

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.

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Fester Goes on a Diet
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7.26
31 votes

#37 - Fester Goes on a Diet

The Addams Family - Season 2 - Episode 18

Pugsley has been exercising, much to his parents' disapproval, when Fester gets a letter from his French pen-pal, Yvette, who is coming to visit. So he decides he has to get into shape, with the help of TV fitness guru Jack La Grann.

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The Addams Family Tree
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7.25
4 votes

#38 - The Addams Family Tree

The New Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 9

Wednesday gave Harold Pomeroy a black eye at school after he said his family was better than hers. His smug father, Cecil Pomeroy comes to the Addams family house for an apology. Cecil and Harold get to ""enjoy"" the family Addams. But with their interest now aroused in their own genealogy, the family hires professor Sims to do some research for them.

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Ophelia's Career
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7.24
29 votes

#39 - Ophelia's Career

The Addams Family - Season 2 - Episode 30

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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Morticia, the Writer
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7.15
33 votes

#40 - Morticia, the Writer

The Addams Family - Season 2 - Episode 8

Morticia disapproves of the books the children are assigned from school, since they portray giants, goblins, and ghouls, as the bad guys.

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Soul Club
star
7.14
7 votes

#41 - Soul Club

The Partridge Family - Season 1 - Episode 18

Booked for a weekend stint in Detroit, the Partridge Family and manager Reuben Kincaid get quite a surprise when they see the club where they are supposed to perform. Called "The Fire House," the club is just an old fire house in the ghetto. Owners Sam and A.E. Simon started the club as an inexpensive place of entertainment for the people living in the black neighborhood... but they're in debt to a loan shark named Heavy, who can't wait to take the club away from them and will use any gangster-tactic in the book to do it. When Shirley learns that The Temptations were supposed to appear at the "Fire House" and not the family and after discussing it with the Simons, it's apparent that Heavy deliberately had the bookings mixed up so that Sam and A.E. wouldn't be able to make their last payment. In an effort to help, Shirley and the kids give a free performance, but Heavy and his boys see to it that there is no audience.

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Fester Goes on a Diet
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7.12
33 votes

#42 - Fester Goes on a Diet

The New Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 13

Uncle Fester finds a female friend on the Internet who is coming to visit. He tries to get into shape before his new love arrives.

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New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family
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7.09
34 votes

#43 - New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family

The New Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 5

Newlyweds, Hubert and Amanda Peterson move in to the house they leased next door, owned by the Addamses. As they find out about their new neighbors and landlords, they try desperately to get out of the lease

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Morticia's Romance (2)
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7.06
32 votes

#44 - Morticia's Romance (2)

The New Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 15

Wednesday and Pugsley ask to hear the rest of the story about how Gomez and Morticia met. The story continues with the complications that arose when Cousin Itt and Cousin Vlad became involved.

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Morticia, the Matchmaker
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7.06
33 votes

#45 - Morticia, the Matchmaker

The New Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 8

Cousin Melancholia's fiancee ran out and left her, so she shows up at the Addamses house all despondent. They try to find her another suitor - the mailman who zooms off, Lurch wouldn't agree, Fester only dates criminals, and Thing fingers off. But the unwilling Ralph Harvey, trying to save his Law Firm's account with the Addamses, is coerced into dating and getting engaged to Melancholia.

Morticia's Romance (1)
star
7.03
32 votes

#46 - Morticia's Romance (1)

The New Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 14

Gomez and Morticia are celebrating their 13th Anniversary. Wednesday and Pugsley ask them how they met. So they are told the story. Gomez was pre-ordained to marry Morticia's sister Ophelia for whom he had no affection. But he and Morticia were love at first sight.

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Wednesday Leaves Home
star
7.03
32 votes

#47 - Wednesday Leaves Home

The New Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 16

Wednesday unleashed 20 starving alligators in the sewers. The police came after her. Gomez and Morticia ground her for a week for cruelty to animals. She would not be allowed to play with her weapons, start any fires, or torture here brother. So Wednesday runs away.

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Morticia and the Psychiatrist
star
7.03
32 votes

#48 - Morticia and the Psychiatrist

The New Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 21

Pugsley joined the Junior Troopers so Morticia called a psychiatrist who suggests that Pugsley just wants their attention.

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Art and the Addams Family
star
7.00
35 votes

#49 - Art and the Addams Family

The New Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 11

Wednesday comes back from school after painting a black rainbow and she got an ""F"" on it. Her teacher, Miss Crank, says she may fail art if she doesn't use color. So Gomez tries to hire the world famous artist Leopold DaMinci as an art Tutor, but gets Leo DaMinci, an Italian Pizza delivery man instead. Meanwhile, Mama falls in love with the postman, and Fester helps her try to trap him.

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Uncle Fester's Toupee
star
7.00
33 votes

#50 - Uncle Fester's Toupee

The New Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 19

Ginger, a girl Fester has been e-mailing is coming to meet him. But Fester lied to her about himself, and wonders what he's going to do about his hair, which he told her he has. So a toupee salesman is called. Fester's grand appearance in front of Ginger is stumbling at best!