John Astin is Gomez Addams, head of the offbeat and macabre Addams family. In this classic comedy series, he and wife Morticia and children Wednesday and Pugsley live in a mansion with Uncle Fester, a disembodied hand named Thing, and the enormous butler, Lurch, as they terrify their neighbors with some abnormal interests.
The justice system will never be the same after the Addams family makes their appearance in court to defend Grandmama who has been jailed for fortune-telling.
When Morticia hears the stock market has crashed, she assumes that Gomez has been financially wiped out and rallies the family to help make extra money.
When Uncle Fester's electrical output fails abruptly, his relatives don't know whether to call a doctor or an electrician to bring Fester back to full wattage.
It is discovered that the Addams family's harpsichord is the sole survivor of an antique make, so Gomez and Morticia donate it to a museum, and poor Lurch is left heartbroken.
Uncle Fester has been telling his pen pal that he is a "Cary Grant type," so when he learns she is coming to visit, he panics, and Gomez and Morticia scramble to find him a wig.
While enjoying a moonlight picnic and snail hunt, the members of the Addams Family are mistaken for Martians by investigators from Mysterious Space Objects.
The Addams family are all busy preparing for their favorite holiday: Halloween! Their celebration is bolstered by a pair of bank robbers who they welcomed as trick-or-treaters.
When Gomez loses his memory after hitting his head, he begins acting "normal," much to the dismay of his family - and most especially Morticia.
When a government agent picks up strange radio signals coming from the Addams home, he is convinced that the Addams family are spies and hires local servicemen to investigate.
An organ grinder's fugitive monkey wanders into the Addams mansion, befriending Pugsley and eventually leading Uncle Fester to believe that he has turned Pugsley into a chimp.
When Morticia's old friend, Lionel Barker, visits the Addams home, Gomez nearly goes insane with envy, but his fears are calmed when Barker turns his attentions to the new maid.
Morticia's homey cousin, Melancholia, pays a visit to the Addams home after her fiancee leaves her to join the Foreign Legion.
When Pugsley and Wednesday are barred from a friend's home due to an apparent "lack of breeding," Gomez and Morticia hire a genealogist to prove otherwise.
A pair of newlyweds leases the house next door to the Addams mansion, but the honeymoon is suddenly over when Uncle Fester comes for a surprise visit through a tunnel.
When an escaped circus gorilla joins the Addams household, he ends up jeopardizing Morticia's chances of joining the Ladies League - and Lurch's job.
The family faces a crisis when Wednesday packs her spider and runs away after being scolded for playing with Uncle Fester's dynamite instead of her own.
Gomez and Morticia have come up with a brilliant idea for their next family vacation: a trip to the moon! The only problem is the billion dollars the trip will cost...
The Addams family are taken in by a charming young beatnik named "Rocky," when he crashes his motorcycle into a tree and is allowed to recuperate at the Addams house.
Morticia and Gomez are worried about Cousin Itt when they find that he has been sleeping and dreaming entire days away in his tiny room.
When Uncle Fester reads a magazine article stating that the happiest marriages are at the most risk of ending in divorce, he does all he can to force Gomez and Morticia to fight.
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