Morticia is bored and lacking artistic fulfillment. She decides she needs a hobby to snap herself out of her funk and so takes up sculpting.
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.
Fester, as Santa, gets stuck in the chimney.
Poor, poor Ophelia has been jilted again. Afraid her sister is doomed for continual unhappiness with the pursuit of men, Morticia suggests Ophelia embark on a career instead.
Lurch falls in love when Morticia's old school chum, Tiny Trivia, comes to visit. Unfortunately, the showbiz-obsessed pixie has no time for, or interest in, the lovable giant.
Gomez starts his own insurance company when their insurance agent refuses to replace the stuffed bear Uncle Fester accidentally incinerated while playing with Morticia's flame thrower.
When Morticia tells Gomez she fears Lurch is being overworked, Gomez builds Lurch a giant robot assistant named Smiley to help Lurch with all the household tasks.
Morticia is concerned because the family's pet lion, Kitty Cat, seems to have lost his appetite. After trying some home remedies, the family calls in the aid of a local veterinarian.
Gomez and Morticia learn that their dear old friend and former truant officer, Mr. Hilliard, is now running a private school and agree that Pugsley and Wednesday must be enrolled there.
Morticia and Gomez have a wonderful surprise for Grandma Frump's birthday. They plan to send her to a beauty spa, but the poor woman thinks they want to ship her off to an old folks' home!
Ophelia visits the Addams mansion, distraught after having lost yet another man, Montrose, to the Peace Corps. Fester offers to join up as well to find Montrose and return him to her.
Gomez and Morticia are mortified when Pugsley announces his desire to find a job and make money. They decide to allow their son to work in order to teach him a lesson.
When Gomez invites neighbors, the Digbys, to the mansion, Mrs. Digby politely compliments the decor, prompting Morticia to offer her decorating skills for their home.
It seems Ophelia has found true love at last! She is madly in love with Horatio Bartholomew, a man she met at a Lonely Hearts Club, and brings him to the mansion to meet the family.
Morticia and Gomez find a treasure map that once belonged to their Great-Grandfather Pegleg and hire Captain Grimby and charter his ship to take them to find the treasure.
Uncle Fester is so smitten with one of his many pen pals, Diana, the Bearded Lady, that he proposes to her by mail and begins work in order to support her.
Morticia and Gomez are absolutely bewildered - and a bit worried - when they see Uncle Fester trying to diet and exercise with the help of television fitness guru, Jack La Lanne.
The Addams mansion becomes a battlefield when Gomez and Morticia tell Grandmama and Uncle Fester that they think they are spoiling Pugsley and Wednesday.
Gomez believes he has been chosen as Strife magazine's "Man of the Year," so he and Morticia try to track down their favorite photographer to take Gomez's portrait for the magazine.
Gomez and the family welcomes an old family friend, Don Xavier Molines, and his daughter, Consuela, to their home, not knowing that the Don has come to see Gomez wed to Consuela.
Morticia invites the family of Wednesday's crush over for tea, and they accept, thinking they'll be able to meet Gomez's socially prominent cousin, Abigail Quincy Adams.
Gomez and Morticia are surprised when Lurch refuses to go to the annual Butler's Ball. When they learn that the reason is his inability to dance, they decide to get him some lessons.
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