List of The Addams Family episodes

When Gomez and Morticia keep Wednesday and Pugsley home from school, truant officer Sam Hilliard (Allyn Joslyn) pays a visit.

Madge Blake guest stars as the school principal Miss Comstock, Nydia Westman as Miss Morrison, and Rolfe Sedan as the postman.

Family mentioned: Cousin Imar who has three arms.

Note: Gomez and Morticia enroll Pugsley and Wednesday in Sherwood Schools. This might be taken to imply that the town in which the Addamses live is named Sherwood; it is the only clue to the town's name in the entire series.

Gomez and Morticia call in a child psychiatrist Dr. Black (George O. Petrie) when they fear that Pugsley is becoming normal.

Cartoon reference: The Pugsley character is in a Boy Scout uniform saluting in front of a mirror. The parents watch from an open door. The caption reads "Well, he certainly doesn't take after my side of the family."

Uncle Fester is looking for love, but when a door-to-door saleslady comes knocking, he's not sure she's his type. Guest star Merry Anders

Family mentioned: Cousin Eustace (Morticia knits a sweater with a long neck). Grandpa Squint and Aunt Vendetta (who look like they may or may not be alive).

Election day is nearing, and the Addam's proud tradition of backing losing candidates continues when Sam L. Hillard (Allyn Joslyn) runs for city council.

Family mentioned: Cousin Grisly's portrait of him facing a firing squad. Uncle "Kiss of Death" Blight who masterminded the presidential campaigns of Al Smith, Wendell Willkie and Adlai Stevenson. Grandpa Squint, whom Abraham Lincoln supposedly begged for his political support but who instead backed Stephen Douglas; Squint's role in the 1860 presidential election implies that he was born in the 1840s or earlier, yet Morticia mentions having had a conversation with him at some earlier point in her marriage to Gomez, at which point Squint would've been over a century old.

A family rivalry prompts Gomez to trace his family's ancestry. This causes the Addams Family to enlist a genealogist to trace their family history.

Frank Nelson guest stars as Mr. Pomeroy.

Family mentioned: Cousin Bleak (who had a middle eye that drooped), Morticia's Cousin Curdle (implied to have at least one eye in the back of her head), Cousin Farouk (named as the owner of the leg jutting from the stuffed swordfish on the wall), Aunt Blemish (who is mistaken for a barn in a photo), Grandpa Slurp (mistaken for two people in a photo, has buck teeth and a receding chin), Gomez's Cousin Clot (who was sentenced to the electric chair), Grand-Uncle Grisly (who was a traitor but he only did it for the money), an unnamed family of Addamses who live far up the Amazon river, Mamoud Kali Pashka Addams (the Firebug of the Bosporus who burned the Library of Alexandria in 270AD), Black Bart Addams and Bloody Addams (presumably pirates).

Gomez begins to feel jealous when an old friend of Morticia's comes to stay.

A newlywed couple move in next door and are frightened by the family, so they attempt to break their lease.

When Wednesday is punished for using Uncle Fester's explosives, she threatens to run away from home, but Pugsley persuades her to hide in his room instead. Later she leaves the house but is picked up and taken to the police station, where she is interrogated by Sgt. Haley (Jesse White) the police detective from the police department's missing persons bureau. Lisa Loring as Wednesday Addams is featured more prominently than any other episode.

A pair of foreign dignitaries (Stanley Adams and Vito Scotti) want to meet a normal American family. That normal family happens to be the Addams'.

Family mentioned: Fester's Cousin Creep who was lost to a ray gun. He was giggling and laughing, vanished and was still giggling and laughing.

Romance: This is the first episode in which Gomez reacts specifically to Morticia's use of French, "Tish, when you speak French you drive me wild!", kissing her arm.

Morticia's cousin Melancholia comes to stay after breaking up with her fiancé.

Morticia and Gomez encourage Lurch to attend the annual Butlers' Ball and teach him how to dance in preparation.

Grandmama takes up painting and hires Picasso...Sam Picasso (Vito Scotti) as her teacher.

Family mentioned: Fester makes a urn for his Grandfather Malaplop, who isn't dead yet.

An undercover operative (George Neise) is convinced that the Addams family are spies, and recruits local tradespeople to infiltrate the house like the Postman Mr. Briggs (Rolfe Sedan) and the Plumber Mr. Conkey (Norman Leavitt).

Family mentioned: Gomez shoots a bullet-hole silhouette of Uncle Flub, who has a "fine, sensitive drooping chin," is prone to trembling, and cannot write; the fact that Morticia is aware of this latter fact and Gomez is not implies Flub is Morticia's uncle, not Gomez's.

Morticia and Gomez pose as Lurch's maid and butler when his mother (Ellen Corby) comes for a visit.

Family mentioned: Morticia's Cousin Slimy (two headed), Gomez's Cousin Manuel (who was a pyromaniac), Cousin Imar (three arms and went to Princeton; previously mentioned in The Addams Family Goes to School).

Romance: This is the first episode in which Morticia "drives me wild" becomes a regular gag with Gomez kissing Morticia's arm, as some permutation of the shtick appears four times in the episode.

Having gone everywhere else on their vacations, The Addams Family plan a vacation to the moon. To fund this trip, the family propose to their broker, Ralph J. Hulen (Roland Winters), a plan to raise money by betting on eight champion racehorses (picked out by Whizzo, a computer built by Gomez and Pugsley) competing in every broadcast horse race.

Romance: Episode contains the first full development of the French shtick which occurs with regularity in the series: "Tish! When you speak French you drive me wild! Speak some more French, Tish! Anything! Tout á I'heure. La plume de ma tante. Mademoiselle from Armentieres! Anything!"

Gomez and Morticia try to get Cousin Itt a job as a zoo curator.

Note: The radio states the Addams' house to be in the Greenbriar, Woodlawn area, on North Cemetery Drive.

Grandmama is arrested by an undercover police officer named Lt. Poston for telling fortunes and soon the whole family is being held in contempt of court.

Hal Smith guest stars as Judge Harvey Saunders

Family mentioned: Mamoud Kali Pashka Addams, the "Firebug of the Bosporus". Morticia's Cousin Cringe who even ate the hacksaw in the cake that was made for him and later developed a taste for them.

Gomez loses his memory and becomes normal.

When Thing disappears after feeling neglected, the family believe he has been 'thingnapped', and hire the famous detective Sam...Diamond (Tommy Farrell).

Note: Their address is shown as "0001 Cemetery Lane". Thing's full name is "Thing T. Thing" and the T stands for Thing.

Uncle Fester applies for a job as an insurance salesman with the same company which is threatening to cancel the Addams' policy.

Guest stars Parley Baer and Eddie Quillan make their first appearance together on the show as bumbling insurance bureaucrats.

A museum owner named Mr. Belmont (Byron Foulger) takes an interest in Lurch's Krupnik harpsichord, so the Addams Family donate it to the museum, much to Lurch's horror.

Note: Gomez remarks that Harpsichord's measurements are the exact as Morticia's: 36-21-36.

When Morticia believes the family to be bankrupt, she sells her railroad shares to a mystery buyer to raise money. Blooker: Milton Frome

With reports of UFOs in the area, the Addams believe they have been visited by two Martians.

Vito Scotti appears as Professor Altshuler.

Note: The Addams are seen smoking from a Hookah.

The family believes that Pugsley has been turned into a chimpanzee.

Morticia's favorite charitable organization run by Arthur Henson (played by Parley Baer) is holding a fundraising bazaar, so Morticia persuades her family to part with their belongings in order to donate them to the charity auction.

The Addams Family ignores notices from City Commissioner Arthur Henson (played by Parley Baer) that their house is to be condemned to make way for a freeway.

Fester's pen-pal Madelyn Cavendish Beauregard Faversham Firestone Smith (Elisabeth Fraser) drops by unexpectedly, so he must assume the false personality he has been pretending to be.

Morticia and Gomez call an expert Mortimer Phelps (Richard Deacon) to find Cousin Itt a job after he fails at being a marriage counselor, almost splitting up Gomez and Morticia in the process.

On the occasion of their 13th wedding anniversary, Morticia recalls the story of how she and Gomez first met and fell in love.

Margaret Hamilton guest stars.

Family mentioned: Gomez's Aunt Trivia (last mentioned in Lurch and His Harpsichord) whom Gomez (in the flashback sequence) claims sent them a dozen broken cup handles; Gomez refers to her as "our" aunt, implying that she might be Grandmama's aunt and thus Gomez's great-aunt.

Morticia's tale continues as she remembers how Gomez nearly married her sister Ophelia instead of her and what they had to do to get Ophelia to love someone else.

Family mentioned: Morticia's, or perhaps Fester's, Aunt Phobia (who had two right feet; last mentioned in Morticia, the Breadwinner), who married Uncle Tic (who had two left feet); Fester, at least, believes the marriage to have been a mistake. Another reference to Aunt Trivia (Grandmama mentions her funeral). Gomez's Cousin Fungus (who lived in the cave at the back of the Addams Mansion's tunnels for 30 years).

Cartoon reference: Wednesday cuts a chain of paper dolls and one oddly has three legs.

Gomez runs against Arthur Henson (played by Parley Baer) for mayor.

Terror strikes Cousin Itt as he begins to lose his hair. Uncle Fester develops a hair-growing formula with his new chemistry set.

Wednesday is devastated when a neighbor tells her that there are no such things as witches. Cousin Cackle makes a rare appearance. Yvonne Peattie and Bob Jellison guest star.

Family mention: Morticia's Great-Great-Great Aunt Singe who was burned at Salem is described as a witch and whose ashes are in an urn. Clump (Uncle Fester's deceased brother) who was a quiet one. Cousin Cackle has lived in the caves beneath the mansion for decades, implying that he and Cousin Fungus (mentioned in Morticia's Romance, Part 1) might be one and the same.

Morticia takes up sculpting and Gomez, wanting her to believe she's good at it, pays Sam Picaso to buy them.

The Courtneys (Fred Clark, Virginia Gregg) make social advances toward the Addams Family, mistakenly believing that the socially prominent Abigail Quincy Adams resides there.

There is a neighborhood burglar on the loose, and Morticia has reason to believe it could be Gomez.

Family reference: Mr.Addams (Gomez's father, presumably Grandmama's husband) who enjoyed yak gravy on "glutton" bread, (not gluten they way he ate it.)

Gomez seeks a special photographer to capture his portrait for Strife Magazine.

Gomez plays host to Don Xavier Molines, a family friend during his childhood in Spain, and his daughter Consuella who is to marry Gomez.

Family reference: Gomez's Grandpapa (whether this was Grandpa Squint or Grandpa Slurp is unspecified) who signed the marriage contract. Cousin Crimp, whom Gomez mistakes for himself in Morticia's jail painting.

Not wanting the children to be disappointed, each member of the family dresses as Santa Claus.

Family mentioned: Cousin Caliban whose head sculpture is a gift for Grandmama (imply Caliban is Gomez's cousin on his mother's side), sculptor didn't do the other head. Aunt Singe the witch from the Halloween episode is mentioned.

Cartoon References: #1 Mortica decorates a bare Christmas tree, no caption. #2 The children stoke the fireplace. The caption reads The little dears, the still believe in Santa Clause .

Fester takes a correspondence course and boldly storms the gates of the business world.

The Addams mansion becomes a battlefield when Gomez and Morticia tell Grandmama and Uncle Fester that they think they are spoiling Pugsley and Wednesday. Irene Tedrow plays Inez Thudd the Governess.

When Fester vows to get in shape for a visit from his pen pal, Morticia jumps to an out-of-this-world conclusion. Fester's pen pal Evette from the Folies Bergère makes an appearance. Jack LaLanne guest stars as himself.

The Addams Family hire a shady captain and his first mate to help them find a buried treasure.

Roger Arroyo plays Cousin Itt in this episode.

Pugsley shocks his parents when he announces that he wants to find a job. When Pugsley convinces Wednesday to help, one of their jobs involves doing housework for the Henson Family.

Gomez and Morticia take over management of a private school run by Sam Hillard (Allyn Joslyn).

Lurch may be out of a job when Gomez builds a robot ("played" by Robby the Robot) to help around the house.

Lurch suffers from unrequited love over Trivia (Diane Jergens, in her last on-screen appearance), Morticia's visiting school chum who only has eyes for show business.

Note: Trivia, a non-relative, shares a name with both Aunt Trivia and Cousin Trivia.

When Ophelia laments that she has been jilted, Morticia suggests a career as an alternative to marriage.