The Addams Family

Morticia decides to keep the children home from school after she sees the fairy tales they have to read. When the truant officer comes to investigate, he is shocked at what he finds.

Pugsley abandons his pet octopus for a puppy and, distraught, Morticia seeks the counsel of a psychiatrist.

Uncle Fester convinces Gomez and Morticia that it is time for him to find a mate. Fester conducts his search by putting an ad in a news-paper.

Election fever grips the Addams household, as Gomez supports the council candidate whose campaign promise is to drain the town's disgusting bogs. Morticia, who likes "the lovely bogs," labels the candidate an extremist.

Pugsley and Wednesday start a row at a birthday party when their gift upsets Harold, the birthday boy. Harold's parents decide that the Addams children lack breeding and forbid them playing together.

Gorgo, an escaped circus gorilla, is accepted as one of the family which shocks the Ladies League members Morticia's invited to tea.

A pair of bank robbers are welcomed as Halloween trick-or-treaters by the Addamses and the creepy atmosphere makes them abandon their plans.

When Lionel Barker, a former suitor of Morticia's, shows up, Gomez is jealous. But he's soon calmed when he learns that Barker is after Mildred, the new maid.

A pair of newlyweds leases the house next door to the Addams Family. But the honeymoon loses its tranquility when Uncle Fester enters their house through a tunnel.

The family faces a crisis when Wednesday packs her spider and runs away (after being scolded for playing with Uncle Fester's TNT instead of her own).

Official visitors from an unfriendly nation receive the shock of their lives when they decide to exploit the Addams Family as an average uncultured American family.

Morticia's cousin, Melancholia, wants to marry Clarence P. Harvey after most of her marital prospects have joined the Foreign Legion.

Lurch takes dancing lessons at Gomez and Morticia's suggestion, after he admits to being a wallflower.

Grandmama's paintings leave an art critic speechless, so Gomez sends for his friend, Sam Picasso, to teach Grandmama to paint in the abstract.

A beatnik crashes his motorbike into a tree and recuperates at the Addams house. Each regards the other as an oddity.

The postman is hired by the government to do undercover work in the Addams house. H e investigates rumors that coded radio messages are being sent from the house.

Lurch's tiny fire-eating mother visits and demands that Lurch's employers wait on her boy hand-and-foot.

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.

The family would like to vacation on the moon, but the billion dollar travel cost is slightly prohibitive.

Gomez uses his influence to promote Cousin Itt for a job as curator of the local zoo…but the zookeepers think Itt should be on display.