The Addams Family

Season 1 Episode 4 - Gomez, the Politician

1963 · 26 min

TV-G

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.

Subtitles: English

Starring:Blossom Rock Carolyn Jones Jackie Coogan John Astin Ken Weatherwax Lisa Loring Ted Cassidy

Directed by:Jerry Hopper

S01:E01 - The Addams Family Goes to School

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.

S01:E02 - Morticia and the Psychiatrist

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

S01:E03 - Fester's Punctured Romance

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.

S01:E04 - Gomez, the Politician

S01:E05 - The Addams Family Tree

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.

S01:E06 - Morticia Joins the Ladies League

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

S01:E07 - Halloween With the Addams Family

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

S01:E08 - Green Eyed Gomez

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.

S01:E09 - New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family

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.

S01:E10 - Wednesday Leaves Home

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).

S01:E11 - The Addams Family Meets the V.I.P.'s

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.

S01:E12 - Morticia, the Matchmaker

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

S01:E13 - Lurch Learns to Dance

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

S01:E14 - Art and the Addams Family

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

S01:E15 - The Addams Family Meets a Beatnik

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

S01:E16 - Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man

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.

S01:E17 - Mother Lurch Visits the Addams Family

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

S01:E18 - Uncle Fester's Illness

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.