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. After Gomez and Morticia are persuaded to let the kids go to school, they take action after a fairy tale book that depicts a violent action where a knight slaying a dragon saddens Wednesday.

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

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 door-to-door saleslady Miss Carver (Merry Anders) comes knocking, he and the family are not certain she is his type.

Family mentioned: Cousin Eustace (Morticia knits a sweater with a long neck). Grandpa Squint and Aunt Vendetta (who may or may not be alive, causing Gomez to check).

Election day is nearing, and the Addams' 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 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 have been over a century old.

A family rivalry with the Pomeroys 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 bucked teeth and a receding chin), Gomez's Cousin Clot (who was sentenced to the electric chair), Grand-Uncle Grisly (who was a traitor but only did it for the money), an unnamed family of Addamses who live up the Amazon river where the head of its family went missing, Mamoud Kali Pashka Addams (the Firebug of the Bosporus who burned the Library of Alexandria in 270 AD), Black Bart Addams and Bloody Addams (presumably pirates).

Morticia's lunch with the Ladies League is discovered by Pugsley's new friend Gorgo the Gorilla who had escaped from a failing circus--and learns enough domestic skills to unnerve Lurch.

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), a detective from the police department's missing persons bureau.

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.

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.

Note: Slapstick comedy of Lurch learning to dance. The teacher sent by the Fred Walters Dance Studio faints upon seeing Lurch, and then again upon seeing Pugsley's horned toad, and then when she sees Thing. The scene of Wednesday and Lurch performing ballet is unforgettable.

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

Family mentioned: Fester makes an urn for his Grandfather Malaplop — who is not dead yet.

Notes: Vito Scotti and Hugh Sanders appear for the first time as artist and art critic, respectively.

Pugsley's ham radio hobby inadvertently convinces an undercover operative (George N. Neise) 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 tremble, and cannot write; the fact that Morticia is aware of this last fact and Gomez is not, implies Flub is Morticia's uncle.

Morticia and Gomez pose as Lurch's maid and butler when his mother (Ellen Corby) comes for a visit, and Lurch takes only too well to the concept of being head of household.

Family mentioned: Morticia's Cousin Slimy (who has two heads), Gomez's Cousin Manuel (who was a pyromaniac), Cousin Imar (three arms and went to Princeton University; 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.

Uncle Fester has lost his electrical charge and spoils a family outing. They then call a doctor named Dr. Milford (Lauren Gilbert) when their witch doctor named Dr. Mbogo is unable to make a house call.

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.

Pint-sized Cousin Itt visits, and Gomez and Morticia try to get him a job as a zoo curator.

Alan Reed (Fred Flintstone) guest-stars.

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. Familiar faces Lela Bliss, who plays Judge Saunders' wife ("Harrr-VEY!"), Gail Bonney[1] and Ray Walker also appear.

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

A mishap with his new exercise clubs causes Gomez to lose his memory and become 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 Arthur J. Henson and Horace Beesley.

Family mentioned: Admiral John Paul Addams, who fought in a sea battle against Hideki Tojo's forces and the German Flotilla where his inspiring words before battle were "If you need me, I'll be in my cabin." It was mentioned that he was hanged 200 years ago. The gag where the cannon shot sinks the ship in the painting is similar to one in W. C. Fields's International Hotel.

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

Note: Gomez remarks that the harpsichord's measurements are exactly as Morticia's: 36-21-36. Established actors Leonard (credited as Lennie) Bremen and Ray Galvin appear as a couple of bumbling moving men who are fearful of Lurch. Lurch gets a drum kit as a replacement for the harpsichord and shows that he knows his way around it, but doesn't really play anything. Gomez and Fester get themselves tangled together in a jointed ruler, an old vaudeville routine.[2]

A newspaper story about a stock market tumble panics Fester and Morticia into believing Gomez is bankrupt. He's actually trying to buy a railroad. Morticia discovers she holds shares in the railroad and tries to sell them to raise money for the family, unaware that Gomez is the buyer.

Guest-starring Milton Frome as Mr. Blooker. Actors John "Red" Fox, Maxine Semon and Ceil Cabot also appear.

In-joke: When Fester and Morticia are trying to decide on a fake name, Morticia suggests "Jones."

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.

Family mentioned: Gomez's Great-Aunt Deliria, who was engaged to a chimpanzee (but got jilted).

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

Note: The moose head with the awry antler is named Pierre; his hind end is a clock.

The Addams Family ignores notices from City Commissioner Arthur Henson that their house is to be condemned to make way for a freeway.

Note: Parley Baer once again guest-stars as Arthur Henson. Natalie Masters plays his wife, Phoebe. John Hart and Richard Reeves (billed as Dick Reeves) are the demolition men assigned to blow up the house. Gomez is seen lighting a cigar with an old-fashioned blowtorch. City Commissioner Arthur Henson says "Thank you" to Thing when Thing returns his hat.

Fester's pen-pal Madelyn Cavendish Beauregard Faversham Firestone Smith (Elisabeth Fraser) writes that she will visit, and Fester has told her several lies in their correspondence. Mostly he is concerned that he has no hair, and he said that he was an athlete. When she drops by unexpectedly, he must assume his false appearance and personality.

Notes: Established actor Frederic Downs plays the toupee salesman who makes a house call. Gomez and Morticia bowl in the living room, without a bowling alley, and both perform feats that might be called supernatural. Morticia implies that Fester's pen-pal Madelyn (who has had five husbands) is nothing more than a gold-digger. Fester puts a large "Y" in the front of his coat, and has Lurch bring out a tackling dummy with a large "H" on its jersey.

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

Notes: Lurch goes to Cousin Itt's room, where he can't stand up, and speaks Cousin Itt's language. Later, the vocational counselor discovers he can understand and speak to Itt, too. Gomez looks very much like Groucho Marx in Duck Soup when he wears an old-fashioned nightgown and a nightcap with a tassel.

Lurch's musical talent earns him a record deal and legions of teenage fans. However, his scheduled "world tour" comes to a sudden end when he is mobbed by fans.

Uncle Fester gets the idea from a magazine article that Gomez's and Morticia's marriage is doomed to fail because they are too compatible.

Guest stars: French psychiatrist François Chalon, the author of the article (played by Lee Bergere), poses as a friend of Fester's in an attempt to create conflict. Character actor Jan Arvan plays the leader of Gomez's "zen yogi [sic]" society, Drashi Dumo.

Itt, Fester, and Lurch all vie for the lead in Gomez's "new" play. The play is Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet." "Hamlet" and "The Merchant of Venice" are also the subject of jokes.

Expatriate German Sig Ruman, a Marx Bros. favorite, appears at age 79 as Director Erich von Bissell in one of his last television roles.

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 as the mother of Ophelia and Morticia.

Family mentioned: Gomez's Aunt Trivia (last mentioned in "Lurch and His Harpsichord") who 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.

Notes: Ophelia Frump is a blonde who wears flowers in her hair, carries a bouquet and dances around. Later, in Ophelia Visits Morticia we learn that the flowers are growing out of her head and have to be weeded. Morticia Frump is a grown-up Wednesday with the same hair and clothing, and a headless Marie Antoinette doll. It is obvious which sister Gomez prefers from the beginning, but the mothers have other ideas. Morticia's carnivorous plant, Cleopatra, is small enough to be carried around in a box. Kitty is her pet cat. Lurch is identical to his later self, as are Grandmama and Thing.

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: In an original Addams cartoon, Wednesday cuts a chain of paper dolls and one oddly has three legs. No caption. The young Morticia does the same. Gomez: "How do you do that?" Morticia: "I don't know; it always comes out that way."

Pretentious Aunt Millicent (Gomez's aunt from Marshy Bottom, Iowa, played by Elvia Allman) visits the family with her handmaiden Lady Fingers, with whom Thing falls in love. Aunt Millie married a prince (who was also a pauper, says Morticia) and still considers herself a princess. Unfortunately for Thing's romance with Lady Fingers, Aunt Millie is unbearable.

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

Notes: Eddie Quillan plays Henson's assistant again, using the name Clyde Arbogast (which is not mentioned in the show). Familiar face Jack Barry plays a reporter. Character actors Lennie Bremen and Bart "Buzz" Greene play a couple of construction workers.

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

Notes: Meg Wyllie plays Mrs. Dragwater, a widowed lady who attracts Uncle Fester, who has grown hair and considers himself handsome. Frankie Darro delivers Fester's chemistry set; Darro was 5'3" and Lurch towers over him more than usual. When Mrs. Dragwater is visiting, Morticia summons Lurch using a small gong on a table but the sound of it is the same as the noose bell-pull. Then Morticia requests cocktails and Lurch produces a tray with the drinks on it from behind his back. The finale occurs in Cousin Itt's crowded low-ceilinged room with Marx-brothers-like confusion as everyone looks for the ringing telephone.

Wednesday is devastated when a neighbor named Mr. Thompson tells her that there are no such things as witches. The family attempts to disprove Mr. Thompson with a seance trying to summon Aunt Singe. Grandmama conspires with Lurch.

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 he claimed was the "quiet one" when they held a seance to talk to him). 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.

When Pugsley and Wednesday come home from school with books about evil witches and slaying dragons, Morticia begins writing twisted books for children. Gomez cannot get her affection any more, since she is obsessed with writing, so he tries to sabotage her career.

Morticia takes up sculpting and Gomez, wanting her to believe she is good at it, pays Sam Picaso (Vito Scotti) to buy them.

Notes: Hugh Sanders again plays art critic Bosley Swain. He does not like Morticia's sculpture. Morticia quotes Keat's famous line, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever," and attributes it. Gomez's drawer of money ("petty cash") is emptied by his scheme and his bank account is overdrawn.

Pugsley ("I'm in love") sends one of Gomez's old love letters to Morticia to his schoolteacher Miss Dunbar (Jill Andre). After complaining to the school principal (character actor Thomas Browne Henry, credited as "Tom Brown Henry"), Miss Dunbar visits the Addams family and erroneously thinks that Gomez sent the letter.

Wednesday crushes on classmate Robespierre Courtney, but his parents (Fred Clark, Virginia Gregg) are more interested in social climbing with the Addams family, because they think socialite Abigail Quincy Adams is a relative living with the family.

Notes: The tower is Lurch's room. Uncle Fester says "I know a spy when I see one. He has the face of THRUSH!" referring to "The Man from U.N.C.L.E" which was running on the rival network NBC.

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

Note: Familiar actors Ken Mayer and Bill White, Jr. appear as policemen.

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

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

Notes: Uncle Fester walks on stilts across the living room. Gomez has been hanging upside down from the ceiling for three days. Obtaining a driver's license is mocked. Gomez needs a photo of himself for the magazine and only one photographer will do, and he now takes photos for driver's licenses. Tom D'Andrea takes Gomez on the driving test. Ralph Montgomery plays the magazine photographer.

Gomez plays host to Don Xavier Molina de la Mancha Molinas (?) (Anthony Caruso), a family friend during his childhood in Spain. Don Xavier arrives with his daughter Consuela, who was betrothed to Gomez when he was five years old, and her Duenna (chaperone), character actress Bella Bruck. Carlos Rivas plays a dancer.

Family reference: Gomez's Grandpapa (whether this was Grandpa Squint from "Fester's Punctured Romance," "Gomez the Politician," "Amnesia in the Addams Family" or Grandpa Slurp from "The Addams Family Tree" is unspecified) who signed the marriage contract. Cousin Crimp, previously mentioned in "Lurch and his Harpsichord" and "Morticia, the Breadwinner," whom Gomez mistakes for himself in Morticia's jail painting.

Not wanting the children to be disappointed after hearing from Mr. Thompson that there's no such thing as Santa Claus, every member of the family dresses up as him to prove to Wednesday and Pugsley that he's real.

Family mentioned: Cousin Caliban whose head sculpture is a gift for Grandmama (implying that Caliban is Gomez's cousin on his mother's side); sculptor did not do the other head. Aunt Singe from "Halloween - Addams Style" is mentioned where it was mentioned by Morticia that there were no witches until she was conjured.

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

Uncle Fester decides to marry a bearded lady (Diana) he's been corresponding with. He's challenged to prove that he can support her. He takes a course in becoming a wheeler-dealer and undergoes a personality change.

Notes: Gomez hammers a croquet field into the enormous rug (which appears to be a Bibikabad, but is probably fake) in the living room. Looking in the telephone book: Cybernetics... Cyclops... Cychiatrists [sic]

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.

Notes: Grandmama wrestles an alligator and defeats it in 12 seconds, and then Blossom Rock gets an opportunity for wordplay and comedy, which she uses admirably. Inez Thudd, ("call me Thudd"), the governess, seems at first to be almost one of the Addams family, saying that she likes the house, and encouraging Wednesday to have a positive attitude about her broken guillotine. Character actor Loyal T. (Doc) Lucas plays the proprietor of the Last Chance Motel. Hurricane Zsa Zsa may have been an inside joke; Zsa Zsa Gabor's sister Eva Gabor was starring in another of Filmway's productions at the time, Green Acres.

When Uncle Fester vows to get in shape for a visit from his pen pal, Morticia jumps to an out-of-this-world conclusion.

Notes: Fester's pen pal Yvette, from the Folies Bergère, is played by actress Peggy Mondo. Jack LaLanne guest-stars as himself, and William Keene plays the doctor who makes a house call on Fester. Rolfe Sedan makes another appearance as the postman. Although there are a couple of jokes about dieting, the main focus of the show is on exercise.

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

Notes: Roger Arroyo plays Cousin Itt in this episode. Richard Reeves (again billed as Dick Reeves) appears again (he was in Progress and the Addams Family) as the conspiring first mate. Veteran actor Nestor Paiva, who was in 250 or more movies, plays the captain. He died just 8 months after the broadcast. Wednesday and Pugsley come home from school; Pugsley is casually carrying a lighted stick of dynamite. This episode may be the first appearance of the gumball machine. Gomez repairs model trains in the living room.

Morticia's sister Ophelia has a new beau and the family is convinced he is a fraud, so they attempt to reveal him.

Pugsley shocks his parents when he announces that he wants to find a job. Pugsley and Wednesday get a job doing chores for the Henson family.

Notes: Parley Baer is Mr. Henson and Natalie Masters is Mrs. Henson, again. Pugley attempts to find a job with Dr. Bird (television actor Jack Collins), bank vice-president Mr. Glenville (Robert Carson, credited as Robert S. Carson) and bookie "Bennie" (Tim Herbert). Morticia ties Gomez up in chains and ropes so he can practice being an "escape artist." He plays three scenes while bound. Mr. Henson's garage appears to be Mr. Ed's stable door.[note 1]

Granny Frump (Margaret Hamilton) mistakenly believes that Gomez and Morticia are sending her to a home for the aged for her birthday. Granny Frump tries to prove that she is not old.

The Digbys moved in next door three months ago. Joe Digby sells insurance, and the Addamses decide to get some as part of their "good neighbor policy." Morticia decides to decorate their new house, as well.

Ophelia's fiancé Montrose has left her to join the Peace Corps, so the family attempts to enroll Fester so he can retrieve him. This does not turn out well.

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

Notes: Thing mysteriously shows up in Mr. Hillard's office. Later he lights Gomez's cigar with an lit finger. Preparing for classes, Morticia is examining objects on a table: a small orrery, a (bent) metal model of spherical coordinates, a pile of old slates, a couple of old lanterns, perhaps kerosene, and one with a candle, a spyglass, a wind-up phonograph that Fester demonstrates, what appears to be a magic lantern, and other objects. Gomez and Morticia look into a funhouse mirror. While Lurch plays harpsichord, Thing plays a xylophone, Fester plays cymbals, and Gomez plays a percussion instrument made from a tambourine, a cowbell, a wood block, a small hi-hat, and the pogo stick.

Actress Carol Byron plays Mr. Hillard's secretary. Actress Pat Brown plays Mrs. Bennet, the spokesperson for a delegation of parents.

Kitty Cat is feeling under the weather. Dr. Mbogo will not treat Kitty Cat because his dad was eaten by Kitty Cat's dad. The Addams family calls in a veterinarian who reluctantly treats Kitty Cat, Cleopatra, Cousin Itt and Uncle Fester, but balks at treating Thing.

Gomez builds a robot to help Lurch around the house. Lurch orders the robot to do all his jobs, but the work (for example, cooking) is poor.

Notes: Gomez recites part of "Dem Bones" while using a pointer on an anatomy chart, which is supposedly the design of his creation. When he starts to assemble the robot, he asks Fester for a screwdriver, and Fester hands him a drink, which he drains and then says, "Delicious." [note 4] There is a shooting gallery installed in the living room. Lurch is shown taking a break in an easy chair, reading a book and smoking a calabash. Later he dresses elegantly and is prepared to go for a walk ("My constitutional," he says). "Smiley," Robby the Robot, is billed as "Itself."

When Uncle Fester tries to use a flamethrower to light Gomez's cigar, he destroys the gigantic stuffed bear. Joe Digby forgot to cancel the Addams's insurance policy covering household accidents, although his boss, Arthur Henson, ordered it.

Notes: A mango plantation, a crocodile farm in Mozambique and tapioca mines on the top of Mt. Everest are a few of the things that Gomez owns. After Digby is fired by Henson, Gomez (at Morticia's suggestion) sets up the Digby Insurance Company at the Addams house (50% off, Free Dishes With Every Purchase). Mockery of the insurance business, beginning with Henson's admonition to Digby that there are two sides to insurance. When Henson and Digby drive up to the Addams house, they get out of the car and slam the car doors to the Addams theme music -- slam slam.

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.

Notes: Lurch gets lessons in romance from Gomez, Wednesday and Fester. Wednesday dances to rock-and-roll while egging Lurch on. "Romeo and Juliet" is the subject of a joke about living "happily ever after." Grandmama administers a love potion to Trivia, which causes chaos. Trivia, a non-relative, shares a name with both Aunt Trivia "Lurch and His Harpsichord" and "Morticia's Romance: Part 1" and Cousin Trivia who was previously mentioned in "Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor.

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

Notes: Ophelia judo-throws Gomez three times soon after her arrival. Ophelia parodies the advertising slogan, "There's something about an Aqua Velva man." She also sings the beginning of "The Last Rose of Summer." There are jokes about popular songs and classical music. New props in the living room include a sawmill saw, welding equipment, a rifle, a barrel and objects hanging from the ceiling (e.g. a penny-farthing). Ben Wright and Ralph Rose are guest stars.

In this reunion special, the Addams Family, Gomez and Morticia's latest children Wednesday Jr. and Pugsley Jr., and Gomez' younger brother Pancho (Henry Darrow) celebrate Halloween and the legend of Cousin Shy. At the same time, a criminal named "Bones" Lafferty (Parley Baer) and his gang plan to target the Addams Family fortune.