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Grandma Frump (guest star Margaret Hamilton), comes to the mistaken conclusion that her daughter, Morticia (Carolyn Jones), and Gomez (John Astin) plan to pack her off to an old folks home. Actually, they plan to send her to a beauty farm.

Morticia's concern that Lurch is overworked leads Gomez to the operating table to assemble a custom-built secondary butler. Lurch lets the robot do all the work and then begins to feel that he isn't needed anymore.

When Morticia hears the stock market has crashed, she assumes that Gomez has been financially wiped out and rallies the family to help make money. Morticia gives lessons, Lurch and Fester run an escort service, and the kids run a poison drink stand.

Morticia and Gomez find Grandfather Pegleg's treasure map and summon Captain Grimby. They hope to charter his boat for the treasure hunt. But after meeting the Captain, Morticia is careful to keep the nature of the mission secret.

Uncle Fester applies for a job as an insurance salesman with the same company which is threatening to cancel the Addamses' policy (because Fester keeps blowing things up). Fester convinces the company interviewer that he is qualified for the job.

The family faces a crisis when Wednesday packs her spider and runs away (after being scolded for playing with Uncle Fester's TNT). When they try to file a missing person report, a detective is anxious to retire early due to their story.

After Wednesday befriends a new boy her age, Robespierre Courtney, Morticia invites his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Courtney to visit the Addams house for tea. Unbeknownst to them, the Courtney's are hoping to meet a number of the social set.

The family would like to vacation on the moon, but the billion-dollar travel cost is slightly prohibitive. Uncle Fester volunteers $21.13 and Morticia, using Gomez's new supercomputer, suggests placing a $2,000 bet on the daily double horse race.

Mr. Briggs, the postman, is hired by the government to do undercover work in the Addams house. While pretending to be a stamp collector, he investigates rumors that coded radio messages are being sent from the house.

Grandmama (Blossom Rock) is hauled off to jail for setting up a fortune-telling booth in the Addamses' living room. Gomez (John Astin) volunteers to act as attorney, and the court session becomes a shambles.

Morticia and Gomez visit Mayor Henson to complain that their property tax is ridiculously low. After the Mayor proves his incompetence by offering a refund, Gomez is persuaded to become a candidate for the office.

Uncle Fester's electrical output fails abruptly. Should they call a doctor or an electrician to bring Fester back? Morticia prescribes a bowl of porcupine mold, and both she and Gomez agree that long exposure to moon rays would be beneficial.

When Wednesday's and Pugsley's faith in Santa Claus is shaken, Uncle Fester is chosen to back up Santa in case the real St. Nick is too busy to come. However, Fester-Santa gets stuck in the chimney, so each of the other adults fills in for him.

There is a neighborhood burglar on the loose, and Morticia has reason to believe it could be Gomez. Morticia decides to probe his subconscious mind for a key to his criminality after she and Uncle Fester discover loot hidden in the storeroom.

When Uncle Fester incinerates the family's stuffed bear with his flamethrower, Morticia reports the accident to the insurance company. Mr. Henson the head of the company, sends his assistant, Mr. Digby, to handle the case.

Because she thinks Fester (Jackie Coogan) and Grandmama (Blossom Rock) are spoiling the children, Morticia (Carolyn Jones) hires a governess. Insulted, Fester paints a white line down the center of the Addams house, dividing it in half.

Lurch suffers from unrequited love over Tiny Trivia (guest star Diane Jergens), Morticia's visiting school chum who only has eyes for show business. The entire family decides to try to turn their stolid butler into a new personality.

Determined to correct the dreadful literature that Wednesday and Pugsley are exposed to, Morticia sets out to create a new literary world. Gomez fears that his wife's first manuscript is so good, that once the publisher reads it he will lose her.

Romance seems close for Thing, the Addams right-hand-in-a-box, when Gomez's aunt arrives for a visit accompanied by Lady Fingers, her handmaiden. Thing enjoys the visit most because it gives him a chance to hold hands with one of his own kind.

The Addams Family ignores notices that their house is to be condemned to make way for a freeway. When sudden explosions cannot be traced to any member of the family but, instead, to city workmen, Gomez is forced to consider moving the house.

Morticia's pet plant Cleopatra gobbles up her favorite photo of Gomez from the family album. When the original photographer is found and asked to make a duplicate picture, it is discovered that he is now with the Department of Motor Vehicles.

Dr. Marvin P. Gunderson is summoned to examine Kitty Kat, the ailing lion pet of the Addams Family. Morticia decides that it is the doctor who needs help. To build his confidence, human members of the family pretend to be ill so he can effect cures.

Rockland Cartright III is a beatnik who crashes his motorbike into a tree and recuperates at the Addams house. Each regards the other as an oddity, although the family learns to appreciate certain aspects of Rockland's life.

Official visitors from an unfriendly nation receive the shock of their lives when they decide to exploit the Addams Family as an average uncultured family. The visitors are shaken up by Morticia's carnivorous plants among other things.

Gomez (John Astin) loses his memory after hitting his head; he fails to recognize Morticia (Carolyn Jones) and says the house looks like a condemned museum. The Addamses take turns hitting Gomez on the head trying to help him regain his memory.

Morticia and Gomez decide to keep Wednesday and Pugsley home from school after Morticia sees the fairy tales they have to read. When the truant officer comes to investigate, he is shocked at what he finds.

Lurch's tiny fire-eating mother visits and demands that Lurch's employers wait on her boy hand-and-foot after Lurch leads her to believe that it's his house. Lurch revels in the unexpected attention he gets from Morticia and 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. The Addamses then discover that Barker is a con man--after Mildred's money, not her love.

Pugsley shocks his parents when he gives up his new atomic reactor as kid stuff and announces that he wants to find his own job. His first try is as a medical assistant to Dr. Bird. He turns up, scalpel in hand, ready to help during an operation.

While Morticia and Gomez are celebrating their 13th wedding anniversary, she tells Wednesday and Pugsley a bedtime story of how she and Gomez first met. In this episode, Carolyn Jones plays Morticia, Morticia as a 22-year-old, and sister Ophelia.

Wednesday and Pugsley refuse to go to bed until they hear the rest of the courtship story. Morticia resumes the tale via flashback, including the ceremony beginning with Ophelia Frump, Morticia's balmy sister, as the bride.

An organ grinder's fugitive monkey leads Fester to believe that he has turned Pugsley into a monkey. Morticia and Gomez treat the monkey as though he were their son, welcoming him to the dinner table and giving him Pugsley's chores.

Morticia calls a psychiatrist after she fears Pugsley is becoming normal after he abandons his pet octopus for a puppy and is seen wearing a Boy Scout uniform, playing with a baseball bat, and helping an old lady cross the street.

Ophelia taunts Uncle Fester into announcing that he is going to join the Peace Corps. Fester feels he's a cinch to be accepted because Gomez plans to pull strings in Washington on his behalf. The entire family agrees to help him study for the exam.

Morticia's cousin, Melancholia, wants to marry Clarence P. Harvey after most of her marital prospects have joined the Foreign Legion. Clarence recoils when Melancholia puts on a campaign to win him, backed by Morticia, Gomez and Clarence's boss.

Lurch becomes a veritable gazelle when he takes dancing lessons at Gomez and Morticia's suggestion after he admits to being a wallflower at social functions. Each member of the Addams Family teaches Lurch a different step.

When Ophelia laments that she has been jilted, Morticia suggests a career as an alternative to marriage. She tries chemistry first (with explosive results) then turns to operatic singing. Cousin Itt is summoned to coach her to stardom.

Cousin Itt is advocated as curator of the local zoo. Gomez uses his influence with Park Commissioner Fisk (guest star Alan Reed) to promote Itt for the job, but the zookeepers are convinced the Addamses' cousin should be confined to a cage.

Lurch becomes inconsolable when Gomez donates the family antique harpsichord to a collector. Gomez and Morticia offer Lurch a balalaika and a set of drums. When this proves unsatisfactory, Gomez and Fester decide to build a new harpsichord.

During a welcome home party for Cousin Itt, Morticia notices that the diminutive guest of honor seems to be losing his hair. Uncle Fester experiments with his chemistry set to produce a concoction that grows hair and tries the remedy on Itt.

Ophelia Frump is madly in love with Horatio Bartholomew, the man who has everything, except the truth about her relatives. Morticia, not convinced by Bartholomew, persuades playboy Cousin Itt to stir the embers of his past romance with Ophelia.

Gomez decides to bolster Cousin Itt's failing ego by making him the star of a production aimed as a birthday surprise for Wednesday. He hires the great director, Eric von Bissell, who gives Itt elocution lessons, causing a Hollywood star complex.

Morticia and Gomez are worried about Cousin Itt because he spends his days sleeping and dreaming in his tiny room. They decide that Itt would make an excellent marriage counselor, and pretend to be a couple with a failing marriage.

Uncle Fester's pen pal, Madelyn, is coming to visit. Fester panics, as he has described himself as handsome, heroic and romantic. Gomez and Morticia agree that all Fester needs is a toupee and they help him make several styles.

Newlyweds move in next door. But the honeymoon loses its tranquility when Uncle Fester enters their house through a tunnel and they flee in terror at the sight of Lurch, Grandmama sharpening her ax, and Morticia and Gomez bathing the octopus.

Uncle Fester applies for a job as an insurance salesman with the same company which is threatening to cancel the Addamses' policy (because Fester keeps blowing things up). Fester convinces the company interviewer that he is qualified for the job.

Fester is so smitten upon receipt of a photo of his love, a bearded carnival lady, that he borrows stamp money to mail her a proposal. Morticia dons a beard and poses as the mother to convince Fester that he will have to work to support a wife.

Allyn Joslyn guest-stars as Sam Hilliard, a former truant officer who now heads a private school where Wednesday and Pugsley are enrolled. When Hilliard breaks under the strain of dealing with the Addams children, Gomez buys the school.

The family faces a crisis when Wednesday packs her spider and runs away (after being scolded for playing with Uncle Fester's TNT). When they try to file a missing person report, a detective is anxious to retire early due to their story.

Uncle Fester, who has become lonely, convinces Gomez and Morticia that it is time for him to find a bride. He decides to put an ad in the newspaper, looking for love. But things go awry when a door-to-door saleswoman comes by.

While enjoying a moonlight picnic and snail hunt, the Addams Family is mistaken for Martians by uniformed investigators from Mysterious Space Objects Headquarters. In turn, Gomez (John Astin) and the clan regard their inquisitors with suspicion.

Thing disappears from his box. Failing to find a single trace of Thing, Gomez (John Astin) conducts an investigation--with all members of the household under suspicion. Also starring Carolyn Jones, Jackie Coogan, and Ted Cassidy.

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