The Cast of the Addams Family Tv Show
| The Addams Family | |
|---|---|
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| Genre |
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| Created by | David Levy[ane] |
| Based on | The Addams Family unit past Charles Addams |
| Starring |
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| Opening theme | Vic Mizzy |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English language |
| No. of seasons | two |
| No. of episodes | 64 (Listing of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | David Levy |
| Producer | Nat Perrin |
| Production location | Hollywood, California |
| Photographic camera setup | Unmarried-camera |
| Running time | 25 minutes |
| Production company | Filmways Television |
| Distributor | MGM Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Picture format | Blackness-and-white |
| Sound format | Mono |
| Original release | September 18, 1964 (1964-09-18) – April 8, 1966 (1966-04-08) |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Cartoons in The New Yorker |
| Followed by | Halloween with the New Addams Family |
| Related shows | The Munsters (1964–1966) |
The Addams Family is an American macabre/blackness comedy sitcom based on the characters from Charles Addams' New Yorker cartoons. The xxx-infinitesimal television set series was created and developed by David Levy and Donald Saltzman and shot in blackness-and-white, airing for two seasons on ABC from September 18, 1964, to April 8, 1966, for a total of 64 episodes. The show's opening theme was equanimous and sung by Vic Mizzy.
The show was originally produced past caput writer Nat Perrin for Filmways, Inc., at General Service Studios in Hollywood, California. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer now owns the rights to the series.
Premise [edit]
The Addams Family is a close-knit extended family with decidedly macabre interests and supernatural abilities, though no explanation for their powers is explicitly given in the series. The wealthy, endlessly enthusiastic Gomez Addams is madly in honey with his refined wife, Morticia. Along with their girl Wed, their son Pugsley, Uncle Fester, and Grandmama, they reside at 0001 Cemetery Lane in an ornate, gloomy, 2nd Empire mode mansion. The theme song contains the lyric, "Their firm is a museum" which is borne out by the variety of objects in the interior scenes, some of which are collector's items and others of which are only bizarre (such as the mounted swordfish caput with a homo leg protruding from the mouth and a stuffed two headed behemothic tortoise).[2] Someone stole these props after the evidence was canceled.[iii]
The family unit is attended past their servants: towering butler Lurch, and Matter, a disembodied hand that appears from within wooden boxes and other places. Other relatives who fabricated recurring appearances included Cousin Itt, Morticia'due south older sis Ophelia, and Morticia's mother Grandma Frump.
Much of the humor derives from the Addamses' culture clash with the rest of the world. They invariably care for normal visitors with great warmth and courtesy, even when the guests express confusion, fear and dismay at the decor of the house and the sight of Lurch and Thing. Some visitors have bad intentions, which the family more often than not ignore and suffer no impairment. The Addamses are puzzled by the horrified reactions to their ain practiced-natured and (to them) normal behavior. Accordingly, they view "conventional" tastes with generally tolerant suspicion. Almost invariably, visitors to the Addamses want to leave and never come dorsum.
Episodes [edit]
For both seasons, episodes aired Friday nights at 8:thirty p.k.
Characters [edit]
Addams Family unit members [edit]
| Actor | Role | Character |
|---|---|---|
| Carolyn Jones | Morticia Addams (née Frump) | A cultivated and beautiful woman who knits, dabbles in art, plays the shamisen, raises a cannibal plant and trims roses past clipping off the buds and arranging the thorny stems in a vase. With long, straight ebony-blackness hair, she is always attired in a floor-length tight black apparel that ends, plainly, in a total set of tentacles. With her aloof bearing and detachment, she is ofttimes the at-home heart of the chaotic events of the household, but she performs magical feats effortlessly; for instance, in "Winning of Morticia Addams" she bounces a basketball through three baskets. |
| John Astin | Gomez Addams | A retired lawyer,[4] Gomez is of Castilian descent, he refers to Spain equally his "bequeathed home". Gomez is passionately in love with his wife, frequently referring to her with Spanish pet names such as "Querida" and "Cara MÃa". His ardor is greatly intensified when she speaks French (A running joke has Gomez mistaking other languages, including Yiddish, for French). Gomez is very wealthy, apparently as a result of owning numerous companies and stocks and is often following the tape from a stock ticker that is installed in the living room. Gomez has a desk-bound drawer and a rubber full of cash. He squanders money in a cavalier fashion and loses it on stocks, only still remains wealthy. His hobby is gleefully crashing and detonating model trains. He sometimes stands on his head as he reads the paper or plays solitaire. Regularly dressed in a double-breasted and chalk-pinstriped adapt with a black tie, Gomez is almost e'er seen smoking a cigar. Astin based the character of Gomez on Groucho Marx. Like Groucho, Astin was besides a cigar smoker; he so quit cigars later the serial concluded.[4] |
| Jackie Coogan | Uncle Fester | Morticia'southward exuberant uncle who is completely bald and unremarkably dressed in a dark, floor length coat or robe with a large fur neckband. Fester is quite fond of dynamite and blasting caps. He often relaxes on a bed of nails, by inserting his caput into a book press or by being stretched on a wooden torture rack. Fester powers light bulbs by placing them into his mouth (the toy or "magic" low-cal bulb used for this trick is withal available today). |
| Ted Cassidy | Lurch | The Addams' loyal butler, who mainly speaks in grunts or groans. Morticia and Gomez summon him with a hangman's-noose bong pull, to which he immediately appears on screen and replies, "Yous rang?" On occasions, things like an emergency bell or banging the knight armor would summon him if the usual bong ends up out of order. Lurch is very alpine, physically imposing and plays the 1503 vintage "Krupnik" harpsichord that was originally in Cousin Crimp'south family unit for 400 years. Later Lurch answers the door he removes the hats of male person visitors, unremarkably crushing them in the process. He is frequently seen with a feather squeegee. Cassidy made a cameo appearance as Lurch on an episode of the Batman TV series, and on TV music shows while promoting the pop song of the era "The Lurch" (and the trip the light fantastic toe which information technology accompanied). |
| Bloom Stone | Grandmama Addams | Gomez's mother, a witch who conjures potions and spells and dabbles in fortune telling with a crystal brawl, and knife throwing. Sometimes she is conveying a battle-axe or sharpening it on a grinding-wheel in the heart of the living room. |
| Lisa Loring | Wednesday Addams | Gomez's and Morticia'south daughter and the youngest member of the family, Wed is a strange notwithstanding sweetness-natured fiddling daughter who enjoys keeping bizarre pets such equally a blackness widow spider named Homer and a lizard named Lucifer, in addition to playing with a headless doll named Marie Antoinette. |
| Ken Weatherwax | Pugsley Addams | Gomez's and Morticia'south son and Wednesday'southward older brother. Chubby, kind-hearted and smart, he occasionally conforms to conventional standards contrary to his family, such as joining the Boy Scouts. He likewise enjoys engineering diverse machines, playing with blasting caps, and playing with his pet octopus Aristotle. |
| Affair | As "Itself" | A disembodied hand that appears out of boxes and other conveniently placed containers. Thing also appears from a knothole in a tree in the front end g, and in The Addams Family unit in Court, Thing reaches out of Gomez's briefcase to mitt him a legal paper in courtroom. Gomez's constant "companion" since childhood, Matter is always prepare to assist family members with minor daily services and diversions, such as lifting the receiver on telephones, retrieving the mail, lighting cigars, pouring tea, and playing chess. The tagline is, "Thank you, Thing." Thing plainly has the power to teleport from container to container, almost instantly: Thing sometimes appears from unlike containers at opposite ends of the room within seconds of each other. Though Ted Cassidy would often portray Matter, banana director Jack Voglin would sometimes portray Thing in scenes where Lurch and Thing appear together. Affair (sometimes "The Affair") was billed as "Itself" in the closing credits; animals in Filmways productions were billed the same mode, for case, Mr. Ed was billed equally "Himself". |
Pets of the Addams Family [edit]
- Aristotle – Pugsley'due south pet octopus.
- Fang – Pugsley's pet jaguar.
- Cleopatra – Morticia'south pet African Strangler (a blazon of man-eating plant).
- Kitty Kat – The Addams Family's pet lion. In "The Addams Family Tree," information technology is mentioned by Gomez that Kitty "can't stand the sense of taste of people." In "Cat Addams", it is revealed that Kitty Kat's dad ate the father of Dr. Mbogo which explains why Dr. Mbogo doesn't treat lions.
- Tristan and Isolde – The Addams Family's pet piranhas.
- Homer – Wednesday's pet spider.
- Zelda – The family'southward pet vulture.
Addams Family relatives [edit]
The following relatives made appearances on the show, but members of the family unit mentioned other relatives in each of the episodes:
| Actor | Role | Character |
|---|---|---|
| Felix Silla | Cousin Itt | Gomez's cousin, Itt is a diminutive grapheme composed entirely of floor-length hair accompanied by a bowler hat and sunglasses. He speaks in rapid, unintelligible gibberish that only the family tin understand. He has a depression-ceilinged room of his own in the house, but sometimes he is in the chimney of the living room fireplace. The grapheme was created specifically for the television series. |
| Carolyn Jones | Ophelia Frump | Morticia's flighty flower-kid older sister who is the "white sheep of the family". In the two-part second-season episode "Morticia'south Romance", Gomez is originally engaged to Ophelia in an arranged wedlock, but when he sees the then-22-year-old Morticia (dressed in a grown-up version of Wed'southward clothing), they fall in love with each other. The flowers entwined in Ophelia's hair actually have roots that travel downward into her foot, and the foot raises when one of the flowers is tugged on. She sings in 3-part harmony and has a love of judo that enables her to flip men (commonly Gomez) onto their backs. Ophelia was played by Carolyn Jones in a blonde wig, and, along with Cousin Itt, was created specifically for the television series,[five] actualization in family portrait artwork by Charles Addams after the show's debut.[6] |
| Margaret Hamilton | Granny Hester Frump | The mother of Morticia and Ophelia and the grandmother of Wednesday and Pugsley. She is a witch and an old friend of Grandmama Addams. |
| Hazel Shermet | Cousin Melancholia | A cousin of Morticia who was repeatedly jilted. Later her terminal fiance ran off, Morticia and Gomez take her in and effort to find her a husband.[vii] |
Minor characters [edit]
| Player | Role | Character |
|---|---|---|
| Parley Baer | Arthur J. Hansen | An insurance executive and political leader in the town where the family resides. |
| Eddie Quillan | Joe Digby | An insurance clerk who works for Arthur Henson. Eddie Quillan also played Clyde Arbogast, Arthur Henson's assistant in "Gomez, the People's Choice". |
| Allyn Joslyn | Sam Hilliard | A truant officeholder who is scared to death of the family. Later, he runs a private school that Gomez briefly worked at. In i episode, his middle name is given as "Lucifer", much to the family'southward delight ("Sam Colina" is an older American euphemism for Satan). |
| Rolfe Sedan | Mr. Briggs | The neighborhood mailman who delivers the postal service to the Addams firm. |
| Vito Scotti | Sam Picasso | A scheming Spanish creative person upon whom family members rely for creative advice. |
Product [edit]
Writing [edit]
Series creator David Levy explained the premise of the evidence to syndicated columnist Erskine Johnson in Baronial 1964: "We have fabricated [the family unit] full-bodied people, not monsters ... They are non grotesque and hideous manifestations. At the same fourth dimension we are protecting the images of [Charles] Addams' 'children', as he refers to them. We are living upwards to the spirit of his cartoons. He is more than only a cartoonist. He'south a social commentator and a great wit."[8] The tone was set by series producer Nat Perrin, who was a close friend of Groucho Marx and writer of several Marx Brothers films. Perrin created story ideas, directed one episode and rewrote every script. The series often employed the same type of zany satire and screwball humor seen in the Marx Brothers films, in addition to wordplay, physical comedy, and occasionally slapstick. There was a running gag that labeled people who were not members of the family "strange" or complained of their behavior. Another one was members of the family trading objects when they collided; in "Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor" Gomez ends up with Morticia's knitting and Morticia has his cigar. Other running jokes were virtually foreign food and beverage, east.g. toadstools and hemlock; bats, the dungeon, the cemetery and other "creepy" things; and Gomez's glee at losing money on the stock market. It lampooned politics ("Gomez, The Political leader" and "Gomez, The People's Choice"); modern art ("Art and the Addams Family" and Morticia's painting in several episodes); Shakespeare and other literature ("My Fair Cousin Itt", and other episodes); the legal system ("The Addams Family unit in Court"); royalty ("Morticia Meets Royalty"); rock n' ringlet and Beatlemania ("Lurch, The Teenage Idol").
The Hall of Languages edifice at Syracuse University served as creative inspiration for the Addams Family unit home.[9] [x]
The Addams Family debuted at the same fourth dimension every bit The Munsters, another blackness-and-white, macabre-themed family sitcom. To distinguish themselves from the competition, both shows avoided casting guest stars who had appeared on the other serial, and John Astin argued in interviews that the two shows are fundamentally different, since The Munsters were physically monsters but completely normal in every other respect, whereas The Addamses were normal looking just highly eccentric.[11] Despite this, the general public perceived the 2 shows as virtually interchangeable, and has continued to practise and then in the decades since they were both cancelled.[11]
Opening theme [edit]
The show'south theme, written and arranged by longtime Hollywood composer Vic Mizzy, is dominated by a harpsichord and a bass clarinet, with finger snaps as percussive accompaniment. Ted Cassidy punctuated the lyrics with the words "groovy", "sugariness" and "petite". Mizzy's theme was released by RCA Victor as a 45-rpm single, although information technology failed to nautical chart in the U.S. The vocal was revived for the 1992 animated series, as well as in 2007 for a series of Addams Family boob tube commercials for G&M'south chocolates. It was likewise revisited in the dance scene in Addams Family Values.
The closing theme is like, but is instrumental and features such instruments every bit a triangle, a wood block, a siren whistle and a duck call replacing some of the finger snaps.
Circulate syndication [edit]
The show has been aired worldwide. In the Great britain, it showtime aired on ITV in 1965–1966, on Channel 4 on Friday evenings in 1984-1985[12] and then it appeared on Heaven 1 in 1991 and ran until 1992. It was then aired on BBC Two from 6 p.m. on Monday nights starting in February 1992 until the finish of 1993 and and then moved to Saturdays in 1994 and later in school summer holidays before it vanished at the cease of August 1996.
In October 2011, the series was picked up past Cartoon Network's sister aqueduct Boomerang and ran through the entire month of October that year for Halloween alongside The Munsters until Halloween 2013. It aired on select local stations,[13] and aired on Antenna Tv set until Dec 30, 2017.[xiv]
The evidence has a dedicated channel on Pluto TV.[15]
As of November 2020, the serial airs on FETV.[16]
As of May 2021, the show airs on MeTV.[17]
Habitation media [edit]
MGM Home Entertainment (distributed by 20th Century Trick Dwelling Entertainment) has released The Addams Family on DVD in Region 1, 2 and 4 in three-volume sets.
| DVD Name | Episodes | Release appointment | Additional information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Volume 1 | 22 | August x, 2006 |
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| Volume 2 | 21 | March 27, 2007 |
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| Volume three | 21 | September xi, 2007[xix] |
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| The Complete Series | 64 | Nov 13, 2007[20] |
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Streaming [edit]
As of April 2019, the series tin can be purchased on iTunes, and tin can exist streamed in the United states via Amazon Video and IMDb. The minisodes are available on Crackle and Vudu.
As of October ane, 2019, the series is likewise being aired on its own channel (511) on Pluto Tv set.
Soundtrack [edit]
A soundtrack album was released in 1965 containing all of Vic Mizzy'southward compositions for the series entitled Original Music From The Addams Family unit.[21]
Reunions, sequels and adaptations [edit]
A reunion Idiot box film, Halloween with the New Addams Family, aired on NBC in October 1977 and starred all of the original cast, except for Bloom Rock, who was very sick at the time and was replaced as Grandmama by Phyllis actress Jane Rose. Elvia Allman portrayed Mother Frump, whom Margaret Hamilton had played in the original serial. Veteran character actors Parley Baer and Vito Scotti, who both had recurring roles in the original series, also appeared in the movie. The film as well included extended family members created specifically for this production, such as Gomez's brother Pancho (played by Henry Darrow) and ii boosted children, Wed Jr. and Pugsley Jr. The latter two were portrayed equally near copies of the original children, now known as Wednesday Sr. and Pugsley Sr., who were once once more played respectively by Lisa Loring and Ken Weatherwax, the original Wednesday and Pugsley in the series. Vic Mizzy rewrote and conducted the series theme as an instrumental.
In 1972, the third episode of the Sat morning blithe series The New Scooby-Doo Movies featured the Addams Family. Astin, Jones, Coogan, and Cassidy all reprised their roles; xi-year-old Jodie Foster provided the voice of Pugsley. This episode was the pilot for the 1973 animated series. Coogan and Cassidy were the only original series cast members who returned for this series. Jodie Foster also returned as the vocalization of Pugsley. Astin reprised his role as Gomez Addams for the 1992 animated adaptation of the series. Weatherwax and Loring, the simply other original bandage members yet living at the fourth dimension, did not participate.
In 1998, a standalone film, Addams Family Reunion, aired on the Trick Family Aqueduct, followed past the serial The New Addams Family that ran from 1998 to 2000. Astin appeared in the series as Grandpapa Addams.
In other media [edit]
Film [edit]
A successful motion-picture show, The Addams Family, was released by Paramount Pictures in 1991, starring Raul Julia as Gomez, Anjelica Huston every bit Morticia, Christopher Lloyd as an amnesiac Uncle Fester and Christina Ricci as Wed. Later the film'due south release, series creator David Levy filed a lawsuit against Paramount Pictures; the suit was settled out of court. A sequel, Addams Family Values, followed in 1993, to greater critical success than the showtime film, though it earned less at the box role.
Television [edit]
Ted Cassidy makes an in-character appearance as Lurch in a "window-cameo" in the 1960s Batman television series.
References [edit]
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- ^ a b Cox, Stephen (1998). The Addams Chronicles: An Birthday Ooky Await at the Addams Family. Cumberland Business firm Publishing (2nd Edition). ISBN1888952911.
- ^ Glionna, John Thou. (November two, 2014). "Felix Silla, a.k.a. Cousin Itt, looks back on a kooky career". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on November 3, 2014. Retrieved Nov 3, 2014.
- ^ "The Bruce Museum to Host Original Drawing Artworks of Charles Addams". Art Noesis News. Archived from the original on January 22, 2018. Retrieved Jan 21, 2018.
- ^ The Addams Family season 1, episode 12, Morticia, The Matchmaker. (IMDB) First aired four December 1964.
- ^ Johnson, Erskine (Baronial 2, 1964). "Something for the Boys...and Ghouls". The Pittsburgh Press. Archived from the original on February v, 2018. Retrieved February 3, 2018.
- ^ Palmer, Julia (Dec 14, 2011). "The Cornerstones of Syracuse University". The NewsHouse . Retrieved August 24, 2020.
- ^ Anderson, Trent; Basili, Seppy; Mager, Eileen W.; Shapiro, Jessica (2003). The Unofficial, Unbiased Guide to the 328 Most Interesting Colleges. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 470. ISBN9780743241458 . Retrieved Baronial 24, 2020.
- ^ a b "The Addams Family Refused to Be Compared to The Munsters". MeTV. December 6, 2021. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
- ^ "The Television & Radio Database - Listings for Friday, 17th August 1984". tvrdb.com . Retrieved 2021-03-12 .
- ^ The Addams Family Reruns Airing on WBBZ-TV Archived 2013-08-10 at the Wayback Machine. Niagara Falls Reporter (August 6, 2013). Retrieved August 21, 2013.
- ^ "This TV Schedule - Program listings and guide". www.thistv.com. Archived from the original on 27 December 2017. Retrieved five May 2018.
- ^ "Pluto Goggle box - The Addams Family unit". Pluto TV.
- ^ "The Addams Family". FETV . Retrieved 2020-11-02 .
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- ^ Lacey, Gord. "The Addams Family unit - Some minor edits on the Book one set up". Archived from the original on 11 May 2014. Retrieved xiii May 2014.
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External links [edit]
- The Addams Family at IMDb
- The Addams Family at The Interviews: An Oral History of Television
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