The Addams Family is a fictional family created by American cartoonist Charles Addams. They originally appeared in a series of 150 unrelated single-panel comics, about half of which were originally published in The New Yorker between 1938 and their creator’s death in 1988. The Addams Family TV series aired from 1964 to 1966 and was a macabre/black comedy sitcom based on Charles Addams’s New Yorker cartoons. The 30-minute television series was responsible for taking the unnamed characters in the single-panel gag cartoons and giving them names, backstories, and a household setting. The show starred John Astin as Gomez Addams, Carolyn Jones as Morticia Addams, Jackie Coogan as Uncle Fester, Ted Cassidy as Lurch, Marie Blake as Grandmama, Lisa Loring as Wednesday Addams, Ken Weatherwax as Pugsley Addams, and Thing Itself as Thing. The show had a short run of success for three seasons, with only 64 episodes being made.
The Wednesday Dance
