| The Addams Family | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Cartoon series |
| Created by | Charles Addams |
| Developed by | David Levy |
| Directed by | Charles A. Nichols |
| Voices of | Ted Cassidy Jackie Coogan Jodie Foster Cindy Henderson Janet Waldo Lennie Weinrib |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 16 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Producer(s) | Iwao Takamoto |
| Running time | 30 min. |
| Production company(s) | Hanna-Barbera |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | NBC |
| Original run | September 8, 1973 – May 11, 1974 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | The Addams Family |
| Followed by | Halloween with the New Addams Family |
| Related shows | The New Scooby-Doo Movies |
The Addams Family is an animated adaptation of the Charles Addams cartoons produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1973.
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The Addams Family's first animated appearance was on Episode SDC-3 of Hanna-Barbera's The New Scooby-Doo Movies, "Scooby-Doo Meets the Addams Family" (a.k.a. "Wednesday is Missing"), which first aired on CBS Saturday morning September 23, 1972. John Astin, Carolyn Jones, Jackie Coogan, and Ted Cassidy returned for the special which involved the Addams Family in a mystery with the Scooby-Doo gang. The Addams Family characters were drawn to the specifications of the original Charles Addams comics. After the episode aired, fans wanted more animated adventures featuring the Addamses, and Hanna-Barbera responded in kind.
The first animated series ran on Saturday mornings from 1973–1975 on NBC. In a departure from the original series, this series took the Addamses on the road in a Victorian-style RV. This series also marked the point where the relations between characters were retconned so that Fester was now Gomez' brother, and Grandmama was now Morticia's mother (though the old relations would be revisited in the 1977 TV-movie, to keep continuous with the original sitcom). The show also introduces the Addams Family's animal companions Ali the Alligator and Ocho the Octopus.
The theme music was mostly different, except for the four-noted tune from the live-action series.
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Title | Air date | Synopsis |
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| AF-1 | The Addams Family in New York | 8 September 1973 | The Addams Family are offered a bargain: New York City's Central Park. To help them clean it up, they free animals from the zoo, but the policemen come and the Addams' are about to be placed into custody when Gomez produces unexpected proof that he is in fact the rightful owner of Central Park. The park was bequeathed to an ancestor, Van Dyke Addams, and a deed confirms that it is to be passed on to his heirs. But the cops still have a hard time with Gomez's story. |
| AF-2 | Left in the Lurch | 15 September 1973 | The Addams Family go to Nashville in search of dinosaur bones, but find themselves caught up in a pop festival instead. Lurch becomes a lead guitarist and vocalist for the group Freddie and The Frogs, but there is trouble ahead when he encounters a pen pal. |
| AF-3 | Boola Boola | 22 September 1973 | The rare Boola-Boola, it is said, can be found in the Black Lake, and The Addams Family have an exciting time when they join in on the search. But they have more to look for than the Boola-Boola when Ocho the Octopus is kidnapped. |
| AF-4 | The Fastest Creepy Camper in the West | 29 September 1973 | Petroleum shortage promises to be a thing of the past via. Uncle Fester Addams' new invention: "Festerine"—but The Addamses are caught up outwitting Count Evil and The Race Ace. When they succeed at this task, they win a million dollars for their favorite course: Vulture Culture at The Ghoul School Of Dracula University. |
| AF-5 | The Mardi Gras Story | 6 October 1973 | The Addams Family enjoy all the fun and gaiety of Mardis Gras in New Orleans, but it's difficult to recognize them in their funny masks. Tensions mount when a couple of crooks masquerade as Fester and Gomez. |
| AF-6 | Follow That Loaf of Bread | 13 October 1973 | Thing finds himself in trouble when Morticia is baking Eerie Egg Bread and he falls into the mixture. The bread wins a national bakeoff competition before the family knows what's going on. Then they embark on a desperate search for the bread containing Thing. |
| AF-7 | Aloha, Hoolamagoola | 20 October 1973 | The Addams' experience an exciting Hawaiian adventure in which they are mistaken for a stone age tribe: the lost Hoolamagoola, and Ocho Octopus discovers an underwater cave. |
| AF-8 | The Reluctant Astronauts' Trip to the Moon | 27 October 1973 | The Addams Family wins a piece of land on the moon. Preparations arise for a visit to inspect their new possession, and their rocket blasts off with a little help from Uncle Fester. Then comes the problem of trying to find a place to land. |
| AF-9 | The Great Balloon Race | 3 November 1973 | A balloon race is attracting a lot of attention, but Professor Orville Byrd's balloon is sabotaged during its entire route from New York City to Los Angeles by The Nasty Brothers. The Addams' decide to lend a helping hand to the imperiled professor. |
| AF-10 | Ghost Town | 10 November 1973 | Spooks are scaring everyone away from The Old Prodpector's Land and they try to scare off The Addams Family as well when they arrive, to no avail. The Addams Family enjoy themselves by outspooking the spooks. |
| AF-11 | The Circus Story | 17 November 1973 | The Addams' visit a circus which they discover as "The Worst Show On Earth". They decide to help when Honest John tells them of its troubles with a rival circus stealing its workers. |
| AF-12 | The Addams Family at Sea | 24 November 1973 | The Addams Family take their first ocean voyage, but the sight of Ali the alligator and Ocho the octopus dancing has every passenger aboard spooked; so much so that they jump overboard. The crooked Lefty and Joe promptly steal all the valuables aboard as a result, but The Addams' are soon in hot pursuit of the thieves as they attempt a getaway in a speedboat. |
| AF-13 | The Voodoo Story | 1 December 1973 | Madame Hoodoo finds all her curses and spells fail miserably to frighten The Addams', and things digress from bad to worse for her when her love potion backfires and Granny puts a blessing on her. She decides to go back to Haiti for advanced Voodoo lessons. |
| AF-14 | The Roller Derby Story | 8 December 1973 | Wednesday Addams chooses to visit The Roller Derby for her birthday celebration, and The Addamses are soon involved between the bitter rivalry of The Angels and The Demons, resulting in The Addams' playing for The Angels and a gruesome battle of Demons versus Addamses. |
| AF-15 | The Addams Family Goes West | 15 December 1973 | Following the trail of the great pioneers, The Addams Family go to the wide open spaces of the West and find themselves outsmarting such characters as Wyatt Burp, Silly The Kid and Badmouth Ben. |
| AF-16 | The Addams Family at the Kentucky Derby | 22 December 1973 | Pugsley wants a horse for his birthday celebration, so the Addams go to Kentucky to buy one. They choose a worn-out old nag named Bones, but Granny's cooking does her so much good that she becomes a fast runner again and is ridden by Pugsley to victory at the Kentucky Derby. |
Gold Key Comics published a 3-issue The Addams Family comic book series between October 1974 and April 1975, boasting stories adapted from episodes of the animated series.
On October 19, 2010, Warner Bros. released The Addams Family: The Complete Series on DVD in region 1 via their Warner Archive Collection. This is a Manufacture-on-Demand (MOD) release, available exclusively through Warner's online store and only in the US.[1]
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