I guess I liked Uncle Fester the most too, especially after I learned how far back in motion picture history Jackie Coogan had come. On a related note, another former child star from the silent era died only last year, "Baby Peggy." Her parents also spent the fortune she earned, and even cost her job when they demanded more money. I think her story is more tragic than that of Coogan's.
As a child in the 1960's, Uncle Fester was my favorite. As an adult, I found Morticia to be the character of choice. Overall I believe the cast as a whole were a perfect combination.
I know Lisa Loring very well, she actually fell off the bandwagon as a meth user. She was dating a singer that fronted a Skynyrd tribute band, he back her back into drugs which led her to rehab in Westlake, Ca. Apparently that guy got arrested for domestic abuse. She comes into my shop about once or twice a week, Lisa is an absolute doll and been sober since 2013.
Got to meet her a couple years ago at an autograph show near L.A. Airport. She was very gracious and accommodating. Got to meet Ken Wetherwax and John Astin too.
I remember helping my neighbor delivering newspapers for around 1 month so that I can buy a light bulb like uncle Fester had. That bulb cost me 4.00 and I had to beg my old man to drive me to the magic shop to buy it because it was too far away for me to ride my bicycle there. I remember calling up the magic shop and making sure they had it and if it's the same kind like uncle Fester had. Hay, what do you expect from a 8 year old kid. Lolololol.
As a child I certainly wanted a house like theirs. Perhaps with less dust and decay, but certainly one as eclectic. I think my decorating and collecting sense came from there, but with less mabre-ness.
I love the fact that Gomez was by far the most accepting person in tv history. Didn’t matter what you looked like or what your background was, he would treat you kindly. Everyone else got weirded out cause of how different the family was but not vice versa.
I loved it when Lurch played a tango on the harpsichord and Gomez and Morticia would dance. As a child I admired Morticia and expected to marry a man that adored me just as much as Gomez adored Morticia. They were my example of marital bliss!
@@srobertweiser I guess that's where we would part ways. Like you, there was a lot of things I wanted to do with Morticia Addams. I would, with out a doubt, marry her and treat her just like Gomez. That way I could do those things over and over and over again...
I especially liked when Morticia would say a French word or phrase and Gomez would exclaim "Tish ! You spoke French !" and proceed to kiss her all the way up her arm 🤣
Morticia....”Grandma, the neighbours just phoned and said there was a witch on our roof!” Grandma....” what nonsense, I was just up there sweeping , and there wasn’t a witch there...”
I can't remember a favorite. I loved hearing Lurch say "you rang?", It was so cool! The whole cast was very united in their different roles to make such a great series.
Don't know how or why, but both "The Addams Family" and "The Munsters" made the 60s an incredibly memorable decade for TV, both were very funny and original.
@@texan-american200 I'd have to take part in fencing with Gomez 'cause I know that he would challenge me to a duel after catching me messing around with Morticia.
I always liked the episode where Wednesday and Pugsley were behaving like normal children (normal to "normal people"), and the rest of the family began panicking that there was something terribly wrong with them. The exploding toy trains were also a favorite of mine.
@@gregwallace9314 It seems pretty excessive, especially since they could have simply used the same film footage of two trains crashing and exploding over and over again.
There was an episode were they were celebrating Halloween and invoked either Satan or evil sports, I don't remember which, during a ceremony. It's cited as the reason. Of course the all deciding ratings were not high enough at the time. Like many shows, it took on a life of its own in syndication.
Lurch was my favorite, and his best episode was learning to dance for the Butler's Ball. But the episode with his mother coming to visit, when he led her to believe he was the master and Morticia and Gomez were his servants. Great comedy.....
Gomez was a passionate, loving husband and a terrific father. He was a connoisseur of the finer things in life, had an open mind and great intellect. He has been a role model for me.
I was friends with Felix Silla, he used to come into my store in Las Vegas all the time...I would sit and talk to him every time...the stories were great...I will miss him very much!!!
I loved when he and Wednesday were dancing, first she ran to him and he lifted her in the air. Then she held out her arms for him, and he started to run to her, only to have Gomez and Morticia cry out "NO!"
As a young boy growing up watching this I loved when they blew up the train set. Of course I had to do the same. So as a 9 year old boy I got a hold of some M-82's (powerful firecrackers) and lit them as the train came close to the bridge. The explosion was very loud in the house and I couldn't sit down for the rest of the day. :)
In my teen years, I took a summer class in video production. Our final project was a news broadcast of a train wreck. One of the kids brought his train set, and a firecracker (and a shot of butane from the teacher's lighter) was used for the explosion. It was a lot of fun. The debris burned hot, then it melted a car from the kid's Lionel train. He wasn't vey happy.
Best episode. Gomez gets hit on the head and goes normal. He thinks the rest of the family is crazy. They try to make him happy by being normal. Then Fester konks him on the head and hes back to being good old Gonez.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Brigham Young, who oversaw the movement of the Mormons to Salt Lake City and husband to several wives simultaneously, would agree wholeheartedly.
@Dick Gozinya He knew a thing or two about having multiple women in the household, each of which saw herself as "Number One" Wife, to use a Chinese phrase.
@@johnwilson1094 He ended up with like 50 wives and hundreds of kids and they celebrate it every year around 4th of July but bigger...l was there one year it was crazy fireworks goin off eveywhere..but still pretty chill somehow..very nice people...mormons l guess
So true. It's saddening. Then again the Addams Family is a tribute to each of them to for live in our hearts for eternity. Peace Truth and Love to them all
Fun Fact: Caroline Jones' Morticia walk was because they dressed her in an old-fashioned corset. Initially she was moving that way because the corset was uncomfortable, then she incorporated it into the character. Also, on the Mike Douglas Show she joked about not wearing underwear because the Addams Family set was so hot.
I particularly loved Morticia as an Interior Designer, she was going to help her long suffering neighbours, I think because Gomez had twisted their arms. She suggests a decorative scheme ,that has her client EXTREMELY dubious..." ceiling, black,drapes,black,carpet black,curtains, salmon", the neighbour looks just slightly relieved & asks "pink?!"..Morticia looks at her with disbelief and replies "no,scales!" (Or something along those lines,it is YEARS,since I watched it. One of my all time top 3 childhood shows. Thanks for the memories👋🌟💯✌
I just started watching this show cause a few episodes are free on RUclips, and I fell in love! It holds up extremely well, and is enjoyable now as it was then!
In 1965 I was 10 years old. I acted out Gomez, and before each show my five year old sister (as Morticia) would take my arm and I would escort her into the TV room to the couch, and then we'd watch the show together. Sometimes I would kiss up her arm. :-) I loved that show!
@@pauljoyner4338 Search it. It Surprise myself not on Addams Family TV show. He had go go dancers & all. Appear off a music TV show. Had record & all. Dance craze was called The Lurch.
Shindig was Tv music show he was on. He grow up at Philippi WV. Maybe 45 mins from girlfriends house right now why I know so much. Her family remember him good. He was like 10 or 11 years old was already a freshman in high school playing football & basketball on teams. Smart. Big boy too. No joke. Really amazing guy. Not just a big guy. Nice guy too her uncle killed in nam they said know him pretty well they ran around little together.
I don't remember that, when did that happen? I do remember that a special was done (a Hallow'een Special, of course), and Grandmama was trying to brew up a potion to allow her to fly, but kept failing; she was about to give up, and told the other Addams in the family cemetery next to the house; but later came back out, apologized to the departed, said she was an Addams!, and would keep trying! (Applause from the cemetery). I might be wrong, but I think Imogene Coca may have also been a guest.
@Andrea Wylie I remember an episode where she came for a visit and overheard a conversation that she though was about her being too old and tired to keep, so she was acting super energetic.
@@rodrudinger9902 -Grandmama, was played by Blossom Rock, her younger sister was Jenette McDonald a singer/actress who was in a bunch of musicals with Nelson Eddy,(my Mother loved them).
Ellen Corby of the Waltons as Lurch's mother was funny, especially given the height differential between the two, with Lurch as master of the house and Gomez and Morticia as his servants, and end up getting fired! Classic comedy gold!
Loved the sexual innuendo between Gomez and Morticia, but Uncle Fester and Lurch were my favorites! Favorite episodes were the romance between Gomez and Morticia.
Excellent! I love the Adams family from a young time to this day, I do not miss the opportunity to see such majestic actors, especially Carolin that God has her in her glory I love you Carolin☯️👍
"First lets go over the rules" "Rules??... In a knife fight there are no rules" Kicks Harvey in the balls "No rules, then somebody count 1 2 3...go." One of my favorite movies.
Since they were all great, I will concentrate on my favorite special guest which would be Allyn Joslyn playing Sam Hilliard...the “Hiilliard Trilogy” make for some of the best viewing.
Wonderful memories. My six year old great grand-daughter loves the show. We have to watch it most everytime she visits. Wensday is her favorite character.
What's bizarre is that John Aston is still alive, but the actor reviving the Gomez role for the 90s movies died so young. He outlived the patriarchs of all the Adam's Family type things, including The Munsters.
Was I the only kid back in the day who thought The Addams were the family to be??? Parents weren't constantly fighting, the Dad never 'got his belt' & naughty behavior from the kids was tolerated (if not condoned!). If it wasn't for their weird diet, would have been ideal!
Yes, Spot was the Munsters Dragon who lived under the stairs...The Addams Family's dragon lived in their basement...I forget its' name, but it wasn't it their mansion's furnace and water heating system? It's been a few years! /;p
When Vic Mizzi was asked to make the theme for the "Addams Family" ABC Network was so damn cheap he had to play all the instruments and do all the recordings himself
My favorite was cousin It, I loved his upbeat, attitude and breezy optimism. I used to comb my long hair over my face and put my glasses on over it. My friends called me cousin It as a nickname. But I also liked Lurch. It always struck me funny the way he'd shake his head and moan when someone did something stupid.
Uncle Fester made many ,many good Western films. He was a great Cowboy. Lerch played many Westerns as well. He appeared many times on Bonanza and Gun Smoke.
I always thought that the Adams family were always very dark while the Munsters were always very normal Americans but neither knew they were different. My favorite was Gomez could not keep his hands off of Mrs Adams.
I loved Mortician. I had no idea of her health problems, but she was a Babe. So sad for her health problems. You would never know what was going on, behind the scenes. She never seemed ill. Anthony
I made a mistake concerning Assignment Earth that I would like to correct; I gave the names of the two failed Roddenberry pilots made into made for TV movies as Cyborg, and Earth II. They were respectively: The Questor Tapes, with Robert Foxworth, and Mike Farrell; and Genesis II. These movies were shown a long time ago, and my memory failed me. Sorry.
@@kennysherrill6542 The Americans had men operating behind enemy lines in Europe. They parachuted in, and this included jeeps. Read up on it. It’s very interesting.
For being on for such a short time, the Adam's Family truly left its mark as an American TV CLASSIC! Even though all the cast was wonderful, I always loved Cousin It❣ With my long, straight hair to my waist, for kicks, I would comb half my hair over my face. Then with a bandana and sunglasses on, would sometimes wear them facing forward and sometimes backward. My friends would go to a mall (when malls were still around😕) get such a kick out of peoples reactions, doing double takes wondering which way I was GOING!😆 Thanks Cousin It, for being my inspiration for SO MUCH FUN! 😆❤😆🤍😆💙😆
Carolyn Jones also managed to stand out beautifully in an otherwise unnecessary remake of 1939's The Women - 1957's The Opposite Sex alongside Joan Collins playing Crystal Allen.
Sadly cancelled way before its time. Friday night was variously the Addam's Family, the Wild Wild West, Hogan's Heroes, Johnny Quest and the Flintstones.
My hubby likes Wednesday, her creepy but simple style has been an inspiration for many artworks of his, and I like Morticia, she too has a simple style but it’s so iconic, great show.
Who was your favorite character on the show? 🤔
Definitely Cousin It!
I guess I liked Uncle Fester the most too, especially after I learned how far back in motion picture history Jackie Coogan had come.
On a related note, another former child star from the silent era died only last year, "Baby Peggy." Her parents also spent the fortune she earned, and even cost her job when they demanded more money. I think her story is more tragic than that of Coogan's.
My favorite is uncle Fester, but in love with Morticia ❤
Gomez Because he is a perfect husband and father.
Morticia🖤🤤
As a child in the 1960's, Uncle Fester was my favorite. As an adult, I found Morticia to be the character of choice. Overall I believe the cast as a whole were a perfect combination.
Grandma Addams was slightly more unattractive than Phyllis Diller! And the house 🏡 was a museum when people came to seeum! Haha 😂
@@raymondcampanini6847 I just realized that this is where I got my eclectic taste in home decor.
One of the first (and best) true ensemble casts.
@@malcolmr3 the original without comparison. All the subsequent films are so boring and their cast no good
@@johnwilson1094 Haha we're all products of everything else
I know Lisa Loring very well, she actually fell off the bandwagon as a meth user. She was dating a singer that fronted a Skynyrd tribute band, he back her back into drugs which led her to rehab in Westlake, Ca. Apparently that guy got arrested for domestic abuse. She comes into my shop about once or twice a week, Lisa is an absolute doll and been sober since 2013.
Hope she stay straight . work on it day by day. We only want the best for her.
Very cool her being sober...........Loved her..
And still beautiful as well
Thats really interesting. Very thankful she is cleaned up. What does she do now?
Got to meet her a couple years ago at an autograph show near L.A. Airport. She was very gracious and accommodating.
Got to meet Ken Wetherwax and John Astin too.
I remember helping my neighbor delivering newspapers for around 1 month so that I can buy a light bulb like uncle Fester had. That bulb cost me 4.00 and I had to beg my old man to drive me to the magic shop to buy it because it was too far away for me to ride my bicycle there. I remember calling up the magic shop and making sure they had it and if it's the same kind like uncle Fester had. Hay, what do you expect from a 8 year old kid. Lolololol.
The classic Atomic Light Bulb ;-)
Come to think of it, the show missed a marketing opportunity. Package up that light bulb with the Addams Family logo and sell it as a toy in stores.
Cool memory J Polar!
I was that way with model cars always had to have the coolest ones coming out every month lol
You forgot the fact you had to put that metal ring in your mouth lol the fun but Dangerous toys we had
I always admired Gomez.
Rich guy, beautiful wife, loved his family, always in a good mood.
If I could be Gomez, I would!
As a child I certainly wanted a house like theirs. Perhaps with less dust and decay, but certainly one as eclectic. I think my decorating and collecting sense came from there, but with less mabre-ness.
who wouldn't want to be him?
Amen!!!
Yeah, I'd love a never ending supply of lit cigars in my jacket pocket.
I love the fact that Gomez was by far the most accepting person in tv history. Didn’t matter what you looked like or what your background was, he would treat you kindly. Everyone else got weirded out cause of how different the family was but not vice versa.
I loved it when Lurch played a tango on the harpsichord and Gomez and Morticia would dance. As a child I admired Morticia and expected to marry a man that adored me just as much as Gomez adored Morticia. They were my example of marital bliss!
I too had these unrealistic expectations of marriage.
@@dr.ianjohnsond.c.9700 I know what I wanted to do to Morticia Addams when I was younger, but I had no intentions of marrying her.
@@srobertweiser I guess that's where we would part ways. Like you, there was a lot of things I wanted to do with Morticia Addams. I would, with out a doubt, marry her and treat her just like Gomez. That way I could do those things over and over and over again...
@@dr.ianjohnsond.c.9700 we've all been there at one time...... but there's still someone.....
I especially liked when Morticia would say a French word or phrase and Gomez would exclaim "Tish ! You spoke French !" and proceed to kiss her all the way up her arm 🤣
Morticia....”Grandma, the neighbours just phoned and said there was a witch on our roof!” Grandma....” what nonsense, I was just up there sweeping , and there wasn’t a witch there...”
I can't remember a favorite. I loved hearing Lurch say "you rang?", It was so cool! The whole cast was very united in their different roles to make such a great series.
I still say "you rang?"
Carolyn Jones is STUNNING! Love her as Mortician!!! Aston is great as well!! Gosh I really miss these sitcoms... nothing like it today... the best!🤗♥️
Hi Sue
Ever watch King Creole
It is Elvis Presley early movie and stars Carolyn
Jones . Rare find
Carolyn was a Goddess. Lurch was so much fun!
"Mortician"?
@@jessicahartman3453 I meant Morticia… my phone is a big pain sometimes! I didn’t see the spelling error… sorry Ms. Jones♥️♥️♥️🙏🏻😘
Carolyn Jones dies very young. Love how you Yanks say aZma not aSthma.
Don't know how or why, but both "The Addams Family" and "The Munsters" made the 60s an incredibly memorable decade for TV, both were very funny and original.
If you could only live next-door to one, which family would you want for your neighbors?
@@srobertweiser
Both... I'm selfish... 😬😉
@@texan-american200 I'd love to party with Grandpa Munster
@@srobertweiser
And take part in fencing with Gomez! 😁
@@texan-american200 I'd have to take part in fencing with Gomez 'cause I know that he would challenge me to a duel after catching me messing around with Morticia.
I always liked the episode where Wednesday and Pugsley were behaving like normal children (normal to "normal people"), and the rest of the family began panicking that there was something terribly wrong with them. The exploding toy trains were also a favorite of mine.
I read somewhere that the set destroyed $1,500 worth of Lionel trains, cars, etc. Seems kinda high considering 1960's prices.
@@gregwallace9314 It seems pretty excessive, especially since they could have simply used the same film footage of two trains crashing and exploding over and over again.
Just the name Pugsley is a riot! Portly little trouble 👿 maker! I love 💕 the Addams Family! 🙃
That was their Halloween episode! "Do not be alarmed. We are only little children!" 😂😂😂
Wednesday was so sweet. Her shenanigans with Lurch were always adorable.
The Adam's Family was a childhood favorite. And like other favorite shows of that Era, it only lasted a couple of years.
If I remember correctly, when Morticia spoke French it drove Gomez crazy with passion.
Your right.
It used to do the same to me!
Me too
Yep..she could say Eiffel Tower and he would come unhinged with passion. They had a wonderful marriage 🙂
QUERIDA YOU SPOKE FRENCH!!!!! 💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋
Why this brilliant & fun show lasted only 2 seasons, I'll never know.
There was an episode were they were celebrating Halloween and invoked either Satan or evil sports, I don't remember which, during a ceremony. It's cited as the reason.
Of course the all deciding ratings were not high enough at the time. Like many shows, it took on a life of its own in syndication.
@@katherinkeegan8601 yep, evil sports will do it every time.
Because the tv show, batman beat them in the ratings.
Lurch was my favorite, and his best episode was learning to dance for the Butler's Ball. But the episode with his mother coming to visit, when he led her to believe he was the master and Morticia and Gomez were his servants. Great comedy.....
Here ya go:
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Enjoy!
lurch was my favorite too!!
@@bernadettepotenti301 Shame he is now selling out Israel to Iran.
Played by Ellen Corey, aka Grandma Walton.
@@russellb4510 Crack is bad, mkay? SMDH...
Don Rickles and Skip Homier were a hoot as bank robbers who had the misfortune of hiding out at the Addams house on Halloween.
Don rickles appeared on Gilligan's island and in a couple of beach party movies with Frankie Avalon and Annette funicello.
One of my favorite tv shows. The chemistry between Gomez and Morticia was great!
Gomez was a passionate, loving husband and a terrific father. He was a connoisseur of the finer things in life, had an open mind and great intellect. He has been a role model for me.
And he loved model trains!!!!
I loved the dance scene with Wednesday and Lurch!
I was friends with Felix Silla, he used to come into my store in Las Vegas all the time...I would sit and talk to him every time...the stories were great...I will miss him very much!!!
They were unusual, morbid and screwy on many levels. But they were also loving, accepting and tolerant. We need more families like the Addams Family.
Truth!!!!🤘
*"SCREWY?"* NEVER.
*"SWEET?"* FOREVER.
I like John Astin in Night Court too "But I'm much better now"😂😂
Was going to mention that myself! While we are doing trivia... he too did 'Batman'!
@@thrashpondopons2776 almost forgot about that one😎
@@feliciajenkins5041 Not one of his best characters. But just funny how Caroline (& Mr. Cassidy!) all did the show!
John Aston, was also in National Lampoons European Vacation, as the host of Pig in the Pock.
I loves his character on that show.
Let's not forget Carolyn Jones' perfection in one of the best of Elvis' Hollywood output, 1958's 'King Creole'
My childhood was not great so the entertainment was a blessing.Thank you to all the actors.
I always loved the trains blowing up
Lurch was my favorite, I remember the episode when he was trying to learn how to dance
I loved when he and Wednesday were dancing, first she ran to him and he lifted her in the air. Then she held out her arms for him, and he started to run to her, only to have Gomez and Morticia cry out "NO!"
@@Jeff98177 p
I also liked how morticia use to cut the head off the flowers and keep the stems and put them in a vase ..
Just like in the video,” I should have picked black drapes. Black is much more cheerful.”
Morticia as a Florist...how fun! Bloomless roses, carnivore plants...who knows what else would've been in that shop 😁.
As a young boy growing up watching this I loved when they blew up the train set. Of course I had to do the same. So as a 9 year old boy I got a hold of some M-82's (powerful firecrackers) and lit them as the train came close to the bridge. The explosion was very loud in the house and I couldn't sit down for the rest of the day. :)
I know exactly where you're coming from!!! Blowing things up as a kid and teen was my specialty...
In my teen years, I took a summer class in video production. Our final project was a news broadcast of a train wreck. One of the kids brought his train set, and a firecracker (and a shot of butane from the teacher's lighter) was used for the explosion. It was a lot of fun. The debris burned hot, then it melted a car from the kid's Lionel train. He wasn't vey happy.
Best episode. Gomez gets hit on the head and goes normal. He thinks the rest of the family is crazy.
They try to make him happy by being normal.
Then Fester konks him on the head and hes back to being good old Gonez.
do u know what episode ?
@@edithdelrey s1 ep22
@@edithdelrey No sorry. I just remember it from when i was a kid.
Yeah, that was a funny one.
I have never seen that episode! Would love to see that!
I loved this show so much as a kid....memories of good clean tv....
Hello Deborah, How are you doing?
Morticia to Gomez "Do you know the penalty for bigamy" Gomez "Two Wives!!!!!!!!"
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Brigham Young, who oversaw the movement of the Mormons to Salt Lake City and husband to several wives simultaneously, would agree wholeheartedly.
I would've said "TWO MOTHER-IN-LAWS!!!!!!" :)
@@mahbramah That too!
@Dick Gozinya He knew a thing or two about having multiple women in the household, each of which saw herself as "Number One" Wife, to use a Chinese phrase.
@@johnwilson1094 He ended up with like 50 wives and hundreds of kids and they celebrate it every year around 4th of July but bigger...l was there one year it was crazy fireworks goin off eveywhere..but still pretty chill somehow..very nice people...mormons l guess
Favorites; all of them.
Carolyn Jones was my grandmothers first cousin so of course she is my favorite!
That makes her your first cousin twice removed. Nice.
Carolyn Jones was married to Aaron spelling.
Grandmana and Lurch were my favorite! I didn't expected that Ted Cassidy was in Captain Caveman! I loved it as a child!
It's a bit depressing to find that characters you saw on TV as a child, still see off and on died twenty or more years ago.
Shame that some of them died so young (Morticia, Pugsley & Lurch).
So true. It's saddening. Then again the Addams Family is a tribute to each of them to for live in our hearts for eternity. Peace Truth and Love to them all
@@dyanvandino5416 And the boy from the first Mary Poppins film.
@@dyanvandino5416 Yes,, you want the people who make your life pleasant to also have long, happy lives.
To this day I still bring the mail in with "wup-wup Mail's in" ...the younger ones dont get it....
Give away lurches harpsichord and built him a new one
I always loved when Lurch would play the harpsichord & Morticia & Gomez would dance! Morticia used to play the harp & sing like Yoko Ono!
My PCs have been doing that since about 1996!
"Thank you, Thing!"
That whoop-whoop-whoop sound was used in the 1950 movie " Destination Moon ".
Fun Fact: Caroline Jones' Morticia walk was because they dressed her in an old-fashioned corset. Initially she was moving that way because the corset was uncomfortable, then she incorporated it into the character. Also, on the Mike Douglas Show she joked about not wearing underwear because the Addams Family set was so hot.
Where can I watch the interview?
Factor in how tight that dress looked (especially considering the time period), and I could see her actually doing that.
Carolyn Jones was also in a movie with Elvis Presley!
That only made the set even hotter.
I watch the Addams family every with my grandkids. They love it.
I loved John Austin in Night Court. He always made me laugh.
I used to watch John Austin & Patty Duke Austin on the celebrity couples game show "Tattletales" on the Buzzer channel. They were both very funny.
"....but I'm feeling MUCH better now!" 😂😂😂
I sat next to Lisa in my Jr science class. I really had a thing for her but she didn't know I existed.
I particularly loved Morticia as an Interior Designer, she was going to help her long suffering neighbours, I think because Gomez had twisted their arms. She suggests a decorative scheme ,that has her client EXTREMELY dubious..." ceiling, black,drapes,black,carpet black,curtains, salmon", the neighbour looks just slightly relieved & asks "pink?!"..Morticia looks at her with disbelief and replies "no,scales!" (Or something along those lines,it is YEARS,since I watched it. One of my all time top 3 childhood shows. Thanks for the memories👋🌟💯✌
I just started watching this show cause a few episodes are free on RUclips, and I fell in love! It holds up extremely well, and is enjoyable now as it was then!
I like the way Lurch would look away and groan while shaking his head in dismay.
In 1965 I was 10 years old. I acted out Gomez, and before each show my five year old sister (as Morticia) would take my arm and I would escort her into the TV room
to the couch, and then we'd watch the show together. Sometimes I would kiss up her arm. :-) I loved that show!
So cute
Awe that’s so sweet John Astin and Carolyn Jones were attracted to each other aweeee that makes my heart melt
If thats really you In the thumb nail you are gorgeous
I love every characters on the show
" Oh Gomez ... don't torture yourself... that's my job" -- Morticia
ohhhhh lord!
@@johnduffy6992 Yes, we were left to imagine what those two were like behind closed doors.
Lmao did she actually say that? Which ep 💀
@@ferociousgumby OH GOD-
@@excuseu2563 I was only ten at the time, but I had a kid-crush on Gomez. I think I had a crush on both of them.
I liked the episode when Lurch became famous. He was my favorite character.
"You rang?" Lurch and Wednesday were my favorites.
It's on you tube. Lurch had song & dance craze called The Lurch back in early 60s.
@@Houndini That's one of my favorite episodes. Wednesday teaches Lurch how to dance.
@@pauljoyner4338
Search it. It Surprise myself not on Addams Family TV show. He had go go dancers & all. Appear off a music TV show. Had record & all. Dance craze was called The Lurch.
Shindig was Tv music show he was on. He grow up at Philippi WV. Maybe 45 mins from girlfriends house right now why I know so much. Her family remember him good. He was like 10 or 11 years old was already a freshman in high school playing football & basketball on teams. Smart. Big boy too. No joke. Really amazing guy. Not just a big guy. Nice guy too her uncle killed in nam they said know him pretty well they ran around little together.
"Morticia, The Sculptress" was the single best episode.
Still love The Adam's Family to this day
wow, fester got grable? what a legend!
oh and he's a war hero
LURCH is iconic! Ted Cassidy has two have one of the greatest voices bestowed to humanity. Unbelievable.
Lurch made the show. Of course, everyone contributed but Lurch was the icing on the cake.
Morticia, a witch from a long line of witches, had Margaret Hamilton, the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz, as her mother in the TV show.
I don't remember that, when did that happen?
I do remember that a special was done (a Hallow'een Special, of course), and Grandmama was trying to brew up a potion to allow her to fly, but kept failing; she was about to give up, and told the other Addams in the family cemetery next to the house; but later came back out, apologized to the departed, said she was an Addams!, and would keep trying! (Applause from the cemetery).
I might be wrong, but I think Imogene Coca may have also been a guest.
@Andrea Wylie I remember an episode where she came for a visit and overheard a conversation that she though was about her being too old and tired to keep, so she was acting super energetic.
@@rodrudinger9902 -Grandmama, was played by Blossom Rock, her younger sister was Jenette McDonald a singer/actress who was in a bunch of musicals with Nelson Eddy,(my Mother loved them).
Was Margaret Hamilton Morticia's mother or was Grandmama?
Loved Lurch! And Wednesday.
Ellen Corby of the Waltons as Lurch's mother was funny, especially given the height differential between the two, with Lurch as master of the house and Gomez and Morticia as his servants, and end up getting fired! Classic comedy gold!
Little Wednesday teaching Lurch to dance was hilarious.
I was just hanging out at this bar I've Never been to and they had an Adam's family pinball machine!
*Nostalgia ftw*
When Morticia used to play the harp! She sounded like Yoko Ono when she sang!
You're right, I hadn't thought about that before.
Yoko ono always sounded like a screeching cat.
When Morticia's Blonde sister sang, didn't she sing in three part harmony? I know she sang with multiple simultaneous voices.
I thought Mortician played the Japanese guitar called a “shamisen”? And she chanted, “Ha-ruuuu!”
Lurch was my favorite. Loved when Wednesday taught him to dance and when he became a pop star.
Loved the sexual innuendo between Gomez and Morticia, but Uncle Fester and Lurch were my favorites! Favorite episodes were the romance between Gomez and Morticia.
6:05 What an actor he died 69 years old and his acting carrier span eight decades. That's some dedication!
It could happen... 4 years in this decade then 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, and 5 years in the last decade. Eight different decades!? 🤔 maybe? 🤷♀️
@@cindyknudson2715 Yep. Right now a 42 year old person has been a part of 6 decades.
Fascinating and very well-researched, especially Jackie Coogan
Lurch and Fester were my favorite characters. And best episode was were two Soviet diplomats came to visit an typical average american family 🤣
Oops! LOL
The prettiest girl in 6th grade had hair all the way down her back, and she'd brush it forward and pretend to be Cousin It!
Excellent! I love the Adams family from a young time to this day, I do not miss the opportunity to see such majestic actors, especially Carolin that God has her in her glory I love you Carolin☯️👍
Ted Cassidy was also in the movie BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID.
"Guns or knives Butch!"
"I don't want to fight you Harvey!"
"GUNS OR KNIVES!!"
"First lets go over the rules"
"Rules??... In a knife fight there are no rules"
Kicks Harvey in the balls
"No rules, then somebody count 1 2 3...go."
One of my favorite movies.
I don't wanna shoot with you, Harvey.
Brought so much joy to us young ones... So many thanks to the Adam's Family!
I wish there had been a movie called The Addams Family Meet The Munsters that would have been a weird movie
Or having them appear on Family Feud.
@@kenkemzura903 They would have found the set to be way too depressingly cheery.
the munsters would have beat them in a drag race...
the man that built ther car is a legend!!
That sounds amazing...haha!
I like the episode when Morticia & Gomez reminisce about their first meeting & falling in love when they were young.
Since they were all great, I will concentrate on my favorite special guest which would be Allyn Joslyn playing Sam Hilliard...the “Hiilliard Trilogy” make for some of the best viewing.
Wonderful memories. My six year old great grand-daughter loves the show. We have to watch it most everytime she visits. Wensday is her favorite character.
Kind of sad that so many of them are gone now... Awesome series with a lot of great personalities. Morticia and Gomez had the best relationship :)
What's bizarre is that John Aston is still alive, but the actor reviving the Gomez role for the 90s movies died so young. He outlived the patriarchs of all the Adam's Family type things, including The Munsters.
It's how life goes. What is sad is when people die at young, or relatively young ages.
Was I the only kid back in the day who thought The Addams were the family to be??? Parents weren't constantly fighting, the Dad never 'got his belt' & naughty behavior from the kids was tolerated (if not condoned!). If it wasn't for their weird diet, would have been ideal!
Plus endless fun with Fester and the pet dragon 'Spot'.
@@carlsaganlives5112 Wasn't Spot the Munster's pet dragon who lived under the stairs?
Yes, Spot was the Munsters Dragon who lived under the stairs...The Addams Family's dragon lived in their basement...I forget its' name, but it wasn't it their mansion's furnace and water heating system? It's been a few years! /;p
@@johnnygnoneeded Thanks for the reply! Have a great day! :-)
I AGREE 100%
When Vic Mizzi was asked to make the theme for the "Addams Family" ABC Network was so damn cheap he had to play all the instruments and do all the recordings himself
It was totally worth it! That theme song is so iconic! (🎶 da da da da snap snap🎶)!!!
Gomez, crashing his trains
My Fav...
I always wondered if his crashing the trains increased Lionel sales. If you watch carefully you can tell it's the same crash shown over and over.
Didn't he blow them up??
@@tats5880 Yes......They blew up colliding......
With a nice explosion for effect! 👍😁🌿
My favorite episode was when Morticia and Wednesday tried to teach Lurch to dance.
Best episode, hilarious
There actually was a popular dance that went around called "The LURCH". It was highlighted on shows such as American Bandstand and Hulabaloo.
Wow such a great cast such sad lives. 🥺
My favorite was cousin It, I loved his upbeat, attitude and breezy optimism. I used to comb my long hair over my face and put my glasses on over it. My friends called me cousin It as a nickname. But I also liked Lurch. It always struck me funny the way he'd shake his head and moan when someone did something stupid.
Hello Julie, How are you doing?
@@liamroberts9047 fine thanks, and you?
@@juliebaker6969 I'm well thanks, where are you from?
@@liamroberts9047 Ohio
John Astin you did an impeccable job ...you are the show ❤️ God bless you!
Loved Carolyn Jones, her eyes were mesmerizing!
Only two seasons is crazy for such a great show!
Lurch was my favourite!🙂
Mine too. I had then and still have today his personality.
Loved to watch this show in reruns when I got home from school in the 80's .
Uncle Fester made many ,many good Western films. He was a great Cowboy. Lerch played many Westerns as well. He appeared many times on Bonanza and Gun Smoke.
I always thought that the Adams family were always very dark while the Munsters were always very normal Americans but neither knew they were different. My favorite was Gomez could not keep his hands off of Mrs Adams.
Morticia and Gomez were probably the only couple on TV at that time where you got the impression that they actually had sex.
I liked The Munsters better, until I got a little older and started "getting" more of the Aadams Family humor.
I loved Mortician. I had no idea of her health problems, but she was a Babe. So sad for her health problems. You would never know what was going on, behind the scenes. She never seemed ill. Anthony
Such wonderful childhood memories. They were all soo good, I really can’t choose any of them. Very difficult.
It would have been fun seeing The Addams Family and The Munsters together, scaring together, laughing together!
Sadly, with most of both casts gone, that can't happen.
I made a mistake concerning Assignment Earth that I would like to correct; I gave the names of the two failed Roddenberry pilots made into made for TV movies as Cyborg, and Earth II. They were respectively: The Questor Tapes, with Robert Foxworth, and Mike Farrell; and Genesis II. These movies were shown a long time ago, and my memory failed me. Sorry.
R.I.P Carolyn Johnson, Jackie Coogan, Marie Blake, Ted Cassidy and Ken Weatherwax.
That's practically half of the cast.
Jackie Coogan was a glider pilot during WWII, not a fighter pilot. He actually landed troops behind Japanese lines during the Burma Campaign.
Even more impressive. There are no re-do's for glider landings. "This is the Control Tower. Go Around and try again."
But really...... how do you get out after landing the troops??
👍👍👍👍👍🇺🇸❤
@@kennysherrill6542 The Americans had men operating behind enemy lines in Europe. They parachuted in, and this included jeeps.
Read up on it. It’s very interesting.
For being on for such a short time, the Adam's Family truly left its mark as an American TV CLASSIC!
Even though all the cast was wonderful, I always loved Cousin It❣
With my long, straight hair to my waist, for kicks, I would comb half my hair over my face. Then with a bandana and sunglasses on, would sometimes wear them facing forward and sometimes backward.
My friends would go to a mall (when malls were still around😕) get such a kick out of peoples reactions, doing double takes wondering which way I was GOING!😆
Thanks Cousin It, for being my inspiration for SO MUCH FUN!
😆❤😆🤍😆💙😆
Carolyn Jones also managed to stand out beautifully in an otherwise unnecessary remake of 1939's The Women - 1957's The Opposite Sex alongside Joan Collins playing Crystal Allen.
Sadly cancelled way before its time. Friday night was variously the Addam's Family, the Wild Wild West, Hogan's Heroes, Johnny Quest and the Flintstones.
My favorite!
Wow, Wednesday really looked a lot like Mortia in her later years... strangely cool.
I really love your style!
@@robert.m4676 Thank you.
Ahh Tish!! You spoke french!!
Boobahlah!😉
Phew! What a video. Fast and furious. No time to take a breath. One of the best put-together videos I've ever seen. Congratulations.
One that should have been many, many seasons longer
Carolyn Jones was my favorite!
My hubby likes Wednesday, her creepy but simple style has been an inspiration for many artworks of his, and I like Morticia, she too has a simple style but it’s so iconic, great show.
Lurch is my favorite, the butlers ball and the one where his mom comes to visit are the best.