Dance on Through Was Featured in an Episode of the Addams Family.
| The Addams Family | |
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| Genre |
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| Created past | David Levy[one] |
| Based on | The Addams Family by Charles Addams |
| Starring |
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| Opening theme | Vic Mizzy |
| Land of origin | United States |
| Original linguistic communication | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 64 (List of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | David Levy |
| Producer | Nat Perrin |
| Production location | Hollywood, California |
| Camera setup | Single-camera |
| Running fourth dimension | 25 minutes |
| Production company | Filmways Tv set |
| Distributor | MGM Goggle box |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Picture format | Black-and-white |
| Sound format | Mono |
| Original release | September xviii, 1964 (1964-09-18) – April viii, 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/black comedy sitcom based on the characters from Charles Addams' New Yorker cartoons. The thirty-minute television serial was created and developed past 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 composed and sung by Vic Mizzy.
The show was originally produced by head 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 unit is a close-knit extended family unit with decidedly macabre interests and supernatural abilities, though no caption for their powers is explicitly given in the serial. The wealthy, endlessly enthusiastic Gomez Addams is madly in love with his refined married woman, Morticia. Along with their daughter Midweek, their son Pugsley, Uncle Fester, and Grandmama, they reside at 0001 Cemetery Lane in an ornate, gloomy, Second Empire style mansion. The theme song contains the lyric, "Their firm is a museum" which is borne out past the variety of objects in the interior scenes, some of which are collector's items and others of which are simply baroque (such equally the mounted swordfish head with a human leg protruding from the mouth and a stuffed two headed giant tortoise).[2] Someone stole these props after the prove was canceled.[three]
The family is attended by their servants: towering butler Lurch, and Thing, a disembodied mitt that appears from within wooden boxes and other places. Other relatives who fabricated recurring appearances included Cousin Itt, Morticia's older sis Ophelia, and Morticia'southward mother Grandma Frump.
Much of the sense of humour derives from the Addamses' civilisation clash with the residue of the world. They invariably care for normal visitors with great warmth and courtesy, even when the guests express confusion, fright and dismay at the decor of the house and the sight of Lurch and Thing. Some visitors have bad intentions, which the family generally ignore and suffer no harm. The Addamses are puzzled by the horrified reactions to their own good-natured and (to them) normal behavior. Accordingly, they view "conventional" tastes with generally tolerant suspicion. Well-nigh invariably, visitors to the Addamses want to exit and never come back.
Episodes [edit]
For both seasons, episodes aired Friday nights at 8:30 p.m.
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 fine art, plays the shamisen, raises a carnivorous plant and trims roses by clipping off the buds and arranging the thorny stems in a vase. With long, straight ebony-black pilus, she is always attired in a flooring-length tight blackness wearing apparel that ends, apparently, in a total set of tentacles. With her aloof begetting and disengagement, she is often the calm centre of the chaotic events of the household, merely she performs magical feats effortlessly; for case, 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 dear with his wife, ofttimes referring to her with Castilian pet names such as "Querida" and "Cara MÃa". His ardor is profoundly intensified when she speaks French (A running joke has Gomez mistaking other languages, including Yiddish, for French). Gomez is very wealthy, apparently every bit a outcome 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 drawer and a safe full of cash. He squanders money in a cavalier manner and loses it on stocks, but however remains wealthy. His hobby is gleefully crashing and detonating model trains. He sometimes stands on his head as he reads the newspaper or plays solitaire. Regularly dressed in a double-breasted and chalk-pinstriped conform with a black tie, Gomez is about always seen smoking a cigar. Astin based the character of Gomez on Groucho Marx. Like Groucho, Astin was also a cigar smoker; he so quit cigars after the serial concluded.[iv] |
| Jackie Coogan | Uncle Fester | Morticia's exuberant uncle who is completely bald and unremarkably dressed in a night, floor length glaze or robe with a large fur neckband. Fester is quite addicted of dynamite and blasting caps. He oft relaxes on a bed of nails, past inserting his head into a volume press or by beingness stretched on a wooden torture rack. Fester powers light bulbs by placing them into his mouth (the toy or "magic" light bulb used for this trick is nevertheless 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, "You rang?" On occasions, things similar an emergency bell or banging the knight armor would summon him if the usual bell ends up out of order. Lurch is very alpine, physically imposing and plays the 1503 vintage "Krupnik" harpsichord that was originally in Cousin Crimp's family for 400 years. After Lurch answers the door he removes the hats of male person visitors, normally crushing them in the process. He is oftentimes seen with a plume duster. Cassidy fabricated a cameo advent as Lurch on an episode of the Batman Boob tube series, and on Goggle box music shows while promoting the pop song of the era "The Lurch" (and the dance which it accompanied). |
| Blossom Rock | Grandmama Addams | Gomez's female parent, a witch who conjures potions and spells and dabbles in fortune telling with a crystal ball, and knife throwing. Sometimes she is carrying a boxing-axe or sharpening it on a grinding-cycle in the middle of the living room. |
| Lisa Loring | Wednesday Addams | Gomez's and Morticia'southward girl and the youngest member of the family, Wednesday is a strange yet sugariness-natured lilliputian girl who enjoys keeping bizarre pets such every bit a black widow spider named Homer and a cadger 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's older blood brother. Chubby, kind-hearted and smart, he occasionally conforms to conventional standards contrary to his family, such as joining the Boy Scouts. He also enjoys engineering various machines, playing with blasting caps, and playing with his pet octopus Aristotle. |
| Thing | 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 forepart yard, and in The Addams Family in Court, Thing reaches out of Gomez's briefcase to hand him a legal paper in court. Gomez'southward constant "companion" since childhood, Affair is always ready to assist family members with minor daily services and diversions, such as lifting the receiver on telephones, retrieving the postal service, lighting cigars, pouring tea, and playing chess. The tagline is, "Give thanks you, Matter." Matter apparently has the ability to teleport from container to container, near instantly: Affair sometimes appears from different containers at opposite ends of the room within seconds of each other. Though Ted Cassidy would often portray Thing, assistant manager 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 aforementioned style, for instance, Mr. Ed was billed as "Himself". |
Pets of the Addams Family [edit]
- Aristotle – Pugsley's pet octopus.
- Fang – Pugsley'due south pet jaguar.
- Cleopatra – Morticia'due south pet African Strangler (a type of man-eating plant).
- Kitty Kat – The Addams Family'due south pet lion. In "The Addams Family Tree," it is mentioned by Gomez that Kitty "tin can't stand the taste of people." In "True cat Addams", it is revealed that Kitty Kat'south 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 – Midweek's pet spider.
- Zelda – The family unit's pet vulture.
Addams Family relatives [edit]
The following relatives fabricated appearances on the show, merely members of the family unit mentioned other relatives in each of the episodes:
| Role player | Role | Graphic symbol |
|---|---|---|
| Felix Silla | Cousin Itt | Gomez's cousin, Itt is a atomic character 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 low-ceilinged room of his ain in the house, but sometimes he is in the chimney of the living room fireplace. The character was created specifically for the television serial. |
| Carolyn Jones | Ophelia Frump | Morticia's flighty flower-child older sis who is the "white sheep of the family". In the two-part second-season episode "Morticia's Romance", Gomez is originally engaged to Ophelia in an bundled marriage, only when he sees the then-22-year-old Morticia (dressed in a grown-upward version of Wednesday's article of clothing), they fall in dearest with each other. The flowers entwined in Ophelia's pilus actually take roots that travel down into her foot, and the pes raises when ane of the flowers is tugged on. She sings in 3-part harmony and has a love of judo that enables her to flip men (unremarkably Gomez) onto their backs. Ophelia was played by Carolyn Jones in a blonde wig, and, forth with Cousin Itt, was created specifically for the television series,[5] actualization in family portrait artwork by Charles Addams after the show'south debut.[six] |
| Margaret Hamilton | Granny Hester Frump | The mother of Morticia and Ophelia and the grandmother of Midweek 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 on her last fiance ran off, Morticia and Gomez take her in and attempt to discover her a husband.[7] |
Minor characters [edit]
| Histrion | Role | Graphic symbol |
|---|---|---|
| Parley Baer | Arthur J. Hansen | An insurance executive and politico in the town where the family resides. |
| Eddie Quillan | Joe Digby | An insurance clerk who works for Arthur Henson. Eddie Quillan likewise played Clyde Arbogast, Arthur Henson'due south assistant in "Gomez, the People's Choice". |
| Allyn Joslyn | Sam Hilliard | A truant officeholder who is scared to death of the family. Afterwards, he runs a private school that Gomez briefly worked at. In one episode, his middle proper noun is given equally "Lucifer", much to the family'south delight ("Sam Hill" is an older American euphemism for Satan). |
| Rolfe Sedan | Mr. Briggs | The neighborhood mailman who delivers the mail to the Addams house. |
| Vito Scotti | Sam Picasso | A scheming Spanish artist upon whom family members rely for creative communication. |
Production [edit]
Writing [edit]
Series creator David Levy explained the premise of the testify to syndicated columnist Erskine Johnson in August 1964: "We take fabricated [the family] full-bodied people, not monsters ... They are not grotesque and hideous manifestations. At the same time 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 simply a cartoonist. He'south a social commentator and a great wit."[8] The tone was set past series producer Nat Perrin, who was a close friend of Groucho Marx and writer of several Marx Brothers films. Perrin created story ideas, directed ane episode and rewrote every script. The series oftentimes employed the same type of zany satire and screwball sense of humour 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 non members of the family "strange" or complained of their beliefs. Another 1 was members of the family trading objects when they collided; in "Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor" Gomez ends upwards with Morticia's knitting and Morticia has his cigar. Other running jokes were about foreign nutrient and drink, e.g. toadstools and hemlock; bats, the dungeon, the cemetery and other "creepy" things; and Gomez'southward glee at losing money on the stock market. It lampooned politics ("Gomez, The Politician" and "Gomez, The People'south Option"); modern art ("Art and the Addams Family" and Morticia'south painting in several episodes); Shakespeare and other literature ("My Fair Cousin Itt", and other episodes); the legal system ("The Addams Family in Courtroom"); royalty ("Morticia Meets Royalty"); rock n' roll and Beatlemania ("Lurch, The Teenage Idol").
The Hall of Languages building at Syracuse University served as creative inspiration for the Addams Family unit abode.[9] [10]
The Addams Family debuted at the same time equally The Munsters, some other blackness-and-white, macabre-themed family sitcom. To distinguish themselves from the competition, both shows avoided casting invitee stars who had appeared on the other series, and John Astin argued in interviews that the two shows are fundamentally dissimilar, since The Munsters were physically monsters but completely normal in every other respect, whereas The Addamses were normal looking but highly eccentric.[eleven] Despite this, the general public perceived the two shows as about interchangeable, and has connected to do and so in the decades since they were both cancelled.[11]
Opening theme [edit]
The testify's 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 "neat", "sweet" and "petite". Mizzy's theme was released past RCA Victor as a 45-rpm single, although it failed to nautical chart in the U.South. The song was revived for the 1992 blithe series, likewise equally in 2007 for a serial of Addams Family unit tv set commercials for G&M's chocolates. It was likewise revisited in the dance scene in Addams Family Values.
The closing theme is similar, but is instrumental and features such instruments as a triangle, a wood block, a siren whistle and a duck call replacing some of the finger snaps.
Broadcast syndication [edit]
The show has been aired worldwide. In the Great britain, it outset aired on ITV in 1965–1966, on Channel 4 on Fri evenings in 1984-1985[12] and then it appeared on Sky 1 in 1991 and ran until 1992. Information technology was so aired on BBC Two from half-dozen p.m. on Monday nights starting in Feb 1992 until the end of 1993 and and then moved to Saturdays in 1994 and later in school summer holidays before information technology vanished at the end of August 1996.
In Oct 2011, the serial was picked up by Drawing Network'due south sister aqueduct Boomerang and ran through the entire month of October that twelvemonth for Halloween aslope The Munsters until Halloween 2013. It aired on select local stations,[13] and aired on Antenna Telly until December 30, 2017.[14]
The bear witness has a defended channel on Pluto Goggle box.[15]
Equally of Nov 2020, the series arrogance on FETV.[16]
As of May 2021, the show airs on MeTV.[17]
Habitation media [edit]
MGM Home Entertainment (distributed past 20th Century Play tricks Dwelling house Amusement) has released The Addams Family on DVD in Region i, 2 and 4 in three-volume sets.
| DVD Name | Episodes | Release date | Additional information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Volume 1 | 22 | August ten, 2006 |
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| Volume 2 | 21 | March 27, 2007 |
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| Volume 3 | 21 | September xi, 2007[19] |
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| The Complete Serial | 64 | November thirteen, 2007[20] |
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Streaming [edit]
As of Apr 2019, the series can be purchased on iTunes, and can be streamed in the United States via Amazon Video and IMDb. The minisodes are available on Crackle and Vudu.
As of Oct ane, 2019, the series is likewise being aired on its own channel (511) on Pluto Television set.
Soundtrack [edit]
A soundtrack album was released in 1965 containing all of Vic Mizzy's compositions for the series entitled Original Music From The Addams Family.[21]
Reunions, sequels and adaptations [edit]
A reunion TV film, Halloween with the New Addams Family unit, aired on NBC in Oct 1977 and starred all of the original bandage, except for Blossom Rock, who was very ill at the fourth dimension and was replaced as Grandmama past Phyllis actress Jane Rose. Elvia Allman portrayed Female parent Frump, whom Margaret Hamilton had played in the original series. Veteran graphic symbol actors Parley Baer and Vito Scotti, who both had recurring roles in the original series, as well appeared in the flick. The picture also included extended family members created specifically for this product, such as Gomez's brother Pancho (played by Henry Darrow) and ii additional children, Wed Jr. and Pugsley Jr. The latter two were portrayed as near copies of the original children, now known as Wed Sr. and Pugsley Sr., who were once over again played respectively by Lisa Loring and Ken Weatherwax, the original Wed and Pugsley in the series. Vic Mizzy rewrote and conducted the series theme as an instrumental.
In 1972, the third episode of the Saturday forenoon blithe series The New Scooby-Doo Movies featured the Addams Family. Astin, Jones, Coogan, and Cassidy all reprised their roles; 11-year-quondam 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 every bit the voice of Pugsley. Astin reprised his role equally Gomez Addams for the 1992 animated adaptation of the series. Weatherwax and Loring, the only other original cast members still living at the time, did not participate.
In 1998, a standalone film, Addams Family Reunion, aired on the Play a trick on Family Channel, followed by the series The New Addams Family unit that ran from 1998 to 2000. Astin appeared in the serial as Grandpapa Addams.
In other media [edit]
Picture [edit]
A successful picture, The Addams Family unit, was released past Paramount Pictures in 1991, starring Raul Julia as Gomez, Anjelica Huston as Morticia, Christopher Lloyd equally an amnesiac Uncle Fester and Christina Ricci as Wednesday. Later the movie's release, serial creator David Levy filed a lawsuit confronting Paramount Pictures; the adapt was settled out of court. A sequel, Addams Family unit Values, followed in 1993, to greater disquisitional success than the starting time pic, though it earned less at the box role.
Tv [edit]
Ted Cassidy makes an in-graphic symbol advent equally Lurch in a "window-cameo" in the 1960s Batman television serial.
References [edit]
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- ^ The Addams Family Set as You've Never Seen it Before
- ^ "The Addams Family House, Where Every Nighttime is Halloween". November 2010.
- ^ a b Cox, Stephen (1998). The Addams Chronicles: An Birthday Ooky Wait at the Addams Family. Cumberland House Publishing (2nd Edition). ISBN1888952911.
- ^ Glionna, John Grand. (November 2, 2014). "Felix Silla, a.k.a. Cousin Itt, looks back on a kooky career". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on November iii, 2014. Retrieved November 3, 2014.
- ^ "The Bruce Museum to Host Original Cartoon Artworks of Charles Addams". Fine art Knowledge News. Archived from the original on January 22, 2018. Retrieved Jan 21, 2018.
- ^ The Addams Family unit flavor 1, episode 12, Morticia, The Matchmaker. (IMDB) Starting time aired 4 December 1964.
- ^ Johnson, Erskine (August two, 1964). "Something for the Boys...and Ghouls". The Pittsburgh Press. Archived from the original on Feb v, 2018. Retrieved February 3, 2018.
- ^ Palmer, Julia (December 14, 2011). "The Cornerstones of Syracuse University". The NewsHouse . Retrieved August 24, 2020.
- ^ Anderson, Trent; Basili, Seppy; Mager, Eileen West.; Shapiro, Jessica (2003). The Unofficial, Unbiased Guide to the 328 Nigh Interesting Colleges. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 470. ISBN9780743241458 . Retrieved August 24, 2020.
- ^ a b "The Addams Family unit Refused to Be Compared to The Munsters". MeTV. Dec 6, 2021. Retrieved 8 Dec 2021.
- ^ "The Tv & Radio Database - Listings for Fri, 17th August 1984". tvrdb.com . Retrieved 2021-03-12 .
- ^ The Addams Family unit Reruns Airing on WBBZ-Television Archived 2013-08-10 at the Wayback Machine. Niagara Falls Reporter (August 6, 2013). Retrieved August 21, 2013.
- ^ "This Goggle box Schedule - Program listings and guide". www.thistv.com. Archived from the original on 27 Dec 2017. Retrieved five May 2018.
- ^ "Pluto Television receiver - The Addams Family". Pluto TV.
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- ^ Lacey, Gord. "The Addams Family - Some minor edits on the Volume 1 ready". Archived from the original on 11 May 2014. Retrieved xiii May 2014.
- ^ "The Addams Family DVD news: Volume 3 engagement and details - TVShowsOnDVD.com". www.tvshowsondvd.com. Archived from the original on xi September 2007. Retrieved five May 2018.
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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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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Addams_Family_(1964_TV_series)
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