page_title: The Addams Family (1964 TV series)
section_title: Addams family
hierarchical_section_title: The Addams Family (1964 TV series) / Characters / Addams family
caption_attribution_description: English: Publicity photo of Jackie Coogan (Uncle Fester) and Ted Cassidy (Lurch) from a personal appearance booking at Pleasure Island (Massachusetts amusement park, Wakefield Massachusetts).
context_page_description: The Addams Family is an American macabre/black comedy sitcom based on the characters from Charles Addams' New Yorker cartoons. The 30-minute television series was created by David Levy and Donald Saltzman and shot in black-and-white, airing for two seasons on ABC from September 18, 1964, to April 8, 1966, for a total of 64 episodes. The show is also notable for its opening theme, which 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. Successor company MGM Television now owns the rights to the show.
context_section_description: Morticia Addams (née Frump) (portrayed by Carolyn Jones) – A cultivated and beautiful woman who knits, dabbles in 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 hair, she is always attired in a long, floor-length tight black dress that ends, apparently, in a full set of tentacles.  With her aristocratic bearing and detachment, she is often the calm center 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.
  Gomez Addams (portrayed by John Astin) – A retired lawyer of Castilian descent, who is passionately in love with his wife, often referring to her in Spanish pet names such as "Querida" and "Cara Mía". His ardor is greatly intensified when she speaks French. Gomez is very wealthy 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 squanders money in a cavalier manner and loses it on stocks, but remains wealthy. When he needs cash immediately, he opens the drawer of an undistinguished rectangular table in the living room and removes bundles of money. His hobby, which he shares with his son Pugsley, is gleefully crashing and detonating model trains. He refers to Spain as his "ancestral home". He sometimes stands on his head as he reads the newspaper or plays solitaire. Regularly dressed in a double-breasted and chalk-pinstriped suit with a black tie, Gomez is almost always seen smoking a cigar. The cigar may be already lit when he pulls it from his coat's breast pocket or from the cigar store Indian prop, although sometimes he is seen lighting one, and after that he may put the burning match into his breast pocket. Astin added this trait to the character as he had already been a cigar smoker prior to the show's debut, but then quit after the series ended. The constant presence of the cigar may also be a nod to Groucho Marx (see Writing)
  Uncle Fester Addams (portrayed by Jackie Coogan) – Morticia's exuberant uncle who is completely bald and dressed in a floor-length fur-collared coat. Fester is quite fond of dynamite and blasting caps. He often relaxes on a bed of nails, by inserting his head into a book press or by being stretched on a wooden torture rack. He powers light bulbs by placing them into his mouth (the toy or "magic" light bulb used for this trick is still available today).
  Lurch (portrayed by Ted Cassidy) – The Addams' loyal butler, who mainly speaks in grunts or groans. Morticia and Gomez summon him with a hangman's-noose bell pull, to which he immediately appears on screen and replies, "You rang?" He is physically imposing and plays the harpsichord that was originally in Cousin Crimp's family for 400 years. After Lurch answers the door he removes the hats of male visitors, usually crushing them in the process. He is frequently seen with a feather duster. 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 dance which it accompanied).
  Grandmama Addams (portrayed by Blossom Rock) – Gomez's mother, a witch who conjures potions and spells and dabbles in fortune telling with a crystal ball, and knife throwing. Sometimes she is carrying a battle-axe or sharpening it on a grinding-wheel in the middle of the living room.
  Wednesday Addams (portrayed by Lisa Loring) – Gomez's and Morticia's daughter and the youngest member of the family, Wednesday is a strange yet sweet-natured little girl who enjoys keeping bizarre pets such as a black widow spider named Homer and a lizard named Lucifer, in addition to playing with a beheaded doll named Marie Antoinette.
  Pugsley Addams (portrayed by Ken Weatherwax) – Gomez's and Morticia's son and Wednesday's older brother. Kind-hearted and smart, he occasionally conforms to conventional standards contrary to his family, such as joining 
caption: Uncle Fester (Jackie Coogan) and Lurch (Ted Cassidy)
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