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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0027616060129
Format: Box set, Black & White, Dubbed, NTSC
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 24, 2006
Running Time: 561 minutes
Sales Rank: 8922
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: September 18, 1964
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If The Munsters was a traditional family sitcom as reimagined by Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, The Addams Family is a macabre twist on Father Knows Best. The Munster and Addams clans made their TV debuts in 1964 and lasted two seasons before the networks buried them. The Addamses are now gloriously resurrected in this three-disc set that digs up the series' first 22 episodes (oddly, 12 shy of the complete first season). Inspired by Charles Addams's New Yorker cartoons, The Addams Family is fiendishly funny, with a dead-on cast that indelibly embodies Addams's characters. John Astin brings a demented glee to eccentric, frighteningly wealthy Gomez Addams. Carolyn Jones is bewitching as his pre-goth wife, Morticia, whom the Beatles might have had in mind when they sang, 'Baby's in Black.' Jackie Coogan is the electrifying Uncle Fester, with Ted Cassidy (who famously took a kick in the groin from Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) is the monstrous butler Lurch, whose 'You rang?' entered the pop culture lexicon.
The Munsters was family friendly. The Addams Family is more sophisticated and wickedly funny. As Gomez notes at one point, 'There's a touch of madness' in the Addams household, where 'every day is Halloween.' Bear rugs growl, a disembodied hand, Thing, delivers the mail, and a torture rack is good for what ails you. The children, Wednesday (Lisa Loring) and older brother Pugsley (Ken Weatherwax), enjoy such hobbies as playing autopsy or exploding model trains. Gomez and Morticia were one of television's most passionate couples, with Gomez being driven to arm-kissing ecstasy whenever Morticia spoke French. The last episode included in this collection, 'Amnesia in the Addams Family,' is a classic in which Gomez is rendered 'normal' following a conk on the head. The look of disgust on Morticia and Lurch's face when he asks for a glass of milk is priceless. The 'altogether ooky' extras include three episode commentaries, a featurette on Charles Addams, reminiscences from cast members Astin, Loring, and Weatherwax, a segment on the creation of the classic snap-snap theme song ('They're creepy and they're kooky....'), and the inevitable theme song sing-along. The Addams Family at last on DVD? As Gomez might exclaim: 'Capital!' --Donald Liebenson
Product Description:
They're creepy and they're kooky mysterious and spooky and now for the first time they're on DVD! The Addams Family America's first family of ghastly giddiness are here in all of their ghoulish glory in the original TV series based on the delightfully demented imagination of Charles Addams. Tarantulas torture racks and tombstones have never been so much fun! Join Gomez Morticia Uncle Fester Lurch Cousin Itt and the rest of the gang for a fiendishly funny and altogether kooky experience. It's time to pay a call on The Addams Family!Episodes-Bonus Features: Disc 1 side A:**The Addams Family Goes to School**Morticia and the Psychiatrist**Fester's Punctuated Romance**Gomez the Politician*Audio commentary for 'The Addams Family Goes to School' by director Arthur HillerDisc 1 side B:**The Addams Family Tree**Morticia Joins the Ladies League**Halloween with the Addams Family**Green Eyed GomezDisc 2 side A:**The New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family**Wednesday Leaves Home**The Addams Family Meets the VIPs**Morticia the MatchmakerDisc 2 side B:**Lurch Learns to Dance**Art and the Addams Family**The Addams Family Meets the Beatnik**The Addams Family Meets the Undercover ManDisc 3 side A:**Mother Lurch Visits the Addams Family**Uncle Fester's Illness**The Addams Family Splurges**Cousin Itt Visits the Addams FamilyDisc 3 side B:**The Addams Family In Court**Amnesia in the Addams Family*Featurettes:-You Rang Mr. Addams-Snap Snap*Theme Song KareokeSystem Requirements:Running Time 572 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 027616060129 Manufacturer No: M106012
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Neat! Complete!
The Addams Family DVDs were a major hit at this household. The show captured Chas. Addams' quirky style of cartooning and the actors portrayed the various family members to a "T" (A?). For those too young to remember the show, this is a great series to get. Clever, funny, and droll at the same time. One of the best 60s shows.
Rating: - Well done fun!
I've ordered the set (both 1 and 2) in a spur of nostalgia and am very glad I did... The show is funny, witty, and at the same time sweet in the innocent lack of true malice--something that is very missing in today's TV shows that are so chok-ful-of terror, horror, and human evil cunning. I still enjoy seeing current TV, but the nicely done set of these older TV shows, with the hilarious and endearing (yes, even with all the stuffed ickies in their house...) cast of characters. I HIGHLY recommend it.
Rating:  - Excellent video transfer - informative extras
"The Addams Family" Series 1 is a treat. Here's my "Top 5".
Firstly, this black and white series doesn't date. Monochrome suits the mock macabre world of the Addams. And they are "ooky and kooky" enough to be outside of everyone's fashion universe. Where other shows from 1964 seem better in memory than in rerun, the Addams are better. My prediction? The recently produced Addams Family movies will be well and truly out-of-date before the sixties TV series.
Secondly the Addams Family was ahead of it's time. Today many series pay lip service to tolerance and diversity. As John Astin mentions in the extras to this disk set, the Addams Family had poked gentle fun at the dividing line between conventional and unconventional. The Addams' have a foot in both camps. Outwardly unconventional they believe themselves to be middle of the road normals. Today we're used to people being "non-confromists just like everyone else", our self-styled non-confromists wouldn't last too long around Uncle Fester!
Gomez's on screen passion for his wife was, as the extras note, unique in it's time. Another area where the Addams were ahead of the trend. One area they aren't is in simple good manners. Wednesday always (always!) says "thank you Thing". How many modern series exhibit children with good manners? Maybe modern series and audiences could learn something here.
Thirdly, the video and audio reproduction in this series is very good. With the DVDs you realise just how ... Read More
Rating: - A wonderful collection of nostalgia
a must for any Addams Family fan. Especially the episode where Cousin Itt gets locked up at the zoo.
Rating: - The 60's at their best!
I loved the Addams Familly as a child and now my daughter is enjoying them. It is a timeless piece of entertainment and so full of family interaction. It makes you laugh every step of the way.
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