The Best of the Addams Family. -Volume 4

Unknown, 1964

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The creepy and kooky Addams family; Gomez, Morticia, Uncle Fester, Grandmama, Thing, Lurch, Pugsley and Wednesday are here for two episodes from the original television series. In “New neighbors meet the Addams family”, newlyweds Hubert and Amanda Peterson’s (Peter Brooks and Cynthia Pepper) honeymoon begins on a sour note when they move into the house next door to the Addams family. Alarmed by Fester tunneling into their house, Grandmama grinding the axe and Morticia and Gomez bathing the octopus, they must grin and bear it in an attempt to move out of the house. Directed by Jean Yarbrough. In “Morticia, the matchmaker”, Melancholia (Hazel Shermet), Morticia’s cousin, comes to visit after yet another future husband flees to join the Foreign Legion. After Gomez exhausts the list of eligible batchelors; a marriage broker, Lurch plus other business contacts, Melancholia sets her heart on a woman shy lawyer, Clarence P. Harvey (Lee Goodman) who has relutantly come to visit Gomez on business. Directed by Jerry Hopper. The series features

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Credits

producer

Nat Perrin

production company

Filmways Television

Duration

00:50:00:00

Production places
Unknown
Production dates
1964

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

308351

Language

English

Audience classification

G

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Black and White

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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