Synopsis of Saturday Morning Show

Those creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky, altogether ooky Addamses returned to television following the success of the 1991 Addams Family feature film. It was the second animated series starring cartoonist Charles Addams’ morbidly funny creations.

John Astin returned to voice the role he helped make famous in the 1960’s TV series, family patriarch Gomez Addams. Together with wife Morticia, daughter Wednesday, son Pugsley, Uncle Fester, wrinkled witch Granny, butler Lurch, hairy Cousin Itt, and disembodied hand Thing, Gomez lived in a spooky mansion in otherwise normal Happydale Heights. The animated show retained the Addams’ ghoulish “alternative lifestyle” and brought in yuppie neighbors the Normanmeyers as comic foils.

Combining off-the-wall antics with creepy Halloween-like fun, The Addams Family charmed its way into homes across the country, earning high ratings for its Saturday morning run.

Release History

9/12/92 - 1/7/95 ABC

TV Sub Categories

animated
comedy

TV Studio

Fils-Cartoons/Hanna-Barbera

Television Cast

Gomez John Astin
Morticia Nancy Linari
Wednesday Debi Derryberry
Pugsley Jeannie Elias
Uncle Fester Rip Taylor
Granny Carol Channing
Lurch Jim Cummings
Cousin Itt Pat Fraley
Mrs. Normanmeyer Edie McClurg
Mr. Normanmeyer Rob Paulsen
N.J. Normanmeyer Dick Beals

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