History Franchise / TheAddamsFamily

* ''Pugsley Addams'', their son. A young MadScientist in the making who once demonstrated a home-made disintegration rifle to a visiting Soviet diplomat.
* ''Wednesday Friday Addams'', their daughter: the youngest child in the original TV series, but older in the movies, the revival TV series and the musical. In the original series, she's a CheerfulChild who loves her family, her spider, and her headless doll UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette. In the movies and ''Wednesday'', she's more of an EmotionlessGirl and TheSnarkKnight.

* ''Uncle Fester''. Blend a MadScientist and his [[TheIgor Igor]] together, and filter them through Curly Howard of ''Film/TheThreeStooges'', and you get Uncle Fester. Morticia's uncle in the TV series, he is rewritten as Gomez's older brother in the 1973–75 animated series, made Morticia's uncle again in the 1977 ReunionShow, and back again to Gomez's brother for the movies. Some works imply that he is a zombie.

* [[/index]]''Series/TheNewAddamsFamily'' on [[Creator/{{Freeform}} Fox Family]], a 1998-1999 {{revival}}. Mostly "new" only in terms of title, cast and theme music -- many of its episodes were [[RecycledScript recycled]] versions of scripts from the original series. That said, it was well-received, and featured recurring appearances by original Gomez John Astin as Grandpa Addams. Though it technically only had one season, it was a season with a whopping ''sixty-five episodes''.

* ''Wednesday Friday Addams'', their daughter: the youngest child in the original TV series, but older in the movies, the revival TV series and the musical. In the original series, she's a CheerfulChild who loves her family, her spider, and her headless doll UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette. In the movies, she's more of an EmotionlessGirl and TheSnarkKnight.

* [[/index]]''Series/TheNewAddamsFamily'' on [[Creator/{{Freeform}} Fox Family]], a 1998-1999 {{revival}}. Mostly "new" only in terms of title, cast and theme music -- many of its episodes were [[RecycledScript recycled]] versions of scripts from the original series. That said, it was well-received, and featured recurring appearances by original Gomez John Astin as Grandpa Addams.

* ''Theatre/TheAddamsFamily'', the 2010 Broadway musical, starring Nathan Lane and Creator/BebeNeuwirth as Gomez and Morticia. For legal reasons, it's officially based on Charles Addams' original cartoons, not on the TV series, but they're not really fooling anybody.

* ''Series/{{Wednesday}}'', a 2022 live-action Creator/{{Netflix}} series created by Creator/AlfredGough and Creator/MilesMillar (''Series/{{Smallville}}'', ''Series/IntoTheBadlands'') and directed by Creator/TimBurton, starring Creator/JennaOrtega as Wednesday, Creator/CatherineZetaJones as Morticia, Issac Ordonez as Pugsley, and Creator/LuisGuzman as Gomez.

* ''Series/{{Wednesday}}'', a 2022 live-action Creator/{{Netflix}} series created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar (''Series/{{Smallville}}'', ''Series/IntoTheBadlands'') and directed by Creator/TimBurton, starring Creator/JennaOrtega as Wednesday, Creator/CatherineZetaJones as Morticia, Issac Ordonez as Pugsley, and Creator/LuisGuzman as Gomez.

* ''Wednesday Friday Addams'', their daughter: the youngest child in the original TV series, but older in the movies, the revival TV series and the musical. In the original series, she's a CheerfulChild who loves her family, her spider, and her headless doll UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette. In the movies, she's more of TheSnarkKnight and an EmotionlessGirl.

* ''Uncle Fester''. Blend a MadScientist and his [[TheIgor Igor]] together, and filter them through Curly Howard of ''Film/TheThreeStooges'', and you get Uncle Fester. Morticia's uncle in the TV series, he is rewritten as Gomez's older brother in the 1973-75 animated series, back to Morticia's uncle in the 1977 ReunionShow, and back again to Gomez's brother for the movies. Some works imply that he is a zombie.

* ''Thing'' is exactly what the name implies. A thing, namely a disembodied hand. Fetches mail, plays charades, performs mime. Clearly both sentient and sapient, and like Lurch treated as a family member rather than a servant or pet. Usually seen protruding from a box in the TV series, it became fully ambulatory in later adaptations, walking on its fingers.

* ''Gomez Addams'', the clan's patriarch. Ostensibly a lawyer, though the family's ''vast'' independent wealth eliminates any need for him to actually work; when he does, though, he takes great pride in the cases he's ''lost''.
* ''Morticia Addams'', his wife. [[FemmeFatale Tall]], [[TheVamp elegant]], [[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette ivory-skinned and black-tressed]], and always clad in a [[ParentService tight, slinky]] [[LittleBlackDress black dress]]. Morticia is calm reason to Gomez's maniacal exuberance. Popular opinion is that she is a vampire -- she rarely smiles with her teeth. Even to this day, we're still not sure...

* ''Gomez Addams'', the clan patriarch. Ostensibly a lawyer, though the family's ''vast'' independent wealth eliminates any need for him to actually work; when he does, though, he takes great pride in the cases he's ''lost''.

It originated in a recurring series of comically grotesque single-panel cartoons by Creator/CharlesAddams, which appeared in ''Magazine/TheNewYorker'' magazine beginning in the late 1930s. In the 1960s these were adapted into a popular TV sitcom, which gave the characters names and codified their relationships with one another, providing a model for all subsequent versions.

A deliberate inversion of the ideal American NuclearFamily, the Addamses are an obscenely wealthy clan of borderline supernatural beings with a taste for the grotesque and macabre, holding opinions and preferences that are mirror images or inversions of more conventional attitudes. Although very visibly different from virtually everyone they meet, they still perceive themselves as a "perfectly normal family"; in fact, they seem somewhat incapable of even noticing that their lifestyle varies widely from that of their neighbors.

They also invert various horror-movie tropes about evil families: despite their tastes and the apparent trappings of pain and horror amidst which they live, the Addamses are clearly (well, ''mostly'' in the movies) [[DarkIsNotEvil NOT evil]] -- they are compassionate and loving, friendly to all they meet, eager to help strangers in times of need, and tolerant to a fault. In fact, they are probably more so than most families! The end result is more delightfully eccentric and endearing than disturbing.

It originated in a recurring series of whimsically grotesque single-panel cartoons by Creator/CharlesAddams, which appeared in ''Magazine/TheNewYorker'' magazine beginning in the 1930s. In the 1960s these inspired a TV sitcom, which chose a set of recurring characters, named them and codified their relationships with each other, and served as the model for all subsequent versions.

It has its origins in a series of whimsically grotesque single-panel cartoons by Creator/CharlesAddams that appeared in ''Magazine/TheNewYorker'' beginning in the 1930s. In the 1960s these inspired a TV sitcom, which chose a set of recurring characters, named them and codified their relationships with each other, and served as the model for all subsequent versions.

* ''Series/{{Wednesday}}'', a 2022 live-action Creator/{{Netflix}} series created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar (''Series/{{Smallville}}'', ''Series/IntoTheBadlands'') and directed by Creator/TimBurton, starring Creator/JennaOrtega as Wednesday.

->''"[[GratuitousLatin Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc]]."\\

It has its origins in a series of whimsically grotesque one-panel cartoons by Creator/CharlesAddams that appeared in ''Magazine/TheNewYorker'' beginning in the 1930s. In the 1960s these inspired a TV sitcom, which chose a set of recurring characters, named them and codified their relationships with each other, and served as the model for all subsequent versions.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheAddamsFamily1973'', an animated series spun off from the aforementioned ''Scooby-Doo'' episode that ran on NBC Saturday mornings from 1972 to 1975, featuring an eight-year-old Creator/JodieFoster as Pugsley.

A deliberate inversion of the ideal American NuclearFamily, the Addamses are an obscenely wealthy clan of borderline supernatural beings with a taste for the grotesque and macabre, possessing opinions and preferences that are mirror images or inversions of more conventional attitudes. Although very visibly different from virtually everyone they meet, they still perceive themselves as a "perfectly normal family"; in fact, they seem somewhat incapable of even noticing that their lifestyle varies widely from that of their neighbors.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAddamsFamily1973'', an animated series that ran on NBC Saturday mornings from 1972 to 1975, which featured an eight-years-old Creator/JodieFoster as Pugsley.

** ''Halloween With the New Addams Family'', a 1977 special that reunited most of the cast of the original series.

** ''The Addams Family 2'', a 2021 sequel to the above.

* [[/index]]''Series/TheNewAddamsFamily'' on [[Creator/ABCFamily Fox Family]], a 1998-1999 {{revival}}. Mostly "new" only in terms of title, cast and theme music -- many of its episodes were [[RecycledScript recycled]] versions of scripts from the original series. That said, it was well-received, and featured recurring appearances by original Gomez John Astin as Grandpa Addams.

->''"Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc."\\

-->-- '''Addams family motto''' (Not just pretty words)

* ''Wednesday Friday Addams'', their daughter: the youngest child in the original TV series, but older in the movies, the revival TV series and the musical. In the original series, she's a sweet, happy child who loves her family, her spider, and her headless doll UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette. In the movies, she's more of TheSnarkKnight and EmotionlessGirl.

** A [[WesternAnimation/TheAddamsFamily1992 a 1992-1993 animated series]] on Creator/{{ABC}} spawned by the success of the 1991 movie. Notable for John Astin reprising Gomez. Also spawned a video game, ''Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt''.

** A ''WesternAnimation/TheAddamsFamily1992'', a 1992-1993 animated series on Creator/{{ABC}} spawned by the success of the 1991 movie. Notable for John Astin reprising Gomez. Also spawned a video game, ''Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt''.