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Fictional family unit created by Charles Addams

The Addams Family
1 of Charles Addams' original cartoons, An Addams Family Holiday, showing (from left to right) Pugsley, Wed, Gomez, Aristotle the octopus, Fester, and Morticia Addams
Created by	Charles Addams
Original work	The New Yorker cartoons
Possessor	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (electric current rights holder) Orion Pictures (original TV series and 1991 pic) Warner Bros. Entertainment (Hanna-Barbera 1973 & 1992 Idiot box serial, Scooby Doo crossover and motion-picture show) Paramount Pictures (1991 & 1993 films) Disney Platform Distribution (1998 TV series) Universal Pictures Cyber Group Studios United Artists Releasing (2019 & 2021 films)
Print publications
Comics	Encounter below (1938)
Films and television
Film(south)	The Addams Family (1991) Addams Family Values (1993) The Addams Family (2019) The Addams Family 2 (2021)
Curt moving-picture show(southward)	The Addams Family Fun-Business firm (1973)
Idiot box series	The Addams Family (1964–1966) The Addams Family (1973) The Addams Family (1992–1993) The New Addams Family (1998–1999)
Boob tube special(south)	The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972) Halloween with the New Addams Family unit (1977)
Straight-to-video	Addams Family unit Reunion (1998) The Addams Family (past Cyber Group Studios)
Theatrical presentations
Musical(due south)	The Addams Family (2010)
Games
Video game(south)	List of video games
Audio
Soundtrack(s)	The Addams Family
Official website
The Addams Family

The Addams Family is a fictional family created by American cartoonist Charles Addams. They originally appeared in a series of 150 unrelated single-console cartoons, about half of which were originally published in The New Yorker over a fifty-year period since their inception in 1938. They take since been adapted to other media, such as goggle box, film, video games, comic books, a musical and merchandising.

The Addamses are a satirical inversion of the ideal 20th-century American family: an odd wealthy aristocratic clan who please in the macabre and are seemingly unaware or unconcerned that other people find them bizarre or frightening. Outset with the 1964 television series, the Addams Family consists of Gomez and Morticia Addams, their children Wednesday and Pugsley, shut family members Uncle Fester^[a] and Grandmama,^[b] their butler Lurch, and Midweek's pet octopus, Aristotle. The dimly seen Thing (later a disembodied hand) was introduced in 1954, and Gomez's Cousin Itt and Morticia'southward pet lion Kitty Kat in 1964. Pubert Addams, Wednesday and Pugsley'south babe brother, was introduced in the 1993 film Addams Family Values.^[c]

In 1964, a live-action television set series premiered on ABC and ran for two seasons. Information technology subsequently inspired a telefilm titled Halloween with the New Addams Family and cameos from the cast in other shows. An unrelated animated series aired in 1973. The franchise was revived in the 1990s with a feature picture show series consisting of The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family unit Values (1993). The films inspired a second animated series (1992–1993) which is set in the same fictional universe. The series was rebooted with a 1998 straight-to-video moving picture and a spin-off live-action television series (1998–1999). In 2010, a alive musical accommodation featuring Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth opened on Broadway and was nominated for ii Tony Awards and eight Drama Desk Awards. The series was again rebooted in 2019 with the animated film The Addams Family unit, which led to a sequel in 2021.

The franchise has become a staple of popular culture. Information technology has spawned a video game series, academic books, and soundtracks which are based around its Grammy-nominated theme song. They have had a profound influence on American comics, picture palace and tv set, and are seen every bit an inspiration for the goth subculture and its fashion.

History [edit]

Original The New Yorker cartoons (1938–1964) [edit]

Charles Addams began as a cartoonist in The New Yorker with a sketch of a window washer that ran on February six, 1932.^[2] The first Addams Family cartoon was published in 1938, in a one-panel gag format. Charles Addams became a regular contributor to The New Yorker, and drew approximately 1,300 cartoons between then and his death in 1988. 58 of these would feature the Addams Family, almost all of which were published in the 1940s and 1950s.^[3]

In 1946, Addams met science fiction writer Ray Bradbury after drawing an analogy for Bradbury'south short story "Homecoming" in Mademoiselle magazine, the kickoff in a series of tales chronicling a family unit of Illinois monsters, the Elliotts. Bradbury and Addams became friends and planned to collaborate on a book of the Elliott Family'south consummate history, with Bradbury writing and Addams providing the illustrations, but it never materialized. Bradbury's Elliott Family unit stories were anthologized in From the Dust Returned (2001), with a connecting narrative, an explanation of his work with Addams, and Addams's 1946 Mademoiselle illustration used for the volume's cover jacket. Although Addams's own characters were well established by the time of their initial encounter, in a 2001 interview, Bradbury states that Addams "went his way and created the Addams Family and I went my own way and created my family in this book."^[4]

Outside of The New Yorker, Addams as well published several collections, the well-nigh notable beingness Dear Expressionless Days: A Family Album in 1959. The editor of The New Yorker, William Shawn prevented any further Addams family cartoons from being printed after the 1964 launch of the goggle box franchise.^[iii]

Idiot box Adaptations and rise to popularity (1964–1977) [edit]

A 1964 television receiver accommodation brought the series to a much wider audience and was well received. Producer Nat Perrin took a "less evil" arroyo to the characters and stories than Addams had in the cartoons, emphasizing lighter, more comedic elements. Stephen Cox later referred to the series as "more than zany than spooky". The popular serial, broadcast on the ABC network, ran only two seasons.

The franchise remained in the popular consciousness even afterwards the series concluded, with the "Lurch" trip the light fantastic toe move remaining popular through the 1960s for case. The television serial was often re-run through television syndication for years afterward, in some areas standing to broadcast every bit late equally 1991. It was followed past a 1972 crossover appearance in Scooby-Doo and a 1973 animated series. The blithe incarnation featured a new cast except for Felix Silla, who returned every bit Cousin Itt. A one-shot special, Halloween with the New Addams Family, reunited almost of the original cast from the 1964 serial.^[3]

Moving picture series [edit]

The franchise was largely inactive throughout the 1980s. The 1987 retirement of William Shawn immune a brief return of the cartoons to The New Yorker, though Charles Addams himself died only a year later on.

Two alive-action films were directed past Barry Sonnenfeld and released in the early 1990s, featuring a new bandage. While the 1991 film received mixed reviews from critics, it performed reasonably well at the box office. A second movie in 1993, Addams Family Values, had the inverse reception. It was highly regarded by critics but, unexpectedly, performed poorly at the box office, and earned less than half the acquirement of its predecessor. This, and the sudden expiry of Gomez actor Raul Julia in 1994, prevented Sonnenfeld from producing further films.^[3] Both received nominations for Academy Awards, BAFTA Awards, and Hugo Awards. For her role equally Morticia, Anjelica Huston was twice nominated for the Gilt World Award for All-time Actress, and Raul Julia (as Gomez), Christina Ricci (equally Wednesday), Christopher Lloyd (equally Fester), and Joan Cusack (equally Fester's wife, Debbie Jellinsky, in the sequel) received multiple Saturn Award and American Comedy Honor nominations for their portrayals. Following the wave of interest in the franchise, a 1992 animated television series notably saw John Astin reprise his function equally Gomez, almost thirty years afterwards his first appearance in the role in 1964. It was nominated for four Daytime Emmy Awards, including one for Astin.

A direct-to-video moving picture was produced by Saban Entertainment in 1998 and featured a returning Carel Struycken as Lurch, though was otherwise unrelated to the Sonnenfeld films and was very poorly received. The motion-picture show was intended equally the pilot to a Canadian-produced live-action television series, The New Addams Family, which aired until the following twelvemonth. Astin, then in his belatedly 60s, returned equally Grandpapa Addams, rather than Gomez.

Animated revival [edit]

A Tim Burton stop-movement moving-picture show was announced in 2010 but never developed. Instead, a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animated picture was announced in 2013. Unlike the Burton version, this would use 3D computer animation. The film was eventually released in 2019, to a moderate box-office reception. A sequel, released in 2021 amongst the COVID-19 pandemic, was far less successful. Both films received negative audience reception, with the ii films scoring 44% and thirty% on review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, respectively.

Premise and background [edit]

Gomez and Pugsley are enthusiastic. Morticia is fifty-fifty in disposition, muted, witty, sometimes mortiferous. Grandma Frump is foolishly adept-natured. Wednesday is her mother's daughter. A closely-knit family, the existent caput being Morticia—although each of the others is a definite grapheme—except for Grandma, who is easily led. Many of the troubles they have as a family are due to Grandma'southward fumbling, weak character. The house is a wreck, of course, just this is a house-proud family just the aforementioned and every trap door is in good repair. Money is no problem.

—Charles Addams^[1]

The family unit appears to be a single surviving branch of the Addams association. Many other "Addams families" exist all over the world. According to the picture show version, the family credo is, Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc (pseudo-Latin: "Nosotros gladly feast on those who would subdue us"). Charles Addams was first inspired by his hometown of Westfield, New Jersey, an area total of ornate Victorian mansions and primitive graveyards.^[5] In the original comics series they live in a gothic house on Cemetery Ridge. Co-ordinate to the television set series, the residence is a gloomy mansion adjacent to a cemetery and a swamp located in an unspecified American town. In the musical (first shown in Chicago in 2009), the house is located in Central Park.^[half-dozen] In the 2019 film, the Addamses live in an abandoned asylum located in the outskirts of the country of New Jersey which is haunted by a disembodied resident who demands the property to remain undisturbed.

Although nigh of the humor derives from the fact that they share macabre interests, the Addamses are non evil. They are a close-knit extended family. Morticia is an exemplary female parent, and she and Gomez remain passionate towards each other; as established in the television series, she calls him "bubbeleh",^[7] to which he responds past kissing her arms, beliefs which Morticia can besides provoke by speaking a few words in French (their meanings are non important; any words in French will do). The parents are supportive of their children (except in the 2019 film when Wednesday arrives dwelling wearing a pink dress). The family is friendly and hospitable to visitors; in some cases, it is willing to donate big sums of coin to causes (tv set series and films), despite the visitors' horror at the Addamses' peculiar lifestyle. The characters were unnamed until the advent of the 1964 television adaptation, except for Wednesday who was first named for a 1962 licensed doll drove.^[iii]

Adaptations [edit]

Television [edit]

The Addams Family (1964–1966) [edit]

In 1964, the ABC TV network created The Addams Family television series based on Addams'southward drawing characters. The series was shot in black-and-white and aired for two seasons in 64 half-hour episodes (September 18, 1964 – September 2, 1966). During the original television run of The Addams Family television series, The New Yorker editor William Shawn refused to publish any Addams Family cartoons. Even so, he connected to publish other Charles Addams cartoons. Shawn regarded his magazine every bit targeting a more than refined readership and he did not want it to exist associated with characters who could be seen on television receiver by the more full general public. After Shawn'southward 1987 retirement, the characters were welcomed back to The New Yorker.

The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972) [edit]

The Addams Family unit's first blithe appearance was on the 3rd episode of Hanna-Barbera's The New Scooby-Doo Movies, "Scooby-Doo Meets the Addams Family" (a.k.a. "Wednesday is Missing"), which first aired on CBS Saturday morn, on September 23, 1972. Four members of the original cast (John Astin, Carolyn Jones, Jackie Coogan, and Ted Cassidy) returned for the special, which involved the Addamses in a mystery with the Scooby-Doo gang. The Addams Family characters were drawn to the specifications of the original Charles Addams cartoons. Later the episode aired, fans wanted more animated adventures featuring the Addamses, and Hanna-Barbera obliged.

The Addams Family Fun-House (1973) [edit]

In late 1972, ABC produced a pilot for a live-action musical variety evidence which was titled The Addams Family Fun-House. The cast included Jack Riley and Liz Torres as Gomez and Morticia (the pair too co-wrote the special), Stubby Kaye as Uncle Fester, Pat McCormick equally Lurch and Butch Patrick (who had played Eddie Munster on The Munsters) every bit Pugsley. Felix Silla reprised his part every bit Cousin Itt, connecting it to the original Television set series. The pilot aired in 1973, just information technology was not picked up for a series.^[8]

The Addams Family (1973) [edit]

The first animated series ran on Saturday mornings from 1973 to 1975 on NBC. In a departure from the original series, this serial took the Addamses on the road in a Victorian-style RV. This series also marked the point where the relationships between the characters were changed so that Fester was at present Gomez'due south brother, and Grandmama was at present Morticia's mother (though the erstwhile relationships between the characters would be revisited in the 1977 television movie, in order to retain its continuity with the original sitcom). Although Coogan and Cassidy reprised their roles, Astin and Jones did not; their parts were recast with Hanna-Barbera vox talents Lennie Weinrib equally Gomez and Janet Waldo every bit Morticia, while a ten-year-one-time Jodie Foster provided the voice of Pugsley. Once more, the characters were drawn to the specifications of the original Charles Addams cartoons. Ane flavor was produced, and the second flavour consisted of reruns. The bear witness's theme music was completely different and information technology had no lyrics and no finger snaps, although it retained a bit of the 4-note score from the live-action show.

The Addams Family Comic Book [edit]

From 1974 to 1975, Aureate Key Comics produced a comic book series in connexion with the show, but information technology only lasted 3 problems. Each event was adapted from a TV episode, starting with "In Search of the Boola-Boola" (October 1974).^[9]

Halloween with the New Addams Family (1977) [edit]

A tv reunion moving picture, Halloween with the New Addams Family, aired on NBC on Sunday, October thirty, 1977. Information technology features most of the original cast, except Blossom Rock, who had played Grandmama. She was still alive just was very ill at the time; Jane Rose replaced her. Veteran character actors Parley Baer and Vito Scotti, who both had recurring roles on the original serial, also appeared in the movie. The movie has a slightly different version of the theme song; the finger snaps are used but not the lyrics.

Gomez and Morticia have had two more than children, Wednesday Jr. and Pugsley Jr., who strongly resemble their older siblings. Gomez's brother, Pancho, is staying with the family while Gomez attends a lodge meeting in Tombstone, Arizona. Gomez is jealous of his brother, who once courted Morticia. Halloween is nigh, and Pancho tells the children the legend of the Great Pumpkin-like character of Cousin Shy, who distributes gifts and carves pumpkins for good children on Halloween night. Wednesday (now called "Midweek, Sr.") is home from music academy, where she is studying the piccolo (breaking drinking glass with information technology). Pugsley (now "Pugsley, Sr.") is home from Nairobi medical school, where he is training to be a witch medico. The family's home has been bewitched past a gang of crooks which intends to steal the family's fortune. Lafferty, the boss, sends a gang member named Mikey into the house to investigate. Mikey panics and flees subsequently treading on the tail of Kitty Kat the lion. The crooks utilize a fake Gomez and Morticia to aid them behave out their plans, along with two strong-arm goons, Hercules and Atlas. Gomez returns abode to gloat the Halloween party and trim the scarecrow. Lafferty poses as Quincy Addams (from Boston) to proceeds entrance to the house during the party. He has his men necktie up Gomez and Morticia, and his doubles take their places, confusing Pancho, who is all the same in love with Morticia, and Ophelia, who is however in love with Gomez. Gomez and Morticia escape (thanks to the "Onetime Piccolo Game"), and rejoin the party, simply to have Lafferty use various methods to try to get rid of them. Lurch scares off the thugs and terrifies Lafferty'due south other banana. Fester, trying to be squeamish, puts Lafferty on the rack. Lafferty tries to escape through the clandestine passage and steps on Kitty Kat's tail. When the constabulary go far, the crooks gladly surrender. The Addamses are then complimentary to gloat Halloween happily, ending the night by singing together in welcome for Cousin Shy.

The Addams Family: The Animated Series (1992–1993) [edit]

The remake series ran on Saturday mornings from 1992 to 1993 on ABC after producers realized the success of the 1991 Addams Family pic. This series returned to the familiar format of the original series, with the Addams Family facing their sitcom situations at dwelling. John Astin returned to the role of Gomez, and celebrities Rip Taylor and Carol Channing took over the roles of Fester and Grandmama, respectively. Veteran voice actors Jim Cummings, Debi Derryberry, Jeannie Elias and Pat Fraley did the voices of Lurch, Wed, Pugsley and Cousin Itt, respectively. New artistic models of the characters were used for this serial, though still having a passing resemblance to the original cartoons. Two seasons were produced, with the third year containing reruns. Oddly in this series, Wed maintained her macabre, heart-searching mental attitude from the Addams Family movies. Still, her facial expressions and torso linguistic communication conveyed the happy-go-lucky, fun attitude of her portrayal in the original television show. The original Vic Mizzy theme song, although slightly unlike, was used for the opening.

The New Addams Family unit (1998–1999) [edit]

The New Addams Family was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and ran for 65 episodes (one more than the original Boob tube series) during the 1998–1999 season on the then-newly launched Fox Family Channel. Many storylines from the original serial were reworked for this new series, incorporating more modern elements and jokes. John Astin returned to the franchise in some episodes of this series, admitting as "Grandpapa" Addams (Gomez's grandfather, a character introduced in Addams Family Reunion). The cast included Glenn Taranto as Gomez Addams, Ellie Harvie every bit Morticia, Michael Roberds as Fester, Brody Smith as Pugsley, Nicole Fugere (the only bandage member from Addams Family unit Reunion to return) every bit Wed, John DeSantis as Lurch, Betty Phillips equally Grandmama and Steven Trick equally Thing.

Midweek (TBA) [edit]

In 2021, Netflix announced a live-activity Television serial adaptation based on the character of Wednesday Addams, starring Jenna Ortega every bit the title character. Information technology will exist produced by MGM Television, with Alfred Gough and Miles Millar every bit showrunners and Tim Burton as series director in his get-go televised directorial endeavor.^[10] Wednesday, a student at Nevermore University, solves mysteries using her psychic ability. These include murders and a 25-yr-old mystery involving her family.^[11] Luis Guzmán will star every bit Gomez,^[12] and Catherine Zeta-Jones will star as Morticia.^[13] Hunter Doohan, Georgie Farmer, Moosa Mostafa, Emma Myers, Naomi J. Ogawa, Joy Sunday, Percy Hynes White, Thora Birch, Riki Lindhome, Jamie McShane and Gwendoline Christie were added to the cast as serial regulars.^{[xiv] [xv]}

Feature films [edit]

Coiffure/detail	Films			Reboots
	The Addams Family (1991)	Addams Family Values (1993)	Addams Family Reunion (1998)	The Addams Family (2019)	The Addams Family 2 (2021)
Manager	Barry Sonnenfeld		Dave Payne	Conrad Vernon Greg Tiernan	Conrad Vernon Greg Tiernan Co-directed past: Laura Brousseau Kevin Pavlovic[sixteen]
Producer	Scott Rudin		Mike Elliott	Gail Berman Conrad Vernon Alex Schwartz Alison O'Brien	Gail Berman Conrad Vernon Danielle Sterling Alison O'Brien
Author(s)	Caroline Thompson Larry Wilson	Paul Rudnick	Rob Kerchner Scott Sandin	Screenplay by: Matt Lieberman Story past: Matt Lieberman Erica Rivinoja Conrad Vernon	Screenplay by: Dan Hernandez Benji Samit Ben Queen Susanna Fogel Story by: Dan Hernandez Benji Samit
Based on	The Addams Family by Charles Addams
Composer	Marc Shaiman		Amotz Plessner	Mychael Danna Jeff Danna
Cinematography	Owen Roizman	Donald Peterman	Christian Sebaldt	North/A
Editor(southward)	Dede Allen	Arthur Schmidt Jim Miller	J. J. Jackson	David Ian Salter	Ryan Folsay
Production company	Paramount Pictures Scott Rudin Productions	Scott Rudin Productions	Saban Amusement	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Bron Creative Nitrogen Studios Cinesite Studios The Jackal Group	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Bron Creative Nitrogen Studios Cinesite Studios The Jackal Group Glickmania
Distributor	Paramount Pictures (United States and Latin America) Columbia Pictures (International)[17]	Paramount Pictures	Warner Home Video	United Artists Releasing (U.s.) Universal Pictures (International)
Runtime	99 minutes	94 minutes	91 minutes	87 minutes	93 minutes
Release engagement	November 22, 1991	November 19, 1993	September 22, 1998	October 11, 2019	October 1, 2021

The Addams Family (1991) [edit]

In the 1990s, Orion Pictures (which by then had inherited the rights to the series) developed a film version, The Addams Family (released on November 22, 1991). Because of the studio's financial troubles at the time, Orion sold the US rights to the movie to Paramount Pictures. On October one, 2019, Paramount Pictures^[18] released double feature of Addams Family and Addams Family unit Values on Blu-ray in the United states.

Addams Family Values (1993) [edit]

Upon the concluding film'south success, a sequel followed: Addams Family Values (released on November nineteen, 1993, with worldwide distribution past Paramount). Loosened content restrictions allowed the films to use far more grotesque humour that strove to go on the Addams cartoons' original spirit (in fact, several gags were lifted straight from the single-panel cartoons). The two films used the same cast, except for Grandmama, played by Judith Malina and Ballad Kane in the showtime and 2nd films, respectively. A script for a third film was prepared in 1994, just was abandoned afterwards the sudden death of actor Raul Julia that year.

Addams Family unit Reunion (1998) [edit]

Another film, Addams Family Reunion, was released direct-to-video on September 22, 1998, this time by Warner Bros. through its video division. It has no relation to the Paramount movies, being in fact a full-length pilot for a 2nd live-action television receiver version, The New Addams Family, produced and shot in Canada. The 3rd motion-picture show's Gomez, played by Tim Curry, follows the style of Raul Julia, while the new sitcom's Gomez, played by Glenn Taranto, is played in the style of John Astin, who had played the character in the 1960s. The only actors in this Warner Bros./Saban Entertainment production to have played in the previous Paramount films were Carel Struycken as Lurch and Christopher Hart as Thing.

Cancelled film [edit]

In 2010, information technology was announced that Illumination Entertainment, in partnership with Universal Pictures, had acquired the underlying rights to the Addams Family unit drawings.^[19] The film was planned to be a finish-motion animated film based on Charles Addams'due south original drawings. Tim Burton was set to co-write and co-produce the picture show, with a possibility to direct.^[20] In July 2013 however, it was reported that the motion-picture show was cancelled.^[21]

Reboot [edit]

On October 31, 2013, it was appear in Variety that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will be reviving The Addams Family as an animated motion picture with Pamela Pettler to write the screenplay and Andrew Mittman and Kevin Miserocchi to executive produce the film and they were in final negotiations with BermanBraun'south Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun to produce it.^[22] By Oct 2017, Conrad Vernon had been hired to directly the film, which he will also produce along with Berman and Alex Schwartz, based on a screenplay written by Pettler, with revisions by Matt Lieberman.^[23] The motion-picture show was released on October 11, 2019.^[24] On October 8, 2020, MGM announced that a sequel is in the works with an announcement trailer.^[25] The original bandage fix to return. Bill Hader and Javon "Wanna" Walton have also been cast to voice. Beak Hader will play a new grapheme named Cyrus, while Javon will supervene upon Finn Wolfhard as the vocalisation of Pugsley Addams. Directors Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon are set to return as directors. The film is released on October one, 2021.^[26]

Homages and adaptations [edit]

• An animated television homage was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. Mr. & Mrs. J. Evil Scientist, a family of fictional characters inspired by The Addams Family appeared on the Snagglepuss and Snooper and Blabber animated tv series beginning in 1959 and it likewise starred in its ain comic book.
• Comedian Melissa Hunter wrote the web series Adult Wed Addams, which is a comedic adaptation of the franchise.^[27] Hunter was forced to remove the series due to legal action.
• In an episode of Horrible Histories a song titled "The Borgia Family" was created in reference to the Addams Family unit Theme.
• In 1964, the yr The Addams Family debuted, Hanna-Barbera introduced Weirdly and Creepella Gruesome and family, based in function on Mr. & Mrs. J. Evil Scientist and in part on the Addamses, equally recurrent characters on The Flintstones. ^[28]

Video games [edit]

Ten video games released from 1989 to 2021 were based on The Addams Family.

• Fester'southward Quest (1989) was a superlative-down take a chance game that featured Uncle Fester.
• The Addams Family unit LCD Video Game by Tiger Electronics was a handheld unit released in 1991.
• The Addams Family Pinball was a arcade pinball automobile released by Midway in 1992
• In 1992, two versions of The Addams Family were released by Ocean Software based on the 1991 movie: an 8-bit version for the Nintendo Amusement System, Game Male child, Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear, ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64, and a 16-bit version released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment Arrangement, Amiga, Atari ST and Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. ICOM Simulations published The Addams Family video game for the TurboGrafx-CD in 1991.
• The games' sequel, The Addams Family: Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt (1993), also past Ocean Software, was based on the ABC animated series and was released for NES, SNES, and Game Boy (although the latter 2 were but 8-bit remakes of the first SNES game, swapping Pugsley'due south and Gomez's roles).
• Addams Family Values (1994) by Body of water was based on the picture show's sequel and returned to the style of gameplay seen in Fester's Quest.
• A Game Boy Colour game was released in the 1990s for promotion of The New Addams Family. The game was titled The New Addams Family unit Serial. In this game, the Addams mansion had been bought by a fictional visitor chosen "Funnyday" that wanted to tear down the firm and surrounding grounds to make room for an amusement park.
• An arcade shocker, The New Addams Family Electric Shock Motorcar (also known as Electrifying), was released by Eurocom and Nova Productions in 1999.
• A 2019 mobile game for Android and iOS, The Addams Family Mystery Mansion, released past Animoca.^[29]
• The Addams Family: Mansion Mayhem, a movie tie-in game for Steam, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox and Google Stadia developed by PHL Collective and published by British publisher Outright Games, was released on September 24, 2021.

Pinball [edit]

A pinball game by Midway (under the Bally label) was released in 1992 presently after the movie. It is the best-selling pinball game of all fourth dimension.^[30]

Books [edit]

The Addams Family unit [edit]

This offset novelisation of the tv series, written by Jack Sharkey, was released virtually the stop of the bear witness's 2d season. The book details the family'southward arrival in their new home and explains how it got its bizarre décor. The inflow and origins of Matter are explained. Each chapter reads as a self-contained story, like episodes of the goggle box testify. The novel concludes with the Addams family discovering that their lives will exist the footing for a new telly series. Information technology was published in paperback by Pyramid Books in 1965.^[31]

The Addams Family Strikes Back [edit]

The Addams Family Strikes Back by West.F. Miksch tells how Gomez plans to rehabilitate the image of Benedict Arnold by running for the local schoolhouse board. The tone and characterizations in this book resemble the TV characters much more closely than in the outset novel. Cousin Itt appears as a minor character in this story, but as a tiny, three-legged animal rather than the hairy, derby-hatted character seen on television and in the movies. The novel was published in paperback form by Pyramid Books in 1965.^[31]

The Addams Family unit: An Evilution [edit]

The Addams Family: An Evilution is a volume about the "evilution" of The Addams Family characters, with more 200 published and previously unpublished cartoons, and includes text by Charles Addams and H. Kevin Miserocchi, Manager of the Tee and Charles Addams Foundation. Pomegranate Press published the book in 2010.

Advertizement [edit]

In 1994, the actors bandage every bit the Addamses in the beginning two films (sans the recently deceased Raul Julia) were in several Japanese television spots for the Honda Odyssey.^[32] The Addamses are seen speaking Japanese—most prominently Gomez (for whom a phonation thespian was used to impersonate Julia while footage from Addams Family unit Values was seen) and Morticia.^[33]

In 2007 and 2008, the Addams Family appeared as M&M's in an ad campaign for Yard&M's Dark Chocolate.^[34]

Soundtrack [edit]

A theme song for the 1964 TV serial as well as a soundtrack album the side by side yr were released, both equanimous by Vic Mizzy and the latter containing all of his compositions for the series entitled Original Music From The Addams Family.^[35]

Musical [edit]

The Addams Family [edit]

In May 2007, it was appear that a musical inspired by The Addams Family drawings past Charles Addams was being developed for the Broadway stage. Broadway veterans Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice wrote the volume, and Andrew Lippa wrote the score. Julian Hunker and Phelim McDermott (Improbable theatre founders) directed and designed the production, with choreography by Sergio Trujillo.^[36] A workshop and private manufacture presentation was held August iv–viii, 2008. Featured in the cast were Bebe Neuwirth equally Morticia, Krysta Rodriguez every bit Wednesday, and Nathan Lane equally Gomez. In addition, Kevin Chamberlin played Uncle Fester and Zachary James played Lurch.

The musical opened in previews at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Broadway on March 8, 2010, with an official opening on Apr 8,^[37] after an out-of-town tryout in Chicago at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts from November 13, 2009, to Jan 10, 2010.^{[38] [39]} The cast includes Lane as Gomez, Neuwirth as Morticia, Terrence Isle of mann every bit Mal Beineke, Carolee Carmello every bit Alice Beineke, Chamberlin equally Uncle Fester, Jackie Hoffman as Grandma, Zachary James every bit Lurch, Krysta Rodriguez equally Wednesday, and Wesley Taylor as Wednesday'southward love interest, Lucas Beineke.^[40] The Broadway production ran for 22 months, closing on December 31, 2011, subsequently 35 previews and 722 performances.^[41]

On September v, 2016, information technology was announced that the musical would premiere in the Uk, on a major UK and Ireland tour produced by James Yeoburn and Stuart Matthew Price for United Theatrical.^[42] The product was directed by Matthew White and it opened at Edinburgh Festival Theatre on April 20, 2017, starring Samantha Womack, Les Dennis and Carrie Hope Fletcher.^[43]

Cast and characters [edit]

Show	Gomez Addams	Morticia Addams	Pugsley Addams	Wednesday Addams	Uncle Fester	Grandmama	Lurch	Thing	Cousin Itt
The Addams Family unit (1964–66)	John Astin	Carolyn Jones	Ken Weatherwax	Lisa Loring	Jackie Coogan	Bloom Rock	Ted Cassidy	Ted Cassidy / Jack Voglin	Felix Silla
The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972)	John Astin	Carolyn Jones	Jodie Foster	Cindy Henderson	Jackie Coogan	Janet Waldo	Ted Cassidy		John Stephenson
The Addams Family Fun-Firm (1973)	Jack Riley	Liz Torres	Butch Patrick	Noelle Von Sonn	Stubby Kaye		Pat McCormick		Felix Silla
The Addams Family (1973–74)	Lennie Weinrib	Janet Waldo	Jodie Foster	Cindy Henderson	Jackie Coogan	Janet Waldo	Ted Cassidy		John Stephenson
Halloween with the New Addams Family (1977)	John Astin	Carolyn Jones	Ken Weatherwax	Lisa Loring	Jackie Coogan	Jane Rose	Ted Cassidy	Ted Cassidy	Felix Silla
The Addams Family (1991)	Raul Julia	Anjelica Huston	Jimmy Workman	Christina Ricci	Christopher Lloyd	Judith Malina	Carel Struycken	Christopher Hart	John Franklin
The Addams Family unit (1992–1993)	John Astin	Nancy Linari	Jeannie Elias	Debi Derryberry	Rip Taylor	Ballad Channing	Jim Cummings		Pat Fraley
Addams Family unit Values (1993)	Raul Julia	Anjelica Huston	Jimmy Workman	Christina Ricci	Christopher Lloyd	Ballad Kane	Carel Struycken	Christopher Hart	John Franklin
Addams Family Reunion (1998)	Tim Curry	Daryl Hannah	Jerry Messing	Nicole Fugere	Patrick Thomas	Alice Ghostley	Carel Struycken	Christopher Hart	Phil Fondacaro
The New Addams Family unit (1998–99)	Glenn Taranto	Ellie Harvie	Brody Smith	Nicole Fugere	Michael Roberds	Betty Phillips	John DeSantis	Steven Pull a fast one on	David Mylrea / Paul Dobson
The Addams Family (musical) (2010)	Nathan Lane	Bebe Neuwirth	Adam Riegler	Krysta Rodriguez	Kevin Chamberlin	Jackie Hoffman	Zachary James	Fred Inkley	Fred Inkley
The Addams Family (2019)	Oscar Isaac	Charlize Theron	Finn Wolfhard	Chloë Grace Moretz	Nick Kroll	Bette Midler	Conrad Vernon		Snoop Dogg
The Addams Family ii (2021)	Oscar Isaac	Charlize Theron	Javon "Wanna" Walton	Chloë Grace Moretz	Nick Kroll	Bette Midler	Conrad Vernon		Snoop Dogg

Legacy [edit]

The family has had a profound influence on American comics, cinema and television,^{[44] [45] [46]} and information technology has too been seen every bit an inspiration for the goth subculture and its fashion.^{[47] [48]} Co-ordinate to The Telegraph, the Addamses "are ane of the most iconic families in American history, up at that place with the Kennedys".^[49] Similarly, Time has compared "the relevance and the cultural accomplish" of the family with those of the Kennedys and the Roosevelts, "then much a part of the American landscape that it's hard to hash out the country's history without mentioning them".^[50] For Boob tube Guide, which listed the characters in the top x of The threescore Greatest Telly Families of All Time, the Addamses "provid[ed] the pattern for cartoonish clans to come, like the Flintstones and the Simpsons".^[51] Attributable to their popularity, the starting time feature-length adaptation has been identified as a "cult pic",^[52] while Addams Family Values was listed as one of The 50 Best family unit films by The Guardian ^[53] and nominated for the American Moving-picture show Plant'due south 100 Years...100 Laughs at the turn of the century.^[54] Ricci'southward portrayal of Wednesday in the film serial was ranked one of The 100 Greatest Movie Characters past Empire,^[55] and in 2011 AOL named Morticia one of The 100 Near Memorable Female Television receiver Characters.^[56]

See as well [edit]

• The Munsters – A franchise based on a sitcom with a similar premise.

Notes [edit]

1. ^ There are approved differences betwixt the diverse incarnations of Fester Addams. In the two live-action feature films, both animated series, the 1998 television picture show, and the 2019 animated film, he is portrayed equally Gomez's brother. In the 1964 telly serial, even so, he is portrayed equally Morticia'south maternal uncle (via her mother, Hester Frump).
2. ^ Just like Fester, there are canonical differences between the diverse incarnations of Grandmamma Addams. In the 2 alive-action feature films, both animated series, and the 1998 television motion picture, she is portrayed as Morticia'due south mother. In his notes for the original cartoons, Charles Addams even refers to her equally Grandma Frump, rendering her Wednesday'south and Pugsley's maternal grandmother.^{[ane] : 2} In the 1964 television series and the 2019 animated film, nonetheless, she is portrayed as Gomez'due south female parent.
3. ^ In Halloween with the New Addams Family, Gomez and Morticia take a 2d son, Pugsley Jr., and a second daughter, Wednesday Jr. Meanwhile, in Addams Family unit Values, Gomez and Morticia welcome a 3rd son, Pubert Addams. To this day, no released media has featured Pugsley Jr., Wednesday Jr., and Pubert together.

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External links [edit]

• The Addams Foundation website
• The Addams Family (1937) at Don Markstein'south Toonopedia. Archived from the original on March 13, 2012.
• The Addams Family United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland (musical website)
• The Addams Family on TVLand.com
• The New Addams Family at IMDb
• The Addams Family Musical at the Internet Broadway Database

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