Addams Family

From TeeVeePedia, the Internet TV Encyclopedia.

The Addams Family (1964-1966) was a series that followed the adventures of a family of monsters.

Main Characters

  • Lily Morticia Addams, the long-suffering demonic matriarch
  • Herman Addams, her bumbling, cigar-chewing unemployed husband
  • Grandpa Fester, a deranged vampire
  • Edith "Eddie" Addams, the transgendered younger child
  • Marilyn "Wednesday" Addams, the bombshell teenage daughter, who often hid her blond curls under a dark wig for the sake of the family's reputation.

Supporting Characters

  • Alfred, their gigantic manservant
  • Captain Caveman, a walking pillar of hair
  • Thing, a zombie hand who later found fame as part of Victor Borge's stage act.

It is not widely known that the Addams Family was based on a real family called the Munsters, nor that Harry of Harry and the Hendersons fame is, in reality, the illegitimate son of Alfred and Captain Caveman. The Munster family has taken a great deal of care to hide these details from the public eye, not wishing their true identities to be exposed.

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