|
"Uncle Fester: School? I never went to school and look how I turned out. |
The Addams Family Goes to School is the first episode of the first season of the original series of The Addams Family. It first aired 18 September 1964 on ABC.
Synopsis[]
A truant officer visits the Addams house to find out why Wednesday and Pugsley have never been to school.
Plot Summary[]
When the school board realizes that the Addams children, Wednesday and Pugsley, are ages six and eight but not yet enrolled in school, they send the truant officer, Mr. Hilliard, to convince Gomez and Morticia to send them.
Wednesday lets Mr. Hilliard inside and shows him Bruno, Pierre, Cousin Farouk, Marie Antoinette, and other oddities. Pugsley arrives and asks her to play with him in the cemetery, burying Marie, so she brings Hilliard to the conservatory where Morticia is tending Cleopatra and her other plants. Morticia tells Mr. Hilliard to speak to Gomez and rings for Lurch to bring him there.
Gomez is playing Trainwreck. He says Mama is in charge of education and takes him to the Guest Room, where she's playing darts with Uncle Fester. Along the way, Gomez shows him Wednesday's box of pedigreed spiders. When he reaches the Guest Room and sees Fester and Mama's dart game, throwing knives at a devil statue, he runs screaming from the house. Nevertheless, Sherwood School insists the children be enrolled.
Cast and Characters[]
Starring[]
- Carolyn Jones as Morticia Addams
- John Astin as Gomez Addams
- Jackie Coogan as Uncle Fester
- Ted Cassidy as Lurch
- Blossom Rock as Grandmama
- Lisa Loring as Wednesday Addams
- Ken Weatherwax as Pugsley Addams
Guest[]
Additional Cast[]
- Madge Blake as Miss Comstock
- Nydia Westman as Miss Morrison
- Rolfe Sedan as Mr. Briggs
- Ted Cassidy as Thing
Uncredited[]
There is no uncredited cast.
Other Characters[]
Shown[]
Mentioned[]
Quotes[]
|
"Morticia, you can't send the children to school, I'd be lost without them!" |
Trivia[]
- When Mr. Hilliard enters, he steps on Bruno, who objects, and gets an eyeful of Cousin Farouk, Pierre, the painting of the giraffe who used to be a friend of Gomez, the two-headed turtle, Wednesday's doll Marie Antoinette, and the samurai.
- When discussing ways to deal with the troublesome superintendent with Miss Comstock, Gomez mentions his old friends Dubois and Goomba.
- It was remade for The New Addams Family episode with the same name.
- Death Valley and Sherwood School are mentioned.
External Links[]
The Addams Family Goes to School on IMDb - The Addams Family Goes to School on Kinorium
- The Addams Family Goes to School on The Movie Database
Gallery[]
_001.jpg "Mr. Briggs (1964) 001.jpg (63 KB)")
References[]