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Fictional family created past Charles Addams

The Addams Family unit
Ane of Charles Addams' original cartoons, An Addams Family Holiday, showing (from left to right) Pugsley, Wednesday, Gomez, Aristotle the octopus, Fester, and Morticia Addams
Created past	Charles Addams
Original work	The New Yorker cartoons
Possessor	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (electric current rights holder) Orion Pictures (original Goggle box series and 1991 moving-picture show) Warner Bros. Amusement (Hanna-Barbera 1973 & 1992 Goggle box series, Scooby Doo crossover and moving-picture show) Paramount Pictures (1991 & 1993 films) Disney Platform Distribution (1998 Tv series) Universal Pictures Cyber Grouping Studios United Artists Releasing (2019 & 2021 films)
Print publications
Comics	See below (1938)
Films and television
Picture(southward)	The Addams Family (1991) Addams Family Values (1993) The Addams Family unit (2019) The Addams Family unit two (2021)
Curt film(s)	The Addams Family Fun-House (1973)
Tv series	The Addams Family (1964–1966) The Addams Family (1973) The Addams Family (1992–1993) The New Addams Family unit (1998–1999)
Television special(south)	The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972) Halloween with the New Addams Family (1977)
Direct-to-video	Addams Family Reunion (1998) The Addams Family (by Cyber Grouping Studios)
Theatrical presentations
Musical(s)	The Addams Family (2010)
Games
Video game(due south)	Listing 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 serial of 150 unrelated single-console cartoons, nearly half of which were originally published in The New Yorker over a 50-year period since their inception in 1938. They have since been adjusted to other media, such as television, motion-picture show, video games, comic books, a musical and merchandising.

The Addamses are a satirical inversion of the platonic 20th-century American family unit: an odd wealthy aristocratic association who delight in the macabre and are seemingly unaware or unconcerned that other people find them bizarre or frightening. First with the 1964 television serial, the Addams Family consists of Gomez and Morticia Addams, their children Wednesday and Pugsley, close family members Uncle Fester^[a] and Grandmama,^[b] their butler Lurch, and Wed's pet octopus, Aristotle. The dimly seen Thing (subsequently a disembodied hand) was introduced in 1954, and Gomez's Cousin Itt and Morticia's pet lion Kitty Kat in 1964. Pubert Addams, Wed and Pugsley's infant brother, was introduced in the 1993 moving-picture show Addams Family Values.^[c]

In 1964, a live-action television serial premiered on ABC and ran for ii seasons. It subsequently inspired a telefilm titled Halloween with the New Addams Family and cameos from the bandage in other shows. An unrelated animated series aired in 1973. The franchise was revived in the 1990s with a feature film series consisting of The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993). The films inspired a second animated series (1992–1993) which is gear up in the aforementioned fictional universe. The series was rebooted with a 1998 direct-to-video film and a spin-off alive-action television series (1998–1999). In 2010, a live musical adaptation featuring Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth opened on Broadway and was nominated for 2 Tony Awards and eight Drama Desk Awards. The series was again rebooted in 2019 with the animated pic The Addams Family, which led to a sequel in 2021.

The franchise has become a staple of pop civilization. It 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, cinema and television, and are seen every bit an inspiration for the goth subculture and its mode.

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 6, 1932.^[2] The first Addams Family drawing was published in 1938, in a one-panel gag format. Charles Addams became a regular correspondent 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, nigh all of which were published in the 1940s and 1950s.^[3]

In 1946, Addams met science fiction author Ray Bradbury subsequently drawing an illustration for Bradbury'due south short story "Homecoming" in Mademoiselle magazine, the first in a serial of tales chronicling a family of Illinois monsters, the Elliotts. Bradbury and Addams became friends and planned to collaborate on a book of the Elliott Family'due south complete history, with Bradbury writing and Addams providing the illustrations, merely it never materialized. Bradbury'southward Elliott Family stories were anthologized in From the Dust Returned (2001), with a connecting narrative, an explanation of his piece of work with Addams, and Addams's 1946 Mademoiselle analogy used for the book's embrace jacket. Although Addams's ain characters were well established past the time of their initial run across, in a 2001 interview, Bradbury states that Addams "went his manner and created the Addams Family and I went my own style and created my family unit in this volume."^[iv]

Outside of The New Yorker, Addams as well published several collections, the near notable beingness Honey Dead Days: A Family unit Album in 1959. The editor of The New Yorker, William Shawn prevented any further Addams family cartoons from beingness printed subsequently the 1964 launch of the television receiver franchise.^[3]

TV Adaptations and ascension to popularity (1964–1977) [edit]

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

The franchise remained in the popular consciousness even subsequently the serial ended, with the "Lurch" dance move remaining popular through the 1960s for example. The telly series was often re-run through television syndication for years later on, in some areas continuing to circulate as late as 1991. Information technology was followed by a 1972 crossover advent in Scooby-Doo and a 1973 blithe serial. The animated incarnation featured a new bandage except for Felix Silla, who returned as Cousin Itt. A i-shot special, Halloween with the New Addams Family, reunited most of the original cast from the 1964 series.^[3]

Film serial [edit]

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

Two live-action films were directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and released in the early 1990s, featuring a new cast. While the 1991 film received mixed reviews from critics, it performed reasonably well at the box part. A second film in 1993, Addams Family Values, had the inverse reception. Information technology was highly regarded past 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 University Awards, BAFTA Awards, and Hugo Awards. For her function as Morticia, Anjelica Huston was twice nominated for the Golden World Award for Best Actress, and Raul Julia (equally Gomez), Christina Ricci (as Wednesday), Christopher Lloyd (every bit Fester), and Joan Cusack (as Fester'southward married woman, Debbie Jellinsky, in the sequel) received multiple Saturn Award and American Comedy Honour nominations for their portrayals. Post-obit the moving ridge of interest in the franchise, a 1992 animated telly series notably saw John Astin reprise his role equally Gomez, almost 30 years after his showtime appearance in the role in 1964. Information technology was nominated for four Daytime Emmy Awards, including i for Astin.

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

Animated revival [edit]

A Tim Burton end-move film was appear in 2010 only never developed. Instead, a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animated film was announced in 2013. Different the Burton version, this would utilize 3D computer blitheness. The moving picture was eventually released in 2019, to a moderate box-function reception. A sequel, released in 2021 amid the COVID-19 pandemic, was far less successful. Both films received negative audience reception, with the 2 films scoring 44% and thirty% on review assemblage website Rotten Tomatoes, respectively.

Premise and background [edit]

Gomez and Pugsley are enthusiastic. Morticia is even in disposition, muted, witty, sometimes deadly. Grandma Frump is foolishly skillful-natured. Wed is her mother'due south daughter. A closely-knit family unit, the existent head being Morticia—although each of the others is a definite character—except for Grandma, who is easily led. Many of the troubles they accept as a family unit are due to Grandma's fumbling, weak grapheme. The house is a wreck, of course, just this is a firm-proud family simply the same and every trap door is in good repair. Coin is no problem.

—Charles Addams^[one]

The family appears to be a unmarried surviving branch of the Addams clan. Many other "Addams families" exist all over the world. According to the pic version, the family unit 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 expanse full of ornate Victorian mansions and archaic graveyards.^[v] In the original comics series they live in a gothic house on Cemetery Ridge. According to the television series, the residence is a gloomy mansion adjacent to a cemetery and a swamp located in an unspecified American boondocks. In the musical (first shown in Chicago in 2009), the house is located in Central Park.^[6] In the 2019 moving-picture show, the Addamses live in an abandoned aviary located in the outskirts of the state of New Bailiwick of jersey which is haunted by a disembodied resident who demands the belongings to remain undisturbed.

Although most of the humor derives from the fact that they share macabre interests, the Addamses are not evil. They are a shut-knit extended family. Morticia is an exemplary mother, and she and Gomez remain passionate towards each other; as established in the television series, she calls him "bubbeleh",^[7] to which he responds by kissing her arms, behavior which Morticia can as well provoke by speaking a few words in French (their meanings are not important; whatsoever words in French will do). The parents are supportive of their children (except in the 2019 film when Wednesday arrives habitation wearing a pink clothes). The family unit is friendly and hospitable to visitors; in some cases, it is willing to donate large sums of money to causes (television 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 collection.^[3]

Adaptations [edit]

Television [edit]

The Addams Family (1964–1966) [edit]

In 1964, the ABC TV network created The Addams Family unit television series based on Addams'south cartoon characters. The series was shot in black-and-white and aired for two seasons in 64 half-hr episodes (September xviii, 1964 – September two, 1966). During the original goggle box run of The Addams Family idiot box series, The New Yorker editor William Shawn refused to publish any Addams Family cartoons. Even so, he continued to publish other Charles Addams cartoons. Shawn regarded his magazine as targeting a more than refined readership and he did not want it to be associated with characters who could be seen on television set by the more than general public. After Shawn's 1987 retirement, the characters were welcomed back to The New Yorker.

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

The Addams Family's first animated advent was on the tertiary episode of Hanna-Barbera's The New Scooby-Doo Movies, "Scooby-Doo Meets the Addams Family" (a.one thousand.a. "Midweek is Missing"), which first aired on CBS Sat morning, 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. After the episode aired, fans wanted more animated adventures featuring the Addamses, and Hanna-Barbera obliged.

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

In belatedly 1972, ABC produced a airplane pilot for a live-action musical diversity bear witness 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 as Lurch and Butch Patrick (who had played Eddie Munster on The Munsters) as Pugsley. Felix Silla reprised his office as Cousin Itt, connecting it to the original Tv set series. The pilot aired in 1973, but it was non picked up for a serial.^[viii]

The Addams Family (1973) [edit]

The first blithe series ran on Saturday mornings from 1973 to 1975 on NBC. In a departure from the original series, this series took the Addamses on the road in a Victorian-style RV. This series as well marked the point where the relationships betwixt the characters were inverse so that Fester was at present Gomez's brother, and Grandmama was at present Morticia'due south mother (though the old 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 non; their parts were recast with Hanna-Barbera vox talents Lennie Weinrib equally Gomez and Janet Waldo as Morticia, while a ten-year-old Jodie Foster provided the vocalisation of Pugsley. Over again, the characters were drawn to the specifications of the original Charles Addams cartoons. I season was produced, and the second season consisted of reruns. The show'southward theme music was completely different and information technology had no lyrics and no finger snaps, although it retained a scrap of the four-note score from the live-action bear witness.

The Addams Family unit Comic Book [edit]

From 1974 to 1975, Gold Key Comics produced a comic book series in connectedness with the show, but it only lasted three problems. Each upshot was adapted from a TV episode, starting with "In Search of the Boola-Boola" (October 1974).^[nine]

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

A television reunion moving-picture show, Halloween with the New Addams Family unit, aired on NBC on Sunday, October 30, 1977. Information technology features most of the original bandage, except Blossom Rock, who had played Grandmama. She was yet alive simply was very sick at the time; Jane Rose replaced her. Veteran grapheme actors Parley Baer and Vito Scotti, who both had recurring roles on the original series, as well appeared in the movie. The movie has a slightly different version of the theme song; the finger snaps are used simply non the lyrics.

Gomez and Morticia accept had two more 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 social club meeting in Tombstone, Arizona. Gomez is jealous of his brother, who one time 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 expert children on Halloween night. Wednesday (now called "Wed, Sr.") is home from music university, where she is studying the piccolo (breaking glass with it). Pugsley (now "Pugsley, Sr.") is abode from Nairobi medical school, where he is preparation to be a witch doctor. The family's home has been bugged by a gang of crooks which intends to steal the family'due south fortune. Lafferty, the boss, sends a gang member named Mikey into the house to investigate. Mikey panics and flees after treading on the tail of Kitty Kat the lion. The crooks employ a simulated Gomez and Morticia to assist them behave out their plans, along with two strong-arm goons, Hercules and Atlas. Gomez returns home to celebrate the Halloween party and trim the scarecrow. Lafferty poses as Quincy Addams (from Boston) to gain entrance to the house during the party. He has his men tie up Gomez and Morticia, and his doubles accept their places, disruptive Pancho, who is still in love with Morticia, and Ophelia, who is still in love with Gomez. Gomez and Morticia escape (thanks to the "Erstwhile Piccolo Game"), and rejoin the party, only to take Lafferty utilise diverse methods to try to get rid of them. Lurch scares off the thugs and terrifies Lafferty's other assistant. Fester, trying to exist nice, puts Lafferty on the rack. Lafferty tries to escape through the hole-and-corner passage and steps on Kitty Kat'south tail. When the police arrive, the crooks gladly surrender. The Addamses are and so free to celebrate Halloween happily, ending the night past singing together in welcome for Cousin Shy.

The Addams Family: The Blithe Serial (1992–1993) [edit]

The remake series ran on Sabbatum mornings from 1992 to 1993 on ABC after producers realized the success of the 1991 Addams Family moving picture. This series returned to the familiar format of the original serial, with the Addams Family facing their sitcom situations at home. 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, Wednesday, Pugsley and Cousin Itt, respectively. New creative models of the characters were used for this serial, though all the same having a passing resemblance to the original cartoons. Two seasons were produced, with the tertiary yr containing reruns. Oddly in this series, Midweek maintained her macabre, brooding attitude from the Addams Family movies. Still, her facial expressions and trunk language conveyed the happy-go-lucky, fun mental attitude of her portrayal in the original boob tube show. The original Vic Mizzy theme song, although slightly different, 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 TV series) during the 1998–1999 flavor on the so-newly launched Fox Family unit Channel. Many storylines from the original series were reworked for this new series, incorporating more modern elements and jokes. John Astin returned to the franchise in some episodes of this series, albeit every bit "Grandpapa" Addams (Gomez'due south grandpa, a character introduced in Addams Family unit Reunion). The cast included Glenn Taranto equally Gomez Addams, Ellie Harvie as Morticia, Michael Roberds as Fester, Brody Smith as Pugsley, Nicole Fugere (the but cast member from Addams Family unit Reunion to return) every bit Midweek, John DeSantis as Lurch, Betty Phillips as Grandmama and Steven Play a joke on as Affair.

Wednesday (TBA) [edit]

In 2021, Netflix appear a live-activity Goggle box series adaptation based on the graphic symbol of Midweek Addams, starring Jenna Ortega every bit the title grapheme. It will be produced by MGM Television, with Alfred Gough and Miles Millar every bit showrunners and Tim Burton every bit series director in his first televised directorial try.^[x] Wednesday, a student at Nevermore Academy, solves mysteries using her psychic ability. These include murders and a 25-year-former mystery involving her family.^[11] Luis Guzmán volition star equally Gomez,^[12] and Catherine Zeta-Jones will star equally Morticia.^[13] Hunter Doohan, Georgie Farmer, Moosa Mostafa, Emma Myers, Naomi J. Ogawa, Joy Lord's day, Percy Hynes White, Thora Birch, Riki Lindhome, Jamie McShane and Gwendoline Christie were added to the cast as series regulars.^{[14] [fifteen]}

Feature films [edit]

Crew/particular	Films			Reboots
	The Addams Family (1991)	Addams Family Values (1993)	Addams Family unit Reunion (1998)	The Addams Family (2019)	The Addams Family 2 (2021)
Director	Barry Sonnenfeld		Dave Payne	Conrad Vernon Greg Tiernan	Conrad Vernon Greg Tiernan Co-directed by: Laura Brousseau Kevin Pavlovic[xvi]
Producer	Scott Rudin		Mike Elliott	Gail Berman Conrad Vernon Alex Schwartz Alison O'Brien	Gail Berman Conrad Vernon Danielle Sterling Alison O'Brien
Writer(southward)	Caroline Thompson Larry Wilson	Paul Rudnick	Rob Kerchner Scott Sandin	Screenplay past: 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	Due north/A
Editor(south)	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 Artistic Nitrogen Studios Cinesite Studios The Jackal Group	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Bron Creative Nitrogen Studios Cinesite Studios The Jackal Group Glickmania
Benefactor	Paramount Pictures (United States and Latin America) Columbia Pictures (International)[17]	Paramount Pictures	Warner Dwelling Video	United Artists Releasing (United States) Universal Pictures (International)
Runtime	99 minutes	94 minutes	91 minutes	87 minutes	93 minutes
Release engagement	Nov 22, 1991	Nov 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 unit (released on November 22, 1991). Because of the studio's fiscal troubles at the time, Orion sold the US rights to the film to Paramount Pictures. On Oct one, 2019, Paramount Pictures^[18] released double characteristic of Addams Family and Addams Family Values on Blu-ray in the United States.

Addams Family Values (1993) [edit]

Upon the terminal moving-picture show'southward success, a sequel followed: Addams Family Values (released on November 19, 1993, with worldwide distribution by Paramount). Loosened content restrictions allowed the films to use far more grotesque sense of humor 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 get-go and second films, respectively. A script for a 3rd film was prepared in 1994, but was abased after the sudden death of actor Raul Julia that twelvemonth.

Addams Family Reunion (1998) [edit]

Another film, Addams Family Reunion, was released straight-to-video on September 22, 1998, this time by Warner Bros. through its video sectionalisation. It has no relation to the Paramount movies, being in fact a full-length pilot for a second live-activeness television set version, The New Addams Family, produced and shot in Canada. The third motion-picture show'due south Gomez, played past Tim Curry, follows the style of Raul Julia, while the new sitcom's Gomez, played past 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, it was announced that Illumination Amusement, in partnership with Universal Pictures, had acquired the underlying rights to the Addams Family drawings.^[19] The flick was planned to be a stop-motility blithe film based on Charles Addams's original drawings. Tim Burton was set up to co-write and co-produce the motion-picture show, with a possibility to direct.^[20] In July 2013 still, it was reported that the picture show was cancelled.^[21]

Reboot [edit]

On Oct 31, 2013, it was announced in Variety that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will be reviving The Addams Family unit equally an animated movie 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's Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun to produce it.^[22] By October 2017, Conrad Vernon had been hired to direct the film, which he volition also produce along with Berman and Alex Schwartz, based on a screenplay written by Pettler, with revisions by Matt Lieberman.^[23] The film was released on October 11, 2019.^[24] On October eight, 2020, MGM appear that a sequel is in the works with an declaration trailer.^[25] The original bandage set up to return. Bill Hader and Javon "Wanna" Walton have also been bandage to voice. Nib Hader will play a new grapheme named Cyrus, while Javon will supervene upon Finn Wolfhard equally the vox of Pugsley Addams. Directors Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon are gear up to return equally directors. The motion picture is released on October 1, 2021.^[26]

Homages and adaptations [edit]

• An animated goggle box homage was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. Mr. & Mrs. J. Evil Scientist, a family of fictional characters inspired past The Addams Family appeared on the Snagglepuss and Snooper and Blabber blithe television series first in 1959 and it also starred in its own comic book.
• Comedian Melissa Hunter wrote the web series Adult Wednesday Addams, which is a comedic adaptation of the franchise.^[27] Hunter was forced to remove the series due to legal activity.
• In an episode of Horrible Histories a song titled "The Borgia Family" was created in reference to the Addams Family Theme.
• In 1964, the yr The Addams Family debuted, Hanna-Barbera introduced Weirdly and Creepella Gruesome and family, based in role 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'due south Quest (1989) was a top-downwards adventure game that featured Uncle Fester.
• The Addams Family LCD Video Game by Tiger Electronics was a handheld unit released in 1991.
• The Addams Family unit Pinball was a arcade pinball automobile released by Midway in 1992
• In 1992, two versions of The Addams Family were released by Sea Software based on the 1991 movie: an 8-chip 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 Amusement Organisation, 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), as well past Ocean Software, was based on the ABC animated series and was released for NES, SNES, and Game Male child (although the latter two were just 8-bit remakes of the outset SNES game, swapping Pugsley's and Gomez's roles).
• Addams Family Values (1994) by Ocean was based on the motion picture's sequel and returned to the style of gameplay seen in Fester's Quest.
• A Game Boy Color game was released in the 1990s for promotion of The New Addams Family. The game was titled The New Addams Family unit Series. In this game, the Addams mansion had been bought by a fictional company called "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 Machine (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 necktie-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 shortly later on the movie. It is the best-selling pinball game of all time.^[30]

Books [edit]

The Addams Family [edit]

This start novelisation of the television series, written by Jack Sharkey, was released most the stop of the show's second flavor. The volume details the family's arrival in their new home and explains how information technology got its bizarre décor. The arrival and origins of Thing are explained. Each chapter reads as a self-independent story, similar episodes of the television show. The novel concludes with the Addams family discovering that their lives volition be the basis for a new television series. It was published in paperback by Pyramid Books in 1965.^[31]

The Addams Family Strikes Dorsum [edit]

The Addams Family Strikes Back by Due west.F. Miksch tells how Gomez plans to rehabilitate the epitome of Benedict Arnold by running for the local schoolhouse board. The tone and characterizations in this book resemble the Boob tube characters much more than closely than in the get-go novel. Cousin Itt appears as a pocket-sized character in this story, but every bit a tiny, three-legged animal rather than the hairy, derby-hatted character seen on boob tube and in the movies. The novel was published in paperback class by Pyramid Books in 1965.^[31]

The Addams Family unit: An Evilution [edit]

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

Ad [edit]

In 1994, the actors cast as the Addamses in the first 2 films (sans the recently deceased Raul Julia) were in several Japanese television spots for the Honda Odyssey.^[32] The Addamses are seen speaking Japanese—about prominently Gomez (for whom a vocalization role player was used to impersonate Julia while footage from Addams Family Values was seen) and Morticia.^[33]

In 2007 and 2008, the Addams Family appeared as Grand&Chiliad's in an advertisement entrada for Chiliad&Thousand's Night Chocolate.^[34]

Soundtrack [edit]

A theme song for the 1964 Television receiver series equally well as a soundtrack album the next year were released, both composed past 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, information technology was announced that a musical inspired by The Addams Family unit drawings by Charles Addams was existence developed for the Broadway stage. Broadway veterans Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice wrote the volume, and Andrew Lippa wrote the score. Julian Crouch and Phelim McDermott (Improbable theatre founders) directed and designed the production, with choreography by Sergio Trujillo.^[36] A workshop and private industry presentation was held August iv–8, 2008. Featured in the bandage were Bebe Neuwirth as Morticia, Krysta Rodriguez equally Wed, and Nathan Lane every bit 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 April 8,^[37] afterward an out-of-town tryout in Chicago at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts from November 13, 2009, to Jan x, 2010.^{[38] [39]} The cast includes Lane equally Gomez, Neuwirth as Morticia, Terrence Mann every bit Mal Beineke, Carolee Carmello every bit Alice Beineke, Chamberlin as Uncle Fester, Jackie Hoffman equally Grandma, Zachary James every bit Lurch, Krysta Rodriguez as Wednesday, and Wesley Taylor as Wed'south love interest, Lucas Beineke.^[40] The Broadway production ran for 22 months, closing on December 31, 2011, after 35 previews and 722 performances.^[41]

On September 5, 2016, it was announced that the musical would premiere in the UK, on a major United kingdom and Ireland tour produced by James Yeoburn and Stuart Matthew Price for United Theatrical.^[42] The production was directed past Matthew White and information technology opened at Edinburgh Festival Theatre on April 20, 2017, starring Samantha Womack, Les Dennis and Carrie Hope Fletcher.^[43]

Bandage and characters [edit]

Show	Gomez Addams	Morticia Addams	Pugsley Addams	Wednesday Addams	Uncle Fester	Grandmama	Lurch	Matter	Cousin Itt
The Addams Family unit (1964–66)	John Astin	Carolyn Jones	Ken Weatherwax	Lisa Loring	Jackie Coogan	Blossom Stone	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-House (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 unit (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 (1992–1993)	John Astin	Nancy Linari	Jeannie Elias	Debi Derryberry	Rip Taylor	Carol Channing	Jim Cummings		Pat Fraley
Addams Family Values (1993)	Raul Julia	Anjelica Huston	Jimmy Workman	Christina Ricci	Christopher Lloyd	Carol 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 (1998–99)	Glenn Taranto	Ellie Harvie	Brody Smith	Nicole Fugere	Michael Roberds	Betty Phillips	John DeSantis	Steven Fox	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 2 (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, picture palace and tv,^{[44] [45] [46]} and information technology has also been seen as an inspiration for the goth subculture and its mode.^{[47] [48]} According to The Telegraph, the Addamses "are 1 of the most iconic families in American history, upwards there with the Kennedys".^[49] Similarly, Time has compared "the relevance and the cultural reach" of the family with those of the Kennedys and the Roosevelts, "so much a function of the American landscape that information technology's difficult to discuss the country's history without mentioning them".^[50] For TV Guide, which listed the characters in the summit 10 of The 60 Greatest TV Families of All Time, the Addamses "provid[ed] the design for cartoonish clans to come, like the Flintstones and the Simpsons".^[51] Owing to their popularity, the first feature-length adaptation has been identified equally a "cult film",^[52] while Addams Family Values was listed as one of The 50 Best family films by The Guardian ^[53] and nominated for the American Film Plant's 100 Years...100 Laughs at the turn of the century.^[54] Ricci's portrayal of Wednesday in the flick series was ranked 1 of The 100 Greatest Movie Characters by Empire,^[55] and in 2011 AOL named Morticia 1 of The 100 Virtually Memorable Female person TV Characters.^[56]

Come across also [edit]

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

Notes [edit]

1. ^ There are approved differences between the various incarnations of Fester Addams. In the two alive-action feature films, both animated series, the 1998 television movie, and the 2019 animated picture, he is portrayed as Gomez's brother. In the 1964 television series, however, he is portrayed every bit Morticia'southward maternal uncle (via her mother, Hester Frump).
2. ^ Just like Fester, there are canonical differences between the various incarnations of Grandmamma Addams. In the two live-activeness characteristic films, both animated series, and the 1998 tv set film, she is portrayed as Morticia's female parent. In his notes for the original cartoons, Charles Addams even refers to her as Grandma Frump, rendering her Wed's and Pugsley's maternal grandmother.^{[1] : ii} In the 1964 boob tube series and the 2019 animated motion picture, withal, she is portrayed equally Gomez's mother.
3. ^ In Halloween with the New Addams Family unit, Gomez and Morticia have a second son, Pugsley Jr., and a 2nd girl, Wednesday Jr. Meanwhile, in Addams Family Values, Gomez and Morticia welcome a third 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's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on March thirteen, 2012.
• The Addams Family UK (musical website)
• The Addams Family on TVLand.com
• The New Addams Family at IMDb
• The Addams Family unit Musical at the Internet Broadway Database

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