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Fictional family created by Charles Addams

The Addams Family is a fictional family created by American cartoonist Charles Addams. They originally appeared in a serial of 150 unrelated unmarried-console cartoons, well-nigh one-half of which were originally published in The New Yorker over a 50-year period since their inception in 1938. They have since been adapted to other media, such as tv set, motion-picture show, 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 delight in the macabre and are seemingly unaware or unconcerned that other people find them bizarre or frightening. Offset 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 Wednesday's pet octopus, Aristotle. The dimly seen Thing (later a disembodied mitt) was introduced in 1954, and Gomez'due south Cousin Itt and Morticia's pet lion Kitty Kat in 1964. Pubert Addams, Wednesday and Pugsley'south infant brother, was introduced in the 1993 movie Addams Family Values.^[c]

In 1964, a live-activeness television series premiered on ABC and ran for two seasons. Information technology subsequently inspired a telefilm titled Halloween with the New Addams Family unit and cameos from the cast in other shows. An unrelated blithe series aired in 1973. The franchise was revived in the 1990s with a feature moving-picture show serial consisting of The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family unit 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 receiver serial (1998–1999). In 2010, a alive musical accommodation featuring Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth opened on Broadway and was nominated for two Tony Awards and viii Drama Desk Awards. The series was again rebooted in 2019 with the animated film The Addams Family, which led to a sequel in 2021.

The franchise has become a staple of popular culture. It has spawned a video game serial, 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 as an inspiration for the goth subculture and its fashion.

History

Original The New Yorker cartoons (1938–1964)

Charles Addams began as a cartoonist in The New Yorker with a sketch of a window washer that ran on February 6, 1932.^[two] The outset Addams Family cartoon was published in 1938, in a i-panel gag format. Charles Addams became a regular correspondent to The New Yorker, and drew approximately 1,300 cartoons betwixt 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.^[iii]

In 1946, Addams met science fiction writer Ray Bradbury afterward cartoon an illustration for Bradbury's curt story "Homecoming" in Mademoiselle magazine, the first in a series 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 unit'southward complete history, with Bradbury writing and Addams providing the illustrations, merely 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 book's comprehend jacket. Although Addams's own characters were well established by the fourth dimension of their initial come across, in a 2001 interview, Bradbury states that Addams "went his mode and created the Addams Family unit and I went my own way and created my family in this book."^[iv]

Exterior of The New Yorker, Addams also published several collections, the most notable existence Dear Dead Days: A Family Album in 1959. The editor of The New Yorker, William Shawn prevented any further Addams family cartoons from existence printed after the 1964 launch of the television franchise.^[3]

Boob tube Adaptations and rise to popularity (1964–1977)

A 1964 television accommodation brought the series to a much wider audition 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 afterwards referred to the series as "more zany than spooky". The popular series, circulate on the ABC network, ran only two seasons.

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

Film series

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

Two alive-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 office. A second motion picture in 1993, Addams Family Values, had the changed reception. Information technology was highly regarded by critics but, unexpectedly, performed poorly at the box office, and earned less than one-half the revenue of its predecessor. This, and the sudden death 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 as Morticia, Anjelica Huston was twice nominated for the Gilt Globe Award for Best Actress, and Raul Julia (equally Gomez), Christina Ricci (as Wednesday), Christopher Lloyd (as Fester), and Joan Cusack (as Fester's wife, Debbie Jellinsky, in the sequel) received multiple Saturn Award and American Comedy Honor nominations for their portrayals. Following the wave of involvement in the franchise, a 1992 blithe television receiver series notably saw John Astin reprise his role equally Gomez, almost xxx years later on his first advent in the role in 1964. It was nominated for iv Daytime Emmy Awards, including i for Astin.

A direct-to-video flick was produced past 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 picture was intended as the pilot to a Canadian-produced live-action television serial, The New Addams Family, which aired until the following year. Astin, so in his late 60s, returned as Grandpapa Addams, rather than Gomez.

Blithe revival

A Tim Burton cease-motion film was announced in 2010 but never developed. Instead, a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer blithe film was appear in 2013. Unlike the Burton version, this would apply 3D computer animation. The film was eventually released in 2019, to a moderate box-function reception. A sequel, released in 2021 amid the COVID-xix pandemic, was far less successful. Both films received negative audience reception, with the two films scoring 44% and 30% on review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, respectively.

Premise and background

Gomez and Pugsley are enthusiastic. Morticia is even in disposition, muted, witty, sometimes deadly. Grandma Frump is foolishly adept-natured. Midweek is her mother's girl. A closely-knit family, the existent caput being Morticia—although each of the others is a definite graphic symbol—except for Grandma, who is easily led. Many of the troubles they accept as a family are due to Grandma's fumbling, weak character. The firm is a wreck, of grade, but this is a business firm-proud family just the same and every trap door is in good repair. Coin is no trouble.

—Charles Addams^[1]

The family appears to be a unmarried surviving co-operative of the Addams clan. Many other "Addams families" exist all over the world. According to the film version, the family credo is, Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc (pseudo-Latin: "We gladly banquet on those who would subdue us"). Charles Addams was first inspired past his hometown of Westfield, New Bailiwick of jersey, an expanse full of ornate Victorian mansions and archaic graveyards.^[five] In the original comics serial they live in a gothic house on Cemetery Ridge. According to the tv 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 firm is located in Fundamental Park.^[6] 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 most of the humor derives from the fact that they share macabre interests, the Addamses are not evil. They are a close-knit extended family. Morticia is an exemplary mother, and she and Gomez remain passionate towards each other; as established in the idiot box series, she calls him "bubbeleh",^[seven] to which he responds past kissing her arms, behavior which Morticia can also provoke by speaking a few words in French (their meanings are not important; any words in French will practice). The parents are supportive of their children (except in the 2019 motion-picture show when Wednesday arrives home wearing a pinkish apparel). The family 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 appearance of the 1964 television adaptation, except for Midweek who was start named for a 1962 licensed doll collection.^[3]

Adaptations

Television

The Addams Family (1964–1966)

In 1964, the ABC Boob tube network created The Addams Family idiot box series based on Addams'due south cartoon characters. The series was shot in blackness-and-white and aired for ii seasons in 64 half-hour episodes (September eighteen, 1964 – September 2, 1966). During the original television run of The Addams Family television serial, The New Yorker editor William Shawn refused to publish whatever Addams Family cartoons. However, he continued to publish other Charles Addams cartoons. Shawn regarded his magazine as targeting a more refined readership and he did non want it to be associated with characters who could be seen on television past the more general public. Afterward Shawn'south 1987 retirement, the characters were welcomed back to The New Yorker.

The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972)

The Addams Family'southward showtime blithe advent was on the third episode of Hanna-Barbera'due south The New Scooby-Doo Movies, "Scooby-Doo Meets the Addams Family unit" (a.k.a. "Midweek is Missing"), which outset aired on CBS Sabbatum morn, on September 23, 1972. Four members of the original bandage (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)

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

The Addams Family (1973)

The beginning animated series ran on Saturday mornings from 1973 to 1975 on NBC. In a departure from the original serial, this serial took the Addamses on the route in a Victorian-style RV. This series besides marked the indicate where the relationships between the characters were changed and so that Fester was now Gomez's brother, and Grandmama was now Morticia'south mother (though the former relationships between the characters would be revisited in the 1977 television picture, 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 voice talents Lennie Weinrib as Gomez and Janet Waldo as Morticia, while a ten-year-one-time Jodie Foster provided the vocalisation of Pugsley. Again, the characters were drawn to the specifications of the original Charles Addams cartoons. 1 season was produced, and the second season consisted of reruns. The testify's theme music was completely different and information technology had no lyrics and no finger snaps, although it retained a fleck of the 4-note score from the live-action show.

The Addams Family Comic Book

From 1974 to 1975, Gilt Key Comics produced a comic volume series in connection with the show, but it but lasted three issues. Each outcome was adjusted from a Television receiver episode, starting with "In Search of the Boola-Boola" (Oct 1974).^[nine]

Halloween with the New Addams Family (1977)

A television reunion movie, Halloween with the New Addams Family, aired on NBC on Sunday, Oct 30, 1977. Information technology features virtually of the original cast, except Blossom Stone, who had played Grandmama. She was still alive but 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 unlike version of the theme song; the finger snaps are used but non the lyrics.

Gomez and Morticia have had two more than children, Wed Jr. and Pugsley Jr., who strongly resemble their older siblings. Gomez's brother, Pancho, is staying with the family while Gomez attends a gild coming together in Tombstone, Arizona. Gomez is jealous of his brother, who once courted Morticia. Halloween is most, and Pancho tells the children the legend of the Bang-up Pumpkin-like character of Cousin Shy, who distributes gifts and carves pumpkins for good children on Halloween night. Wed (now called "Wednesday, Sr.") is home from music academy, where she is studying the piccolo (breaking glass with it). Pugsley (now "Pugsley, Sr.") is home from Nairobi medical schoolhouse, where he is training to be a witch doctor. The family'southward dwelling house 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 utilise a fake Gomez and Morticia to help them bear 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 take their places, confusing Pancho, who is still in beloved with Morticia, and Ophelia, who is all the same in love with Gomez. Gomez and Morticia escape (thanks to the "Sometime Piccolo Game"), and rejoin the party, merely to have Lafferty utilize diverse methods to try to go rid of them. Lurch scares off the thugs and terrifies Lafferty's other assistant. Fester, trying to exist overnice, puts Lafferty on the rack. Lafferty tries to escape through the secret passage and steps on Kitty Kat's tail. When the police go far, the crooks gladly surrender. The Addamses are then free to celebrate Halloween happily, ending the night by singing together in welcome for Cousin Shy.

The Addams Family: The Animated Series (1992–1993)

The remake series ran on Saturday mornings from 1992 to 1993 on ABC afterwards producers realized the success of the 1991Addams Family movie. This serial returned to the familiar format of the original series, 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, Midweek, Pugsley and Cousin Itt, respectively. New creative models of the characters were used for this series, though however having a passing resemblance to the original cartoons. Two seasons were produced, with the tertiary year containing reruns. Oddly in this series, Wednesday maintained her macabre, heart-searching attitude from the Addams Family movies. Nevertheless, her facial expressions and torso language conveyed the happy-go-lucky, fun mental attitude of her portrayal in the original television prove. The original Vic Mizzy theme song, although slightly different, was used for the opening.

The New Addams Family (1998–1999)

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

Midweek (TBA)

In 2021, Netflix announced a live-activeness TV series accommodation based on the character of Wednesday Addams, starring Jenna Ortega every bit the championship grapheme. It will be produced past MGM Tv set, with Alfred Gough and Miles Millar as showrunners and Tim Burton equally series manager in his first televised directorial endeavor.^[10] Wednesday, a student at Nevermore Academy, solves mysteries using her psychic ability. These include murders and a 25-year-onetime mystery involving her family.^[11] Luis Guzmán volition star as Gomez,^[12] and Catherine Zeta-Jones will star every bit 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 series regulars.^{[14] [15]}

Feature films

Crew/detail	Films			Reboots
	The Addams Family (1991)	Addams Family Values (1993)	Addams Family Reunion (1998)	The Addams Family (2019)	The Addams Family unit 2 (2021)
Director	Barry Sonnenfeld		Dave Payne	Conrad Vernon Greg Tiernan	Conrad Vernon Greg Tiernan Co-directed by: Laura Brousseau Kevin Pavlovic[16]
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 past: 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	Northward/A
Editor(s)	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 Entertainment	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Bron Creative Nitrogen Studios Cinesite Studios The Jackal Grouping	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Bron Creative Nitrogen Studios Cinesite Studios The Jackal Grouping Glickmania
Distributor	Paramount Pictures (U.s. and Latin America) Columbia Pictures (International)[17]	Paramount Pictures	Warner Dwelling Video	United Artists Releasing (U.s.a.) Universal Pictures (International)
Runtime	99 minutes	94 minutes	91 minutes	87 minutes	93 minutes
Release date	November 22, 1991	November 19, 1993	September 22, 1998	October 11, 2019	Oct i, 2021

The Addams Family (1991)

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 fourth dimension, Orion sold the US rights to the moving picture to Paramount Pictures. On October 1, 2019, Paramount Pictures^[18] released double feature of Addams Family and Addams Family Values on Blu-ray in the United States.

Addams Family Values (1993)

Upon the concluding film'south success, a sequel followed: Addams Family Values (released on November 19, 1993, with worldwide distribution by Paramount). Loosened content restrictions allowed the films to employ far more grotesque sense of humour that strove to go along the Addams cartoons' original spirit (in fact, several gags were lifted direct from the unmarried-panel cartoons). The two films used the same cast, except for Grandmama, played by Judith Malina and Ballad Kane in the showtime and second films, respectively. A script for a third film was prepared in 1994, but was abandoned after the sudden expiry of thespian Raul Julia that year.

Addams Family Reunion (1998)

Another pic, Addams Family unit Reunion, was released direct-to-video on September 22, 1998, this time by Warner Bros. through its video segmentation. Information technology has no relation to the Paramount movies, being in fact a full-length pilot for a second alive-action television version, The New Addams Family unit, produced and shot in Canada. The 3rd 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 take played in the previous Paramount films were Carel Struycken equally Lurch and Christopher Hart as Thing.

Cancelled film

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

Reboot

On Oct 31, 2013, it was announced 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 moving picture and they were in last negotiations with BermanBraun'south Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun to produce it.^[22] Past Oct 2017, Conrad Vernon had been hired to direct the film, which he volition too produce along with Berman and Alex Schwartz, based on a screenplay written past Pettler, with revisions by Matt Lieberman.^[23] The film was released on October 11, 2019.^[24] On October 8, 2020, MGM announced that a sequel is in the works with an declaration trailer.^[25] The original cast set to return. Beak Hader and Javon "Wanna" Walton accept also been cast to vocalization. Neb Hader will play a new grapheme named Cyrus, while Javon volition replace Finn Wolfhard as the vox of Pugsley Addams. Directors Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon are set to render as directors. The film is released on October 1, 2021.^[26]

Homages and adaptations

• An animated television receiver homage was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. Mr. & Mrs. J. Evil Scientist, a family of fictional characters inspired by The Addams Family unit appeared on the Snagglepuss and Snooper and Blabber animated idiot box serial starting time in 1959 and it besides 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 activeness.
• In an episode of Horrible Histories a song titled "The Borgia Family" was created in reference to the Addams Family Theme.
• In 1964, the year The Addams Family debuted, Hanna-Barbera introduced Weirdly and Creepella Gruesome and family, based in part on Mr. & Mrs. J. Evil Scientist and in part on the Addamses, every bit recurrent characters on The Flintstones. ^[28]

Video games

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

• Fester's Quest (1989) was a peak-down chance game that featured Uncle Fester.
• The Addams Family unit LCD Video Game by Tiger Electronics was a handheld unit of measurement released in 1991.
• The Addams Family Pinball was a arcade pinball car released past Midway in 1992
• In 1992, two versions of The Addams Family were released by Ocean Software based on the 1991 movie: an viii-bit version for the Nintendo Entertainment 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 System, 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'southward Scavenger Hunt (1993), also by Sea Software, was based on the ABC animated series and was released for NES, SNES, and Game Male child (although the latter 2 were just 8-bit remakes of the beginning SNES game, swapping Pugsley's and Gomez's roles).
• Addams Family Values (1994) by Body of water was based on the movie'south 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 Series. In this game, the Addams mansion had been bought by a fictional visitor chosen "Funnyday" that wanted to tear down the business firm and surrounding grounds to brand room for an entertainment park.
• An arcade shocker, The New Addams Family Electric Shock Car (too 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 by Animoca.^[29]
• The Addams Family: Mansion Mayhem, a pic necktie-in game for Steam, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation four, Xbox and Google Stadia developed by PHL Collective and published past British publisher Outright Games, was released on September 24, 2021.

Pinball

A pinball game by Midway (nether the Bally label) was released in 1992 before long after the movie. It is the best-selling pinball game of all time.^[30]

Books

The Addams Family

This beginning novelisation of the telly serial, written by Jack Sharkey, was released nigh the end of the prove's second flavour. The book details the family's inflow in their new home and explains how it got its bizarre décor. The arrival and origins of Thing are explained. Each chapter reads as a cocky-contained story, like episodes of the tv show. The novel concludes with the Addams family discovering that their lives will exist the basis for a new television series. It was published in paperback past Pyramid Books in 1965.^[31]

The Addams Family Strikes Back

The Addams Family Strikes Back by W.F. Miksch tells how Gomez plans to rehabilitate the image of Bridegroom Arnold by running for the local schoolhouse board. The tone and characterizations in this volume 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 equally a tiny, three-legged creature 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: An Evilution

The Addams Family unit: An Evilution is a book about the "evilution" of The Addams Family characters, with more 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 Printing published the book in 2010.

Advertising

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

In 2007 and 2008, the Addams Family unit appeared as 1000&M'due south in an advertising campaign for M&M's Dark Chocolate.^[34]

Soundtrack

A theme song for the 1964 TV series likewise equally a soundtrack anthology the adjacent year were released, both composed by Vic Mizzy and the latter containing all of his compositions for the series entitled Original Music From The Addams Family.^[35]

Musical

The Addams Family

In May 2007, information technology was appear that a musical inspired by The Addams Family drawings by 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 Crouch 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 4–8, 2008. Featured in the bandage were Bebe Neuwirth as Morticia, Krysta Rodriguez equally Midweek, 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] after an out-of-town tryout in Chicago at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts from Nov thirteen, 2009, to January x, 2010.^{[38] [39]} The bandage includes Lane every bit Gomez, Neuwirth equally Morticia, Terrence Isle of man every bit Mal Beineke, Carolee Carmello every bit Alice Beineke, Chamberlin as Uncle Fester, Jackie Hoffman equally Grandma, Zachary James as Lurch, Krysta Rodriguez as Wednesday, and Wesley Taylor as Wednesday'southward dearest interest, Lucas Beineke.^[xl] The Broadway production ran for 22 months, closing on December 31, 2011, later on 35 previews and 722 performances.^[41]

On September 5, 2016, it was announced that the musical would premiere in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, on a major United kingdom and Ireland bout produced past 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 Apr 20, 2017, starring Samantha Womack, Les Dennis and Carrie Hope Fletcher.^[43]

Bandage and characters

Bear witness	Gomez Addams	Morticia Addams	Pugsley Addams	Wed Addams	Uncle Fester	Grandmama	Lurch	Thing	Cousin Itt
The Addams Family (1964–66)	John Astin	Carolyn Jones	Ken Weatherwax	Lisa Loring	Jackie Coogan	Blossom 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-House (1973)	Jack Riley	Liz Torres	Butch Patrick	Noelle Von Sonn	Stubby Kaye		Pat McCormick		Felix Silla
The Addams Family unit (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 unit (1992–1993)	John Astin	Nancy Linari	Jeannie Elias	Debi Derryberry	Rip Taylor	Ballad Channing	Jim Cummings		Pat Fraley
Addams Family 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 (1998–99)	Glenn Taranto	Ellie Harvie	Brody Smith	Nicole Fugere	Michael Roberds	Betty Phillips	John DeSantis	Steven Play a trick on	David Mylrea / Paul Dobson
The Addams Family unit (musical) (2010)	Nathan Lane	Bebe Neuwirth	Adam Riegler	Krysta Rodriguez	Kevin Chamberlin	Jackie Hoffman	Zachary James	Fred Inkley	Fred Inkley
The Addams Family unit (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

The family unit has had a profound influence on American comics, movie theatre and idiot box,^{[44] [45] [46]} and it has besides been seen as an inspiration for the goth subculture and its fashion.^{[47] [48]} According to The Telegraph, the Addamses "are one of the nigh iconic families in American history, upwards at that place with the Kennedys".^[49] Similarly, Fourth dimension has compared "the relevance and the cultural reach" of the family with those of the Kennedys and the Roosevelts, "so much a part of the American landscape that it's difficult to discuss the country's history without mentioning them".^[50] For TV Guide, which listed the characters in the acme x of The 60 Greatest TV Families of All Time, the Addamses "provid[ed] the blueprint 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 equally one of The fifty All-time family unit films by The Guardian ^[53] and nominated for the American Motion picture Plant's 100 Years...100 Laughs at the turn of the century.^[54] Ricci's portrayal of Wed in the film series was ranked i of The 100 Greatest Motion picture Characters by Empire,^[55] and in 2011 AOL named Morticia one of The 100 Virtually Memorable Female TV Characters.^[56]

Run into also

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

Notes

1. ^ There are canonical differences between the various incarnations of Fester Addams. In the two live-action feature films, both blithe series, the 1998 television moving-picture show, and the 2019 animated picture show, he is portrayed every bit Gomez'southward blood brother. In the 1964 television serial, however, he is portrayed every bit Morticia'south maternal uncle (via her mother, Hester Frump).
2. ^ Merely like Fester, there are approved differences between the various incarnations of Grandmamma Addams. In the 2 live-action characteristic films, both animated serial, and the 1998 telly film, she is portrayed as Morticia's mother. In his notes for the original cartoons, Charles Addams even refers to her as Grandma Frump, rendering her Wednesday's and Pugsley's maternal grandmother.^{[i] : ii} In the 1964 television series and the 2019 animated motion-picture show, however, she is portrayed as Gomez'south mother.
3. ^ In Halloween with the New Addams Family, Gomez and Morticia take a 2nd son, Pugsley Jr., and a second 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., Wed Jr., and Pubert together.

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External links

• The Addams Foundation website
• The Addams Family (1937) at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on March 13, 2012.
• The Addams Family unit Uk (musical website)
• The Addams Family on TVLand.com
• The New Addams Family at IMDb
• The Addams Family Musical at the Net Broadway Database

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