The Addams Family (Seasons 1–2)

The Addams Family (1964) is a classic American comedy series you can watch online on iFILM. The Addams household runs on a different logic: candlelit dinners in the cemetery are a treat, the butler Lurch towers over every guest in silence, and a disembodied hand called Thing handles the mail.

Carolyn Jones and John Astin play Morticia and Gomez — a couple genuinely devoted to each other, which is arguably the strangest thing about them. Uncle Fester lights bulbs in his mouth. The kids, Wednesday and Pugsley, are left to their own experiments. Guests arrive expecting horror and leave deeply confused by warmth. The show ran from 1964 to 1966, a two-season satirical spin on the postwar American family ideal.

Charles Addams created the characters for The New Yorker starting in 1938, decades before the TV cameras arrived. The series remains the definitive version of the clan. Stream The Addams Family online on iFILM.