The Addams Family(1964)

series - first aired/released 1964-09-18 - audience 8.0

Comedy, Family

Directed by Arthur Hiller, Arthur Lubin, Jean Yarbrough, Jerry Hopper, Nat Perrin, Sidney Lanfield, Sidney Miller, Sidney Salkow, Stanley Z. Cherry

A satirical inversion of the ideal of the perfect American nuclear family, they are an eccentric wealthy family who delight in everything grotesque and macabre, and are never really aware that people find them bizarre or frightening. In fact, they themselves are often terrified by "normal" people.