The New Addams Family Season 1, Episode 20: Lurch Learns to Dance

Halloween With the Addams Family

22 min

Deadbeat Relatives

Wednesday recites an incantation and brings cousin Vlad Addams back from the grave. Vlad wants to kill Gomez and marry Morticia, but is unsuccessful in his attempts. Gomez becomes despondent when he incorrectly thinks that Morticia is accepting Vlad's advances. Wednesday, Pugsley, and Fester try to stop Vlad. Vlad and Gomez have a most interesting duel of various instruments (including pillows and thumb wrestling). But finally, Wednesday is able to complete the incantation to return Vlad from whence he came

22 min

The Addams Family Goes to School

The school board finds out that Wednesday and Pugsley have never been to school, and insists that they be enrolled immediately. Gomez and Morticia are rightly concerned about how the first day of school would be for the kids. Wednesday and Pugsley return with the horror of a dragon being killed in Grimm's Fairy Tales. But everything is straightened out when the school board reps come to the Addams house.

22 min

Fester's Punctured Romance

Fester broke up with his girl friend Cruella and goes into a state of depression. The family tries to help him out, and everything looks real rosy when it appears that Lucretia, Fester's date by mail order has arrived. Just to make sure, Mama mixes up Love Potions 666 and Wednesday administers it.

22 min

New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family

Newlyweds, Hubert and Amanda Peterson move in to the house they leased next door, owned by the Addamses. As they find out about their new neighbors and landlords, they try desperately to get out of the lease

22 min

Grandpapa Addams

Grandpapa Addams comes to stay with the family while they rebuild his neighborhood. The family knows he still misses his late wife, and make arrangements to surprise Grandpapa with a a gift to him of two weeks at Club Dead - a swinging resort for singles over 50. Grandpapa finds out but mistakenly thinks he's being sent to a nursing home so then tries to prove his youth to the family and pretends to be 50 years younger.

22 min

Gomez, the Reluctant Lover

Pugsley comes home with a crush on his teacher. He takes one of the love letters that Gomez sent to Morticia, and sends it to his teacher. When she comes to the Addams family house to inform them about it, she is led to believe that Gomez sent it. She falls for Gomez. Mama and Morticia tell a reluctant Gomez to go right after her and she'll run off.

22 min

Morticia, the Matchmaker

Cousin Melancholia's fiancee ran out and left her, so she shows up at the Addamses house all despondent. They try to find her another suitor - the mailman who zooms off, Lurch wouldn't agree, Fester only dates criminals, and Thing fingers off. But the unwilling Ralph Harvey, trying to save his Law Firm's account with the Addamses, is coerced into dating and getting engaged to Melancholia.

22 min

The Addams Family Tree

Wednesday gave Harold Pomeroy a black eye at school after he said his family was better than hers. His smug father, Cecil Pomeroy comes to the Addams family house for an apology. Cecil and Harold get to ""enjoy"" the family Addams. But with their interest now aroused in their own genealogy, the family hires professor Sims to do some research for them.

22 min

Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family

While Mama gives everyone extremely inappropriate gifts. Cousin Itt's girlfriend Contessa threw him out because she found out about Eudora and Simone and Lucinda, Monica and Cosuma. He came over for a place to stay since he was also broke, having lost his entire fortune at the roulette table. So he tries to get a job - at a Burger joint, then as a receptionist, then a hair stylist, and finally at the zoo.

22 min

Art and the Addams Family

Wednesday comes back from school after painting a black rainbow and she got an ""F"" on it. Her teacher, Miss Crank, says she may fail art if she doesn't use color. So Gomez tries to hire the world famous artist Leopold DaMinci as an art Tutor, but gets Leo DaMinci, an Italian Pizza delivery man instead. Meanwhile, Mama falls in love with the postman, and Fester helps her try to trap him.

22 min

Thing is Missing

Its Thing's birthday. Thing opens Fester's mail and Fester and the family yell at him and none of them remember his birthday, so Thing runs away. The stress of fighting with Thing causes Fester to start growing hair on his head.

22 min

Fester Goes on a Diet

Uncle Fester finds a female friend on the Internet who is coming to visit. He tries to get into shape before his new love arrives.

22 min

Morticia's Romance (1)

Gomez and Morticia are celebrating their 13th Anniversary. Wednesday and Pugsley ask them how they met. So they are told the story. Gomez was pre-ordained to marry Morticia's sister Ophelia for whom he had no affection. But he and Morticia were love at first sight.

22 min

Morticia's Romance (2)

Wednesday and Pugsley ask to hear the rest of the story about how Gomez and Morticia met. The story continues with the complications that arose when Cousin Itt and Cousin Vlad became involved.

22 min

Wednesday Leaves Home

Wednesday unleashed 20 starving alligators in the sewers. The police came after her. Gomez and Morticia ground her for a week for cruelty to animals. She would not be allowed to play with her weapons, start any fires, or torture here brother. So Wednesday runs away.

22 min

My Fair Cousin Itt

Cousin Itt was very disappointed that he didn't get the role of Hamlet at the theatre. So Gomez dusts off an old play he wrote, casts Itt as the lead, and hires a director for it. The director refuses to work with Itt because his voice is not deciferable. So Morticia trys to get Itt to slow and lower his voice. Itt's voice changes, but so does his personality.

22 min

The Winning of Morticia Addams

Fester reading an article by Dr. Pierre LeBlanc titled ""The Dangers of a Happy Marriage"", gets the family to try to help make Gomez and Morticia fight with each other. When he fails, he calls up Dr. LeBlanc who comes over and tries to steal Morticia from Gomez. So, Gomez challenges Dr. LeBlanc to a duel.

22 min

Uncle Fester's Toupee

Ginger, a girl Fester has been e-mailing is coming to meet him. But Fester lied to her about himself, and wonders what he's going to do about his hair, which he told her he has. So a toupee salesman is called. Fester's grand appearance in front of Ginger is stumbling at best!

22 min

Morticia and the Psychiatrist

Pugsley joined the Junior Troopers so Morticia called a psychiatrist who suggests that Pugsley just wants their attention.

22 min

Melancholia Finds Romance

Cousin Melancholia and her fiancee Digby Henson arrive at the Addamses house but Fester is suspicious of Digby so spies on him!

22 min

Morticia's Favorite Charity

The Addams are selecting stuff to donate for the charity auction but donate Pugsley's tiger-head clock, much to his annoyance!

22 min

Morticia and the Ladies League

Morticia invites the PTA over to her house for a meeting and Pugsley wants to go to the circus to see Gorgo, the flying monkey.

22 min

Morticia, the Breadwinner

The Stock Market crashes and Gomez has almost all his money in the Stock Market! From a conversation they hear, they think he's lost everything, but has he?...

22 min

Morticia's Dilemma

Gomez' old friend Senior Don Xavier Malina arrives with his daughter Consuela and her chaperone Maria. When Gomez was 10, he had proposed to Consuela, and now that she is turning 25, Senior Malina is here to see them married.

22 min

Christmas with the Addams Family

Christmas is coming. The happiness of it horrifies the family, but the gift-giving and holiday spirit is still there. Pugsley sees his belief in Santa dashed, and the family enlists Fester to dress up as Santa for him...what a sight!

22 min

Crisis in the Addams Family

Gomez's finds out life insurance policy was cancelled because his shark feeding trip to the Bermuda Triangle was deemed too much of a risk - Mr Fielding, an inadequate insurance man, convinces Morticia that Gomez will die in six months if he doesn't change his dangerous ways!

22 min

Gomez, the Cat Burglar

Gomez gets hit in the head by a croquet ball and loses his memory, and so becomes distinctly Brooklyn-like!

22 min

Uncle Fester's Illness

22 min

Green-Eyed Gomez

22 min

Thing's Romance

22 min

Morticia, the Decorator

22 min

Close Encounters of the Addams Kind

Aliens looking for a power source trace it to be at the Addams house. After researching TV shows from the seventies to learn Earth culture, they come posed as Greg and Marsha Brady. At the Addams house, they discover that the power source they need is Uncle Fester, and they have a dance contest with Morticia and Gomez to win him. However Greg and Marsha lose, but after explaining their case, Gomez comes up with a solution.

22 min

Amnesia in the Addams Family

gomez is hit in the head and is in amnesia. Morticia asks Gomez if he's ok and he reply's ""Gomez? Who's Gomez?"" Morticia looks at him and says that he's Gomez but Gomez is clueless about who she is. So he's in amnesia and try to bring Gomez's memory back.

22 min

Wednesday's Crush

22 min

Morticia, the Sculptress

22 min

Gomez, the People's Choice

22 min

Lurch, the Teen-Age Idol

22 min

Fester and Granny vs. Grandpapa Addams

22 min

Saving Private Addams

22 min

My Son, the Chimp

22 min

Horseplay

22 min

Lurch's Grand Romance

22 min

Fester Joins the Global Mercenaries

22 min

Catastrophia's Career

22 min

Addams Family In Court

22 min

Cousin Itt's Problem

22 min

Morticia, the Playwright

22 min

Lurch, Man of Leisure

22 min

Progress In The Addams Family

22 min

Undercover Man

22 min