The Addams Family
Mother Lurch Visits the Addams Family
TV Flash files “Mother Lurch Visits the Addams Family” as a desk essential hour — The Addams Family (1964–1966) on ABC, season 1, episode 17, aired 1965-01-15, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E17: listed hour 17 of 64 in the The Addams Family guide, hour 17 of 34 in season 1. It aired 1965-01-15 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man” (S01E16). Next is “Uncle Fester's Illness” (S01E18).
Essential hour: “Mother Lurch Visits the Addams Family”. Lurch as someone's son: the tuxedo as workplace-family craft, not only a catchphrase.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Lurch's mother wants him to be waited on by Morticia and Gomez.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Mother Lurch Visits the Addams Family sit in the The Addams Family guide?
S01E17 is listed hour 17 of 64 — hour 17 of 34 in season 1, season 1 episode 17.
When did The Addams Family S01E17 air?
Mother Lurch Visits the Addams Family aired 1965-01-15 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Do I need to watch The Addams Family in order?
No. It is a two-season sitcom of self-contained hours. Tone is the serial, not plot. Start anywhere; the household will introduce itself in one scene.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Watch the original goth family as a ship and a stance: Gomez and Morticia as endgame that never needed a slow-burn, weirdness as household policy, and two seasons of outsider chic the timeline still screenshots without irony.
So about last night's group chat: someone posted a Morticia still and typed wife goals, someone else launched the annual Munsters discourse like it is a civic duty, and a third person asked whether Cousin Itt is a fursona. (I said spoiler-free. For a two-season sitcom that is mostly vibes, I can keep that promise.) The Addams Family is fandom before fandom had infrastructure — 1964 ABC, sixty-four episodes, and a house that treated the neighbors as the punchline. The ship is the show. Gomez and Morticia do not…
Filed against
- John Astin as Gomez Addams
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- Carolyn Jones as Morticia Addams
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- Jackie Coogan as Uncle Fester
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- Ted Cassidy as Lurch
Ted Cassidy’s Lurch is The Addams Family’s doorway as a punchline and a policy — two seasons of outsider chic, weirdness as household stance, Gomez and Morticia as endgame before we had the word. On TV Flash he is original goth…