The Addams Family (1973 TV series) 1972. John Astin, Carolyn Jones, Jackie Coogan, and Ted Cassidy provided the voices for their respective "Addams Family" characters while voice actors were used to voice Grandmama, Wednesday, Pugsley, and Cousin Itt. The episode details the Addams Family in a mystery with the Scooby-Doo gang. The Addams Family characters were drawn to the specifications of the original Charles Addams comics. The first animated series ran on Saturday mornings from 1973–1975 on NBC. In a departure from the original series, this series took the Addams' on the road in a Victorian-style RV. This series followed the relationships of the original Addams
Thing (The Addams Family) of Charles Addams, who drew the Addams Family cartoons in "The New Yorker" magazine, beginning in the 1930s. He first appeared in Addams's 1954 book "Homebodies". One Addams cartoon shows the Addams mansion with a sign at the front saying "Beware of the Thing." Additionally, Thing has been in the original television series (1964-66), the revived series "The New Addams Family" (1998), in the related movies "The Addams Family" (1991), "Addams Family Values" (1993) and "Addams Family Reunion" (1998), and the 1992 animated series. In the 1960s television series, Thing—strictly speaking, a disembodied forearm, since it occasionally emerged from its