The Addams Family (1964 TV series) originally produced by head writer Nat Perrin for Filmways, Inc. at General Service Studios in Hollywood, California. Successor company MGM Television (via The Program Exchange for broadcast syndication and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment for home video/DVD) now owns the rights to the show. The Addams are a close-knit extended family with decidedly macabre interests and supernatural abilities, though no explanation for their powers is explicitly given in the series. The wealthy, endlessly enthusiastic Gomez Addams (John Astin) is madly in love with his refined wife, Morticia (Carolyn Jones). Along with their daughter Wednesday (Lisa Loring), their son Pugsley (Ken
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