The Addams Family of which were originally published in "The New Yorker" between their debut in 1938 and Charles Addams' death in 1988. They have since been adapted to other media. In 1964, a live-action television series, starring John Astin and Carolyn Jones, premiered on ABC and subsequently inspired a 1977 television film and cameos from the cast in other shows. An unrelated animated series aired in 1973. The franchise was revived in the 1990s with a feature film series consisting of "The Addams Family" (1991) and "Addams Family Values" (1993). Both received nominations for Academy Awards, BAFTA Awards, and Hugo Awards. For
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