The Addams Family (1973 TV series) The Addams Family (1973 TV series) The Addams Family is an animated sitcom adaptation of the Charles Addams cartoons produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1973. Jackie Coogan and Ted Cassidy who played Uncle Fester and Lurch respectively from the 1960s television series returned in voice-over roles. The Addams Family consists of husband and wife, Gomez and Morticia Addams, their children, Wednesday and Pugsley, as well as Grandmama, Uncle Fester, and their butler, Lurch. The Addamses are a close-knit extended family with decidedly macabre interests and supernatural abilities. No explanation for their powers is explicitly given in the series. This series
Native Americans on Network TV images of the "Good Indian"—minority figures who enforce the dominant group’s norms. All of these, FitzGerald argues, are variations of Defoe's Carib character Friday from his 1719 novel "Robinson Crusoe". A framework for this and other closely related stereotypes was formulated by University of Pennsylvania communication scholar Cedric C. Clark (later known as Syed M. Khatib) in a 1969 article for "Television Quarterly". Native Americans on Network TV Native Americans on Network TV: Stereotypes, Myths, and the "Good Indian," is a 2013 book-length study of American Indian characters on U.S. television, from "The Lone Ranger" to "Longmire". Author Michael Ray