The iconic family didn’t make a return to TV until six years later in 1972, when they guest-starred in one of The New Scooby-Doo Movies which produced by Hanna-Barbera. Scooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family – 1972Īfter The Addams Family ABC offering wrapped up in 1966. Including Gomez, Morticia, Pugsley, Wednesday, Grandmama, Lurch, Uncle Fester and Thing, but it also introduced the world to that catchy, finger-snappy, theme song which written by Vic Mizzy. The series not only starred all of the characters that featured in Charles Addams comic strip. The Addams Family ran for two seasons and pitched itself as a spooky yet wholesome sitcom that explored the many adventures and escapades of the titular family as they clashed with the sensibilities of the outside world. The First Addams Family Television Series – 1964 to 1966ĪBC was the first television network to take the characters that Charles Addams had created and bring them to life on the TV screen. In addition to The Addams Family, Charles also created the syndicated single-panel comic, Out Of This World, which ran in the paper from 1955 to 1957. Per his wishes, Charles’ ashes were interred in the pet cemetery at ‘The Swamp’.Ĭharles’ cartoons regularly appeared in The New Yorker, and throughout his life, he drew more than 1,300 cartoons. He and Estelle went through a fairly ugly divorce in 1956.Ĭharles later married his third wife, Marilyn Matthews Miller, and moved to Sagaponack New York, in the mid-80s, where they settled into an estate that was endearingly nicknamed ‘The Swamp’.Īddams passed away on Septemat the age of 76 after having a heart attack while parking his car. Reportedly, Charles based the character Morticia Addams slender appearance on his first life Barbara Jean Day, whom he married to from 1942 to 1950.Ĭharles’ second wife, Estelle Barb, was a lawyer who notoriously tricked her husband into signing away the television and film rights to his Addams Family characters. The Addams Family was the creation of Charles Addams A freelance cartoonist who was born in 1912 to parents Charles Huey Addams, a piano executive, and his wife Grace M.
But the first time that they appeared was actually in a series of comic strips that were published in The New Yorker back in 1938. The Addams Family Comic Strip – 1938Ī lot of people subscribe to the false notion that The Addams Family got it’s start as a television show in the 60s. If you fancy yourself a fan of The Addams Family, you won’t want to miss this fascinating video. Join us we take a look back in time at the various incarnations of The Addams Family over the years from that simple comic strip that first hit newsstands over 80 years ago to the most recent addition of The Addams Family 2 which hit theaters on October 1, 2021.
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