Funny that the show, despite being about "freaks," still had the obligatory morals , family values and upright citizen thing of the era.

this show made goth cool! and optimistic! (wow , how that has changed!). gomez and Morticia had that rare chemistry as in get smart and the Avengers. gomezes crazed eyes, orticias seductive slinking around and droll talk. Uncle fester and Lurch where excellent. blows the lame musnsters out of the water, this stuff was well written, great atmosphere as well.

The Addams Family was aimed to a bit older audience than the Munsters. I remember preferring The Munsters as a kid since it featured cool cars and the monster motif. As an adult I much prefer the Addams Family when watching T.V. Land.

i was in love with morticia. otherwise, not that great.

Very corny stuff. One and a half stars

For some reason that I can't really put my finger on, I never could get into "The Addams Family". As a child, I recall watching both this series and its rival "The Munsters", and I always enjoyed the latter better. The Addams clan seemed less animated than the Munsters (who also seemed to have more interaction with the "real world"), but I will admit that this show had more sophisticated humor. The theme song also sounded dated even then when compared to the Munsters almost 60's surf sounding theme. The bottom line is that "The Addams Family" loses stars both based on subjective tastes and in comparisons with other shows on this list.

Cousin ITT made the show what it was. He/She/It was a riot. Loved the way Morticia slithered around in her tight dress. Uncle Fester was a bit of an idiot though. And Pugsly had no acting ability whatsoever. Wasn't surprised that Wednesday grew up to star in porn. She was very pretty even as a little girl.

This was based on the New Yorker Addams Family Cartoon. This was a strange but amusing show with the weird characters.

A classic with a supreme cast.Much better than the movies made 20 years later!

"Thing", "Cousin it", "Uncle Fester", American TV icons. I used Gomez's kissing up the arm move..more than once.

tish i love it when you speak french-better than the munsters

Couldn't hold a candle to the Munsters.

Very clever, very funny. Makes the Munsters look like the unimaginative crap it was.

Morticia is a HOT BABE!

In my opinion, The Addams Family beats the Munsters. I love its comedy and tbe cast was awesome! I have always admired Morticia's beauty! And I love Lurch! YOU RANG? yes, Lurch, I rang, and I'll ring some more for the Addams Family on TVLAND!

lovely...still like them

This is a fun and clever show. I like Uncle Fester and Cousin Itt and Lurch the best. Gomez is very funny. And Morticia is very sexy and beautiful. It's a great cast and great comedy.

i always loved the addams family just awesome

A good, unrealistic sitcom. But, not as good as The Munsters, IMO.

True to the man who inspired it, this program was an early example of entertainment that works on two levels: Funny for the kiddies and campily sexual for adults. Gomez's smile was not just a grimace, it was also a fixed leer. I also enjoyed the sly sardonic undertone in most episodes. And Morticia was a darkly sensual babe, no doubt about it!

The Munsters out rated their rivals 'The Addams Family' in the US TV ratings throughout 1964 - 1966; the years both shows ran for. Sorry Addams Family fans! www.fiftiesweb.com/tv-ratings-60s.htm

The Addams Family is a clever sitcom with great imagination and creativity in expressing characters of sorts and wonderful storylines that one can relate to. This show is almost as good as its revival, The Munsters.

A good show, especially liked the sets, read an article that said the network sent people out to buy all sorts of bad looking furniture and other wacky stuff for the house.(what a fun job this must have been, go to some used furniture place and tell them you want to buy a bunch of terrible looking stuff for your home!).

I must admit, I do enjoy "The Addams Family" a lot but it isn't as a good as it's sister show, "The Munsters".

Very wacky, but very clever and funny.

Very clever, well-written show. Great Art Direction. The Addams Family had a great house, such alluring decor. Loved those maneating plants in the greenhouse, the doorbell, the cigar store Indian that dispensed already-lit Cubans, Gomez at the controls of his model trains, and especially Cousin Itt. Much funnier and inventive than that cheap knock-off on CBS, The Munsters.

insane still funny today

I enjoyed this show as a child - and even more now in reruns, now that I'm old enough to appreciate the passion between Gomez and Morticia ("Meet me in the arboretum.") The rival spooky-family show, The Munsters, was b-o-r-i-n-g dreck by comparison.

This show was very entertaining, it is way better than the new Addams family shows that are coming out now a days.

This show was revolutionary, It was the first show to break out of the mold of 50's sitcoms and actually provide some original content. The munsters were a pale imitation created just to compete, but unfortunatly their writers had no idea how to be spooky and macabe without resorting to clones of classic movie monsters.

This is a fun show to watch. I hate to see it compared to The Munsters, two very different shows.

This show was macabre in ways The Munsters never even imagined. It was so brilliantly hilarious that not even the worst cable remake can taint its memory.

John Astin has always been an extremely "hip" actor.

Just the greates fun show.

yep, uncle fester, so funny, and mr addams was such a great husband, sure wish mine was more like him.

I like this much more than the Munsters!

A very wacky, funny show which successfully employed a very unique and sophisticated camp never seen on TV before it came along. In an odd way it also seemed to foreshadow the times just ahead of it the often scarier now campy late 1960's. The Munsters were an obvious attempt to cash in on the success of this much more original show and the writing and acting paled by comparison. John Astin was wonderful as Gomez as was Carolyn Jones as Morticia. It really seemed to be ahead of it's time and I absolutely loved it!

I'm not saying that The Addams Familt is a bad show, but it isn't one of my favorites. I never thought of the show as funny, but imaginative. I rarely see this as it is not seen on Tv Land anymore, but my library has episodes to watch. The show is filled with lots of goofy, slapstick humor, and will appeal to fans of The Munsters.

SECOND ONLY TO THE MUNSTERS IN "SPOOK FAMILY" SHOWS.

The Addams Family was one of the best tv shows ever made. Extremely original and funny! The new versions and movies, just don't do the original justice!

I always loved this show! I was like obsessed with it! I thought that each character was hilarious and Perfect! I still smile with fondness whenever I watch it!

Grew up Wathing this most times funny show Saw the column in the new Yorker And Still Enjoy It on Nick at night

I used to like this show. I even had the attention span for the show when it was in black and white but I am not sure why now that I look back on it. I liked cousin It. I really didn't like the Hand. The mom and dad were always malling each other which was kind of gross the way they did it. There were some really weird and twisted sub plots in the show.

I just never really got into this show like other people did. I guess it was mildly entertaining, but what's the big deal? Although I do think the Addams Family had some kind of edge over the Munsters, for whatever reason. Maybe it was because the Addams family didn't have to explain why Frankenstein and a vampire would have a werewolf for a son.

It wasn't on long enough but I enjoyed watching the original series for many years. Why they remade this (on Fox) over again is beyond me. Why redo something that was already great!