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The Addams Family Splurges: Directed by Sidney Lanfield. With Carolyn Jones, John Astin, Jackie Coogan, Ted Cassidy. The Addams family hopes to vacation on the moon, but needs to raise a billion dollars. Using Gomez's new supercomputer, the family schemes to make the money by betting on horse races.
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- Comedy, Family, Horror
- Sidney Lanfield
- 1965-01-29
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Splurges is the nineteenth episode of the first season of the original series of The Addams Family. It first aired 29 January 1965 on ABC.
Uncle Fester is bored. Morticia suggests he take Zelda, her pet vulture, for a stroll, but he wants to take a trip. Gomez and Morticia reminisce about a picnic they took on Devil's Island, but they nix a trip to the tar pits because Fester goes wild there. They think Death Valley is probably overrun with tourists since they first discovered it, so ...
•Cousin Nanook is referenced in this episode, as is Aristotle.
•When Thing hands Gomez the money, he is a left hand, instead of his usual right. When he hands Mr. Hulen a pistol and then some hemlock whiskey, he is also a left.
•The Addams Family owns a Farnsworth brand television, the company founded by the inventor of the television, Philo T. Farnsworth.
•Uncle Fester says the fish in the aquarium ate each other and Morticia frets that the children love their pet piranha.
•Fester grabs Genevieve and threatens to shoot Ralph J. Hulen in the back, to his face.
•Despite Blossom Rock, Ken Weatherwax, and Lisa Loring being credited, they only appear in the opening and closing credits.
"The Addams Family" The Addams Family Splurges (TV Episode 1965) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
America's first family of ghastly giddiness are here in all of their ghoulish glory in the original TV series based on the delightfully demented imagination of Charles Addams. 1965 34 episodes. TV-PG. Science Fiction · Comedy. Free trial of MGM+.
Dec 18, 2017 · Episode 1 • Sep 18, 1964 • 25 m. The Addams Family Goes to School. The local truant officer forces Wednesday and Pugsley to attend public school to their parents' consternation. Episode 2 • Sep 25, 1964 • 25 m. Morticia and the Psychiatrist.
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The family would like to vacation on the moon, but the billion dollar travel cost is slightly prohibitive. Uncle Fester (Jackie Cooper) volunteers $21.13 and...
The Addams family hopes to vacation on the moon, but needs to raise a billion dollars. Using Gomez's new supercomputer, the family schemes to make the money by betting on horse races.
