Addams Family Morticia Joins

This is one of the most welcome releases to come out onto DVD.....on many peoples wish list for a long time.

This three disc set features the first 22 episodes in order as they appeared in late /64 and into early /65.Technically they have been excellently remastered and are a delight both audially and visually,crisp and clear.

While the set isn't loaded with extras it does have some nice commentary on a few selected episodes by the then children,cousin It and the author of the "Addams Family Chronicles",two or three short featurettes,some photos

and some original drawings by creator Charles Addams.

Seeing these shows again for the first time since their original airing is not only a fond nostalgic trip but it certainly gave me a new found respect for the wonderful talent involved in this show from the technical crew to of course that wonderful,wonderful cast.Each and everyone played this right straight down the line(if you want this kind of comedy to "play" it's the only way to go) and were superb at it.Who can forget that wonderful Lurch sound of disgust,Gomez' sudden impulsive bravado and zeal and of course Morticia always there to reign Gomez in in her inimitable low key way???

The Addams family made the uncool,cool and the different acceptable.They turned the "Father knows Best","Make room for Daddy" or "Donna Reed Show" images on their collective ears and came at life from a totally different perspective....redefining "normal" in the process.They were trying to tell us all in a sense to be a little more tolerant of societal outcasts....different wasn't necessarily to be shunned and ridiculed.

Quite a message for 1964 but one I felt then and feel even more today.And however different the Addams Family was viewed by those that came in contact with them on the show the point was usually totally lost to most of them that the Addams's were actually in a very real sense more normal than they were.The Addams Family was just that....a very close knit and LOVING family.The fact of not only THEIR closeness but how important their living relatives and family history were was a recurring theme throughout the shows' run.

The Addams Family I cannot recommend enough and especially to Moms and Dads today looking for something the entire family can sit and watch together(geesh,whatever happened to those days??).There simply has never been another show like this one on the air before or since and I'm glad to see it still remains to many a TV classic because that's just what it is.

I cannot wait for the rest of this series to appear.

Watch and enjoy!!

The Addams family is 60's television at its absolute best. I'm really happy to have this classic show on DVD, but disappointed in the release format. While you get 22 episodes of this show in amazing black and white, it's not the complete first season. MGM Studios for some reason has chosen to release the series in 3 volumes instead of two season sets. The video transfer and sound are truly incredible for a show this old and they look and sound great. The video transfers are positively stunning and the sound is clean and crisp. I'm really amazed by the overall quality of this DVD release. I don't understand why MGM chose to spread the 22 episodes over 3 double sided discs instead of 3 single sided discs. Why is it that Paramount Studios can release affordable season sets on single sided discs, but MGM & Fox Studios release individual volumes. Bonus features on the volume one set are listed below.

DVD Features:

* commentary: on 3 episodes including "the Addams family goes to school" by Arthur Hiller (director)
* featurette: "you rang, Mr. Addams"
* featurette: "snap, snap"
* featurette: "the Addams family portrait"
* theme song karaoke
* still galleries featuring original drawings and photos

DVD Episodes Include:
The Addams Family Goes to School
Morticia and the Psychiatrist
Fester's Punctuated Romance
Gomez the Politician
The Addams Family Tree
Morticia Joins the Ladies League
Halloween with the Addams Family
Green Eyed Gomez
The New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family
Wednesday Leaves Home
The Addams Family Meet the VIPs
Morticia, the Matchmaker
Lurch Learns to Dance
Art and the Addams Family
The Addams Family Meets the Beatnik
The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man
Mother Lurch Visits the Addams Family
Uncle Fester's Illness
The Addams Family Splurges
Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family
The Addams Family In Court
Amnesia in the Addams Family

The Addams Family is one of my favorite television shows. I grew up watching reruns of it in the 70s and I thought it was hilarious and I still do. TV Land recently added this to their lineup and I'm very pleased about that. John Astin and Carolyn Jones are very good as Gomez and Morticia Addams and equally good is Jackie Coogan a former childstar who starred in the Silent movie The Kid with Charlie Chaplin and in this sitcom he played Uncle Fester and the kids are very good too especially adorable Lisa Loring who played Gomez and Morticia's daughter Wednesday. This tape has some good episodes including a very funny episode in which Gomez and Morticia's son Pugsley begins to act like a normal boy and does things like play baseball and joins the Boy Scouts so they get a child psychiatrist for him. The Munsters which is another of my favorite television shows has it's first season coming out on DVD and it will be available for purchase in August and I'm going to buy it but I really want to own the Addams family on DVD too and like The Munsters The Addams Family only had two seasons so it should be a cinch to put both the complete first and second seasons on DVD!