<P> The Addams Family was originally produced by head writer Nat Perrin for Filmways, Inc. at General Service Studios in Hollywood, California . Successor company MGM Television (via The Program Exchange for broadcast syndication and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment for home video / DVD) now owns the rights to the show . </P> <P> 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 . </P> <P> The very wealthy, endlessly enthusiastic Gomez Addams (John Astin) is madly in love with his refined wife, Morticia, née Frump (Carolyn Jones). Along with their daughter Wednesday (Lisa Loring), their son Pugsley (Ken Weatherwax), Uncle Fester (Jackie Coogan), and Grandma (Blossom Rock), they reside at 0001 Cemetery Lane in an ornate, gloomy, Second Empire - style mansion, attended by their servants: Lurch (Ted Cassidy), the towering butler, and Thing (billed as "Itself" but actually portrayed by Cassidy and occasionally by Jack Voglin when Lurch and Thing appear in the same scene), a disembodied hand that usually appears out of a small wooden box . Occasionally, episodes would include other relatives such as Cousin Itt (Felix Silla), Morticia's older sister Ophelia (also portrayed by Carolyn Jones), or Grandma Frump, Morticia's mother (Margaret Hamilton). </P> <P> Much of the humor derives from their culture clash with the rest of the world . They invariably treat normal visitors with great warmth and courtesy, though some of their guests often have bad intentions . They are puzzled by the horrified reactions to their own good - natured and normal behavior, since the family is under the impression that their tastes are shared by most of society . Accordingly, they view "conventional" tastes with generally tolerant suspicion . For example, Fester once cites a neighboring family's meticulously maintained petunia patches as evidence that they are "nothing but riffraff". A recurring theme in the epilogue of many episodes was the Addamses getting an update on the most - recent visitor to their home, either via mail, something in the newspaper, or a phone call . Invariably, as a result of their visit to the Addamses, the visitor would be institutionalized, change professions, move out of the country, or suffer some other negative life - changing event . The Addamses would always misinterpret the update and see it as good news for their most - recent visitor . </P>

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