(*Lyrics excerpt from "The Addams Family's" original theme song*) - "They're creepy and they're kooky.... Mysterious and spooky..... They're all together ooky.... The Addams Family."
As far as TV Sit-Coms from the mid-1960's go - I'd honestly have to say that "The Addams Family" certainly ranks right up there as being about as "oddball" as you could possibly get.
Now 50 years old - This TV series (which was filmed in b&w) is (in all of its nonsensical silliness and wacky absurdity) definitely not going to appeal the everyone - But, generally speaking, I found that the morbid sense of humour that prevailed amongst the characters, along with the family's cultural clash with the rest of the world, to be fairly entertaining, for the most part.
Initially, I was expecting all of the Addams Family members to be a real evil lot, but, basically, they turned out to be just a harmless clan of kooky eccentrics.
My favourite character in the show was, of course, Lurch (played perfectly by the 6'9" giant, Ted Cassidy) who was the Addams Family's harpsichord-playing butler.
As far as TV Sit-Coms from the mid-1960's go - I'd honestly have to say that "The Addams Family" certainly ranks right up there as being about as "oddball" as you could possibly get.
Now 50 years old - This TV series (which was filmed in b&w) is (in all of its nonsensical silliness and wacky absurdity) definitely not going to appeal the everyone - But, generally speaking, I found that the morbid sense of humour that prevailed amongst the characters, along with the family's cultural clash with the rest of the world, to be fairly entertaining, for the most part.
Initially, I was expecting all of the Addams Family members to be a real evil lot, but, basically, they turned out to be just a harmless clan of kooky eccentrics.
My favourite character in the show was, of course, Lurch (played perfectly by the 6'9" giant, Ted Cassidy) who was the Addams Family's harpsichord-playing butler.