HALLOWEEN WITH THE ADDAMS FAMILY [1964]

EPISODE 7 OF THE FIRST SEASON OF THE ADDAMS FAMILY WAS BROADCAST ON OCTOBER 30th, 1964.  As Granmama goes to take Wednesday and Puggsley (wearing their horrible human costumes) out trick-or-treating, Gomez is carving a Jack O'Lantern in the likeness of Uncle Fester.  Police sirens are heard throughout the neighbourhood as a couple of robbers are on the lam. 

The crooks, who call themselves "Marty" (Skip Homeier) and "Claude" (Don Rickles), are invited in for the Halloween festivities and accept in order to hide from the cops.  When Gomez mistakes the robbers' satchel of loot for a trick-or-treat bag, he notices it's full of money.  Instead of the apple he was going to give them, Gomez opens a desk drawer full of money and puts some in their satchel.  Marty and Claude then spend the rest of the episode trying to get into that desk drawer and steal all the cash.  Before a festive game of bobbing for the crab, Gomez and Morticia recite a lovely Halloween poem  --  no Halloween would seem quite complete without it:

"It was Halloween evening and through the abode Not a creature was stirring, not even a toad.  Jack O'Lanterns are hung on the gallows with care to guide sister witch as she flies through the air.  And she calls out to them:  'Come Flitter, come Flutter, come Flapper and Flyer, Come Chitter, come Chatter, Come Vicious Vampire'."  

Fester provides intimate lighting with a light bulb in his mouth while Lurch accompanies on harpsichord.  Eventually, the robbers suggest they play hide-n-seek and, while the Addamses hide, Marty and Claude clean out the drawer full of money and make their getaway -- right into the arms of the waiting police.  

"HALLOWEEN WITH THE ADDAMS FAMILY" follows the tried and true tropes of the series in which some "normals" invade the sanctity of the Addams house and find the contents therein disturbing; however, the innocent Addams Family doesn't understand why they're acting so odd.  There's nothing more perfect than spending Halloween with the Addams Family -- especially with an episode that was originally broadcast 55 years ago tonight!