The Addams Family - Volume One

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Actor: Carolyn Jones, Jackie Coogan, John Astin, Ken Weatherwax, Ted Cassidy
Brand: ADDAMS FAMILY
Writer: Arthur Weingarten
Writer: Ben Gershman
Writer: Bill Freedman
Writer: Bill Lutz
Writer: Carol Henning
Writer: Ed James
Writer: Ed Ring
Writer: Elroy Schwartz
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Black & White, Box set, Dubbed, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 561 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-10-24
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)

DVD Reviews of The Addams Family - Volume One

DVD Review: comedy horror blended and ...
Summary: 3 Stars

well ive only red a few reviews its interesting to note the classic differeences between strait doses of strait horror and the difference between added comedy by charles or great charles ...in afls mix an combination of top 10 genres its noted that blended genres makes for educated actors and actresses in the future ... spice an flare deffinitly cause some glare between sad and glad with some black mad ...shdf...

DVD Review: addams family volume 1 dissatisfied
Summary: 1 Stars

i was under the impression that was the entire 1st season and it certainly was not. this product was described incorrectly and dishonestly.

DVD Review: Creepy, Kooky and Ooky
Summary: 5 Stars

I've always enjoyed The Addams Family over The Munsters, who were never as funny (most of the comedy seemed forced anyway). I could never see the chemistry in Herman and Lily (who were NOT the first unmarried actors on TV to share the same bed. That honor belongs to Samantha and Darrin of Bewitched). And there was nothing I could see that was funny featuring, technically, the Universal Studios monsters in everyday situations. When you first meet the Addams, you don't think that they're weird (like in the first episode when the assistant principal is joking about dipping the superintendant in hot oil, though Gomez clearly thinks she's serious, even going as far as to suggest an old friend of his that used voodoo dolls). And there was just an abundance of chemistry between Gomez and Morticia (being turned on by the clap of thunder and then reminiscing about their honeymoon in Death Valley, of course) and you could clearly tell that there was an implied sex life (compared to "normal" couples like on "Father Knows Best", "Leave It To Beaver" and "The Dick Van Dyke Show"). The cast nailed their parts and although the actors of the two feature films were good, they just didn't have the talent of the original television cast.

DVD Review: The Original And Best!
Summary: 5 Stars

I got this set, and watched everything thre is to watch, and belive me, it's an exallent DVD set to own!
it contains: 22 ORIGINAL series episodes, 3 audio comentrairies, pitures of Charels Addam's drawings that inspired the T.V series itself. and 3 fun- and educatinal- feturettes! They contain tons of history and fun facts about this classic T.V series!

I am 18, and my mom remembers this series from when she was little.
As for me, I am very special in the way that I have a mystyrious conection to the past and have ben liking old stuff my entire life.
I know more about old T.V shows, movies and books than new ones! in fact, some of the stories I enjoy come from as far back as the turn of the 20th centry!
so if you, like me, enjoy things of the past
or if you, like my mom, want to remence your childhood, you will love this DVD set!

DVD Review: fun for the new generation
Summary: 5 Stars

This was a great video to show to our kids who were only familiar to the show's opening song...classic!

Description of The Addams Family - Volume One

They're creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky, and now for the first time, they're on DVD! The Addams Family, 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. Tarantulas, torture racks, and tombstones have never been so much fun! Join Gomez, Morticia, Uncle Fester, Lurch, Cousin Itt, and the rest of the gang for a fiendishly funny and altogether kooky experience. It's time to pay a call on The Addams Family!

If The Munsters was a traditional family sitcom as reimagined by Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, The Addams Family is a macabre twist on Father Knows Best. The Munster and Addams clans made their TV debuts in 1964 and lasted two seasons before the networks buried them. The Addamses are now gloriously resurrected in this three-disc set that digs up the series' first 22 episodes (oddly, 12 shy of the complete first season). Inspired by Charles Addams's New Yorker cartoons, The Addams Family is fiendishly funny, with a dead-on cast that indelibly embodies Addams's characters. John Astin brings a demented glee to eccentric, frighteningly wealthy Gomez Addams. Carolyn Jones is bewitching as his pre-goth wife, Morticia, whom the Beatles might have had in mind when they sang, "Baby's in Black." Jackie Coogan is the electrifying Uncle Fester, with Ted Cassidy (who famously took a kick in the groin from Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) is the monstrous butler Lurch, whose "You rang?" entered the pop culture lexicon.

The Munsters was family friendly. The Addams Family is more sophisticated and wickedly funny. As Gomez notes at one point, "There's a touch of madness" in the Addams household, where "every day is Halloween." Bear rugs growl, a disembodied hand, Thing, delivers the mail, and a torture rack is good for what ails you. The children, Wednesday (Lisa Loring) and older brother Pugsley (Ken Weatherwax), enjoy such hobbies as playing autopsy or exploding model trains. Gomez and Morticia were one of television's most passionate couples, with Gomez being driven to arm-kissing ecstasy whenever Morticia spoke French. The last episode included in this collection, "Amnesia in the Addams Family," is a classic in which Gomez is rendered "normal" following a conk on the head. The look of disgust on Morticia and Lurch's face when he asks for a glass of milk is priceless. The "altogether ooky" extras include three episode commentaries, a featurette on Charles Addams, reminiscences from cast members Astin, Loring, and Weatherwax, a segment on the creation of the classic snap-snap theme song ("They're creepy and they're kooky...."), and the inevitable theme song sing-along. The Addams Family at last on DVD? As Gomez might exclaim: "Capital!" --Donald Liebenson

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