UNITED STATES - SEPTEMBER 18:  THE ADDAMS FAMILY - Pilot - Season One - 9/18/64, "The Addams Family" was based on the characters in Charles Addams' "New Yorker" cartoons. The wealthy Gomez Addams was madly in love with his wife, Morticia, and their two children, Wednesday and Pugsley. The family, including Uncle Fester, their towering butler Lurch (Ted Cassidy), Grandmama, and Thing, a hand that usually appeared out of a small wooden box, resided in an ornate, gloomy mansion.,  (Photo by Walt Disney Television via Getty Images Photo Archives/Walt Disney Television via Getty Images)