#Addams Family Reunion (1998)

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Tim Curry as Gomez Addams - Addams Family Reunion (1998)

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Morticia Addams

Just drew Morticia Addams during school.

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The Addams Family Through the Years

Before I get into character profiles, let me first do a run-through of the incarnations of the Addams family through the years.

As I wrote in my first post, Charles Addams created the nameless, bizarre family in some of the many comics he drew for The New Yorker starting in 1938. Morticia and Wednesday were named in 1962 when dolls of them were released. Charles Addams was asked for a list of names and descriptions for them and the other family members when the TV show was in development in 1963, but had little other involvement with the show.

The show ran for two seasons from 1964 to 1966, totalling 64 episodes. This was the same time that a similar show, The Munsters, was also on the air. Both shows were about wacky families of monstrous weirdos living in American suburbia. Both were in black and white, and both were canceled in 1966, possibly due to the rise of color television.

After a cross-over with Scooby-Doo, Hanna-Barbera produced a 16-episode animated series in 1973 which featured the family on a road trip in a creepy camper that looked like their mansion. It featured the same actors who played Lurch and Fester voicing their previous characters, and a 10-year-old Jodie Foster as the voice of Pugsley!

There was a reunion special in 1977, which reunited most of the cast of the show, called Halloween with the New Addams Family. The original show had remained popular, running in syndication for years. It was especially popular in Australia. According to one fan, this was because the Addams family was “less American” than the Munsters. 

In 1991, a feature film was released after a tumultuous production. Raul Julia became the new face of Gomez Addams in the popular consciousness. It was followed by a sequel called Addams Family Values in 1993, and in between there was another animated series. John Astin reprised his role as Gomez in that animated series. 

There were plans to continue the film series, but Raul Julia suffered from stomach cancer and died suddenly in 1994, canceling those plans. Although both films performed poorly at the box office, they gained a loyal following on home video and remain popular to this day. In 1992, an Addams family pinball machine was produced featuring original voice acting from Raul Julia as Gomez and Angelica Huston as Morticia. It became the most popular pinball machine of all time, selling over 20,000 units.

In 1998, a TV movie called Addams Family Reunion was produced by Saban, featuring Tim Curry as Gomez and Daryl Hannah as Morticia. The only returning actors from the 1991/93 movies were Carel Struycken and Christopher Hart's hand, who played Lurch and Thing, respectively. I have not seen it, and can not attest to its quality, or lack thereof. That movie was also meant to be the pilot for a TV show called The New Addams Family, but most of the cast was different. It ran for 65 episodes, none of which have I seen. (Hat tip to @tenthirtyone for pointing this out.)

After a try-out in Chicago, a musical debuted on Broadway in 2010. I was lucky enough to see that for my birthday that year. It starred Nathan Lane as Gomez and Bebe Neuwirth as Morticia. It was pretty entertaining. It would have been better if Lane wasn’t trying to be Raul Julia. He did a very fake Spanish accent, and it was terribly distracting. The musical was panned by critics and didn’t last long, but it was popular enough that it is now performed by high schools across the country. In fact, my friend Sarah and my cousin Charlie were both involved with different productions of it this past Spring.

That same year (2010), the rights were purchased by Illumination Entertainment, and they announced that they were going to produce a stop-motion film with Tim Burton. However, he decided to go with computer animation instead. That eventually turned into the 2019 film, after Tim Burton dropped out. This version was the closest in appearance to the original comics. Although the characters are rendered in 3D, the animators aimed to make them look as much like Charles Addams’ drawings as possible.

You’d think Tim Burton had been involved since at least the 1991 movie, but he hadn’t. Black and white stripes? Bats? Other goth things? That sounds like Tim Burton, but oddly enough, he actually hasn’t been attached to any Addams Family property until the Netflix show in 2022. It’s a natural pairing, and perhaps he would have been great friends with Charles Addams, had he been born several decades earlier. 

Now the Netflix show, centered on Wednesday, is in production for its second season after its first season was one of the streaming service's most popular shows to date. It's not the first time the Addams family has spawned a viral dance sensation. Way back in the 1960s, the original TV show started a dance craze called “the Lurch”.

In coming posts, I’ll go into how Charles Addams originally portrayed each of the nine characters in the Addams family pictured above (Gomez, Morticia, Pugsley, Wednesday, Fester, Grandmama, Lurch, Thing, and Cousin Itt) and how they evolved, or didn’t, over time.

[iolaussharpe-24]

Doing another Addams Family marathon.

Just the movies right now. The Addams Family (1991), Addams Family Values, Addams Family Reunion, The Addams Family (2019), and I still don't have The Addams Family 2.

I might watch the 60s sitcom and Wednesday again. I might not.

I've found Scooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family on YouTube, I just haven't watched it yet. The same goes for the musical. I found the soundtrack and a couple full recordings.

I'm also hunting down Halloween with the New Addams Family from 1977, The New Addams Family from 1998, and the cartoons from 1992 and 1973.

(Yes, there's THAT much Addams Family in the world.)

Actively searching for books/comics as well.

After this I plan on watching The Munsters Revenge because I'm in that mindset, I don't have the original series, and I don't like the Rob Zombie movie. The Little Vampire, The Witches (the original), Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, and Elvira's Haunted Hills are also on the to-do list. And maybe the Hotel Transylvania movies if I'm up for it. Not the fourth one though.

I'm a very busy lazy person with nothing to do.

[kwebtv]

TV Guide  -  November 2 - 8, 1963

Wilfred Bailey Everett Bixby III (January 22, 1934 – November 21, 1993) professionally known as Bill Bixby, Film and television actor, director, producer, and frequent game-show panellist.

Bixby's career spanned more than three decades, including appearances on stage, in films, and on television series. He is known for his roles in the CBS sitcom My Favorite Martian as Tim O'Hara, in the ABC sitcom The Courtship of Eddie's Father as Tom Corbett, in the NBC crime drama series The Magician as stage Illusionist Anthony Blake, and the CBS science-fiction drama series The Incredible Hulk as Dr. David Banner.  He also worked with Mariette Hartley in his final series, Goodnight, Beantown,  (Wikipedia)

Herman Raymond Walston (November 2, 1914 – January 1, 2001) was an American actor and comedian, well known as the title character on My Favorite Martian. His other major film, television, and stage roles included Luther Billis (South Pacific), Mr. Applegate (Damn Yankees), Orville J. Spooner (Kiss Me, Stupid), J. J. Singleton (The Sting), Poopdeck Pappy (Popeye), Mr. Hand (Fast Times at Ridgemont High), Candy (Of Mice and Men), Glen Bateman (The Stand), and Judge Henry Bone (Picket Fences).

The success of My Favorite Martian typecast Walston and he had difficulty finding serious roles after the show's cancellation. He returned to character actor status in the 1970s and 1980s, and guest starred in such series as Custer, The Wild Wild West, Love, American Style, The Rookies, Mission: Impossible, Ellery Queen, The Six Million Dollar Man, Little House on the Prairie, and The Incredible Hulk, again with Bixby, in which Walston played Jasper the Magician in an episode called "My Favorite Magician".

In 1984, Walston played a judge on an episode of Night Court. Six years later, he made a guest appearance on an episode of L.A. Law. He later was hired for the role of Judge Henry Bone on Picket Fences; the character was originally a recurring role, but Walston proved to be so popular the character was later upgraded to a starring role.

He appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation as Boothby, head groundskeeper at Starfleet Academy in San Francisco, and reprised the role twice on Star Trek: Voyager.

In 1988, he guest starred in an episode of the popular horror-fantasy show Friday the 13th: the Series, as a bitter, elderly comic-book artist who uses a demonically cursed comic book to transform himself into a killer robot and murder his erstwhile enemies. 

Walston received three Emmy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his work on Picket Fences, winning twice, in 1995 and 1996. CBS cancelled the show after four seasons in 1996. Walston made a guest appearance in an episode of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman entitled "Remember Me", in which he portrayed the father of Jake Slicker, who was stricken with Alzheimer's disease.

Walston played Grandfather Walter Addams in Addams Family Reunion (1998).  He appeared in the Touched by an Angel episode, "The Face on the Barroom Floor", which aired on October 15, 2000.

Walston made a cameo in the 7th Heaven episode, "One Hundred", which aired on January 29, 2001, four weeks after his death. (Wikipedia)

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Idea:

"We Don't Talk About Bruno" from Encanto, but instead it's about Addams Family Reunion (1998)

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Continuities of Addams' Family pt 1: A comprehensive list

I can't take it. Everyone keeps conflating them. So I'll make a list for people to see.

This episode is just pertaining to the entries themselves, maybe a description, and maybe some minor fun facts about each thing (in rough order of release):

New Yorker Comic (1932/33): Dates vary on the "first" iirc it started as who would evolve to become "Morticia" later. None of the chars have names, outside the hinted 3rd child the "Morticia" char is carrying but never births. "Morticia" considered naming the kid: Cain or Ananias.

The Addams Family TV (1964/65, S1/2): Where chars first got their names. Pugsley was originally going to be named "Pubert" but the TV Network rejected the name and so he became Pugsley instead, but not in time for the toys to be produced. His plushie has titled as "Irving Addams" instead.

The New Scooby-Doo Movies/Wednesday is Missing (1972): Stealth pilot for The Addams Family Animated TV (1973). 1964's Gomez (John Astin), Morticia, Lurch, Fester reprise their roles for this short.

The Addams Family Animated TV (1973): There are 3 comic book issue tie-ins to this, iirc they are just comic book versions of 3 episodes from the show. This is the first point (?) where Fester/Grandmama's relationship with Gomez/Morticia change from the 64 version. Only Lurch and Fester reprise their roles from the 64 TV show. A Young Jodie Foster voices Pugsley.

The Addams Family Fun-House (1973): An ABC pilot for a new TV show. Was never picked up. Lost media. Apparently VERY BAD. They were going to have Eddie from The Munsters (OG iirc?) to play Pugsley.

Halloween with the New Addams Family (1977): Sequel/Reunion TV Movie for the 1964 TV show, pretty much everyone reprises their role from the show.

The Addams Family (1991): First theatrical movie. Changes Wednesday's personality to more dark-goth vibes.

Addams Family Values (1993): Sequel to the 1991 movie. Reintroduces the 3rd baby from the comic, and brings back the name Pubert for the new child.

Addams Family Reunion (1998): Direct to video movie, no relation to the theater movies nor the 64 sitcom nor it's 77 tv movie sequel. Tim Curry is Gomez. It is actually a stealth pilot for a new 1998 live action remake show (only the girl who played Wednesday would reprise her role for the show).

The Addams Family: The Animated Series (1992/93, S1/2): A new animated TV show, made thanks to the success of the 1991 movie. John Astin returns to voice Gomez again. ;D Wednesday has the same dark look, but keeps her cheery attitude from early iterations.

The New Addams' Family TV (1998-99): A remake of the 64 live action TV Show. Has new episodes in the line up along with remakes. Maybe tied to Addams' Family Reunion movie because the Wednesday actor returns for this show. John Astin returns for a special role for an episode or two. :3c

The Addams Family Musical (2010): A Broadway musical Adaptation. It's a play a lot of schools like to put on, so there's a few variations in each play book: Pre-Broadway, Broadway/Off Broadway, High School ver (might be almost the same as Broadway ver minus a few edits), Elementary school-30 min ver, and Elementary/Middle School-60 min ver. "Clandango" used to be the opening song rather than "When you're an Addams"

The Addams Family (2019): First theatrical animated movie.

The Addams Family 2 (2021): Sequel to the 2019 movie.

Wednesday (2022): New TV Spinoff featuring Wednesday. And Tim Burton gets to be part of it! The 90s movie Wednesday (Christina Ricci) returns to play a char in this show.

Misc info.

A lot of entries have video game or book tie ins. I won't get into it here. But maybe in a future episode.

Cancelled/Important Fanon pieces (technically Funhouse wasn't picked up but the pilot was produced so it stays up top):

Illumination's Stop Motion/Tim Burton 2010 movie: Was apparently going to happen but got cancelled in 2013. (at least we got ol' Timmy boi for Wednesday :'D)

Adult Wednesday Addams (2013-2015): A youtube video series, featuring Wednesday grown up (characterization seems to take after the 90s ver, specifically 1991/93 movies). Was cancelled bc copyright. ;w;

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🦇Addams Family Reunion (1998) | Tim Curry | Daryl Hannah | Old Movies

The Addams Family has a family reunion, a comedy horror event. Tim Curry plays Gomez and Daryl Hannah plays Morticia.  This is the full movie,  a comedy horror movie, the Addams Family Reunion from 1998.   Never Miss An Upload, Join the channel: https://cutt.ly/MrPsClassicTV

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The Addams Family 🤌🏻

Backstory: The Addams Family was created by Charles Addams in 1938 until his death 1988. Originally he drew the family for The New Yorker which stared in a 150 single panel. Charles drew just about 1,300 Addams Family cartoons which all of them were published until the 1960s editor of The New Yorker stopped publishing the cartoons due to the first live action television show The Addams Family became popular. After the success of the show the infamous family has been developed into other shows,movies,toys,games and musicals that earned them awards.

The Addams Family(Comic magazine 1938-1988)

The Addams Family(T.V.1964-1966)

The Addams Family (T.V. 1973)

The Addams Family (Film 1991)

The Addams Family(T.V.1992-1993)

Addams Family Reunion(Film 1998)

The New Addams Family(T.V.1998-1999)

The Addams Family (Film 2019)

Wednesday (T.V.2022)

*Might get updated or create a new post.

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Morticia Addams through the years:

The Addams Family, 1964-1966

Carolyn Jones as Morticia Addams

Dir. Sidney Lanfield

The Addams Family, 1991

Anjelica Huston as Morticia Addams

Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld

Addams Family Values, 1993

Anjelica Huston as Morticia Addams

Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld

Addams Family Reunion, 1998

Daryl Hannah as Morticia Addams

Dir. Dave Payne

The New Addams Family, 1998-1999

Ellie Harvie as Morticia Addams

Dir. Ed Anders

Wednesday, 2022

Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams

Dir. Tim Burton

[thenightling]

Every generation gets an Addams Family.  It's practically a tradition now.     1930s - comic   1960s - TV show   1970s - cartoon   1991 - Addams Family movie 1992 - Addams Family Saturday morning cartoon  1993 - Addams Family Values movie  1998 - Addams Family Reunion (direct to video movie)  1998 - New Addams Family TV series  2010s - Addams Family Broadway musical    2019 - CG animated Addams Family movie   2021 - CG animated Addams Family 2   2022 - Wednesday

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Wednesday Addams is a fictional character from the Addams Family multimedia franchise created by American cartoonist Charles Addams. She is typically portrayed as a morbid and emotionally reserved child that is fascinated by the macabre, often identified by her pale skin and black pigtails. Wednesday has been portrayed by several actresses in various films and television series, including Lisa Loring in the television series The Addams Family (1964), Christina Ricci in the feature films The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993), Nicole Fugere in the direct-to-video film Addams Family Reunion (1998) and in the television series The New Addams Family (1998–1999), and Jenna Ortega in the streaming television series Wednesday (2022).

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TV Guide -  April 11 - 17, 1964

Wilfred Bailey Everett Bixby III (January 22, 1934 – November 21, 1993) professionally known as Bill Bixby, Film and television actor, director, producer, and frequent game-show panellist.

Bixby's career spanned more than three decades, including appearances on stage, in films, and on television series. He is known for his roles in the CBS sitcom My Favorite Martian as Tim O'Hara, in the ABC sitcom The Courtship of Eddie's Father as Tom Corbett, in the NBC crime drama series The Magician as stage Illusionist Anthony Blake, and the CBS science-fiction drama series The Incredible Hulk as Dr. David Banner.  He also worked with Mariette Hartley in his final series, Goodnight, Beantown,  (Wikipedia)

Herman Raymond Walston (November 2, 1914 – January 1, 2001) was an American actor and comedian, well known as the title character on My Favorite Martian. His other major film, television, and stage roles included Luther Billis (South Pacific), Mr. Applegate (Damn Yankees), Orville J. Spooner (Kiss Me, Stupid), J. J. Singleton (The Sting), Poopdeck Pappy (Popeye), Mr. Hand (Fast Times at Ridgemont High), Candy (Of Mice and Men), Glen Bateman (The Stand), and Judge Henry Bone (Picket Fences).

The success of My Favorite Martian typecast Walston and he had difficulty finding serious roles after the show's cancellation. He returned to character actor status in the 1970s and 1980s, and guest starred in such series as Custer, The Wild Wild West, Love, American Style, The Rookies, Mission: Impossible, Ellery Queen, The Six Million Dollar Man, Little House on the Prairie, and The Incredible Hulk, again with Bixby, in which Walston played Jasper the Magician in an episode called "My Favorite Magician".

In 1984, Walston played a judge on an episode of Night Court. Six years later, he made a guest appearance on an episode of L.A. Law. He later was hired for the role of Judge Henry Bone on Picket Fences; the character was originally a recurring role, but Walston proved to be so popular the character was later upgraded to a starring role.

He appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation as Boothby, head groundskeeper at Starfleet Academy in San Francisco, and reprised the role twice on Star Trek: Voyager.

In 1988, he guest starred in an episode of the popular horror-fantasy show Friday the 13th: the Series, as a bitter, elderly comic-book artist who uses a demonically cursed comic book to transform himself into a killer robot and murder his erstwhile enemies. 

Walston received three Emmy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his work on Picket Fences, winning twice, in 1995 and 1996. CBS cancelled the show after four seasons in 1996. Walston made a guest appearance in an episode of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman entitled "Remember Me", in which he portrayed the father of Jake Slicker, who was stricken with Alzheimer's disease.

Walston played Grandfather Walter Addams in Addams Family Reunion (1998).  He appeared in the Touched by an Angel episode, "The Face on the Barroom Floor", which aired on October 15, 2000.

Walston made a cameo in the 7th Heaven episode, "One Hundred", which aired on January 29, 2001, four weeks after his death. (Wikipedia)

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Addams Family Reunion (1998) dir. Dave Payne

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felt like making an iconic movie outfits drawing meme! i know its after halloween but its never a bad time to play dress up

✨ kofi link in bio if you’re feeling generous ✨

(character descriptions under cut)

1a. Cher Horowitz from Clueless (1995)

1b. John Bender from The Breakfast Club (1985)

1c. Ellen Ripley from Alien (1979)

1d. Danny Zuko from Grease (1978)

1e. Mia Wallace from Pulp Fiction (1994)

2a. Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski from The Big Lebowski (1998)

2b. The Bride from Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)

2c. Marty McFly from Back to the Future (1985)

2d. Pris Stratton from Blade Runner (1982)

2e. Betelgeuse from Beetlejuice (1988)

3a. Elle Woods from Legally Blonde (2001)

3b. Han Solo from Star Wars IV - A New Hope (1977)

3c. Wednesday Addams from Addams Family Values (1993)

3d. Jim Stark from Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

3e. Marilyn Monroe from The Seven Year Itch (1955)

4a. Peter Venkman from Ghostbusters (1984)

4b. Dr. Ellie Sattler from Jurassic Park (1993)

4c. Ace Ventura from Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)

4d. Dorothy Gale from The Wizard of Oz (1939)

4e. James Bond from Goldfinger (1964)

5a. Sandy Olsson from Grease (1978)

5b. Westley from The Princess Bride (1987)

5c. Romy White and Michele Weinberger from Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997)

5d. Holly Golightly from Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

5e. T-800 from The Terminator (1984)