Halloween with the Addams Family (1977) on Netflix
Pancho Addams stays with the family while his brother Gomez travels to a lodge meeting in Tombstone. Crooks lure Gomez away and bug the house to steal the family fortune before Halloween.
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Plot summary
Pancho Addams, Gomez's brother, is a guest in the family home. Gomez is bound for a lodge convention in Tombstone, Arizona, though crooks have drawn him away so they can rob the Addams fortune. They have hidden microphones in the house. Gomez is jealous of Pancho, who once courted Morticia. Halloween nears, and Pancho relates the legend of Cousin Shy, who gives out gifts and carves pumpkins. The crooks' chief, Lafferty, sends Mikey to look the place over.
Cast
- Patrick Campbellas Little Bo Peep
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Halloween with the Addams Family (1977)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- David Levy, creator of the 1960s TV series, and Barbara Colyton pitched a revival that all three networks rejected before producer Charles Fries bought it for NBC. A week and a half before shooting began, they learned elements developed for the TV series belonged to Filmways, not them.
- Blossom Rock, the original Grandmama, was too ill to reprise her role in the TV movie; she died in January 1978, nearly three months after it aired, and Jane Rose took the part.
- Margaret Hamilton, who had played Mother Frump in the original series, declined to appear in the film, so her role was played by Elvia Allman.
- The film was shot in 12 days and often had to work around John Astin's schedule because he was also shooting Operation Petticoat at the time.
- Eleven years after the 1960s sitcom ended, the film was the only production to reunite most of the original cast, among them John Astin, Carolyn Jones, Jackie Coogan and Ted Cassidy, in color, on videotape.
