Episode Synopsis
When Gomez and Morticia keep Wednesday and Pugsley home from school, truant officer Sam Hilliard (Allyn Joslyn) pays a visit. After Hilliard sees the house and the children, he tells the principal they should stay home. However, Gomez and Morticia are persuaded to let the kids go to school. But they take action when a fairy tale book that depicts a violent action where a knight slaying a dragon saddens Wednesday. Gomez and Morticia wish to talk to Hilliard about it. When he refuses to come, Lurch goes and gets him. After some discussion, Hilliard says he agrees with them and will talk to the school board.
The first family member we meet, is Thing, who is payed by Ted Cassidy, who also plays Lurch.
Next is Wednesday, played by Lisa Loring, who was 6 when this episode aired.
Then Pugsley, who has just fixed Wednesday’s doll.
Morticia is introduced in the conservatory trending to her plants.
Our introduction to Gomez has him crashing trains, something we see Pugsley doing in the strip, maybe not to the extent we see in this episode though.
There are a number of other comics strips that made it into this episode.
The visual of this strip is the episode, but Wednesday is upset by Grimm’s Fairy Tales when a knightin shining armor slays a poor defenseless dragon. This causes much concern in the Addams household, and gets Gomez to petition the school board to ban the book. Morticia is particularly upset at Hansel & Gretel for pushing a defenseless old lady into an oven.
