" Batman had come on opposite The Munsters, and a lot of the programming people thought of Addams and Munsters as the same kind of show," John Astin (Gomez Addams) told the Television Academy Foundation, "and they thought would" kill off the horror sitcoms - whose ratings had taken a steep decline - entirely if left on the air for a third season.
The Munsters drew slightly more viewers than The Addams Family throughout the two-season standoff, and both would be canceled for the same reason - the campy, comical Batman, starring Adam West, became the new weird, must-watch TV show. The big differences were that the Addams clan was based on well-known comic characters and were essentially human those Munsters were made just for TV and based on old horror movie monsters. Both shows even premiered in the same week in September 1964. Occasionally, episodes would feature other relatives such as Cousin Itt (Felix Silla), Morticia's older sister Ophelia (also portrayed by Carolyn Jones), or Grandma Frump, Morticia's mother (Margaret Hamilton).The show's most obvious competitor was The Munsters, which looked a lot like The Addams Family in that it concerned a misunderstood family who lived in a spooky house. Along with their daughter Wednesday (Lisa Loring), their son Pugsley (Ken Weatherwax), Uncle Fester (Jackie Coogan), and Grandma (Blossom Rock), they reside at 0001 Cemetery Lane in an ornate, gloomy, Second Empire-style mansion, attended by their servants: Lurch (Ted Cassidy), the towering butler, and Thing (billed as "Itself" but actually portrayed by Cassidy and occasionally by Jack Voglin when Lurch and Thing appear in the same scene), a disembodied hand that usually appears out of a small wooden box. The very wealthy, endlessly enthusiastic Gomez Addams (John Astin) is madly in love with his refined wife, Morticia, née Frump (Carolyn Jones). No explanation for their powers is explicitly given in the series.
The Addamses are a close-knit extended family with decidedly macabre interests and supernatural abilities.
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