The Addams Family has been making a comeback due to the widely popular Netflix series Wednesday. Cartoonist Charles Addams created the eccentric family with an affinity for the macabre in the 1930s. Since then, they have been adapted into TV and film several times. With Wednesday season 2 arriving in 2025, viewers can use our guide to find out where and how to watch all the Addams Family TV shows and movies in order before then.
The first TV show adaptation was The Addams Family (1964). It established the Addams Family as viewers know it today, giving them names and backstories. The series follows Gomez (John Astin) and Morticia Addams (Carolyn Jones), a wealthy, passionately in-love couple who live in a Gothic-style home with their children, Wednesday (Lisa Loring) and Pugsley (Ken Weatherwax), and servant, Thing. Despite their enjoyment of morbid and odd things, they are very kind and can’t understand why others are frightened or judgemental of them.
Following the 1964 sitcom, the Addams Family's popularity rose. They appeared in an episode of The New Scooby-Doo Movies and an unsold pilot for The Addams Family Fun House before receiving an animated series, The Addams Family (1973). In 1992, a remake animated series, The Addams Family (1992), premiered, with Astin reprising his role as Gomez. Neither series was long-lived, but they earned praise for their nostalgia and dark humor.
The animated series was remade following the success of the first live-action movie, The Addams Family (1991). In the film, the Addams Family becomes suspicious when they start to suspect Gomez’s (Raul Julia) recently returned long-lost brother, Fester (Christopher Lloyd), is a fraud. The Addams Family effectively reinvented the family, with Julia’s Gomez, Christina Ricci’s Wednesday, and Anjelica Huston’s Morticia frequently hailed as the best iterations of the characters. Meanwhile, the sequel, Addams Family Values, is considered the best Addams Family movie because it does justice to the darker and more macabre spirit of the family as it sees Gomez and Morticia prepare to welcome a new baby to the family.
Unfortunately, the Addams Family struggled after Addams Family Values. A direct-to-video movie, Addams Family Reunion, was panned by critics, while The New Addams Family series failed to replicate its predecessor’s success and was canceled after one season.
The family went on a hiatus for two decades before entering its modern era with the 2019 computer-animated movie The Addams Family. The movie and its sequel, The Addams Family 2, delve deeper into the underlying theme of the family, which is acceptance. In the first film, Gomez (Oscar Isaac), Morticia (Charlize Theron), and the children face discrimination when a TV personality decides their home doesn’t match the neighborhood’s aesthetic, while the sequel focuses on Wednesday’s (Chloë Grace Moretz) struggles to fit in.
Tim Burton's Wednesday arrived on Netflix following the animated films' box office success. It offers the most ambitious reimagining of the Addams Family, as Jenna Ortega brings Wednesday Addams to life in a supernatural detective series.
How to watch the Addams Family movies and TV shows in order
Given the numerous reboots and reimaginings of the Addams Family, there isn’t a chronological order to follow. However, to get the most out of the franchise, the first two live-action movies and original series are an excellent place to start, followed by the newer iterations of the family. Afterward, viewers can delve deeper into the franchise with direct-to-video movies, cartoons, and remake series either in release date order or whatever order they choose. One possible order to watch the shows and movies is:
- The Addams Family (1991)
- Addams Family Values
- The Addams Family (1964)
- The Addams Family (2019)
- The Addams Family 2
- Wednesday
- The New Scooby-Doo Movies Season 1 Episode 3
- The Addams Family Fun House
- The Addams Family (1973)
- Halloween with the New Addams Family
- The Addams Family (1992)
- Addams Family Reunion
- The New Addams Family
How to watch all Addams Family movies and TV shows streaming online
Check out our list below for the release date order and where to stream all the Addams Family movies and TV shows online in the U.S.!
