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The Addams Family

1964–1966ABCComedy

Harpsichord, bass clarinet, and two finger snaps that half a century of television has never managed to shake off. The family assemble for a portrait while Lurch supplies the only three adjectives the song needs.

Seasons 1–2

Unchanged across both seasons. Vic Mizzy wrote it and then directed the sequence himself, which is unusual and entirely practical — he wanted the actors' snaps landing exactly on his arrangement rather than near it.