31 TV Shows for 31 Days of Halloween Season: Day 14

Series: Batman

Episode: “Marsha Queen of Diamonds/Marsha’s Scheme of Diamonds”, in which Morticia Addams, herself, Carolyn Jones, plays the jewel-obsessed Marsha, Queen of Diamonds, who employs her witchy Aunt Hilda to conjure up a love-potion. The scheme: douse Batman and marry him so that he’ll stop foiling Marsha’s diamond-heisting schemes. As Aunt Hilda, Estelle Winwood dons a pointy black hat and hovers over a cauldron boiling over with fog and monsters to imbue this episode arc with a touch of Halloweeny atmosphere.

20 Things You May Not Have Known About Charles Addams and “The Addams Family”

Charles “Chas” Addams didn’t crawl out of the womb on writhing tentacles or sporting an extra head when he was born 100 years ago tomorrow. Such irregularities would have been fitting considering the bizarre body of work he left behind. Addams is best known for the eponymous family he created for a series of peculiar New Yorker cartoons, but the lesser-known facts of his life are equally worthy of attention. Here are twenty curiosities about Charles Addams and the family he created that may be new to you…