The History Of The Addams Family Theme Song Explained

Publish date: 2024-05-09

They're all but gone these days, according to TV Tropes, but there was a time when the expository theme song ruled the day (in fact, the TV theme song in general has mostly disappeared, but that's a discussion for another day). Shows such as "Gilligan's Island," "The Beverly Hillbillies," and "Green Acres," among countless others, had theme songs that introduced the characters and the setting and explained their motivations.

If any TV show needed exposition, it would be "The Addams Family." When the show was being developed for the small screen back in the early 1960s, giving the characters some context — and names (they weren't named in the original cartoons) — was paramount to getting viewers to accept them, considering that they'd previously only existed as nameless cartoon characters. And the man who stepped up was Victor Mizzy, who later developed more theme-song cred for composing the theme to "Green Acres," as well as a few radio-friendly commercial hits, such as "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time."

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