#60s sitcoms

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Gilligan's Island - TV Guide, June 11-17, 1966

#gilligan's island #vintage tv guide #tina louise #bob denver #alan hale jr. #60s sitcoms #ginger grant #the skipper #60s tv series #sixties #1966

[thedepartmentofdiscoveries]

#barbara eden #i dream of jeannie #60s fashion #go go boots #60s sitcoms #genie

[immediatesonder]

you guys I’m playing lurch in addams Family musical and I’m struggling to feel the character. Please tell me your artsy deep interpretations, headcanons, themes he represents, what quirks or movements you associate with the character… get pretentiously Deep about the overall meaning of him. Please.

#the addams family #lurch addams #addams family #addams #theatre #musical theatre #Broadway #60s sitcoms

[aaronshattuck]

Djinn-addled.

#i dream of jeannie #barbara eden #fan art hell #60s sitcoms #classic sitcom #cartoon illustration #cartoony #subway sketch #artists on tumblr

[thatgeekwiththeclipons]

Remembering Academy Award Winning, Golden Globe Nominated, Tony Nominated actress Miyoshi Umeki! ^__^

#geek #film #blog #happy birthday #tv #actress #miyoshi umeki #academy award winner #golden globe nominee #tony award nominee #sayonara #sayonara 1957 #flower drum song #the courtship of eddie’s father #trail blazers #golden age of hollywood #classic cinema #gone but not forgotten #classic tv #60s sitcoms #japanese actress #asian actress #representation matters #geek with clip ons #i review stuff #irs

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔄𝔡𝔡𝔞𝔪𝔰 𝔉𝔞𝔪𝔦𝔩𝔶 (յգճկ 𝔗𝔙 𝔰𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔢𝔰)

#The Addams Family (1964) #(TV series) #The Addams Family #60's #60s #series #sitcom #morticia addams #gomez addams #me and who

[stone-cold-groove]

Animator’s sketch from the Bewitched opening credits. Hanna-Barbera circa 1964.

#hanna barbera #hanna-barbera #animation #animation studios #vintage illustration #vintage animation #opening credits #classic tv #classic television #bewitched #elizabeth montgomery #witches #sam #samantha #samantha stephens #the 60s #60s television #60s tv shows #sitcoms #60s style

[popculturebaby]

Eva Gabor in “Green Acres”, 1965

#eva gabor #green acres #1965 #tv show #sitcom #celebrities #iconic #pop culture #hollywood #fashion #movies #60s #60s vintage #60s makeup #60s hair #mid 60s #60s movies #60s tv shows #60s fashion #60s aesthetic #60s nostalgia #60s actress #60s style #60s icons #1960s #1960s television #1960s cinema #actress

[rubydreamsuwu]

Sitcom au stuff with shockwave being...less than healthy about housework

#art #transformers #wavewave #transformers g1 #soundwave #shockwave #g1 soundwave #g1 shockwave #transformers 60's sitcom au #it's another one of those things where it's not very clear what's happening. they're supposed to be kissing in the last panel #...in their own mouthless way

[retropopcult]

The cast of "The Mothers-in-law", 1967

#TV show #sitcom #vintage #1960s #Kaye Ballard #Eve Arden #Richard Deacon #Deborah Walley #Jerry Fogel #comedy #60s fashions

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Mary Tyler Moore - The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)

#mary tyler moore #the dick van dyke show #laura petrie #60s sitcoms #60s fashion #carl reiner #60s tv series #CBS #sixties #1961

[thedepartmentofdiscoveries]

#thing the hand #the addams family #1960s #60s #60s sitcoms #60s television #black and white photography #monochrome

[pretty-little-fools]

#bewitched #paul lynde #dick york #elizabeth montgomery #60's #vintage #mid 60's #television #sitcom #1966

[nathsketch]

A very happy birthday to the one and only, Barbara Eden! 💖

Forever our most beloved genie, unforgettable and eternally beautiful!

We mere mortals can only dream of living such a long and colorful life :)

Here’s to many more years to come! 🧞‍♀️👨🏻‍🚀🚀

#barbara eden #happy birthday #I dream of jeannie #sitcom #sidney sheldon #my favorite shows #60s #jeannie #character art #paper art #artists on tumblr #art #my artworks #paper crafts #nathsketch #august 23

[mask131]

The evolution of Morticia Addams (2)

Step two of Morticia’s “life” : the 60s television series. Here is the sitcom Morticia, as played by Carolyn Jones.

Of course, due to being played by Carolyn Jones, Morticia couldn’t keep the “ruined beauty” and withering style of the original cartoon. Her appearance still stayed the same - thin, tall, pale, with long dark hair, and a tight-fitting hobble black dress. But she is now much more conventionaly beautiful, as well as much more “glamorous” in design. Her robe doesn’t look as much torn out as elegantly cut, her hair is much more lush than in the drawings, and we can also note the addition of a few jewels: a jeweled ring on the finger, a small necklace on the collarbone... This is a much more classicaly elegant gothic lady, a more... “aristocratic” look. They even hint at her paleness not even being natural: she rather uses baking powder as makeup! 

On a similar note, for the sake of acting, this Morticia lacks the emotionless of the original cartoons. She isn’t a perpetual blasé as Charles Addams conceived her: she is a pleasant, charming, happy woman/wife/host who smiles and laughs (though quietly). She can be prone to anger or jealousy sometimes, and we see her shed tears. She is emotive (though not much more emotive than regular people - just more emotive than her original incarnation). But despite these emotions, she stays the calm and quiet member of the family - in front of her husband’s reckless, enthusiastic, extravagant behavior (or Uncle Fester’s), she is a voice of prudence and reasons who advices caution and is always ready to prepare a nice cup of henbane to soothe people’s nerves. Even her movements are restrained by her tight-fitting dress (which makes her only more “elegant” in gestures). In fact, it is this quietness that makes her bizarre in the eyes of normal people: where the original Morticia’s lack of visible emotions made her eerie, Jones’ Morticia disturbs people because of how calmly, quietly and normally she reacts to the most unusual or distressing things. 

The Morticia of the 60s television series was designed to be the opposite of the “classical” couples seen on television. She was designed to not fit in the classical “bickering couples” seen so much on sitcoms: she deeply loves and cares for her husband and family, she is the one that easily gets worried for them whenever something seems to go “wrong”, but she is also willing to make sacrifices or changes for the good and well-being of others. Her feuds with Gomez are rare and memorable, and most of the time just based on misunderstandings easily solved. This is part of Morticia’s general kind and caring behavior: she is always displeased by seeing people unhappy, and always ready to help them... in her own ways. She can still be stern and firm though, for example if someone tries to flirt with her (she reminds them that she is married and a faithful wife), or if someone is rude to her or her family.

On the other hand, Morticia does fit a lot of the classical tropes of the 50s and 60s sitcoms, notably by fitting (in her own way) the “housewife” role. Unlike in the original cartoon, for example, she is seen cooking and preparing all sorts of things for the family: meals of unusual meats (such as alligator’s), stews with unusual ingredients (eye of newts and other bizarre things), or cups of henbane instead of cup of teas. Like her original version she likes knitting, but here she knits sweaters for various members of the family (she likes to send gifts to distant cousins, aunts and uncles) ; and her passion for plants of the old cartoons is translated here into a full passion for gardening. But unlike a traditional 50s housewife front-lawn garden of little flowers, Morticia feeds regularly a greenhouse of exotic carnivorous plants with pieces of meat, her favorite (and most notorious) being Cleopatra, an “African Strangler” often seen bothering the Addams’ guests. And unlike traditional gardeners, when she picks a flower about to bloom, it is to cut its bud off.

Despite playing several of the classical “housewife” tropes, Morticia is also quite unique as she is a very talented and cultivated woman with talents for various domains : a recurring topic of the television series is her picking on a new hobby or a new occupation, and excelling at it, but sometimes getting too passionate and neglecting her husband or family as a result. As such she has been seen to be a very talented writer of children stories, an excellent painter, and a quite gifted sculptress - she fits very well with the “strange bohemian family of artists in a little traditional suburban neighborhood” vibe the show intended to display. Among the many talents of this woman are also musical ones: she is from time to time seen playing music, notably with a Japanese shamisen. (Because you know, back in 60s America everything that was too foreign in nature was just weird and bizarre). 

While the show did not made Morticia as ghoulish as her original incarnation, they still tried to kept little hints at her inhuman nature here and there - notably with the most memorable joke of her character. “Can I smoke?”. Morticia loves to “smoke”, but what she means by that is crossing her arms, and having smoke come out of her body. Several details and elements of the show also strongly hint that Morticia is actually a witch (ranging from her wearing a pointy witch hat from time to time, to her ancestry going back to Salem, and the witchy nature of her immediate relatives - because in this show she is the “outsider” part of the Addams clan, due to being born in the Frump family, close friends to the Addamses, but still not of the same bloodline). 

#morticia addams #morticia #the addams family #addams family #60s #television series #sitcom #carolyn jones

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

#the addams family #gothic house #b&w #victorian gothic house #logo #intro #American macabre/black comedy sitcom #sitcom #60's #60s #1964 tv series