It’s Halloween and the Addams Family are enjoying their favourite holiday when they are robbed. Unfortunately for the robber, they enjoy being robbed even more than Halloween itself.

Wednesday recites an incantation and brings cousin Vlad Addams back from the grave. Vlad wants to kill Gomez and marry Morticia, but is unsuccessful in his attempts. Gomez becomes despondent when he incorrectly thinks that Morticia is accepting Vlad.

The school board finds out that Wednesday and Pugsley have never been to school, and insists that they be enrolled immediately. Gomez and Morticia are rightly concerned about how the first day of school will be for the kids.

Fester breaks up with his girlfriend Cruella and goes into a state of depression. The family tries to help him out, and everything looks rosy when it appears that Lucretia, Fester’s date by mail order, arrives.

Newlyweds Hubert and Amanda Peterson move in to the house they’ve rented next door from the Addams family. When they find out about their new neighbours and landlords, they try desperately to get out of the lease.

Grandpapa Addams comes to stay with the family while they rebuild his neighbourhood. The family knows he still misses his late wife, and make arrangements to surprise Grandpapa with a gift – two weeks at Club Dead, a swinging resort for singles.