Halloween With The New Addams Family 1977 Screenplay by George Tibbles, direction by David Steinmetz. George is a veteran writer who started writing an episode of The Betty White Show in 1954, over the years he wrote hundreds of TV episodes for shows like Dennis The Menace, Leave It To Beaver, The Musters, Family Affair, My Three Sons, One Day At A Time and The Partridge Family. He wrote right up to his death in 1987. This is the only listed credit for David on the IMDb.
John Astin, Carolyn Jones, Jackie Coogan, Ted Cassidy, Lisa Loring, Ken Weatherwax and Felix Silla all play their original parts from the 1960s TV show. Halloween is on the family and Gomez has a conflict. He's been invited by his lodge to Tombstone Arizona. Gomez's brother Pancho is staying with the family. There's a gang of crooks that want to rob the family safe. They've got cameras in the place but haven't figured out where the safe is located. They send in one crook dressed as a city inspector, Vito Scotti plays the guy, he barely gets out of the place alive.
The family is hosting a big Halloween party, the crooks sneak in to the party in disguise and look for the safe. They all suffer mental and physical damage from members of the family. Sadly, all the mayhem, yelling and physical violence isn't enough without good jokes. It's a poor movie, even with a happy ending. I guess it's the reason that no one has put it out on DVD. There was a VHS. I watched a copy on YouTube but can't really recommend it. I'll stick to the original TV series and some of the movies.
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