Follow That Loaf of Bread

Follow That Loaf of Bread
Premiere date	October 16, 1973
Director(s)	Charles A. Nichols Wally Burr (voices)
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"Follow That Loaf of Bread" is the sixth episode of The Addams Family season one. It aired on October 16, 1973 on NBC. It was produced by Iwao Takamoto, and directed by Charles A. Nichols and Wally Burr.

When the family helps Morticia make her eerie cake bread for a contest in Chicago, Thing accidentally gets baked into one of the cake breads.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Gomez Addams	Lennie Weinrib
Morticia Addams	Janet Waldo
Pugsley Addams	Jodie Foster
Wednesday Addams	Cindy Henderson
Grandmama	Janet Waldo
Uncle Fester	Jackie Coogan
Thing	N/A
Lurch	Ted Cassidy
Cousin Itt
Ali	N/A
Judge #1	Unavailable
Judge #2	Unavailable
Ship chef	Unavailable
Clerk	Unavailable
Baker	Unavailable

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Eastern California
    • Movaje Desert
      • Death Valley
• Illinois
  • Chicago
    • Chicago Fairgrounds
    • World Wide Bakery
• The Moon

Objects

• Eerie cake bread
• Morticia's trophy

Vehicles

• Addams Family's camper
• S.S. Sour Dough
• World Wide Bakery vans

Music

The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin, credited as musical director, with musical supervision from Paul DeKorte.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: October 16, 1973 on NBC

Errors

• When Gomez talks about driving in shifts, his mouth doesn't move.
• When the baker is told to stop the conveyor belt, his skin is momentarily paler.
• Lurch is heard laughing at the dinner table at the end of the episode, but he isn't seen.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • October 19, 2010: Warner Archive Collection releases The Addams Family: The Complete Series on DVD.
• In the United Kingdom:
  • August 25, 1997: First Independent Films releases Spice Toons on VHS.