Thing's Box - One of many small hinged-topped wooden boxes strategically placed about the Addams Family's gothic mansion on the bizarre sitcom THE ADDAMS FAMILY/ABC/1964-66. The boxes were home to Thing, an intelligent and very alive disembodied right hand who is the faithful servant of the eccentric millionaire Gomez Addams (John Astin) and his family. Thing moved about the Addams' spooky home via a labyrinth of tunnels which lead to variety of destinations: among them, a hidden wall vault and a mail box.

In 1991, Thing reappeared in The Addams Family: The Movie starring Raul Julia and Anjelica Huston. This time Thing was free to roam around the house without the confinement of a box.

Thing and his box have been merchandised in a number of ways including a model toy by Poynter Products; a commercial spokes hand in a series of 1970s commercials for Bell Telephone Yellow Pages advertising the slogan "Let your fingers do the walking," and playing a Sunsoft video game in a commercial for "Fester's Quest" during the Christmas of 1989.

Thing first appeared in the 1954 book of cartoons by Charles Samuel Addams entitled Homebodies, where Thing was seen changing records on a Victrola.

In the fall of 1998 the revival series THE NEW ADDAMS FAMILY on the Fox Family channel continued the adventures of Thing and the Addams family. 

In 1993, one of the original boxes used by Thing in the series was auctioned off at Sotherby's for $22,000.  See also FACELESS FAVORITES - BODY PARTS - "Thing"