One of the big winners proved to be BBC's runaway hit The Traitors, which scooped the Reality And Constructed Factual award, while host Claudia Winkleman won Entertainment Performance for fronting the show. Kate Winslet was awarded Best Actress for her critically-acclaimed performance in I Am Ruth, and during her speech she paid tribute to her co-star and daughter Mia Threapleton. Needing someone to keep an eye on her, they secretly release Thing from the bottom of the car, from where it scuttles off like a frantic spider on its secret mission, only to be discovered quickly by Wednesday, denouncing her parents as 'evil puppeteers who want to pull my strings'. Just getting in the mood for October.Shame! Thing had been nominated for one of the big gongs, but was left disappointed when Wednesday was beaten by Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story in the international category (pictured with Jenna Ortega) I felt I needed to go and look at Addams' pictures.

I seem to recall when I listened to this book many years ago, he mentioned Chas Addams. I'm reading a Ray Bradbury novel for Halloween - From the Dust Returned. And the fur coats and hats the ladies wore to go out! The old cars, the old stoves, the social tea parties, the apartments that look like The Honeymooners. I've heard this is what they did in old houses prior to outlets being required on every wall. What I find fascinating, though, is the fact that the toaster, the coffee maker, and the waffle iron are all plugged into the light fixture overhead. For example, in one cartoon, a wife is rigging up wires to electrocute her husband at breakfast. I looked at the illustrations of rooms and houses and cars and clothes, once so commonplace but now distracting enough that they took preeminence over the jokes. I loved the fact they were written so long ago.

(Now I'm thinking about Morticia, but this book of cartoons only has one 'Addams Family' cartoon in it.)

That made me wonder - was Chas Addams unhappily married? Looking at the bio in the book, his first two marriages seem as though they were beds of thorns, not beds of roses. Mainly I was entranced by the fact that the majority of the cartoons cover ways for wives to kill their husbands and husbands to kill their wives. There were a couple that were laugh out loud funny to me. They span several decades - the 1930s through the 1980s. This compilation of Charles Addams' cartoons contains many that were previously published in the New Yorker and some that were never published at all.

Chas addams happily ever after