Mr. Adams and Eve
Mr. Adams and Eve is a CBS sitcom starring Howard Duff and his then wife, Ida Lupino, as a fictitious acting couple, Howard and Eve Adams, residing in Beverly Hills, California. In the television series, Lupino is known professionally as Eve Drake. The program aired sixty-six episodes from January 4, 1957, to July 8, 1958, with rebroadcasts continuing until September 23, 1958. Lupino was nominated for an Emmy Award for "Best Actress in a Continuing Role" for both seasons of Mr. Adams and Eve.
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Episodes
1 · The Young Actress
Jan 4, 1957
2 · Typical
Jan 11, 1957
Howard and Eve's agent suggests they star in a television series about a typical married couple. They refuse, then Eve begins wondering just how their marriage compares with other marriages. She decides to try an experiment.
3 · They're Off and Running
Jan 18, 1957
4 · The Teen-Age Daughter
Jan 25, 1957
5 · This is Your Life
Feb 1, 1957
6 · You Can't Go Home Again
Feb 8, 1957
7 · The Proposal
Feb 15, 1957
A movie fan-magazine asks Howard and Eve for the exclusive story of their courtship, engagement and marriage. Everything goes along fine, until the question of who actually did the proposing.
8 · Howard Goes to Jail
Feb 22, 1957
9 · The Business Manager
Mar 1, 1957
Francis X. Bushman, the matinee idol of silent films portrays the Adams' business manager.
10 · The Torn-Shirt School of Acting
Mar 8, 1957
Howard and Eve agree to work with an experimental summer-stock theater group. They aren't quite so pleased about their decision when they learn that the play they will appear in, is to be done in blank verse.
11 · The Mothers
Mar 15, 1957
Howard and Eve run into family problems. The mothers of both arrive for a visit at the same time. The two older women don't have much in common, which makes it difficult for Howard and Eve to keep them amused.
12 · Academy Award
Mar 22, 1957
13 · Taken for Granted
Mar 29, 1957
Eve fibs to Howard that she and their agent had clandestine meetings.
14 · Fulfilling Talents
Apr 5, 1957
15 · That Magazine
Apr 12, 1957
A magazine assigns a photographer and a reporter to cover a typical day in the life of Eve and Howard. They're pleased about the forthcoming publicity and have carefully rehearsed their own version of a day in their lives. But everything goes so far wrong that it seems the magazine will get a scoop -- that Eve and Howard are planning to divorce.
16 · The Social Crowd
Apr 19, 1957
17 · Insomnia
May 3, 1957
18 · The Diet
May 10, 1957
A gift of a bathroom scale becomes a monster to Eve when she steps on it and learns that she's four pounds overweight. She launches herself on a rigid diet.
19 · The Picture That Could Not Be Made
May 17, 1957
20 · The Fighter
May 24, 1957
After Howard wins a prize fighter in a gin-rummy game, he decides to groom him for the ring. But Eve, insisting the pugilist comes under community property, has her own ideas about the training! She wants to make an actor out of their latest project.
21 · The Rumor
May 31, 1957
At a crowded nightclub, Eve and Howard become separated. An enterprising press agent corners Eve, introduces her handsome client and arranges to have a photographer cover the meeting. Next morning the newspapers carry the news of the end of Eve's and Howard's marriage.
22 · The Lost Two Hours
Jun 7, 1957
23 · The Bachelor
Jun 14, 1957
An old boyfriend of Eve's gets the part of the other man in a movie starring Eve and Howard. There's no jealousy on Howard's part at all; in fact, he and the old boyfriend go out for a night on the town!
24 · Separate Vacations
Jun 21, 1957
Howard and Eve decide to spend their vacation at home. But they suddenly find that they have nothing to talk about and become bored. Then a friend of theirs invites Howard to go deep-sea fishing with him, and his wife invites Eve to stay with her. But separate vacations create problems too.
