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Mr. Adams and Eve

Season 1 · 24 episodes · Jan 4, 1957

  1. Episode 1

    The Young Actress

    Jan 4, 1957

  2. Episode 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. Episode 3

    They're Off and Running

    Jan 18, 1957

  4. Episode 4

    The Teen-Age Daughter

    Jan 25, 1957

  5. Episode 5

    This is Your Life

    Feb 1, 1957

  6. Episode 6

    You Can't Go Home Again

    Feb 8, 1957

  7. Episode 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. Episode 8

    Howard Goes to Jail

    Feb 22, 1957

  9. Episode 9

    The Business Manager

    Mar 1, 1957

    Francis X. Bushman, the matinee idol of silent films portrays the Adams' business manager.

  10. Episode 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. Episode 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. Episode 12

    Academy Award

    Mar 22, 1957

  13. Episode 13

    Taken for Granted

    Mar 29, 1957

    Eve fibs to Howard that she and their agent had clandestine meetings.

  14. Episode 14

    Fulfilling Talents

    Apr 5, 1957

  15. Episode 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. Episode 16

    The Social Crowd

    Apr 19, 1957

  17. Episode 17

    Insomnia

    May 3, 1957

  18. Episode 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. Episode 19

    The Picture That Could Not Be Made

    May 17, 1957

  20. Episode 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. Episode 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. Episode 22

    The Lost Two Hours

    Jun 7, 1957

  23. Episode 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. Episode 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.