About this season
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.
Episodes (24)
1. The Young Actress
Aired 4 January 1957 • 30 min
2. Typical
Aired 11 January 1957 • 30 min
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
Aired 18 January 1957 • 30 min
4. The Teen-Age Daughter
Aired 25 January 1957 • 30 min
5. This is Your Life
Aired 1 February 1957 • 30 min
6. You Can't Go Home Again
Aired 8 February 1957 • 30 min
7. The Proposal
Aired 15 February 1957 • 30 min
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
Aired 22 February 1957 • 30 min
9. The Business Manager
Aired 1 March 1957 • 30 min
Francis X. Bushman, the matinee idol of silent films portrays the Adams' business manager.
10. The Torn-Shirt School of Acting
Aired 8 March 1957 • 30 min
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
Aired 15 March 1957 • 30 min
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
Aired 22 March 1957 • 30 min
13. Taken for Granted
Aired 29 March 1957 • 30 min
Eve fibs to Howard that she and their agent had clandestine meetings.
14. Fulfilling Talents
Aired 5 April 1957 • 30 min
15. That Magazine
Aired 12 April 1957 • 30 min
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
Aired 19 April 1957 • 30 min
17. Insomnia
Aired 3 May 1957 • 30 min
18. The Diet
Aired 10 May 1957 • 30 min
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
Aired 17 May 1957 • 30 min
20. The Fighter
Aired 24 May 1957 • 30 min
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
Aired 31 May 1957 • 30 min
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
Aired 7 June 1957 • 30 min
23. The Bachelor
Aired 14 June 1957 • 30 min
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
Aired 21 June 1957 • 30 min
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.