TV series
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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Mr. Adams and Eve premiered January 4, 1957. We don't have a confirmed streaming, rental or purchase option yet.
Synopsis
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.
Cast, crew and production details
About Mr. Adams and Eve
Cast
Ida Lupino
Alan Reed
Howard Duff
Lawrence Dobkin
Hayden Rorke
Olive Carey
Patrick Wayne
Barbara BillingsleyCredits
- Created by
- Collier Young
- Written by
- James Fritzell
Production details
- Status
- Ended
- Series type
- Scripted
- Episodes
- 65
- Original language
- English
Networks & production
CBSUnited States
Themes
Season 1 episodes
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Episode 2
Typical
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.
Directed by Don Weis
Where to watch Mr. Adams and EveEpisode 7
The Proposal
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.
Where to watch Mr. Adams and EveEpisode 9
The Business Manager
Francis X. Bushman, the matinee idol of silent films portrays the Adams' business manager.
Where to watch Mr. Adams and EveEpisode 10
The Torn-Shirt School of Acting
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.
Where to watch Mr. Adams and EveEpisode 11
The Mothers
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.
Where to watch Mr. Adams and EveEpisode 13
Taken for Granted
Eve fibs to Howard that she and their agent had clandestine meetings.
Where to watch Mr. Adams and EveEpisode 15
That Magazine
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.
Guest stars Barbara Billingsley
Where to watch Mr. Adams and EveEpisode 18
The Diet
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.
Where to watch Mr. Adams and EveEpisode 20
The Fighter
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.
Where to watch Mr. Adams and EveEpisode 21
The Rumor
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.
Where to watch Mr. Adams and EveEpisode 23
The Bachelor
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!
Where to watch Mr. Adams and EveEpisode 24
Separate Vacations
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.
Where to watch Mr. Adams and EveEpisode information updated Jul 22, 2026
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