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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.
Mr. Adams and Eve: Season 1 - 24 Episode s
1x1 - The Young Actress
January 4, 1957
1x2 - Typical
January 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.
1x3 - They're Off and Running
January 18, 1957
1x4 - The Teen-Age Daughter
January 25, 1957
1x5 - This is Your Life
February 1, 1957
1x6 - You Can't Go Home Again
February 8, 1957
1x7 - The Proposal
February 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.
1x8 - Howard Goes to Jail
February 22, 1957
1x9 - The Business Manager
March 1, 1957
Francis X. Bushman, the matinee idol of silent films portrays the Adams' business manager.
1x10 - The Torn-Shirt School of Acting
March 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.
1x11 - The Mothers
March 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.
1x12 - Academy Award
March 22, 1957
1x13 - Taken for Granted
March 29, 1957
Eve fibs to Howard that she and their agent had clandestine meetings.
1x14 - Fulfilling Talents
April 5, 1957
1x15 - That Magazine
April 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.
1x16 - The Social Crowd
April 19, 1957
1x17 - Insomnia
May 3, 1957
1x18 - 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.
1x19 - The Picture That Could Not Be Made
May 17, 1957
1x20 - 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.
1x21 - 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.
1x22 - The Lost Two Hours
June 7, 1957
1x23 - The Bachelor
June 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!
1x24 - Separate Vacations
June 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.