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7.8/10 TV Theme music composer Wilbur Hatch Original language(s) English Final episode date 25 March 1958 Number of seasons 1 | 7.8/10 IMDb Genre Comedy Country of origin United States First episode date 17 September 1957 Network CBS Number of episodes 26 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Created by Emily Kimbrough (novel It Gives Me Great Pleasure) Starring Eve Arden
Allyn Joslyn
Frances Bavier Cast Eve Arden, Frances Bavier, Allyn Joslyn, Willard Waterman Similar Our Miss Brooks, December Bride, The Betty Hutton Show, The Mothers‑in‑Law, The Andy Griffith Show | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Eve Arden Show is a 26-episode American television sitcom which aired during the 1957-1958 season on CBS, alternately sponsored by Lever Brothers and Shulton, Inc. (Old Spice).
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Overview
The show, starring Eve Arden, is about a widowed mother, Liza Hammond, of twin daughters who earns money from writing books. It features future Aunt Bee of The Andy Griffith Show, Frances Bavier, as Nora, Arden's mother and housekeeper. In eight of the twenty-six episodes, Allyn Joslyn portrays George Howell, her agent and potential boyfriend.
The series was produced for Arden's Westhaven Enterprises by Desilu. The show was filmed with three cameras in front of a live audience, although a laugh track was used for sweetening purposes.
Eve Arden had enjoyed a very successful run on radio in the CBS program Our Miss Brooks from 1948 to 1957. When it premiered as a television series in the fall of 1952, it was very popular with audiences and ran for four years on CBS. During its final season, the ratings fell and the show was canceled in the spring of 1956. In the fall of 1957, Desilu Studios, which had produced Our Miss Brooks, attempted to resurrect Arden's television career with The Eve Arden Show and CBS scheduled it for Tuesday nights. With this new program, Arden was not able to duplicate the success she had with Our Miss Brooks. Despite the fact that it followed The Phil Silvers Show (which during its first two years had been one of the top 30 programs on television), both sitcoms failed to beat its competition on ABC - Cheyenne (with Sugarfoot on alternate weeks) and The Life and Times Of Wyatt Earp. After the 1957-1958 season, The Phil Silvers Show was renewed for one more year but The Eve Arden Show ended its one-year run after its 26th episode. For the next several years, Arden continued to work on television as a guest star on several programs. Then, in 1967, Desi Arnaz brought her back to weekly television in an NBC sitcom co-starring singer-comedian Kaye Ballard called The Mothers-In-Law. The series was only moderately successful and lasted two years.
Cast
Guest stars include Philip Ahn, Mary Jane Croft, Bill Goodwin, Mary Beth Hughes, Kathryn Card and Danny Richards, Jr., as Liza's nephew, Melvin.
DVD release
Four episodes of the series were released on Region 1 DVD on February 26, 2008 by Alpha Video.