Adam's Rib

1973
Adam's Rib

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EP1 Illegal Aid Sep 14, 1973

Amanda sets out to prove that men are favored over women in cases of soliciting.

EP2 Two Pair of Pants Sep 21, 1973

A small-scale war begins after a restaurant refuses to serve Amanda because she is dressed in a pants suit instead of a dress.

EP3 Danish Pastry Sep 28, 1973

Amanda defends a theatre owner who is accused of showing a pornographic film called ""Danish Pastry"".

EP4 Separate Vacation Oct 05, 1973

Amanda and Adam agree that Adam should still take a two-week vacation, even though Amanda is unable to leave work to join him. They soon find that temptation lurks close by for both of them.

EP5 The Unwritten Law (1) Oct 12, 1973

EP6 The Unwritten Law (2) Oct 19, 1973

Adam is the prosecuting attorney for a case involving attempted murder by a wife who shot at her husband after she caught him in the arms of another woman. Amanda defends the woman under the belief that women have just as much right as a man to protect the sanctity of the home.

EP7 Katey at the Bat Oct 26, 1973

Adam and Amanda team up to help a young girl battle discrimination get into the midget league baseball.

EP8 Delilah Nov 02, 1973

Amanda takes on the case of a woman who hit a man for refusing to hire her as a jackhammer operator because she is a woman.

EP9 For Richer, For Poorer Nov 09, 1973

After an old flame of Adam's has her husband thrown into jail for a failure to pay alimony, Amanda agrees to defend the husband.

EP10 Murder! Nov 16, 1973

Adam decides to do a little detective work when a multimillionaire is shot and his mistress gives an unconvincing confession to the crime.

EP11 Friend of the Family Nov 30, 1973

Adam becomes jealous over the amount of attention Amanda shows her boss at a house party.

EP12 The First Hurrah Dec 07, 1973

Adam encourages Amanda to run for City Council.

EP13 Too Many Cooks Dec 28, 1973

Amanda plans her revenge subtly after Adam enrages her with a comment about cooking being part of her woman's duty.
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Released: 14 September 1973 Ended
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Country: United States of America
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Adam's Rib is an American situation comedy broadcast on ABC-TV from September 14 to December 28, 1973. It was produced by MGM Television and had 13 episodes. The series was a TV adaptation of the 1949 motion picture of the same name.

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doctardis I am surprised there are so few reviews for this show. It was short lived, but it was great. The producers tried to update the Tracy-Hepburn classic and succeeded with a charm and grace thanks to a strong cast. Blythe Danner and Ken Howard had real chemistry. They both were just coming up as actors, but their talent is obvious. The other reviewer missed the best scene of the episode he hated. In the end, Blythe Danner's character goes back to the restaurant that refuses to seat women wearing pants, and she takes her pants off. It is okay, because she is wearing a shirt dress. Her husband applauds her actions and the patrons give her a standing ovation. The ending was a clever funny way to make a point. In another episode they did a dangerous copy of a scene from the original movie, and they pulled it off. This show was canceled because it was too smart and well acted for TV of the day. This was the Brady Bunch era after all. Because of this show I decided to watch everything Danner and Howard did, and I have been greatly rewarded for following their careers.
F Gwynplaine MacIntyre "Adam's Rib" (the movie) is my least favourite of the Tracy-Hepburn films, because it's fundamentally dishonest. Tracy and Hepburn play husband and wife on opposite sides of a murder trial: Spence is the D.A. prosecuting a woman for attempted murder, whilst Kate is the defending attorney. I consider this movie dishonest because it tries to have things both ways: the defendant is clearly guilty, BUT the audience want to see Hepburn one-up Tracy ... so, she wins the case in court (where it counts) but then privately he makes her realise that she's wrong. The short-lived TV series "Adam's Rib", inspired by this film, is likewise dishonest for similar reasons.The 1972 musical "1776" is one of my all-time favourite movies, and the TV series "Adam's Rib" (which went into production only a few months after "1776" wrapped) must have seemed like old-home week for several people involved in that movie. Ken Howard and Blythe Danner, who starred as Thomas Jefferson and his short-lived wife Martha in '1776', are once again cast as husband and wife in this sitcom called ... 'The Jeffersons'? No; "Adam's Rib". Peter Stone, who wrote the brilliant screenplay for '1776', and Peter H. Hunt, who directed that film, are on hand here as the head writer and principal director of "Adam's Rib". So, why isn't this TV series anywhere near so good as "1776"?"Adam's Rib" (the TV series) takes the basic premise of the 1949 movie, brings it into the present (1973), and tries to make it 'relevant' (bad mistake). Howard and Danner make a great team; both have patrician good looks and keen intelligence. He's tall and ruggedly handsome. She's blonde and meltingly beautiful. In this series he's Adam, a strait-laced assistant D.A. who plays by the system's rules. Danner portrays his wife Amanda, a junior partner in a private practice. He's a slightly stodgy conservative and she's a crusading liberal, so there are no prizes for guessing who comes out on top in every episode.This **could** have been a good series if it had handled topical themes intelligently, but too often it went for superficial treatment. In one episode, Amanda tries to get into a posh restaurant, but she's refused admission because she's wearing a trouser suit; the dress code requires ladies to wear skirts or dresses. Amanda goes swanning into her husband's office, complaining that this policy is discriminatory and is therefore illegal. Her husband the D.A. has more important things to deal with, such as prosecuting murderers and rapists. So, what does Amanda do? She goes out and buys a dress for 'a very large woman', then she comes back to her husband's office and she demands that he put it on! Apparently this will be a blow for women's rights. To show he's a good sport (or maybe that he's completely whipped), Adam puts on the frock. (Ken Howard is well over six feet tall; I assume that the dress he wears in this episode was custom-made for him.) Then he swanks about in his office, wearing a frock in front of his staff, so that the audience will realise he's a nice guy, or something. End of episode.That sort of rubbish was absolutely typical of this series. The makers of "Adam's Rib" wanted credit for tackling important issues such as gender equality, but instead of dealing with intelligent solutions (such as wage parity), they decide that the way to achieve gender equality is by putting men into frocks.Thankfully, the annoying character played by David Wayne in the film version of "Adam's Rib" has been changed beyond recognition into an almost entirely different character in this TV series, played by Edward Winter. A serious problem was the casting of Dena Dietrich as Adam's cynical office assistant. The brief run of this series on American TV coincided with a very successful TV commercial, in which Mother Nature (also played by Ms Dietrich) is fooled into mistaking Parkay margarine for 'my own sweet butter'. Ms Dietrich's presence in "Adam's Rib" inevitably provoked wisecracks along the lines of: 'What's Mother Nature doing in a law office?'"Adam's Rib" (the TV show) had lofty ambitions but it fell far short of meeting them. As much as I'm a fan of Blythe Danner, this was far from her finest hour. Many years after this show was cancelled, series creator Peter Stone had another go at recycling a Tracy-Hepburn movie, turning 'Woman of the Year' into a Broadway musical. It was better than this TV series.