Forgotten TV: The Eve Arden Show (1957)

 After Our Miss Brooks ended its radio run (the TV version ended a year earlier), Eve Arden returned to CBS with a self-titled sitcom in which Arden played a widower raising twin daughters, with help from her mother (Frances Bavier, three years before The Andy Griffith Show), who doubled as a housekeeper.

The supporting cast also included Allyn Joslyn, whom pop culture fans might know from a later recurring gig on The Addams Family, and Willard Waterman (ex-The Great Gildersleeve). However, neither actor nor Bavier were still around at season's end, when the series was cancelled. Arden co-produced the series herself through her production company, Westhaven Productions, with CBS & Desilu.

I'm guessing that the TV Brooks might've gone into syndication by 1957, which may have had something to do with this series getting cancelled, despite being coupled with The Phil Silvers Show.

Right now, let's take a look at the opener.

Give Arden credit for taking a chance after nearly a full decade, between radio & television, of playing a school teacher. Viewers just didn't buy in, and it would be nearly a decade before she'd land another series (The Mothers-In-Law).

No rating. Just a public service.