Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'Adam's Rib' from 1970-1982:
- Blythe Danner as Amanda Bonner (1973)
- Dena Dietrich as Gracie Peterson (1973)
- Ken Howard as Adam Bonner (1973)
- Norman Bartold as District Attorney Donahue (1973)
- Ron Rifkin as Asst. D.A. Roy Mendelsohn (1973)
1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'Adam's Rib':
(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)
Season 1, episode 1
W: Peter Stone D: Peter H. Hunt
With Daniel Keough (Man in Bar), Celia Milius (Francis), John Holland (Judge McElroy), Howard Caine (Hunnicutt), Peter Forster (Assistant D.A.), Edward Winter (Kip Kipple).
A romantic comedy about contemporary marriage, based on the characters in the 1949 movie of the same name that starred Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn. Ken Howard and Blythe Danner, both Broadway actors, make their series debuts as the husband-wife attorneys. He is an assistant DA; she is a junior partner in a legal firm. In the first episode the Bonners get involved in proving a point, that it's all right for a man to pick up a girl, but not the other way around.
Season 1, episode 2
W: Mary Stone D: Peter H. Hunt
With Sandra Vacey, Rick Metzler, Arlen Stuart, Gil Stuart, Al Merin, Edward Winter (Kip Kipple).
When Amanda, along with Adam, is refused admittance to an elegant French restaurant because she is wearing a pantsuit, she returns the next night with a surprising answer.
Season 1, episode 3
W: Richard Baer D: Peter H. Hunt
With Fred Slyter, Anne Seymour (Judge), Walter Friedel, Guy Remsen, David Doyle (Dubray).
Amanda, believing that everyone is entitled to a defense, defends the owner of a moive theater on a charge of exhibiting a porno film.
Season 1, episode 4
W: George Kirgo D: Peter H. Hunt
With Jamie Smith-Jackson (Crescent), John Holland (Judge McElroy).
When Adam gets two weeks off but finds Amanda is tied up on a case, he decides to take a vacation alone at a beach resort, only to become the amorous target of a pretty girl.
Season 1, episode 5
W: George Kirgo D: Gary Nelson
With Charles Lane (Mayor), Maury Wills (Coach), Willie Aames (Boy), Dick Van Patten (Commissioner Hoyt), Annie McEveety (Katey).
Maury Wills is called in to aid Amanda in the cause of a girl who is not allowed to play on a midget baseball team.
Season 1, episode 6
W: Peter Stone D: Peter H. Hunt
With Madeline Kahn (Doris Attinger), Arthur O'Connell (Judge), Allen Garfield (Mr. Attinger), Timothy Blake (Beryl), Fred Slyter (Clerk).
Amanda comes to the defense of a wife who shoots her unfaithful husband, using the "unwritten law" as her client's defense and is opposed by Adam -- in court and at home.
Season 1, episode 7
W: Pamela Herbert Chais, Herbert Chais D: Peter H. Hunt, Gary Nelson
With Leigh Curran (Delilah), John Holland, Lou Peralta, John Schubeck, Art Metrano (Pete), Liam Dunn (Charlie), Herbert Anderson.
Amanda's defense of a woman charged with assault because of job discrimination causes dissention between her and Adam.
Season 1, episode 8
W: George Kirgo D: Gary Nelson
With Bill Zuckert (Judge), Michele Carey (Diana), Howard Morton (Sean Barkley), Jack Sheldon (Peter), Stuart East (Clerk).
Amanda handles the case when Adam's one-time girlfriend sues her husband for alimony.
Season 1, episode 9
W: George Kirgo D: Peter H. Hunt
With Eric Brotherson (Baines), Jack Manning, Ivor Francis (Judge), Stephen Nathan (Mark), Joe Petrullo, Barbette Tweed, Robert Walden (Keller), Katherine Helmond (Martha Layne).
Adam investigates the death of a millionaire In a spoof of old-time mystery movies.
Season 1, episode 10
W: Leonard Gershe D: Peter H. Hunt
With Edward Winter (Kip Kipple).
Adam becomes jealous over the amount of attention Amanda shows her boss at a house party.
Season 1, episode 11
W: George Kirgo D: Peter H. Hunt
With Jason Johnson, Robert Sampson (Carlyle), George Kirgo, Kelly Lange, Eduard Franz (Whittaker), Hank Brandt.
Amanda takes a crack at politics when she's tapped to run for councilwoman.
Season 1, episode 12
W: Jane-Howard Hammerstein D: Gary Nelson
With Cathey Paine, Candice Rialson, Barbette Tweed, Roland Winters (Judge), Lurene Tuttle.
Amanda's plan to show Adam that while she enjoys cooking, he shouldn't take it for granted, backfires when he unexpectedly brings a judge home. (Last show of the series.)