Dear Phoebe: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

In this comedy, Peter Lawford plays a college instructor named Bill Hastings who gave up teaching to become the writer of the advice-to-the-lovelorn column in the Los Angeles Daily Star. Bill Hastings wrote under the name Miss Phoebe Goodheart. His own love interest was Mickey Riley. A competitive female sports writer at the same paper. Mr. Fosdick played by Charles Lane was their boss. Humphrey played by Joe Corey was a copyboy trying to make it at the paper.

Series details

• Title: Dear Phoebe
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Comedy
• Premiere date: 1954-09-10
• Final broadcast date listed: 1955-04-08
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: NBC
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 58595
• IMDb ID: tt0046591
• TVDB ID: 77942

Cast and credited roles

• Peter Lawford — Bill Hastings
• Marcia Henderson — Mickey Riley
• Charles Lane — Mr. Fosdick
• Joe Corey — Humphrey

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1954-09-10; final listed air date 1955-04-08; episode order: 33.

Source and licence

Adapted from Dear Phoebe on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.