My Favorite Husband is the name of an American radio program and network television series.  The original radio show, co-starring Lucille Ball, was the initial basis for what evolved into the groundbreaking TV sitcom I Love Lucy.  The series was based on the novels Mr. and Mrs. Cugat, the Record of a Happy Marriage (1940) and Outside Eden (1945) written by Isabel Scott Rorick, which had previously been adapted into the Paramount Pictures feature film Are Husbands Necessary? (1942), co-starring Ray Milland and Betty Field.

CBS brought My Favorite Husband to television in 1953, starring Joan Caulfield and Barry Nelson as Liz and George Cooper.  The couple now resembled their earliest radio version, with George Cooper a well-to-do bank executive and plots dealing with the couple’s society life.  The television version ran two-and-a-half seasons, from October 1953 through December 1955, and was produced live at CBS Television City for most of its run, until switching to film for a truncated third season (ironically, filmed at Desilu) and recasting Liz Cooper with Vanessa Brown.