Posted on 09/14/2020 2:54:21 PM PDT by Phillyred
The fact that The Brady Bunch lasted as long as it did is a miracle, and there is a big reason for that. His name is Mike Brady, played by Robert Reed. The Brady patriarch is a loving dad who tries to treat all the children fairly and help them with their problems. The sad truth is that Robert Reed was profoundly unhappy in the role. He hid his homosexuality and felt uncomfortable in romantic scenes with Florence Henderson, who played Carol Brady.
Each season of The Brady Bunch has its merits, but the later days of the show start to take a strange turn. The fifth season features a less than favorable character, Cousin Oliver. The little boy is a cute kid, but it doesn't make sense for him to live with the Bradys after all this time. Another weird occurrence is the back-door pilot for a new series that didn't make it off the ground. The episode in question is called "Kelly's Kids," and it poorly handles a storyline on racism.
By the fifth season, the tension between Robert Reed and creator Sherwood Schwartz had mounted. Reed was furious with a storyline in which Greg Brady accidentally dyes his hair orange before his high school graduation. As a result, Reed did not appear in the episode, and it was the final episode of the series. It's a melancholy tale, and a better final episode would have made sense.
Music is an important part of the legacy of the Brady kids. A couple of their hits endure, like "Time to Change" and "It's a Sunshine Day." Those kids are a breath of fresh air, even if their music isn't exactly soothing. They get an unexpected amount of exposure as their characters in the recording studio and on stage. It doesn't totally fit with the rest of the show--perhaps the writers were just trying to compete with The Partridge Family.
How could any Brady fan forget when Greg was Johnny Bravo? The get-up was Greg's attempt at making it big in the music industry, apart from his younger siblings.
He definitely gets a big head during this time, which reflected the real-life attitude of actor Barry Williams as the show drew to a close. The name, the look, and the tunes of Johnny Bravo just don't make much sense.
Even a devoted Brady fan might not be able to name every single spin-off that came of the series. It started with a brief animated series called The Brady Kids which ran concurrently with the live-action series. Then The Brady Bunch Hour came about shortly after the first series ended. Believe it or not, there were even more series (including an attempt at a drama) and a slew of theatrical and TV movies. The spin-offs and sequels are a fun part of Brady history, but one might wonder how the cast agreed to do it all so many times.
Marsha WAS a doll! She still looks great.
Yeah she was hot. For the eighth grade kid I was at the time she was my fantasy girlfriend.
I came from a divorced partents into this 6 kid family of 3 boys and 3 girls too. It was just like the Brady Bunch, except I had two sisters and the brother I never had came in two’s with one sister, who was named Tammy while one of my sister’s was named Tami! Not all good times but in farm country instead of the city, it was fine.
Skipper!!
It was probably in Greg’s closet.
Awww..they look good. It was my favorite show as I was probably the Cindy age. The Partridge Family came on right after and then on Saturday night was Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart and Carol Burnett. Wonderful stuff. My family took a trip to Hawaii about that time and we did the luau. I could relate-haha.
Lol! I guess I am still relatively young!
So what, it was a 70s sitcom, who really expected anything to be realistic about it? Who cared?
What’s feel good about anything that is truly realistic? Who wants to watch a sitcom that is actually like real life? I thought that’s what we were escaping.
I watched “Where the Action Is” and I thought it was pretty cheesy to see the Byrds playing unconnected electric guitars and lip syncing while riding down a trail on horses. I still watched it.
I never got into The Brady Bunch, I was probably already too old by the time it came on.
Did Alice live at the house or did she come and go? Asking for a friend.
She lived at the house. There’s at least one episode that establishes that.
Didn’t like the spinoffs? They should have done at least one episode of Hollywood Squares.
If there was an eleventh for sure. Man people need to lighten up.
We wouldn’t want Carol to lift any fingers all day.
I bet you are right!
Biggest #1: in real life, Greg would have wound up banging Marsha, step-sister or not.
It was a joke like a norman Rockwell painting
it didnt help that the last couple seasons they tried turning it into a platform to launch the bradys as a musical group, either
thats basically what killed it off
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