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The Brady Bunch (1969–1974) 6.5
The misadventures of a large family united when two widowed people married. Creator:Sherwood Schwartz |
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Cast
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| Robert Reed | ... |
Mike Brady
(117 episodes, 1969-1974)
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| Florence Henderson | ... |
Carol Brady
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| Ann B. Davis | ... |
Alice Nelson
(117 episodes, 1969-1974)
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| Maureen McCormick | ... |
Marcia Brady
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| Eve Plumb | ... |
Jan Brady
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| Susan Olsen | ... |
Cindy Brady
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| Barry Williams | ... |
Greg Brady
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| Christopher Knight | ... |
Peter Brady
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| Mike Lookinland | ... |
Bobby Brady
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Architect Mike Brady marries beautiful young Carol, who has three girls to care for. Likewise, Mike's previous wife's death has left him to raise his three boys all alone. In no time this amalgam becomes the ideal average American middle class family. Of course, raising such a large family isn't easy, so live-in housekeeper Alice Nelson is always there to lend a hand. Written by Kevin Ackley <kackley1@aol.com>
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26 September 1969 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Paramount Television, Redwood Productions, American Broadcasting Company (ABC) See more »
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Written by Frank De Vol (as Frank DeVol) & Sherwood Schwartz
Sung by The Brady Bunch Kids
Vocal Recordings Supervised by Jackie Mills
(seasons 2-5)
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The show's third and fourth seasons opened with three-part specials. Season three started with a family trip to the Grand Canyon in Arizona. They were The Brady Bunch: Ghost Town, U.S.A., The Brady Bunch: Grand Canyon or Bust, The Brady Bunch: The Brady Braves. Season four started with a family trip to Hawaii The Brady Bunch: Hawaii Bound, The Brady Bunch: Pass the Tabu and The Brady Bunch: The Tiki Caves. See more »Goofs
Each time the front of the Brady house is shown as though it were "evening", the same shot is used for "daytime". The evening shot of the house is only darkened. The same shadow that can be seen in the daytime shot in the lower right corner (caused by the roof) is seen on the evening shot. See more »Crazy Credits
The nine cast members are shown in a tic-tac-toe format, with the actors turning their heads to look each other. See more »Soundtracks
"Theme from 'The Brady Bunch'"Written by Frank De Vol (as Frank DeVol) & Sherwood Schwartz
Sung by The Brady Bunch Kids
Vocal Recordings Supervised by Jackie Mills
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I think it's ironic as all get out that just when the anti-war movement was at its height and kids all over the nation were doing all kinds of experimentation with drugs that on television we managed to find solace in the gentle G-rated adventures of a blended family that was called The Brady Bunch.
In true paternal style the man with the three boys named Brady wed the woman whose name I can't recall, but Florence Henderson and her girls became Bradys just like Robert Reed's boys. In fact it was hard to remember that they weren't biological Bradys.
The anti-war movement, Civil Rights, gay rights (Stonewall happened the year of The Brady Bunch Debut) was something that was never mentioned on the show. Sports got into things occasionally, Joe Namath from football and Don Drysdale from baseball got some guest starring roles as themselves.
The Bradys did dress in the latest fashion though. I do remember those bell bottoms that I wish I could get into now. Barry Williams as Greg Brady wore them with style. He was quite the teen heartthrob during the run of the show.
The shows hearkened back to Leave It To Beaver with Robert Reed as the all knowing dad. You did get the feeling unlike Hugh Beaumont and Barbara Billingsley, Reed and Henderson did have a sex life. Some concession to the times.
The shows were positively antiseptic. Barry Williams chasing after this that or the other girl, Cindy not being a tattle tale, Peter's voice changing, and the tag line that the show got known for, middle girl Jan's jealousy of older sister Marcia, with that cry of 'Marcia Marcia Marcia'.
Later on it came out that all American dad Robert Reed was gay after of course he died of AIDS. In the community that was pretty well known, a friend of mine recalls meeting Reed at a gay bar in New York City during the Seventies. The cast and crew of The Brady Bunch knew it too, but as Barry Williams points out in his memoirs, they didn't care, he was accepted as an artist and a human being. That was a concession to Stonewall that we didn't know about until later.
Blended families are still fodder for situation comedies like Step By Step and Life With Derek. Those have a bit more bite to them than the ever loving Bradys. Still those kids still looked real good and I did so like Barry Williams back in the day.