Susan Olsen is my favorite of the real life actors. I think Peter was my favorite of the kid characters because I was middle and less confident. Alice is a favorite too. She makes the family function without taking credit for it.
Robert Reed was actually smart. He brought integrity to role. However, the amusenent park ride was most awesome thing he could have done. I did not know. Thank you for this little history/trivia bit.
Like most TV shows in the 1960's and 1970's, with the exception of All in the Family, The Brady Bunch was a fantasy realm, happy parallel universe TV show. The Brady Bunch never dealt with the real issues of the late 1960's and early 1970's facing young people of that time such as the Vietnam War, sex, and illegal drugs such as marijuana, heroin, and cocaine. And this why The Brady Bunch was such a popular hit along with The Partridge Family.. The Brady Bunch as an unrealistic, happy parallel universe, fantasy realm TV that was all of these kids and it was one happy family. The Brady Bunch is still extremely popular today, in both rerun syndication and DVD collections. The reason why The Brady Bunch is still so extremely popular today is because people who like to watch those kinds of fantasy realm TV shows, wish they could enter a portal to parallel universes and immigrate to live in that kind of a utopia. For example, when The Brady Bunch originally aired in the early 1970's, the producers of The Brady Bunch actually received letters from kids wanting to move in with the blended Brady family! As for myself in sharp contrast, during my adolescent years in the early 1970s', I preferred to watch much more realistic TV shows such as All in the Family. I was an avid watcher of Game of Thrones on HBO and I watch House of the Dragon. Even though wargs, giants and dragons are not real. Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon, in sharp contrast to a fantasy realm TV show like The Brady Bunch, these two TV shows on HBO and HBO Max, are still just like how things are in the real world, where bad things happen to the good characters without a happy ending and the bad characters often get away with doing evil things. So this also explains why I am an avid fan of the Yellowstone TV series and all of the Yellowstone spin-off TV shows such as Yellowstone 1883, Yellowstone 1923, and all of the other Yellowstone TV shows. This is because the Yellowstone TV show and all of the Yellowstone TV show spin-offs, are just like how things are in the real world!
I share your opinion of the show, and I too loved All in the Family during my adolescence, preferring TV about real world controversy to the escapism of the six pristine kids on the stairs. I later met a woman 12 years my younger who told me she was one of those children who identified so intensely with the Brady Bunch that she was continuously day dreaming she was in it. Since then I’ve read of that being a widespread phenomenon in that generation. Sherwood Schwartz in one video said the show received so many letters from children saying that wanted to run away from home and join the BB that he composed a form letter addressed “to the parents of” that told them their child had expressed a desire to run away from home, though probably not literally. Florence Henderson said that the Brady Bunch was healing to her. As an infant she was removed from an abusive home in Indiana (near where I grew up, btw) and raised by either adoptive or foster parents in Kentucky. The anxieties from her childhood were soothed by her identifying with the impossibly calm Brady home.
Actually, the show's ratings werent that great, during it's initial run. It was when it was later picked up in syndication that it became more of a 'popular' hit. I dont think it was a 'fantasy' setting so much as a 'overly wholesome' one. I think they avoided 'controversial' topics like Vietnam and drug abuse in order to keep the show watchable for it's youngest viewers (of whom there were many).
Here's an interesting fact. After the series' cancellation, ABC aired repeats of The Brady Bunch during late morning hours against NBC's Hollywood Squares and whatever CBS was offering at the time where the ratings still were far less than stellar. Around April 1975, the network picked out the game show Blankety Blanks from Bob Stewart to replace The Brady Bunch starting April 21st. Stewart promised ABC that if the series didn't do well, they might as well replace it with the Brady Bunch. And they did, ten weeks later on 6-30-1975. But their real biggest audience came when syndication picked it up a year later and aired it on after school time slots, something never been done before. The 4:00-6:00 time slots were so popular that independents stations would continue to air it for decades to come. Oh, and BTW. The real reason why The Bradys were cancelled on CBS in 1990 was because it competed against ABC's Full House and Family Matters. When it came to Friday Nights, ABC ruled and that was the reason why the Bradys was pulled after just 5 episodes.
If Robert Reed wasn't a closeted gay alpha male, he would've made a great producer of the BB. Robert and Florence Henderson both earned more creative control of the series. It was the late 1960's. Television was an escape, not a medium for social issues. Norman Lear was better meant in this lane, not Sherwood Schwartz. Fred Sanford would've hocked the Hawaiian taboo. 🤣
It probably would've taken off had Swartz waited a few years. Oddly enough by the 1980s shows like Different Strokes and Webster took off. And those shows had a similar idea to Kelly's Kids.
CBS once had The Brady Bunch for a very short time on CBS called The Bradys in 1990. It wasn't very good from what I heard and is considered a severe departure from their signature sitcom. I wouldn't go there. Stick with the Brady Bunch for now.
I am 65 years old and I cannot believe that this truly pathetic excuse for a television series is even mentioned today----let alone fondly remembered enough for it to warrant even one word of serious discussion. It was an insipid piece of garbage in its day, and it joins other institutions of TV crap from that era like "The Partridge Family". Americans spend way too much time obsessing over their childhoods. I had a good childhood myself and I watched a lot of TV, but as I entered my teens, I slowly began to realize the difference between good television and total garbage like "The Brady Bunch". Other than Robert Reed, a truly fine actor who deserved a much better career than he ended up having, none of the other cast members did much of anything other than "Brady Bunch" reunion junk.
I’m your age and I always felt the same about the bunch. Then I had a roommate 12 years younger than I who talked of growing up obsessed and with Brady Bunch, particularly identifying with Marcia, and immersed in an ongoing fantasy about living in their family. Soon, I began to read of that being a phenomenon of other people her age, particularly children who grew up unhappy. I still think the show was too bland and maudlin for words, but I appreciate what it meant to a generation.
Who was your favorite on The Brady Bunch?
Susan Olsen is my favorite of the real life actors. I think Peter was my favorite of the kid characters because I was middle and less confident. Alice is a favorite too. She makes the family function without taking credit for it.
Florence Henderson and Ann B. Davis were more handsome than the rest of the cast.
Marcia(Maureen McCormick) or Janice(Eve Plumb).
Peter. 100%
I use to love watching this as a kid in the 1980's
Robert Reed was actually smart. He brought integrity to role. However, the amusenent park ride was most awesome thing he could have done. I did not know. Thank you for this little history/trivia bit.
The Kelly kids were Duane and Steve, not Duane and Gary!
a friend from Cameroon, Africa, grew up watching re-runs. she told me she loved Thee Brrahdy Boonch.
😂😂😂
Like most TV shows in the 1960's and 1970's, with the exception of All in the Family, The Brady Bunch was a fantasy realm, happy parallel universe TV show. The Brady Bunch never dealt with the real issues of the late 1960's and early 1970's facing young people of that time such as the Vietnam War, sex, and illegal drugs such as marijuana, heroin, and cocaine. And this why The Brady Bunch was such a popular hit along with The Partridge Family.. The Brady Bunch as an unrealistic, happy parallel universe, fantasy realm TV that was all of these kids and it was one happy family. The Brady Bunch is still extremely popular today, in both rerun syndication and DVD collections. The reason why The Brady Bunch is still so extremely popular today is because people who like to watch those kinds of fantasy realm TV shows, wish they could enter a portal to parallel universes and immigrate to live in that kind of a utopia. For example, when The Brady Bunch originally aired in the early 1970's, the producers of The Brady Bunch actually received letters from kids wanting to move in with the blended Brady family!
As for myself in sharp contrast, during my adolescent years in the early 1970s', I preferred to watch much more realistic TV shows such as All in the Family. I was an avid watcher of Game of Thrones on HBO and I watch House of the Dragon. Even though wargs, giants and dragons are not real. Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon, in sharp contrast to a fantasy realm TV show like The Brady Bunch, these two TV shows on HBO and HBO Max, are still just like how things are in the real world, where bad things happen to the good characters without a happy ending and the bad characters often get away with doing evil things.
So this also explains why I am an avid fan of the Yellowstone TV series and all of the Yellowstone spin-off TV shows such as Yellowstone 1883, Yellowstone 1923, and all of the other Yellowstone TV shows. This is because the Yellowstone TV show and all of the Yellowstone TV show spin-offs, are just like how things are in the real world!
I share your opinion of the show, and I too loved All in the Family during my adolescence, preferring TV about real world controversy to the escapism of the six pristine kids on the stairs.
I later met a woman 12 years my younger who told me she was one of those children who identified so intensely with the Brady Bunch that she was continuously day dreaming she was in it.
Since then I’ve read of that being a widespread phenomenon in that generation. Sherwood Schwartz in one video said the show received so many letters from children saying that wanted to run away from home and join the BB that he composed a form letter addressed “to the parents of” that told them their child had expressed a desire to run away from home, though probably not literally.
Florence Henderson said that the Brady Bunch was healing to her. As an infant she was removed from an abusive home in Indiana (near where I grew up, btw) and raised by either adoptive or foster parents in Kentucky. The anxieties from her childhood were soothed by her identifying with the impossibly calm Brady home.
Actually, the show's ratings werent that great, during it's initial run. It was when it was later picked up in syndication that it became more of a 'popular' hit. I dont think it was a 'fantasy' setting so much as a 'overly wholesome' one. I think they avoided 'controversial' topics like Vietnam and drug abuse in order to keep the show watchable for it's youngest viewers (of whom there were many).
I've never seen the pilot 😮 unbelievable
Great show! See it.
Great show
Here's an interesting fact. After the series' cancellation, ABC aired repeats of The Brady Bunch during late morning hours against NBC's Hollywood Squares and whatever CBS was offering at the time where the ratings still were far less than stellar. Around April 1975, the network picked out the game show Blankety Blanks from Bob Stewart to replace The Brady Bunch starting April 21st. Stewart promised ABC that if the series didn't do well, they might as well replace it with the Brady Bunch. And they did, ten weeks later on 6-30-1975. But their real biggest audience came when syndication picked it up a year later and aired it on after school time slots, something never been done before. The 4:00-6:00 time slots were so popular that independents stations would continue to air it for decades to come.
Oh, and BTW. The real reason why The Bradys were cancelled on CBS in 1990 was because it competed against ABC's Full House and Family Matters. When it came to Friday Nights, ABC ruled and that was the reason why the Bradys was pulled after just 5 episodes.
I conclude based on hair curls and braids and the lack of braces and tans that the photo was early in the 5th season.
The untold truth? You got all your info from books and interviews
ok
Or from the actors themselves perhaps...
Yeah they call this research
Research of people telling these stories before?
I’m grateful because I can’t read. 😎
とても素晴らしい
The names of friends of the little boy the Kelly's adopted are Dwayne and Stevie.
Love them Bradys!
❤❤❤
I think the problem with Tiger was pressure of the business was getting to him.
If Robert Reed wasn't a closeted gay alpha male, he would've made a great producer of the BB. Robert and Florence Henderson both earned more creative control of the series.
It was the late 1960's. Television was an escape, not a medium for social issues. Norman Lear was better meant in this lane, not Sherwood Schwartz. Fred Sanford would've hocked the Hawaiian taboo. 🤣
I love the idea of Kelly's Kids! Wish that had a go!
It probably would've taken off had Swartz waited a few years. Oddly enough by the 1980s shows like Different Strokes and Webster took off. And those shows had a similar idea to Kelly's Kids.
I had the hots for Florence when I was a kid cause of her eyes. Damn that woman is beautiful
Cousin Oliver and Tiger both destroyed a model house.
Brady bunch roxks
Reed was a pretty smart guy
I thought the Brady Bunch was on NBC, not ABC….
The Brady Girls Get Married special and short run Brady Brides was on NBC on the 80s.
CBS once had The Brady Bunch for a very short time on CBS called The Bradys in 1990. It wasn't very good from what I heard and is considered a severe departure from their signature sitcom. I wouldn't go there. Stick with the Brady Bunch for now.
News flash, they weren't really related
Marcia
I never liked the Brady Bunch. It always seemed so fake to me.
This video is a waste of bandwidth. After over 50 years of this show airing, there’s nothing that hasn’t already been told.
This series is better in the original klingon.
Dubbing it in english just seems absurd.
Qapla'
I am 65 years old and I cannot believe that this truly pathetic excuse for a television series is even mentioned today----let alone fondly remembered enough for it to warrant even one word of serious discussion. It was an insipid piece of garbage in its day, and it joins other institutions of TV crap from that era like "The Partridge Family". Americans spend way too much time obsessing over their childhoods. I had a good childhood myself and I watched a lot of TV, but as I entered my teens, I slowly began to realize the difference between good television and total garbage like "The Brady Bunch". Other than Robert Reed, a truly fine actor who deserved a much better career than he ended up having, none of the other cast members did much of anything other than "Brady Bunch" reunion junk.
I’m your age and I always felt the same about the bunch. Then I had a roommate 12 years younger than I who talked of growing up obsessed and with Brady Bunch, particularly identifying with Marcia, and immersed in an ongoing fantasy about living in their family. Soon, I began to read of that being a phenomenon of other people her age, particularly children who grew up unhappy.
I still think the show was too bland and maudlin for words, but I appreciate what it meant to a generation.
Pfff... Kelly's Kids..
It had some promise.