"The Bradys" - 13 Week Theatre
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Our Very Brady Halloween comes to a close, or at least it will if the Copyright Terrorists allow it to, with a look at 1990's nighttime soap disaster "The Bradys."
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1:40, 2:29 and 2:43. My great grandmother and I watched the Brady Christmas movie at her little house on my family's farm that Sunday night in 1988. She passed away in 1994. So I will always treasure that memory between she and I.
My dad also died in 1994. What was the date of your great grandmother's death?
The Brady Bunch Variety Hour: the poor man's Donnie and Marie Show! The Brady Brides: the poor man's Odd Couple! The Bradys: the poor man's Thirtysomething!
Next up : the Brady Seniors a rip off of the Golden Girls!🤣
What were The Brady Bunch Movies, then?
@@Quartzquiz333 the movies are sacred and off limits
@@Quartzquiz333 the movies were just something to keep Shelley Long busy for a few years....Iol
Yeah, The Bradys was given the nickname "bradysomething" according to Barry Williams.
5:00 How did Florence Henderson manage to get through that recording session without bursting out laughing at the lyrics? 🤣
It's not a bad song.
@sha11235 You're right, it's not bad...it's terrible!
Just kidding, we all have a right to our opinions.
But her voice was awesome.
Always hated that damn theme song, no matter the lyrics, but god could Florence Henderson sing!
It's still rather sad that two great Broadway voices like Shirley Jones and Flo Henderson could only find work on TV sitcoms.
Ironically, Fox would air a movie in the early 2000's where The Brady Bunch went to D.C. So technically, all four of the big networks were involved with the Bradys.
Leaving only the CW.
That was Fox Family.
No, the movie was on the main Fox network.
Maureen McCormick said in an interview once that if they had made it as a series of TV movies she would have done it.
Maybe she want to move on
Either way I would have done her! (high five)
"A Very Brady Christmas" was so well done. A really enjoyable movie, with a nice ending for the whole Brady clan. I prefer to think of that as the end of the story, and not acknowledge the show after it.
This show had the peak early 1990s aesthetic. Also the movies aren't so much mocking the original show, as they are sympathetic parodies.
I love the Brady Bunch movies. When I was in middle school (hell even me at age 38 still wants) I wanted a studio to do a movie like that with Full House
@@stvojay I guess the 1990s equivalent would be Step by Step
A successful parody requires affection for the source material. The movies had that.
@@jonathanwright8025 absolutely! Loved that show as a kid and thought Brady’s most part were lame. In the end it was pretty much same show just in the 90s 😂
@@stvojay I can't stomach or watch the original Brady Bunch TV series anymore but the first 2 theatrical films still give me a chuckle!
I appreciated the fact that they weren't mean-spirited, either. That's part of why they worked as well.
I remember one wag in the press sarcastically dubbed this version of the show "bradysomething."
I guess to give credit where due what other family-oriented sitcom inspired a cartoon, a variety show, a spin-off sitcom, multiple TV movies, an hourlong serialized drama, and two major motion pictures? Oh, and a satirical stage play.
Gilligans Island comes close.
@@jonathanwright8025 Both were created by Sherwood Schwartz!
@@Quartzquiz333 Also a fake Ginger in the 1978 first rescue movie.
And in the two movies that followed it.
Also the aesthetics of an episode of WandaVision
“We will have to look both ways before we cross the kitchen”. Great line
The movies spoofed it, there's a difference between mocking and spoofing. It was done with affection, not derision.
I actually watched this throughout its short run and I was surely disappointed. But hey, I'm a diehard Bradys fan so I will watch anything Brady!
Yeah, I didn't care for it much either.
I remember the Christmas movie. Always dreamed of being a Brady kid.
Really obvious why this didn’t get over with fans and casual viewers.
Doing this to “The Brady Bunch” is like making “SpongeBob” into a drama about an alcoholic divorcee who kills Squidward in a car crash and spends his time in and out of therapy, subsisting on a low wage job depressed and flipping burgers.
They need to green light that Spongebob series right now
SPONGEBOB: "WHY AM I DOING THIS?????" 😫
PATRICK: "Um, because you're a loser?" 🤨
**he slaps Patrick in frustration**
PATRICK: "Nope, you'd have to hit me a little harder than that. I'm *still* your best friend!" 😃
SPONGEBOB: 😑
Or, “Otis: Diary of a chemically dependent man in a small southern town.”
Maureen McCormick apparently also didn't participate in "The Bradys" because because she had recently had a baby and wasn't ready to go back to work. If you've ever seen the cast-members reunite on the NBC sitcom "Day by Day" back in 1989 (which incidentally, co-starred Christopher Daniel Barnes, who would go on to play Greg Brady in the two feature films from the '90s), Maureen was noticeably pregnant.
For what it's worth, Barry Williams wrote in his book "Growing Up Brady" that the real reason why Maureen wasn't involved with "The Bradys" because at the time, she was just over the show Brady Bunch thing and just wanted to move on with her life and career.
@JD Woodward Also, if I have my facts straight, Maureen was uncomfortable with the idea of having Marcia become an alcoholic given that she in real life, had struggled with substance abuse. If I remember correctly, Maureen was having issues as far back as The Brady Brides at the start of the '80s.
She wrote in her book she thought the scripts were terrible. They were!
Well, I guess that CBS is so financially strapped right now that they fear any segments here will dissuade me from buying A Very Brady Christmas on DVD for the holidays.
3:10 - To put that rating in perspective, the #1 rated show this week had 5.36 million viewers and Thursday Night Football had 11 million viewers. Both considered hits.
Great job as usual.
Barry Williams talks at length about The Bradys in his book "Growing Up Brady." I believe he suggested that what ultimately lead to the show's demise was too many characters to keep track of. The original Bunch was about a mom, dad, six kids, and the housekeeper (and for a time, the family dog). Now you've got the kids all grown up with spouses, significant others, and, in some cases, kids of their own. The tic-tac-toe board in the opening needed to be expanded.
And, of course, Robert Reed butted heads with the Schwartzes like in the good old days. They were really pissed when Reed went directly to CBS executives with his complaints about the direction of the show.
Also, they seemed to swing back and forth between being a silly sitcom (complete with a laugh track) and a heavy soap. It just felt like they were throwing two shows together in a blender.
@@TMC1982Part2 The Brady's had a laugh track?
The 90s movies I find insanely funny! I still use "cut the crap Jan!" Whenever someone is getting too needy.
In spite of all the crap you had to go through to get this one done, another excellent job as usual!
When I was a kid, my family loved "A Very Brady Christmas" and we were very excited for this series. They undid everybody's happy ending from the Christmas special, all in the first episode. We were immediately put off the show. Characters need to have problems, especially in a drama, but I don't know...couldn't the characters have different problems? Couldn't Wally have dealt with anything besides losing the job that Mike had just gotten him in the Christmas special?
It certainly was a different take to create a Brady series filled with harrowing trauma. Quite a turnaround from the Brady variety show!
I think the idea of it being more a dramatic show wasn't the problem, it was just that there were too many characters, as Barry Williams put it in his book.
The cartoon was worse. Mike and Carol sold the house and abandoned the kids to fend for themselves by selling records and living in a treehouse!
WE LOVE YOUR WORK!!!💛❤💙💚
One error in this video: "1st and Ten" aired on HBO, not Showtime.
Pab, I can’t even begin to imagine what in “A Very Brady Christmas” that CBS would threaten to sue you about???!!! I even own the DVD of “AVBC”?! CBS ran “AVBC” again in December 1989, as I recall, and I saw it with my dad, and we were both in tears. There was one extremely cringe-y moment that I remember from the original 6-ep run of “The Bradys” (that I think even got cut of the syndicated version, deservedly so.) I remember in 1990 borrowing a friend’s TV on Friday nights, just so I could see all 6 episodes of “The Bradys” in its original network run. Yes, I was a diehard fan too of anything Brady. I have enjoyed the many cast reminiscence vids on RUclips.
I recently watched Atomic Abe Productions' video entitled "The Brady Bunch Spin-Offs: Why They Failed". And the whole story about Susan Olsen not being in "A Very Brady Christmas" due to her being on her honeymoon was apparently, a cover for what "really" happened. Susan allegedly, bowed out due to a disagreement over her pay. She didn't like the fact that Maureen McCormick and Eve Plumb were going to be paid substantially more than she was considering that Maureen and Eve had previously co-starred in "The Brady Brides".
Brady-Something
Thank you. I'm glad you did all the Brady specials. Its very cool.
I'm not exaggerating when I believe that Maureen McCormick's lack of involvement in "The Bradys" was a big turn off for people given that she's by far, the most popular and iconic of all of the Brady Bunch kids.
Pab - I recently discovered your "13 Week Theatre" series, and have been working my way through every episode. It's great!
I realize others have already asked what had to be edited and why. I'm guessing you haven't replied because of the lawsuit fears? If that is the case - is there any way you can say it in code, or something? I'm really curious to know why you were barred from showing some, but not all, of the clips. You'd think it'd be all or nothing!
Thanks in advance!
That theme song - sung with such aloof and smugness
The inserts! Lmao!!!
If you guys want to see the unedited version of this episode it’s available on patreon
I’m a proud Patreon supporter love Pab’s work so I’m also watching edited version too. Christmas special so bad but so funny
Wait... why are they THAT ashamed of A Brady Christmas?
Yeah, that's what I want to know . . . 😃
The Brady Bunch parody movies were not in the slightest an "ignominious end" for the series. They were made with lots of love, and Florence Henderson, Greg, and Alice had cameos.
If only MST3K/RiffTrax did their take on "A Very Brady Christmas"🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
3:32 I Think "The Bradys" had the distinction of having the show jump the shark during series premiere when Bobby had his near fatal accident.
6:09 It would have been appropriate to insert a laugh track there🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I have a soft spot in my heart for "The Brady Bunch", and I thought "A Very Brady Christmas" was actually pretty good. Something certainly felt off about "The Bradys", but it certainly wasn't as much of a train wreck as "The Brady Bunch Variety Hour".
I watched the variety show as a young kid. I was a big fan!
I am so curious about what had to be redacted from this episode per CBS!!! Lol!
Great work as always Pab. I watched part of the Brady 500 movie/first episode it was laughably bad but I couldn’t finish it lol. That theme song sung by Florence also hilarious but grating. Seeing the success of the Conners today and Fuller House lasting 5 seasons, kind of makes you wonder, if a Brady sequel series could have lasted a few seasons in this decade instead of the 80s/90s? Obviously pretty impossible now but Conners has survived despite Roseanne being gone and Michelle never being in Fuller House because Olson Twins never wanted part of it. I could easily see “The Bradys” having the story of Mike Brady actually dying if it was able to happen in this decade lol
These other Brady shows are a good example of why people should leave well enough alone. The Brady Brides is the only one I could stand but I was only 7 when it aired and not the most discerning viewer at the time.
I actually recognize Leah Ayers from Blood Sport with JCVD. Huh, what a small world.
5:08 The new theme song makes me want to watch Attitudes with Linda Dana on the Lifetime Network.
Sherwood Schwartz advised CBS *not* to schedule the new series before 9pm(et), because of the "adult" storylines featured. Unfortunately, CBS wasn't doing too well at 8pm(et) on Fridays in the 1989-'90 season, and wanted to bring back memories of the original series being on Fridays at 8 to viewers. So, it appeared at 8pm.....and they got what they deserved.
It was still going to fail. First the concept was not going to be believable going from a sitcom to drama, second, it appeared that Sherwood Schwartz was behind the curve on the shows he put out. For example, the Brady Bunch was a failure compared to the Norman Lear and MTM sitcoms that aired in the same generation with. His two shows succeeded in syndication on the UHF channels to the after-school kids crowd.
They weren't the same when Grandpa Munster, Ernest T, and Flo left the show. At Least Bob Denver brought the laughs as Uncle Maynard.
Something the networks never understood. The success of theBrady Bunch came in the syndicated reruns. It was kids watching kids they’re own age. Wether they were teenagers, or still awkward preteens we related to them. It didn’t work so much seeing the kids as adults. It also made no sense to have them go back to they’re parents. It might have made more sense seeing them raise they’re own kids remenicing about they’re own childhood, and even that would have A short shelf life.
Sherwood Schwartz probably knew it would have a short life, but CBS was willing to pony up the cash.
Yeeesh, the lyrics to the theme are horrible! Shame on whoever made Florence Henderson sing them!
Ironically, The Bradys failed on Friday Nights at 8PM, the time slot in which The Brady Bunch thrived in the 70s...well, not quite thrived. The show never broke the Top 30 in the Nielsen ratings, got its butt handed to it by Sanford and Son, the number 2 show in all of television at the time and the show that followed it on Friday nights, The Partridge Family, was actually more popular.
I only saw one episode of The Bradys...the one Marcia became an alcoholic and was clean and sober by the end of the episode. Ughhhhh.
I can just see Florence practice singing this song back in 1990, before actually recording this, in her kitchen frying up a batch of chicken drumsticks with Wesson cooking oil.
@@blackamerican40 Well, she DID do a country cooking show on the old Nashville Network during the 1980s. She truly had a lot of "Wessonality".
Dallas and Falcon Crest at this time weren't ratings winners either. Falcon Crest was in it's final season (9th). And, Dallas was in it's next to the last season (13th). In 1997-98 season, Family Matters moved to CBS from ABC. It was apart of CBS' attempt to compete against ABC's TGIF lineup. It was called the CBS Block Party on Friday Nights.
Dallas also switched timeslot too at one point to make room for the short lived Over My Dead Body, which was basically CBS sucking up to Edward Woodward and Universal for cancelling The Equalizer, and an attempt by CBS and Universal to clone the success of Murder She Wrote.
Poor Edward was in interviews trying to point out Over My Dead Body wasn't a MSW clone, then CBS and Universal go and cast Jessica Lundy, providing more snickering given Angela Lansbury's character.
How about a 13 WEEK THEATER episode on Bette Midler's sitcom in 2000 called "BETTE"
OK can somebody explain to me, or post a link to, what was so scandalous that CBS would threaten to sue over it?
“Oh, the Bradys- O-Oh the Bradys”. *shudder*
"When our kids were, their problems all were smaller"?! "That's how The Brady Bunch" became The Bradys"?! Putrid!!!
@@Quartzquiz333 I can just see Florence practice singing this song cooking chicken in her kitchen using Wesson oil. The next day, headed to the recording studio.
I have an idea for a TV movie that would celebrate the original show and be a tribute.
Did you say 'two movies mocking' the Bradys? Lol, Dig a little
Hey! "Brady-Something"!
I think the Brady revivals is proof that with some things if you keep going back to that well you're eventually going to end up with a bucket full of sediment.
Let's face it --
the only Brady spin-offs that worked were the 2 feature films that debuted in theaters!
The rest of it is shit including the third film (TV movie or direct to video?) they did in the 1990s with the theatrical cast.
Still, The Bradys have done better than other Sherwood Schwartz's last big hit, Gilligan's Island. GI has never been successfully revived; the reunion TV movies were terrible and the reality show is rotting in a film vault somewhere.
I am so annoyed at those constant disclaimers about CBS threatening to sue you that -- now -- I am threatening to sue you, too.
Are you ashamed of something?
@@brianarbenz1329 yes
Check out Wally’s head at 1:25. Back when cutting and pasting was literally cutting and pasting.
I still watch “A Very Brady Christmas” in December. What are they ashamed of??
I was just little too old to be one of those who fantasized about being in the bunch. I met a woman 12 years my younger who told me she had as a child. Then I began seeing online sources that described that phenomenon as widespread for a whole generation.
I remember the absolute horror of my sister who loved the original show when she saw what they did to it.
I suspect that audiences did not want to watch a "trauma porn" rendition of The Brady Bunch like This is Us but almost 30 years prior. The original Brady Bunch series was a somewhat corny and campy, but otherwise clean and wholesome family sitcom with good morals. Audiences simply put, didn't want or expect a "darker and edgier" Brady Bunch, where the problems aren't neatly solved at the end of the episode.
THE BRADYS soap opera version of The Brady Bunch family sitcom was trying to imitate the more successful EIGHT IS ENOUGH but nevertheless it's still much better than the disastrous BRADY BUNCH VARIETY HOUR.
I don't know if it was trying imitate Eight is Enough so much as it was trying to hop on the dramedy/yuppies with first world problems trend that was going on at the time. When The Bradys was being produced, we had shows like Moonlighting, Thirtysomething, The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, Hooperman, The Slap Maxwell Story, and Frank's Place.
You should consider doing an episode on 1984's Sara with Geena Davis, Alfre Woodward, Bronson Pinchot, Matthew Lawrence and Bill Maher.
Faux Jan, Faux Cindy, and the Faux Marcia.
6:44 I didn’t know Peter Cushing’s incarnation of Doctor Who was a Brady?
I watched the technical 2nd episode where Marcia's family was living with mike & carol and mike decides to run for city council and they're in a temporary house? It was alright? It wasn't the end of the world. Robert Reed was pretty good. My library has it because it came with the complete series.
But the cartoon tho! And we had an HGTV series where they renovated the real house to look like the TV house inside and they are all in that, all old which is sad but nice to see they don't despise each other!
Please do 13-week theater on the Chevy Chase show
He already did one.
Not yet I haven’t.
To quote The Simpsons: "Five Fabulous Weeks of The Chevy Chase Show"! Literally watching a man's career fall apart on live national television!
@@PabSungenis I must have dreamed about it then. 😃
@@carrieheffernan1685 I think that was Hats Off Entertainment.
I remember watching A Very Brady Christmas a few days before Christmas in 1989 with my parents as I was a fan of the show. I enjoyed it. And I remember I was thrilled when I found out that CBS was bringing back The Bradys. Boy, did my thrill turn to utter disappointment.
I thought that it would be a comedy and similar to the original. But I was bummed when I watched the first episode and found it was a Dramedy and was put off at the darker storylines that this show had over the lighter and funnier ones that I enjoyed on the Brady Bunch.
Besides the darker tone, there is another thing that killed the show. It competed with Full House and Family Matters on ABC. No way that The Bradys was going to last in that time slot. And thank God that it didn't last.
Which part is CBS ashamed of?
Robert Reed died two years later…tragic
That was the worst song I’ve ever heard 😂😂😂
I get such a kick out of how, like with the variety show, they felt they had to show images of the kids in their younger years during the opening credits - as if we might not know who they are. Not to mention, it made fake Marcia and fake Jan's photos stand out like a sore thumb, since seeing childhood pics of people we didn't know just shone a bright light on the fact that it wasn't the original actors.
Edited for Cindy-cation?
I liked the Christmas special but this was so depressing who wanted to watch it? By 1990 I was watching Kids In The Hall and Twin Peaks! Maybe they should have had David Lynch direct this one???
How about an episode on the early 80s show JAMES AT 15??
JAMES AT 15 was in the 1970s.
But definitely, YES to your idea.
@@chazarcola7639 You're right, it aired for 1 season, 1977-1978.👍
@@MarceloRomero360
I love LANCE KERWIN.
JAMES AT 15/16 is one of my favorite
cult TV shows. Prematurely cancelled.
That whole house moving was a really selfish solution by the Bradies! I mean what about all the other people in their old neighbourhood who can't afford to move their houses and are going to lose their homes? At first the Bradies were going to help their neighbours too, but as soon as an easier solution for their personal problem presented itself all the other people in the neighbourhood were suddenly irrelevant.
are you from canada?
because only canadians pronounce reprise as repreeeze
No but I was exposed to a lot of British and Canadian media growing up.
I'm American and I pronounce it re-preeze
The parody movies were great😅
Stupid Viacom always has to ruin everything
CBS seems to have had some real problems with Brady Christmas.
Don't be sorry, just be Wally. Cringe!
The Brady's are the most overrated sitcom family, but they're that family you prefer to watch over reality show families, though.
I watched one episode of this when Urkel was in reruns. My father watched Dallas anyway. BTW Dallas was not exactly a picnic in this era either.
This episode felt a little more vicious. Was this because of the copyright crap? Or just the hatefulness of this show. The Brady Brides, the movies and even the Variety Show felt true to the spirit of the original
I liked The Brady Bunch the first two years.After that I saw how hokey it was & lost interest.
Interesting that Marcia, Jan, and their hubbies are no longer under the same roof. Wonder who moved out first?
Whoever made enough to buy the other out first. Since Jan and Philip seem more likely to save money, and couldn’t conceive, it’s likely it was them.
No one asked for a soap opera version of the Bradys, and after all, the Brady Bunch is one of the most overrated sitcoms ever made.
CBS is pathetic. Who are they trying to kid? As for this show, it somehow managed to be an even worse idea than the variety show... and that's saying something. I remember TV Guide absolutely raking CBS over the coals for turning Marcia into a drunk.
You left out one of the craziest things. The show was failing and I guess to try and make it more like the original show they added a laugh track. A laugh track on a serious drama with no real jokes. You can hear it in some of the clips in your video. So you get scenes like alcoholic Marcia stealing booze from her dad's liquor cabinet. Her mom walks in unexpectedly and Marcia hides the liquor bottle behind her back. Then mom says, "Marcia, what's behind your back?" BIG LAUGH. !?!?! What? That's not funny! She's an alcoholic!!!
Wait, REAL question. How could CBS sue over you just literally saying what took place in the decades ago already aired movie? Were you kidding? Funny if yes, SCARY (and puzzling) if NO!
Threatening a copyright infringement suit over a total of 27 seconds of footage.
@@PabSungenisSo they allowed you to show EVERYTHING else, besides that 27 seconds? How incredibly "un-Brady" if yes!
With that likely being the case, are you allowed to "write out" what they didn't allow you to show? I mean, can they REALLY threaten over THAT?
The original BB was garbage. Even with this dreck, it was probably an improvement. The BB was a bad show. Terrible writing and stupid plots. I can understand Robert’s frustration
Robert Reed died of cancer He did not die of AIDS you got it wrong
True but HIV was listed as a significant causing factor in his death certificate.
Florence Henderson was a horrible dramatic actress!!
What doomed this was Alice the maid and her refusal to the hardcore sex scenes.
They tried and failed to be funny, so why not go for drama?