One interesting note: I was ten years old when this came on, and I'd been a Brady fanatic. I couldn't wait to see it. Now, the Brady Girls Get Married was promoted as a two hour movie. The TV Guide had it listed as a two hour movie. It must have been a very last minute decision to cut it up into 3 separate shows. I was so excited for it, but was so confused, and frustrated when it was only a half hour!
Oh YIKES! I'd only seen the first episode of the Brady Brides (after the pilot) and I thought Marcia and Wally fell in love, like... organically. That they'd had a long relationship and... um... not THIS! Why couldn't they have just started the story with both girls in long-term relationships?! What the hell?! Marcia deserves much better than to be randomly blackmailed into a marriage with some creep, that's horrible! Another fantastic video, anyway! EDIT: This is shallow but I LOVE both girls' wedding gowns. They both look so gorgeous and I admit I got a little teary-eyed when they came down the stairs together. That is a really nice way to show how their sisterly relationship matured. They got past all their teenage rivalry stuff.
The Brady Brides is historically important (to Brady fans, at least) as the only other time the entire cast reunited. The animated show missed the parents and Alice, the variety show missed original Jan, the Xmas movie missed original Cindy, and The Bradys missed original Marsha.
So Jan can't get married until her older sister, who's not even engaged, gets married? That's very Shakespearean. I mean, really! That's The Taming of the Shrew!
I remembered this aired at a TV movie first called "The Brady Girls Get Married." Then when NBC decided to pick up "Brady Brides" as a series, NBC reran the TV-movie in three parts to start off the "Brady Brides" episodes.
It's important that Marsha be married first, as this DID take place in medieval China. I think aliens cane down to Earth and wrote this script after the concept of "humor" was explained to them.
After only 7 episodes, NBC pulled the plug on “The Brady Brides”, a continuation of the made-for-TV movie “The Brady Girls Get Married”. As a result, the late Fred Silverman was fired by NBC after he was responsible for his failed attempts to make NBC a ratings success. After Silverman’s departure, former MTM executive Grant Tinker and Silverman protege Brandon Tartikoff decided to take matters into their own hands by picking up the pieces and within the next 3 years, putting the NBC back on top of the ratings with hit shows such as “Gimme a Break!”, “St. Elsewhere”, “Family Ties”, “Silver Spoons”, “Cheers”, “Knight Rider”, “The A-Team”, “Night Court”, “The Cosby Show”, Highway to Heaven”, “Miami Vice” and “The Golden Girls”.
I'm not sure anybody would call "Gimme a Break", and "Silver Spoons" "HIT SHOWS"....Neither of them was ever in the Top 30...coincidentally, the same heights that the BB NEVER achieved. BUT...Gimme a Break was actually developed BY Silverman... Finally, Fred Silverman was not FIRED by NBC; he resigned. He was not happy with his modest success at the network and decided to strike out on his own. Even if he HAD been fireed, it wouldn't have been because of the failure of The Brady Brides... More likely, the network woudl have been very unhappy with Hello Larry, The Big Show, Pink Lady and Jeff, and SUPERTRAIN...crazy expensive and cost NBC a LOT of money. He also mishandled Saturday NIght LIve and was greatly hurt by the United States boycott of the Moscow Olympics that cost NBC millions!!
@@bradyguy7701 Really? I didn't know that Silverman resigned. After that, Silverman went on to start his own production company that developed the Andy Griffith drama series Matlock as well as the TV version of the 1967 film In the Heat of the Night starring Carroll O'Connor of All in the Family fame.
Saw this as a rerun (the movie) when I was a kid, and loved seeing the Brady bunch grown up. It was perfect as a movie! Too bad Fred Silverman didn’t feel the same way.
Marcia was way out of Wally's league! Because of his success with CBS and ABC, Fred Silverman was known as "The Man with the Golden Gut". After his spectacular failure with NBC, he was known as "The Guy with the Rusted Belly".
@@christophervaldez8746 He was responsible for a decent portion of 13 Week Theater. He also nearly drove Johnny Carson off, resulting in NBC losing the back catalog of Carson's Tonight Show. He nearly killed Saturday Night Live in 1980 and created Super Train. Silverman regained some of his reputation producing Matlock. But the NBC failure will always be there, inspite of saving ABC and massive success at CBS.
@@christophervaldez8746 And 'Hello Larry' and others. I think Pab should do a 13 Week Theater on that one. Actually maybe he should do a complete episode on McLean Stevenson's career after he left M*A*S*H.
I just found this show kind of odd. Jan was never that prissy on The Brady Bunch and I can't see her ever going for someone as annoying as Phillip. I guess Wally and Marcia was slightly more plausible, but I don't really buy her with someone that goofy.
I watched it on syndication as a kid and always paired the two oldest, two middle, and two youngest kids together. They’re not blood related but I was still disgusted.
🎵 We didn't have an idea for the series Besides getting our Brady girls wed So we stole the plot from The Odd Couple That's the way we became The Brady Brides! The Brady Brides! The Brady Brides! That is why we switched o'er to Pink Lady!!
I feel extra old now! I had completely forgotten about "Super Train" but I snorted the second I saw your post. I liked "Hello Larry" because Kim Richards was my age and I always thought she was so pretty and coveted her long hair.
I really liked Robert Reed and Maureen McCormick's episodes of "The Streets Of San Francisco" (the former with Reed as a man pretending to be a doctor; the former with Maureen McCormick as a young model turned callgirl whose clients are being murdered by her her overprotective dad - it was one of the better episodes of the Lawrence Hatch era).
I liked this show. It was as good or better than most of what was on TV. I must be different than most fans because I had no problem with the series focusing on part of the family. You can't do a half hour sitcom about an extended family anyway. It was good catching up on the whole family, but then it was nice to focus on a well done odd couple situation.
True. By that point he was essentially competing with himself. If you look at the top ten of 1979-1980, where NBC was completely shut out, four of those top 10 were shows Silverman had greenlit or in the case of “The Jefferson’s,” a spin-off from one he greenlit. If you compete against yourself you can only lose.
Instead of "The Brady Brides" what they should've done is wait six-eight years until it was conceivable that Marsha and Jan could have had families of their own. They could've done a "Kate & Allie" or "Fuller House" type show in which the two sisters now either widows or divorcees are forced due to circumstance to move in with one another each bringing along a family of three. You could've recreated "The Brady Bunch" dynamic although under different auspices.
They didn't have to buy a house, each of them. They could've bought apts. or one moved into the other's apt. For example, Phillip moves into Jan's place.
That one scene where the mom wrongly remembers necking with Mr. Brady is a symptom of all the later Brady shows: they forget that the Brady's are a blended family and talk like Mr. and Mrs. Brady have only ever been married to each other and the kids are all both their biological kids. Weird.
The Brady brides and the Brady Christmas prove that a successful movie does not mean a successful series. And to this day many network executives can’t get that through their thick heads
@@cityhawk And ironically are more in the spirit of the original show than any of the attempts to revive the show with as much of the original cast as would cooperate at any given time.
To make it short and sweet, Fred Silverman desperately needed viewers for NBC's schedule in early 1981- particularly on Friday nights. When he saw the original 90 minute version of "The Brady Girls Get Married", he insisted that Sherwood Schwartz add another half-hour onto it, and aired each segment as the first four episodes of what became "THE BRADY BRIDES". He figured that viewers wanted to more of Marcia and Jan and their joint arrangement as newlyweds. It was said there were more promos telecast for the series than the actual number of episodes produced (ten, counting the three re-edited from "The Brady Girls Get Married"). In any case, the ratings were a bust- as was the series.
They give Jan a hard time getting engaged to long-time boyfriend. Then, Marcia comes in with a complete stranger, who she's only known for two weeks and it's congratulations!
1. Why are they too precious to live in apartments? Phillip's apartment looked big enough for him and Jan. Surely Marcia and Jerry could afford a one bedroom apartment. 2. The Brady Brides was the same mistake as the variety show. Instead of giving people what they want, they alter it. I mean just do more Brady Bunch episodes, just with a few of the kids grown. Its weird, like someone is trying to prove something. 3. CBS makes the same mistake.
I thought it was a decent show. Since they only made a few episodes, they didn't give it enough of a chance to evolve into a better show. Night court during the 1st season was only a moderate success once they recast some of the characters. It became a huge success. They Brady bunch is probably the most popular sitcom ever, so it takes time to develop a new concept.
Well...the ratings for the BB would argue mightily with you. Syndication and 50 years have made many remember it much more fondly, but you certainly can't call it the "most popular sitcom ever". Just sayin'
Ron Kuhlman (Phillip) was in the original Broadway cast of "A Chorus Line". He's the first guy seen far left, at the beginning of this commercial which seemed to run all the time in the tri-state area back then: ruclips.net/video/4Vt8BQnFknE/видео.html
I watched "The Brady Girls Get Married" when it first aired. My memory must be skewed, bc I've always remembered having seen the original TV movie as just that: a tv movie. I don't recall having to watch it in three installments over three weeks. What a crazy thing to do, splitting it up at the last minute, esp after it'd been advertised as a movie in the TV Guide. Besides the things you mentioned, two other reasons I found the Brady Bride series unwatchable (even though I watched it, haha): (1) the obnoxious laugh track and applause, which were so over the top, especially with jokes that really weren't funny. Compare the raucous laugh track in "The Brady Brides" scenes to the subtler laugh track in "The Brady Girls Get Married" scenes, which seemed more appropriate. It's like night and day. (2) In "The Brady Brides", I distinctly remember the inclusion of sexual innuendo jokes, and how out of place they felt. I'm sure the writers felt they needed to include them to keep with the times, but one of the charms of the original "Brady Bunch" series was that this family was NEVER with the times. While Norman Lear shows were pushing the envelope in every direction in the early '70s, the Bradys remained squares - and that's one of the things that made the show what it was. It's one thing to hear newcomers Wally or Phillip do it, but hearing Mrs Brady make sexual references to Marcia and Jan just felt wrong, not to mention forced. It might have been forgivable if the jokes were funny, but they were just as awful as the rest of the show.
In that one clip, when the woman says "Well, I never!" and Phillip says "Well, maybe that's your problem" - come on, writers! By that point, that old line had been used in countless other comedies; couldn't you come up with something new? 🙄
Fred Silverman's run on NBC was short but man there were some big headscratchers. Supertrain I get...but Pink Lady and Jeff??? Showing Al Franken the door at SNL??? Cutting up the Brady Bunch TV Movie???? No wonder his tenure was brief.
If you're talking about TV?? Five...but I'm including the animated Brady Kids which aired while the original show was still on the air...and without any parents (or Alice) could hardly be called the Brady Bunch....but it's your call. 😁
I remember watching this in the two-hour movie format on Lifetime in the late '80s. Like pretty much everyone else, I was enthralled the first hour and a half but quickly lost interest in the final half-hour, where the two couples move into their new home and the rest of the Bradys are forgotten about. Oh well, can't blame them for trying, I guess.
They should've shown on the Newlywed Game episode the part where Phillip screams "Thighs and breasts! Breasts and thighs!" as an answer because he thinks that's correct, but it embarrassed to say it.
NBC never aired it as a movie. The network split the movie into 3 1/2 hour sitcom episodes then added another to start the series. These 4 parts are now aired as "The Brady Girls Get Married", a 2-hour tv movie. NBC demanded this change to 1/2 hour episodes so quickly that TV Guide still listed the show as a 2-hour tv movie back in Feb. 1981.
If the writing on this show was stronger or as good as the average sitcom of the 80s, then that is not saying much for the 80's. Much of the humor was just not very funny. I think that back then we must have had either lower standards or just less to watch on TV. That said, I did watch everything Brady through the years. But I cannot say this was a good show!
I saw an episode of this one years ago on TV Land. What the hell was Fred Silverman thinking putting this shit on NBC? The shows he put on ABC and CBC were golden classics. Except for shows Diff'rent Strokes, The Facts of Life, and Real People, everything Silverman had put on NBC was pure trash. And this show was no exception. First, there was The Brady Bunch. Then the Brady Bunch Variety Hour. And then, there was The Brady Brides. By the early eighties, the Brady trope had gotten stale and the public had Brady Bunch fatigue. Fred Silverman ended up proving Al Franken right.
Oh yeah, The Bradys. Nothing like giving very sensitive dramatic material like alcoholism The Brady Treatment by having everything typically resolved in an hour!
What ugly wedding gowns. Why did they have Jan dressing as an Amish woman or someone from the 19th century? Marcia's dress looks like she's wearing a work uniform smock and an old hat she found at a garage sale.
😄 Yeah, somehow between the end of The Brady Bunch and the beginning of The Brady Girls Get Married, Jan became a frump and Marica became a dingbat. The wedding dresses seem to reflect that!
The only reunion to feature the entire original cast.
No Eve Plumb in the BBVH. And, no Maureen McCormick in The Bradys.
@@good03boy and no Susan Olsen in A Very Brady Christmas
I remember watching this when I was 11, and loved seeing them back together.
I really liked the Brady Brides. I wish it would come out on DVD !! I'd buy it in a heart beat !
Me too
One interesting note: I was ten years old when this came on, and I'd been a Brady fanatic. I couldn't wait to see it. Now, the Brady Girls Get Married was promoted as a two hour movie. The TV Guide had it listed as a two hour movie. It must have been a very last minute decision to cut it up into 3 separate shows. I was so excited for it, but was so confused, and frustrated when it was only a half hour!
I always thought it was a movie but realizing it was an actually spin off show
@@jenniferwilliams5478 the first three episodes WERE a movie, originally.
It was meant to be a 90 minute reunion movie, but yes at the last minute they cut them into half hur episodes.
Oh YIKES! I'd only seen the first episode of the Brady Brides (after the pilot) and I thought Marcia and Wally fell in love, like... organically. That they'd had a long relationship and... um... not THIS! Why couldn't they have just started the story with both girls in long-term relationships?! What the hell?! Marcia deserves much better than to be randomly blackmailed into a marriage with some creep, that's horrible!
Another fantastic video, anyway!
EDIT: This is shallow but I LOVE both girls' wedding gowns. They both look so gorgeous and I admit I got a little teary-eyed when they came down the stairs together. That is a really nice way to show how their sisterly relationship matured. They got past all their teenage rivalry stuff.
Did they? Mine didn't! Lol
@@gaywizard2000 @Sin
Totally nailed it. Fans loved catching up with the Bradys, but the Brady Brides just didn't have enough "Brady" to it for fans to keep watching.
After you conclude the Bradys duology of terror, maybe you can visit the attempts to revive Gilligan's Island.
Pab could also visit its blatant ripoff, Dusty's Trail.
Damn, I love the fresh 80s take on early 70s intro themes. Both the Brady Brides and the New Odd Couple theme music sounds fantastic.
The Brady Brides is historically important (to Brady fans, at least) as the only other time the entire cast reunited. The animated show missed the parents and Alice, the variety show missed original Jan, the Xmas movie missed original Cindy, and The Bradys missed original Marsha.
The second season of the cartoon also missed Barry Williams and I forget who else.
@@PabSungenisMaureen and Chris
@@PabSungenis A whopping 5 eps!! Hey. As long as we got Larry Storch, right???
So Jan can't get married until her older sister, who's not even engaged, gets married?
That's very Shakespearean.
I mean, really! That's The Taming of the Shrew!
Marcia could be cast as Kate, get a swelled head, and be demoted to a much-smaller part.
@@axelkyster2642 Marcia! Marcia! Marcia! 🙂
I remembered this aired at a TV movie first called "The Brady Girls Get Married." Then when NBC decided to pick up "Brady Brides" as a series, NBC reran the TV-movie in three parts to start off the "Brady Brides" episodes.
It's important that Marsha be married first, as this DID take place in medieval China.
I think aliens cane down to Earth and wrote this script after the concept of "humor" was explained to them.
It was weird, like the actors were mumbling it just to move the plot.
hilarious!
After only 7 episodes, NBC pulled the plug on “The Brady Brides”, a continuation of the made-for-TV movie “The Brady Girls Get Married”. As a result, the late Fred Silverman was fired by NBC after he was responsible for his failed attempts to make NBC a ratings success. After Silverman’s departure, former MTM executive Grant Tinker and Silverman protege Brandon Tartikoff decided to take matters into their own hands by picking up the pieces and within the next 3 years, putting the NBC back on top of the ratings with hit shows such as “Gimme a Break!”, “St. Elsewhere”, “Family Ties”, “Silver Spoons”, “Cheers”, “Knight Rider”, “The A-Team”, “Night Court”, “The Cosby Show”, Highway to Heaven”, “Miami Vice” and “The Golden Girls”.
I'm not sure anybody would call "Gimme a Break", and "Silver Spoons" "HIT SHOWS"....Neither of them was ever in the Top 30...coincidentally, the same heights that the BB NEVER achieved. BUT...Gimme a Break was actually developed BY Silverman...
Finally, Fred Silverman was not FIRED by NBC; he resigned. He was not happy with his modest success at the network and decided to strike out on his own. Even if he HAD been fireed, it wouldn't have been because of the failure of The Brady Brides... More likely, the network woudl have been very unhappy with Hello Larry, The Big Show, Pink Lady and Jeff, and SUPERTRAIN...crazy expensive and cost NBC a LOT of money. He also mishandled Saturday NIght LIve and was greatly hurt by the United States boycott of the Moscow Olympics that cost NBC millions!!
@@bradyguy7701 Really? I didn't know that Silverman resigned. After that, Silverman went on to start his own production company that developed the Andy Griffith drama series Matlock as well as the TV version of the 1967 film In the Heat of the Night starring Carroll O'Connor of All in the Family fame.
Saw this as a rerun (the movie) when I was a kid, and loved seeing the Brady bunch grown up. It was perfect as a movie! Too bad Fred Silverman didn’t feel the same way.
He was desperate for hits at the time.
@@sha11235NBC was in shambles at the time.
Robert Reed looks like Alex Trebek.
Marcia was way out of Wally's league!
Because of his success with CBS and ABC, Fred Silverman was known as "The Man with the Golden Gut". After his spectacular failure with NBC, he was known as "The Guy with the Rusted Belly".
Wasn’t Wally “Killer” in Slap Shot? And you’re right, Marcia was very easy on the eyes. Wally definitely married up…big time.
Wasn't Silverman responsible for SuperTrain?? 🤣
Wally called her up to the majors.
@@christophervaldez8746 He was responsible for a decent portion of 13 Week Theater. He also nearly drove Johnny Carson off, resulting in NBC losing the back catalog of Carson's Tonight Show. He nearly killed Saturday Night Live in 1980 and created Super Train.
Silverman regained some of his reputation producing Matlock. But the NBC failure will always be there, inspite of saving ABC and massive success at CBS.
@@christophervaldez8746 And 'Hello Larry' and others. I think Pab should do a 13 Week Theater on that one. Actually maybe he should do a complete episode on McLean Stevenson's career after he left M*A*S*H.
Oh yes! CBS's The Bradys! I watched all those episodes and, uh...well...that's another story! 🤔
Perhaps worth covering in a future 13-Week Theater, but it only lasted 6 weeks!
It's coming. It's coming....
@@jehobden Next week (10/29/21)!
@@jehobden Pab reviewed shows shorter than 13 weeks before. So this is perfect.
@@teresapflaumer5717
True, I enjoyed his recent review of THE TAMMY GRIMES SHOW, which ABC killed after just 4 week.
They should have made "The Brady Bunch on Gilligan's Island"!
Wally is "Killer Carlson" in the 1977 hockey movie Slap Shot".
Yes, Jerry Houser is his name.
And during the Brady Bunch original airing, he was in Summer of 42 as Hermie's friend.
AND a well-known V/O artist here in Hollywood for years - ALL over cartoons in the 80s and 90s...
I just found this show kind of odd. Jan was never that prissy on The Brady Bunch and I can't see her ever going for someone as annoying as Phillip. I guess Wally and Marcia was slightly more plausible, but I don't really buy her with someone that goofy.
I watched it on syndication as a kid and always paired the two oldest, two middle, and two youngest kids together.
They’re not blood related but I was still disgusted.
🎵 We didn't have an idea for the series
Besides getting our Brady girls wed
So we stole the plot from The Odd Couple
That's the way we became The Brady Brides!
The Brady Brides!
The Brady Brides!
That is why we switched o'er to Pink Lady!!
I knew that cake bit was going to happen at the wedding, but it might've been funnier if it happened to Mike again.
Just like the first episode of the brady bunch !
The only appealing thing about this tv film is that it's the ONLY time the entire original cast were reunited.
So, the Brady Brides actually killed Fred Silverman? Wow! I always thought Super Train would have done it first.
Or even Pink Lady and Jeff.
Saturday Night Live 1980 didn't help, either.
Or Hello Larry.....
@@christophervaldez8746 I liked that one.
I feel extra old now! I had completely forgotten about "Super Train" but I snorted the second I saw your post. I liked "Hello Larry" because Kim Richards was my age and I always thought she was so pretty and coveted her long hair.
I really liked Robert Reed and Maureen McCormick's episodes of "The Streets Of San Francisco" (the former with Reed as a man pretending to be a doctor; the former with Maureen McCormick as a young model turned callgirl whose clients are being murdered by her her overprotective dad - it was one of the better episodes of the Lawrence Hatch era).
I remember that Maureen episode! It was good !
If they had kept Wally’s mustache, it would have been more successful.
I think Barry Williams was using it....
I think he stole it from Gabe Kaplan.
I watched The Bradys and The Brady brides I always thought they were movies when I was younger they would air during Christmas break in the 90s
I liked this show. It was as good or better than most of what was on TV. I must be different than most fans because I had no problem with the series focusing on part of the family. You can't do a half hour sitcom about an extended family anyway. It was good catching up on the whole family, but then it was nice to focus on a well done odd couple situation.
Philip always reminded me of Richard Carpenter.
Fred Silverman was Only The President of NBC For 3 Years
I was around during that time and I remembered how bad NBC was at that time. Trust me, it was a very long three years.
True he couldn’t repeat his magic at CBS and ABC
@@Bay1981 Because many of the shows Fred put on ABC and even CBS were still doing well and still on the air during his tenure at NBC..
True. By that point he was essentially competing with himself.
If you look at the top ten of 1979-1980, where NBC was completely shut out, four of those top 10 were shows Silverman had greenlit or in the case of “The Jefferson’s,” a spin-off from one he greenlit. If you compete against yourself you can only lose.
@@PabSungenis Yup, absolutely, Pab. Love your 13 Week Theatre videos. Great job.
At 5 minutes 15 seconds when you mention whirlwind stalking you got that right!
i watched the full run first time out
Don't know if it's true, but I've heard that Maureen McCormick was coked to the gills during this.
I wouldn’t blame her.
She definitely was during the variety show. She wrote about it in her bio.
Hey it was the 80s......everyone was
She said she had a drug problem until 1984 or 85.
@@SirPumpkinSlice Well, I'm happy that she got past it. It couldn't have been easy for her!
Instead of "The Brady Brides" what they should've done is wait six-eight years until it was conceivable that Marsha and Jan could have had families of their own. They could've done a "Kate & Allie" or "Fuller House" type show in which the two sisters now either widows or divorcees are forced due to circumstance to move in with one another each bringing along a family of three. You could've recreated "The Brady Bunch" dynamic although under different auspices.
auspices??? No.
I tweeted both Maureen and Eve about this episode but got no response.
It is called Hysterical Amnesia and is a common ailment with traumatic in a person's life.
Kuhlman was in the original stage production of A Chorus Line.
They didn't have to buy a house, each of them. They could've bought apts. or one moved into the other's apt. For example, Phillip moves into Jan's place.
They couldn’t be “The Odd Couple” that way.
Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!
MarCIa.
That one scene where the mom wrongly remembers necking with Mr. Brady is a symptom of all the later Brady shows: they forget that the Brady's are a blended family and talk like Mr. and Mrs. Brady have only ever been married to each other and the kids are all both their biological kids. Weird.
2:21 WHOA, here we go!
Why abc turn this concept down I will never know.
The Brady brides and the Brady Christmas prove that a successful movie does not mean a successful series. And to this day many network executives can’t get that through their thick heads
Although the parody movies of the Brady Bunch are hilarious.
Exactly And When It All Blows-Up In Thier Faces The Ask But Why?! Stupid Idiots!
@@cityhawk And ironically are more in the spirit of the original show than any of the attempts to revive the show with as much of the original cast as would cooperate at any given time.
@@cityhawk If you're a child...
Mike could have designed houses for each couple.
To make it short and sweet, Fred Silverman desperately needed viewers for NBC's schedule in early 1981- particularly on Friday nights. When he saw the original 90 minute version of "The Brady Girls Get Married", he insisted that Sherwood Schwartz add another half-hour onto it, and aired each segment as the first four episodes of what became "THE BRADY BRIDES". He figured that viewers wanted to more of Marcia and Jan and their joint arrangement as newlyweds. It was said there were more promos telecast for the series than the actual number of episodes produced (ten, counting the three re-edited from "The Brady Girls Get Married"). In any case, the ratings were a bust- as was the series.
Al Franken was correct. Fred Silverman was a Lame-O.
The movie itself was a hit.
True. The series wasn't.
@@trevorbarnhill3399 Nice. Get that man a limo.
Someday please do a 13-week theater on making fiends
I was always confused by Wally's mustache appearing in the Brady Brides credits since he never had a mustache in the actual series
They did that cake episode with Robert Reed spilling cake on himself in the first episode of the Brady bunch when Carol & Mike get married
WAIT!!! They did???
Today I’d be calling the cops lol
Nothing says love like a restraining order.
They give Jan a hard time getting engaged to long-time boyfriend. Then, Marcia comes in with a complete stranger, who she's only known for two weeks and it's congratulations!
1. Why are they too precious to live in apartments? Phillip's apartment looked big enough for him and Jan. Surely Marcia and Jerry could afford a one bedroom apartment.
2. The Brady Brides was the same mistake as the variety show. Instead of giving people what they want, they alter it. I mean just do more Brady Bunch episodes, just with a few of the kids grown. Its weird, like someone is trying to prove something.
3. CBS makes the same mistake.
Yeah, that's what I wondered about the apartments.
Yea I’m guessing modern newlyweds it’d be more likely to have to share a dwelling with another couple
I thought it was a decent show. Since they only made a few episodes, they didn't give it enough of a chance to evolve into a better show. Night court during the 1st season was only a moderate success once they recast some of the characters. It became a huge success. They Brady bunch is probably the most popular sitcom ever, so it takes time to develop a new concept.
Well...the ratings for the BB would argue mightily with you. Syndication and 50 years have made many remember it much more fondly, but you certainly can't call it the "most popular sitcom ever". Just sayin'
If they did the whole series in spandex, it would've worked. At least for me.
The theme song reminds me of a Double Mint gum jingle
And Alice at the end randomly being in the end of credits cracks me up. So forced lol
never understood why they made eve plumb look like an old woman
Yes I watched every stupid episode of this, but I was 12! I agree with the synopsis here. Also remember being in love with Wally for 5 minutes WTF!?!?
Ron Kuhlman (Phillip) was in the original Broadway cast of "A Chorus Line". He's the first guy seen far left, at the beginning of this commercial which seemed to run all the time in the tri-state area back then:
ruclips.net/video/4Vt8BQnFknE/видео.html
The parents reaction was so weird.
One question can you do a 13 week theater on I married dora?
Best ending to a failed TV series EVER!!!!
Two married sisters living together is awkward.
Killer!
The Brady what? Never heard of this
I watched "The Brady Girls Get Married" when it first aired. My memory must be skewed, bc I've always remembered having seen the original TV movie as just that: a tv movie. I don't recall having to watch it in three installments over three weeks. What a crazy thing to do, splitting it up at the last minute, esp after it'd been advertised as a movie in the TV Guide.
Besides the things you mentioned, two other reasons I found the Brady Bride series unwatchable (even though I watched it, haha):
(1) the obnoxious laugh track and applause, which were so over the top, especially with jokes that really weren't funny. Compare the raucous laugh track in "The Brady Brides" scenes to the subtler laugh track in "The Brady Girls Get Married" scenes, which seemed more appropriate. It's like night and day.
(2) In "The Brady Brides", I distinctly remember the inclusion of sexual innuendo jokes, and how out of place they felt. I'm sure the writers felt they needed to include them to keep with the times, but one of the charms of the original "Brady Bunch" series was that this family was NEVER with the times. While Norman Lear shows were pushing the envelope in every direction in the early '70s, the Bradys remained squares - and that's one of the things that made the show what it was. It's one thing to hear newcomers Wally or Phillip do it, but hearing Mrs Brady make sexual references to Marcia and Jan just felt wrong, not to mention forced. It might have been forgivable if the jokes were funny, but they were just as awful as the rest of the show.
In that one clip, when the woman says "Well, I never!" and Phillip says "Well, maybe that's your problem" - come on, writers! By that point, that old line had been used in countless other comedies; couldn't you come up with something new? 🙄
@@tomflorio7363 "He's behind me, isn't he?"
Fred Silverman's run on NBC was short but man there were some big headscratchers. Supertrain I get...but Pink Lady and Jeff??? Showing Al Franken the door at SNL??? Cutting up the Brady Bunch TV Movie???? No wonder his tenure was brief.
Don't forget Hello, Larry, and almost losing Johnny Carson.
Jeez, how many times did they bring back the dang brady bunch?
Twice
If you're talking about TV?? Five...but I'm including the animated Brady Kids which aired while the original show was still on the air...and without any parents (or Alice) could hardly be called the Brady Bunch....but it's your call. 😁
So I guess jungle fever had a different meaning then.
It didn't have a chance. They should have release the movie then the show.
What about Harry, the black kid from next door?
I remember watching this in the two-hour movie format on Lifetime in the late '80s. Like pretty much everyone else, I was enthralled the first hour and a half but quickly lost interest in the final half-hour, where the two couples move into their new home and the rest of the Bradys are forgotten about. Oh well, can't blame them for trying, I guess.
Originally, the last part, which was the beginning of Brady Brides, was not in the TV-film when it was put back together as that.
Many Murder, She Wrote guests came from The Brady Bunch!
Murder she wrote guest are a phenomenon- Joaquin Phoenix, Johnathan Brandis, Pat Hingle, Linda Hamilton...
A lot of "Murder, She Wrote" guests came from M*A*S*H as well: Mike Farrell, Wayne Rogers, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, and William Christopher.
Creepily enough, Wally looks a lot like Greg with a moustache here. Marsha really had issues...
They should've shown on the Newlywed Game episode the part where Phillip screams "Thighs and breasts! Breasts and thighs!" as an answer because he thinks that's correct, but it embarrassed to say it.
They should have reworked the show and added Godzilla to the cast.
Now I remember how tedious that was.
So many Brady spinoff flops due to changing the basic formula and family dynamic that people wanted to see.
Jerry Houser is a funny and charming guy, but he could have done without the Harry Reems look during this period.
2:05 A TV movie with a laugh track ? Oh boy, the disaster was just written into the show wasn't it?
NBC never aired it as a movie. The network split the movie into 3 1/2 hour sitcom episodes then added another to start the series. These 4 parts are now aired as "The Brady Girls Get Married", a 2-hour tv movie. NBC demanded this change to 1/2 hour episodes so quickly that TV Guide still listed the show as a 2-hour tv movie back in Feb. 1981.
@@jehobden Thanks Jon, I thought the clip was from the movie, which I could see NBC adding a laugh track to. It was that sort of era.
@@Laceykat66 Actually, they were before studio audiences, though they may also have used a laugh track.
If the writing on this show was stronger or as good as the average sitcom of the 80s, then that is not saying much for the 80's. Much of the humor was just not very funny. I think that back then we must have had either lower standards or just less to watch on TV. That said, I did watch everything Brady through the years. But I cannot say this was a good show!
I saw an episode of this one years ago on TV Land. What the hell was Fred Silverman thinking putting this shit on NBC? The shows he put on ABC and CBC were golden classics. Except for shows Diff'rent Strokes, The Facts of Life, and Real People, everything Silverman had put on NBC was pure trash. And this show was no exception. First, there was The Brady Bunch. Then the Brady Bunch Variety Hour. And then, there was The Brady Brides. By the early eighties, the Brady trope had gotten stale and the public had Brady Bunch fatigue. Fred Silverman ended up proving Al Franken right.
You mean CBS.
I have every episode of The Brady Brides...and it is a bad show. BUT...is it as bad as the CBS drama The Bradys? Hmmmmmmmm.
I think THE BRADYS was a lot worse, and the lyrics to the theme song sounded horribly pompous.
Oh yeah, The Bradys. Nothing like giving very sensitive dramatic material like alcoholism The Brady Treatment by having everything typically resolved in an hour!
Another Silverman flop from around the same time, A Man Called Sloane. A possible 13 Week Theatre?
The two husbands were annoying!
What ugly wedding gowns. Why did they have Jan dressing as an Amish woman or someone from the 19th century? Marcia's dress looks like she's wearing a work uniform smock and an old hat she found at a garage sale.
😄 Yeah, somehow between the end of The Brady Bunch and the beginning of The Brady Girls Get Married, Jan became a frump and Marica became a dingbat. The wedding dresses seem to reflect that!