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He even took the Brady kids on a trip to London aboard QEII in 1971 at his own expense. While Barry Williams, Christopher Knight, Mike Lookinland and Susan Olsen have remained close friends with their co-stars, Eve Plumb has been distancing herself from the Brady years, and Maureen McCormick, while good friends with Williams, Knight, Lookinland and Olsen, had a falling out with Plumb with a meant-to-be-a-joke remark which Plumb took seriously.Įven though Robert Reed did not always get along with Sherwood Schwartz and had resented the Brady Bunch years, he was still close to his co-stars, especially Florence Henderson.

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During the Brady Bunch special edition of TV game Weakest Link in 2001, Mike Lookinland expressed the thought that after having been friends with his co-stars for thirty years, it was hard for him to vote anyone off the game. He said it was important his betrothed accept that his Brady Bunch friends are an important part of his life. Knight also invited Barry Williams, Susan Olsen, and Mike Lookinland to a wedding party, during which most of his time was spent hanging out with them, away from the party. On several episodes of Christopher Knight's reality show series, My Fair Brady, Florence Henderson made guest appearances, and gave advice on Knight's ongoing relationship issues. On a TV Land documentary, the actors revealed that they all remain close friends, and most have remained in regular contact with one another.

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8 on a list of TV's top 10 credits sequences, as selected by readers.Īlthough many actors who become type-cast into the roles they played on a particular series resent this, the cast of The Brady Bunch express a contrary attitude. In a 2010 issue of TV Guide], the show’s opening title sequence ranked No. The regular cast appeared in an opening title sequence in which video head shots were arranged in a three-by-three grid, with each cast member appearing to look at the other cast members. The boys challenge the idea and coerce Peter into joining Jan's club, the Sunflower Girls, to make a point.Ĭast and Characters Main article: Characters Main Season two's ' The Liberation of Marcia Brady' explored the equality of women, as Marcia sets out to prove a girl can do anything a boy can. At a time when remarriage was becoming more prevalent, these shows reflected a new lifestyle in America.Ĭontemporary issues were sometimes explored. Nor was it the only network series to start the 1969 season showing life in a blended family: My Three Sons (CBS) brought a new wife and daughter into the Douglas family (which also had an Alice-equivalent, Uncle Charley). Two series which debuted in the 1950s, The Danny Thomas Show/Make Room for Daddy and Bonanza, had stepsiblings and half-siblings respectively.

The Brady Bunch was not the first TV series about a blended family.

And 'Kelly's Kids' from the final season explicitly recalls Mike and Carol's adoptions when their neighbors, the Kellys, adopted three boys of different races. Two episodes from season three, 'Not So Rose Colored Glasses' and 'Jan's Aunt Jenny,' mention that Mike and Carol had been married for just three years. The fact that they are a blended family is only mentioned a few more times. Over time, the episodes focus more on issues related to the kids growing up, such as dating, self-image, responsibility, and puberty.įrom season two on, the family carries on as if they had long since adjusted to life as a blended family, and the stories no longer showed such tensions and adjustments. These episodes chronicle the family learning to adjust to its new circumstances and become a unit, as well as typical childhood problems such as rivalries and family squabbles. In the first season, this blending figures prominently in the stories. The theme song, penned by Schwartz and originally arranged, sung, and performed by the Peppermint Trolley Company in the first season and then by the Brady Bunch Kids in Seasons Two through Five, quickly describes the blended situation of the family.

7.8 Specials, Documentaries, and Other Revivals.

7.4 The Brady Girls Get Married / The Brady Brides.

The setting is a large, suburban, two-story house designed by Mike, in a Los Angeles suburb. Included in the blended family are Mike's live-in housekeeper, Alice Nelson (Ann B.

A compromise was reached whereby no mention was made of the circumstances in which Carol's first marriage ended. The show originally aired from 26 September 1969 to 8 March 1974 on ABC and was subsequently syndicated internationally. The series revolved around a large, blended stepfamily. The Brady Bunch TV series was created by Sherwood Schwartz and starred Robert Reed, Florence Henderson, and Ann B.

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