They always knock Robert Reed for being a pain-in-the neck, but the fact that he took the role so seriously, is a big part of why the Brady Bunch worked so well. His portrayal of Mike Brady was perfect, and beloved by the show's fans - especially for so many kids who didn't have a loving father at home.
I got the phone number off of the ack of the TV guide in 1979, called the TV station, and asked for Eve Plumb while my siblings stood by and watched. Our parents were at work. I had a crush on her. I've never forgotten that.
Rip Robert Reed. Florence Henderson, Anne B Davis & the genius creator Sherwood Schwartz 😇⚘⚘⚘⚘💐💐💐💐You were my second family growing up!!❤ Ty to all involved both on camera & behind the scenes, such a great family tv show! 📺
Robert Reed understandably felt that his training deserved higher paying roles and recognition that coincided with his experience but Hollywood doesn’t always work that way. You may not like the way you rose to the top but you got there and your TV family became your one true family. R.I.P. to Robert Reed.
I was born a middle child so I always related to Christopher Knight/Peter and Eve Plumb/Jan Brady. You know, Eve Plumb really blossomed on the final season! She was a beautiful, feminine and soulful young lady!!! I own the final season very on DVD. Robert Reed as Mike Brady is my all~time favorite TV Dad!!
I know it regarding Jan/EVe...she blossomed to a beautful, stunning, attractive teenager. Wish she was more remembered as she was in her 5th season appearance.
@@teresas8173 I think I know too many details lol. Here’s one. When did the boys get curly hair. The answer is when they went to Hawaii. When they got on the plane their hair was normal. When they get off, the boys have curly hair. I guess they gave perms on airplanes back then lol.
Awh, The Brady Bunch takes me back to those very special Friday nights of my childhood; I remember the original ABC Friday Night Lineup-from Brady Bunch at 8 to Love ❤️ American Style at 10 😲🤩😘 ( AND on DVD 📀, the green carpeted box set!👍👏👏) THE LITTLE SHOW THAT COULD 🎞💕😁😉
8:00 The Brady Bunch 8:30 Nanny and the Professor 9:00 The Partridge Family 9:30 Room 222 10:00 Love American Style Those were the days! TV was great!!
@@beckygood4894 I’m not quite old enough to have remembered watching that lineup of those shows in their original runs (I got into the Brady Bunch reruns just a couple years or so after it’s final season), but when I first found out about the lineup I thought 9pm seemed like a late time-slot for The Partridge Family.
I've been watching Brady Bunch & Partridge Family documentaries. I've also watched the David Cassidy movie & the one based on Danny Bonaduce's book about the Partridge family. After I watch this, I'm going to look for The Brady Bunch movie (the made for tv one about the show). It brings back childhood memories of coming home from school and watching these shows (along with Gilligan's Island & Bewitched) on tv, while we waited for my dad to come home from work.
I had a friend whose parents were divorced and he and his siblings were obsessed with the show. Their last name was Grady so I don't have to tell you how things went--for years that's all the Grady kids would talk about at school. It was corny but kind of a funny too.
HAHA, I always wondered how they got Fluffy the cat to run across the laps of the wedding guests in the pilot episode. Liver placed on every other chair. Super!
September 26,2019 marks the 50th Anniversary of The Brady Bunch. Being a fan of the series,here are ALL the Brady series I've seen: 1. THE BRADY BUNCH(1969-1974) 2. THE BRADY KIDS(1972-1973) 3. THE BRADY BUNCH VARIETY SHOW(1976-1977) 4. THE BRADY GIRLS GET MARRIED(1981) 5. THE BRADY BRIDES(1981) 6. A VERY BRADY CHRISTMAS(1988) 7. THE BRADYS(1990) 8. THE BRADY BUNCH MOVIE(1995) 9. A VERY BRADY SEQUEL(1996) 10. THE BRADY BUNCH IN THE WHITE HOUSE(2000) 11. GROWING UP BRADY(2000) Which will be the NEW Brady series?
@Eva Ivy All 6 of the remaining cast members are doing a HGTV series about the Brady house. To me,Barry Williams,Maureen McCormick,Christopher Knight,Eve Plumb,Mike Lookinland and Susan Olsen will be Bradys until they die...or not. You be the judge.
They filmed a new project with all of the original Brady kids. It has some to do with working on the "Brady house". I'm sure you probably know about it?!?!?
In that last episode, note in the credits of the guest stars you have Florence's daughter Barbara and Sherwood's daughter Hope (not as Rachel but someone else).
The show that Mike passed on was ABC’s short-lived rendition of Swiss Family Robinson....future Eight is Enough star Willie Aames was ultimately chosen 4 the role!!!!!!
The brady bunch is such a good show I grew up watching it in the 90,s when I was kid and it's so sad when Robert reed died I find it so sad the tabloids put out his personal business
Each of the Brady series aired on a different one of the Big Three networks: "The Brady Bunch" on ABC "The Brady Brides" on NBC "The Bradys" on CBS I always thought that was pretty cool. They're not the only show that aired on all of the Big Three, but they're the only one that did it in a different incarnation each time.
Love this show but somewhere in this video I really felt bad for Florence Henderson. I read someplace she wanted her character to get a job and they said no. So in here I hear the narrator say about the later seasons, there were other plots too, Mike got a new car, Carol got a new hairdo. HAIRDO ARE YOU SERIOUS
Speaking of the Brady Bunch Hour in 1977, I one heard that Robert Reed was part of another group a few years later, they were known as Troubled Funk, who put out one album in 1982.
I think he went along with it for his cast mates, particularly the kids. The production team annoyed him, but he loved his on screen family. Plus, he needed money.
I wonder if the reason the hair tonic made Greg's hair that way was that Bobby put so much on his hair it had that effect. Same thing with the rabbits later on. A little probably wouldn't have hurt it.
I love The Partridge Family but watched Brady Bunch because it was back to back. They will never top David Cassidy and PF music is still big to this day but BB is still a show I still watch as currently showing reruns on ME TV.😊
I'm glad maurean and florence were on Dwts. They both got to dance. That was cool... does anybody know if dwts is comming back!!?? Dancing w the stars!!??
I feel part of the reason for the cancelation was that, at the time, TV viewers wanted more "edgy" shows. There were a whole slew of shows all cancelled around the same time. The term was "rural purge".
@@nickhill8612wasn’t that more about earlier show like Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, etc. The Brady Bunch was the ultimate suburban family and didn’t fall into that category.
Actually, the fact that Greg was going away to college after graduating hs in the final episode was a good time to end the series. Would he still live at home then or in a dorm far away? Or would he be in college in the same town? That would be an issue if they continued anyway.
You have a good point, sha11235. I always wanted it to go on forever; but in hindsight, I can see it would have been like so many other truly-good shows; they would have started reaching for plot lines, particularly since the kids were getting older. And if Cousin Oliver had not killed the show, reaching for 'Greg's-in-college' storylines most likely woulda killed it. And probably tainted the show, to boot. And besides, it *did* go on forever! I mean, look, here were are in 2019 for goodness sake! And still talking about that show that started 51 years ago. The 'Bradys' are special. Even as a superfan, I don't understand it completely, but they are beloved and special and always will be.
Oliver has gotten a bad rap, and I wish people would stop maligning him; in reality, in the final season, the kids were growing up, and the ratings were slipping. The producers were the ones who decided to introduce a younger character to boost ratings, and of course, the Brady cousin Oliver, who became hated among viewers. Then Robert Reed, fighting with producers over storylines, walked off the show at times, especially with the hair tonic episode. There was supposed to be a sixth season but ABC canceled the show, so the hair tonic/Greg's high school graduation became the de factor series finale. A similar thing happened a few years later with Good Times when they shot the episode The End of the Rainbow, that had the Evans family and their friend Willona finally moving out of the Chicago projects, the GT producers were waiting word on its renewal from CBS. CBS canceled the show just after filming the episode and it became the show's finale.
The football was a prop made of hollow lightweight plastic, so there was little pain and if she did break her nose while on set, it was from a different cause, according to Florence Henderson as quoted in a trade magazine back then.
In the last couple of weeks I have watched a multitude of documentaries about the Brady Bunch and I have to say this episode of Headliners and legends has got to be one of the best documentaries ever done on this subject. I especially like the fact that they did not make a huge deal out of the fact that Robert Reed was gay. That fact had nothing to do with his amazing ability to become mr. Brady. At age 56 looking back I think at some point or another I had a crush on every single Brady cast member including Ann B. Davis who is in the top 10 of people I wish I would have met in my life. I bet she was quite a character to hang out with! I have beaten the Bradys by one child for a total of 7, all biological rather than a blending of two families and no not all from the same mother. Now I find myself on the other side of the fence married to another male almost 30 years my junior. Would that have not made a hell of a Brady sequel! Can you imagine mr. Brady leaving Mrs Brady over typical domestic issues only to later start dating people of the same sex and actually marrying another man. LOL, now that I think about it that premise could probably just be sold to one of the major networks in this day and age. Okay maybe HBO or Showtime! Maybe we could have hooked him up with the lead actor on the courtship of Eddie's Father whose Name Escapes me at the moment, they would have made a cute couple! Haha! I'm very curious about something: growing up in The Brady era I constantly heard and often here even to date many, many females young and old talking about how they fantasized about being mrs. Brady or having six kids of Their Own or growing up to have three girls and marrying a man who had three boys and live the happy, contented and Pure Life the Bradys lived. I hear this from so many but always female. I was the youngest of three children, all biological siblings and didn't come along until my brother and sister we're 11 and 13 years old so in a sense I grew up as an only child as by the time I became aware of life they were married and gone from home so I often immersed myself in shows like The Brady Bunch and imagined having that many siblings and how sweet life would be. This has nothing to do with the fact that I am now married to another man ... I'm not in the least bit feminine nor have I ever had a desire to be a female. What I'm getting at is we hear girls say they want a life like the Bradys or a family like the Bradys but give it up guys how many of you have ever had this fantasy yourself? How many times have you wished you had a family like the Bradys and you were the dad at the helm and no matter what the situation you always had the perfect solution and everything always turned out right in the end. Come on guys let's hear it how many times have you wanted to be mr. Brady. It's 2019 it's okay to admit it. Now I think, and especially in my age group so many of us wish things were as simple and pure as things were on the Bradys. Best wishes everyone from Salem, Oregon April 5th 2019 Ps, a suggestion to Brady Bunch fans that may have not seen the parody of The Brady Bunch: you have got to check that out! It's a riot and brings to light things we probably thought about but would have never said out loud like Greg and Marcia in the Attic? LOL! Ann B. Davis returns in this film as a truck driver rescuing the girl who plays Jan in the parody which points fingers at the movie Dawn that Eve Plumb was in. Okay I have spent way too much Brady time I admit it.
The ONLY reason I didn't like 'The Hair-Brained Scheme' is because as a kid and watching it in syndication, I knew that was the last show of the series. And then, they would cycle back to the very first season, which weren't quite* as appealing to me. Love that show. Watched it when it originally aired, then years in syndication, now I watch on DVD.
As a kid, I didn't understand why it recycled back after that episode. Well, I learned later that the show ended its original run that way. I learned that when I got older and learned about this. Also, I didn't like the music nor theme in the first season.
Eve Plumb was the first choice for the makers of 1980's Prom Night to play the lead Kim, but when Jamie Lee Curtis came up they wanted her because of Halloween's success. Prom Night has a cult following so it would have been a nice little movie to kick off the 80s with. Not saying it would have lead to much but you never know, she could have gotten offered something else soon after.
I always preferred The Partridge Family, they were so much “ cooler, and David Cassidy 😍, but I still loved the Brady Bunch and now being a lot older, I prefer the Brady Bunch for some reason, lolol. The only one I could ever really hear singing in The Brady Bunch songs was Greg. And he could sing! These were also my favorite episodes. I had a crush on Peter though, come to find out so did many others. I hope Robert Reed knew how much love, respect, and admiration the audience had for him playing the dad. He was perfection, flawless in his acting as the Brady Bunch dad! Smart, kind, gentle and loving. He could be serious AND he could be funny. Not easy to do. And for me he made the show less goofy, which made it better, a bit more plausible. (I’ve seen him in other roles and he was a very talented actor.) It really was a perfect cast.
I used to do everything that I could to avoid going to the Friday Night cult church meetings, because then I wouldn’t miss out on the latest episode of what a complete and happy family could be...
Greg (Barry Williams) might have set some girls hearts and or hormones fluttering back in the day, but not mine! I thought he was obnoxious. Always a Christopher Knight (Peter) fan. Lol
Well, live and learn. I had no idea that Mrs Whitfield was a real person and teacher no less. When they did the play for her retirement, she was just another character. Who knew that for 3 hours a day, she was actually schooling the kids? Frankly, I never watch network TV because of how it's degraded. Kids show zero respect for elders and that rubs off on real kids. It's all about sex, profanity and backstabbing. You can have it.
When dictating my rather lengthy proceeding comment in to my phone just now it brought back another memory that made me feel foolish as sitting here by myself I laughed so hard it brought tears to my eyes. When I was a kid the girl down the street and I were thick as thieves. I was seriously into Planet of the Apes and Star Trek so among my collection of Hot Wheels and Tonka trucks could be found my Planet of the Apes and Star Trek action figures like many of us guys had back then and which now are worth a small fortune at least from what I've seen on eBay. Like so many girls back then she was really into Barbie and I believe Barbie's little sister was skipper (?) And of course she had Ken and all the other Barbie characters and other dolls from that era. When we got together to play with our action figures quite often Barbie and Ken were often enslaved by Cornelius, Zira and dr. Zaius, etc... somehow or another and this had to be after watching an episode of The Brady Bunch the night before we came up with a blended family that involved 4 apes and 4 humans and if I recall we even had an additional character that was our housekeeper though I'm a bit unclear on whether that was an ape or a human, lol. Now there is a sequel for you! It could be a sequel from The Brady Bunch: Mrs Brady marries Galen or it could be a sixth movie in the series of original five Planet of the Apes movies in which mr. Brady hooks up with Leza. If you recognize any of the names I have mentioned here like me you spent way too much time in front of the television! Then again I am still watching reruns of The Brady Bunch and can't miss an ape movie rather it be the original 5, the original television series or any of the newer Planet of the Apes movies. Oh, and to the girl down the street that I mentioned whose initials back then were in N.W: thanks again for that 13th birthday present in the treehouse and tell your older brother thanks again for the Aerosmith 45, still love that song! Salem, Oregon 4/5/19
@@jat6547 his third wife, reality star adrienne Curry said that he is hard to get along with. If he divorced his fourth wife and marries you, please send ma e me a wedding invitation. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
I love how humble Chris Knight is about the whole teenage heartthrob thing. It makes him even more adorable.
One of my top 5 favorite shows growing up. Loved everything about it. I hope they all understand how much their work meant to us.
They always knock Robert Reed for being a pain-in-the neck, but the fact that he took the role so seriously, is a big part of why the Brady Bunch worked so well. His portrayal of Mike Brady was perfect, and beloved by the show's fans - especially for so many kids who didn't have a loving father at home.
Exactly!
Agreed. I wanted Mike Brady to be my Dad, as I did not have a great relationship with my own father. Mike/Robert Reed was the best.
exactly, when I was a child, in the mid-70's...I always looked to him as a father figure and wish he was my father.
He loved the kids though, he treated them like family and always remembered them on special occasions and I think I read he took them on vacations.
agreed......too bad Henderson in particular never stopped
I got the phone number off of the ack of the TV guide in 1979, called the TV station, and asked for Eve Plumb while my siblings stood by and watched. Our parents were at work. I had a crush on her. I've never forgotten that.
Rip Robert Reed. Florence Henderson, Anne B Davis & the genius creator Sherwood Schwartz 😇⚘⚘⚘⚘💐💐💐💐You were my second family growing up!!❤ Ty to all involved both on camera & behind the scenes, such a great family tv show! 📺
This was so much fun! Loved watching the Brady Bunch as a child,and even now as an adult!!!
Yes i agree I love the Brady Bunch.
Ann Davis had two Emmys under her belt before she became Alice! I never knew that.
Robert Reed understandably felt that his training deserved higher paying roles and recognition that coincided with his experience but Hollywood doesn’t always work that way. You may not like the way you rose to the top but you got there and your TV family became your one true family. R.I.P. to Robert Reed.
Didn't Robert Reed want the show to be more of a dramatic series?
I was born a middle child so I always related to Christopher Knight/Peter and Eve Plumb/Jan Brady. You know, Eve Plumb really blossomed on the final season! She was a beautiful, feminine and soulful young lady!!! I own the final season very on DVD. Robert Reed as Mike Brady is my all~time favorite TV Dad!!
I know it regarding Jan/EVe...she blossomed to a beautful, stunning, attractive teenager. Wish she was more remembered as she was in her 5th season appearance.
I totally agree - Eve Plumb was GORGEOUS in season five.....wow!!
I always liked her best in all the seasons. It's difficult to live in the shadow of a mean oldest sister.
I'm glad I was there to watch The Brady Bunch I was a kid myself at that time cool I thought it was👍🎥😎
I have great respect for Robert Reed & I feel so Sorry he had so many difficulties.
Robert Reed will always be everyone Dad. I wished I had a dad like him my grandkids like watching the Brady Bunch on MeTV.
Don't speak for everyone. He's not mine
One ☝️ is my favorite Shows back in the day, Loved Robert Reed.
The Brady Bunch is the very first show I remember watching. It was on Friday nights followed by The Partridge Family
My favorite night of the week growing up were these two shows and then the wknd and no school! It was great.
@@teresas8173 I think I know too many details lol. Here’s one. When did the boys get curly hair. The answer is when they went to Hawaii. When they got on the plane their hair was normal. When they get off, the boys have curly hair. I guess they gave perms on airplanes back then lol.
lol
Awh, The Brady Bunch takes me back to those very special Friday nights of my childhood; I remember the original ABC Friday Night Lineup-from Brady Bunch at 8 to Love ❤️ American Style at 10 😲🤩😘 ( AND on DVD 📀, the green carpeted box set!👍👏👏)
THE LITTLE SHOW THAT COULD 🎞💕😁😉
Where did 50 years go?
I blinked! And the years just went by!
@@Juliaflo I hear ya, Juliaflo. Sad.
8:00 The Brady Bunch
8:30 Nanny and the Professor
9:00 The Partridge Family
9:30 Room 222
10:00 Love American Style
Those were the days! TV was great!!
@@beckygood4894 I’m not quite old enough to have remembered watching that lineup of those shows in their original runs (I got into the Brady Bunch reruns just a couple years or so after it’s final season), but when I first found out about the lineup I thought 9pm seemed like a late time-slot for The Partridge Family.
The Brady bunch had affect on tv in 1969 and the 70s and on me too and that's was my favorite tv show in my life
BB is a cultural icon for me. I had a chance to speak with Susan Oleson. What a treat that was
I've been watching Brady Bunch & Partridge Family documentaries. I've also watched the David Cassidy movie & the one based on Danny Bonaduce's book about the Partridge family.
After I watch this, I'm going to look for The Brady Bunch movie (the made for tv one about the show).
It brings back childhood memories of coming home from school and watching these shows (along with Gilligan's Island & Bewitched) on tv, while we waited for my dad to come home from work.
It's The show that as according to TV Guide and shortly after the New Year of 1990 never dies completely.
I had a friend whose parents were divorced and he and his siblings were obsessed with the show. Their last name was Grady so I don't have to tell you how things went--for years that's all the Grady kids would talk about at school. It was corny but kind of a funny too.
HAHA, I always wondered how they got Fluffy the cat to run across the laps of the wedding guests in the pilot episode. Liver placed on every other chair. Super!
Those of you who miss 'Headliners and Legends' on MSNBC, raise your hand.
Juliaflo agree!
Juliaflo ✋️✋️✋️✋️✋️✋️✋️
And Matt's hair.
Juliaflo I miss this show. I wish someone would upload the Elizabeth Taylor one
Greg’s hair turning orange was one of my favorite episodes when I was a kid!
September 26,2019 marks the 50th Anniversary of The Brady Bunch. Being a fan of the series,here are ALL the Brady series I've seen:
1. THE BRADY BUNCH(1969-1974)
2. THE BRADY KIDS(1972-1973)
3. THE BRADY BUNCH VARIETY SHOW(1976-1977)
4. THE BRADY GIRLS GET MARRIED(1981)
5. THE BRADY BRIDES(1981)
6. A VERY BRADY CHRISTMAS(1988)
7. THE BRADYS(1990)
8. THE BRADY BUNCH MOVIE(1995)
9. A VERY BRADY SEQUEL(1996)
10. THE BRADY BUNCH IN THE WHITE HOUSE(2000)
11. GROWING UP BRADY(2000)
Which will be the NEW Brady series?
@Eva Ivy All 6 of the remaining cast members are doing a HGTV series about the Brady house. To me,Barry Williams,Maureen McCormick,Christopher Knight,Eve Plumb,Mike Lookinland and Susan Olsen will be Bradys until they die...or not. You be the judge.
@@michaeljeremyrichards6901 Join me in celebrating the 50th anniversary of the show that future 'bubble-gum' shows would be measured against.
They filmed a new project with all of the original Brady kids. It has some to do with working on the "Brady house".
I'm sure you probably know about it?!?!?
@Summer Rose Amen, Summer!
The Brady Bunch In Space
I grew up with the Brady bunch in Australia 🇦🇺
I met Barry and Christopher.
We definitely have "a silver platter" of memories and real behind the scenes to dive into. Stay safe everyone!
Haha.
I hope you, your family and friends stay safe to.
@@nickhill8612 Thank you so much. And now that is "some of that good time music!"
I love The Brady Bunch.
Brady Bunch is America.
What we wish America was like.
I was so in love with Jan.
Loved the Brady Bunch
I loved it grew up with it . I was Jan’s age
In that last episode, note in the credits of the guest stars you have Florence's daughter Barbara and Sherwood's daughter Hope (not as Rachel but someone else).
I may be wrong, but I think she also played a girl either Peter or Bobby had a crush on.
Wow. I was 10 whe this aired in 2000 so i was one of those 90s kids that grew up watching the bradys😂😂😂
The show that Mike passed on was ABC’s short-lived rendition of Swiss Family Robinson....future Eight is Enough star Willie Aames was ultimately chosen 4 the role!!!!!!
The brady bunch is such a good show I grew up watching it in the 90,s when I was kid and it's so sad when Robert reed died I find it so sad the tabloids put out his personal business
Hollywood was far better at keeping secrets back then. That doesn't hold true today.
It just occurred to me that Mike's real name was Bob, n Bobby's real name was Mike.
Susan Olsen is so adorable.
I always remember Robert Reed from 'The Defenders'.
Each of the Brady series aired on a different one of the Big Three networks:
"The Brady Bunch" on ABC
"The Brady Brides" on NBC
"The Bradys" on CBS
I always thought that was pretty cool. They're not the only show that aired on all of the Big Three, but they're the only one that did it in a different incarnation each time.
Only one that was successful was the first one.
This Brady Bunch comedy sitcom also had it’s‘ I love Lucy’ moments
They did justice to Wizard of Oz! Chris as the Tin Man looks funny!
The opening, the very first zoom call!
Love this show but somewhere in this video I really felt bad for Florence Henderson. I read someplace she wanted her character to get a job and they said no. So in here I hear the narrator say about the later seasons, there were other plots too, Mike got a new car, Carol got a new hairdo. HAIRDO ARE YOU SERIOUS
Speaking of the Brady Bunch Hour in 1977, I one heard that Robert Reed was part of another group a few years later, they were known as Troubled Funk, who put out one album in 1982.
August 14, 2022- Happy birthday, Susan Olson.
The Brady Bunch's first record was a Christmas album: 1970.
I liked the Bradys but Loved the Partridges.
The premise of the Brady Bunch variety hour is absolutely THE most implausible of all and Robert Reed went with it ...?
I think he went along with it for his cast mates, particularly the kids. The production team annoyed him, but he loved his on screen family. Plus, he needed money.
Wish they'd do a reunion episode, like what happens to a family after their parents pass away.. Ya kno?
HGTV has the Brady house all done over
@@kellyjustus6394 yes its over
I wonder if the reason the hair tonic made Greg's hair that way was that Bobby put so much on his hair it had that effect. Same thing with the rabbits later on. A little probably wouldn't have hurt it.
Had it contained bleach it would have turned his hair orange.
Love Matt's hair!
I love The Partridge Family but watched Brady Bunch because it was back to back. They will never top David Cassidy and PF music is still big to this day but BB is still a show I still watch as currently showing reruns on ME TV.😊
I'm glad maurean and florence were on Dwts. They both got to dance. That was cool... does anybody know if dwts is comming back!!?? Dancing w the stars!!??
I feel part of the reason for the cancelation was that, at the time, TV viewers wanted more "edgy" shows. There were a whole slew of shows all cancelled around the same time. The term was "rural purge".
True.
Do you think cousin Oliver helped or hurt the ratings
I think it helped for little while.
@@nickhill8612wasn’t that more about earlier show like Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, etc. The Brady Bunch was the ultimate suburban family and didn’t fall into that category.
@@teresas8173
True, the Brady bunch was nowhere near Petticoat Junction or Hooter lol.
Actually, the fact that Greg was going away to college after graduating hs in the final episode was a good time to end the series. Would he still live at home then or in a dorm far away? Or would he be in college in the same town? That would be an issue if they continued anyway.
You have a good point, sha11235. I always wanted it to go on forever; but in hindsight, I can see it would have been like so many other truly-good shows; they would have started reaching for plot lines, particularly since the kids were getting older. And if Cousin Oliver had not killed the show, reaching for 'Greg's-in-college' storylines most likely woulda killed it. And probably tainted the show, to boot. And besides, it *did* go on forever! I mean, look, here were are in 2019 for goodness sake! And still talking about that show that started 51 years ago. The 'Bradys' are special. Even as a superfan, I don't understand it completely, but they are beloved and special and always will be.
To bad oliver killed the show sad
Oliver has gotten a bad rap, and I wish people would stop maligning him; in reality, in the final season, the kids were growing up, and the ratings were slipping. The producers were the ones who decided to introduce a younger character to boost ratings, and of course, the Brady cousin Oliver, who became hated among viewers. Then Robert Reed, fighting with producers over storylines, walked off the show at times, especially with the hair tonic episode. There was supposed to be a sixth season but ABC canceled the show, so the hair tonic/Greg's high school graduation became the de factor series finale. A similar thing happened a few years later with Good Times when they shot the episode The End of the Rainbow, that had the Evans family and their friend Willona finally moving out of the Chicago projects, the GT producers were waiting word on its renewal from CBS. CBS canceled the show just after filming the episode and it became the show's finale.
My siblings and I would crank call people and sing that song.
I'm crying like a baby.
Robert Reed was the best for the role 😁 ... you wouldn't know he had problems with the logistics of the show!
L O L at their using Matt Lauer to introduce one of TVs most unironically wholesome families.
Christopher Knights voice cracking episode ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Really Love The Brady Bunch
Why marcia and jan are always absent during an interviews
Anyone else realize this narrator is the same narrator from the show “Monster Quest”?
Happiness in everything
“Cindy”, Susan is actually very pretty.
Maybe some of the children who auditioned to be one of the 6 kids probably were the children in the background or extras on the episodes.
Does anyone know how the Football scene played out with Maureen McCormick ?. The Ball looks as if it really hit her.
I heard she really did hurt her nose, but it was off set.
The football was a prop made of hollow lightweight plastic, so there was little pain and if she did break her nose while on set, it was from a different cause, according to Florence Henderson as quoted in a trade magazine back then.
I’m my opinion Eve was truly the best child actor. She should of had a serious film career. Loved her in Dawn portrait of a teenage runaway.
*should HAVE
In the last couple of weeks I have watched a multitude of documentaries about the Brady Bunch and I have to say this episode of Headliners and legends has got to be one of the best documentaries ever done on this subject. I especially like the fact that they did not make a huge deal out of the fact that Robert Reed was gay. That fact had nothing to do with his amazing ability to become mr. Brady. At age 56 looking back I think at some point or another I had a crush on every single Brady cast member including Ann B. Davis who is in the top 10 of people I wish I would have met in my life. I bet she was quite a character to hang out with! I have beaten the Bradys by one child for a total of 7, all biological rather than a blending of two families and no not all from the same mother. Now I find myself on the other side of the fence married to another male almost 30 years my junior. Would that have not made a hell of a Brady sequel! Can you imagine mr. Brady leaving Mrs Brady over typical domestic issues only to later start dating people of the same sex and actually marrying another man. LOL, now that I think about it that premise could probably just be sold to one of the major networks in this day and age. Okay maybe HBO or Showtime! Maybe we could have hooked him up with the lead actor on the courtship of Eddie's Father whose Name Escapes me at the moment, they would have made a cute couple! Haha! I'm very curious about something: growing up in The Brady era I constantly heard and often here even to date many, many females young and old talking about how they fantasized about being mrs. Brady or having six kids of Their Own or growing up to have three girls and marrying a man who had three boys and live the happy, contented and Pure Life the Bradys lived. I hear this from so many but always female. I was the youngest of three children, all biological siblings and didn't come along until my brother and sister we're 11 and 13 years old so in a sense I grew up as an only child as by the time I became aware of life they were married and gone from home so I often immersed myself in shows like The Brady Bunch and imagined having that many siblings and how sweet life would be. This has nothing to do with the fact that I am now married to another man ... I'm not in the least bit feminine nor have I ever had a desire to be a female. What I'm getting at is we hear girls say they want a life like the Bradys or a family like the Bradys but give it up guys how many of you have ever had this fantasy yourself? How many times have you wished you had a family like the Bradys and you were the dad at the helm and no matter what the situation you always had the perfect solution and everything always turned out right in the end. Come on guys let's hear it how many times have you wanted to be mr. Brady. It's 2019 it's okay to admit it. Now I think, and especially in my age group so many of us wish things were as simple and pure as things were on the Bradys. Best wishes everyone from Salem, Oregon April 5th 2019 Ps, a suggestion to Brady Bunch fans that may have not seen the parody of The Brady Bunch: you have got to check that out! It's a riot and brings to light things we probably thought about but would have never said out loud like Greg and Marcia in the Attic? LOL! Ann B. Davis returns in this film as a truck driver rescuing the girl who plays Jan in the parody which points fingers at the movie Dawn that Eve Plumb was in. Okay I have spent way too much Brady time I admit it.
The Dad on Courtship of Eddie's Father was Bill Bixby.
I bet you're awesome to hang out with yourself. Miss Davis would have been lucky to meet you too. She seemed to be a wonderful lady.
The ONLY reason I didn't like 'The Hair-Brained Scheme' is because as a kid and watching it in syndication, I knew that was the last show of the series. And then, they would cycle back to the very first season, which weren't quite* as appealing to me. Love that show. Watched it when it originally aired, then years in syndication, now I watch on DVD.
As a kid, I didn't understand why it recycled back after that episode. Well, I learned later that the show ended its original run that way. I learned that when I got older and learned about this. Also, I didn't like the music nor theme in the first season.
@@sha11235 Agreed! To me, the music and theme were 'Ok' but I loved the kids singing on the remaining 4 seasons the best. :)
Agreed; the only reason, I didn't want, "The Hair-Brained Scheme", to show, on my schedule. I, likely, wouldn't buy a DVD set, for the same reason.
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Me too! :)
For 30 min I could escape my own family issues and join this ideal family unit 😅
My name is Marcia for real. Marcia, Marcia, Marcia . . . it's all I ever hear!
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Favorite episode was when davy jones appeared
Wow matt had hair😁😄😂🤣
Eve Plumb was the first choice for the makers of 1980's Prom Night to play the lead Kim, but when Jamie Lee Curtis came up they wanted her because of Halloween's success. Prom Night has a cult following so it would have been a nice little movie to kick off the 80s with. Not saying it would have lead to much but you never know, she could have gotten offered something else soon after.
Matt Lauer certainly worked his way to the top quickly
I always preferred The Partridge Family, they were so much “ cooler, and David Cassidy 😍, but I still loved the Brady Bunch and now being a lot older, I prefer the Brady Bunch for some reason, lolol.
The only one I could ever really hear singing in The Brady Bunch songs was Greg. And he could sing! These were also my favorite episodes. I had a crush on Peter though, come to find out so did many others.
I hope Robert Reed knew how much love, respect, and admiration the audience had for him playing the dad. He was perfection, flawless in his acting as the Brady Bunch dad! Smart, kind, gentle and loving. He could be serious AND he could be funny. Not easy to do. And for me he made the show less goofy, which made it better, a bit more plausible. (I’ve seen him in other roles and he was a very talented actor.) It really was a perfect cast.
Let's all cut Barry a break. Given that situation, most of us would have been trying to bag Florence as well
Mike also worked with a future killer in Towering Inferno.
I used to do everything that I could to avoid going to the Friday Night cult church meetings, because then I wouldn’t miss out on the latest episode of what a complete and happy family could be...
Sad you chose fake goodness over reaI goodness
@@kleeamd8274 I couldn’t agree more. There’s obviously nothing that’s “real” or “good” about being in a cult, but it’s “real good” to leave one…
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Bradyologist?
This is why I hang on to conservative values. I like feeling safe.
They removed Matt's voice. Good.
Matt never narrated these. He just introduced the beginning and between commercial breaks
Im shocked!!!!! MSNBC had someone else to talk about besides President Trump? Boy i forgot the days when NBC didn't have TDS 🤷
Greg (Barry Williams) might have set some girls hearts and or hormones fluttering back in the day, but not mine! I thought he was obnoxious. Always a Christopher Knight (Peter) fan. Lol
Same here!
Peter really blossomed when he got older. Lol
It seems many of us felt that way about Peter
@happynanny6375: agreed! ‘Peter’ was sooo cute!
Hosted by Matt Lauer, but they removed Matt's voice, no Matt.
Matt never narrated these. He only introduced the beginning and between some commercials.
Well, live and learn. I had no idea that Mrs Whitfield was a real person and teacher no less. When they did the play for her retirement, she was just another character. Who knew that for 3 hours a day, she was actually schooling the kids?
Frankly, I never watch network TV because of how it's degraded. Kids show zero respect for elders and that rubs off on real kids. It's all about sex, profanity and backstabbing. You can have it.
Matt Lauer... this hasn’t aged well
He's was sadly the first to go 😔😇
But why is Eve Plumb so down on the show?
Gene Hackman would have been an interesting choice. He would be convincing too.
I sure hope they leave series alone in their Mad rush to reboot and destroy everything good about our youth.
When dictating my rather lengthy proceeding comment in to my phone just now it brought back another memory that made me feel foolish as sitting here by myself I laughed so hard it brought tears to my eyes. When I was a kid the girl down the street and I were thick as thieves. I was seriously into Planet of the Apes and Star Trek so among my collection of Hot Wheels and Tonka trucks could be found my Planet of the Apes and Star Trek action figures like many of us guys had back then and which now are worth a small fortune at least from what I've seen on eBay. Like so many girls back then she was really into Barbie and I believe Barbie's little sister was skipper (?) And of course she had Ken and all the other Barbie characters and other dolls from that era. When we got together to play with our action figures quite often Barbie and Ken were often enslaved by Cornelius, Zira and dr. Zaius, etc... somehow or another and this had to be after watching an episode of The Brady Bunch the night before we came up with a blended family that involved 4 apes and 4 humans and if I recall we even had an additional character that was our housekeeper though I'm a bit unclear on whether that was an ape or a human, lol. Now there is a sequel for you! It could be a sequel from The Brady Bunch: Mrs Brady marries Galen or it could be a sixth movie in the series of original five Planet of the Apes movies in which mr. Brady hooks up with Leza. If you recognize any of the names I have mentioned here like me you spent way too much time in front of the television! Then again I am still watching reruns of The Brady Bunch and can't miss an ape movie rather it be the original 5, the original television series or any of the newer Planet of the Apes movies. Oh, and to the girl down the street that I mentioned whose initials back then were in N.W: thanks again for that 13th birthday present in the treehouse and tell your older brother thanks again for the Aerosmith 45, still love that song! Salem, Oregon 4/5/19
This made me LLOL! Great story and a good idea for a new sitcom
@@franklinmorgan250 Oy vey
Your Asperger's is quite illuminating
@@deanbianco4982 I thought so, thank you🙂!
Please Chris Knight.. Call me.....
Christopher Knight is happily married to his fourth wife. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
@@harperstacey9604 well if it's his 4th wife, then may b ill b the 5th.. You Never Know !!!
@@jat6547 his third wife, reality star adrienne Curry said that he is hard to get along with. If he divorced his fourth wife and marries you, please send ma e me a wedding invitation. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
LMAO !!! So he's an as s
Whatever happened to the cat?
I wonder too.
Didn't Tiger take also take a pernanent powder after season one?
I wish they wouldn't ruin our dreams...you know what I mean
Bob Reed outlasted Freddy Mercury. The movies were brilliant. Matt Lauer turned out to be such a snake.
Read Growing Up Brady,Brady,Brady,Brady or The Way We All Became The Brady Bunch to know the REAL story of The Brady Bunch.
I NOTICED A FAKE JAN BRADY IN THE DANCING FAMILY ACT