Mama Brady's doing it for me! Loved watching Brady bunch as a kid and crushing on Marcia but seeing this know in my late 40's and can appreciate what a stunner Florence was. She was 🔥😍
The Brady's...so raw ...cutting edge. ...how many Emmys did this show win? The edginess gave me chills at times. ....the rawness actually scared me at times...what happened in thier lives to be so. ..real????!!!!
Robert Reed looks a lot more relaxed in this than he did in the original Brady TV shows, and Florence has lost her hair flip! Henderson was a Broadway-class singer and performer, the only person in this cast who really was, although Barry also appeared on Broadway. The Greg Brady dance routine should be played on an endless loop to break down foreign spies :)
Actually, Maureen appeared on Broadway as well, and Eve appeared OFF-Broadway AND in Grease: Live! on Fox...although her character (Mrs. Murdoch, the auto-shop teacher) doesn't sing. Still....the merging of the Brady Bunch and Grease made my little 70s heart soar!!!
I absolutely loved The Brady Bunch growing up. I'm a year younger than Christopher Knight...but I do not recall this variety show...looks like maybe 1975-ish?
He's pretty good. He's clean. Problem is he took himself too seriously and he didn't have the charisma to match the attitude. At the end of the day, Johnny Bravo just didn't work.
They could have quit while they were ahead with the Brady Bunch show. But then someone had a "great idea" to create this show so we can remember this as their parting gift to TV.
It's not really That bad. I mean when so 🧀 cheesey over the top camp & bad - it magically becomes good. Spot on choreography, lip synch, canned laughter, polyester, the colors, the songs, THE TALENT etc etc💃🕺🏵🌝🌞🎈🙂🤯🤯🤯
@@harperstacey9604 He kind of still believe his big break is just around the corner. He was & had been living in the musically popular Branson, MO doing performances.
@@curtischildress9580 hi Curtis. I always come across your comments. I hope you're having a great day. Barry Williams and his Brady bunch castmates are milking the show for all it's worth for years and years. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
@@harperstacey9604 Those cast members are going to do all they can to make money off of what they once did as very young people...I don't blame them really...everybody wants to make money...I'd do the same thing probably because I could. They never got paid for reruns after the show ended & that wasn't fair...they deserved paychecks off their work...I did hear once a rumor that the makers of The Brady Bunch finally gave them some amount of money as a settlement, at least I'd hope so. It is interesting though how Barry Williams is still working out a singing career, but that's his choice, but it's odd that he doesn't do something else & maybe he does...I don't know. ...It's fun to always find your comments about so many TV & entertainment stories & celebrities. I wish you the best of times, & keep the good fun informative comments coming along!
What they should have done was a Florence Henderson Show where she would play herself. She could have had the other Brady actors as guests as themselves (not as a Brady) individually along with other guests.
It paid the bills. Looks like they had fun. Hey it was the 70's. Big collars ,bell bottoms ,and perms. It was cheesy but there were a ton of variety shows at that time. I kinda figured the Brady's would do this at the time. They sang on the Brady bunch. So why not? They touched on popular tunes at the time. And older tunes as well. All the women looked delightful .sad that Eve Plumb wasn't there.
@nibornna Rober Reed was instumental in getting this show off the ground. He was the most keen to do it. Not because HE wanted to do it but because he loved the kids and thought they we were so taleted that he was prepaired to do this for the kids.
The whole idea was freaky. The Brady name dropped might have made it more successful, like someone else commented - and I think it should have been Florence’s show with all the others appearing as guest stars. She’s the only one (except maybe Barry) whose heart was in it.
@@harperstacey9604 Yep....Knight played Binky Hodges - one of Joanie's first boyfriends. Thus completing the Brady Bunch/Happy Days Connection after Marion Ross appeared on a first-season ep of The Brady Bunch!! (With such a long run....there MAY be another HD guest star that appeared on the BB...but I haven't found one yet. And I've LOOKED!!
@@harperstacey9604 Well done. MOST BB experts know that one...but surprisingly a lot don't. Although probably not her "acting" debut......her TV debut. And capital B Bunch... Sorry...I'm the patriarch of The Pedantic Bunch. 😜
Ya know, if they had just dropped the "Brady" character names and went with their real names, this show MIGHT have been more successful. Viewers just couldn't wrap their minds around an upper middle class TV family suddenly having a variety show.
The whole idea was freaky. I agree and think it should have been Florence’s show with all the others appearing as guest stars. She’s the only one (except maybe Barry) whose heart was in it.
Does anyone else see that Chris Knight (Peter) didn't have his rehearsal routine well done? Since "Happy Together" he seems doubitant about what to do. But in "Happy Days" Knight have no clue. Look: 5:16 I love all six kids, indeed. But it´s just funny to point it out this "faux pas" from Chris.
They sure do mix Barry and Maureen’s voices high and the others really low. LOL. Barry and Florence show they were the real stars of this awful show. And Fake Jan.
Poor Ann B. Davis. Why was she stuck with Rip Torn in every one of this Variety Hour medleys? She couldn't get one musical number with one of the "kids" that actually could sing/dance? Where the hell was "Sam the Butcher" in this train-wreck series?
Who is the dude with the mustache that is dancing with Alice? I wonder if they tried to get Sam the Butcher to do this show? I'm still shocked that Robert Reed did this entire variety show series, when he had such issues with the script during the actual show. I think he thought some of the scripts were either cheesy or something? Yet he did this variety show. Can someone explain that one to me?
I do remember watching this show, how could I miss it, I grew up in the 70s in the bay area( what kid wasn't?) and it always had me confounded about how the idea of installing a substitute 'Jan'. Show business is weird....and stupid more often than not.
I guess because the rest of the bunch signed on and because there was still a huge fanbase and demand for them, they had to find a replacement Jan. I read in an article that Eve Plumb didn't sign on because it required her to do up to 5 years of series etc and she was already branching out and making a new career for herself which is understandable. Although I'm 25 and was born way after they Brady Bunch heyday,( I still don't remember any of the actors for anything but the Brady Bunch and my parents probably wouldn't either) although, I still love the memory of my mother showing me 'The Brady Bunch'. So cheesy, yet so heartwarming and memorable
Barry's dance moves were out of control!
Yes he had access to the very best drugs at the time. Out of control drug usage for sure.
🎉 greetings from coastal Mississippi. I have loved the Brady's since 1969. Flash forward to 2023.... Barry is on Dancing with the Stars ❤
Greetings from Coastal Mississippi! Same here but in 2024. Hi neighbor. ❤
Barry Williams will be 70 years old on September 30, 2024🎉
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@@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc 👋🐻🤠❤️ Thanks for the comment. Where does the time go 😂. Have a Sunshine ☀️ Day
That must have been some big balloon budget! : )
Mama Brady's doing it for me! Loved watching Brady bunch as a kid and crushing on Marcia but seeing this know in my late 40's and can appreciate what a stunner Florence was. She was 🔥😍
The late Ms. Henderson was an established musical theatre performer before she landed THE BRADY BUNCH.
I think Christopher Knight was the best child on the Brady Bunch. He was Great all the time.
Am I the only one in the world who loved this show???
Yes
No
No, you are not. 😉
In these troubled times it is somehow comforting,
Guilty as charged as well.
The bradys sang Happy Days?!?!?! this is tearing apart my universe as i know it.
Change the channel
yes.
Cindy looks so beautiful! :) also the song selections were PERFECT! the dancing not so much! LOL! but still better than anything on TV nowadays!
I had always assumed they ramdomly picked the song list from a hat. This is the first time I've seen a cohesive theme.
Wow Bradys singing Happy Days that is messin with my mind
Maureen McCormick had been a guest on HAPPY DAYS.
Christopher Knight will always be the Greatest in my opinion.
Ive always loved Jan's solo in "Happy Together" love her vocals and vibrator.
Jan's vibrator? 🤣
You mean vibrato?
IMO they did a great job. I loved Geri's voice and dancing.
It's like watching your drunk relatives at a wedding reception!
My relatives have never been THAT drunk.
I think I must have been high watching this crap!
So raw and cutting edge!!! I never new the bradys could be this griitty!!!
It was all about the drugged up sex parties after the show. Rip Taylor came close to death so many times. Strange, he is the last one still living.
Christopher Knight 😊is the Greatest and the best one of the Brady Bunch and I really miss seeing him.
Timeless classic of the Brardys
70s variety shows - that was fun!
I loved the Gong Show.
Talented ppl! Thanks for posting this!
Wow! I never knew that Ann B Davis could actually carry a tune. I'm a little impressed.
She replaced Carol Burnett on Broadway in the musical Once Upon a Mattress.
I saw Robert Reed on Father's Know Best. He was very young.
Greg went really hard on that intro
He was trippin balls.
Watching on election night 2024, hoping the silly, cheesy, seventies can cheer me up…
Runaway inflation, social unrest and feckless leadership.
This is what it looks like when your local suburban church tries to put on a show to raise money for missionaries.
It's all in good fun. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
5:00 Wow, Ann B & Rip aren't bad; they've got the moves. Better than I can do!
Wow. That moment where you read a comment you wrote 12 years ago and don't remember! 😄
Poor Ann, couldn't they find anyone else to pair her up with. I mean wasn't Charles Nelson Rieley available?
The Brady's...so raw ...cutting edge. ...how many Emmys did this show win? The edginess gave me chills at times. ....the rawness actually scared me at times...what happened in thier lives to be so. ..real????!!!!
Are you ok?
WTF???!!!
Robert Reed looks a lot more relaxed in this than he did in the original Brady TV shows, and Florence has lost her hair flip! Henderson was a Broadway-class singer and performer, the only person in this cast who really was, although Barry also appeared on Broadway. The Greg Brady dance routine should be played on an endless loop to break down foreign spies :)
Actually, Maureen appeared on Broadway as well, and Eve appeared OFF-Broadway AND in Grease: Live! on Fox...although her character (Mrs. Murdoch, the auto-shop teacher) doesn't sing. Still....the merging of the Brady Bunch and Grease made my little 70s heart soar!!!
Robert Reed loved the variety show......
I absolutely loved The Brady Bunch growing up. I'm a year younger than Christopher Knight...but I do not recall this variety show...looks like maybe 1975-ish?
Aired in March of 1977....
Susan Olsen really looked pretty during this time!
Barry knew he could sing. As a dance choreographer I've noticed his dancing is spot on.
Who do you choreography? Because if you think that is talent you need to get real.
I agree . . . he was pretty good. He was also the best actor of the kids (along with Eve Plumb).
@@dfa3366 Dumb comment from a peasant.
He's pretty good. He's clean. Problem is he took himself too seriously and he didn't have the charisma to match the attitude. At the end of the day, Johnny Bravo just didn't work.
He’s a stiff as a board and whacked out on goofballs.
I saw Florence Henderson in person. She was wonderful!
They could have quit while they were ahead with the Brady Bunch show. But then someone had a "great idea" to create this show so we can remember this as their parting gift to TV.
It's not really That bad. I mean when so 🧀 cheesey over the top camp & bad - it magically becomes good. Spot on choreography, lip synch, canned laughter, polyester, the colors, the songs, THE TALENT etc etc💃🕺🏵🌝🌞🎈🙂🤯🤯🤯
I actually liked the show.
Fake Jan is all "hold my beer. I got this"
LOL
Best comment ever.
BEST comment ever, indeed. #FakeJan #TalentedGirl
😂😂
Her and Florence are the only ones who can hold a note.
It's not very often that the Brady men get a respite from sequins.
I was lucky to see Florence Henderson perform in person, she’s incredible!
Lucky you! 🤩
I loved Her as the Wessonality lady!
This was Greg's stepping stone to a huge career.....
Barry Williams thought he was going to be the next David Cassidy. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
@@harperstacey9604 He kind of still believe his big break is just around the corner. He was & had been living in the musically popular Branson, MO doing performances.
@@curtischildress9580 hi Curtis. I always come across your comments. I hope you're having a great day. Barry Williams and his Brady bunch castmates are milking the show for all it's worth for years and years. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
@@harperstacey9604 Those cast members are going to do all they can to make money off of what they once did as very young people...I don't blame them really...everybody wants to make money...I'd do the same thing probably because I could. They never got paid for reruns after the show ended & that wasn't fair...they deserved paychecks off their work...I did hear once a rumor that the makers of The Brady Bunch finally gave them some amount of money as a settlement, at least I'd hope so. It is interesting though how Barry Williams is still working out a singing career, but that's his choice, but it's odd that he doesn't do something else & maybe he does...I don't know. ...It's fun to always find your comments about so many TV & entertainment stories & celebrities. I wish you the best of times, & keep the good fun informative comments coming along!
Love it!!!
The boys look like they got perms!! Oh the 70s
Geri Reichel is my favorite character,aka as Fake Jan. Eve Plumb. Was too serious.
What they should have done was a Florence Henderson Show where she would play herself. She could have had the other Brady actors as guests as themselves (not as a Brady) individually along with other guests.
2:08-2:22 I need to enter a room like that cause that's how you do it
I feel like for the cast members who couldn't dance, the go-to move was the side to side away with arms. "They can't screw this up, right?"
Now I know where my prom date got his idea for his tux.
All of us guys wore that same style tux to all the formal dances back then...they were horrible, ruffled shirts included.
I like the TV show of the Brand Bunch ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
It paid the bills. Looks like they had fun. Hey it was the 70's. Big collars ,bell bottoms ,and perms. It was cheesy but there were a ton of variety shows at that time. I kinda figured the Brady's would do this at the time. They sang on the Brady bunch. So why not? They touched on popular tunes at the time. And older tunes as well. All the women looked delightful .sad that Eve Plumb wasn't there.
@nibornna
Rober Reed was instumental in getting this show off the ground. He was the most keen to do it. Not because HE wanted to do it but because he loved the kids and thought they we were so taleted that he was prepaired to do this for the kids.
Greg had a high opinion of himself.
All he ever did was leech off the sitcom.
He was also high as hell.
The Fonz shoulda come out..snapped his fingers and boned alice.
Fonz should have snapped his fingers and saved America from this. Please!!
Lol
Final episode of this show on same day of Star Wars came out in
The whole idea was freaky. The Brady name dropped might have made it more successful, like someone else commented - and I think it should have been Florence’s show with all the others appearing as guest stars. She’s the only one (except maybe Barry) whose heart was in it.
Alice & Rip out danced everyone! No contest!!
Maureen McCormick was on an episode of Happy Days.
Christopher Knight also appeared on an episode of Happy Days. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
@@harperstacey9604 Yep....Knight played Binky Hodges - one of Joanie's first boyfriends. Thus completing the Brady Bunch/Happy Days Connection after Marion Ross appeared on a first-season ep of The Brady Bunch!! (With such a long run....there MAY be another HD guest star that appeared on the BB...but I haven't found one yet. And I've LOOKED!!
Classic. Smearing lipstick on Richie...and perhaps a bit of foreshadowing of her 90s stint on Broadway as Rizzo in "Grease".
@@bradyguy7701 Actress Rita Wilson, wife of Tom Hanks also made her acting debut on the Brady bunch. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
@@harperstacey9604 Well done. MOST BB experts know that one...but surprisingly a lot don't. Although probably not her "acting" debut......her TV debut. And capital B Bunch... Sorry...I'm the patriarch of The Pedantic Bunch. 😜
Ya know, if they had just dropped the "Brady" character names and went with their real names, this show MIGHT have been more successful. Viewers just couldn't wrap their minds around an upper middle class TV family suddenly having a variety show.
The whole idea was freaky. I agree and think it should have been Florence’s show with all the others appearing as guest stars. She’s the only one (except maybe Barry) whose heart was in it.
The fake Jan is the only aside from Florence who can really sing!
Robert is like a peacock just letting it all out!
Wrong Greg could sing
I love what another poster said :
" Robert Reed was horrible at singing and Dancing which leads me to believe He was Not Gay " .........lol hilsrious
I remember when their show fist appeared on TV way back in the day, I was disappointed because the real Jan Brady (Eve Plumb) wasn't in this.
Barry's body 🔥
Happiness is a warm gun.
Those perms are radical
Does anyone else see that Chris Knight (Peter) didn't have his rehearsal routine well done?
Since "Happy Together" he seems doubitant about what to do. But in "Happy Days" Knight have no clue.
Look: 5:16
I love all six kids, indeed.
But it´s just funny to point it out this "faux pas" from Chris.
wonderful love everything glam glitz if the world was full of fun why be glum
This was never played in Oz. Thank Goodness LOL
Im sure I seen it im in melb
@@Carol0571 Really where?
@@redsed1565 on tv long time ago
Is this what hell is like????
Yes, but without the balloons!
I’m not convinced satan would put up with this shit show.
This is the cheesiest thing I have ever seen LOL....And I was a faithful Brady Bunch fan when their show came out.
I almost threw up my Pop Tarts.
What else were they gonna do? It was the 70’s - way before the internet and cell phones. We had nothing but tv - and 8 track tapes or record players.
Barry is channeling David Hasselhoff. Anyone else see it?
LOL! Those dancing girls with the red balloons looked like haemorrhoids!
Like some things this is/might be more popular in reruns.
Carol with crabs...Mike thinking of men....Alice thinking of women....Marcia coked out...ahhh miss the innocence of the seventies!!!!
Barry has perfect pitch, lol
Joe Taz it’s Berry
Also greg
i absolutely WEEP that Jan wasnt in this..she would be SO FRIGGIN HOT in this crap.
Incredible.
I'd be happy too if I were constantly 'luded out.
gregs danc3e LOLOLOLOLO rewind rewind
Oh, the pain... the pain...!
Where are the mics?
Barry was awesome. Talented guy.
The 'Happy Days' portion wasn't bad. Maybe they should have done a TV show theme medley -- ending with the Brady Bunch theme song.
They sure do mix Barry and Maureen’s voices high and the others really low. LOL. Barry and Florence show they were the real stars of this awful show. And Fake Jan.
Brady Bunch Hour : Happy Medley
Oh LAWD!!!!!!!
WOW Greg , that jump and dance were, PATHETIC !
The absolute worst Marsha.
Don’t see many balloon costumes these days.
They taught YT people how to be YT.
Poor Ann B. Davis. Why was she stuck with Rip Torn in every one of this Variety Hour medleys? She couldn't get one musical number with one of the "kids" that actually could sing/dance? Where the hell was "Sam the Butcher" in this train-wreck series?
Ann b. Davis desperately needed the money. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
He was risqué and she was a devout Christian so it was like oil and water.
Cocaine is a hell of a drug!
I think they did more than that
@@PioneerGrrrl
Haha probably.
All the Brady girls were hot!
Hey why is captain kangaroo on this show?
Who is the dude with the mustache that is dancing with Alice? I wonder if they tried to get Sam the Butcher to do this show? I'm still shocked that Robert Reed did this entire variety show series, when he had such issues with the script during the actual show. I think he thought some of the scripts were either cheesy or something? Yet he did this variety show. Can someone explain that one to me?
Rip Taylor
Robert and Sherwood didn't get along,but he did the variety show because Sherwood Schwartz was not involved.
I’m SO glad it’s not the 70s anymore.
That song is from happy days
You mean the song "Happy Days"??? Is from Happy Days??? Crazy.
Happiness doesn’t buy groceries.
Geri Reischel has a strange vibrato in every line of singing.
Suicide rates in the 70s were high because of this show
It's like an accident you drive by . . . you can't stop watching
And the ambulance never seems to arrive.
New fake Jan was smokin”
I love peter... he still is hot as hell!!!
I do remember watching this show, how could I miss it, I grew up in the 70s in the bay area( what kid wasn't?) and it always had me confounded about how the idea of installing a substitute 'Jan'. Show business is weird....and stupid more often than not.
I guess because the rest of the bunch signed on and because there was still a huge fanbase and demand for them, they had to find a replacement Jan. I read in an article that Eve Plumb didn't sign on because it required her to do up to 5 years of series etc and she was already branching out and making a new career for herself which is understandable. Although I'm 25 and was born way after they Brady Bunch heyday,( I still don't remember any of the actors for anything but the Brady Bunch and my parents probably wouldn't either) although, I still love the memory of my mother showing me 'The Brady Bunch'. So cheesy, yet so heartwarming and memorable
Not sure if this show caused the cast or the viewers to become alcoholics. Possibly both.
Who was dancing with Alice?
Rip Taylor.
Cheating on Sam.
@@susanb2015 You mean RIP Rip Taylor
@@sticksmcfly Oh I had forgotten about him since the 70s. I didn't know he died. RIP Rip.
@@susanb2015 This month, actually!