I knew about all of this without reading the books. There was a made-for-TV movie about the behind-the-scene stuff that revealed everything mentioned in this video.
All of this is OLD news. Actually Robert showed up on the set for the last episode. It was decided NOT to have security remove him, as it would surely upset the rest of the cast. The 'honesty" that Robert imbued in the Mike Brady character is what helped make the show. He also paid for a trip for the cast to go to England! What a nice fellow he was.
Damn, I thought news from a show that took place in the late 1960's would be current news not OLD news. Have not been this disappointed since I found out WWII took place over 70 years ago :/
I love the Brady Bunch, I’ve watched every episode multiple times , I watched the variety hours, Brady Girls get Married, Brady brides, A very Brady Christmas, Brady 500 where Bobby is a race car and the Brady’s a short lived six episode hour long drama in early 90s which I think can be found on UA-cam. I’m a huge fan of anything Brady bunch.
I already knew those secrets so nothing shocked me! However in the finale episode Greg's hair didn't become orange because of a prank. Bobby didn't expect that to happen so it was just an unfortunate accident!
If I had co-starred with Greg in that episode as one of his friends I would have gave him a suggestion. I would have said he and his siblings could perform a gig at a graduation party. Greg and the rest of the band would be wearing outlandish costumes that would match his accidental hair color.
"I killed him." Florence Henderson's answer when asked in an interview about what happened to the Brady girls' father. Now that's my kind of sense of humor. 🤣😅😄
He was the professor that got lost with Gilligan in Brady Bunch sequel. So, did she send him on a trip when she knew there was going to be a bad storm?
I was in high school during this time. I still love the show. I pray the day will come that we learn to encourage & inspire one another to be the best we can be & stop finding fought in one another. Praying for God's help, we ALL need it.🛐😉☦️😇🔯👀💖
Steven Spielberg was interested in Maureen for Marion Ravenwood in Raiders of the Lost Ark but Maureen showed up completely coked up and ruined her audition. Oh what could've been.
@@corianne2099 didn't realize having a husband is the epitome of life for a woman. I would think that as a working actress, having missed out on a role in a major motion picture because she was high on drugs, would be a HUGE disappointment and regret. Especially the part about her being high, given the fact she was an addict at the time. Her marriage, her career, and her addictions are different things and any one of those things going well, does not make up for the other.
Met Maureen McCormick in 1995 when she was trying to make a break into country music. She was very nice and even made a short video for me for my buddies stationed in Japan.
Florence Henderson was a part of the festivities at the Indy 500, and also rode in the 500 Festival parade the day before the race. Just a year or so before she died, she was in the parade and a boy held a sign that said it was his 8th birthday. She climbed out of the convertible, autographed his sign and kissed his cheek.
Robert Reed always described in a bad way but imagine being bim no wonder he wasn't happy he had to be on the DL all his life of people's judgemental ways rest easy Mr Reed you was totally underrated as an actor...
Part of the reason it remains "popular" is that half-hour shows are a lot easier to air in syndication than hour shows. Or, if you have an hour to fill, run two back-to-back and make it a selling point.
I was lil watching this show, I wished I had this family, as a kid of divorce. I feel so bad that Robert Reed had to hide but I can't help but love this show for the family aspect.
I understand why he had to because at the time it would've ruined his career. I've once read that many people had been fired from jobs such as teaching when they were revealed as gay!
I grew up watching the Brady Bunch in the mid 70s and 80s and I absolutely loved this show!! Never knew there were so many behind-the-scenes romances and despite Robert Reed being gay those kids adored him tremendously!! LOTS of fond memories is all I have of this ICONIC TV show.
There are a lot of shots of the homes exterior that show it clearly as a one story rancher. When we see the interior there is clearly a flight of stairs going up to a second floor of a two story home. Impossible.
Not one thing was mentioned in this video that any fan of this show didn’t know. Incidentally, according to Florence Henderson, Robert Reed actually did show up on set for the series final episode, but got into a huge altercation with Sherwood Schwartz over the script and had to be asked to leave the set. When Reed refused, Schwartz had threatened to have security guards remove him, but decided against it because it would’ve negatively affected the kids. Reed, according to Henderson, watched the whole filming of the episode from the wings, fuming the entire time.
I already knew most of this. Good Show. Like a pair of old comfortable shoes. Makes you feel good to wear them or watch in this case. Nothing deep. But that is why people love it. Great escapism!!!
Robert Reed was a terrific actor, but he serves as a reminder of the need to stay in your lane. He was a principal actor in a popular sitcom, but he wasn’t - to my limited knowledge - hired as a writer, producer or director for the series. That meant that his views of what the show should be and what constitutes better and worse comedy were unwanted and out of place. This is a life lesson for many of us - staying in our lane can be hard (and damaging on the ego), but it’s a critical part of working effectively.
I would tend to agree with you. Except that Robert Reed was a Shakespearean actor whose fame as Mike Brady, typecast him, costing him roles that would’ve been more to his skill and preference.
@@michaelmckenna6464 Dimes to doughnuts he took the role because he needed the money. He did the show for how long? The typecasting already happened before the finale.
Robert Reed was probably a very likable man considering that the children, being teenagers with that arrogant streak and indestructible mindset that comes with adolescence, not to mention a disrespect towards grownups, never tried to put him on the spot, It was after all the early 1970s and still a dangerous time for an actor to be exposed as gay, especially in a family oriented sitcom.
Robert Reed was a perfectionist. He insisted that no southern California residence could have a payphone. Until someone found a loophole and discovered that Santa Monica, California residences could have a payphone!
Robert Reed was a perfectionist! He insisted that strawberries had no smell. He insisted on the line that the kitchen looked like strawberry paradise instead of smelling like paradise.
The Brady Bunch was one of my favorite shows growing up. It dealt with issues and problems most families with kids experience and how those problems get solved. The entire cast worked perfectly together. Romance between cast members is not unusual as they are together most of the time. Florence and Robert were talented actors and made the perfect mom and dad. I was surprised to hear Robert Reed was married to a woman for five years in the early 60's and has a daughter. Although Reed was Gay, it was a time when being Gay was frowned upon and he kept his private life hidden from the public. Many actors Rock Hudson, that were/are Gay is still often hidden due to prejudices and religious beliefs by many. I've enjoyed The Brady Bunch over the years and is still on cable today. Long live The Brady Bunch ! ! !
@@FactsVerse I couldn't name my favorite one, two, five of fifteen episodes of The Brady Bunch as they were all great, educational, and dealt with issues parents and children deal with every day at home, school, with friends and in real life.
We've heard plenty of stories about scandals on The Brady Bunch set, which stands the reason why both Don Fedderson and Fred MacMurray didn't allow such similar distractions to derail the filming of episodes of My Three Sons. Of course, the Livingston brothers, Stanley and Barry, happen to be friends with The Brady Bunch cast and Maureen McCormick also appeared in the "Ernie the Bluebeard" episode of M3S in 1967, along with Claire Wilcox, before both of them appeared again in the Brady episode, "The Liberation of Marcia Brady", 4 yrs. later!!!
Robert would go to the bar across the street, get sloshed and meet young boys. He often came back to the set inebriated and bad tempered. That said, he played his part perfectly.
none of these surprised me, I knew them already. Weird fact: While Robert Reed didn't appear in the last episode, he was there on the set, rumoured to have been grumbling about how outlandish & ridiculous the story was ,
1- Mike and Susan didn't "make out". It was just a kiddy crush (puppy love) it meant nothing at all. 2- Florence WAS just innocently humoring Barry by having dinner with him. The tabs had no right to take something innocent and blow it WAY out of proportion! She didn't deserve that. 3- The finale. It was suggested that Reed be escorted forcefully off stage by security. Shwartz said "not in front of those kids.". Robert always hated the part but accepted it. He was unable to find SERIOUS roles to play since the morons stereotyped him so he was forever branded Mike Brady. I am shocked beyond belief that he agreed to do the corny variety hour. He must have been very desperate. He was great in the movies, though. Only Florence appeared on the "Brady Brides". It is interesting that it was Jan who followed her "dad's" footsteps and became an architect. Greg? A doctor? Greg. Became a doctor Marsha became a fashion designer Peter became a business man (and married his beautiful boss). In the Christmas episode, Cindy said, if the idiot won't ask you, as the idiot!" Jan became the architect Bobby became a race car driver until his accident which inspired one if the movies Cindy became a radio announcer. Alice got married to Sam the butcher Carol sold real estate.
Barry Williams' book "Growing up Brady" includes many of these facts, plus a lot more. Written in the 1990s. According to the book, all the kids dated their counterparts. No shortage of amusement in there. Each time I read his book, I found something else to laugh about. Kinda wish I still had the book now.
Another thing they didn’t touch base was the fact that the final episode in which Reed wasn’t in, would of prevented him from returning had there been a sixth season. There were rumors of a recast with another actor playing Mike Brady.
quitting was what got me for reed My Mother told me about him Being Gay when I was watching the show. I now got the whole story about Barry and Florence, yet did not know about Greg and Marcia
Still love this channel, but not much new here as far as "trivia"! The one point that Reed's suspension from the final episode tarnished as his image as America's "perfect dad" was that it made him look like a jerk for actually allowing a "business trip out of town" as it was said make him actually miss his first born's high school graduation!
I’ll never forget Carol saying that to Gregg, “too bad your father was on a business trip out of town and had to miss it.” Too cringeworthy. Sherwood should’ve just compromised and rewrote the script. It really was a stupid episode. Also, I think it’s true that Robert Reed actually DID show up on the set for the shooting, but created a scene with Schwartz and almost got removed from the set by security. Reed actually stayed off camera and watched the taping, fuming the whole time. This was according to an interview I saw with Florence Henderson.
@@deejay8403 even more cringe worthy of that was the stupid bit in the final lines about "Why don't you turn your attic room into a guest room for your cousin Oliver?!"
The episode where Greg's hair was dyed orange wasn't a "prank." Bobby was selling bottles of so-called "hair tonic," and Greg bought one to humor Bobby. As everybody now knows, the stuff turned Greg's hair orange. Whoever wrote the copy for this video needs to do better research.
Thanks to much viewing of previous stories regarding cast of The Brady's I've learnt all of what was revealed in this episode through other sources. But ya-ll did a nice job. No surprise that Reed chose to keep quiet about his sexual identity, most leading men where either bi or homosexual and it was not popular to be seen as effeminent.
I read "Growing Up Brady" by Barry Williams. He revealed so much of the behind the scenes of the show from his point of view. Good book. Chris Knight and Eve Plumb also dated. Chris also married and divorced Adrienne Curry season 1 America's Next Top Model winner. They met on the VH1 show "Surreal Life" and had the show "My Fair Brady." Sad they didn't work out but both are happy living normal lives. Peter Brady was my favorite. I loved the show as a child. I only saw reruns because I was born in 1979.
I remember that episode of Monk! They lampooned The Brady Bunch into "The Cooper Clan!" And Monk had to help out this former child star from his favorite show!
Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island we both of my #1 favorite TV shows and remains that way today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I knew all of this except for the fact that Mike and Susan had a thing for each other?!?! Bobby and Cindy?!?! That I didn't know!! Seems all weird now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wish that some how when Robert Reed died, they could have had a movie or something like that showing his funeral with all of them around!! Oh well, too late for that idea now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE that show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wasn't surprised at all to know he was a closet gay but I was surprised to hear that he quit the season finale that was widely known about his sexuality
@@harperstacey9604 he wasn't in the Season 4 episode "Goodbye, Alice Hello " either because he thought it was stupid for Alice to quit her job as the Bradys housekeeper because the kids treated her like garbage!
Most of this has been known for sometime; I.e. Greg's crush on Florence with her taking him on one date, and Robert Reed's homosexuality. I wouldn't really call them 'Scandals' rather "Did you Knows" or something to that affect. Robert Reed did a great job playing the father. What T.V. show ever existed with the actor/actresses didn't have some spats with the producer (HELLO MASH AT THE 4077!!)
You mean you couldn't care less. I agree with you that their private lives are none of our business and I don't care either. This channel exploits and disrespects others' privacy.
It’s no shocker that Reed was a closet gay it’s common knowledge especially after he died of aids now walking off on the last episode shocking then again I can get his future roles being a total departure from the Brady role. Robert Reed played some mean characters the one of him in Charlie’s Angels playing the manipulative Glen Stanley that’s certainly a good example
Even though she knew he was gay, florence henderson was constantly throwing herself at Robert Reed. Florence was also sleeping around with other men, although she had a husband. Florence henderson ended up catching crabs from an extramarital affair. I read all of this in florence's autobiography.
@@brittneyrenea210 I am into birthdays and astrology. I found another celebrity that shares your birthday. Actress Linda Hamilton of the terminator movies. My birthday is June 6. I share my birthday with Robert englund who played freddy krueger in the nightmare on elm street movies. Brittney, stay safe and healthy.
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Yes If you see The TV Movie of Growing up Brady you even see how he was arguing on the set while it was being filmed and he refused to appear and Sherwood Schwartz said "Alright then if you don't want to appear then you don't have to appear."But the catch was that if there had been a 6th season then he'd have been written out.I read of this beforehand on a Nick@Nite Calendar pad.
Love The Brady Bunch & The Brady Bunch movies. I knew all theses "scandals" But I also heard that there was talk about doing one more season without Robert & saying Mike Brady had died. But I feel this was like an urban legend. Lastly like most guys in the last season or so I had many nasty thought on what I'd like to do with & to Marcia when nobody was home !!
I always thought there was something off about him. He came out like in the 70s and did some shows where he played gay a little too well! My favorite episode is when Marcia takes a plain girl named Molly and made her pretty!
Robert Reed's real last name was Braden. For real. He was from Illinois and had a daughter named Karen that had a bit part in one episode. I know because she went to school with me in Wilmette. i saw her on it.
I always wondered how much they got paid for doing the show. I think I read somewhere that the kids didn’t get any residual money, only the adults did. I wonder if that’s true.
I don't know about "The Brady Bunch" but I remember cast members of "Gilligan's Island" on talk shows saying they were never payed any residuals from syndication Sherwood Schwartz took all that income. Schwartz is reported to have left an estate of $175 million.
I recall an episode about Jessie James one of boys became a fan of Jessie James his father tried to set him straight on this outlaw it was a serious story on the show and actually had someone who knew Jessie James appear on this episode and it dealt with this quite seriously I believe the actor who played Mike was also related to someone who was shot by Jessie James so was revealed later?
Yeah! That was a good one. It went over Bobby's head in the movie, when Jesse James abducted the woman and Bobby thought Jesse James was doing good to give her a ride on his horse!
I knew all of these for years. I read a bunch of Brady Bunch books.
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I knew about all of this without reading the books. There was a made-for-TV movie about the behind-the-scene stuff that revealed everything mentioned in this video.
Word has it that his mother and daughter disengaged themselves from Robert Reed for his "closeted activities."
All of this is OLD news. Actually Robert showed up on the set for the last episode. It was decided NOT to have security remove him, as it would surely upset the rest of the cast. The 'honesty" that Robert imbued in the Mike Brady character is what helped make the show. He also paid for a trip for the cast to go to England! What a nice fellow he was.
Thank you for that. LOL!
Yes I agree nothing they told us was new news.
Michael Taylor absolutely and bought all the kids 8mm movie cameras
Damn, I thought news from a show that took place in the late 1960's would be current news not OLD news. Have not been this disappointed since I found out WWII took place over 70 years ago :/
I think he took them over on the OE2, if I am not mistaken.
I love the Brady Bunch, I’ve watched every episode multiple times , I watched the variety hours, Brady Girls get Married, Brady brides, A very Brady Christmas, Brady 500 where Bobby is a race car and the Brady’s a short lived six episode hour long drama in early 90s which I think can be found on UA-cam. I’m a huge fan of anything Brady bunch.
All of this has been common knowledge for decades now.
I already knew those secrets so nothing shocked me! However in the finale episode Greg's hair didn't become orange because of a prank. Bobby didn't expect that to happen so it was just an unfortunate accident!
Thanks for sharing this, Melissa
If I had co-starred with Greg in that episode as one of his friends I would have gave him a suggestion. I would have said he and his siblings could perform a gig at a graduation party. Greg and the rest of the band would be wearing outlandish costumes that would match his accidental hair color.
@@FactsVerse Late, huh?
"I killed him." Florence Henderson's answer when asked in an interview about what happened to the Brady girls' father. Now that's my kind of sense of humor. 🤣😅😄
He was the professor that got lost with Gilligan in Brady Bunch sequel. So, did she send him on a trip when she knew there was going to be a bad storm?
Not for nothing but this video comes straight from the Barry Williams book, "Growing Up Brady".
I was in high school during this time. I still love the show. I pray the day will come that we learn to encourage & inspire one another to be the best we can be & stop finding fought in one another. Praying for God's help, we ALL need it.🛐😉☦️😇🔯👀💖
Not amused at all , I knew this in my gut all along!!!!!
I was in grade school when this show went into syndication. So I got to see most of these seasons live.
Steven Spielberg was interested in Maureen for Marion Ravenwood in Raiders of the Lost Ark but Maureen showed up completely coked up and ruined her audition. Oh what could've been.
Wow didn't know that
She's been married to her husband for 36 years so I doubt she has regrets in how her life ended up
@@corianne2099 didn't realize having a husband is the epitome of life for a woman. I would think that as a working actress, having missed out on a role in a major motion picture because she was high on drugs, would be a HUGE disappointment and regret. Especially the part about her being high, given the fact she was an addict at the time. Her marriage, her career, and her addictions are different things and any one of those things going well, does not make up for the other.
Met Maureen McCormick in 1995 when she was trying to make a break into country music. She was very nice and even made a short video for me for my buddies stationed in Japan.
Maureen mccormick also starred in the Barbara mandrell story.
Florence Henderson was a part of the festivities at the Indy 500, and also rode in the 500 Festival parade the day before the race. Just a year or so before she died, she was in the parade and a boy held a sign that said it was his 8th birthday. She climbed out of the convertible, autographed his sign and kissed his cheek.
Thanks for sharing this, Maggie!
You’re welcome. It all happened just a few feet from me. I may have a photo of it somewhere. Last year and again this year, the parade was canceled.
Per other cast members statements Robert Reed was not on camera for the last episode but he was there on set.
Robert Reed refused to participate in the last episode of the Brady bunch because he thought the script was too silly.
Robert Reed was a superb actor - gay or not - we all accepted him as the perfect dad!
Not all.
Robert Reed always described in a bad way but imagine being bim no wonder he wasn't happy he had to be on the DL all his life of people's judgemental ways rest easy Mr Reed you was totally underrated as an actor...
Part of the reason it remains "popular" is that half-hour shows are a lot easier to air in syndication than hour shows. Or, if you have an hour to fill, run two back-to-back and make it a selling point.
Met him in STL around 1968, at the Fox theater. Very nice guy.
Seattle, St. Louis or Salt Lake City?
I was lil watching this show, I wished I had this family, as a kid of divorce. I feel so bad that Robert Reed had to hide but I can't help but love this show for the family aspect.
I understand why he had to because at the time it would've ruined his career. I've once read that many people had been fired from jobs such as teaching when they were revealed as gay!
As a member of the LGBTQ community it is sad.
@@bettygrable2698 not really. They should do the same thing today.
I grew up watching the Brady Bunch in the mid 70s and 80s and I absolutely loved this show!! Never knew there were so many behind-the-scenes romances and despite Robert Reed being gay those kids adored him tremendously!! LOTS of fond memories is all I have of this ICONIC TV show.
There are a lot of shots of the homes exterior that show it clearly as a one story rancher. When we see the interior there is clearly a flight of stairs going up to a second floor of a two story home. Impossible.
The only thing that surprises me is that anyone is surprised by any of these facts.
Not one thing was mentioned in this video that any fan of this show didn’t know. Incidentally, according to Florence Henderson, Robert Reed actually did show up on set for the series final episode, but got into a huge altercation with Sherwood Schwartz over the script and had to be asked to leave the set. When Reed refused, Schwartz had threatened to have security guards remove him, but decided against it because it would’ve negatively affected the kids. Reed, according to Henderson, watched the whole filming of the episode from the wings, fuming the entire time.
I already knew most of this. Good Show. Like a pair of old comfortable shoes. Makes you feel good to wear them or watch in this case. Nothing deep. But that is why people love it. Great escapism!!!
I even will watch the episodes with " Cousin Bongwater" as i call him in it. Don't like him personally but doesn't ruin the show for me.
We agree, erb90us!
Robert Reed was a terrific actor, but he serves as a reminder of the need to stay in your lane. He was a principal actor in a popular sitcom, but he wasn’t - to my limited knowledge - hired as a writer, producer or director for the series. That meant that his views of what the show should be and what constitutes better and worse comedy were unwanted and out of place. This is a life lesson for many of us - staying in our lane can be hard (and damaging on the ego), but it’s a critical part of working effectively.
Robert Reed DID have a part in the direction of the show, just not head director.
The last show Reed couldn't be a sport about it, what a primadonna!
I would tend to agree with you. Except that Robert Reed was a Shakespearean actor whose fame as Mike Brady, typecast him, costing him roles that would’ve been more to his skill and preference.
@@michaelmckenna6464 Dimes to doughnuts he took the role because he needed the money. He did the show for how long? The typecasting already happened before the finale.
Robert reed had no excuse for ditching the last episode, it's not the actors decision in what the srory line is,thier job is to deliver it
@@bobdepaola7828 not all of it was " crap”
@@bobdepaola7828 I honestly can't say that because except for Maude and mama's family the rest of the line up was so fake
@@bobdepaola7828 W.T.M.I I didn't need to know that
@@bobdepaola7828 Either
@@bobdepaola7828 nah I'm a big fan and I don't drink acohol
The only reason this show is still popular is because it is secretly filled with Wessonality.
Don't forget Tang orange drink. That was the other product that florence henderson was advertising on tv.
She also was a spokeswoman for Polident!
LOL! I had forgotten about those old Wesson Oil commercials.
Nothing surprises me anymore. Learning he was Gay is not a shock.
Robert Reed was probably a very likable man considering that the children, being teenagers with that arrogant streak and indestructible mindset that comes with adolescence, not to mention a disrespect towards grownups, never tried to put him on the spot, It was after all the early 1970s and still a dangerous time for an actor to be exposed as gay, especially in a family oriented sitcom.
I remember “wholesome"... not in TV vocabulary anymore...
Crazy! Great video
Florence Henderson is also the stark looking Amish woman in the chair, the one getting fussed at by Weird Al in his Amish Paradise video!
I didn't realize that it was her in the Amish Paradise video!
Thanks for the tip!
He took it in the REAR 🎉
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Robert Reed was a perfectionist. He insisted that no southern California residence could have a payphone. Until someone found a loophole and discovered that Santa Monica, California residences could have a payphone!
Reed said “if ya think I’m straight, you came too late
they didn't do a good job covering these up, everybody already knew
Robert Reed was a perfectionist! He insisted that strawberries had no smell. He insisted on the line that the kitchen looked like strawberry paradise instead of smelling like paradise.
The Brady Bunch was one of my favorite shows growing up. It dealt with issues and problems most families with kids experience and how those problems get solved. The entire cast worked perfectly together. Romance between cast
members is not unusual as they are together most of the time. Florence and Robert were talented actors and made the
perfect mom and dad. I was surprised to hear Robert Reed was married to a woman for five years in the early 60's and
has a daughter. Although Reed was Gay, it was a time when being Gay was frowned upon and he kept his private life
hidden from the public. Many actors Rock Hudson, that were/are Gay is still often hidden due to prejudices and religious beliefs by many. I've enjoyed The Brady Bunch over the years and is still on cable today. Long live The Brady Bunch ! ! !
We're happy to know that you're a fan of the show. In your opinion, what is its best episode?
@@FactsVerse I couldn't name my favorite one, two, five of fifteen episodes of The Brady Bunch as they were all great, educational, and dealt with issues parents and children deal with every day at home, school, with friends and in real life.
your dad lost his sketches at an amusement park?
I still love the Brady Bunch since i was 11 years old
He was standing behind the scenes on the last episode. The show was cancelled right after.
The show was cancelled because it had low ratings and it was beaten by Sanford and son.
We've heard plenty of stories about scandals on The Brady Bunch set, which stands the reason why both Don Fedderson and Fred MacMurray didn't allow such similar distractions to derail the filming of episodes of My Three Sons. Of course, the Livingston brothers, Stanley and Barry, happen to be friends with The Brady Bunch cast and Maureen McCormick also appeared in the "Ernie the Bluebeard" episode of M3S in 1967, along with Claire Wilcox, before both of them appeared again in the Brady episode, "The Liberation of Marcia Brady", 4 yrs. later!!!
Woooooo, he left the show..... Good Grief !!!!
Robert would go to the bar across the street, get sloshed and meet young boys. He often came back to the set inebriated and bad tempered. That said, he played his part perfectly.
Robert Reed was one of my earliest celebrity crushes around 5 or 6 years old.
I don't blame you! He was a very handsome man.
Loved the series in reruns
Glad to know that you're still watching the reruns! Which episode are you currently on?
none of these surprised me, I knew them already. Weird fact: While Robert Reed didn't appear in the last episode, he was there on the set, rumoured to have been grumbling about how outlandish & ridiculous the story was
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1- Mike and Susan didn't "make out". It was just a kiddy crush (puppy love) it meant nothing at all.
2- Florence WAS just innocently humoring Barry by having dinner with him. The tabs had no right to take something innocent and blow it WAY out of proportion! She didn't deserve that.
3- The finale. It was suggested that Reed be escorted forcefully off stage by security. Shwartz said "not in front of those kids.". Robert always hated the part but accepted it. He was unable to find SERIOUS roles to play since the morons stereotyped him so he was forever branded Mike Brady.
I am shocked beyond belief that he agreed to do the corny variety hour. He must have been very desperate. He was great in the movies, though. Only Florence appeared on the "Brady Brides". It is interesting that it was Jan who followed her "dad's" footsteps and became an architect. Greg? A doctor?
Greg. Became a doctor
Marsha became a fashion designer
Peter became a business man (and married his beautiful boss). In the Christmas episode, Cindy said, if the idiot won't ask you, as the idiot!"
Jan became the architect
Bobby became a race car driver until his accident which inspired one if the movies
Cindy became a radio announcer.
Alice got married to Sam the butcher
Carol sold real estate.
They also forgot to tell me and Maureen, Eve, Susan, and Barry all dated.
Yeah, I noticed that too. What a wasted shame.
I didn't know Robert left for his reasons with the writer . We knew everything else!
Barry Williams' book "Growing up Brady" includes many of these facts, plus a lot more. Written in the 1990s. According to the book, all the kids dated their counterparts. No shortage of amusement in there. Each time I read his book, I found something else to laugh about. Kinda wish I still had the book now.
Barry William's book was very interesting. It also contained information about episodes of the show. Growing up Brady.
@CZSm : I have that book, also & have read it many times- it's great!
No wonder ree liked the Brady bunch
Another thing they didn’t touch base was the fact that the final episode in which Reed wasn’t in, would of prevented him from returning had there been a sixth season. There were rumors of a recast with another actor playing Mike Brady.
Would HAVE, not Of
Reed had more than just one screw loose it seems...
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quitting was what got me for reed My Mother told me about him Being Gay when I was watching the show. I now got the whole story about Barry and Florence, yet did not know about Greg and Marcia
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Still love this channel, but not much new here as far as "trivia"! The one point that Reed's suspension from the final episode tarnished as his image as America's "perfect dad" was that it made him look like a jerk for actually allowing a "business trip out of town" as it was said make him actually miss his first born's high school graduation!
I’ll never forget Carol saying that to Gregg, “too bad your father was on a business trip out of town and had to miss it.” Too cringeworthy. Sherwood should’ve just compromised and rewrote the script. It really was a stupid episode. Also, I think it’s true that Robert Reed actually DID show up on the set for the shooting, but created a scene with Schwartz and almost got removed from the set by security. Reed actually stayed off camera and watched the taping, fuming the whole time. This was according to an interview I saw with Florence Henderson.
@@deejay8403 even more cringe worthy of that was the stupid bit in the final lines about "Why don't you turn your attic room into a guest room for your cousin Oliver?!"
How many parents in real life had to miss their child's high school graduation because of a out of town business trip?
Gene Hackman was supposed to be Mike Brady. What a different show that would have been!
Now we're curious, Cindee!
Actress Joyce bulifant was suppose to be Carol Brady.
The show would have been less funny if Gene hackman was Mike Brady.
The episode where Greg's hair was dyed orange wasn't a "prank." Bobby was selling bottles of so-called "hair tonic," and Greg bought one to humor Bobby. As everybody now knows, the stuff turned Greg's hair orange. Whoever wrote the copy for this video needs to do better research.
Thanks to much viewing of previous stories regarding cast of The Brady's I've learnt all of what was revealed in this episode through other sources. But ya-ll did a nice job. No surprise that Reed chose to keep quiet about his sexual identity, most leading men where either bi or homosexual and it was not popular to be seen as effeminent.
I read "Growing Up Brady" by Barry Williams. He revealed so much of the behind the scenes of the show from his point of view. Good book. Chris Knight and Eve Plumb also dated. Chris also married and divorced Adrienne Curry season 1 America's Next Top Model winner. They met on the VH1 show "Surreal Life" and had the show "My Fair Brady." Sad they didn't work out but both are happy living normal lives. Peter Brady was my favorite. I loved the show as a child. I only saw reruns because I was born in 1979.
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These things are hardly scandals and most are pretty well known.
These stories were the inspiration for the Monk episode "Mr. Monk's Favorite Show"...
We remember that episode, L. Salisbury!
I remember that episode of Monk! They lampooned The Brady Bunch into "The Cooper Clan!" And Monk had to help out this former child star from his favorite show!
i Really Love my Classic telvision
Same here, Kevin!
You have sunk to a new low by the final question
Not surprised
Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island we both of my #1 favorite TV shows and remains that way today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I knew all of this except for the fact that Mike and Susan had a thing for each other?!?! Bobby and Cindy?!?! That I didn't know!! Seems all weird now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wish that some how when Robert Reed died, they could have had a movie or something like that showing his funeral with all of them around!! Oh well, too late for that idea now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE that show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Susan olsen named her son Michael because of mike lookinland who played Bobby Brady.
@@harperstacey9604 didn't know that
@@racingmach1 susan olsen had big crush on Mike lookinland.
I've always knew Robert Reed was gay. And I think alot of stand did too. But he was such a great actor that no one cared.
I don't care, either. I just enjoy his performances.
I wasn't surprised at all to know he was a closet gay but I was surprised to hear that he quit the season finale that was widely known about his sexuality
He quit the last episode because he thought the plot about Greg's hair turning orange was stupid.
@@bobdepaola7828 the Brady kids were growing up and the show was on its last legs.
@@harperstacey9604 he wasn't in the Season 4 episode "Goodbye, Alice Hello " either because he thought it was stupid for Alice to quit her job as the Bradys housekeeper because the kids treated her like garbage!
@@melissacooper4282 that was pretty dumb of him to think Alice would stay as the children turned on her.
New about Robert Reed like the show when I was 12 😎 still do.
I didn't now that. Now I now.
Most of this has been known for sometime; I.e. Greg's crush on Florence with her taking him on one date, and Robert Reed's homosexuality. I wouldn't really call them 'Scandals' rather "Did you Knows" or something to that affect. Robert Reed did a great job playing the father. What T.V. show ever existed with the actor/actresses didn't have some spats with the producer (HELLO MASH AT THE 4077!!)
I knew that Robert Reed was gay but I didn't that he refused do the last show
There is nothing about TV that surprises me.
From I heard Robert Reed didn’t appear in the last episode but he was watching the whole episode as it was taped on the side
I could care less about someone's private life. It's none of my business.
You mean you couldn't care less. I agree with you that their private lives are none of our business and I don't care either. This channel exploits and disrespects others' privacy.
What about Jan, ( Eve Plumm ) . No mention about her ???
She is the cleanest one on the show
it was very good show.
Am I the only one who has never watched this?
Probably
Absolutely not!!
No I never watched it either
The Brady Bunch or Facts Verse?!?!
I'm guessing there are a handful more but not many. I've never watched an episode of Downton Abby (or as I like to call it Downtown Abby .)
It’s no shocker that Reed was a closet gay it’s common knowledge especially after he died of aids now walking off on the last episode shocking then again I can get his future roles being a total departure from the Brady role. Robert Reed played some mean characters the one of him in Charlie’s Angels playing the manipulative Glen Stanley that’s certainly a good example
I knew that Robert Reed was gay .An that he didnt like the writing for the last episode A Hair Brained Scheme.
Robert Reed as being gay was one of them as a scandal .
Even though she knew he was gay, florence henderson was constantly throwing herself at Robert Reed. Florence was also sleeping around with other men, although she had a husband. Florence henderson ended up catching crabs from an extramarital affair. I read all of this in florence's autobiography.
The Brady bunch always was before and after the TV series. Ask me, I know firsthand.
Thanks for sharing, Mike!
Thats cool I didnt know it 1st aired on my bday mines Sep 26th 1995
You share your birthday with Olivia newton john and Melissa Sue Anderson of little house on the prairie. September 26.
@@harperstacey9604 oh nice! I didn't know that either
@@brittneyrenea210 I am into birthdays and astrology. I found another celebrity that shares your birthday. Actress Linda Hamilton of the terminator movies. My birthday is June 6. I share my birthday with Robert englund who played freddy krueger in the nightmare on elm street movies. Brittney, stay safe and healthy.
@@harperstacey9604 aww yea that stuff interest me 2 and thank you so much! I hope all is well with you!
@@brittneyrenea210 thank you for your replies. God bless you. Judging by the moon and the stars, good things are coming your way. By the way , I found another celebrity that shares you r birthday,. Tennis great Serena Williams. Stay safe and healthy.
That’s a great show I have seen tons of reruns.
Did you also like the Partridge family?
Why did Robert Reed agree to do the show when he hated the scripts?
The pay was good.
His manager probably told him to show up for the audition and he probably assumed that the show would not last as long as it did.
Yes If you see The TV Movie of Growing up Brady you even see how he was arguing on the set while it was being filmed and he refused to appear and Sherwood Schwartz said "Alright then if you don't want to appear then you don't have to appear."But the catch was that if there had been a 6th season then he'd have been written out.I read of this beforehand on a Nick@Nite Calendar pad.
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Love The Brady Bunch & The Brady Bunch movies. I knew all theses "scandals" But I also heard that there was talk about doing one more season without Robert & saying Mike Brady had died. But I feel this was like an urban legend. Lastly like most guys in the last season or so I had many nasty thought on what I'd like to do with & to Marcia when nobody was home !!
The show went down hill after tiger left the cast due to low pay
Tiger was run over by a studio Jeep ...
@@sking2173 I was aware of that. But thanks
I, too, read ALL of these stories a long time ago. Yawn. Love those Bradys-good or bad, straight or gay!
Well Mr. Narrator, do you ever visit the comment section and participate?
Grow a set and try it some time!
I'm here, Allan!
saddened about those 2 turn of events w Reed.
It's really sad, BeT
Good clean tv
Years later we got Step by Step
Step by step couldn't hold a candle to the Brady bunch.
90% of Hollyweird was and still is a bunch of switch hitters
I always thought there was something off about him. He came out like in the 70s and did some shows where he played gay a little too well! My favorite episode is when Marcia takes a plain girl named Molly and made her pretty!
Robert Reed's real last name was Braden. For real. He was from Illinois and had a daughter named Karen that had a bit part in one episode.
I know because she went to school with me in Wilmette. i saw her on it.
What was Reed's real first name?
Starts at 1:40
I always wondered how much they got paid for doing the show. I think I read somewhere that the kids didn’t get any residual money, only the adults did. I wonder if that’s true.
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I don't know about "The Brady Bunch" but I remember cast members of "Gilligan's Island" on talk shows saying they were never payed any residuals from syndication Sherwood Schwartz took all that income. Schwartz is reported to have left an estate of $175 million.
A shame about Maureen McCormick- she didn't age well- glad she is better now
Read her book I couldn’t put it down, her real family was nothing like the Brady’s
I recall an episode about Jessie James one of boys became a fan of Jessie James his father tried to set him straight on this outlaw it was a serious story on the show and actually had someone who knew Jessie James appear on this episode and it dealt with this quite seriously I believe the actor who played Mike was also related to someone who was shot by Jessie James so was revealed later?
Yeah! That was a good one. It went over Bobby's head in the movie, when Jesse James abducted the woman and Bobby thought Jesse James was doing good to give her a ride on his horse!
Jesse James was a male, so his first name was not spelled "Jessie."
Greg's hair turning orange was not a prank as you say @7:04. Did you do your research for this from one source?.....you told us nothing new.
I knew Chris Knight aka Peter Brady. He was one of my bank customers and real nice guy
Did you get his autograph? Did he talk about the Brady bunch?
I knew Robert was gay but I did not know about the last show
Hopefully this is the last video rehashing all the stuff from all the other videos.