Our family had quite a few similarities to the Bradys. 3 boys and 3 girls. Of course we all had bikes, a, station wagon and the wood paneling. As the oldest boy I always had my own room. We didn't have a live in house keeper but we did have a cleaning lady come in 2 days a week. Every night we sat down at 6 pm to a home cooked meal. We didn't talk news at the table. We were only allowed TV after homework. We weren't squeaky clean perfect but we were a close family. We used to go camping a lot.
I was a kid then and I knew nothing of any of that stuff and did not care. (I do remember waiting in gas lines in my mom’s car, but that’s it.) It’s only self-centered adults who think edgy stuff should be in a kids’ show. Kudos to Sherwood Schwartz for focusing on the kids more than the ratings (until Oliver came along, that is.)
A show i grew up watching in the late 80's and early 90's. It's really sad that Mike, Carol, and Alice are all gone 😞 Such great actors who really left their mark on this world. RIP
Our household was similar to the Bradys. 3 boys and 3 girls living in an upper middle class California suburb. Our house was bigger but their house was more modern. We didn't have a maid but we had the same wood paneling and ugly furniture. Their kitchen was orange. Ours was avocado. We had the '72 LTD station wagon. Our parents didn't buy us "fashionable" clothes. If I wanted bell bottom pants I had to buy them myself. I got $2 a week allowance until I was 13. Then it was $5.
So there was no Vietnam, racial tension, Woodstock, drugs etc. in the Bradys...well do our sitcoms now all mention Black Lives Matter, Trump and Muslims? That stuff wasn't in the show because you watch a TV show to escape all the drama happening in the real world. Yes, current events are important and all but I get pretty tired of the latter hearing it all the time and certainly don't want it in sitcoms and I'm sure people felt the same about the former in those days.
Boy, you said it! Now, with the advent of reality TV, it's mostly all crap on the tube these days. I'm so sick of it, that I barely watch TV for anything anymore.
Maurice Belk Enjoying shows from years ago doesn't make me a "sore loser", I'm just not interested in watching small-minded reality TV programming. The only thing I watch on the box these days are sports programmes and documentaries. Your shallow assessment of me just makes you look like a moron out for an argument. Feel free to go back to your basement and watch Real Housewives or whatever it is you like to watch.
I agree with you. I was the same age as the older Brady Kids, and although my family wasn't exactly like the Brady Bunch, we were an everyday family who didn't live and breath Viet Nam, and we didn't do drugs, or using contraceptives, The Brady Bunch represented more of America, I think than not, at least the values, many of us aspired too, because the Bradys represented us for the most part.
Sure. But I still wonder what Mike's first wife died of and why the girls' biological father completely forgot about them. But then it looks like they forgot about him too. It's like on the Andy Griffith Show where they never explain what happened to Andy's wife and Opie's mother.
What are you droning on about the obscenity of mediocrity? There's nothing wrong with being middle-class. That middle class house my parents bought in 1965 for $28,000 sold for $1.07 million two years ago. Both of my parents were teachers and any kid would be lucky to be raised by them. We had an unspoiled, traditional upbringing and we all ended up as successful and well-adjusted adults. I had a great childhood.
@sneezyize The movies were great, yet the family still resisted the reality of life in 1995. That's what I love about the movies most of all, is that despite the updated time period, the Brady's were still living happily in 1971 and totally oblivious to the grunge of the 1990s around them.
Ha, they didn't show toilets....... that's kinda like Full House - 13 people in one house and nobody ever took a shit! "........Uncle Jesse!......" "......just a minute Michelle, I'm takin' a shit!....."
I guess back in the early '70s they never thought there would be an internet or smart alecks like me asking questions about Mike and Carol's former spouses.....LOL.
I knew Mike was a widower, but didn't realize that Carol was a divorcee. Wasn't the girls' dad interested in their lives at all? It's like they completely forgot about their real dad when Mike married their mom.
she thought she wasn't needed since there was now a mother in the house, and was going to leave. she made an excuse of going to seattle to care for a sick aunt. this prompted cindy to say "does alice like attle better than us?" "you said she was going to see attle".
None of the networks showed toilets back in the 70s. I think "All In The Family:" was the first show to actually mention a toilet. I think they only showed Alice's room once during the whole series.
June Lockhart (of Tim & Lassie, Lost in Space) and Florence Henderson (of The Brady Bunch) look like they're Pleiadians from that part of our galaxy. We're lucky to have them on Earth.
Life can be unfair. Hollywood can be far more unfair. I thought that this was universally known. A verbal commitment is simply someone in Hollywood breaking their word, which they do without any consideration, so it certainly would never matter to them. However, had Bullifant had a signed contract, she could have legally forced them to pay for breach-of-contract, which might have earned her more than she would have actually made doing the show for its entire course.
"And that's why we've never heard of Joyce Bullifant." WRONG! She may not be as famous as Florence Henderson, but she's not exactly a complete unknown.
Usually I can't see other people in well known roles but Joyce and Hackman would have been a hoot. Robert Reed always bitched about the show but that didn't stop him from coming back to be in the movies. The Shelly Long movie was a blast. I'm surprised that there was never a Brady Bunch meets Gilligan Island bit.
Gary Stinten all are relevant to the video. Lol i dnt understand why some people feel the need to come on these videos and find something to gripe about. Maybe Sals dentures were rubbing his gums that day 😂
We also new that the bathroom was shared when they were little because of Jan putting a lemon on her face to get rid of her freckles. It had no toilet, though because of the censors.
"that's why we've never heard of joyce bulifant". Haven't they heard of "the mary tyler moore show", or "love thy Neighbor"? still, this wasn't fair to her at all. she had the part.
This entire documentary is so....damn, I don't even know the word for it. "Desperate", maybe? It seems as though they are just trying way too hard to dig up dirt on these amazing, talented, and unique actors and actresses. Quite a shame if you ask me.
AlphaDeltaXray no.. they're telling the story of the actors in the show. there is no dirt digging, just confirming the history via reputable witnesses like the director and the actors themselves..
He is wrong about one thing. The Brady Bunch did make comment on the financial times when Jan said " I get paid in money and we know what that is worth these days" This was from the final dismal season when they tried every trick in the book. Kids are getting older get Cousin Oliver... Reed was over it by this point
spencer757200 id have to agree there.. the kids would have been over being so "unreal" about the realism of the brady bunch.. it was a good show.. just wish there was a prequel explaining where carol and mike explained their previous partners.
Over the years people missed out playing a Character. Matthew Broderick never plaeyd Alex on Family Ties. Loni Anderson never played Chrissy on Three's Company. Gene Hackman never played Mike Brady, and Vanessa Williams and Whitney Houston didn't play Sondra & Denise respectively on The Cosby Show and Kadeem Hardison never played Theo. Also look at American Soaps, Sharon Stone, Julia Roberts, and Kevin Costner were rejected for Roles and Two of them became Oscar Winners.
I watched the Brady Bunch when it initially aired (and am the same age as susan olsen). The language and outfits were very outdated and made my skin crawl. The Patridge Family- on the other hand- had appropriate language and clothing.
I bet Gene Hackman is as happy as a pig in shit that he didn't land the role of Mike Brady. Imagine he did? He'd be known today as "Mr Brady", instead of the bad ass action star that he became. Speaking of Hackman, anyone seen him lately? Man, he is *_OLD!_* I'm not saying that as a bad thing, we all get old. Only thing is that we haven't seen him on-screen in, how long? His last film was 2004's 'Welcome To Mooseport'. Over 13 years ago. Hackman is currently 87 years old. He will most likely be one of the 3 celebrities to die this year. Every year, celebrity deaths come in threes, and it never fails.
Robert Reed HATED the Mike Brady character and the scrips written for him. Gene Hackman was considered an unknown at the time so Schwartz didn't hire him. I'm sure Hackman was grateful to be known for his other movies instead of as Mike Brady.
Jeffrey Hunter, who played Capt Pike in the original Star Trek pilot, wanted to play Mike Brady but Sherwood Schwartz thought he was too good looking to play an architect. Hunter ended up dying in May 1969 at age 42 from head injuries after a fall months before the Brady Bunch series premiered.
In my humble opinion, I think the actor who would have best portrayed as Mike Brady had he not been in the role as Tom Corbett in the TV show, "The Courtship Of Eddie's Father", would have been Bill Bixby. I mean, if Bill had the role of Mike Brady, then not only would the chemistry work between Florence and Bill as Carol and Mike Brady, but the resemblance of Greg, Peter, and Bobby Brady would have matched Bill as Mike Brady. It's just my opinion, that's all.
As for the daughter of Mr Schwartz not liking her life on the episodes. Hmmmmm boo hoo. If the show had been based on fiction then it would have failed. Too bad you don't appreciate your father's ideas or brilliance.
Our family had quite a few similarities to the Bradys. 3 boys and 3 girls. Of course we all had bikes, a, station wagon and the wood paneling. As the oldest boy I always had my own room. We didn't have a live in house keeper but we did have a cleaning lady come in 2 days a week. Every night we sat down at 6 pm to a home cooked meal. We didn't talk news at the table. We were only allowed TV after homework. We weren't squeaky clean perfect but we were a close family. We used to go camping a lot.
If I wanted to watch the turbulence of the times, I'd watch the news.
I watch the Brady Bunch for the sweetness. I think they're groovy.
Well said! It's nice to watch something wholesome.
Agreed and well said! ❤️
I was a kid then and I knew nothing of any of that stuff and did not care. (I do remember waiting in gas lines in my mom’s car, but that’s it.) It’s only self-centered adults who think edgy stuff should be in a kids’ show. Kudos to Sherwood Schwartz for focusing on the kids more than the ratings (until Oliver came along, that is.)
A show i grew up watching in the late 80's and early 90's. It's really sad that Mike, Carol, and Alice are all gone 😞
Such great actors who really left their mark on this world. RIP
This program was on in late 60s and 70s. Sorry you werent able to view until 80s&90s im glad we have utube retuns on most of old programs.
One Of My Favorite Shows Back In The Day. Along With My 3 Sons And Family Affair.
Our household was similar to the Bradys. 3 boys and 3 girls living in an upper middle class California suburb. Our house was bigger but their house was more modern. We didn't have a maid but we had the same wood paneling and ugly furniture. Their kitchen was orange. Ours was avocado. We had the '72 LTD station wagon. Our parents didn't buy us "fashionable" clothes. If I wanted bell bottom pants I had to buy them myself. I got $2 a week allowance until I was 13. Then it was $5.
So there was no Vietnam, racial tension, Woodstock, drugs etc. in the Bradys...well do our sitcoms now all mention Black Lives Matter, Trump and Muslims? That stuff wasn't in the show because you watch a TV show to escape all the drama happening in the real world. Yes, current events are important and all but I get pretty tired of the latter hearing it all the time and certainly don't want it in sitcoms and I'm sure people felt the same about the former in those days.
Boy, you said it! Now, with the advent of reality TV, it's mostly all crap on the tube these days. I'm so sick of it, that I barely watch TV for anything anymore.
gupsnot Barely?? Guess that's the sign of a sore loser,aren't U?????
Maurice Belk what are you talking about?
gupsnot Not 2 mention stuck in a time warp TV wise,perhaps!!!!
Maurice Belk Enjoying shows from years ago doesn't make me a "sore loser", I'm just not interested in watching small-minded reality TV programming. The only thing I watch on the box these days are sports programmes and documentaries. Your shallow assessment of me just makes you look like a moron out for an argument. Feel free to go back to your basement and watch Real Housewives or whatever it is you like to watch.
I agree with you. I was the same age as the older Brady Kids, and although my family wasn't exactly like the Brady Bunch, we were an everyday family who didn't live and breath Viet Nam, and we didn't do drugs, or using contraceptives, The Brady Bunch represented more of America, I think than not, at least the values, many of us aspired too, because the Bradys represented us for the most part.
The nanny looks, sounds, and even her humor reminds me of Ellen degeneres😂
Mildred Escoto so ellen is going to turn into Alice 'brady'...
@@garystinten9339 Alice Nelson lololol
Sure. But I still wonder what Mike's first wife died of and why the girls' biological father completely forgot about them. But then it looks like they forgot about him too. It's like on the Andy Griffith Show where they never explain what happened to Andy's wife and Opie's mother.
I always assumed that Andy's wife and Opie's mother had died. But now that I thinl about it they were never very clear on that.
Non of your business how she died
@@jetnight88 It's a TV show, stupid. Of course viewers are gonna wonder how she died.
Gene Hackman!!!!!! he would have scared all the other neighborhood kids to death
What are you droning on about the obscenity of mediocrity? There's nothing wrong with being middle-class. That middle class house my parents bought in 1965 for $28,000 sold for $1.07 million two years ago. Both of my parents were teachers and any kid would be lucky to be raised by them. We had an unspoiled, traditional upbringing and we all ended up as successful and well-adjusted adults. I had a great childhood.
Lucky you not all of us have parents Like yours
@sneezyize The movies were great, yet the family still resisted the reality of life in 1995. That's what I love about the movies most of all, is that despite the updated time period, the Brady's were still living happily in 1971 and totally oblivious to the grunge of the 1990s around them.
Geez, the story of this documentary is all over the place.
Ha, they didn't show toilets....... that's kinda like Full House - 13 people in one house and nobody ever took a shit! "........Uncle Jesse!......" "......just a minute Michelle, I'm takin' a shit!....."
WillWilsonII lmfao 😂😂😂
There was a bathroom that had a door from the boys room and from the girls room. There was an entire show around what happened in this bathroom.
I guess back in the early '70s they never thought there would be an internet or smart alecks like me asking questions about Mike and Carol's former spouses.....LOL.
I knew Mike was a widower, but didn't realize that Carol was a divorcee. Wasn't the girls' dad interested in their lives at all? It's like they completely forgot about their real dad when Mike married their mom.
i swear there was a bathroom connecting the boys and girls room in one episode
randumbtimes3 There was a bathroom, but no toilet was shown.
she thought she wasn't needed since there was now a mother in the house, and was going to leave. she made an excuse of going to seattle to care for a sick aunt. this prompted cindy to say "does alice like attle better than us?" "you said she was going to see attle".
The original Yours, Mine and Ours movie, I saw Lucille Ball in there.
You have a valid point. It was basically sloppy script writing, and what you mentioned should have been included in the show.
None of the networks showed toilets back in the 70s. I think "All In The Family:" was the first show to actually mention a toilet. I think they only showed Alice's room once during the whole series.
I always wanted the Bradys to have a baby together. The perfect blended family. Yours,mine,and ours. 😀
Thanks for the Upload, I like the American Version better of the Documentary better.
Tapessalvage- please reply- what happen to part 2??
June Lockhart (of Tim & Lassie, Lost in Space) and Florence Henderson (of The Brady Bunch) look like they're Pleiadians from that part of our galaxy. We're lucky to have them on Earth.
Life can be unfair. Hollywood can be far more unfair. I thought that this was universally known. A verbal commitment is simply someone in Hollywood breaking their word, which they do without any consideration, so it certainly would never matter to them. However, had Bullifant had a signed contract, she could have legally forced them to pay for breach-of-contract, which might have earned her more than she would have actually made doing the show for its entire course.
joyce was on Bill Cosby Show from 1969-1971, and did quite a few shows in the 70's.
you're right, alot of topical shows of the past are very dated now and some are unwatchable.
"And that's why we've never heard of Joyce Bullifant."
WRONG! She may not be as famous as Florence Henderson, but she's not exactly a complete unknown.
I'm glad they used Ann B. instead of the other woman. Rest in Peace Ann 💞🙏💞🙏
Can you imagine Popeye Doyle cast as Mike Brady? lol That would be classic.
Usually I can't see other people in well known roles but Joyce and Hackman would have been a hoot. Robert Reed always bitched about the show but that didn't stop him from coming back to be in the movies. The Shelly Long movie was a blast. I'm surprised that there was never a Brady Bunch meets Gilligan Island bit.
Cindy was so cute when she was little.
I Think That They Are SUPER GROOVY & REALLY FAR OUT!!!!! P.s & Thanks For Uploading This Video tapesalvage :)...................................
enjoyed this
Who's the luscious lass reading the cue cards?
I thought they shot the pilot from October 4-12, 1968. Maybe she meant late September when they started rehearsing but read that it was October.
Who the heck are these people talking about the show?
Sal Dorcet how about watch the video..
you might learn a thing or two about the show called the brady bunch.
Gary Stinten all are relevant to the video. Lol i dnt understand why some people feel the need to come on these videos and find something to gripe about. Maybe Sals dentures were rubbing his gums that day 😂
Where is PART TWO??
weenieboy69g click on the account name and look in the video section.
If superficial memory serves, and it is an extremely superficial recollection, Bullifant played Murray's wife on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
+randumbtimes The Bathroom was shared it was revealed in the Goat episode
We also new that the bathroom was shared when they were little because of Jan putting a lemon on her face to get rid of her freckles. It had no toilet, though because of the censors.
Mom said “No played in the house!”
"that's why we've never heard of joyce bulifant". Haven't they heard of "the mary tyler moore show", or "love thy Neighbor"? still, this wasn't fair to her at all. she had the part.
The Brady Kid was the bravest act ever!
This entire documentary is so....damn, I don't even know the word for it. "Desperate", maybe?
It seems as though they are just trying way too hard to dig up dirt on these amazing, talented, and unique actors and actresses. Quite a shame if you ask me.
AlphaDeltaXray no.. they're telling the story of the actors in the show.
there is no dirt digging, just confirming the history via reputable witnesses like the director and the actors themselves..
@randumbtimes3 there was in every episode that shows the kids bedrooms.
Wow. Nice. When Eve said they were too embarassed to say "Groovy'' and when they said about Florence Henderson not being funny...
How do you know Robert Reed was even religious in the first place? You can't abandon something you've never been into.
joice u wouldn't cut it as carol brady anyway
He is wrong about one thing. The Brady Bunch did make comment on the financial times when Jan said " I get paid in money and we know what that is worth these days" This was from the final dismal season when they tried every trick in the book. Kids are getting older get Cousin Oliver... Reed was over it by this point
spencer757200 id have to agree there.. the kids would have been over being so "unreal" about the realism of the brady bunch..
it was a good show..
just wish there was a prequel explaining where carol and mike explained their previous partners.
they used to show LOVE THAT BOB in the 1990's all the time on this one station, i should have saved the VHS it was classic
bob cummings
Another name they considered was "The Brady Brood."
Wow, in that pic of a young Ann B. Davis, she looks gorgeous.
Imagine if Gene Hackman had taken the part... His whole career might have turned out like Robert Reed's.
Ridiculous. Half the movie remakes were "fish out of water" - the characters from the past show in the present, real world.
Life is what we make of it. "Life sucks" was created by certain people to keep everybody else down. Not that this directly reflects Ms. Bulifant...
You have just described living the obscenity of mediocrity.
Yeah, I thought about if there were toilets as well.
this seems out of order
Over the years people missed out playing a Character. Matthew Broderick never plaeyd Alex on Family Ties. Loni Anderson never played Chrissy on Three's Company. Gene Hackman never played Mike Brady, and Vanessa Williams and Whitney Houston didn't play Sondra & Denise respectively on The Cosby Show and Kadeem Hardison never played Theo. Also look at American Soaps, Sharon Stone, Julia Roberts, and Kevin Costner were rejected for Roles and Two of them became Oscar Winners.
Robert Reed didn't become gay while he was on The Brady Bunch. He was gay long before than.
Maybe, just maybe, it could never matter either way. Gee, ya think?
It wouldn't have mattered; they had nothing to conceal.
remember the attempted spin off KELLYS KIDS episode THE DOORS RECORD CAN BE SEEN IN THE SHOW
Lol, the gay guy in the ascot looks more like Ann B. Davis then he ever could look like Florence Henderson.🤔😄
He thinks that he is, uh, well, "groovy".
Wow I was 5 in 68..
I watched the Brady Bunch when it initially aired (and am the same age as susan olsen). The language and outfits were very outdated and made my skin crawl. The Patridge Family- on the other hand- had appropriate language and clothing.
The Bradys were called " squares" back in the day. The Paetridge Family were more hippie and performers too. Different lifestyles altogether .
Joyce Bulifant went on to many TV shows and married Elizabeth Montgomery's ex husband Bill Asher I don't think she wants for anything!
Apparently your version of gorgeous, and the rest of the world's version of gorgeous, are light-years apart.
Everybody remembers that Marcia had the hots for Davy Jones from the Monkees. But behind closed doors Jan was crazy about Gilligan.
I bet Gene Hackman is as happy as a pig in shit that he didn't land the role of Mike Brady. Imagine he did? He'd be known today as "Mr Brady", instead of the bad ass action star that he became.
Speaking of Hackman, anyone seen him lately? Man, he is *_OLD!_* I'm not saying that as a bad thing, we all get old. Only thing is that we haven't seen him on-screen in, how long? His last film was 2004's 'Welcome To Mooseport'. Over 13 years ago. Hackman is currently 87 years old.
He will most likely be one of the 3 celebrities to die this year.
Every year, celebrity deaths come in threes, and it never fails.
Robert Reed HATED the Mike Brady character and the scrips written for him. Gene Hackman was considered an unknown at the time so Schwartz didn't hire him. I'm sure Hackman was grateful to be known for his other movies instead of as Mike Brady.
Jeffrey Hunter, who played Capt Pike in the original Star Trek pilot, wanted to play Mike Brady but Sherwood Schwartz thought he was too good looking to play an architect. Hunter ended up dying in May 1969 at age 42 from head injuries after a fall months before the Brady Bunch series premiered.
Tell it to Pete Best.
@honnybun14220 but there was no toilet
It’s turn on tune in drop out .. she muddled it up
The 90's created horrible lipstick colors. This host is a good example of horrible 90's makeup.
In my humble opinion, I think the actor who would have best portrayed as Mike Brady had he not been in the role as Tom Corbett in the TV show, "The Courtship Of Eddie's Father", would have been Bill Bixby. I mean, if Bill had the role of Mike Brady, then not only would the chemistry work between Florence and Bill as Carol and Mike Brady, but the resemblance of Greg, Peter, and Bobby Brady would have matched Bill as Mike Brady. It's just my opinion, that's all.
A little clue for you; this is because it is not real life. It's fiction.
Who wrote the dialogue for this crap?? Half of everything they say is simply untrue.
Sherwood Schwartz and his son, Lloyd Schwartz wrote the Brady scrips. Don't know who wrote these scripts the British women narrating this show.
Cool. God bless, Proverbs 31
JFK was already gone.
We are all aware of what happened to you at summer camp when you were 12. And you've been struggling with those dark desires ever since.
She's still cute, Jan is passable, and Marcia... meh.
As for the daughter of Mr Schwartz not liking her life on the episodes. Hmmmmm boo hoo. If the show had been based on fiction then it would have failed. Too bad you don't appreciate your father's ideas or brilliance.
MariWANNA
susan is way cute xxx
no english accencent gettin sick of it
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The ugliest Color
You could have done far better.
It wouldn't have mattered; they had nothing to conceal.
You could have done far better.