The Untold Truth Of The Brady Bunch

From a steamy on-set romance to an ill-fated variety show, The Brady Bunch was one of those TV families that always kept our interest. But when you pull back the curtains of this iconic show, a lot of what you find comes as a surprise.

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Inspired by a factoid | 0:00
Rejected by all three networks | 1:39
Barry Williams dated his TV family | 3:08
Near-death by roller coaster | 4:22
What happened to the pets? | 5:48
Never a huge hit | 6:48
The Brady Bunch Variety Hour | 7:48
The Bradys grow up | 8:40
Failed spinoffs and revivals | 9:35
Almost a new Mike Brady | 10:41

[GrungeHQ]

Who was your favorite on The Brady Bunch?

[marksoquet]

Robert Reed was actually smart. He brought integrity to role. However, the amusenent park ride was most awesome thing he could have done. I did not know. Thank you for this little history/trivia bit.

[gregschurr]

I use to love watching this as a kid in the 1980's

[williamnovak]

The Kelly kids were Duane and Steve, not Duane and Gary!

[albertangeloro]

a friend from Cameroon, Africa, grew up watching re-runs. she told me she loved Thee Brrahdy Boonch.

[rosskardon]

Like most TV shows in the 1960's and 1970's, with the exception of All in the Family, The Brady Bunch was a fantasy realm, happy parallel universe TV show. The Brady Bunch never dealt with the real issues of the late 1960's and early 1970's facing young people of that time such as the Vietnam War, sex, and illegal drugs such as marijuana, heroin, and cocaine. And this why The Brady Bunch was such a popular hit along with The Partridge Family.. The Brady Bunch as an unrealistic, happy parallel universe, fantasy realm TV that was all of these kids and it was one happy family. The Brady Bunch is still extremely popular today, in both rerun syndication and DVD collections. The reason why The Brady Bunch is still so extremely popular today is because people who like to watch those kinds of fantasy realm TV shows, wish they could enter a portal to parallel universes and immigrate to live in that kind of a utopia. For example, when The Brady Bunch originally aired in the early 1970's, the producers of The Brady Bunch actually received letters from kids wanting to move in with the blended Brady family!

As for myself in sharp contrast, during my adolescent years in the early 1970s', I preferred to watch much more realistic TV shows such as All in the Family. I was an avid watcher of Game of Thrones on HBO and I watch House of the Dragon. Even though wargs, giants and dragons are not real. Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon, in sharp contrast to a fantasy realm TV show like The Brady Bunch, these two TV shows on HBO and HBO Max, are still just like how things are in the real world, where bad things happen to the good characters without a happy ending and the bad characters often get away with doing evil things.

So this also explains why I am an avid fan of the Yellowstone TV series and all of the Yellowstone spin-off TV shows such as Yellowstone 1883, Yellowstone 1923, and all of the other Yellowstone TV shows. This is because the Yellowstone TV show and all of the Yellowstone TV show spin-offs, are just like how things are in the real world!

[sherirobinson]

I've never seen the pilot 😮 unbelievable

[Machtimus]

The untold truth? You got all your info from books and interviews

[meyerj]

Here's an interesting fact. After the series' cancellation, ABC aired repeats of The Brady Bunch during late morning hours against NBC's Hollywood Squares and whatever CBS was offering at the time where the ratings still were far less than stellar. Around April 1975, the network picked out the game show Blankety Blanks from Bob Stewart to replace The Brady Bunch starting April 21st. Stewart promised ABC that if the series didn't do well, they might as well replace it with the Brady Bunch. And they did, ten weeks later on 6-30-1975. But their real biggest audience came when syndication picked it up a year later and aired it on after school time slots, something never been done before. The 4:00-6:00 time slots were so popular that independents stations would continue to air it for decades to come.
Oh, and BTW. The real reason why The Bradys were cancelled on CBS in 1990 was because it competed against ABC's Full House and Family Matters. When it came to Friday Nights, ABC ruled and that was the reason why the Bradys was pulled after just 5 episodes.

[stephenr]

I conclude based on hair curls and braids and the lack of braces and tans that the photo was early in the 5th season.

[kallen]

I love the idea of Kelly's Kids! Wish that had a go!

[JennyBurkeAirSupplyAirhead]

The names of friends of the little boy the Kelly's adopted are Dwayne and Stevie.

[imrytebeehyneu]

I had the hots for Florence when I was a kid cause of her eyes. Damn that woman is beautiful

[kyle-rvzd]

I think the problem with Tiger was pressure of the business was getting to him.

[stephenr]

Cousin Oliver and Tiger both destroyed a model house.

[charlesmurphy]

If Robert Reed wasn't a closeted gay alpha male, he would've made a great producer of the BB. Robert and Florence Henderson both earned more creative control of the series.

It was the late 1960's. Television was an escape, not a medium for social issues. Norman Lear was better meant in this lane, not Sherwood Schwartz. Fred Sanford would've hocked the Hawaiian taboo. 🤣

[lastpme]

I thought the Brady Bunch was on NBC, not ABC….

[xrrrismickey]

News flash, they weren't really related

[dmercury]

I never liked the Brady Bunch. It always seemed so fake to me.

[satanofficial]

This series is better in the original klingon.
Dubbing it in english just seems absurd.

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