I've listened to the Brady Bros podcasts. It's fascinating to hear their observations 50+/- years later, noticing script continuity issues, inconsistencies, lack of logic. They point out things either missed or ignored by the writers and/or production crew in order to get the episode finished and eventually aired.
This is great!!! Brought tears to my eyes. I came from an extremely dysfunctional family. Both my parents were full blown alcoholics. I had 3 other siblings. It was chaos trying to be your own parent. I signed my own report cards and no one really cared. TV shows is where I learned about what normal was supposed to be like. It's sad, but true. Watching this for the first time, alone today at 64 yrs old in 2023, was very emotional. This show ( and others) sadly to say, gave me some much needed Life guidance. I am 100% positive that there are many many people that could say the same thing. The best was learning more about Robert Reed. I know about his real personal life and has known about that. But learning about his influence, caring loving kindness, his passion for his craft, and that in a strange way, these "kids" became his pseudo real family!! And the admiration they all had for him in the final analysis. As Peter says, "there are pieces of Robert all in me, that helped make me the man I am today"( or something close to it). That is exactly how I feel about this entire show. I can get the feeling like I know them all and Love them all. It's weird and odd, but it will never leave me. I was too old for Mr. Rogers Neighborhood in 1969/70. I was 10. This show in particular, played a large role for a time helping a young boy learn and navigate life without involved parents. I personally love them all as My brothers and sisters, mom and dad!! I hope my honesty here is as honest and real as this documentary.
Really nice and touching comment there. I believe there are far more kids than we even realize who were "raised" by TV families. It's a good thing that a lot of sitcoms and dramas from the past fostered decent values and included good life lessons. Sure, sometimes it came off as corny but it had to have made a positive impact on young people, helped shaped their thoughts and choices as they matured. We can't just dismiss a show like this as kitsch (I wager a few people would feel that way); yes, it was often silly, but it was also charming and thoughtful and warm. I have a lot of feelings for The Brady Bunch ... some of them are admiration but there is also a wry sort of look at the sitcom's frequent campiness. But I cannot ever underestimate its influence on the TV audience--- particularly on kids who did not have an ideal home life, or children who were having a really bad time of it in their household. Fortunately I was raised in a really stable family, with two parents and a sister, and eventually a dog. But it was never as fun as life with The Bradys (of course), and there wasn't always a lesson to be given when it was needed. Things get in the way. Parents make mistakes, or aren't around right when they're needed. So some additional guidance from Mike and Carol and even Alice was a helpful thing. Man, did I like Alice's character ... she was so funny but she occasionally could shine a light of truth on something like no one ese could. I grew up with afternoon/after-school reruns of TBB in the 70s, basically right after the show ended, and it became a favorite of classic TV for me. I still love it, flaws and all. Thanks for sharing your thoughts here.
As much as Mr. Reed didn’t like doing the show, he loved those kids so much that according to a documentary I watched, he didn’t want his character recast in “The Brady Girls Get Married” because he payed their Dad, ‘Mike Brady’ and believed their Dad should walk his girls down the aisle.
Reed was WRONG about the show. If he'd gotten his way-- a Realistic drama-comedy Then it wouldn't have aged well. Sherwood Schwartz was creatively right on the original series... that's why the series was special.
Thank you for the upload. One of the better documentaries I have seen about the show. I continued liking the show well into my teens and watched it often. They were a substitute family for myself and so many others who didn't have such a great home life.
Wow excellent brings back so many great memories as a 1st generation fan and what tv was like back then plus what the cast did before the Brady bunch including Ann b.and florence but especially all of that home footage reminds you of what america was like back then and great to see the human side of the cast and lastly like Christopher said Robert and really the whole cast change his life so as fans in a lighter and pop culture way can say the same like Carol said to the kids money ,fame or important but people are more important and to Marcia times change but not people and in the end this is what this show was about don't let no one tell you otherwise.
Even though Mike and Carol Brady were in their 40’s, Robert Reed and Florence Henderson were still in their 30’s when “The Brady Bunch” premiered in 1969.
❤❤❤❤❤❤love love every one of these Brady Brood lol really cool amazing feelings just watching. Im glad that they pop up again every so often. My heart ❤️
The early 90’s was interesting lol. I wish my parents had taped my birth in 1992. Btw love “Not Fade Away” by The Grateful Dead background music in the beginning paying homage to the 70’s!
That's what I thought too about the "Not Fade Away" background music. But some of the other music in this little documentary is dreadful. What is that playing behind the segment about Robert Reed? Awful! The 90s were weird.
It's a shame Robert had such disdain for his role as Mike, I lost my dad when I was 2 back in 1971, even If I didn't know it then I realized later I got a lot of fatherly influence from his portrayal of Mike Brady.
@@user-bl6ne3hc6n... Sherwood Schwartz was right about the Show. BB was about Family closeness, caring Parents and Optimism and something to Aspire towards...with light comedy. They were morality tales. It wasn't about Vietnam, the Sex Revolution, drugs, etc. Thank goodness BB was wholesome escapism...and that's Why it's survived All these decades later. It's Timeless.
@user-kf8wb2cq4f the problem with the show and Bob recognized it and so did I, every episode was like a pilot, nothing in the episodes intertwined, no rhythm, episode to episode, different wallpaper in the rooms, where's tiger, their cat, so on and so on, I listen to the Brady Bros podcast and they agree with me there could have been a thousand thousand different episodes they could have written it's almost like Schwartz wanted it to fail just to get 5 years and get out, , I think they were ahead of their time, the show should of ben made in the 80s, family sitcoms were coming back, just as corny as B.B,
@user-kf8wb2cq4f it's not just my opinion go listen to the podcast they agree with me, and I'm a retired TV producer, so I kind of know what I'm talking about,
