They always knock Robert Reed for being a pain-in-the neck, but the fact that he took the role so seriously, is a big part of why the Brady Bunch worked so well. His portrayal of Mike Brady was perfect, and beloved by the show's fans - especially for so many kids who didn't have a loving father at home.
I got the phone number off of the ack of the TV guide in 1979, called the TV station, and asked for Eve Plumb while my siblings stood by and watched. Our parents were at work. I had a crush on her. I've never forgotten that.
Rip Robert Reed. Florence Henderson, Anne B Davis & the genius creator Sherwood Schwartz 😇⚘⚘⚘⚘💐💐💐💐You were my second family growing up!!❤ Ty to all involved both on camera & behind the scenes, such a great family tv show! 📺
Robert Reed understandably felt that his training deserved higher paying roles and recognition that coincided with his experience but Hollywood doesn’t always work that way. You may not like the way you rose to the top but you got there and your TV family became your one true family. R.I.P. to Robert Reed.
I was born a middle child so I always related to Christopher Knight/Peter and Eve Plumb/Jan Brady. You know, Eve Plumb really blossomed on the final season! She was a beautiful, feminine and soulful young lady!!! I own the final season very on DVD. Robert Reed as Mike Brady is my all~time favorite TV Dad!!
I know it regarding Jan/EVe...she blossomed to a beautful, stunning, attractive teenager. Wish she was more remembered as she was in her 5th season appearance.
@@teresas8173 I think I know too many details lol. Here’s one. When did the boys get curly hair. The answer is when they went to Hawaii. When they got on the plane their hair was normal. When they get off, the boys have curly hair. I guess they gave perms on airplanes back then lol.
Awh, The Brady Bunch takes me back to those very special Friday nights of my childhood; I remember the original ABC Friday Night Lineup-from Brady Bunch at 8 to Love ❤️ American Style at 10 😲🤩😘 ( AND on DVD 📀, the green carpeted box set!👍👏👏) THE LITTLE SHOW THAT COULD 🎞💕😁😉
8:00 The Brady Bunch 8:30 Nanny and the Professor 9:00 The Partridge Family 9:30 Room 222 10:00 Love American Style Those were the days! TV was great!!
@@beckygood4894 I’m not quite old enough to have remembered watching that lineup of those shows in their original runs (I got into the Brady Bunch reruns just a couple years or so after it’s final season), but when I first found out about the lineup I thought 9pm seemed like a late time-slot for The Partridge Family.
I've been watching Brady Bunch & Partridge Family documentaries. I've also watched the David Cassidy movie & the one based on Danny Bonaduce's book about the Partridge family. After I watch this, I'm going to look for The Brady Bunch movie (the made for tv one about the show). It brings back childhood memories of coming home from school and watching these shows (along with Gilligan's Island & Bewitched) on tv, while we waited for my dad to come home from work.
I had a friend whose parents were divorced and he and his siblings were obsessed with the show. Their last name was Grady so I don't have to tell you how things went--for years that's all the Grady kids would talk about at school. It was corny but kind of a funny too.
HAHA, I always wondered how they got Fluffy the cat to run across the laps of the wedding guests in the pilot episode. Liver placed on every other chair. Super!
September 26,2019 marks the 50th Anniversary of The Brady Bunch. Being a fan of the series,here are ALL the Brady series I've seen: 1. THE BRADY BUNCH(1969-1974) 2. THE BRADY KIDS(1972-1973) 3. THE BRADY BUNCH VARIETY SHOW(1976-1977) 4. THE BRADY GIRLS GET MARRIED(1981) 5. THE BRADY BRIDES(1981) 6. A VERY BRADY CHRISTMAS(1988) 7. THE BRADYS(1990) 8. THE BRADY BUNCH MOVIE(1995) 9. A VERY BRADY SEQUEL(1996) 10. THE BRADY BUNCH IN THE WHITE HOUSE(2000) 11. GROWING UP BRADY(2000) Which will be the NEW Brady series?
@Eva Ivy All 6 of the remaining cast members are doing a HGTV series about the Brady house. To me,Barry Williams,Maureen McCormick,Christopher Knight,Eve Plumb,Mike Lookinland and Susan Olsen will be Bradys until they die...or not. You be the judge.
They filmed a new project with all of the original Brady kids. It has some to do with working on the "Brady house". I'm sure you probably know about it?!?!?
The brady bunch is such a good show I grew up watching it in the 90,s when I was kid and it's so sad when Robert reed died I find it so sad the tabloids put out his personal business
The show that Mike passed on was ABC’s short-lived rendition of Swiss Family Robinson....future Eight is Enough star Willie Aames was ultimately chosen 4 the role!!!!!!
In that last episode, note in the credits of the guest stars you have Florence's daughter Barbara and Sherwood's daughter Hope (not as Rachel but someone else).
Each of the Brady series aired on a different one of the Big Three networks: "The Brady Bunch" on ABC "The Brady Brides" on NBC "The Bradys" on CBS I always thought that was pretty cool. They're not the only show that aired on all of the Big Three, but they're the only one that did it in a different incarnation each time.
Love this show but somewhere in this video I really felt bad for Florence Henderson. I read someplace she wanted her character to get a job and they said no. So in here I hear the narrator say about the later seasons, there were other plots too, Mike got a new car, Carol got a new hairdo. HAIRDO ARE YOU SERIOUS
I love The Partridge Family but watched Brady Bunch because it was back to back. They will never top David Cassidy and PF music is still big to this day but BB is still a show I still watch as currently showing reruns on ME TV.😊
I think he went along with it for his cast mates, particularly the kids. The production team annoyed him, but he loved his on screen family. Plus, he needed money.
Speaking of the Brady Bunch Hour in 1977, I one heard that Robert Reed was part of another group a few years later, they were known as Troubled Funk, who put out one album in 1982.
I feel part of the reason for the cancelation was that, at the time, TV viewers wanted more "edgy" shows. There were a whole slew of shows all cancelled around the same time. The term was "rural purge".
@@nickhill8612wasn’t that more about earlier show like Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, etc. The Brady Bunch was the ultimate suburban family and didn’t fall into that category.
I wonder if the reason the hair tonic made Greg's hair that way was that Bobby put so much on his hair it had that effect. Same thing with the rabbits later on. A little probably wouldn't have hurt it.
I'm glad maurean and florence were on Dwts. They both got to dance. That was cool... does anybody know if dwts is comming back!!?? Dancing w the stars!!??
Actually, the fact that Greg was going away to college after graduating hs in the final episode was a good time to end the series. Would he still live at home then or in a dorm far away? Or would he be in college in the same town? That would be an issue if they continued anyway.
You have a good point, sha11235. I always wanted it to go on forever; but in hindsight, I can see it would have been like so many other truly-good shows; they would have started reaching for plot lines, particularly since the kids were getting older. And if Cousin Oliver had not killed the show, reaching for 'Greg's-in-college' storylines most likely woulda killed it. And probably tainted the show, to boot. And besides, it *did* go on forever! I mean, look, here were are in 2019 for goodness sake! And still talking about that show that started 51 years ago. The 'Bradys' are special. Even as a superfan, I don't understand it completely, but they are beloved and special and always will be.
Oliver has gotten a bad rap, and I wish people would stop maligning him; in reality, in the final season, the kids were growing up, and the ratings were slipping. The producers were the ones who decided to introduce a younger character to boost ratings, and of course, the Brady cousin Oliver, who became hated among viewers. Then Robert Reed, fighting with producers over storylines, walked off the show at times, especially with the hair tonic episode. There was supposed to be a sixth season but ABC canceled the show, so the hair tonic/Greg's high school graduation became the de factor series finale. A similar thing happened a few years later with Good Times when they shot the episode The End of the Rainbow, that had the Evans family and their friend Willona finally moving out of the Chicago projects, the GT producers were waiting word on its renewal from CBS. CBS canceled the show just after filming the episode and it became the show's finale.
In the last couple of weeks I have watched a multitude of documentaries about the Brady Bunch and I have to say this episode of Headliners and legends has got to be one of the best documentaries ever done on this subject. I especially like the fact that they did not make a huge deal out of the fact that Robert Reed was gay. That fact had nothing to do with his amazing ability to become mr. Brady. At age 56 looking back I think at some point or another I had a crush on every single Brady cast member including Ann B. Davis who is in the top 10 of people I wish I would have met in my life. I bet she was quite a character to hang out with! I have beaten the Bradys by one child for a total of 7, all biological rather than a blending of two families and no not all from the same mother. Now I find myself on the other side of the fence married to another male almost 30 years my junior. Would that have not made a hell of a Brady sequel! Can you imagine mr. Brady leaving Mrs Brady over typical domestic issues only to later start dating people of the same sex and actually marrying another man. LOL, now that I think about it that premise could probably just be sold to one of the major networks in this day and age. Okay maybe HBO or Showtime! Maybe we could have hooked him up with the lead actor on the courtship of Eddie's Father whose Name Escapes me at the moment, they would have made a cute couple! Haha! I'm very curious about something: growing up in The Brady era I constantly heard and often here even to date many, many females young and old talking about how they fantasized about being mrs. Brady or having six kids of Their Own or growing up to have three girls and marrying a man who had three boys and live the happy, contented and Pure Life the Bradys lived. I hear this from so many but always female. I was the youngest of three children, all biological siblings and didn't come along until my brother and sister we're 11 and 13 years old so in a sense I grew up as an only child as by the time I became aware of life they were married and gone from home so I often immersed myself in shows like The Brady Bunch and imagined having that many siblings and how sweet life would be. This has nothing to do with the fact that I am now married to another man ... I'm not in the least bit feminine nor have I ever had a desire to be a female. What I'm getting at is we hear girls say they want a life like the Bradys or a family like the Bradys but give it up guys how many of you have ever had this fantasy yourself? How many times have you wished you had a family like the Bradys and you were the dad at the helm and no matter what the situation you always had the perfect solution and everything always turned out right in the end. Come on guys let's hear it how many times have you wanted to be mr. Brady. It's 2019 it's okay to admit it. Now I think, and especially in my age group so many of us wish things were as simple and pure as things were on the Bradys. Best wishes everyone from Salem, Oregon April 5th 2019 Ps, a suggestion to Brady Bunch fans that may have not seen the parody of The Brady Bunch: you have got to check that out! It's a riot and brings to light things we probably thought about but would have never said out loud like Greg and Marcia in the Attic? LOL! Ann B. Davis returns in this film as a truck driver rescuing the girl who plays Jan in the parody which points fingers at the movie Dawn that Eve Plumb was in. Okay I have spent way too much Brady time I admit it.
I used to do everything that I could to avoid going to the Friday Night cult church meetings, because then I wouldn’t miss out on the latest episode of what a complete and happy family could be...
The ONLY reason I didn't like 'The Hair-Brained Scheme' is because as a kid and watching it in syndication, I knew that was the last show of the series. And then, they would cycle back to the very first season, which weren't quite* as appealing to me. Love that show. Watched it when it originally aired, then years in syndication, now I watch on DVD.
As a kid, I didn't understand why it recycled back after that episode. Well, I learned later that the show ended its original run that way. I learned that when I got older and learned about this. Also, I didn't like the music nor theme in the first season.
The football was a prop made of hollow lightweight plastic, so there was little pain and if she did break her nose while on set, it was from a different cause, according to Florence Henderson as quoted in a trade magazine back then.
Eve Plumb was the first choice for the makers of 1980's Prom Night to play the lead Kim, but when Jamie Lee Curtis came up they wanted her because of Halloween's success. Prom Night has a cult following so it would have been a nice little movie to kick off the 80s with. Not saying it would have lead to much but you never know, she could have gotten offered something else soon after.
I always preferred The Partridge Family, they were so much “ cooler, and David Cassidy 😍, but I still loved the Brady Bunch and now being a lot older, I prefer the Brady Bunch for some reason, lolol. The only one I could ever really hear singing in The Brady Bunch songs was Greg. And he could sing! These were also my favorite episodes. I had a crush on Peter though, come to find out so did many others. I hope Robert Reed knew how much love, respect, and admiration the audience had for him playing the dad. He was perfection, flawless in his acting as the Brady Bunch dad! Smart, kind, gentle and loving. He could be serious AND he could be funny. Not easy to do. And for me he made the show less goofy, which made it better, a bit more plausible. (I’ve seen him in other roles and he was a very talented actor.) It really was a perfect cast.
When dictating my rather lengthy proceeding comment in to my phone just now it brought back another memory that made me feel foolish as sitting here by myself I laughed so hard it brought tears to my eyes. When I was a kid the girl down the street and I were thick as thieves. I was seriously into Planet of the Apes and Star Trek so among my collection of Hot Wheels and Tonka trucks could be found my Planet of the Apes and Star Trek action figures like many of us guys had back then and which now are worth a small fortune at least from what I've seen on eBay. Like so many girls back then she was really into Barbie and I believe Barbie's little sister was skipper (?) And of course she had Ken and all the other Barbie characters and other dolls from that era. When we got together to play with our action figures quite often Barbie and Ken were often enslaved by Cornelius, Zira and dr. Zaius, etc... somehow or another and this had to be after watching an episode of The Brady Bunch the night before we came up with a blended family that involved 4 apes and 4 humans and if I recall we even had an additional character that was our housekeeper though I'm a bit unclear on whether that was an ape or a human, lol. Now there is a sequel for you! It could be a sequel from The Brady Bunch: Mrs Brady marries Galen or it could be a sixth movie in the series of original five Planet of the Apes movies in which mr. Brady hooks up with Leza. If you recognize any of the names I have mentioned here like me you spent way too much time in front of the television! Then again I am still watching reruns of The Brady Bunch and can't miss an ape movie rather it be the original 5, the original television series or any of the newer Planet of the Apes movies. Oh, and to the girl down the street that I mentioned whose initials back then were in N.W: thanks again for that 13th birthday present in the treehouse and tell your older brother thanks again for the Aerosmith 45, still love that song! Salem, Oregon 4/5/19
Greg (Barry Williams) might have set some girls hearts and or hormones fluttering back in the day, but not mine! I thought he was obnoxious. Always a Christopher Knight (Peter) fan. Lol
@@jat6547 his third wife, reality star adrienne Curry said that he is hard to get along with. If he divorced his fourth wife and marries you, please send ma e me a wedding invitation. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
Well, live and learn. I had no idea that Mrs Whitfield was a real person and teacher no less. When they did the play for her retirement, she was just another character. Who knew that for 3 hours a day, she was actually schooling the kids? Frankly, I never watch network TV because of how it's degraded. Kids show zero respect for elders and that rubs off on real kids. It's all about sex, profanity and backstabbing. You can have it.
He was conflicted both privately it sounds like and professionally. But he is such a pro that you never knew and he played the Brady dad like no other. He was the best.
