‘The Brady Bunch’ premiered 53 years ago today, September 26, 1969

Their MCM house was the best thing about the show

R1 thx for posting that video! I enjoyed watching it 💯

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[quote]Their MCM house was the best thing about the show.

Their house isn't MCM.

Also, The Beatles released Abbey Road

Friday night must see TV:

The Brady Bunch

Nanny and the Professor

The Partridge Family

Then bed!

@r4 "Their house isn't MCM. "

Yes it is, built in 1959. Go read a book and learn something

""Brady Bunch" House, 1959 Mid Century Modern in North Hollywood, California "

Insipid programming for the masses.

Yes OP—most of us here on DL already knew this…we were there.

This was on yesterday...

R7. You are right about only the MC part, not the second m part. MCM means more than the year of construction…that house ain’t it.

^ Yes it is

Friday night, 8:00 p.m., ABC. There was one season when the Brady Bunch was on the same time as The Sonny & Cher Show on CBS. We didn't have a clicker so I had to sit on the floor in front of the tv and switch back and forth between the two shows during commercials. Then at 8:30 when Brady Bunch was over I could relax and just watch the last 30 minutes of Sonny & Cher uninterrupted.

It’s hard to believe that the 6 kids are now older than Robert Reed was when he died in 1992 at 59.

A Very Brady Sequel’s “Good Time Music”. It makes me laugh every time.

I used to think Maureen was so pretty as a child. Angelic almost. Seeing clips as an adult, I was right. Very pretty.

Someone met her in the 80s and said she was gorgeous in person. Even prettier than on tv. She has big “very” green eyes in person. They’re piercing.

I also loved Sunshine Day as a kid lol

I’m pretty sure it went right into syndication after its final Season 5’s last primetime rerun in September 1974, actually. I also kind of always thought of their show as one of the first new-style family TV sitcoms, being the blended large family they were and grooving into the ‘70s. Fun comfort-TV viewing. I was obsessed with anticipating how the sisters would change their hairstyles each new season (“Mary,” I know…lol).

[quote]Yes it is, built in 1959. Go read a book and learn something.

So, just to clarify, you're talking about an actual house's pedigree for a sitcom family?

Bless your heart.

^ Back at you, cupcake 😉

You are both extremely tiresome.

^ Well, THAT sure added to the conversation 🙄

After fantasy and fish-out-of-water sitcoms of the 60's, we got retro, feel good TV, like the Waltons and Little House on the Prairie, in the early 70's.

The costumes – at least the girls' – in OP's video were ubiquitous in the early to mid-1970's run up to the Bicentennial. My mom and sister called it "prairie chic." It just looks weird vis-a-vis the boys' pre-disco costumes.

The Walton’s and Little House were “feel good” shows? Wholesome, yes. But dramas.

‘The Brady Bunch’ began as I started first grade so I was the perfect audience for the entire ABC Friday night lineup. I looked forward to it each week like it was an event, I thought it was the best show on tv. My sisters and I loved it as did all of our friends. It was a major cultural touchstone to the youngest baby boomers.

The feature films of the 90s are both hilarious, capturing the sweet, goofy charm of the show and mocking it mercilessly at the same time! Shelley Long was really great in them too, that surprised me.

Who owns the rights for syndication now? Still popular

Nick at Nite's Pop-Up Video of "Adios, Johnny Bravo":

Oh, no, R21! Did I not contribute to a "conversation" that was essentially a "you're stupid!" "No, you're stupid!" schoolyard argument about whether or not The Brady Bunch house is MCM?

Heaven forfend!

^ In the future try butting out 😠

the most homoerotic episodes in my personal opinion was 1) when denny miller guest starred as tank the hank former high school now pro football star! damn denny miller was so so handsome and built in that episode and moved and pushed robert reed like the old twink he was!

2) when the family put on a lame cheesy snow white show as a tribute to the kid's retiring old teacher in their backyard... seeing robert reed in tights was nice and I wish he, greg and all the boys were in tights and together! kinky and pervy it would have been....

"Let's celebrate; put on your Sunday best, kids - we're all going to Sears!"

@r29, I'd say there was a little homo-eroticism for everyone 🙄

And Ann B. Davis

Robert Reed parted his hair on the right, which means he's a pervert

R14- That’s nothing.

Richard Thomas aka John Boy Walton is now 11 years older than Ellen Corby Grandma 👵 was when The Waltons premiered in the fall of 1972.

R16- For the last season of The Brady Bunch Eve Plumb was beautiful.

Definitely more so than Maureen.

^ Sure, Eve 🙄

While doing The Brady Bunch Robert Reed also had a recurring role on Mannix as Lt Adam Tobias.

^ He also had a recurring role at every truck stop on the 5 😜

Robert Reed was a BOSSY BOTTOM

r39

Not around me

1969-1970 was my senior year in high school and I don't think I ever watched a single episode of "TBB" that season or for any of the subsequent seasons (when I was in college and didn't always have a TV anyway.)

But when I started my first post-college job and had my own apartment in the mid '70s, I remember watching every single episode in syndication.

^ I'm the same age as the two oldest Brady kids, but I thought it was lame as hell during it's first run. It was years later that I began to see a bit of my own youth through rose colored glasses

I never insinuated R1 was stupid, R27. Just incorrect.

You, on the other hand...

r4/r18/r43: [bold] ENOUGH.[/bold]

^Who made you hall monitor?

R23 Yes, remember the Waltons even took on such issues as freedom of speech, book burning, etc.? And John Boy was such a doll.

@r45, I did... Wanna make something of it? 😠

psst... Do you ever tire of making an ass out of yourself?

Hey r45, Didn't want you to feel left out, so here's a badge just for you 🙂

[quote]I also loved Sunshine Day as a kid lol

That's awful R16 - they're SO flat AND wooden.

Whatever happened to the biological mother of the boys and the girl's biological father? Suicide? Death? Divorce? Desertion? Or written out of the script?

R49- At least the Brady Kids were actually singing their own songs unlike that Partridge Family whose voices were dubbed except for the somewhat androgynous looking David Cassidy and his step mother Shirley Jones.

R49 I said as a child. Not now.

[quote]Hey [R45], Didn't want you to feel left out, so here's a badge just for you 🙂

Well, aren't you clever.

^ Oh, snap! 😂

[quote]Whatever happened to the biological mother of the boys and the girl's biological father? Suicide? Death? Divorce? Desertion?

Swingin'...Mike and Carol met at a suburban Key Party...and they never looked back.

I found Gary Cole kinda hot as Mike Brady

^ Yeah sorta...but Tim Mathison was even hotter.

Robert Reed was seriously handsome till after Hawaii when he went all permed and FAB-YOU-LUS

Why were the Brady girls dressed like Mormons in OP's clip? Showing ZERO skin. But at least we got to see Greg and Peter's hot asses in those tight pants!

He was GORGEOUS in Rich Man Poor Man. HAWT.

LOL, OP

that number is BOSS, even if Marcia has a range of only 3 notes!

R59 that was the style at the time for many performers

Robert Reed took penises up his ass!

Robert Reed knew how the man went up inside the other man.

R63 = Cindy Brady

[quote][R49]- At least the Brady Kids were actually singing their own songs unlike that Partridge Family whose voices were dubbed except for the somewhat androgynous looking David Cassidy and his step mother Shirley Jones.

They should have dubbed the Brady kids too, those performances are pitiful and I can't look at the little gurl now, since all her homophobia. It makes me feel sick.

No wonder Susan Olsen turned out to be a MAGA deplorable. They forced poor Cindy with her lisp to always be the butt of the joke plus they had her in pigtails looking like a retard when she hit puberty.

[quote]Robert Reed took penises up his ass!

You' re over-excited - go lie down!

Chris and Barry are doing a rewatch podcast right now called "The Real Brady Bros." Chris is charming and sometimes has great anecdotes. Barry is obnoxious and spends most of the time sucking the air out of the room, but somehow it's still listenable. They had Susan on as a guest when they were covering the tattle-tale episode; she's a nut but knows the most about the show of anyone and I liked listening to her.

I actually like Susan. She’s a nut job but very smart and entertaining without meaning to be.

Barry has always been obnoxious. And he couldn’t sing.

Who was hotter? Carol Brady or Shirley Partridge?

^ Shirley Partridge. Anyone who was married to Jack Cassidy has got to be a wild woman at heart

Has Susan Dey commented?

Thindy Brady had a lisp.

Maureen and Barry and Michael could sing. Jan and Cindy were acceptable and Chris, by his own admission was awful.

All of the Brady men had flat asses.

^ Thindy could thuck cock like a pro 😜

All of the Brady men had flat asses.

But Sam, the butcher -- DAMN! That man had quite the rump roast.

^ Sam was Gay. He and Alice bearded for each other

[quote]Robert Reed took penises up his ass!

And Greg, Peter, and Bobby's biological mom sucked cocks in hell.

R71- Once he became Johnny Bravo he was PERMANENTLY full of himself.

Warren Mulaney was dreamy.

R78 most white men have always had narrow hips and small asses.

In the 90s The Brady Bunch aired right before Saved by the Bell on TBS. It was a trip watching those two shows back-to-back.

My bus was authentic MCM.

[quote][R63] = Cindy Brady

Then it would be "Robert Reed took penitheth up hith athth!"

Did Carol take Buddy Hinton's virginity?

The Brady Bunch was lame even for those days. I preferred The New People myself.

R88- Back in the early 1970's when both shows were on the air. I thought the Partridge Family was lame. They were all so sarcastic to each other and where was the father.

The Brady Bunch was imminently more watchable.

The Brady Bunch has lived on for decades and is a permanent part of pop culture. The Partridge Family isn’t.

I can still watch the BB if only to make fun of it, but the Partridge Family is just painful to watch.

The BB movies were hilarious too so there’s that… There was always something just OFF about The Partridge Family.

I used to have a huge crush on young Greg when I was little.

Shirley has some great quotes such as "Because I say so," "Because I'm bigger than you," and finally "Is it because we're white?"

[quote]I thought the Partridge Family was lame. They were all so sarcastic to each other and where was the father.

Being much too careless with smoking materials.

WHO was the father???

Thanks for the heads-up about Chris & Barry's podcast, R69! I just listened to "Tattletale" (which was great) and will be listening to more of them.

[quote] she's a nut but knows the most about the show of anyone and I liked listening to her.

.LOVE TO LOVE YOU, BRADYS -- the book she co-authored about the trainwreck Variety Hour -- is a hilarious, fantastic read! (originally recommended on a DL book thread, back in 2009-10)

[quote]All of the Brady men had flat asses. But Sam, the butcher -- DAMN! That man had quite the rump roast.

Dave Madden of Partridge Family fame could have given him a run for his money. That I can tell you.

[quote]Dave Madden of Partridge Family fame could have given him a run for his money. That I can tell you.

Spoken like the ghost of Philip McKeon

Dave Madden of Partridge Family fame could have given him a rub for his money.

Shirley Partridge couldn't BOPPITY-BOP like me.

but she should out dippity doo you Linda!

Today is Barry Williams’ 68th birthday!

Did Barry ever eat out Maureen’s snatch?

They kissed.

Barry and Maureen look so groovy at R103!

Despite its popularity none of the actors from this show really went on to do anything of note or anything at all except for the reunion shows. Eve Plumb had a few roles in TV movies and Florence Henderson had her Wesson commercials

Eve Plumb has had a successful second career as a painter of table settings.

R107. A few tv roles…I was the star of a major motion picture made exclusively for television! It was groundbreaking…better than Linda Blair in Born Innocent or Sara T.

R107 because they were typecast. That was the fear of most tv actors on a successful tv show in the past. Now it doesn’t matter as much but years ago it did.

R110 Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Mia Farrow, James Garner, Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, George Clooney, Ryan O'Neal, Cloris Leachman, Bruce Willis, Will Smith all went from TV to successful film careers.

The Brady Bunch were untalented and lacked charisma.

R111 read what was written again.

Because THEY WERE TYPECAST. Clearly you can’t read.

R112 I can read and responded to what you posted⬇️

[Quote] because they were typecast. That was the fear of most tv actors on a successful tv show in the past. Now it doesn’t matter as much but years ago it did

Yet years ago, many actors like Sally Field (Gidget, The Flying Nun) overcame typecasting. She went on to win 2 Oscars. Will Smith was able to overcome his Fresh Prince persona and appeared in a totally different type of role in Six Degrees of Separation. Don't blame TV or typecasting. The Bradys were bland and untalented.

Maureen had a terrible drug problem. That’s why she didn’t.

[quote]‘The Brady Bunch’ premiered 53 years ago today, September 26, 1969

It was supposed to have premiered with me!

R115, is getting dropped from the Brady Bunch what triggered you to spend most of the '70s pooping in the purses of the most prominent women in Beverly Hills, Brentwood and Bel Air?

Seeing the photo of Dave Madden reminded me of the story that he and Shirley Jones would take turns taking Danny Bonaduce home with them for the weekend to protect him from his violent father.

I bet that Susan Olsen’s smells - down there.

In the pilot or first episode of The Patridge Family, Shirley does a voice over that states her husband died suddenly a few months earlier.

I think in The Brady Bunch, it's just assumed that both Catol's and Mike's spouses are dead. Bobby looks at a photo of a dark-haired woman that's supposed to be his mother.

Carol’s previous marital status was never revealed; Mike was widowed. Sherwood Schwartz wanted to make Carol a divorcee, but the network objected. They compromised.

[quote]Carol’s previous marital status was never revealed; Mike was widowed. Sherwood Schwartz wanted to make Carol a divorcee, but the network objected. They compromised.

Vivian Vance's character on "The Lucy Show" was a divorcee way back in 1962, when the show premiered. Because Lucy was the star, her character was a widow, of course.

"The Lucy Show" premiered Oct. 1, 1962. I'm surprised there was no "The Lucy Show" premiered 60 years ago today" thread yesterday.

R122 there’s an ongoing thread for “Here’s Lucy”

Different show, R123, although with the same old yelling from Lucy and Gale Gordon.

Different show but all her shows are being discussed on that one thread.

To this day, Sunny Hostin refuses to watch any episodes of 'The Brady Bunch' or let her kids watch the show, because there were no black or Latino characters on the show. She's asking ABC to make financial reparations to the Black and Latino communities for this racial transgression.

Florence Henderson appears "against type" as a drunk, sluttish single mom with Bobcat Goldthwaite as her one night stand. She's only in the first scene, but it's stunt casting at its best. Shakes the Clown, 1991.

Sunny is an idiot who went to a second-rate law school.

^^^^^^^

Meghan McCain has joined the conversation.

[quote] Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Mia Farrow, James Garner, Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, George Clooney, Ryan O'Neal, Cloris Leachman, Bruce Willis, Will Smith all went from TV to successful film careers.

And none of their TV shows ran and continues to run continuously to this very day

[quote]Seeing the photo of Dave Madden reminded me of the story that he and Shirley Jones would take turns taking Danny Bonaduce home with them for the weekend to protect him from his violent father.

His father was a TV writer and successful. More like Danny was a troublemaker and they explored him.

[quote]Carol’s previous marital status was never revealed;

It was obvious she was a widow. Cindy talked about her "new daddy," Marcia wrote an essay that won Mike the father of the year award, "...even though he's not been my father very long."

In the first episode he tells Bobby he wouldn't want him to forget his mother, yet we are supposed to believe Mike would allow Cindy and Marcia to wipe their still living father out of their memory. Plus the girls changed their last name.

That is just a few of the points, there is no way Carol was anything but a widow.

[quote], because there were no black or Latino characters on the show.

Yes there were. Bobby, Peter, Cindy and Marcia had black friends.

Sally Field, as talented as she is, also struggled for years to break free of her Gidget/Flying Nun image. I think you really needed that something special plus a drive to move past that. Even Clint Eastwood spent some years after Rawhide making the spaghetti westerns before he back a big movie star in the US.

While I don't think the Brady kids were necessarily charisma free, did not have that level of talent. I do think Eve possibly had the acting talent, and possibly Maureen if she had worked on her acting (she was a great child crier) instead of partying when the show ended.

[quote]And none of their TV shows ran and continues to run continuously to this very day

Yes, it probably did not help how heavily this show was in syndication immediately after the show went off the air.

Honestly, I find it hard to believe that Maureen would ever be able to escape from being 'Marcia'. They're all famous for their roles, but Maureen's voice and looks are so iconic--so much so that Christine Taylor is mostly known for also portraying Marcia--that I think it would be impossible to really move past it. The others have a similar problem, but only Plumb had acting talent, and Knight had the looks to forseeably have a career outside of their characters.

R130 The Mary Tyler Moore show ran for years if not decades in syndication and Cloris won an Oscar for her dramatic turn in The Last Picture Show while she was still playing Phyllis on MTM.

This is about the Brady Bunch not that lady who ruined the "Facts of Life."

[Quote]His father was a TV writer and successful. More like Danny was a troublemaker and they explored him.

But is the thread about that guy who was arrested for beating up a tranny? R137

r138

Don't look at me

R131 The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Mary Tyler Moore show were in syndication for a long time and both Van Dyke and Moore went on to film careers in such films as Bye, Bye Birdy, Mary Poppins, Thoroughly Modern Milie, Chitty, Chitty Bang, Bang, Ordinary People . . .and the same holds for Andy Griffith, Don Knotts and Ron Howard from the very popular long running and heavily syndicated Andy Griffith Show.

Though they were in movies, I don't think anyone would really consider Dick Van Dyke or Mary Tyler Moore a MOVIE star as opposed to a TV star.

Michael J Fox had a string of hit movies but ultimately he is a TV star .

R141 couldn't they unlike the insipid Bradys be considered stars of TV AND movies like Jennifer Aniston, Joan Collins, Cybill Shepherd, Shirley Jones, Lucille Ball, James Garner, Jackie Gleason . . .

and let's not forget those other stars of television and motion pictures R141 Doris Day, Robert Wagner, Rita Moreno, Candice Bergen, Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn, Kut Russell, Brian Keith, Fred MacMurray, Jamie Fox, Alec Baldwin, Dean Martin . . .

Loved it as a kid (GenX) but I never could figure out why our backyard couldn't look like theirs, with AstroTurf? Why didn't we build stages and have plays? We never square-danced or did the Charleston, most of the time we never talked to each other and when we did it wasn't like the Bradys.

r144 But did you throw a football at your sister?

At the risk of resurrecting the priss fight above.....

The Brady house certainly had a somewhat "MCM" exterior appearance as a split level. However, the interior of the actual house was, for many years, not the one we saw on TV, which was the set built for the show. It did not have what I would call, or what I think any reasonable design expert, would refer to as a strong "MCM" appearance.

The HGTV series about the Brady house, for those interested, shows that interior of the real home as it was for most of its existence in its first episodes. (The premise of the HGTV show was that those omnipresent tall renovation brothers and other HGTV notables, as well as the 6 Brady "kids," reworked the interior to make it look like the set. It sounds dumb and pointless but damn if the final result didn't make me cry.)

I was at King’s Island during the filming of their episode there. Ann B. Davis asked us politely to be quiet so that they could finish a scene and the crowd began booing her!

Later, the cast was waving from a convoy of convertibles and the nasty folks on top of the Eiffel Tower began hocking lugies at the vulnerable performers below.

Ann B. Davis liked eating snatch.

Gregg looks really hung in that picture. But I still want Peter.

Candice Bergen was a second rate model and a third rate movie actress. She was a last resort on Murphy Brown and it became a hit because there was nothing else on TV at the time. There were a lot of actresses that could've played Murphy.

You're listing anyone who was in a movie as a star. This would mean that people like ONJ and Whitney Houston should be movie stars. No, they were singers that got lucky in a movie.

You're splitting hairs. No one from the Brady Bunch ever had a lead in a theatrical film save for Flo in the obscure Song of Norway (1970), win an Oscar or was Oscar nominated or even had a significant role in any well-known film save for the youngest who had a part in The Towering Inferno and under no circumstance would the term movie star even remotely apply to the whole insipid bunch.

Candice Bergen was a bona fide movie star who appeared in The Sand Pebbles, Gandi, Rich and famous, Starting Over, Getting Straight, Carnal Knowledge, The Wind and the Lion, The Adventurers . . .

And none of the people I mentioned were mere 1 hit wonders like Whitney (The Bodyguard) with a total of 3 films to her discredit or ONJ (Grease) with 6 to her discredit strung out over a period of 3 decades while Bergen appeared in 20 films between her debut in 1966 and 1982.

[quote] You're splitting hairs

But this is what Datalounge LOVES to do! How long have you been here?

[Quote] But this is what Datalounge LOVES to do! How long have you been here?

Never said otherwise R152 and I'm merely reconditioning the hairs using opinion backed up with incontrovertible facts. And I've been here since the early days of the pandemic April 2020

[quote] And I've been here since the early days of the pandemic April 2020

Wow.

oh the hair crimes....

Carol - I don't know what to call her shag shit

Marcia's hairstyle reminded me of the Manson women.

Jan - I've never seen a shittier hairstyle on a child in my life.

Cindy - turd curls and other nasties

Alice - stupid hair for a stupid character

Mike - His hairstyles actually looked good on him. Even that man perm.

I have no more opinions on the other uglies.