TV Series

Series Name:	The Bradys
Format:	TV Series
IMDB:	IMDB Page
Years:	1990
Country:	USA
Language:	English
Genre:	Comedy, Drama
Rating:	3.5 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	2 Have Seen
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Selected Cast	Robert Reed as Mike Brady
	Florence Henderson as Carol Brady
	Barry Williams as Dr. Greg Brady
	Leah Ayres as Marcia Brady Logan
	Christopher Knight as Peter Brady
	Eve Plumb as Jan Brady Covington
	Mike Lookinland as Bobby Brady
	Susan Olsen as Cindy Brady
	Jerry Houser as Wally Logan
	Ron Kuhlman as Philip Covington
	Caryn Richman as Nora Brady
	Martha Quinn as Tracy Wagner Brady
	Jonathan Taylor Thomas as Kevin Brady
	Ann B. Davis as Alice Nelson-Franklin

Notes

Revival of the 1969-1974 sitcom The Brady Bunch, as well as a follow-up to the 1980s spin-off The Brady Brides and the 1988 TV movie A Very Brady Christmas, with most of the original cast returning (with a new actress playing Marcia). In contrast to the original series, The Bradys was formatted as a one-hour "dramedy" or comedy-drama. Only six episodes were produced.

Comments and Reviews


Record Collector 15th Jul 2015		Oh yes the romantic fling knows the full story hehe



Record Collector 14th Jul 2015		This was never shown here in Australia the last time a Brady series was shown was around 1982 the brady brides six years after the series final was shown in 1976



Neil Forbes 14th Jul 2015		@23skidoo I just did a quick search on 45cat, came up with Chris Knight's solitary single: Over And Over c/w Good For Each Other. The latter-named, though a B-side, got most of the attention. Sure enough the record was on Paramount, issued as PAA-0177 in 1972, It was also issued in The Netherlands with the same catalogue number. As far as I can see, there were no other markets that took this release.



Neil Forbes 14th Jul 2015		@23skidoo, yeah, I remember reading or hearing about that "romantic fling" between Barry Williams and Flo Henderson... weren't to successful keeping that one quiet, were they? Chris Knight, who played Peter Brady, had a "recording" career at the same time as his role in the show, but I suspect it was a publicity "gimmick"(I loathe and detest gimmicks) to promote the show. No trace of his records turning up in Australia, I can't even remember what label carried them, though I guess it might've been Paramount.



23skidoo 12th Jul 2015		@Neil - Oh, the Brady Brunch wrote the book on "goody two shoes". Which is why some of the behind-the-scenes stories that have come out (the guy who plays Greg Brady claims to have dated Florence Henderson while the show was in production) are so amusing. There was also a rivalry between this show and the concurrent The Partridge Family, especially when they attempted to spin the Brady kids into a singing group (this was before the variety show). And I bet the whole Variety Hour fiasco (which has its own separate listing because not even die-hard Brady fans are willing to roll it into the original show!) might have been an attempt to head off the Partridges before something similar was done with them (even though it would have been a better fit).



Neil Forbes 12th Jul 2015		@23skidoo, I remember the old original series, but not fondly. A lot of stations that ran it here in Australia, scheduled it for late afternoon(5.30 - 6.00pm, just before the evening news) in its initial run(seen in monochrome as colour didn't officially start until 1st March, 1975). In subsequent re-runs(in colour) it was used as a schedule-filler when nothing else was available. The "goody-two-shoes" description is quite appropriate.



23skidoo 12th Jul 2015		@Neil: "The producers should've let the soppy goody-two-shoes Brady family fade away after the last episode made in 1974 was "in the can"." If it hadn't become a bigger hit in syndication than in its original run they might have left it. Same thing for Star Trek and a bunch of other shows. People discovered it after it had ended and wanted more. Interesting trivia: apparently the only reason The New Avengers was made was because The Avengers was syndicated in France, people want gaga for it, and apparently they thought the show was still in production or something. There would never have been a Brady Brides or The Bradys if there weren't fans lobbying to see how the family was doing "today". I saw both shows. Brady Brides was pretty dire (but at least they got the original Jan Brady back), but The Bradys was an interesting experiment. They might have done better had they laugh-tracked it like Eight is Enough, though.



Record Collector 12th Jul 2015		No wonder it was flop the story lines got so ridiculous



Neil Forbes 12th Jul 2015		Seems to me like milking a formula for every last drop they could get out of it. The producers should've let the soppy goody-two-shoes Brady family fade away after the last episode made in 1974 was "in the can".



23skidoo 12th Jul 2015		This wasn't a bad show, but audiences just couldn't process the idea of The Brady Bunch becoming a family drama. Although the infamous variety series was rightly consigned to oblivion, it's interesting that The Bradys incorporated characters from the short-lived The Brady Brides rather than just ignoring that obscure spin-off and starting over. It probably deserved more of a chance than what it got and without meaning to sound morbid, Robert Reed would be diagnosed with cancer a year later and after his death in 1992 it would be confirmed he was also HIV positive. It would have been interesting (and yes heartbreaking too) to see how The Bradys would have handled all this had it continued for another couple of seasons.

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