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00:00He was a presence, the unforgettable moments, dynasty captured the essence of what the 1980s
00:07were about in America. These are their stories. Cheers is the pinnacle of how great the sitcom
00:12can be. This is TV We Love. 1969 was a landmark year in American history. Life-changing events
00:26like the moon landing. That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Woodstock,
00:35injustices such as the Vietnam War. If we simply abandoned our effort in Vietnam, it would
00:39enormously increase the danger. And then, the family we all know and love, the Bradys.
00:46Well, here's the story. Over the course of several decades, the Brady Bunch became a part
00:51of the fabric of American culture. Pork shawks and apple shawks. There were a lot of fans
00:59that wanted every part of us. 30 million households were watching the Brady Bunch. The Brady's
01:05redefined what a sitcom could be. Hey, you guys. Oh, my God. Marsha, Marsha, Marsha. A blended
01:13family hadn't been seen on American television before this. The Brady Bunch saw America before
01:18America saw itself. I remember when my dad first had the idea for the Brady Bunch. It
01:31was during breakfast, and he was reading a paper. And there was a little filler in the
01:38newspaper that said, for every married couple that gets together that have had previous husband
01:43and wife, they bring children into the marriage. And he said, wow, that's a series. It was an
01:49immediate show in my head. Immediate. Sherwood Schwartz actually understood what was happening
01:55in America. Divorce was much more prevalent. So he immediately ran to the Writers Guild and
02:01registered the idea for the Brady Bunch. My fear was that everybody, every writer would
02:06see, look at that little article and realize that a sociological phenomenon was occurring
02:13in the United States. Sherwood Schwartz had done this show called Gilligan's Island.
02:17Very successful show. And so did he expect the Brady Bunch to sell? Yes. And he took it to
02:24all the networks, and they all said no. The idea of a blended family hadn't been seen on American
02:32television in any real way before this. And I think that's what scared a lot of networks
02:36away. Divorce, even as late as the mid-60s, was still kind of a verboten thing on TV, because
02:42the conventional wisdom was that the audience won't accept divorcees. And there certainly
02:46was a conservative element who wanted to see things more wholesome and family-oriented
02:51and more hearkening back to the 50s and to simpler times as they thought.
02:55But then, Yours, Mine, and Ours came out. I have eight children. Eight children? I have
03:02ten children. Ten?
03:05Yours, Mine, and Ours was a movie with Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda, and it also combined
03:12families. That was a true story of somebody with eight kids and ten kids marrying each other
03:18so they had 18 kids, which is nuts. It was a very successful movie. My dad's version at that
03:25point was called Yours and Mine. And that was something that everybody thought Dad was
03:30going to be upset about, and he ended up thinking, no, I think this is going to help.
03:36The network said, we have that show that Sherwood pitched us. There seems to be an audience for
03:41this kind of affair. He was waiting for the phone to start ringing, and it did.
03:46The movie had done my pilot for me. So ABC called me and said, hey, okay, we'll do it your
03:53way. Because the two titles are so similar, the ABC executives were worried about that
04:00as well, and so Yours and Mine or any form of that title is not going to work. So he
04:04retitled it.
04:05The Brady Bunch wasn't the original title. It's hard to believe.
04:09When I first heard about this show, it wasn't called The Brady Bunch. When I got the first
04:13script, I believe Bradley's was on the cover page.
04:16It might have been Bradley at one point, but as I recall, it was Brady and Brady Brood,
04:23which just seemed heavy.
04:26He originally wanted to call the Brady Bunch, but the network said at that time, Bunch was
04:30used for war movies. It was used for Westerns.
04:34Everybody I knew voted for Bunch. They thought it was a funnier word. It was a better word.
04:38And it's funny now because Bunch, because of Brady Bunch, is warm. Everybody thinks of,
04:44you know, a bunch, how cute that is.
04:46So Sherwood Schwartz had his pilot script. The first thing he did was set about casting
04:50the kids. Everybody who had ever thought about being on television was being considered for
04:56this thing.
04:57Sherwood spent hours and hours and hours and saw hundreds of kids for these roles.
05:02They essentially had a sound stage and they had tons of children grouped into age groups
05:07and hair color groups.
05:09He actually cast two sets of kids. He cast blonde boys and blonde girls and brunette boys
05:14and brunette girls because he wanted the hair colors of the girls to match the mother and
05:18he wanted the hair colors of the boys to match the father.
05:20There are three blonde boys who could have been and three dark haired girls who could have been.
05:28There was one kid that was on both lists and that was Michael O'Connor.
05:32Well, I just walked in the other room to toot my kazoo because I like to walk when I toot.
05:38I do know for a fact that Bobby Brady was not a dark haired little boy and they actually dyed
05:46his hair because they wanted him so badly. Some seasons his hair looked darker than others.
05:53Season one was a little Dracula, but that's only in hindsight. I bought it hook, line and sinker
05:58for years. He's too good a selection to dismiss because his hair wasn't the right color.
06:05What's wrong with a hair of red?
06:09Most important, he wanted kids that were real kids. They're not show business kids.
06:15He didn't want kid actors. He wanted kids who could act. That's very different.
06:21He got that kid because I wasn't an actor at all. I mean, I barely could speak, so.
06:25My dad was extremely enthusiastic about Susan Olsen. When Susan Olsen came in and was laser
06:35focused on dad, she talked about a show that she had just done where she got to ride a horse.
06:41It just charmed my dad.
06:44She said, uh, I was on, uh, episode of, of Gunsmoke. I didn't have to go any further.
06:52I've been practicing. Now I speak really swell.
06:55I mean, Cindy, you're just looking, you just fall in love with her.
06:58Please, Daddy, don't interrupt my Herschel.
07:02Herschel?
07:03That's after talk.
07:05Sherwood wanted the older boy to be a guy who had a take-charge attitude, a leader, and that's what led to Barry Williams.
07:12I can remember when I heard about getting the part, it was a Friday. It was my 14th birthday, September 30th. I was just thrilled.
07:21And that's why I think you should elect me president of the student body. Thank you.
07:26My favorite character on the show, gotta go with Alice. I just adored her.
07:33Alice, the housekeeper, is a really important element of the Brady Bunch. She's really the comic relief.
07:37Alice was my favorite. She said, oop, that's my two-way stretch. I think it just went three ways.
07:46That's my two-way stretch. I think it just went three ways.
07:50Ann B. Davis and Alice were certainly willing to be the brunt of the joke.
07:54Now be careful.
07:54All right, I've done this a lot.
07:56Where?
07:56In YWCA.
07:58Hey, I wish I had an Alice. Everybody I've ever met wish they had an Alice, including Alice.
08:05The original choice for Carol Brady was a very great comedic actress named Joyce Boulifant.
08:12I went in with the children and they would put them next to me to see if the girls look like me.
08:17But the network wanted Florence Henderson, and my dad actually wanted her, too, because she was wonderful.
08:24What's wrong?
08:25Oh, nothing. Nothing at all.
08:27Uh-huh. That's the kind of nothing that bothers me the most.
08:30I became sort of the stability of the show, and I think Sherwood saw that, that I could be very funny,
08:37but I could also bring the empathy necessary for a show like that to make it.
08:41Jan, you're not at anybody's shadow.
08:44Marcia's three years older than you. She should have more to show for herself.
08:48I've heard Gene Hackman was a definite possibility for Mike Brady.
08:53Talk about a missed opportunity. Gene Hackman.
08:55And then can you imagine being the network executive when Gene Hackman suddenly becomes a huge movie star?
09:00Has to say, I turned him down to be a Brady.
09:03The studio and the network had Robert Reed, who had just come off The Defenders and had a very nice following from that show.
09:12Judy, I think you better call my father.
09:14Tell him I'm at the DA's office and tell him I'm in a bit of trouble.
09:19They wanted him to be Mr. Brady.
09:21I remember the screen tests. I watched all of them, and I thought that Robert Reed was a little stiff.
09:27Even though he's only been my dad for a short time, no father could be a realer father than Michael Brady.
09:34The casting of Robert Reed was easier for the studio because the studio had a deal with Robert Reed.
09:43They were paying him.
09:44He was a New York trained actor. He was a wonderful classical actor and had done a lot of theater.
09:51So this was, you know, somebody that, you know, had done serious work.
09:55He really considered himself a serious actor and didn't really think that this show would be right for him.
10:03Sure, you gave me the plot of it, and it sounded wonderful.
10:05He put it together with statistics of broken families and so forth.
10:07I said, it's going to be comedic, but not, you know, it's going to be lifelike.
10:11Well, then I got the script of it, and it was one gag line to another.
10:14I thought, this is, well, I don't think this has much of a chance.
10:18But it did, and he ended up fighting with my dad for the next six years.
10:25Here's the story.
10:33Here's the story of a lovely lady who was bringing up three very lovely girls.
10:41The 60s went out with such a roar, and here come the Bradys in 69.
10:45It's the story of a man named Brady who was busy with three boys of his own.
10:53My dad put together the lyrics, and not that long ago, when we got the piano from my parents' house,
11:01we opened the piano bench, and there were handwritten original lyrics to the Brady Bunch.
11:10Sherwood Schwartz was a real proponent of the TV theme song,
11:13and I think he had learned that lesson with Gilligan's Island.
11:15When he was trying to sell Gilligan's Island to CBS, the network executives were worried.
11:19People are going to tune in to say to him, who are these seven people?
11:22So he came up with this sea chanty that he wrote.
11:24Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip
11:29That started from this popping port aboard this tiny ship
11:34And it did what I said had to be done to avoid the kind of exposition
11:39that CBS felt would be necessary to explain why those seven people were on the island.
11:45When they started getting rough, the tiny ship was tossed
11:50He knows how to tell a story in a song, and it's that's a skill
11:55He applied that same lesson to the Brady Bunch
12:01All of them had hair of gold, like their mother
12:06Any youngest one in curls, except the last season she had braids
12:10and so they had to curl the bottom of the braids
12:11It's fantastic!
12:16They were four men living all together
12:19Yet they were all alone
12:22Back then, you would be hard-pressed to find somebody
12:27who could not sing the entire song from start to finish
12:33It's a perfect encapsulation of what the show is
12:35It's a story, and you know exactly what the show is about
12:38Till the one day when the lady met this fellow
12:42And they knew that it was much more than a hunch
12:46And he rhymed bunch with hunch
12:49They knew that it was much more than a hunch
12:51I said, why did you put that in there?
12:54He said, well, I needed a rhyme for bunch
12:56That's the way they all became the Brady Bunch
13:00I said, but you can't put that in there just because you wanted to put that in there
13:03He says, when you write a song that's as successful as that, talk to me about it
13:07Brady Bunch, the Brady Bunch
13:12As the show was starting to go on, it became that the kids became the stories
13:16And the parents overlooked them
13:17So in the second year, we had the kids sing the song
13:21That's the way we became the Brady Bunch
13:24Boy, if I didn't know you were going to give me a free record, I'd offer to pay for one
13:35That's the way we became the Brady Bunch
13:40But then how that song was visually manifest
13:46The way they animated, you know, actual pictures of the actors
13:51And then the two come together with the lyrics
13:55Absolutely brilliantly done
13:57One day, I came into the living room
13:59And Dad was at the bridge table
14:01Drawing a diagram of how he could get nine people into boxes
14:05At the beginning and could see their faces
14:07There was something about the symmetry of the Brady Bunch
14:11That was very satisfying as a child
14:13Three blonde girls with three brunette boys
14:16Mom and Dad, both blonde and brunette
14:19And then there's Alice, you know, bouncing out the ninth square
14:23Fantastic, right?
14:24Filming those credits was probably one of the most uncomfortable things of all that we had to do
14:31Because there's really nothing to do but be on a chair and look around
14:34Insidiously difficult
14:36You don't know what you're doing
14:37Nobody's really describing to you clearly what you're doing
14:42So someone would say, and down
14:44And you go, down
14:46Look up
14:47Okay, don't look that far up, bottom right
14:50And you go
14:51And pretend to be making, you know, contact with Cindy
14:55And then I'd look over here and they'd go
14:57No, no, Alice is not in there yet
14:59Okay, okay, right
15:00They weren't really even sure where we were going to be in those boxes
15:04I think the first season, we were both looking this way
15:07I mean, like Peter
15:08Looks right, I believe
15:12Right?
15:14To the successful launch of Project Brady Bunch
15:17Hear, hear
15:17In the premiere episode of the Brady Bunch
15:25We get to see the family actually come together
15:27No, it's just the beginning
15:28For both of us
15:30Uh-uh
15:31For all of us
15:33The whole blooming Brady Bunch
15:36And then we see the wedding of Carol Martin and Mike Brady
15:40Looks like it would have been a lovely affair
15:42Had Fluffy the cat and Tiger the dog
15:44Not triggered a chase that culminated in the wedding cake
15:47Sliding off the table
15:48Thank goodness you saved the cake
15:53So it underscores the theme of the show
15:58That this is a family that's only complete when they're together
16:01Because Carol and Mike then schlep all the way home
16:04And pick up the kids and Alice
16:05To go on their honeymoon
16:07A honeymoon for eight
16:08You mean a honeymoon for nine, mommy
16:10You mean a honeymoon for ten
16:12Fluffy
16:14Tiger
16:17Eleven
16:18Don't forget Alice
16:20That makes twelve
16:21In a sense, the Brady Bunch was the original modern family
16:25It is sort of a nuclear family
16:28But it's a nuclear blended family
16:30And it's really one of the first blended families
16:33That we all got comfortable with
16:34You know, the only negative thing about the show really
16:38Was the fact that
16:39That Bob and Sherwood
16:41Did not get along
16:43Robert Reed tried to get fired
16:46Several times in the first year
16:48He fought with my dad about every little detail
16:52He was very picky
16:53And very insistent
16:56That if it didn't match what he felt was logical
17:00He was going to make a scene about it
17:03I remember the strawberry jam instance
17:06Hey, what's cooking?
17:08Oh, hi honey
17:09Alice and I are making strawberry preserves
17:11For the charity auction
17:12Robert Reed was supposed to walk into the room
17:14And say
17:15Smells like strawberry heaven in here
17:18Let me put it this way
17:20Yes
17:21Strawberries when they're cooking have no odor
17:24So I refused to do that line
17:27They had to rewrite the line
17:30And I do believe I've died and gone to strawberry heaven
17:32You have
17:33Sherwood Schwartz is a joke writer
17:35And a television sitcom writer
17:38And Robert Reed coming from classically trained acting
17:41And disoiled water
17:43Robert Reed was a stickler for accuracy about everything
17:48Which sometimes gets in the way of comedy
17:50I can see both sides of it
17:52Because, you know, when you go into a show
17:55You don't know that it's going to become iconic
17:57All you know is this is the job you have
18:00He wasn't trying to be obnoxious
18:03He wasn't in him
18:04To not find the core of the reality
18:08You know, I'd have to go every so often
18:11Bob, this is comedy
18:13This is not Shakespeare
18:15You know, it's a situation comedy for television
18:18But he was a loving dad
18:20That's how he treated us
18:21There might have been issues with him
18:23And that all happened
18:25Sort of out of earshot from us
18:28It's not a silly show, really
18:30There are silly moments in it
18:32But there are real family connections
18:37Which, you know, he took seriously
18:39I sympathize with him
18:41Because here he is
18:42The father of America
18:44And he can't come out of the closet
18:46He was a very proud man
18:47A wonderful actor
18:48And a wonderful human being
18:50And, uh, who happened to be gay
18:52And none of us ever cared
18:56It was not an issue
18:58It was just not
18:59It wasn't important
19:01Well, you have a soft heart
19:02Lips to match
19:04Robert Reed, I think, was in a tough position
19:16He was playing this more wholesome than wholesome guy
19:20In an era where being gay
19:22Was considered a shameful secret
19:25Then to go to the fame of being America's perfect dad
19:29That everybody thought he had all the answers
19:31I think there's a growing dissonance
19:33Between the actor and the character
19:35That makes it tough
19:36Our show was slow to find its audience
19:43Brady Bunch was reviewed as the worst show of the year
19:45The show was okay
19:48But that's all it was
19:50And then there was a question about a pickup for a second year
19:53And it was never a critical hit
19:55Because it was considered so juvenile
19:57Of course, the nature of our show
19:59Was bigger than life
20:01It was exaggerated
20:02That situations were comedic
20:05Hence, sitcom
20:07Looks like I'm the one who's the goat, Raquel
20:10You can say that again
20:13This is television
20:16Back when we used to call it the boob tube
20:18And the idiot box
20:19And I'm not saying these shows were idiotic or whatever
20:21They did what they did brilliantly
20:23This is the sitcom
20:25And it's absolute sitcom-iest
20:29Alice
20:30I know, I know
20:32I forgot one little thing
20:33I don't know how to drive
20:34My father really didn't care what the critics said
20:38As long as the people loved it
20:40During their original run
20:41They weren't a ratings hit
20:43That doesn't mean that there weren't millions of people
20:46Particularly kids
20:47Who were rabid for the show
20:49A lot of people ended up seeing themselves
20:51In this blended family
20:52In a way that probably network executives never expected
20:56We first became aware of the kind of impact
21:00And the enormous viewership that we had
21:02When we would go outside the soundstage
21:0530 million households were watching the Brady Bites
21:10All of a sudden it's like, you know
21:11You're being stared at
21:13When we went to Cincinnati's Kings Island
21:14We really got a taste of
21:17What was going on
21:18That is the heartland of America
21:21They're the people that were keeping us on the air
21:22There were a lot of fans
21:24That wanted every part of us
21:27I mean, hair can get pulled
21:29Costumes can get ripped
21:31And then all of a sudden
21:32There becomes this need for security
21:34We're just staying in a hotel
21:36Fans wanted to come into the hotel
21:37Knock on your door
21:38They could
21:39One, two, three, kids
21:41One, two, three
21:42Hey you kids, what are you doing in there?
21:45Um, cleaning the garage
21:47Yeah!
21:48In that period of time as well
21:50There became this desire
21:51To make us into a singing and dancing group
21:54I think I'll go for a walk outside
21:58Now the summer sun's calling my name
22:00When the Brady kids started to sing
22:02We were so excited
22:06Everybody's smiling
22:08Sunshine, sunshine day
22:09And the songs were weird and wonderful and catchy
22:12Shana, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
22:14Shana, na, na, na, na
22:15When it's time to change
22:18It's time to change
22:20Yep, all that
22:21You got the choreography down
22:23I'm a super fan
22:25The house was as much a character as the people in it
22:40It's very famous
22:41Dad himself found the outside of the house
22:43Just driving around
22:45And he said, that's the house
22:46We call the house the tenth character
22:48Because it was so significant
22:50But it was not where they shop the show
22:53They only used the exteriors
22:54We shot a Paramount Studios
22:57Stage five
22:58A couple of years ago
22:59HGTV renovated the house
23:02To look inside
23:04The way everybody in America
23:06Remembered it
23:08It's surreal
23:10You're just walking straight into an episode
23:16I was lucky enough to see it in person
23:19And I kind of lost my mind
23:21It's kind of the best experience of my life
23:24When I first walked through that door
23:26I felt like I was coming home
23:28The Brady Staircase is iconic
23:37You saw the staircase
23:38You know exactly what show you're watching
23:40Come on you guys
23:40We're going to be late for school
23:42Grace is talking in the bathroom all morning
23:44There are six kids in two bedrooms
23:46Why the hell were six children
23:48Crammed into two small rooms?
23:49That's the big burning question we all have
23:52Don't get me started
23:53Mike was an architect in this bathroom
23:54And one bathroom
23:56The girls would fight with the boys
23:58For a space in the bathroom
23:59The focus really was on the kids
24:02And their lives
24:03This is too a part of the genius
24:05Of Lloyd Schwartz
24:07And Sherwood Schwartz both
24:08The way to keep us connected
24:11To what we were doing here
24:13Was to let us be kids
24:14Any of you monsters want a hot dog?
24:17Thanks Alice
24:18Thanks Alice
24:19Thanks Alice
24:21And Dad said
24:22I want you to be in charge of those kids
24:24I basically would
24:26Look at the show
24:28From the kids point of view
24:29And Dad would have the point of view
24:30Of the adult point of view
24:32I mean I love Lloyd
24:34He was like an older brother
24:35He was a big kid himself
24:37Do you know where Marge is?
24:38She's a girl at the football booth
24:39Who's filling in for a brother
24:40Oh yeah
24:41She's inside the employee zoo
24:42I just
24:43Treated it a little bit
24:44Like summer camp
24:45I just wanted them to be kids
24:47Which caused problems later on
24:49For me
24:50And for them
24:51You know there's a lot of waiting around
24:54And you know
24:55What do you do?
24:56Well adventure
24:57Right?
24:57I mean it's Paramount Studios
24:59Let's go
25:01I got a call
25:10From the president of the studio
25:11What's the deal?
25:13Well the kids were all running around
25:15And he said
25:15You know you can't have them do this
25:17They're very expensive property
25:19And that just put my hackles up
25:23And I said
25:24They're not property
25:25They're kids
25:27That's what kids do
25:28And he said
25:31You're not going to change that?
25:32They said
25:32No I'm not going to change that
25:33If you want it done any differently
25:35You're going to have to fire me
25:36Well
25:38He didn't
25:38It was pretty ballsy
25:40Lloyd
25:41To his credit
25:42And Sherwood both made sure
25:43The studio wouldn't intervene
25:45And they let us go
25:46And we had
25:47A ball
25:48Robert Reed
25:51Gave us all
25:52Super 8 movie cameras
25:53I took it everywhere
25:55As they started getting older
25:59My challenge was
26:01In some ways
26:02To keep them
26:02Off of one another
26:04This is my room
26:05And I'm not fudging
26:07And I say
26:08It's my room
26:09And I'm not fudging
26:11The episode I directed
26:12Was called
26:13Room at the Top
26:14And there was a scene
26:15Where Barry
26:16Came into
26:17Pauline's room
26:17And she's sitting there
26:18And she sits down
26:19On the bed
26:19Next to her
26:20Hey wait a minute
26:22I didn't mean to make you cry
26:24I remember the scene
26:26I remember the day
26:27Lloyd discovered
26:28That there might have been
26:29A little bit too much
26:30Attraction between
26:32Brother and sister
26:33Maureen McCormick
26:35Was very
26:36Very attractive
26:37I dare to say
26:38That if you find
26:39Anybody who grew up
26:40Watching the shows
26:41Their first crush
26:42Was probably
26:42Marsha Braid
26:43I remember being
26:45Probably most interested
26:47In Maureen McCormick
26:48At the time
26:49Especially as she grew up
26:51Because we were
26:52Roughly the same age
26:53So I was
26:56You know
26:56Gravitated
26:57Right
26:57To her
26:58And it was coming
27:00Out
27:01In our scenes together
27:02I'm sitting a little
27:04Too close
27:05Leaning in a little
27:06Too far
27:07And we finished
27:08The scene
27:08And it was kind of
27:09Like steam there
27:10And he was right
27:11It's very hard to hide
27:12That's chemistry
27:14Lloyd was on the set
27:16And he pulled me aside
27:17And said
27:18Good scene
27:19I just want you
27:20To keep in mind here
27:21That
27:21She is your sister
27:24There were so many
27:28Iconic moments
27:29Marsha
27:30Marsha
27:31Marsha
27:31Well all I hear
27:32All day long
27:33At school
27:33Is how
27:34Great Marsha
27:35Is at this
27:36Or how wonderful
27:36Marsha did that
27:37Marsha
27:38Marsha
27:38Marsha
27:39Hey you guys
27:41Oh my nose
27:43Oh my nose
27:44Who could love
27:45The Brady Bunch
27:45And not love
27:46That episode
27:46Right
27:47Hi Alice
27:48What's for dinner
27:50Pork chops
27:51Pork chops
27:53So I was doing
27:54An impersonation
27:55Of Humphrey Bogart
27:56Pork chops
27:57And apple sauce
27:59Isn't that swell
28:01That as a slogan
28:03As you know
28:04Sort of your
28:04The thing you're known by
28:07But those moments
28:09Become important
28:12Because the audience
28:13Determines that it is
28:15One of my favorite
28:16Brady episodes
28:17Is when Jan
28:18Wants to be a cheerleader
28:19And she's terrible
28:20And she starts practicing
28:22With the mops
28:23Down here
28:25They're mops
28:25But up here
28:26They're bomb bombs
28:27When asked
28:28Each one of us
28:29What our favorite episode
28:30Was
28:31It's
28:31We say Hawaii
28:32Where are we going
28:33Hawaii
28:34Hawaii
28:35Hawaii
28:36But it's not because
28:38Of the content
28:38Of the episode
28:39It's just that
28:40We were in Hawaii
28:40Never been to Hawaii
28:44So I had
28:45An image
28:46Of what it would be
28:47And the only image
28:49I had though
28:49Was of the
28:50Brady Bunch
28:51Visit
28:51Yes
28:51Smile
28:52Say belly button
28:54Belly button
28:55We went to Hawaii
28:56And I got to surf
28:57On Oahu
28:58In a restricted area
29:00For those two days
29:01When we were filming
29:03That was probably
29:05Nirvana
29:06For me
29:07The show ended up
29:09Being the victim
29:10Of ratings
29:10When shows age
29:11They age
29:12But shows with kids
29:13Tend to age faster
29:14In the fifth season
29:15The executives
29:16At Paramount
29:18Felt that the kids
29:19Were getting a little older
29:20And so it was time
29:22To find a way
29:23To bring in
29:24A seventh Brady child
29:25We're going to have
29:26An addition to the family
29:27Greg Brady was about
29:29To graduate high school
29:30And so we had to
29:31Get some youth
29:32Into the show
29:32Oliver
29:35Hey Oliver
29:37Oliver
29:37And we knew
29:38Robbie Rist
29:39And we thought
29:40He'd be perfect
29:41For this
29:41Now I have to apologize
29:51To Robbie
29:51Because he's considered
29:52A syndrome
29:53You know
29:54For shows
29:55When they're in trouble
29:55It's become
29:56Kind of parlance
29:57In television
29:58That when a show
29:59Is getting old
29:59And they start
30:00Trying to pull
30:00Desperate tricks
30:01They're pulling
30:01A cousin Oliver
30:02Better not come
30:03Near me
30:04Carol
30:04Why not
30:05Something bad
30:07Will happen
30:07I'm a jinx
30:09By the fourth
30:12And fifth season
30:13There wasn't really
30:14None of that
30:15Lesson stuff anymore
30:16And it got
30:17Kind of caricaturish
30:18It got silly
30:19Are you friend
30:20Or enemy
30:21Well I'm a friend
30:22Welcome to earth
30:23Earth
30:24Is that what
30:26They call this planet
30:26What ended up
30:28Being our final episode
30:29Bobby sent away
30:30For a hair tonic
30:31Bobby not so much
30:34That's all right
30:35Uses Greg as his guinea pig
30:37And he turns my hair orange
30:38Oh no
30:40Orange
30:43Robert Reed did not find
30:44That premise
30:45Believable
30:46For some reason
30:47That of all things
30:48Made Robert Reed say
30:49That is a line too far
30:51A tonic that turns hair orange
30:53I don't believe it
30:54I felt like
30:55Well
30:56How is this
30:57Less believable
30:59Than many
31:01Of the other things
31:02Robert Reed is furious
31:04At this whole thing
31:05And writes a long
31:07Diatribe about this
31:08On why such and such
31:10And such
31:10And such
31:10It can't happen
31:12It's got to be realistic
31:13Robert Reed
31:24Robert Reed refused to do the show
31:25Period
31:25Keith went to his dressing room
31:28And waited
31:29For dad to come
31:30And beg him
31:31To be in the show
31:31And dad
31:33Didn't do that
31:34Dad immediately
31:35Rewrote the script
31:36And took Robert Reed
31:38Out of the whole episode
31:39He really threw a stink
31:48He kind of just
31:48Stood around
31:49And stuck his tongue
31:50Out at people
31:51From behind the camera
31:52And distracted the cast
31:53For the rest of the day
31:54So Paramount said to me
31:55We will send
31:57Two guards down
31:58And carry them
32:00Off the stage
32:01If that's the only way
32:02To get them
32:02Off the stage
32:03I said
32:05No way
32:05Not in front
32:07Of those kids
32:08The whole show
32:10Is about getting along
32:11And this was a real
32:13Good example
32:14Of not getting along
32:15So it was uncomfortable
32:16And unfamiliar
32:17Really for us
32:18And I think
32:19Unfortunate
32:19And it was said
32:21That should the show
32:22Come back for a sixth season
32:24It would have a new dad
32:26I mean Bob Reed
32:27Was such a pain
32:27That Paramount
32:30Recognized it
32:30And ABC
32:31Recognized it
32:32And authorized me
32:33If the show
32:34Were to continue
32:35To replace him
32:37I don't know
32:38How well America
32:38Would have accepted
32:39That though
32:39Because we loved
32:40Robert Reed
32:41As Mike Brady
32:42But we never
32:44Had to find out
32:45Because the show
32:46Ended up being canceled
32:47I remember
32:55We were at a banquet
32:56And the vice president
32:58Of Paramount
32:59Came over to us
32:59And said
33:00Well
33:00We fought the good fight
33:01And that's how
33:02We found out
33:03It was over
33:04It was a call
33:05Out of the blue
33:06And it was
33:07From a network
33:08Executive
33:08Who explained to me
33:10That he was there
33:11With a bottle of scotch
33:12And he wanted to let me know
33:13That our show
33:14Had been canceled
33:15I
33:15Completely blindsided
33:18By it
33:18It was just
33:21Inglorious
33:22I mean
33:22It's not like
33:23There's a party
33:23It's not like
33:24There's an ending
33:25It's just
33:26All of a sudden
33:27You break
33:27You're on hiatus
33:28And you're never
33:29Coming back
33:30I drove to
33:31Paramount Studios
33:33And went straight
33:34Over to my
33:34Parking spot
33:36And the
33:37Name plate
33:39Had been
33:40Painted over
33:41And my name
33:43Was no longer there
33:44It was somebody else's
33:46That was when
33:47It hit me
33:47And nobody
33:48Said goodbye
33:49And I took it
33:50Personally
33:51When the show
33:54Was canceled
33:54And a lot of people
33:55Thought
33:56That's the end
33:57Of the Brady's
33:57Everybody was so wrong
34:00The Brady Bunch
34:01Has been a lot of things
34:02But over isn't one of them
34:03The Brady Bunch
34:04Did not become
34:06A massive hit
34:07Until it hit syndication
34:08It's a rerun
34:09I'll tell you all about it
34:10The Brady Bunch
34:12May have debuted
34:13On network TV
34:14From 1969
34:15To 1974
34:16But the Brady Bunch
34:18Became
34:19The grip
34:20On the soul
34:21Of a couple of
34:22Generations of Americans
34:24Years after that
34:26When you go
34:26From being a show
34:27That's only on
34:28Once a week
34:29On a Friday night
34:30To being a show
34:31That's readily accessible
34:32Because when you
34:32Come home from school
34:33It's right there
34:34In that half hour
34:35That just
34:35Opened up the audience
34:37To a whole new
34:38Generation of kids
34:39My sister and I
34:39We used to be able
34:40To tell you
34:41What episode it was
34:41Before they opened
34:42Their mouth
34:42The Brady Bunch
34:43Was part of the
34:45Fabric of the
34:47American soul
34:48Then the Brady's
34:51Continued on
34:53In every possible
34:55Shape and form
34:55Ladies and gentlemen
34:57The Brady Bunch
34:59Right after the show
35:00Ended
35:00It did this
35:01Brady Bunch
35:01Variety hour
35:02Mike and Carol
35:06Having been this
35:07Normal American
35:08Mom and dad
35:09All of a sudden
35:09They're doing a
35:10Variety show
35:11Around a pool
35:12And they're in
35:13Sequined outfits
35:14Tap dancing
35:15What?
35:16It was almost like
35:17Somebody did too many
35:18Drugs and they made
35:19Too many weird decisions
35:20But that's just me
35:21I still loved it
35:22But yeah
35:23It was
35:23It was
35:24It was out there
35:25So of all the
35:26Derivations of the
35:27Brady Bunch
35:28That's the one
35:29We never had
35:30Anything to do with
35:30I saw
35:31Half of one
35:32Didn't make any sense
35:33You're a chicken
35:34I'm a rat
35:35Why are we doing this
35:38And that was as much
35:39As I've had
35:39Into doing that
35:40I'm blamed for it a lot
35:41Why'd you do that
35:42Brady Bunch
35:43Variety hour
35:43I didn't do it
35:44We followed them
35:45From then on
35:46We followed them
35:46Through the Brady
35:47Brides
35:47But what better
35:48Beginning
35:49Than a double wedding
35:50For two
35:51Beautiful sisters
35:52Marsha
35:53And Jan
35:54We followed them
35:55Through a Christmas
35:56Movie in 1988
35:5720 years ago
35:59Carol and
35:59You three girls
36:01And I
36:02And you three boys
36:03Came together
36:05And in time
36:06Became one
36:08They were then
36:09Ripe for parodying
36:10With the Brady Bunch
36:12Movies of the 90s
36:13Dad and I got together
36:14And we realized
36:15There's not really
36:15A movie there
36:16Unless we do it
36:18As a satire
36:18And I give down
36:19A huge amount of credit
36:20Because we would be
36:22The first people
36:22To satirize ourselves
36:23And so we wrote
36:25A satire
36:25And it got a green light
36:27And then
36:28That's what happens
36:28In studios and things
36:30And a new president
36:31Came in
36:31And she immediately
36:32Threw out our script
36:34The new president
36:42Paramount came in
36:43She thought the Brady Bunch
36:44Was going to be a hit
36:44So she brought in
36:45Two other writers
36:46Who wrote it
36:47As a vicious kind of satire
36:48Ours was an affectionate satire
36:50And we presented that
36:51And we got attorneys
36:53Involved
36:54And they said
36:55Paramount has the
36:55Copyright
36:57They can do whatever
36:57They want
36:58Except my clients
37:00Are individuals
37:01And who plan on
37:02Going on every talk show
37:03Telling people
37:03Not to see this movie
37:04Which that
37:05Got Paramount upset
37:06And so they would
37:08Took all of our notes
37:09And turned it in
37:09Basically in the movie
37:10So if we don't raise
37:12If we don't raise $20,000
37:12In one week
37:13We'll have to move
37:15Go to a new school
37:16Make new friends
37:18But Jan
37:19You don't have any friends
37:21When I read the script
37:21When I read the script
37:23I was kind of delighted
37:26To see that they had
37:27Put in this twist on it
37:29Which was to leave
37:30The Bradys trapped in the 70s
37:33And everybody else
37:34Had moved forward
37:35I thought they were fun
37:37They were so well cast
37:38Shelley Long was really great
37:40I knew about the show
37:41But I didn't know the show
37:43So I had to really learn
37:44Her character
37:45Her movements
37:46Her voice
37:48Oh Alex
37:50What would we do without you?
37:51There's two different versions
37:52Of mine and Robert Reed
37:54Mine is a total
37:55With love
37:56And with the tip of the cap
37:57A total satire
37:59Christine Taylor
38:00Was an amazing Marsha Brady
38:02Dinner's ready
38:03Oh my mom
38:04Now I'll never be a teen model
38:06I mean everybody in that cast
38:08They were really great
38:09Sure Jan
38:10Do you know who'd love
38:13To hear about this?
38:15Grandma
38:16We knew that Mike
38:20Was widowed
38:21Carol Brady
38:22Was Carol Martin
38:23We knew that
38:24Before she got married
38:25But we never really heard
38:26What had happened
38:27To Mr. Martin
38:28The girl's father
38:29This is a big question
38:31Was she divorced?
38:33Was she widowed?
38:34Well it turns out
38:35We find out from the movies
38:36That Carol was indeed
38:37A divorcee
38:38And that her husband
38:39Roy Martin
38:39Was still alive
38:40I'm looking for Carol Brady
38:42My name's Roy Martin
38:43I'm her husband
38:45And when he came
38:46Into the movies
38:47He was played
38:48By Tim Matheson
38:48Who ironically
38:49Was one of the actors
38:50From Yours, Mine, and Ours
38:51Back in 1990
38:54In Chicago
38:55Two sisters
38:56Put Brady episodes
38:58On stage
38:59And they had a bunch
39:00Of Second City actors
39:01Do the show
39:02With the music
39:02And not change a thing
39:04It was a huge hit immediately
39:13I mean people
39:13Were lining up
39:15Down the street
39:16The first Greg Brady
39:23When we did the show
39:24Was Steve Carell
39:25Mrs. Brady
39:26Was Jane Lynch
39:28I was Jane's understudy
39:33Mrs. Brady's understudy
39:34And then eventually
39:35I got to take over
39:36As Alice
39:37For almost a year
39:38And we would change
39:39Episodes every week
39:40It was kind of a way
39:41To share something together
39:42That had not really
39:44Happened in that way
39:45There are phrases
39:49That went into our lexicon
39:50That come from that show
39:51And certainly moments
39:52So many visuals
39:54And phrases
39:57That really are stuck
39:59In our minds
40:00For decades
40:00And I think
40:01Will continue to be
40:02And are still parodied
40:03Today in pop culture
40:04Here's the story
40:06Of a man named Brady
40:07Marsha, Marsha, Marsha
40:14Jan, this isn't about you
40:15It never is
40:16That's the way
40:18We all became
40:19The Marble Blush
40:20There are literally
40:21Chemical changes
40:22That happen
40:23When that nostalgic
40:25Vibe is touched
40:27We started all those
40:28Years ago
40:29More than 50
40:30And the heartlight
40:32Still goes on
40:33This show has a life
40:34Of its own
40:35The Brady family
40:36Is a part of
40:37A Maritana
40:38The ideas and the themes
40:40That were explored
40:41On the Brady bunch
40:42Are timeless
40:42And the morality
40:44Of the show
40:44Is timeless
40:45There's a good message
40:47In this Brady thing
40:48And apparently
40:49A lot of America
40:50And the world
40:51Needed it as well
40:52And that was their
40:52Attraction to it
40:53But I think the legacy
40:55Is more one of
40:56Childhood memories
40:57Of spending time
40:59With people
40:59Who saw our problems
41:02And solved them
41:03And made us feel like
41:04Ours were solvable
41:04The Brady bunch
41:06The Brady bunch saw
41:06America before
41:07America saw itself
41:08It had so many
41:09Of the great themes
41:11We all live with
41:13Sibling rivalry
41:14Blended families
41:16Loving mom and dad
41:18At the center
41:18It was so relatable
41:20If I happen
41:21To be flipping channels
41:23And it's on
41:24I'll probably watch
41:25The whole thing
41:25I can't help it
41:27It's like an old friend
41:28But they're so
41:34I can't help it
41:37ожет
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