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00:00The Golden Age of Television.
00:09I Love Lucy didn't just change American television, it invented American television.
00:13Back when one screen brought everyone together.
00:16Watching television was a family event.
00:19The shows that shaped us.
00:21The Brady Bunch was part of the American soul.
00:25It's timeless.
00:26The familiar faces.
00:27Ralph Cramden was loved by the Honeymooners.
00:31He was a presence.
00:33The unforgettable moments.
00:35Dynasty captured the essence of what the 1980s were about in America.
00:39These are their stories.
00:40Cheers is the pinnacle of how great the sitcom can be.
00:43This is TV We Love.
00:511969 was a landmark year in American history.
00:55Life-changing events like the moon landing.
00:57That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
01:04Woodstock, injustices such as the Vietnam War.
01:07If we simply abandoned our effort in Vietnam, it would enormously increase the danger.
01:11And then, the family we all know and love, the Bradys.
01:14Well, here's the story.
01:18Over the course of several decades, the Brady Bunch became a part of the fabric of American culture.
01:24Pork shots and apple shots.
01:28There were a lot of fans that wanted every part of us.
01:3230 million households were watching the Brady Bunch.
01:34The Bradys redefined what a sitcom could be.
01:37Hey, you guys.
01:39Oh, my God!
01:40Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!
01:42A blended family hadn't been seen on American television before this.
01:46The Brady Bunch saw America before America saw itself.
01:49I remember when my dad first had the idea for the Brady Bunch.
02:00It was during breakfast, and he was reading a paper.
02:05And there was a little filler in the newspaper that said,
02:09for every married couple that gets together that have had previous husband and wife,
02:14they bring children into the marriage.
02:15And he said, wow, that's a series.
02:19It was an immediate show in my head.
02:22Immediate.
02:23Sherwood Schwartz actually understood what was happening in America.
02:26Divorce was much more prevalent.
02:28So he immediately ran to the Writers Guild and registered the idea for the Brady Bunch.
02:34My fear was that everybody, every writer, would look at that little article
02:39and realize that a sociological phenomenon was occurring in the United States.
02:44Sherwood Schwartz had done this show called Gilligan's Island.
02:47Very successful show.
02:49And so did he expect the Brady Bunch to sell?
02:51Yes.
02:53And he took it to all the networks, and they all said no.
02:58The idea of a blended family hadn't been seen on American television in any real way before this,
03:04and I think that's what scared a lot of networks away.
03:07Divorce, even as late as the mid-60s, was still kind of a verboten thing on TV
03:11because the conventional wisdom was that the audience won't accept divorcees.
03:16There certainly was a conservative element who wanted to see things more wholesome and family-oriented
03:21and more hearkening back to the 50s and to simpler times as they thought.
03:26But then, Yours, Mine, and Ours came out.
03:29I have eight children.
03:30Eight children.
03:32I have ten children.
03:34Ten!
03:35Yours, Mine, and Ours was a movie with Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda,
03:39and it also combined families.
03:43That was a true story of somebody with eight kids and ten kids marrying each other so they had 18 kids,
03:50which is nuts!
03:51It was a very successful movie.
03:54My dad's version at that point was called Yours and Mine.
03:57And that was something that everybody thought dad was going to be upset about,
04:02and he ended up thinking,
04:03no, I think this is going to help.
04:05The network said, we have that show that Sherwood pitched us.
04:10There seems to be an audience for this kind of fare.
04:12He was waiting for the phone to start ringing, and it did.
04:16The movie had done my pilot for me.
04:19So ABC called me and said, hey, okay, we'll do it your way.
04:26Because the two titles are so similar,
04:28the ABC executives were worried about that as well,
04:30and so Yours and Mine or any form of that title is not going to work.
04:34So he retitled it.
04:35The Brady Bunch wasn't the original title.
04:38It's hard to believe.
04:39When I first heard about this show, it wasn't called The Brady Bunch.
04:42When I got the first script, I believe Bradley's was on the cover page.
04:46It might have been Bradley at one point,
04:49but as I recall, it was Brady and Brady Brood,
04:53which just seemed heavy.
04:55He originally wanted to call it The Brady Bunch,
04:57but the network said at that time,
04:59Bunch was used for war movies, it was used for Westerns.
05:03Everybody I knew voted for Bunch, they thought it was a funnier word.
05:06It was a better word.
05:08And it's funny now because Bunch, because of Brady Bunch, is warm.
05:13Everybody thinks of, you know, a Bunch, how cute that is.
05:16So Sherwood Schwartz had his pilot script.
05:18The first thing he did was set about casting the kids.
05:22Everybody who'd ever thought about being on television
05:25was being considered for this thing.
05:27Sherwood spent hours and hours and hours
05:29and saw hundreds of kids for these roles.
05:32They essentially had a sound stage
05:34and they had tons of children
05:35grouped into age groups and hair color groups.
05:39He actually cast two sets of kids.
05:41He cast blonde boys and blonde girls
05:43and brunette boys and brunette girls
05:45because he wanted the hair colors of the girls to match the mother
05:48and he wanted the hair colors of the boys to match the father.
05:50There are three blonde boys who could have been
05:54and three dark-haired girls who could have been.
05:58There was one kid that was on both lists
06:01and that was Mike Lokenland.
06:03Well, I just walked in the other room to toot my kazoo
06:06because I like to walk when I toot.
06:08I do know for a fact that Bobby Brady
06:11was not a dark-haired little boy
06:14and they actually dyed his hair
06:17because they wanted him so badly.
06:18Some seasons his hair looked darker than others.
06:23Season one it was a little Dracula,
06:25but that's only in hindsight.
06:27I bought it hook, line, and sinker for years.
06:30He's too good a selection to dismiss
06:33because his hair wasn't the right color.
06:35What's wrong with a hair of red?
06:39Most important, he wanted kids that were real kids.
06:43They're not show business kids.
06:45He didn't want kid actors.
06:46He wanted kids who could act.
06:49That's very different.
06:51He got that kid because I wasn't an actor at all.
06:54I mean, I barely could speak, so.
06:57My dad was extremely enthusiastic about Susan Olson.
07:02When Susan Olson came in and was laser-focused on Dad,
07:06she talked about a show that she had just done
07:09where she got to ride a horse.
07:11It just charmed my dad.
07:14She said, I was on an episode of Gunsmoke.
07:20I didn't have to go any further.
07:22I've been practicing.
07:23Now I speak really swell.
07:25I mean, Cindy, you just look and you just fall in love with her.
07:28Please, Daddy, don't interrupt my herself.
07:32Hersel?
07:33That's after talk.
07:35Sherwood wanted the older boy to be a guy who had a take-charge attitude,
07:39a leader, and that's what led to Barry Williams.
07:43I can remember when I heard about getting the part.
07:45It was a Friday.
07:46It was my 14th birthday, September 30th.
07:50I was just thrilled.
07:51And that's why I think you should elect me president of the student body.
07:56My favorite character on the show, gotta go with Alice.
08:01I just adored her.
08:03Alice, the housekeeper, is a really important element of the Brady Bunch.
08:06She's really the comic relief.
08:10Alice was my favorite.
08:12She said, oh, that's my two-way stretch.
08:14I think it just went three ways.
08:16That's my two-way stretch.
08:17I think it just went three ways.
08:20Ann B. Davis and Alice were certainly willing to be the brunt of the joke.
08:24Now be careful.
08:24All right, I've done this a lot.
08:26Where?
08:26At YWCA.
08:28I wish I had an Alice.
08:30Everybody I've ever met wish they had an Alice, including Alice.
08:33The original choice for Carol Brady was a very great comedic actress named Joyce Boulifant.
08:42I went in with the children, and they would put them next to me to see if the girls look like me.
08:48But the network wanted Florence Henderson, and my dad actually wanted her, too, because she was wonderful.
08:54What's wrong?
08:55Oh, nothing.
08:55Nothing at all.
08:56Uh-huh, that's the kind of nothing that bothers me the most.
09:00I became sort of the stability of the show, and I think Sherwood saw that, that I could be very funny,
09:07but I could also bring the empathy necessary for a show like that to make it.
09:11Jan, you're not an anybody's shadow.
09:14Marsha's three years older than you.
09:16She should have more to show for herself.
09:17I've heard Gene Hackman was a definite possibility for Mike Brady.
09:23Talk about a missed opportunity.
09:24Gene Hackman.
09:25And then can you imagine being the network executive when Gene Hackman suddenly becomes a huge movie star?
09:30Has to say, I turned him down to be a Brady.
09:33The studio and the network had Robert Reed, who had just come off The Defenders and had a very nice following from that show.
09:42Mr. Judy, I think you better call my father, tell him I'm at the DA's office, and tell him I'm in a bit of trouble.
09:49They wanted him to be Mr. Brady.
09:51I remember the screen tests, and I watched all of them, and I thought that Robert Reed was a little stiff.
09:57Even though he's only been my dad for a short time, no father could be a realer father than Michael Brady.
10:07The casting of Robert Reed was easier for the studio, because the studio had a deal.
10:12With Robert Reed, they were paying him.
10:14He was a New York trained actor.
10:16He was a wonderful classical actor, and had done a lot of theater.
10:21So this was, you know, somebody that, you know, had done serious work.
10:25He really considered himself a serious actor, and didn't really think that this show would be right for him.
10:33Sure, he gave me the plot of it, and it sounded wonderful.
10:35He put it together with statistics of broken families and stuff like that.
10:38It's going to be comedic, but not, you know, it's going to be lifelike.
10:41Well, then I got the script of it, and it was one gag line to another.
10:44I thought, this is, well, I don't think this has much of a chance.
10:48But it did, and he ended up fighting with my dad for the next six years.
10:53Here's the story.
11:03Here's the story of a lovely lady who was bringing up three very lovely girls.
11:11The 60s went out with such a roar, and here come the Bradys in 69.
11:15It's the story of a man named Brady, who was busy with three boys of his own.
11:23My dad put together the lyrics, and not that long ago, when we got the piano from my parents' house,
11:31we opened the piano bench, and there were handwritten original lyrics to the Brady Bunch.
11:39Sherwood Schwartz was a real proponent of the TV theme song, and I think he had learned that lesson with Gilligan's Island.
11:45When he was trying to sell Gilligan's Island to CBS, the network executives were worried.
11:49People are going to tune in to say, who are these seven people?
11:51So he came up with this sea chanty that he wrote.
11:54Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip
11:59That started from this tropic port aboard this tiny ship
12:04And it did what I said had to be done to avoid the kind of exposition that CBS felt would be necessary
12:12to explain why those seven people were on the island.
12:16Until they started getting rough, the tiny ship was tossed
12:20He knows how to tell a story in a song.
12:24And that's a skill.
12:29He applied that same lesson to the Brady Bunch.
12:31All of them had hair of gold, like their mother
12:36And his one in curls, except the last season she had braids
12:40and so they had to curl the bottom of the braids.
12:45It's fantastic.
12:46They were four men living all together, yet they were all alone
12:52Back then, you would be hard-pressed to find somebody who could not sing the entire song from start to finish.
13:03It's a perfect encapsulation of what the show is.
13:06It's a story, and you know exactly what the show is about.
13:08Till the one day when the lady met this fellow
13:12And they knew that it was much more than a hunch
13:16I said, why did you put that in there?
13:24He said, well, I needed a rhyme for Bunch.
13:27That's the way they all became the Brady Bunch
13:30I said, but you can't put that in there just because you wanted to put that in there.
13:33He says, when you write a song that's as successful as that, talk to me about it.
13:39Brady Bunch, the Brady Bunch
13:42As the show was starting to go on, it became that the kids would be in the stories
13:46And the parents overlooked them.
13:48So in the second year, we had the kids sing the song.
13:51That's the way we became the Brady Bunch.
13:54That's the way we all became the Brady Bunch
13:57The Brady Bunch
13:59The Brady Bunch
14:01Boy, if I didn't know you were going to give me a free record, I'd offer to pay for one.
14:05That's the way we became the Brady Bunch
14:09But then how that song was visually manifest
14:16The way they animated, you know, actual pictures of the actors
14:21And then the two come together with the lyrics
14:25Absolutely brilliantly done
14:27One day, I came into the living room
14:29And Dad was at the bridge table
14:31Drawing a diagram of how he could get nine people into boxes
14:35At the beginning and could see their faces
14:37There was something about the symmetry of the Brady Bunch that was very satisfying as a child
14:43Three blonde girls with three brunette boys
14:46Mom and Dad, both blonde and brunette
14:49And then there's Alice, you know, balancing out the ninth square
14:53Fantastic, right?
14:54Filming those credits was probably one of the most uncomfortable things of all that we had to do
15:01Because there's really nothing to do but be on a chair and look around
15:04Insidiously difficult
15:06You don't know what you're doing
15:07Nobody's really describing to you clearly what you're doing
15:12So someone would say, and down
15:14And you go down
15:16Look up
15:17Okay, don't look that far up
15:20Bottom right
15:20And you go
15:21And pretend to be making, you know, contact with Cindy
15:25And then I'd look over here and they'd go
15:27No, no, Alice is not in there yet
15:29Okay, okay, right
15:30They weren't really even sure where we were going to be in those boxes
15:34I think the first season we were both looking this way
15:37I mean, like Peter
15:38Looks right, I believe
15:42Right?
15:44To the successful launch of Project Brady Bunch
15:47Hear, hear
15:47In the premiere episode of The Brady Bunch
15:55We get to see the family actually come together
15:57Now it's just the beginning
15:58For both of us
16:00Uh-uh
16:01For all of us
16:03The whole blooming Brady Bunch
16:06And then we see the wedding of Carol Martin and Mike Brady
16:10Looks like it would have been a lovely affair
16:12Had Fluffy the cat and Tiger the dog
16:14Not triggered a chase that culminated in the wedding cake
16:17Sliding off the table
16:18Thank goodness you saved the cake
16:23So it underscores the theme of the show
16:28That this is a family that's only complete when they're together
16:31Because Carol and Mike then schlep all the way home
16:34And pick up the kids and Alice to go on their honeymoon
16:37Honeymoon for eight
16:38You mean a honeymoon for nine, Mommy
16:40You mean a honeymoon for ten
16:42Fluffy
16:44Tiger
16:47In a sense the Brady Bunch was the original modern family
16:55It is sort of a nuclear family
16:58But it's a nuclear blended family
17:00And it's really one of the first blended families
17:03That we all got comfortable with
17:04You know the only negative thing about the show really
17:08Was the fact that Bob and Sherwood did not get along
17:13Robert Reed tried to get fired several times in the first year
17:18He fought with my dad about every little detail
17:22He was very picky and very insistent
17:26That if it didn't match what he felt was logical
17:30He was going to make a scene about it
17:33I remember the strawberry jam instance
17:36Hey, what's cooking?
17:38Oh, hi honey
17:39Alice and I are making strawberry preserves for the charity auction
17:42Robert Reed was supposed to walk into the room
17:44And say, smells like strawberry heaven in here
17:48Let me put it this way
17:50Yes
17:51Strawberries when they're cooking have no odor
17:54So I refused to do that line
17:57They had to rewrite the line
18:00And I do believe I've died and gone to strawberry heaven
18:02You have, uh, Sherwood Schwartz is a joke writer
18:05And a television sitcom writer
18:08And Robert Reed coming from classically trained acting
18:11And disoiled water
18:13Robert Reed was a stickler for accuracy about everything
18:18Which sometimes gets in the way of comedy
18:20I can see both sides of it
18:22Because, you know, when you go into a show
18:25You don't know that it's going to become iconic
18:27All you know is this is the job you have
18:30He wasn't trying to be obnoxious
18:33He wasn't in him
18:34To not find the core of the reality
18:38You know, I'd have to go every so often
18:41Bob, this is comedy
18:43This is not Shakespeare
18:45You know, it's a situation comedy for television
18:48But he was a loving dad
18:50That's how he treated us
18:51There might have been issues with him
18:53And sure, that all happened
18:55Sort of out of earshot from us
18:58It's not a silly show, really
19:00There are silly moments in it
19:02But there are real family connections
19:07Which, you know, he took seriously
19:09I sympathize with him
19:11Because here he is
19:12The father of America
19:14And he can't come out of the closet
19:16He was a very proud man
19:17A wonderful actor
19:18And a wonderful human being
19:20And, uh, who happened to be gay
19:22And none of us ever cared
19:26It was not an issue
19:27It was just not
19:29It wasn't important
19:31Well, you have a soft hug
19:32Lipstermatch
19:34My goodness
19:35Aren't we affectionate tonight?
19:38Not just tonight
19:38Every night
19:39Because I love you, darling
19:41Robert Reed, I think, was in a tough position
19:46He was playing this more wholesome than wholesome guy
19:50In an era where being gay
19:52Was considered a shameful secret
19:55Then to go to the fame of being America's perfect dad
19:59That everybody thought he had all the answers
20:01I think there's a growing dissonance
20:03Between the actor and the character
20:05That makes it tough
20:06Our show was slow to find its audience
20:13Brady Bunch was reviewed as the worst show of the year
20:15The show was okay, but that's all it was
20:20And then there was a question about a pickup for a second year
20:23And it was never a critical hit
20:25Because it was considered so juvenile
20:27Of course, the nature of our show was bigger than life
20:31It was exaggerated
20:32The situations were comedic
20:35Hence, sitcom
20:37Looks like I'm the one who's the goat, Raquel
20:40You can say that again
20:43This is television
20:46Back when we used to call it the boob tube
20:48And the idiot box
20:49And I'm not saying these shows were idiotic or whatever
20:51They did what they did brilliantly
20:53This is the sitcom at its absolute sitcom-iest
20:59Alice!
21:01I know, I know, I forgot one little thing
21:03I don't know how to drive
21:04My father really didn't care what the critics said
21:08As long as the people loved it
21:10During their original run, they weren't a ratings hit
21:13That doesn't mean that there weren't millions of people
21:16Particularly kids who were rabid for the show
21:19A lot of people ended up seeing themselves in this blended family
21:22In a way that probably network executives never expected
21:26We first became aware of the kind of impact
21:30And the enormous viewership that we had
21:32When we would go outside the soundstage
21:3530 million households were watching the Brady Bunch
21:40All of a sudden it's like, you know
21:41You're being stared at
21:43When we went to Cincinnati's King's Island
21:44We really got a taste of what was going on
21:48That is the heartland of America
21:51They're the people that were keeping us on the air
21:52There were a lot of fans that wanted every part of us
21:57I mean, hair can get pulled, costumes can get ripped
22:01And then all of a sudden there becomes this need for security
22:04We're just staying in a hotel
22:06If fans wanted to come into the hotel and knock on your door
22:08They could
22:09In that period of time as well
22:20There became this desire to make us into a singing and dancing group
22:24I think I'll go for a walk outside now
22:28The summer sun's calling my name
22:30When the Brady kids started to sing
22:32We were so excited
22:36And the songs were weird and wonderful and catchy
22:42When it's time to change
22:48It's time to change
22:50Yep, all of that
22:51You got the choreography down
22:53I'm a super fan
22:55The house was as much a character as the people in it
23:10It's very famous
23:11Dad himself found the outside of the house
23:13Just driving around
23:15And he said, that's the house
23:16We call the house the 10th character
23:18Because it was so significant
23:20But it was not where they shot the show
23:23They only used the exteriors
23:24We shot at Paramount Studios
23:27Stage 5
23:28A couple of years ago
23:29HGTV renovated the house
23:32To look inside
23:34The way everybody in America
23:36Remembered it
23:38It's surreal
23:40You're just walking straight into an episode
23:46I was lucky enough to see it in person
23:49And I kind of lost my mind
23:51It's kind of the best experience of my life
23:54When I first walked through that door
23:56I felt like I was coming home
23:58The Brady staircase is iconic
24:07You saw the staircase
24:08You know exactly what show you're watching
24:10Come on, you guys
24:10Hurry up
24:11You're going to be late for school
24:12You guys are talking in the bathroom all morning
24:14There are six kids in two bedrooms
24:16Why the hell were six children crammed into two small rooms?
24:19That's the big burning question we all have
24:21Anyway, don't get me started
24:23Mike was an architect and this is the house
24:24And one bathroom
24:26The girls would fight with the boys
24:28For space in the bathroom
24:29The focus really was on the kids and their lives
24:33This is too a part of the genius of Lloyd Schwartz
24:37And Sherwood Schwartz both
24:38The way to keep us connected
24:41To what we were doing here
24:43Was to let us be kids
24:44Any of you monsters want a hot dog?
24:47Thanks, Alice
24:48Thanks, Alice
24:49Thanks, Alice
24:51And Dad said
24:52I want you to be in charge of those kids
24:54I basically would look at the show
24:58From the kids' point of view
24:59And Dad would have the point of view
25:00Of the adult point of view
25:02I mean, I love Lloyd
25:04He was like an older brother
25:05He was a big kid himself
25:07Would you know where Marge is?
25:08She's the girl at the football booth
25:09Who's filling in for her brother
25:10Oh, yeah
25:11She's inside the employee's area
25:12I just treated it a little bit like summer camp
25:15I just wanted them to be kids
25:17Which caused problems later on
25:19For me and for them
25:21You know, there's a lot of waiting around
25:24And, you know, what do you do?
25:26Well, adventure, right?
25:27I mean, it's Paramount Studios
25:29Let's go!
25:31I got a call
25:40From the president of the studio
25:41What's the deal?
25:43Well, the kids were all running around
25:45And he said
25:45You know, you can't have them do this
25:47They're very expensive property
25:49And that just put my hackles up
25:53And I said
25:54They're not property
25:55They're kids
25:57That's what kids do
25:58And he said
26:01You're not going to change that?
26:02They said
26:02No, I'm not going to change that
26:03If you want it done any different way
26:05You're going to have to fire me
26:06Well, he didn't
26:08It was pretty ballsy
26:10Lloyd, to his credit
26:12And Sherwood both made sure
26:13The studio wouldn't intervene
26:15And they let us go
26:16And we had a ball
26:18Robert Reed
26:21Gave us all Super 8 movie cameras
26:23I took it everywhere
26:25As they started getting older
26:29My challenge was
26:31In some ways
26:32To keep them off of one another
26:34This is my room
26:35And I'm not budging
26:37And I say
26:38It's my room
26:39And I'm not budging
26:41The episode I directed
26:42Was called Room at the Top
26:43And there was a scene
26:45Where Barry came into
26:47Maureen's room
26:47And she's sitting there
26:48And she sits down
26:49On the bed next to her
26:50Hey, uh, wait a minute
26:52I didn't even make you cry
26:54I remember the scene
26:56I remember the day
26:57Lloyd discovered
26:58That there might have been
26:59A little bit too much
27:00Attraction between
27:02Brother and sister
27:03Maureen McCormick
27:05Was very, very attractive
27:07I dare to say
27:08That if you find anybody
27:10Who grew up watching the shows
27:11Their first crush
27:12Was probably Marsha Braid
27:13I remember being
27:15Probably most interested
27:17In Maureen McCormick
27:18At the time
27:19Especially as she grew up
27:21Because we were
27:22Roughly the same age
27:23So I was, you know
27:26Gravitated right to her
27:28And it was coming out
27:30In our scenes together
27:32I'm sitting a little too close
27:35Leaning in a little too far
27:37And we finished the scene
27:38And it was kind of like
27:39Steam there
27:40And he was right
27:41It's very hard to hide
27:42That's chemistry
27:44Lloyd was on the set
27:46And he pulled me aside
27:47And said, good scene
27:49I just want you to keep in mind
27:50Here that
27:51She is your sister
27:54There were so many
27:58Iconic moments
27:59Marsha, Marsha, Marsha
28:01Well, all I hear
28:02All day long at school
28:03Is how great Marsha is at this
28:06Or how wonderful Marsha did that
28:07Marsha, Marsha, Marsha
28:09Hey, you guys
28:11Oh, my nose
28:13Oh, my nose
28:14Who could love the Brady Bunch
28:15And not love that episode, right?
28:17Hi, Alice
28:18What's for dinner?
28:21Pork chops
28:21Pork chops
28:23So I was doing an impersonation
28:25Of Humphrey Bogart
28:26Pork chops
28:27And apple sauce
28:29Eat that swell
28:31That as a slogan
28:33As, you know, sort of your
28:34The thing you're known by
28:37But those moments
28:39Become important
28:42Because the audience
28:43Determines that it is
28:45One of my favorite Brady episodes
28:47Is when Jan wants to be a cheerleader
28:49And she's terrible
28:50And she starts practicing
28:52With the mops
28:53Down here they're mops
28:55But up here they're pom-poms
28:57When asked
28:58Each one of us
28:59What her favorite episode was
29:01It's, we say, Hawaii
29:02Where are we going?
29:04Hawaii
29:04Hawaii
29:05Hawaii?
29:06But it's not because
29:08Of the content of the episode
29:09It's just that we were in Hawaii
29:10Never been to Hawaii
29:14So I had an image
29:16Of what it would be
29:17And the only image
29:19I had, though
29:19Was of the Brady Bunch
29:21Visit to Hawaii
29:21Yes, sorry, yes
29:22Smile
29:22Say belly button
29:24Belly button
29:25We went to Hawaii
29:26And I got to surf
29:27On Oahu
29:28In a restricted area
29:30For those two days
29:31When we were filming
29:33That was probably
29:35Nirvana
29:36For me
29:37The show ended up
29:39Being the victim of ratings
29:40When shows age
29:41They age
29:42But shows with kids
29:43Tend to age faster
29:44In the fifth season
29:45The executives
29:46At Paramount
29:48Felt that the kids
29:49Were getting a little older
29:50And so it was time
29:52To find a way
29:53To bring in
29:54A seventh Brady child
29:55We're going to have
29:56An addition to the family
29:57Greg Brady
29:59Was about to graduate
30:00High school
30:00And so we had to get
30:01Some youth into the show
30:02Here we are
30:04Oliver
30:05Hey Oliver
30:06And we knew Robbie Rist
30:09And we thought
30:10He'd be perfect for this
30:11Now I have to apologize
30:21To Robbie
30:21Because he's considered
30:22A syndrome
30:23You know
30:24For shows
30:25When they're in trouble
30:25It's become
30:26Kind of parlance
30:27In television
30:28That when a show
30:29Is getting old
30:29And they start
30:30Trying to pull
30:30Desperate tricks
30:31They're pulling
30:31A cousin Oliver
30:32Better not come near me
30:34Carol
30:34Why not?
30:36Something bad
30:37Will happen
30:37I'm a jinx
30:39By the fourth
30:42And fifth season
30:43There wasn't really
30:44None of that
30:45Lesson stuff anymore
30:46And it got
30:47Kind of caricaturish
30:48It got silly
30:49Are you friend
30:50Or enemy?
30:51Well I'm a friend
30:52Welcome to Earth
30:53Earth?
30:55Is that what
30:56They call this planet?
30:57What ended up
30:58Being our final episode
30:59Bobby sent away
31:00For a hair tonic
31:01Bobby not so much
31:04It's alright
31:05Uses Greg as his guinea pig
31:07And turns my hair orange
31:08Oh no
31:10Orange
31:12Robert Reed did not find
31:14That premise
31:15Believable
31:16For some reason
31:17That of all things
31:18Made Robert Reed say
31:19That is a line too far
31:21A tonic that turns hair orange
31:23I don't believe it
31:24I felt like
31:25Well
31:26How is this
31:27Less believable
31:29Than many
31:31Of the other things
31:32Robert Reed is furious
31:34At this whole thing
31:35And writes a long
31:37Diatribe about this
31:38And why such and such
31:40And such and such
31:40And it can't happen
31:42It's got to be realistic
31:43Robert Reed refused to do the show
31:55Period
31:55He went to his dressing room
31:58And waited for dad to come
32:00And beg him to be in the show
32:01And dad didn't do that
32:04Dad immediately rewrote the script
32:06And took Robert Reed out
32:08Of the whole episode
32:09He really threw a stink
32:18He kind of just stood around
32:19And stuck his tongue out
32:20At people from behind the camera
32:22And distracted the cast
32:23For the rest of the day
32:24So Paramount said to me
32:25We will send two guards down
32:28And carry them off the stage
32:31If that's the only way
32:32To get them off the stage
32:33I said no way
32:35Not in front of those kids
32:38The whole show
32:40Is about getting along
32:41And this was a real good example
32:44Of not getting along
32:45So it was uncomfortable
32:46And unfamiliar really for us
32:48And I think unfortunate
32:49And it was said
32:51That should the show come back
32:53For a sixth season
32:54It would have a new dad
32:56I mean Bob Reed was such a pain
32:57That Paramount recognized it
33:00And ABC recognized it
33:02And authorized me
33:03If the show were to continue
33:05To replace him
33:07I don't know how well
33:08America would have
33:09Accepted that though
33:09Because we love Robert Reed
33:11As Mike Brady
33:12But we never had to find out
33:15Because the show
33:16Ended up being canceled
33:17I remember
33:25We were at a banquet
33:26And the vice president
33:28Of Paramount
33:28Came over to us
33:29And said
33:30Well
33:30We fought the good fight
33:31And that was how
33:32We found out
33:33It was over
33:34It was a call
33:35Out of the blue
33:36And it was from
33:37A network executive
33:38Who explained to me
33:40That he was there
33:41With a bottle of scotch
33:42And he wanted to let me know
33:43That our show
33:44Had been canceled
33:45I
33:45Completely blindsided by it
33:48It was just inglorious
33:52I mean
33:52It's not like
33:53There's a party
33:53There's not like
33:54There's an ending
33:55It's just
33:56All of a sudden
33:57You break
33:57You're on hiatus
33:58And you're never coming back
34:00I drove to
34:01Paramount Studios
34:03And went straight over
34:04To my
34:04Parking spot
34:06And the
34:07Nameplate
34:09Had been
34:10Painted over
34:11And my name
34:13Was no longer there
34:14It was somebody else's
34:16That was when it hit me
34:17Had nobody said goodbye
34:19And I took it personally
34:21When the show was canceled
34:24And a lot of people thought
34:26That's the end of the Brady's
34:27Everybody was so wrong
34:30The Brady Bunch
34:31Has been a lot of things
34:32But over isn't one of them
34:33The Brady Bunch
34:34Did not become a massive hit
34:37Until it hit syndication
34:38It's a rerun
34:39I'll tell you all about it
34:40The Brady Bunch
34:42May have debuted
34:43On network TV
34:44From 1969 to 1974
34:47But the Brady Bunch
34:48Became the grip
34:50On the soul
34:51Of a couple of generations
34:53Of Americans
34:54Years after that
34:56When you go from being
34:57A show that's only
34:57On once a week
34:59On a Friday night
35:00To being a show
35:01That's readily accessible
35:02Because when you come
35:03Home from school
35:03It's right there
35:04In that half hour
35:05That just opened up
35:06The audience
35:07To a whole new generation
35:08Of kids
35:09My sister and I
35:09We used to be able
35:10To tell you
35:11What episode it was
35:11Before they opened
35:12Their mouth
35:12The Brady Bunch
35:13Was part of the fabric
35:16Of the American soul
35:18Sold
35:18Then the Brady's continued on
35:23In every possible shape
35:25And form
35:26Ladies and gentlemen
35:27The Brady Bunch
35:29Right after the show ended
35:30It did this Brady Bunch
35:31Variety hour
35:32Got the cutest little baby face
35:35Mike and Carol
35:36Having been this normal
35:37American mom and dad
35:39All of a sudden
35:39They're doing a variety show
35:41Around a pool
35:42And they're in sequined outfits
35:44Tap dancing
35:45What?
35:46It was almost like
35:47Somebody did too many drugs
35:48And they made too many
35:49Weird decisions
35:50But that's just me
35:51I still loved it
35:52But yeah
35:53It was
35:53It was
35:54It was out there
35:55So of all the derivations
35:57Of the Brady Bunch
35:58That's the one
35:59We never had anything
36:00To do with
36:00I saw
36:01Half of one
36:02Didn't make any sense
36:03You're a chicken
36:04I'm a rat
36:05Why are we doing this?
36:08And that was as much
36:09As I've had anything
36:09To do with that
36:10I'm blamed for it a lot
36:11Why'd you do that
36:12Brady Bunch variety
36:13I didn't do it
36:14We followed them
36:15From then on
36:16We followed them
36:16Through the Brady Brides
36:17But what better beginning
36:19Than a double wedding
36:20For two beautiful sisters
36:22Marsha and Jan
36:24We followed them
36:25Through a Christmas movie
36:26In 1988
36:2720 years ago
36:29Carol and
36:29You three girls
36:31And I
36:32And you three boys
36:33Came together
36:35And in time
36:36Became one
36:38They were then
36:39Ripe for parodying
36:40With the Brady Bunch
36:42Movies of the 90s
36:43Dad and I got together
36:44And we realized
36:45There's not really
36:45A movie there
36:46Unless we do it
36:48As a satire
36:48And I give down
36:49A huge amount of credit
36:50Because we would be
36:52The first people
36:52To satirize ourselves
36:53And so we wrote
36:55A satire
36:55And it got a green light
36:57And then
36:58That's what happens
36:58In studios and things
37:00And a new president
37:01Came in
37:01And she immediately
37:02Threw out our script
37:03The new president
37:12The new president
37:12Paramount came in
37:13She thought the Brady Bunch
37:14Was going to be a hit
37:14So she brought in
37:15Two other writers
37:16Who wrote it
37:17As a vicious kind of satire
37:18Ours was an affectionate satire
37:20And we resented that
37:21And we got attorneys involved
37:24And they said
37:25Paramount has the copyright
37:26They can do whatever they want
37:28Except my clients
37:30Are individuals
37:31And who plan on going
37:32On every talk show
37:33Telling people
37:33Not to see this movie
37:34Which that got
37:36Paramount upset
37:36And so they would
37:38Took all of our notes
37:39And turned it in
37:39Basically in the movie
37:40You saw
37:41If we don't raise
37:42$20,000 in one week
37:43We'll have to move
37:45Go to a new school
37:47Make new friends
37:48But Jan
37:49You don't have any friends
37:51When I read the script
37:53I was kind of delighted
37:56To see that they had
37:57Put in this twist on it
37:59Which was to leave the Bradys
38:01Trapped in the 70s
38:03And everybody else
38:04Had moved forward
38:05I thought they were fun
38:07They were so well cast
38:08Shelley Long was really great
38:10I knew about the show
38:11But I didn't know the show
38:13So I had to really learn
38:14Her character
38:15Her movements
38:16Her voice
38:18Oh Alice
38:20What would we do without you?
38:21There's two different versions
38:22Of mine and Robert Reed
38:24Mine is a total
38:25With love and with the tip of the cap
38:27A total satire
38:29Christine Taylor
38:30Was an amazing Marsha Brady
38:32Dinner's ready
38:32Oh my nose
38:34Now I'll never be a teen model
38:36I mean everybody in that cast
38:38They were really great
38:39Sure Jan
38:40Do you know who'd love
38:43To hear about this?
38:45Grandma
38:46Hey
38:47We knew that Mike
38:50Was widowed
38:51Carol Brady
38:52Was Carol Martin
38:53We knew that
38:54Before she got married
38:55But we never really heard
38:56What had happened
38:57To Mr. Martin
38:58The girl's father
38:59This is a big question
39:01Was she divorced?
39:02Was she widowed?
39:04Well it turns out
39:05We find out from the movies
39:06That Carol was indeed a divorcee
39:08And that her husband
39:09Roy Martin
39:09Was still alive
39:10I'm looking for Carol Brady
39:12My name's Roy Martin
39:13I'm her husband
39:15And when he came
39:16Into the movies
39:17He was played by Tim Matheson
39:18Who ironically
39:19Was one of the actors
39:20From Yours, Mine and Ours
39:21Back in 1990
39:24In Chicago
39:25Two sisters
39:26Put Brady episodes
39:28On stage
39:29And they had a bunch
39:30Of Second City actors
39:31Do the show
39:32With the music
39:32And not change a thing
39:34It was a huge hit immediately
39:43I mean people were
39:44Lining up
39:45Down the street
39:46The first Greg Brady
39:53When we did the show
39:54Was Steve Carell
39:55Mrs. Brady was Jane Lynch
39:58I was Jane's understudy
40:03Mrs. Brady's understudy
40:04And then eventually
40:05I got to take over
40:06As Alice
40:07For almost a year
40:08And we would change
40:09Episodes every week
40:10It was kind of a way
40:11To share something together
40:12That had not really
40:14Happened in that way
40:14There are phrases
40:19That went into our lexicon
40:20That come from that show
40:21And certainly moments
40:22So many visuals
40:24And phrases
40:27That really are stuck
40:29In our minds
40:30For decades
40:31And I think will continue
40:32To be
40:32And are still parodied
40:33Today in pop culture
40:34Here's the story
40:36Of a man named Brady
40:37Marsha, Marsha, Marsha
40:44Jan, this isn't about you
40:45It never is
40:46That's the way
40:48We all became
40:49The Marble Bunch
40:50There are literally
40:51Chemical changes
40:52That happen
40:53When that nostalgic
40:55Vibe is touched
40:57We started all those years ago
40:59More than 50
41:00And the heartlight
41:02Still goes on
41:03This show has a life
41:04Of its own
41:05The Brady family
41:06Is a part of
41:07Americana
41:08The ideas
41:09And the themes
41:10That were explored
41:11On the Brady Bunch
41:12Are timeless
41:12And the morality
41:14Of the show
41:14Is timeless
41:15There's a good message
41:17In this Brady thing
41:18And apparently
41:19A lot of America
41:20And the world
41:21Needed it as well
41:22And that was
41:22Their attraction to it
41:23But I think
41:24The legacy
41:25Is more one
41:26Of childhood memories
41:27Of spending time
41:29With people
41:29Who saw our problems
41:32And solved them
41:33And made us feel
41:34Like ours were solvable
41:34The Brady Bunch
41:36Saw America
41:36Before America
41:37Saw itself
41:38It had so many
41:39Of the great themes
41:41We all live with
41:43Sibling rivalry
41:44Blended families
41:46Loving mom and dad
41:48At the center
41:48It was so relatable
41:50If I happen
41:51To be flipping channels
41:53And it's on
41:54I'll probably watch
41:55The whole thing
41:55I can't help it
41:57It's like an old friend
41:58I can't help it
42:28But I'll probably stay
42:31But I don't have to
42:32It's like
42:33If you live
42:33What I can have
42:34But I can't help it
42:34I know
42:34But I don't feel
42:36I can't help it
42:36Like some people
42:36But I don't help it
42:37I don't feel
42:38But I can help them
42:38But I can help it
42:40But I don't know
42:40I don't feel
42:41Like some people
42:41I don't feel
42:42I don't feel
42:42Like some people
42:43And at community
42:44I just don't feel
42:45Of the부�opers
42:45But I and I don't feel
42:47I don't feel
42:47Like symphæ¦ UFO
42:48And they can help it
42:49I don't get
42:50Holy people
42:51They can help it
42:52You can help it
42:52You can help it
42:54I still木
42:55I don't feel
42:56I can help it
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