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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.
01:38Oh, 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,
04:07we 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,
04:21hey, 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, which just seemed heavy.
04:55He originally wanted to call it The Brady Bunch,
04:57but the network said at that time Bunch was used for war movies,
05:01it was used for westerns.
05:02Everybody I knew who 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 had ever thought about being on television was being considered for this thing.
05:27Sherwood spent hours and hours and hours and saw hundreds of kids for these roles.
05:32And they essentially had a sound stage and they had tons of children grouped into age groups and hair color groups.
05:39He actually cast two sets of kids.
05:41He cast blonde boys and blonde girls and 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 and 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 was not a dark haired little boy
06:14and they actually dyed his hair because they wanted him so badly.
06:20Some seasons his hair looked darker than others.
06:23Season one it was a little Dracula, but that's only in hindsight.
06:27I bought it hook, line and sinker for years.
06:30He's too good a selection to dismiss because 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.
06:47He wanted kids who could act.
06:49That's very different.
06:51And he 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 where 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.
07:28Sherwood wanted the older boy to be a guy who had a take charge attitude, a leader.
07:40And that's what led to Barry Williams.
07:42I 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.
07:51That'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.
08:23Now be careful.
08:24All right, I've done this a lot.
08:26Where?
08:26I'm at a YWCA.
08:28I wished I had an Alice.
08:30Everybody I've ever met wished they had an Alice, including Alice.
08:35The 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
08:52because she was wonderful.
08:54What's wrong?
08:55Oh, nothing.
08:55Nothing at all.
08:57Uh-huh.
08:57That's the kind of nothing that bothers me the most.
09:00I became sort of the stability of the show.
09:03And 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.
09:11Chan, you're not an anybody's shadow.
09:14Marsha's three years older than you.
09:16She should have more to show for herself.
09:18I'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
09:39and had a very nice following from that show.
09:42Judy, I think you better call my father.
09:44Tell him I'm at the DA's hours and tell him I'm in a bit of trouble.
09:49They wanted him to be Mr. Brady.
09:51I remember the screen tests.
09:53I watched all of them and I thought that Robert Reed was a little stiff.
09:56Even 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 with Robert Reed.
10:13They 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, it 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.
10:49And he ended up fighting with my dad for the next six years.
10:55Here'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 that started from this topic 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 to explain why those seven people were on the island.
12:15He knows how to tell a story in a song and 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 and so they had to curl the bottom of the braids.
12:41It was fantastic.
12:46They were four men living all together, yet they were all alone.
12:53Back 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
13:16And he rhymed bunch with hunch.
13:20They knew that it was much more than a hunch.
13:22I 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 became the stories and 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, the way they animated, you know, actual pictures of the actors
14:21and then the two come together with the lyrics, absolutely brilliantly done.
14:27One day, I came into the living room and dad was at the bridge table drawing a diagram of how he could get nine people into boxes at 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, mom and dad both blonde and brunette, and then there's Alice, you know, balancing out the ninth square. Fantastic, right?
14:54Filming those credits was probably one of the most uncomfortable things of all that we had to do because there's really nothing to do but be on a chair and look around.
15:04Insidiously difficult. You don't know what you're doing. Nobody's really describing to you clearly what you're doing.
15:12So someone would say, and down, and you go down, look up, okay, don't look that far up, bottom right, and you go, and pretend to be making, you know, contact with Cindy, and then I'd look over here and they'd go, no, 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 at, I mean, like Peter, looks right, I believe, right?
15:44To the successful launch of Project Brady Bunch.
15:47Hear, hear.
15:47In the premiere episode of The Brady Bunch, we get to see the family actually come together.
15:57Now it's just the beginning. For both of us.
16:00Uh-uh. For 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 had Fluffy the cat and Tiger the dog not triggered a chase that culminated in the wedding cake sliding off the table.
16:20God, thank goodness you saved the cake!
16:23Oh!
16:25So it underscores the theme of the show that this is a family that's only complete when they're together.
16:31Because Carol and Mike then schlep all the way home and 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.
16:43Fluffy.
16:46Tiger.
16:47Eleven.
16:48Don't forget Alice.
16:50That makes twelve.
16:52In a sense, The Brady Bunch was the original modern family.
16:56It is sort of a nuclear family, but it's a nuclear blended family.
17:00And it's really one of the first blended families that we all got comfortable with.
17:05You know, the only negative thing about the show really was the fact that Bob and Sherwood did not get along.
17:14Robert 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 that if it didn't match what he felt was logical, he 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 and say, smells like strawberry heaven in here.
17:48Let me put it this way.
17:50Yes.
17:52Strawberries, when they're cooking, have no odor.
17:54So I refused to do that line.
17:58They had to rewrite the line.
18:00And I do believe I've died and gone to strawberry heaven.
18:03You have Sherwood Schwartz is a joke writer and a television sitcom writer.
18:08And Robert Reed coming from classically trained acting.
18:12And it's oil water.
18:14Robert 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, you don't know that it's going to become iconic.
18:27All you know is this is the job you have.
18:31He wasn't trying to be obnoxious.
18:33He wasn't in him to not find the core of the reality.
18:39You know, I'd have to go every so often, Bob, this is comedy.
18:44This 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 and Sherwood.
18:54That all happened sort 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.
19:10I sympathize with him.
19:11Because here he is, the father of America.
19:14And he can't come out of the closet.
19:16He was a very proud man, a wonderful actor, and a wonderful human being, and who happened to be gay.
19:23And none of us ever cared.
19:26It was not an issue.
19:28It was just not, it wasn't important.
19:31Well, you have a soft heart.
19:33Lips to match.
19:34My goodness.
19:36Aren't we affectionate tonight?
19:38Not just tonight.
19:39Every night.
19:40Because I love you, darling.
19:41Robert Reed, I think, was in a tough position.
19:46He was playing this more wholesome than wholesome guy in an era where being gay was considered a shameful secret.
19:55Then to go to the fame of being America's perfect dad, that everybody thought he had all the answers.
20:02I think there's a growing dissonance between the actor and the character that makes it tough.
20:06Our show was slow to find its audience.
20:13Brady Bunch was reviewed as the worst show of the year.
20:16The show was okay, but that's all it was.
20:21And then there was a question about a pickup for a second year.
20:24And it was never a critical hit because it was considered so juvenile.
20:27Of course, the nature of our show was bigger than life.
20:31It was exaggerated.
20:33The situations were comedic.
20:36Hence, sitcom.
20:38Looks like I'm the one who's the goat, Raquel.
20:42You can say that again.
20:44This is television back when we used to call it the boob tube and 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.
21:02I know.
21:02I forgot one little thing.
21:03I don't know how to drive.
21:05My father really didn't care what the critics said as 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, particularly kids, who were rabid for the show.
21:19A lot of people ended up seeing themselves in this blended family in a way that probably network executives never expected.
21:26We first became aware of the kind of impact and the enormous viewership that we had when 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, you're being stared at.
21:43When we went to Cincinnati's Kings Island, we really got a taste of what was going on that is the heartland of America.
21:51They're the people that were keeping us on the air.
21:53There 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.
22:05We're just staying in a hotel.
22:06If fans wanted to come into the hotel and knock on your door, they could.
22:09One, two, three, kick.
22:11One, two, three, kick.
22:12Hey, you kids, what are you doing in there?
22:15Um, cleaning the garage.
22:17Yeah!
22:18In that period of time as well, there 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, we were so excited.
22:36Everybody's smiling.
22:38Sunshine day.
22:39And the songs were weird and wonderful and catchy.
22:42Sha-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na.
22:44Sha-na-na-na-na-na-na-na.
22:46When it's time to change.
22:48It's time to change.
22:50Yep.
22:51All of that.
22:51You got the choreography down.
22:53I'm a super fan.
23:07The 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 just driving around.
23:15And he said, that's the house.
23:16We call the house the 10th character because it was so significant.
23:20But it was not where they shot the show.
23:23They only used the exteriors.
23:25We shot at Paramount Studios.
23:27Stage five.
23:28A couple of years ago, HGTV renovated the house to look inside the way everybody in America remembered it.
23:39It's surreal.
23:40You're just walking straight into an episode.
23:47I was lucky enough to see it in person, and I kind of lost my mind.
23:51It's kind of the best experience of my life.
23:55When I first walked through that door, I felt like I was coming home.
23:58The Brady Staircase is iconic.
24:07You saw the staircase, you know exactly what show you're watching.
24:10Come on, you guys.
24:10Hurry up.
24:11You have to have to be late for school.
24:12Greg's 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.
24:22Anyway, 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 for space in the bathroom.
24:30The focus really was on the kids and their lives.
24:33This is, too, a part of the genius of Lloyd Schwartz and Sherwood Schwartz both.
24:39The way to keep us connected to what we were doing here was to let us be kids.
24:44Any of you monsters want a hot dog?
24:47Thanks, Alice.
24:48Thanks, Alice.
24:50Thanks, Alice.
24:51And Dad said, I want you to be in charge of those kids.
24:55I basically would look at the show from the kids' point of view, and Dad would have the
25:00point of view of the adult's point of view.
25:03I mean, I love Lloyd.
25:04He was like an older brother.
25:05He was a big kid himself.
25:07Would you know what Marge is?
25:08She's the girl at the football booth who's filling in for her brother.
25:11Oh, yeah.
25:11She's inside the employee's area.
25:13I just treated it a little bit like summer camp.
25:15I just wanted them to be kids, which caused problems later on for 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.
25:30Let's go!
25:31I got a call from the president of the studio.
25:42What's the deal?
25:43Well, the kids were all running around.
25:45And he said, you 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, they're not property.
25:56They're kids.
25:57That's what kids do.
26:00And he said, you're not going to change that?
26:02They said, no, I'm not going to change that.
26:04If you want it done any different way.
26:05You're going to have to fire me.
26:07Well, he didn't.
26:09It was pretty ballsy.
26:10Lloyd, to his credit, and Sherwood both made sure the studio wouldn't intervene.
26:15And they let us go.
26:16And we had a ball.
26:19Robert Reed gave us all Super 8 movie cameras.
26:24I took it everywhere.
26:27As they started getting older, my challenge was, in some ways, to keep them off of one another.
26:34This is my room.
26:35And I'm not budging.
26:38And I say, it's my room.
26:39And I'm not budging.
26:41The episode I directed was called Room at the Top.
26:44And there was a scene where Barry came into Maureen's room.
26:47And she's sitting there, and he sits down on the bed next to her.
26:50Hey, wait a minute.
26:53I didn't mean to make you cry.
26:55I remember the scene.
26:56I remember the day.
26:58Lloyd discovered that there might have been a little bit too much attraction between brother and sister.
27:04Maureen McCormick was very, very attractive.
27:07I dare to say that if you find anybody who grew up watching the shows, their first crush was probably Marsha Braid.
27:13I remember being probably most interested in Maureen McCormick at the time, especially as she grew up, because we were roughly the same age.
27:23So I was, you know, gravitated right to her.
27:29And it was coming out in our scenes together.
27:34I'm sitting a little too close, leaning in a little too far.
27:37And we finished the scene, and it was kind of like steam there.
27:40And he was right.
27:41It's very hard to hide.
27:43That's chemistry.
27:44Lloyd was on the set, and he pulled me aside and said, good scene.
27:49I just want you to keep in mind here that she is your sister.
27:57There were so many iconic moments.
28:00Marsha, Marsha, Marsha.
28:01Well, all I hear all day long at school is how great Marsha is at this, or how wonderful Marsha did that.
28:08Marsha, Marsha, Marsha.
28:10Hey, you guys.
28:11Oh, my nose!
28:13Oh, my nose.
28:14Who could love the Brady Bunch and not love that episode, right?
28:17Hi, Alice.
28:19What's for dinner?
28:20Pork chops.
28:22Pork chops.
28:23So I was doing an impersonation of Humphrey Bogart.
28:26Pork chops and apple sauce.
28:30Eat that swell.
28:32That as a slogan, as, you know, sort of your, the thing you're known by.
28:37But, um, those moments become important, because the audience determines that it is.
28:45One of my favorite Brady episodes is when Jan wants to be a cheerleader, and she's terrible.
28:51And she starts practicing with the mops.
28:54Down here, they're mops.
28:55But up here, they're bomb bombs.
28:57When asked, each one of us, what her favorite episode was, it's, we say, Hawaii.
29:02Where are we going?
29:03Where are we going?
29:03Hawaii!
29:05Hawaii!
29:05Hawaii!
29:06Wow!
29:06But it's not because of the content of the episode.
29:09It's just that we were in Hawaii.
29:10Never been to Hawaii, so I had an image of what it would be, and the only image I had, though,
29:19was of the Brady Bunch visit to Hawaii.
29:21Yes, you are, yes.
29:22Smile.
29:23Say belly button.
29:24Belly button!
29:25We went to Hawaii, and I got to surf on Oahu in a restricted area for those two days
29:31when we were filming.
29:34That was probably nirvana for me.
29:37The show ended up being the victim of ratings.
29:41When shows age, they age.
29:42But shows with kids tend to age faster.
29:44In the fifth season, the executives at Paramount felt that the kids were getting a little older.
29:51And so it was time to find a way to bring in a seventh Brady child.
29:56We're going to have an addition to the family.
29:58Greg Brady was about to graduate high school, and so we had to get some youth into the show.
30:04Here we are.
30:05Oliver!
30:06Hey, Oliver!
30:07And we knew Robbie Rist, and we thought he'd be perfect for this.
30:17Oliver!
30:19Now, I have to apologize to Robbie, because he's considered a syndrome, you know, for shows when they're in trouble.
30:26It's become kind of parlance in television that when a show is getting old and they start trying to pull desperate tricks,
30:31they're pulling a cousin Oliver.
30:32Better not come near me yet, Carol.
30:34Why not?
30:35Something bad will happen.
30:37I'm a jinx.
30:41By the fourth and fifth season, there wasn't really none of that lesson stuff anymore.
30:46And it got kind of caricature-ish.
30:48It got silly.
30:49Are you friend or enemy?
30:51What ended up being our final episode, Bobby's sent away for a hair tonic.
31:01Bobby, not so much.
31:04It's all right.
31:05He uses Greg as his guinea pig, and he turns my hair orange.
31:08Oh, no!
31:10Orange!
31:11Robert Reed did not find that premise believable.
31:16For some reason, that of all things made Robert Reed say, that is a line too far.
31:21A tonic that turns hair orange, I don't believe it.
31:24I felt like, whoa, how is this less believable than many of the other things?
31:32Robert Reed is furious at this whole thing, and writes a long diatribe about this, and why
31:39such and such and such and such, it can't happen, it's got to be realistic.
31:43Robert Reed refused to do the show, period.
31:57He went to his dressing room and waited for Dad to come and beg him to be in the show.
32:03And Dad didn't do that.
32:05Dad immediately rewrote the script and took Robert Reed out of the whole episode.
32:09He really threw a stink, he kind of just stood around and stuck his tongue out at people
32:21from behind the camera and distracted the cast for the rest of the day.
32:24So Paramount said to me, we will send two guards down and carry them off the stage if
32:31that's the only way to get them off the stage.
32:34I said, no way.
32:37Not in front of those kids.
32:39The whole show is about getting along.
32:42And this was a real good example of not getting along.
32:45So it was uncomfortable and unfamiliar, really, for us, and I think unfortunate.
32:50And it was said that should the show come back for a sixth season, it would have a new
32:55dad.
32:56I mean, Bob Reed was such a pain that Paramount recognized it, and ABC recognized it, and
33:03authorized me, if the show were to continue, to replace him.
33:07I don't know how well America would have accepted that, though, because we love Robert Reed as
33:12Mike Brady.
33:13I remember we were at a banquet and the Vice President of Paramount came over to us and said,
33:18well, we fought the good fight. And that's how we found out. It was over.
33:23It was a call out of the blue. And it was from a network executive who explained to me that he was there with a bottle of scotch and he wanted to let me know that our show had been canceled. I was completely blindsided by it.
33:36It was just inglorious. I mean, it's not like there's a party. It's not like there's an ending. It's just all of a sudden, you break, you're on hiatus, and you're never coming back.
33:55I drove to Paramount Studios and went straight over to my parking spot, and the name plate had been painted over. My name was no longer there. It was somebody else's. That was when it hit me. Had nobody said goodbye, and I took it personally.
34:18When the show was canceled, and a lot of people thought, that's the end of the Brady's. Everybody was so wrong. The Brady Bunch has been a lot of things, but over isn't one of them. The Brady Bunch did not become a massive hit until it hit syndication.
34:38It's a rerun. I'll tell you all about it.
34:41The Brady Bunch may have debuted on network TV from 1969 to 1974, but the Brady Bunch became the grip on the soul of a couple of generations of Americans years after that.
34:56When you go from being a show that's only on once a week on a Friday night to being a show that's readily accessible, because when you come home from school, it's right there in that half hour, that just opened up the audience to a whole new generation of kids.
35:09My sister and I, we used to be able to tell you what episode it was before they opened their mouth.
35:13The Brady Bunch was part of the fabric of the American soul.
35:20Then the Brady's continued on in every possible shape and form.
35:26Ladies and gentlemen, the Brady Bunch.
35:29Right after the show ended, it did this Brady Bunch variety hour.
35:32Got the cutest little baby face.
35:35Mike and Carol, having been this normal American mom and dad, all of a sudden, they're doing a variety show around a pool, and they're in sequined outfits tap dancing.
35:45What?
35:46It was almost like somebody did too many drugs, and they made too many weird decisions.
35:50But that's just me.
35:51I still loved it, but yeah, it was, whoa.
35:54It was, it was out there.
35:56So of all the derivations of the Brady Bunch, that's the one we never had anything to do with.
36:00I saw half of one. Didn't make any sense.
36:04You're a chicken. I'm a rat.
36:06Why are we doing this?
36:08And that was as much as I've had anything to do with that.
36:10I'm blamed for it a lot.
36:11Why'd you do that Brady Bunch variety hour? I didn't do it.
36:14We followed them from then on. We followed them through the Brady Brides.
36:18But what better beginning than a double wedding for two beautiful sisters, Marsha and Jan?
36:24We followed them through a Christmas movie in 1988.
36:2720 years ago, Carol and you three girls, and I and you three boys, came together.
36:35And in time, became one.
36:39They were then ripe for parodying with the Brady Bunch movies of the 90s.
36:43Dad and I got together, and we realized there's not really a movie there, unless we do it as a satire.
36:48And I give down a huge amount of credit, because we would be the first people to satirize ourselves.
36:54And so we wrote a satire, and it got a green light.
36:57And then, as what happens in studios and things, and a new president came in, and she immediately threw out our script.
37:03The new president of Paramount came in.
37:13She thought the Brady Bunch was going to be a hit, so she brought in two other writers who wrote it as a vicious kind of satire.
37:18Ours was an affectionate satire.
37:20And we presented that, and we got attorneys involved.
37:24And they said, Paramount has the copyright.
37:26They can do whatever they want, except my clients are individuals, and who plan on going on every talk show telling people not to see this movie.
37:35Which, that got Paramount upset, and so they took all of our notes and turned it in, basically, in the movie you saw.
37:41If we don't raise $20,000 in one week, we'll have to move.
37:45Go to a new school.
37:47Make new friends.
37:48But Jan, you don't have any friends.
37:51When I read the script, I was kind of delighted to see that they had put in this twist on it, which was to leave the Bradys trapped in the 70s, and everybody else had 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, but I didn't know the show.
38:13So I had to really learn her character, her movements, her voice.
38:18Oh, Alice, what would we do without you?
38:21There's two different versions of mine and Robert Rhea's.
38:24Mine is a total, with love and with the tip of the cap, a total satire.
38:29Christine Taylor was an amazing Marsha Brady.
38:32Dinner's ready.
38:33Oh, my nose.
38:35Now I'll never be a teen model.
38:37I mean, everybody in that cast, they were really great.
38:39Sure, Jan.
38:42Do you know who'd love to hear about this?
38:44Grandma!
38:47Hey!
38:49We knew that Mike was widowed.
38:51Carol Brady was Carol Martin.
38:53We knew that before she got married, but we never really heard what had happened to Mr. Martin, the girl's father.
38:59This is a big question.
39:01Was she divorced?
39:02Was she widowed?
39:04Well, it turns out we find out from the movies that Carol was indeed a divorcee and that her husband, Roy Martin, was still alive.
39:10I'm looking for Carol Brady.
39:12My name's Roy Martin.
39:14I'm her husband.
39:15And when he came into the movies, he was played by Tim Matheson, who ironically was one of the actors from Yours, Mine, and Ours.
39:23Back in 1990, in Chicago, two sisters put Brady episodes on stage.
39:29And they had a bunch of Second City actors do the show with the music and not change a thing.
39:34I think it's a lady that's a fellow that gave you when it was much more than a hush.
39:40It was a huge hit immediately.
39:43I mean, people were lining up down the street.
39:46I'm writing a telegram.
39:48What do you think?
39:48Tell me.
39:50A telegram.
39:52The first Greg Brady, when we did the show, was Steve Carell.
39:56Mrs. Brady was Jane Lynch.
39:58Oh, Martha, I've got to go.
40:00Yeah, Mike, just call me.
40:01I think something's burning.
40:01I was Jane's understudy, Mrs. Brady's understudy.
40:04And then eventually I got to take over as Alice for almost a year.
40:08And we would change episodes every week.
40:10It was kind of a way to share something together that had not really happened in that way.
40:14There are phrases that went into our lexicon that come from that show, and certainly moments.
40:22So many visuals and phrases that really are stuck in our minds for decades, and I think will continue to be, and are still parodied today in pop culture.
40:35Here's the story of a man named Brady.
40:42Marsha, Marsha, Marsha.
40:44Jan, this isn't about you.
40:45It never is.
40:47That's the way we all became the Marble Bunch.
40:50There are literally chemical changes that happen when that nostalgic vibe is touched.
40:57We started all those years ago, more than 50, and the heartlight still goes on.
41:03This show has a life of its own.
41:05The Brady family is a part of Americana.
41:08The ideas and the themes that were explored on the Brady Bunch are timeless.
41:12And the morality of the show is timeless.
41:15There's a good message in this Brady thing, and apparently a lot of America and the world needed it as well, and that was their attraction to it.
41:23But I think the legacy is more one of childhood memories of spending time with people who saw our problems and solved them and made us feel like ours were solvable.
41:34The Brady Bunch saw America before America saw itself.
41:38It had so many of the great themes we all live with.
41:43Sibling rivalry, blended families, loving mom and dad at the center.
41:48It was so relatable.
41:51If I happen to be flipping channels and it's on, I'll probably watch the whole thing.
41:56I can't help it.
41:58It's like an old friend.
42:03We'll see you next time.
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42:25Goodbye.
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