Was The Brady Bunch a take off from the 1968 movie Yours,Mine & Ours that starred Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball?

I think it was... I think i heard them talk about it on the 'Brady bunch exposed' documantary. it had a lot to do with it.

Actually, Sherwood Schwartz wrote the pilot script several years before that movie came out. That script, coincidentally, was originally called "Yours & Mine". When ABC finally ordered the script to be filmed in late 1968, the producers of "Yours, Mine, & Ours" threatened to sue, until Sherwood was able to prove that his script predated their movie by several years.

However, the success of the movie did influence ABC to order the pilot.

I just recently saw the movie, and you've got to admit there are alot of uncanny resemblances, the older son is even named Greg!

Was The Brady Bunch a take off from the 1968 movie Yours,Mine & Ours that starred Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball?

It sure was. "Yours, Mine and Ours" is one of my all time favourite Lucille Ball movies. And to find out it was the influence for one of my all time favourite shows "The Brady Bunch", is simply a thrill! :)

Wouldn't it have been a "Yours, Mine, and Ours" concept had Carol had twins during the last season? Of course, we were spared that story and introduced to Cousin Oliver :D .