Susan Olsen constantly asked the producers wjhy the Cindy character was so ********

After every season, the cast never had a strong feeling that the show would be renewed by ABC

Show never caught on because never dealt with real life issues, too fictional

Florence Henderson said Barry Williams took Ann B. Davis Out on a Date too

Barry williams took Ann out? thats even more sick then knowning he took out florence!!!

ewww...!!!! florence is one thing, but ann!??!?!?! goodness me, it wulda made more sense if he went out with eve or susan lol. wat does A&E stand for? it sounds like a hospital drama accident and emergency lol .

uh, I think Florence was kidding when she said that. :lol:

ewww...!!!! florence is one thing, but ann!??!?!?! goodness me, it wulda made more sense if he went out with eve or susan lol. wat does A&E stand for? it sounds like a hospital drama accident and emergency lol .



It stands for (Arts)&(Entertainment)

Barry Williams was one serious horn dog!

uh, I think Florence was kidding when she said that. :lol:
yes, she was only kidding.

yes, I saw it too, and was also surprised by a couple things. like:
Barry Williams had a crush on Maureen McCormick
when they did the movie "A Very Brady Christmas" they didn't even bother saying anything to Robert Reed, since he hated doing the show and was constantly arguing with the producers. When he found out about it (the Movie) his agent signed him up for it, since he liked working with the kids.
In either "A Very Brady Christmas", or the TV Movie that was the pilot for "The Brady Brides", or the seires "The Bradys" (I forget which one) Cindy was played by someone else.

yes, I saw it too, and was also surprised by a couple things. like:
Barry Williams had a crush on Maureen McCormick
when they did the movie "A Very Brady Christmas" they didn't even bother saying anything to Robert Reed, since he hated doing the show and was constantly arguing with the producers. When he found out about it (the Movie) his agent signed him up for it, since he liked working with the kids.
In either "A Very Brady Christmas", or the TV Movie that was the pilot for "The Brady Brides", or the seires "The Bradys" (I forget which one) Cindy was played by someone else.




Something I wasn't surprised about was the Brady Bunch not being able to compete with Sanford and Son on Friday Nights at 8pm from 1971-1974-LOL

In either "A Very Brady Christmas", or the TV Movie that was the pilot for "The Brady Brides", or the seires "The Bradys" (I forget which one) Cindy was played by someone else.

it was a very brady christmas Cindy was played by Jennifer Runyon

ohh kidding lol :) thats alrite lol. how old would he have been when he took florence out (barry). can soooo relate to all those hormones lol ;)

Good job on the special A&E! It moved along nicely, and had some new insights. I only wished Maureen and Eve would have participated, but it's not unusual that they passed. I thought it was cool when A&E found a blended family similar to the Bradys (A man with 3 daughters, marrying a woman with 3 sons).

All in all, a very well done biography on the 'Bunch'!

Good job on the special A&E! It moved along nicely, and had some new insights. I only wished Maureen and Eve would have participated, but it's not unusual that they passed. I thought it was cool when A&E found a blended family similar to the Bradys (A man with 3 daughters, marrying a woman with 3 sons).

All in all, a very well done biography on the 'Bunch'!



I didn't see that A&E show, but why bother finding a 'real life' blended family? who cares? And couldn't they at least get that part right (s/b man w/3 sons and woman with 3 daughters)... did they say whether the dad or mom were widowed, or were they just divorced?

if they couldn't fill up the whole hour (or two hours, whatever it was) with the people who actually contributed to the show, then they shouldn't have bothered at all...

I'm surprised A & E didn't have Ray Romano and/or Whoppi Goldberg come on and tell us all why the Brady Bunch was a great show...

I didn't see that A&E show, but why bother finding a 'real life' blended family? who cares? And couldn't they at least get that part right (s/b man w/3 sons and woman with 3 daughters)... did they say whether the dad or mom were widowed, or were they just divorced?

if they couldn't fill up the whole hour (or two hours, whatever it was) with the people who actually contributed to the show, then they shouldn't have bothered at all...

I'm surprised A & E didn't have Ray Romano and/or Whoppi Goldberg come on and tell us all why the Brady Bunch was a great show...

Wow...for someone who didn't see the special, your rather bitter about the whole thing. How about watching it, before being so condescending about it...

Wow...for someone who didn't see the special, your rather bitter about the whole thing. How about watching it, before being so condescending about it...

Even if i did watch it, i'd still think it was a waste of time to find a real-life 'blended' family? because again, what exactly was the point?

'bitter' isn't the right word here... i don't get bitter about tv shows... too many other important things in life.

besides, there are a lot of things i don't have to watch in order to comment on them...and I'm sure you probably do the same thing, on occasion... as does EVERYBODY at one time or another...

I believe the other posters who said the show was interesting (and i would have loved to see Florence kid about Barry taking Ann B. out...that would be funny)...

but who needs to fill up the rest of the show by showing a real life family? i would have turned it off at that point...

Sherwood Schwartz is trying to launch a reality series about a real life family in which a father w/3 sons married a woman w/ 3 daughters... do i actually need to see that show before i comment on how stupid it is? of course not...

Do i need to actually watch "The Real Gilligan's Island" to comment on how stupid it is? of course not!

But actually, if I see that A & E is running the show again (and since when do they air a show only once?) i definitely intend to watch it! I always like watching anything involving the REAL Bradys... even though Jan :eyes: and Marcia :eyes: weren't involved in this one :(

eve and maureen werent there? ohh i was really keen to see it..not so much now. wat other things were on the show?

ohh kidding lol :) thats alrite lol. how old would he have been when he took florence out (barry). can soooo relate to all those hormones lol ;)
me too! I remember watching the show in reruns in the 70s (when it started I only watched it the first season- after that, I considered it "a kids show" and it wasn't until after the reruns started that I started to like it again) and I had a crush on Marcia-not Maureen McCormick, the character Marcia! :lol:

Even if i did watch it, i'd still think it was a waste of time to find a real-life 'blended' family? because again, what exactly was the point?
:(

If you'd had watched the special, you'd see that Sherwood created the Brady Bunch based on all the 'blended' families being formed during the sixties. While he was discussing the reason he came up with the idea, A&E showed a real-life family where this had happened. For a 2-hour special, they were seen for maybe 5 minutes.

Like I mentioned, you should have watched it before being so critical.

If you'd had watched the special, you'd see that Sherwood created the Brady Bunch based on all the 'blended' families being formed during the sixties. ...




Yes, that's true. In fact, Sherwood's original title for the show was "Yours and Mine", and when the movie "Yours, Mine and Ours" (Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda) came out, the producers of that movie actually sued Sherwood for 'stealing their idea'... Sherwood's idea was actually registered with the Writers Guild long before the inception of the movie... Sherwood always said that HE should have sued THEM!

That was a good movie, and it made a ton of money at the box office, and with its success, ABC then bought the idea of a show about a blended family. So it turned out that Y,M and Ours was sort of a pilot for the BB (even though widower Fonda had 10 kids and widow Ball had 8)...

Anyway, I'll try to keep an eye out on A&E to (hopefully) run this show again... I'd like to see it.