View Full Version : Did you watch The Brady Bunch Kids cartoon when it aired?


Ireneparalegal
12-28-2005, 08:21 PM
I watched it a few times, but I couldn't get into it. I needed to see them in real-life, not as a cartoon.

Waterston_Fan
12-28-2005, 09:19 PM
I have never seen it...

scott_bolger2001
12-29-2005, 01:46 AM
I've never seen it, but I'd love to. They should think about releasing them on DVD or at least a few epsiodes as a bonus feature on the next season set of DVDs.

OKCRay
12-29-2005, 03:29 AM
Yep... watched it as a kid on Saturday mornings back in 1972 and 1973. Some of the story lines were really out there (especially with the kids interacting with martians, Euclid in ancient Greece, The Lone Ranger and Tonto, Superman and Wonder Woman among others), no mention of the parents and with them apparently living in their treehouse. And let's not forget Mop-Top the dog, Marlon the Magic Mynah Bird and Ping and Pong, the Chinese-speaking pandas! Pattern everything after The Archies and you've got one seriously whacked cartoon! (You gotta love how they incorporated it into the "Tripping with the Bradys" sequence in A VERY BRADY SEQUEL though!!!)

comedyfreak
12-29-2005, 08:33 AM
I watched it when it first aired too and I like it alot. Some of the shows were out there, but then again it was a cartoon so no big deal. That crazy Marlon was my favorite character.

tv star collector
12-29-2005, 08:38 AM
Actually, I saw the cartoon BEFORE ever seeing the original series. It was OK.
as Filmation cartoons go. (Not my favorite studio. Never especially liked their
"cooky-cutter" approach to animation. Even the ARCHIE show, although I did
watch it (mostly for the music).)

Ireneparalegal
12-29-2005, 08:50 PM
Yep... watched it as a kid on Saturday mornings back in 1972 and 1973. Some of the story lines were really out there (especially with the kids interacting with martians, Euclid in ancient Greece, The Lone Ranger and Tonto, Superman and Wonder Woman among others), no mention of the parents and with them apparently living in their treehouse. And let's not forget Mop-Top the dog, Marlon the Magic Mynah Bird and Ping and Pong, the Chinese-speaking pandas! Pattern everything after The Archies and you've got one seriously whacked cartoon! (You gotta love how they incorporated it into the "Tripping with the Bradys" sequence in A VERY BRADY SEQUEL though!!!)
Wow! u really know the cartoon. I had forgotten abt the other characters until you pointed them out.

gregrob
12-30-2005, 08:02 AM
I remember seeing the Brady Kids in Saturday Morning reruns in Canada during the late 70s. I was too young to realize that it was even more inane than the series. They would perform a song in a band in every show just like the Partridge Family and had the stupid superhero plots with the Lone Ranger, Wonder Woman, and Superman. I also remember the character of Chuck White, a boy Greg's age who was both a bully and teaze.

erin05
12-30-2005, 06:24 PM
i havnt seen it lol but it does sound crazy.

OKCRay
01-02-2006, 04:28 AM
Wow! u really know the cartoon. I had forgotten abt the other characters until you pointed them out.


Not only that, but how about the "friends" they hung around with: Fleetwood, the guy with shaggy blond hair and a headband, always wore a blue and white tank top and said "man" all the time (he also shook back and forth a lot while he walked); Babs, the red-haired girl who always wore a purplish dress and her hair in a bun; and Chuck, the wise guy who always wore brown pants and a green shirt and always tried to cause trouble with the Brady kids. (Ok, now I'm starting to scare myself!!!)

jehobden
01-02-2006, 03:23 PM
I don't remember watching the show when it first aired, at least not often, and that puzzled me later on, considering that I was somewhat of a fan of the Friday night sitcom. I didn't figure out until later that the most likely reason why is that its first season it aired at 10:30 AM ET, when I was watching The Barkleys on NBC. I also remember being a fan of Underdog, which was in its last year of airing on NBC Saturday mornings, just before The Barkleys.

erin05
01-02-2006, 09:20 PM
:talk: Not only that, but how about the "friends" they hung around with: Fleetwood, the guy with shaggy blond hair and a headband, always wore a blue and white tank top and said "man" all the time (he also shook back and forth a lot while he walked); Babs, the red-haired girl who always wore a purplish dress and her hair in a bun; and Chuck, the wise guy who always wore brown pants and a green shirt and always tried to cause trouble with the Brady kids. (Ok, now I'm starting to scare myself!!!)
:lol: :lol: hahaha they sound funny.

Rich3
01-02-2006, 11:38 PM
I remember seeing it. Didn't they live in a treehouse?

Tweety
01-03-2006, 08:03 AM
I don't think I ever watched that one... I remember when it was on, I may have had it on once or twice to check it out, but I thought it looked really stupid...

I think I was getting too old for Saturday Morning Cartoons at that time as well (I would have been 12 in 1972)... The cartoons I grew up watching were pretty much gone by then (although you're NEVER too old for Bugs Bunny and those great Warner Bros cartoons), and the extra characters (I remember the Panda's, but not much else) were just so unnecessary...

After seeing the real Marcia on Friday night, who cares about a cartoon Marcia on Saturday morning? Just not the same... (Jan hadn't 'blossomed' yet, but was still a cutie in season 3)

Anyway, I wouldn't have seen the cartoon more than once or twice, but didn't care for it at all...and I wouldn't buy them on DVD either...

nerrad
01-03-2006, 02:23 PM
A few times. Didn't they have a Panda?

tv star collector
01-03-2006, 08:03 PM
A few times. Didn't they have a Panda?
Actually, there were twin pandas: Ping and Pong, who spoke Chinese; and a
magical myna bird named Marlon. The Brady kids were all voiced by the cast of
the original series. Larry Storch (F-TROOP, TENNESSEE TUXEDO) voiced the
myna bird.

Ireneparalegal
01-03-2006, 09:52 PM
can someone find and post pics for this thread? i am gonna do some searching myself and see what i find...:wave:

Ireneparalegal
01-03-2006, 09:54 PM
check this link:
http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/48248-he_Brady_Kids_on_Mysterious_Island.html

Ireneparalegal
01-03-2006, 10:01 PM
:D

Tweety
01-03-2006, 11:19 PM
:D


Nothin' wrong with Jan's legs in THAT picture! :lol:

scott_bolger2001
01-04-2006, 02:16 AM
The Sitcoms online photo album has some good Brady Kids Cartoon pictures.

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/data/708/2490BRADYKD.JPG

erin05
01-04-2006, 05:45 PM
haha theyre cool pics :) i would love to see the show just to see wat it was likel ol.

Ireneparalegal
01-04-2006, 09:15 PM
Nothin' wrong with Jan's legs in THAT picture! :lol:
I know...lol
she is definitely sexier here than she was on the show...look at how short her dress is and Marcia is WEARING PANTS!:lol:

comedyfreak
01-05-2006, 06:59 AM
Anyone remember that someone else took over the voice of Greg in the last season of the cartoon?

nerrad
01-05-2006, 08:08 AM
:D How cute. Cindy playing a little guitar.:D

Tweety
01-05-2006, 10:35 AM
:D How cute. Cindy playing a little guitar.:D


I understand little Cindy could really 'wail' on that thing once she got going! :lol:

scott_bolger2001
01-05-2006, 04:04 PM
Cindy Brady: The Next Eddie Van Halen?

You never know...;)

nerrad
01-05-2006, 04:06 PM
Cindy Brady: The Next Eddie Van Halen?

You never know...;)


:D :D You mean the next Bambi Woods. "Cindy Does Dallas".:D :D

Tweety
01-05-2006, 05:44 PM
Cindy Brady: The Next Eddie Van Halen?

You never know...;)


she no doubt taught Eddie everything she knows :lol:

Ireneparalegal
01-05-2006, 05:46 PM
Groovy glasses Jan!!!

scott_bolger2001
01-05-2006, 11:49 PM
she no doubt taught Eddie everything she knows :lol:

For sure! The Brady Bunch and their musical career had a bigger infulance than one would think. I mean, where do you think Bon Jovi got all his moves? From Johnny Bravo of course!:D

Scoobiedoo30
01-06-2006, 06:20 PM
Yes I watched The Brady Bunch weekday's at 3:35 pm on WTBS 17

Ireneparalegal
01-06-2006, 06:22 PM
Yes I watched The Brady Bunch weekday's at 3:35 pm on WTBS 17
LOL - u just made me think of a thread question! thanx!

erin05
01-07-2006, 12:31 AM
For sure! The Brady Bunch and their musical career had a bigger infulance than one would think. I mean, where do you think Bon Jovi got all his moves? From Johnny Bravo of course!:D
hahha ddnt johnny brave wear reaaaaalllyyyyyy tight pants a swell?

TV Watcher
01-07-2006, 01:48 PM
I think if I'm correct there were 2 seasons of the Brady Kids and the first featured the voices of all the kids and by the second just the real voices of Jan, Bobby and Cindy.

scott_bolger2001
01-07-2006, 10:42 PM
I think if I'm correct there were 2 seasons of the Brady Kids and the first featured the voices of all the kids and by the second just the real voices of Jan, Bobby and Cindy.

You're right. In the second season Erika Scheimer (Ghostbuster TV series) took over the voice of Marcia, Lane Scheimer became Greg and David E. Smith was Peter.

erin05
01-08-2006, 05:48 PM
I think if I'm correct there were 2 seasons of the Brady Kids and the first featured the voices of all the kids and by the second just the real voices of Jan, Bobby and Cindy.
ddnt the kids parents have some kind of falling out over the whole brady kids thing? there was something about it growing brady wasnt there? i never really took that all in.

sixfingers
06-08-2008, 11:26 PM
You're right. In the second season Erika Scheimer (Ghostbuster TV series) took over the voice of Marcia, Lane Scheimer became Greg and David E. Smith was Peter.

Mike Lookinlad said that the kids did the voices at different sessions and that he found out about it while he was watching the cartoon on Saturday morning when suddenly the voice of Greg didn't sound like Barry Williams.