Recently I bought a TV Guide from 1971. In the TV Teletype section they have this nugget
Scripts call for Florence Henderson to have a baby. As an audience lure the baby will be born on the night of an important rating survey.

Has anyone heard of this before? And would it have worked? I think it would have been a disaster, since shows with a baby almost always focus on the child--robbing the show of its sibling rivalry focus.

Recently I bought a TV Guide from 1971. In the TV Teletype section they have this nugget

Has anyone heard of this before? And would it have worked? I think it would have been a disaster, since shows with a baby almost always focus on the child--robbing the show of its sibling rivalry focus.


I am going to have to say that I had never heard of this before. I wonder what stopped them from going through with this idea. If any here knows anything about it, I would really enjoy hearing from you.

Never heard of this, either. Wow!

The Brady kids were so much older. I can't imagine this working well. Probably best they scrapped this idea, but it's interesting nonetheless.

Recently I bought a TV Guide from 1971. In the TV Teletype section they have this nugget

Has anyone heard of this before? And would it have worked? I think it would have been a disaster, since shows with a baby almost always focus on the child--robbing the show of its sibling rivalry focus.

Can you provide the issue date here? I'd love to read this item myself, and I think I have almost every issue from 1971. Thanks!

Can you provide the issue date here? I'd love to read this item myself, and I think I have almost every issue from 1971. Thanks!
May 29 issue with the "All in the Family" cast on the cover.

I don't think it would have worked. But then again, a baby would have been better than Cousin Oliver. :/

Six growing kids in that family was more than enough. The last thing they needed was to add a baby to the mix. :lol:

If they had done it, you just KNOW it would have been twins...one boy, one girl.

Sounds like where the Cousin Oliver idea originally may have come from. :)

Would the baby have to share that bathroom between the boys room and girls room too?

Would the baby have to share that bathroom between the boys room and girls room too?


I guess that he or she would have. It is my understanding that the only other bathroom in the house was connected to the master bedroom.

Robert Reed was not coming back the next season so I think how they would have handled that. Their options would have been:

1. Kill of Mike Brady and introduce someone to be the family patriarch like maybe his brother.

2. Send him off on an extended trip and on occasion speak about him or Mrs.
Brady or one of the kids speaking to him on the phone.

3. Recasting Mike Brady. Not sure if that would have worked.

I don't think it would have worked. But then again, a baby would have been better than Cousin Oliver. :/


A serial killer would have been better than cousin Oliver.

How about boy/girl twins! With the twist being that the boy had hair of gold like the Mother,and the girl had dark hair like Mike!!

^ That would have been hilarious! The theme song's lyrics would be wrecked, though, haha!

^ That would have been hilarious! The theme song's lyrics would be wrecked, though, haha!


I know!!! Even the girls cat Fluffy was blonde! :D


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