I just rewatched "The Driver's Seat" where Marcia and Greg made a bet to take over household chores for a year. But in "A Room at the Top" at the end of the fourth season, they kept saying he was going to be leaving for college in a year, at which time Marcia would take over the attic, which meant he wasn't going to be around for a full year by the time of the bet three quarters of a season later.

Assuming the show had been renewed for a sixth season, what do you think would have happened with Greg? Would he have moved out and just dropped in for a few minutes in each episode, or would they have written him out? Or just pretend he never said he was moving out and leave him in the attic bedroom instead, so Marcia never got her own room until The Brady Girls Get Married? Judging from the Brady Bunch Variety Hour, Greg never did leave home, at least not before medical school.

I just rewatched "The Driver's Seat" where Marcia and Greg made a bet to take over household chores for a year. But in "A Room at the Top" at the end of the fourth season, they kept saying he was going to be leaving for college in a year, at which time Marcia would take over the attic, which meant he wasn't going to be around for a full year by the time of the bet three quarters of a season later.

Assuming the show had been renewed for a sixth season, what do you think would have happened with Greg? Would he have moved out and just dropped in for a few minutes in each episode, or would they have written him out? Or just pretend he never said he was moving out and leave him in the attic bedroom instead, so Marcia never got her own room until The Brady Girls Get Married? Judging from the Brady Bunch Variety Hour, Greg never did leave home, at least not before medical school.

I don't think most fans think of The Brady Bunch Hour as "canon", meaning as part of the history of the Bradys in the way that all the other shows where they appeared in character built on the family history. Myself, I prefer to think of that variety hour as a super-extended dream sequence for Bobby.

He would have gone to a college nearby (UCLA maybe?) and either lived at home or dropped by frequently.

Remember: after Mr. Reed boycotted the last episode "Hair Brained Scheme", the Schwartzes said that they'd have had Mike Brady KILLED over the summer with the show returning with Mrs. Brady as a new widow. It might have been interesting to see how Greg and the other Brady kids would have reacted to Carol possibly dating (and would they have drawn battle lines between those born Bradys against those who'd been adopted upon Mike and Carol's marriage)?

Well, that’s a prime reason ABC didn’t pick up the show. The ratings were dropping, the contracts needed to be renegotiated (e.g. the show was about to get more expensive to produce), and either the Sherwood Schwartz or Reed was going to have to go, since they couldn’t work together anymore.

ABC wasn’t interested in picking up a fatherless Brady Bunch, which was already on the decline.

Likely there would have been no Mike Brady had there been a 6th season, he would have likely been out of town on perpetual business trips. Robert Reed was not liking many of the plots of the later episodes.

The Brady Bunch would have lost quite a bit without Mike and Greg, so I'm guessing we'd have gotten a lot more Bobby, Cindy and Oliver episodes.

I'm glad it ended when it did. I would have hated to have Mr. Brady be dead. That would be so sad!!:(

I'm glad it ended when it did. I would have hated to have Mr. Brady be dead. That would be so sad!!:(

I think I heard somewhere that might have been a possibility, having Mike be dead and Carol a widow. With Mike being mentioned just in passing with Carol saying something like, "It just hasn't been the same since the funeral"

I agree about not wanting Mr. Brady to be dead. Another thought-the boys would have lost both of their biological parents at that point.

I also wouldn't want Mike Brady dead.

If they killed off Mike maybe Greg would have been there for Carol - like real life Woody Allen ... ya I'm just joking

it's a kiddie show. Too dark to kill off characters.

it's a kiddie show. Too dark to kill off characters.

Agree. Even if the Schwartzs had wanted to do that, ABC would have said no.

They could have done the unthinkable--bring in Mike II--Bewitched all over again.
Maybe even give the part to Dick Sargent--what a hoot that would be!

Also, maybe Oliver's parents would have returned and he'd be shipped back home.

Agree. Even if the Schwartzs had wanted to do that, ABC would have said no.

They could have done the unthinkable--bring in Mike II--Bewitched all over again.
Maybe even give the part to Dick Sargent--what a hoot that would be!

Also, maybe Oliver's parents would have returned and he'd be shipped back home.

If anyone else was brought in as Mike, like I said, I wish it had been Peter Graves, I've always seen a similarity between him and Robert Reed

Even though there isn't much physical resemblance, I could see Larry Hagman being a good Mike personality wise

After all the screwy stuff that happened on Jeannie, I think Hagman would have done fine.

Obviously he can roll with the punches of a sitcom.

i wonder what the opening credits would of been like if it had happend