View Full Version : ABC daytime reruns oddity


torcan
05-18-2020, 03:29 PM
The Brady Bunch was repeated on ABC daytime beginning in July 1973 and lasted until August 1975 - at which time it hit syndication. There was a 10-week gap in this run in spring 1975 for the short-lived game show Blankety Blanks.

Since I have extra time on my hands, I've been going through old TVGuides lately. During the entire time ABC reran it on their daytime schedule, they never aired the pilot episode where Mike and Carol got married. They aired every episode except that one.

This episode was seen in the syndication package so it was still in existence, but for some reason the network chose not to repeat it.

rcbrad
05-18-2020, 08:46 PM
That's interesting. I knew it was rerun on ABC daytime, but I did not know all of those facts. I wonder why the Pilot was skipped over?

Waterston_Fan
05-20-2020, 07:21 PM
Maybe they just didn't like the idea of a blended family?