Carol, divorced?

[ricardo/mertz]

Good point.
After the first episode, I thought it was weird the boys never talked about their mother. I do realize it was a picture perfect show, but, still.

[CCRYDER1968]

Originally posted by hawaii five-o
Actually, Mike was Carol's fourth husband. Each girl was fathered by a husband who eventually died. Sort of like "Bonanza".

[faraj]

In one of the Brady movies, her ex-husband comes back.

Yeah, the Very Brady Sequel. I saw that movie. But that guy wasn't really her longlost husband. He was just pretending, so Carol's real first husband before she remarried to Mike might really be deceased.

[Cashodeen]

Originally posted by faraj

Yeah, the Very Brady Sequel. I saw that movie. But that guy wasn't really her longlost husband. He was just pretending, so Carol's real first husband before she remarried to Mike might really be deceased.

When the impersonating husband showed up, did Carol say something like, "I thought you were dead?"

[initdeeper]

Well, if her past husband was alive or dead or divorced, without the past husbands permission or if he gave them up for adoption, Carol had no right to change the girls names to Brady.

That is law even back then as it is today.

[CCRYDER1968]

That's not neccesarily so! When my uncle married his wife they had her young daughter's name changed to his.They had to go to court,file papers,run an ad in the newspaper for 7 days,and if(and when) the natural father didn't object,the name change was made!

[spunkygirl]

The movie is very different from the series, the movie was very tongue in cheek, so you can't go by what happened in the movies


I had always assumed she was a widow, if she was a divorcee, why did the girls call Mike "dad", did their dad leave Carol for a younger woman or something?

[CCRYDER1968]

Originally posted by Angela Micelli



I had always assumed she was a widow, if she was a divorcee, why did the girls call Mike "dad", did their dad leave Carol for a younger woman or something?

Again,using my same uncle as the example,his wife's teenage kids call him "dad" even though their actual father is alive,in jail for committing a crime against one of the kids.Although I personally always thought it strange for both the boys and girls to call Mike and Carol mom and dad immediately after the wedding...to me it seems like that would be a more gradual process.(Sorry I'm in such an analytical mood today,guys..forgive me! )

[sixfingers]

Carol's marital status was left up in the air so that it could be resolved that she was divorced if the netowork later relented. They never did, but it was one possible plot line for the never made sixth season.