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TVFactFan · 05-04-2009, 09:32 PM

My mom was asking me last night and I forgot the story about that. She don't know if their parents were dead or just ran off. So if someone can explain the stiory behind Carol's baby daddy and Mike' baby momma I would apreciate-lol

Marvo301 · 05-04-2009, 09:46 PM

There is a scene in the pilot episode where Bobby is looking at a picture of his Mom that he has on his dresser and Mike walks into the room to talk to him about it. I pretty sure the boys mother had passed away. But I don't remember there ever being a reference to the girls father in the show.

TVFactFan · 05-04-2009, 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Marvo301

There is a scene in the pilot episode where Bobby is looking at a picture of his Mom that he has on his dresser and Mike walks into the room to talk to him about it. I pretty sure the boys mother had passed away. But I don't remember there ever being a reference to the girls father in the show.

Thanks

McGillicuddy · 05-04-2009, 10:18 PM

Well if you go by the storyline from A Very Brady Sequel, Roy Martin, Carol's husband long thought to be dead, reemerges, though at the end of the movie it turns out he's an imposter.

Waterston_Fan · 05-05-2009, 07:29 PM

It's never really said as to what happened to the girls' father. But it sounds like maybe the father divorced then was killed cause Carol would tell Mike that 3 years ago, she thought it was the end of the world'.

But there has been fan fiction written that the girls' father divorced Carol and was killed.

RIC FLAIR · 06-20-2009, 05:59 PM

CAROL WAS DIVORCED.BUT THAT WAS NOT ACCEPTED ON SITCOMS IN THE 60'S

Marvo301 · 06-20-2009, 06:10 PM

I heard Barry Williams being interviewed on "Just My Show" the other day. He was asked this very question. He said the boys mother had passed away as mentioned earlier in this thread. He also said the Sherwood Schwartz original intention was for Carol to be a divorcee. However the network wouldn't allow them to call Carol a divorcee so they chose to say nothing at all about Carol's first marriage or how it ended. I think Sherwood hoped the audience would figure out on their own that Carol was divorced from her first husband.

TV Guy · 06-20-2009, 08:41 PM

Sherwood has claimed that he did want Carol to be a divorcee. However, the network press materials explicitly talked about a widow and a widower marrying. In addition, the girls all took Mike Brady's last name, so he adopted them, which would have been more difficult if the father was still alive. Carol was a widow, as far as I'm concerned.

catlover79 · 06-20-2009, 11:58 PM

I think someone should do a Brady prequel - what the two families' lives were like before they got together, how Carol and Mike met, how he proposed, the two families meeting, etc. Frankly, I'm surprised no one HAS done it. It would be great if the Schwartz family would do something like that. I'd watch it!!

Dusty's Fan · 06-21-2009, 09:29 AM

It's interesting to see how this stuff was handled at the time. That same year (in 1969) when the producers of My Three Sons brought in Beverly Garland as "wife material" for Fred MacMurray's character (Steve, a widower), originally she was to be a single woman, and Barbara & Steve would have a new baby together. But when the new baby idea was nixed, they made Barbara a widow with a very young daughter. A good example of widower and widow hooking up.

Also in 1969, Tom Corbett (Bill Bixby) was established as a widower on The Courtship of Eddie's Father.

I might also mention that a couple of years later, originally on The Mary Tyler Moore Show Mary was to have been a divorcee -- but story has it that there would have been people who thought she had divorced Rob Petrie/Dick Van Dyke...! So that was changed.

Schmoopie · 06-22-2009, 02:20 AM

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Originally Posted by catlover79

I think someone should do a Brady prequel - what the two families' lives were like before they got together, how Carol and Mike met, how he proposed, the two families meeting, etc. Frankly, I'm surprised no one HAS done it. It would be great if the Schwartz family would do something like that. I'd watch it!!

Now see? This is a great idea! They have done so many TV shows-into movies, that a prequel would be really interesting. They could end it where Mike and Carol get engaged.

What an interesting topic. I guess the reason it was never brought up much is because the focus of the show was supposed to be about a man with three sons and a "lovely lady" with three daughters.

Andrea

jehobden · 06-24-2009, 06:30 PM

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Originally Posted by catlover79

I think someone should do a Brady prequel - what the two families' lives were like before they got together, how Carol and Mike met, how he proposed, the two families meeting, etc. Frankly, I'm surprised no one HAS done it. It would be great if the Schwartz family would do something like that. I'd watch it!!

According to "The Brady Bunch Book", Schwartz wanted to take this approach when ABC requested the pilot to be stretched out to 90 minutes. He mentioned how they met and "the problems of courtship", but ABC wanted the 30-minute plot stretched out to 90 minutes, and Schwartz believed, probably rightfully so, that doing that would make for a dull 90 minutes. ABC passed on the idea then, until "Yours, Mine and Ours" came out and was a hit movie in 1968. Then ABC remembered Schwartz' idea, and The Brady Bunch pilot was filmed that fall.

Marvo301 · 06-24-2009, 07:24 PM

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Originally Posted by catlover79

I think someone should do a Brady prequel - what the two families' lives were like before they got together, how Carol and Mike met, how he proposed, the two families meeting, etc. Frankly, I'm surprised no one HAS done it. It would be great if the Schwartz family would do something like that. I'd watch it!!

Well if they did a prequel now they could make Carol a divorcee as Sherwood always intended!

catlover79 · 06-24-2009, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Marvo301

Well if they did a prequel now they could make Carol a divorcee as Sherwood always intended!

Very true!!

05-04-2009, 09:32 PM	#1
TVFactFan Member Forum Junkie Join Date: Aug 17, 2002 Posts: 99,004	What is story behind the Girls real Father and the boys real mother? My mom was asking me last night and I forgot the story about that. She don't know if their parents were dead or just ran off. So if someone can explain the stiory behind Carol's baby daddy and Mike' baby momma I would apreciate-lol

05-04-2009, 09:46 PM	#2
Marvo301 I'm NOT a Blockhead! Forum Celebrity Join Date: May 17, 2002 Location: The Great White North Posts: 21,452	There is a scene in the pilot episode where Bobby is looking at a picture of his Mom that he has on his dresser and Mike walks into the room to talk to him about it. I pretty sure the boys mother had passed away. But I don't remember there ever being a reference to the girls father in the show.
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06-20-2009, 11:58 PM	#9
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06-21-2009, 09:29 AM	#10
Dusty's Fan Member Senior Member Join Date: Mar 13, 2007 Location: Indiana Posts: 1,093	It's interesting to see how this stuff was handled at the time. That same year (in 1969) when the producers of My Three Sons brought in Beverly Garland as "wife material" for Fred MacMurray's character (Steve, a widower), originally she was to be a single woman, and Barbara & Steve would have a new baby together. But when the new baby idea was nixed, they made Barbara a widow with a very young daughter. A good example of widower and widow hooking up. Also in 1969, Tom Corbett (Bill Bixby) was established as a widower on The Courtship of Eddie's Father. I might also mention that a couple of years later, originally on The Mary Tyler Moore Show Mary was to have been a divorcee -- but story has it that there would have been people who thought she had divorced Rob Petrie/Dick Van Dyke...! So that was changed.
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05-04-2009, 10:18 PM	#4
McGillicuddy Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Sep 28, 2002 Posts: 5,179	Well if you go by the storyline from A Very Brady Sequel, Roy Martin, Carol's husband long thought to be dead, reemerges, though at the end of the movie it turns out he's an imposter.

05-05-2009, 07:29 PM	#5
Waterston_Fan Eternal Member Eternal Member Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Dec 26, 2005 Location: Southern California Posts: 3,195	It's never really said as to what happened to the girls' father. But it sounds like maybe the father divorced then was killed cause Carol would tell Mike that 3 years ago, she thought it was the end of the world'. But there has been fan fiction written that the girls' father divorced Carol and was killed.

06-20-2009, 05:59 PM	#6
RIC FLAIR Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Apr 17, 2005 Posts: 111	CAROL WAS DIVORCED.BUT THAT WAS NOT ACCEPTED ON SITCOMS IN THE 60'S

06-20-2009, 06:10 PM	#7
Marvo301 I'm NOT a Blockhead! Forum Celebrity Join Date: May 17, 2002 Location: The Great White North Posts: 21,452	I heard Barry Williams being interviewed on "Just My Show" the other day. He was asked this very question. He said the boys mother had passed away as mentioned earlier in this thread. He also said the Sherwood Schwartz original intention was for Carol to be a divorcee. However the network wouldn't allow them to call Carol a divorcee so they chose to say nothing at all about Carol's first marriage or how it ended. I think Sherwood hoped the audience would figure out on their own that Carol was divorced from her first husband.

06-20-2009, 08:41 PM	#8
TV Guy Member Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Jun 25, 2001 Location: Boston, MA, USA Posts: 3,419	Sherwood has claimed that he did want Carol to be a divorcee. However, the network press materials explicitly talked about a widow and a widower marrying. In addition, the girls all took Mike Brady's last name, so he adopted them, which would have been more difficult if the father was still alive. Carol was a widow, as far as I'm concerned.