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hawaii five-o · 09-28-2003, 05:31 PM

"The Brady Bunch" ended its run with a lackluster episode. What do you think would have been a better plot for the final episode instead of "The Hair Brained Scheme"??? I think they should have ended with Sam and Alice's wedding.

junecleaver · 09-28-2003, 08:54 PM

that would have been so cool!

makena · 10-08-2003, 12:46 AM

I don't think anyone expected the hair tonic episode to be the last. Apparently, Robert Reed refused to participate. Sherwood got fed up and the Network dumped it.

It's too bad they didn't write a final episode. Greg goes to college, Marcia gets the attic, and only two kids left in each of the rooms.

I would have booted Oliver. He was a geek and not very Brady.

Urkel_2003 · 10-08-2003, 08:39 PM

Alice and Sam's wedding would have made a good final episode. The family could look back on all their fun times with Alice, and they could show clips from past episodes with Alice's most memorable moments at the Brady household.

barwars · 10-13-2003, 04:18 PM

ANYTHING would have been better that "The Hair Brained Scheme"

Its the worst episode of the entire series IMO.

sixfingers · 05-24-2008, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by barwars

ANYTHING would have been better that "The Hair Brained Scheme"

Its the worst episode of the entire series IMO.

Perhaps when they found out renewal wasn't happening they could have all gotten together one last time to make a special "final goodbye" episode that would run as a special.

As Oliver said, in the last line of the series, "Just a suggestion!"

Jude The Obscure · 05-25-2008, 12:24 AM

Of course, it was not the norm for series to have series finales in those days. There were some exceptions--like "Leave it to Beaver" doing a retrospective episode with June and Ward looking over a photo album.

Ethelfan1993 · 04-22-2009, 03:45 PM

Oh Urkel 2003, that would be so sweet! It would probably have made me cry if it had happened.

magellan333 · 04-25-2009, 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Jude The Obscure

Of course, it was not the norm for series to have series finales in those days. There were some exceptions--like "Leave it to Beaver" doing a retrospective episode with June and Ward looking over a photo album.

That was a strange episode. They have a photo album and one of the pictures is Beaver and Wally alone in the bathroom looking at a letter(?). How could a picture be taken when they were alone?

jehobden · 04-29-2009, 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by magellan333

That was a strange episode. They have a photo album and one of the pictures is Beaver and Wally alone in the bathroom looking at a letter(?). How could a picture be taken when they were alone?

About all of the setups in that episode are unrealistic, especially when a picture appears in the photo album of Beaver & Larry Mondello sneaking a peek at Larry's sister's diary. I guess his sister had a secret camera in her room as a security measure and gave a pic of the snooping to Ward & June, who then posted the pic in their photo album.

catlover79 · 09-20-2009, 01:32 AM

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Originally Posted by hawaii five-o

"The Brady Bunch" ended its run with a lackluster episode. What do you think would have been a better plot for the final episode instead of "The Hair Brained Scheme"??? I think they should have ended with Sam and Alice's wedding.

I like that idea, too!

Marvo301 · 09-20-2009, 02:53 AM

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Originally Posted by hawaii five-o

"The Brady Bunch" ended its run with a lackluster episode. What do you think would have been a better plot for the final episode instead of "The Hair Brained Scheme"??? I think they should have ended with Sam and Alice's wedding.

The problem is they had no idea that "The Hair Brained Scheme" would be the last episode when they filmed it. They didn't find out the show was cancelled until after production had ended for the season and they were on hiatus. (much the same thing happened to Sherwood's other series, "Gilligan's Island"). Had they known it was going to be their last episode I'm sure we would have seen a different storyline.

catlover79 · 09-20-2009, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Marvo301

The problem is they had no idea that "The Hair Brained Scheme" would be the last episode when they filmed it. They didn't find out the show was cancelled until after production had ended for the season and they were on hiatus. (much the same thing happened to Sherwood's other series, "Gilligan's Island"). Had they known it was going to be their last episode I'm sure we would have seen a different storyline.

That's right - I forgot that everyone thought there would be a Season 6.

comedyfreak · 09-25-2009, 04:03 AM

That would have been so cool, instead we had to wait until a Very Brady Christmas to find out that Sam and Alice were married.

Smartboy · 09-26-2009, 10:22 PM

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Originally Posted by comedyfreak

That would have been so cool, instead we had to wait until a Very Brady Christmas to find out that Sam and Alice were married.

That is not exactly true. The fact that Alice and Sam were married got mentioned on "The Brady Brides".

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makena Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Oct 08, 2003 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 16	I don't think anyone expected the hair tonic episode to be the last. Apparently, Robert Reed refused to participate. Sherwood got fed up and the Network dumped it. It's too bad they didn't write a final episode. Greg goes to college, Marcia gets the attic, and only two kids left in each of the rooms. I would have booted Oliver. He was a geek and not very Brady.

10-08-2003, 08:39 PM	#4
Urkel_2003 Banned Banned!! Frequent Poster Join Date: Sep 22, 2003 Location: New York Posts: 167	Alice and Sam's wedding would have made a good final episode. The family could look back on all their fun times with Alice, and they could show clips from past episodes with Alice's most memorable moments at the Brady household.

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barwars .. Forum Star Join Date: May 04, 2002 Posts: 13,273	ANYTHING would have been better that "The Hair Brained Scheme" Its the worst episode of the entire series IMO.

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Jude The Obscure Retired Eternal Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Dec 10, 2006 Posts: 7,519	Of course, it was not the norm for series to have series finales in those days. There were some exceptions--like "Leave it to Beaver" doing a retrospective episode with June and Ward looking over a photo album.

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Ethelfan1993 Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Apr 20, 2009 Location: Calhoun Falls, South Carolina Posts: 71	Oh Urkel 2003, that would be so sweet! It would probably have made me cry if it had happened.