The Bradys
The Bradys
| 09 February 1990 (USA)
SEASON & EPISODES
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    Stebaer4

    Maureen McCormick was right to opt out of this for the main reason that it would've defaced her character as an alcoholic & so for further future reunions within the realm of possibility let's just push this to a parallel universe & disregard it upon Maureen's return too.Seeing Jonathan Taylor Thomas in an early pre-Home Improvement role & credited as Jonathan Weiss is very interesting among other things. Cindy teasing her boss Gary Greenberg "mistaking" the quote of "Mozel Tov" which means congratulations & good luck for Mistle Toe of which is hung in the door way at Christmastime for good luck whether or not as an immediate follow-up after A Very Brady Christmas was very cute.Cindy at Sunrise really makes her new character to give her new character. Next there's Peter who splits up with Valerie From A Very Brady Christmas of whom turns out his 3rd fiancé but the 2 prior ones split up with him and from here he continues to still have girl trouble in this series' short run.Next to explain why Peter did the splitting up this time? She just wouldn't being the boss leave her job behind even for Bobby any more to see him race than to care for him being injured.This is as much like Wally having job trouble & Jan Having conceiving trouble so she & Philip adopt a child.Next there's Bobby dreaming of being a sports star while being one as he did as a kid before becoming one makes a nice blend of the old times & the new times too.Bobby can stand up but not for very long upon being hurt in a race car crash.It's always good more to have reunions even more than "reunions" as this one was for the Brady Bunch's main theme that life rehashes itself a.k.a. the more things change the more they stay the same.The Best example of this is of course how in The Brady Girls Get Married & The Bradys how for some reason as on the Brady Bunch The Wedding get's interrupted.Since Bobby wasn't really paralyzed but injured so for the next reunion or "reunion" he could just be cured without discarding this problem to a Parallel Universe.Some flashback footage is cute & helpful too but it's still just as well that this short lived show was exactly that,Yes that's exactly right short lived.Originally there was no theme song to open this show but then on The Fox Family Network (now known as abc family)on which it was probably rerun for the 1st time anywhere and for the 1st time in rerun syndication that the show then opened up with the voice of Florence Henderson a.k.a. "Carol Brady" singing one to the tune of The Brady Bunch theme song.As I found out later on and contrary to what Barry Williams a.k.a."Greg Brady" had said on my local Bostonian radio show of The Lost 45s in an interview with Host D.J. Barry Scott that "Hardly anybody watched this & so maybe if they just checked in every 3 years then maybe it would be okay." But according to 2 of The A&E:Biography Follow-ups on both Robert Reed & The Brady Bunch it was really that Robert Reed was sick(health wise)and sick of the role of "Mike Brady" & so if it went any further,just as if there was a 6th season of The Brady Bunch he'd have been written out but all of his costars just couldn't have that & so that's why they had stopped when they had.As I've periodically said yes there can still be Brady Bunch reunions but just no more pregnant jokes & the last of which was in A Very Brady Christmas,the previous "reunion" of which scored this one.I still look forward to reunions even more than to "reunions." Truthfully,Stephen "Steve" G. Baer a.k.a."Ste" of Framingham,Ma.USA

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    dfortier5

    I don't care what anyone says, this was a very good show!!! 10 out of 10 for me! It was fun seeing them reunite the Bradys again, but unfortunately no one gave this new show a good chance to survive. The main reason it failed isn't because it was a bad show, it was because the network played it too early. They should have targeted the adult audience who were raised with the Bradys.This new drama was VERY GOOD! I loved it! I taped every show. The only thing I didn't like is they made Mike a politician. I hated that idea. But working for an architect myself, I unfortunately know how much architecture is closely related to politics. But for an honest politician, I found Mike had a LOT of conflicts of interest!!! Sure didn't make him look too clean when several members of his family are involved with his proposal. Another thing I didn't like is when Nora joined her two sisters-in-law in the catering business when she's a nurse.I loved that Marcia stood by Wally through thick and thin! I loved that they brought realistic problems i.e. Wally constantly looking for a job, Marcia and Wally being homeless, Marcia drinking too much, Bobby being paralyzed, Jan & Phillip who can't conceive, Greg & Peter getting into a huge fight only to have Dr. Greg ultimately save his brother's life. How can anyone say that these are not good story lines? I still get mad every time I think that this show was cut short when it could easily have had a long life!

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    tex-42

    This is probably a first for television: reuniting the cast of a late 60s/early 70s sitcom for an hour-long DRAMA series. Well, CBS did just that, based on the success of the 1988 TV movie, A Very Brady Christmas. This was after the concept was already revived in the 1970s as a variety show, in the 1980s as a sitcom focusing on Marcia and Jan, and now in the 1990s for what was affectionately dubbed "Brady-something." As you can imagine the effort simply did not work, because people did not want to see Bobby Brady paralyzed or Marcia as an alcoholic. The whole idea of a full time series based around the now adult Brady children and their parents about twenty years after the original series began without a hint of camp or irony was absurd and the show quickly tanked.

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    luke-31

    This show was actually very good.It works much better than you would think it should,and we come to care about the charachters just as much as we had in the original series.The acting is very good,and the writing was excellent.Watch for a young Jonathan Taylor Thomas as Greg and Nora's son ,Kevin.

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