The Brady Bunch

The Brady Bunch was a US television situation comedy, based around a large blended family. A total of 117 episodes were broadcast between September 1969 and August 1974 on the ABC network. The idea to make the series was based on creator Sherwood Schwartz's reading an article that a growing share of the marriages in the United States involved children from a previous marriage. Despite the similarities between the series and the 1968 theatrical release Yours, Mine and Ours, starring Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball, the original script for The Brady Bunch (which was titled Yours and Mine at that early stage) antedated that for the film. However, the success of the film was likely a factor in the network ordering the series.

Parodies

A 1995 movie, The Brady Bunch Movie was a parody of the original show with new actors playing all the main characters.

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1995 - The Brady Bunch Movie

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The Brady Bunch Movie placed the original 1970s sitcom characters, with their 1970s fashion sense and 1970s sitcom family morality, in a contemporary 1990s setting, and parodied the resulting culture clash. It featured cameos from four original castmembers as well as Davy Jones. The resulting movie was successful enough that in 1996 a reasonably well-received sequel, imaginatively titled A Very Brady Sequel, was produced, which made sly comment on the well-documented real-life sexual tension between some of the teenage cast members of the original TV series. In 2002, a telefilm called The Brady Bunch in the White House continued in the vein of the earlier parody movies. This last movie received poor reviews. The movies all featured plot references and songs from the TV show.

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1970s - 1990s - Davy Jones - 1996 - Sequel - 2002 - Telefilm

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