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The Bradys

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Cast
Influence and casting
Style
Format
Cancellation
Episodes
DVD release
References
External links

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|show_name = The Bradys
|image = The Bradys.jpg
|genre = Comedy-drama
|writer = {{ubl|Ed Scharlach|Lloyd J. Schwartz|Sherwood Schwartz|Sandra Kay Siegel}}
|director = {{ubl|Bruce Bilson|Nancy Malone|Dick Martin|Bob Sweeney}}
|starring = {{ubl|Robert Reed|Florence Henderson|Ann B. Davis|Barry Williams|Leah Ayres|Christopher Knight|Eve Plumb|Mike Lookinland|Susan Olsen}}
|theme_music_composer = Frank De Vol (main title)
|composer = Laurence Juber
|opentheme = "The Bradys" performed by Florence Henderson
|endtheme = "The Bradys" (instrumental)
|country = United States
|company = Brady Productions
Paramount Television
|distributor = CBS Television Distribution
|num_seasons = 1
|num_episodes = 6
|list_episodes = The Bradys#Episodes
|executive_producer = Sherwood Schwartz
Lloyd J. Schwartz
|producer = Barry Berg
|cinematography = King Baggot
|editor = Steve Shultz
|camera = Multi-camera
|runtime = 44–48 minutes
|channel = CBS
|audio_format = Stereo
|first_aired = {{Start date|1990|02|09}}
|last_aired = {{End date|1990|03|09}}
|preceded_by = A Very Brady Christmas
|related = The Brady Bunch
}}

The Bradys is an American comedy-drama series that aired on CBS from February 9 to March 9, 1990. The series is a sequel and continuation of the original 1969–1974 sitcom The Brady Bunch, focusing on its main characters as adults, and was the second such continuation after the short-lived 1981 sitcom The Brady Brides.

Airing on Friday nights, The Bradys failed in the ratings against the night-leading TGIF lineup on ABC and was cancelled after one month, with the last of six produced episodes airing on March 9, 1990. In its short run, it went through three different theme songs based on that of The Brady Bunch, the last featuring revised lyrics sung by Florence Henderson.

Cast

Robert Reed as Mike Brady
Florence Henderson as Carol Brady
Ann B. Davis as Alice Nelson-Franklin
Barry Williams as Dr. Greg Brady
Leah Ayres as Marcia Brady-Logan
Christopher Knight as Peter Brady
Eve Plumb as Jan Brady-Covington
Mike Lookinland as Bobby Brady
Susan Olsen as Cindy Brady
Jerry Houser as Wally Logan, Marcia's husband
Ron Kuhlman as Philip Covington III, Jan's husband
Caryn Richman as Nora Brady, Greg's wife
Martha Quinn as Tracy Wagner-Brady, Bobby's wife
Ken Michelman as Gary Greenberg, Cindy's radio station manager and love interest
Jonathan Taylor Thomas as Kevin Brady, Greg and Nora's son
Michael Melby as Mickey Logan, Marcia and Wally's son
Jaclyn Bernstein as Jessica Logan, Marcia and Wally's daughter
Valerie Ick as Patty Covington, Jan and Philip's adopted daughter from Korea

Influence and casting

In 1988, CBS commissioned a Brady Bunch reunion telefilm for their Christmas season programming. A Very Brady Christmas premiered on December 18, 1988 and drew a then-season high 25.1 rating and 39 share for a television film. The success of the film convinced series creator Sherwood Schwartz that a new Brady family TV series could be a hit, and work began on the show in December 1989. CBS re-aired A Very Brady Christmas again on December 22, 1989, using it as a promotional tool for the upcoming new show.

Robert Reed, Florence Henderson, Ann B. Davis, Barry Williams, Christopher Knight, Eve Plumb, Mike Lookinland and Susan Olsen all returned in their original Brady Bunch roles, and Jerry Houser and Ron Kuhlman reprised their roles from The Brady Brides. Leah Ayres replaced Maureen McCormick as Marcia because McCormick declined this role.

Style

Produced at the height of the dramedy trend in American television, epitomized by such shows as Frank's Place and Hooperman, The Bradys aimed to change direction toward more dramatic storytelling than viewers had been used to in the previous Brady series.^[1]^[2]

Format

Unlike the original 30-minute sitcom, The Bradys was an hour long and featured far more serious plot lines. Among them:

Family patriarch Mike begins a political career.
Bobby's budding car-racing career ends abruptly in the first episode after an accident leaves him a paraplegic. As he recovers, he marries his college girlfriend.
Peter breaks up with his fiancée, to whom he became engaged in A Very Brady Christmas, and begins dating the abusive daughter of Mike's political rival.
Jan and Philip, unable to conceive children of their own, adopt a Korean girl named Patty.
Stay-at-home mother Marcia battles alcoholism while Wally loses yet another in a series of jobs, the latest being as Mike's campaign manager. Wally and Marcia, who along with their two children have been forced to move in with Mike and Carol, eventually decide to open their own catering business to support their family.
Radio host Cindy begins a romance with her boss, a widower more than ten years her senior who has two children.

Despite the more downbeat tone, the show did feature a laugh track at certain moments.

Cancellation

The show was put on hiatus with plans to continue sometime later in the year, but production never resumed and The Bradys was quietly cancelled after six episodes had aired. Following the premier, it was one of the lowest watched CBS shows each week until its cancellation with one week only being underperformed by an episode of Tour of Duty. At the time, it was thought that the audience was simply unwilling to accept the sitcom characters in a more dramatic setting. The situation was further complicated by its time slot. When The Bradys launched, CBS placed it in the 8:00 PM slot on Friday nights, making it the third show of the season to lead off the network's Friday lineup; the other two, Snoops and Max Monroe: Loose Cannon, both flopped.

The network placed it against the comedy hits Full House and Family Matters,

which comprised the first half of ABC's Friday night TGIF lineup at the time. In Barry Williams' autobiography Growing Up Brady: I Was A Teenage Greg, he stated that when the initial two-hour episode aired, ratings were poor for the first hour, but when the second hour aired, the show won its time slot and the producers believed a change could be beneficial.

The second hour, however, was the 9:00 PM hour that long been home to CBS' Friday stalwart, Dallas. Although Dallas had been slipping in the ratings for several years, CBS was not willing to move the program to accommodate the wishes of The Bradys crew as it would have resulted in the displacement of both Dallas and the show that followed, the equally ratings-challenged Falcon Crest. Although CBS would eventually move both shows before the season ended, it did so after The Bradys was cancelled.

This would prove to be Robert Reed's final role of any significance. He fell ill in 1991, suffering from a combination of colon and bladder cancer that was exacerbated by his contracting of HIV, and died in May 1992.

Episodes

{{Abbr\|Ep.\|Episode number	Title	Director	Writer(s)	Air date	Production code{{Episode list	EpisodeNumber = 1	Title = Start Your Engines	DirectedBy = Bruce Bilson	WrittenBy = Sherwood Schwartz & Lloyd J. Schwartz	1990\|2\|9}}	ProdCode = 1-1	ShortSummary = Bobby, now a race car driver, makes it to the Nashville 500 where he is in a serious car-wreck and paralyzed from the waist down. Marcia and husband Wally (who has lost another job) and their kids, are living with Mike and Carol. Peter breaks up with his business-minded fiancée Valerie (Mary Cadorette) and becomes a playboy. Jan and husband Philip are attempting to get pregnant. Greg, following Bobby's car-wreck, considers going back to medical school and change his specialty to orthopedics.	LineColor = 000070 }}{{Episode list	EpisodeNumber = 2	Title = Here We Grow Again	DirectedBy = Bruce Bilson	WrittenBy = S. Schwartz & L. Schwartz	1990\|2\|9}}	ProdCode = 1-2	ShortSummary = The Bradys rally around Bobby in his efforts to recover and the arrival of his old college girlfriend, Tracy Wagner, helps to lift his spirits. Unable to conceive a child of their own, Jan and Philip adopt an Asian girl, Patty. Cindy is a morning radio DJ and begins dating her boss. Greg decides to stay with obstetrics. In the end, the Bradys reunite for Bobby and Tracy's wedding, which was officiated by the same minister from Mike and Carol's wedding.	LineColor = 000070 }}{{Episode list	EpisodeNumber = 3	Title = A Moving Experience	DirectedBy = Bob Sweeney	WrittenBy = S. Schwartz & L. Schwartz	1990\|2\|16}}	ProdCode = 1-3	ShortSummary = The Bradys are notified that the Department of Transportation will tear down their house to make room for a new freeway and, in a fight to save their home, they have it moved to a new location. Cindy begins to heavily date her boss. Gene and Mike decide to run for City Councilman.	LineColor = 000070 }}{{Episode list	EpisodeNumber = 4	Title = Hat in the Ring	DirectedBy = Nancy Malone	WrittenBy = S. Schwartz & L. Schwartz	1990\|2\|23}}	ProdCode = 1-4	ShortSummary = Mike declares his candidacy for City Council with the help of Peter and Wally as his campaign managers, but his political future is nearly threatened due to a blackmail attempt by his opponent's campaign manager (Herb Edelman). In the end, Mike wins the election.	LineColor = 000070 }}{{Episode list	EpisodeNumber = 5	Title = Bottom's Up	DirectedBy = Bruce Bilson	WrittenBy = Sandra Kay Siegel	1990\|3\|2}}	ProdCode = 1-5	ShortSummary = With Carol doing more things for Jessica and Mickey, Wally working overtime with Mike, Cindy debating about a job promotion, Jan busy managing the family's architectural firm, and Peter, Bobby and Greg working on a new trauma center, Marcia feels left out and unneeded and turns to alcohol for escape.	LineColor = 000070 }}{{Episode list	EpisodeNumber = 6	Title = The Party Girls	DirectedBy = Dick Martin	WrittenBy = Ed Scharlach	1990\|3\|9}}	ProdCode = 1-6	ShortSummary = Marcia, Nora and Tracy decide to open their own catering business called The Party Girls and their first assignment is a German-theme event Mike is hosting at the Brady residence for an Australian Ambassador (Gerard Maguire). Meanwhile, Greg and Peter are constantly feuding when their schedules keep conflicting.	LineColor = 000070 }}

Notes

"Start Your Engines" and "Here We Grow Again" were later repackaged as a 2-hour movie titled The Brady 500
"A Moving Experience" and "Hat in the Ring" were later repackaged as a 2-hour movie titled The Bradys on the Move
"Bottom's Up" and "The Party Girls" were later repackaged as a 2-hour movie titled Big Kids, Big Problems

DVD release

On April 3, 2007, the two-hour pilot episode The Brady 500 (a.k.a. "Start Your Engines/Here We Grow Again") was released as a bonus feature on The Brady Bunch: The Complete Series 21-disc DVD box set by CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment.^[3]

References

1. ^{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w8KztFy6QYwC&pg=PA177&dq=the+bradys:+1990&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiKmfTXv4fPAhWBViYKHbcOAckQ6AEINTAE#v=onepage&q=the%20bradys%3A%201990&f=false|author1=Terrace, Vincent|author2=Marsh, Earle F.|title=The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present}}
2. ^{{cite web|author=Maçek III, J.C.|title=What Happens When Happy Shows Turn All X-Files on You?|date=12 January 2017|work=PopMatters|url=http://www.popmatters.com/column/what-happens-when-happy-shows-turn-all-x-files-on-you/}}
3. ^{{Cite web | title = The Brady Bunch – The Complete Series (Seasons 1–5 + Shag Carpet Cover) (1969) | url = https://www.amazon.com/Brady-Bunch-Complete-Seasons-Carpet/dp/B000MGBSEY |work=Amazon.com | accessdate = Feb 16, 2010}}

External links

{{IMDb title|id=0098756}}
{{tv.com show|the-bradys|The Bradys}}
Brady World – episode guide
History of The Brady Bunch by Wendy Winans

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