List Of The Brady Bunch Episodes
The Brady Bunch is a situation comedy created by Sherwood Schwartz, who also created Gilligan's Island. The show follows Mike Brady (Robert Reed), a widowed architect with sons Greg (Barry Williams), Peter (Christopher Knight) and Bobby (Mike Lookinland). Mike marries Carol Martin (née Tyler) (Florence Henderson), whose daughters from her previous marriage are Marcia (Maureen McCormick), Jan (Eve Plumb) and Cindy (Susan Olsen). The wife and daughters take the Brady surname, and they all move in together into Mike's home in suburban Los Angeles, California. The cast is rounded out by Mike's live-in housekeeper Alice (Ann B. Davis), and the boys' dog Tiger. Of the nine main cast members, only Florence Henderson, Ann B. Davis and Barry Williams appeared in all 117 episodes. Robert Reed did not appear in two episodes (one from season 4 and the last episode of season 5), and each of the other Brady kids was absent from one of five different episodes from season two.
The series was produced by Paramount Television in association with Redwood Productions, and premiered on ABC on September 28, 1969. The series ran for five seasons, with all 117 episodes originally airing on Fridays. The series ran in the 8 p.m. time slot, with the exception of season two, which aired at 7:30 p.m. The show also featured a number of sports and TV stars of that era, such as Davy Jones, Desi Arnaz Jr, Vincent Price, Joe Namath and Deacon Jones.
The episodes aired on ABC in a different order than when they were produced. When put into syndication, the episodes began airing in the order in which they were made. On DVD releases, though, the episodes are in the order in which they aired.
Throughout its original run The Brady Bunch received mostly negative reviews and never broke into the Nielsen top thirty. Ratings, however, were moderate enough to remain for five seasons. Ratings began to dip in season five, and in order to boost viewership of its much-needed younger audience, Schwartz introduced a new character: the Bradys' cousin Oliver (Robbie Rist) late in the season. Schwartz's plan failed, and the series was canceled before the start of the 1974 fall season. However, since its original run, The Brady Bunch has seen success in syndication, having aired uninterrupted from its original run to at least the early-1990s.
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