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“The Brady Bunch” was a great success in the 1970s, and continues to enjoy success in repetitions today, but there was an import detail that writers never clarified.
The series pilot episode made it clear that Mike Brady, played by Robert Reed, had been a widower, but the program is never special if Florence Henderson’s character, Carol Brady, had been widower or divorced.
“There was a discrepancy at the base of the program, in the concept of the program that the network fought [creator] Sherwood Schwartz, and that is the premise was a widower with three sons and a divorced with three daughters, and the network felt that a divorced created too many problems for the series, “Barry Williams, which plays” Pode, Saint Gregy Bradatal.
Williams said executives felt the details of custody and the problems that would have led to divorce would complicate the premise of the program.
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Florence Henderson and Robert set up as Mike and Carol Brady with their children in the pilot episode of “The Brady Bunch.” (Silver screen collection/Getty images)
“We were playing with a very conservative country, so they wanted Carol to be a widow, and Sherwood never changed it. But they agreed to disagree, and was left without control, so never in our pilot or simply reverse.”
“We were playing with a very conservative country, so they wanted Carol to be a widow, and Sherwood never changed it. But they agreed to disagree, and it was without control, which is what never in our pilot or simply reverence.”
He added that the program also did not represent any of the bees of children adopted by their stepfather, Althegh Susan Olsen, who played the young daughter Cindy Brady, said the fact that the last girls had Brady Beythher.
“What is interesting, as you mention, is that they leave it. They do not deal with Mr. Martin by reference,” said Christopher Knight, who played Brother Middle Peter and Coanfa the podcast, said Carol’s first husband. “They refer to Mrs. Brady, the previous Mrs. Brady, quickly in this episode in a really moving scene, and we will review it, and [they] So, we never have again or treat it with that. “
Olsen said he thought he was “a little sad” that the children’s mother never mentioned again.
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“The Brady Bunch” worked from 1969 to 1974. (CBS through Getty Images)
She pointed out that Carol says: “‘Three years ago, I thought it was the end of the world, and now it is only the beginning” and you wonder: “Did they die or separated?”
“I felt that it was through a divorce or two myself,” said Williams. Knight added that Schwartz “left him so that the audience can decide for itself.”
Knight said that “offender” to the idea that the brothers never referred to the fact that they were stepso.
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“I thought that was the part of the program that really failed us when children, and I was only 12 years old, thinking at that time,” my sisters are not really “, and I know it grows, I would have said:” You are not really my sister. “
He said that he now realizes that the reason for the success of the program was because they do it.
“It was about getting along,” he admitted.
Susan Olsen, who played the youngest daughter Cindy Brady, pointed out the fact that the surnames of the girls were Brady involved who had been adopted by her stepfather. (Getty images)
“And when you get along, to always have the image of Mom, refer to her true mother or her biological mother will only be a wedge problem, a potential wedge problem, so it was completely left aside,” he explained.
Divorce was a sticky problem on television at that time. The series worked from 1969 to 1974.
Mary Richards in “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”, which extended from 1970 to 1977, was also supposed to be divorced when he was decided to move to Minneapolis and work for a local news station, but again the program’s network did not like the idea.
Allan Burns, co -creator of the program, told The Hollywood Reporter in 2017: “We had the idea that we would do the first divorced on television. It is difficult to believe, but in 1970 it was a controversial idea. Mary loved the idea. He threw the idea. The network had a kind of cardiac episode.”
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He said he was “summoned” to the office of a CBS executive, and that the divorce was replaced by a broken commitment.