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Aired: 1969-74
Episodes: 117
Cast: Robert Reed, Florence Henderson, Barry Williams, Christopher Knight, Mike Lookinland, Maureen McCormick, Eve Plumb, Susan Olsen, Ann B. Davis
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The Brady Bunch
Three decades after it went off the air, The Brady Bunch remains one of America's all-time favorite television shows. Nearly everyone can identify with the Brady kids, who faced all sorts of adversity--puberty, crushes and first kisses--in a nonthreatening, family-friendly way. Off the set, the Brady sibs were family-friendly, too, hooking up with one another with sometimes innocent, sometimes steamy results. There was plenty going on with this perfect TV family: At age 15, Barry Williams took his TV mom, Florence Henderson, on a date. Both Christopher Knight and Mike Lookinland--Peter and Bobby--faced drug problems in their post-Brady Bunch years. And, sadly, Brady dad Robert Reed died of AIDS-related cancer in 1992.
Get more Brady Bunch info at Barry Williams' Website.
What You Don't Know:
• Gene Hackman was creator Sherwood Schwartz's first choice for the role of Mike Brady.
• Maureen McCormick, Eve Plumb and Susan Olsen have actress Joyce Bulifant to thank for their jobs. The blond Bulifant was originally cast as mom Carol, so Schwartz picked three kids to match her hair color. She didn't stay, but the kids did.
• The show's hairstylists kept bleaching Olsen's hair, causing it to fall out. The hairdressers told Schwartz that if it continued, they would cut her hair off and give her fake curls like Buffy on Family Affair.
• For a short time after Brady Bunch ended, Barry Williams supported himself by gambling his unemployment checks.
• Robert Reed once taught Shakespearean acting.
• Christopher Knight filed for divorce from wife Toni Erickson Knight in 2000, demanding $480,000 a year in spousal support.
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