Back at a time of innocence when this was entertaining - I dreamed about being a Brady and that house!! Glad to have grown up in this era!! This pulled me back to my youth, simplicity.
ABC's Fred Silverman, who was responsible for scheduling this brief series in the first place {he wanted another "DONNY & MARIE"; the Krofft brothers also produced their show}, also insisted that Garry Marshall come up with a "stunt" episode he could promote at the beginning of the 1977-'78 season- hence, "Fonzie jumps a shark in Hollywood". To the end of his life, Garry regretted filming that episode (and Henry Winkler still does).
@@fromthesidelines Of everybody on that show only her and Florence Henderson had the capabilities to actually do well on those song and dance routines. Florence Henderson could have definitely have had her own variety show, but the timing probably was not right, as she was busy with the Brady Bunch during the time frame that she most likely would have been offered one.
Same old tired stupid and not true commend you see on EVERY VIDEO OF EVERY SHOW FROM THE 1950s until 2005. It’s silly inane pointless and NOT TRUE. Most tv Bach then and for all time IS stupid valid vacuous ugly and pointless. 🙄🤡🤮
The Kroffts were also involved in "PINK LADY {& JEFF}". Fred Silverman, as president of NBC in 1980, was determined to create another variety show along the lines of "DONNY & MARIE" and "TONY ORLANDO & DAWN" [never mind that Mie and Kei could barely speak a word of English]. One of his executives tried to tell him, "The variety show is dead." Silverman roared, "I'll tell you *exactly* how long the variety show is dead for!!!" "How long?", the executive said softly. "It's dead until the next hit variety show is on the air!!!", Fred insisted. Except for "BARBARA MANDRELL & THE MANDRELL SISTERS" (also a Krofft production), Silverman- in his three years with NBC- could never keep a variety show alive for more than a few episodes.
@@fromthesidelines Silverman almost bankrupted NBC with Supertrain. The costs for it were high and the ratings dismal. Supposedly he went to visit the set one time and got so mad that he kicked the scale model of the train. Not realizing that it was a harder material than he thought it was and broke his foot. I remember Johnny Carson used to make fun of Supertrain in his monologue. That must have drove Silverman up the wall, but he couldn't do anything about it because at that point in time, The Tonight Show was about the only thing on NBC that was making money and Johnny was also thinking about going to ABC himself. It's amazing how someone who created such success at both CBS and ABC almost singlehandedly destroyed. NBC.
There were other Brady shows after this. Like the Brady Brides and the 90's show called the Bradys. In those shows, the characters NEVER refer to the time they ran their own variety show. It's like EVERYONE wanted to forget about this show's existence!
I keep thinking of That 70s show 'who gave these idiots a whole hour?!?' 😂 Its so bad but I love The Brady Bunch so cant look away. And whoa, Greg's hot! And Cindy's hair is the bomb.
@@Mister_Listener In the 7 months since I made this comment I have exchanged emails with a lady from Long Beach who was actually in this show as a dancer, she is 73 this year (2024) the show was broadcast 47 years ago making her 26 years old at the time... as they say TIME WAITS FOR NO ONE...🤪
Well of course, what pubescent young man didn't have pin ups of Ann B. Davis and Francis Bavier( Aunt Bea from Andy Griffith) lacquered on their walls and ceilings?
Poor Ann B. Davis got lower billing that H.R. Pufnstuf. If it wasn’t for my parents I wouldn’t even know that was but I tuned into The Brady Bunch on Nick at Nite in the 90s every night, so I knew who Alice was.
Another copy of The Brady Bunch Variety Hour has been deleted from the CZcams app. Why? CZcams will never say why they deleted the other copies of this episode which featured my favorite horror film actor, Vincent Price, as one of the guest stars. Please tell me why by responding to my comment here.
The coke was flowing sooo freely during these 70s writer meetings. Also, Robert Reed thought the Brady Bunch scripts were corny, yet agreed to be a part of THIS!!??? He must have really needed the money!!!
I wonder if Professor Whitehead ever replaced Oliver with a new object of his affection ? I'm referring to the huge cave tiki, not the towheaded, bespectacled little cousin.
I get the whole "tacky/horrible/can't look away from it" aspect of this show, and I think in part it's a seventies thing. May I respectfully point out one very compelling reason to watch? Maureen McCormick. Enough said.
really? everybody know why Eva plumb didnt want to do this show! Plumb has stated in interviews that she was willing to do the variety show's original special episode, but could not commit to a five-year option for additional shows
@@bramlintrent1145 well when the producers through this was going to be the next Sonny and cher Variety show and by the late 70s and early 80s Variety shows with Celebrity name were dying!
My formative years were during the Brady era, however very seldom watched the variety hour. Always wondered where my weird nightmares originated.. Was trying to figure out why Jans character has very little storyline or close-up attention, then realized it is not Eve Plumb playing Jan, 🤔
Yes, it was a low point for 70s television, but there was an older audience for this kind of slop, which is why there were so many variety shows around at the time. You had Lawrence Welk, Donny and Marie, Sonny and Cher, and quite a few more. All aimed at a target audience of at least 70 years old. Grandpa and grandma would watch one of these trainwrecks, and then go to sleep. It was the highlight of an otherwise uneventful day. On the bright side, at least Robert Reed had fun with his delusion that he deserved to be on Broadway.
Lawrence Welk was not a variety show. Variety shows were actually an evolution of vaudeville and were around since the beginning of TV. Not all were bad and Carol Burnett was the gold standard. However, toward the end of their run they were overused and it seemed that just about anybody who came on the scene with a hit record also got a variety show. If you compare this show to any other variety show of the era you will see it pretty much follows the same formula. In terms of song and dance, comedy, guest stars and solo numbers.. Just insert a different person or group to theme the show around.
Worst idea ever, turn the Brady Bunch into a variety show 😂. I think Vincent Price was perfect for this because it's truly scary to try and Resurrect the Brady Bunch dancing and singing. Greg Brady singing all by myself, it's horrifying!!!
There couldn't have been much done to save this train wreck. I'd have asked Flo to do the variety show herself and invite Brady kids on as guest stars. You can even have Geri play her daughter on the new show, even do a Seinfeld thing, where she goes back to the Brady family as her "real life" family for some skits and has her "TV" family variety show with just Geri and maybe a couple other people that are more talented singers/dancers than the rest of the kids were. Marcia and Greg's singing was pretty dreadful, and you can sort of tell Maureen M. is really struggling around this time.
@@curtgottler9961 Actually the poster was right in that Florence and fake Jan were the only ones that could actually carry this kind of format. The others were horrible at this.
It's funny Robert Reed felt the "Brady Bunch" was beneath his serious stage acting background, but then he goes and agrees to this garbage. Anything for a paycheck I guess.
Still mind blowing that they did this show!
*This had to be the scariest thing Vincent Price ever did*
🤣🤣🤣
Good one!
Why Vincent, why ????
😂😂😂
The money was good, and Vincent was a ham. 😉
I have nothing but respect for Eve Plumb
She was busy
@@patfromamboy What do you mean?
@@LauRa-re9un she was willing to do a comeback episode-but not commit to 13 episodes. So she passed.
@@christophertomasello1227 Oh, thanks!
I'm with you. I'm certain she WANTED to be busy.
Everything is so horrible. I love it.
This needs to be a pinned comment 👏🏻👏🏻😂😂😂
This crowd will clap for anything lol
Funny how canned applause and laugh tracks are that way.
@kennetouthard6042 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 good one
Back at a time of innocence when this was entertaining - I dreamed about being a Brady and that house!!
Glad to have grown up in this era!! This pulled me back to my youth, simplicity.
Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
The writers of Happy Days were clearly watching this program when they conceptualized the "Jump the Shark" episode.
ABC's Fred Silverman, who was responsible for scheduling this brief series in the first place {he wanted another "DONNY & MARIE"; the Krofft brothers also produced their show}, also insisted that Garry Marshall come up with a "stunt" episode he could promote at the beginning of the 1977-'78 season- hence, "Fonzie jumps a shark in Hollywood". To the end of his life, Garry regretted filming that episode (and Henry Winkler still does).
I wonder if anyone tried calling that number that Greg gave out? LOL 😂😂😂😂
Why can't I look away? 😂
Because the cringe has cursed you
Because it's unbelievably and unimaginably cringe
Train wrecks are weirdly fascinating
Not sure what I like better, the variety show or all of your comments.
Hopefully, some cast members of the show have seen these comments and get a laugh too.
Geri Reischl {"Fake Jan"} is always amused by these comments.
@@fromthesidelines Of everybody on that show only her and Florence Henderson had the capabilities to actually do well on those song and dance routines.
Florence Henderson could have definitely have had her own variety show, but the timing probably was not right, as she was busy with the Brady Bunch during the time frame that she most likely would have been offered one.
She did appear with Bill Hayes in a brief NBC series, "OLDSMOBILE MUSIC THEATRE", during the spring of 1959.
It ain't a party without Rip Taylor! Cmon Alice let Rip have some of that frosting too!😂
The laugh track is the real MVP.
RIP Vincent, you were too good for this.
To be fair though, HR Pufnstuf and Vincent Price? A rare treasure.
6th circle of hell; watching that opening number for eternity.
Still better than the new shows on TV today
I agree 👍.
The meth does wonders to the brain.
Same old tired stupid and not true commend you see on EVERY VIDEO OF EVERY SHOW FROM THE 1950s until 2005. It’s silly inane pointless and NOT TRUE. Most tv Bach then and for all time IS stupid valid vacuous ugly and pointless. 🙄🤡🤮
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Originally telecast on March 4, 1977.
Thank you for that. I was still cooking and wouldn't make my debut till September!
It would be interesting to do research on what other disasters took place on that day
A date which will live in infamy
That day, an earthquake in Romania killed 1,541 people. 😔
A delicious hunk of stinky, glorious 1970s TV cheese deserves to be seen in its correct aspect ratio instead of stretched out horizontally.
This is the original theatrical release. 😂
@@MondoMiami LOL
I enjoyed the Brady Bunch. It’s scary that it’s been so long ago. Life is short.
We were so easily entertained in the 70's and, 80's!!lol
Never watched it.
I’m just glad this wasn’t in the same continuity as the original series and future specials.
Am I the only one who enjoyed this
No! I ❤ this!
I've got to admit........
Yes
I skipped the dancing and singing parts, only saw the sketch, which was good, at least intrigue. But singing parts are boring.
I actually love it.
How could you not have a smile on your face watching this? No worse than other 70s variety shows at the time.
Oh yes it is!!! This is not the Carol Burnett Show, the Julie Andrews Hour or Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour .
Wrong
Well, if the only '70s variety shows you saw were this and Pink Lady and Jeff then you would be right.
The Kroffts were also involved in "PINK LADY {& JEFF}". Fred Silverman, as president of NBC in 1980, was determined to create another variety show along the lines of "DONNY & MARIE" and "TONY ORLANDO & DAWN" [never mind that Mie and Kei could barely speak a word of English]. One of his executives tried to tell him, "The variety show is dead." Silverman roared, "I'll tell you *exactly* how long the variety show is dead for!!!" "How long?", the executive said softly. "It's dead until the next hit variety show is on the air!!!", Fred insisted. Except for "BARBARA MANDRELL & THE MANDRELL SISTERS" (also a Krofft production), Silverman- in his three years with NBC- could never keep a variety show alive for more than a few episodes.
@@fromthesidelines Silverman almost bankrupted NBC with Supertrain. The costs for it were high and the ratings dismal. Supposedly he went to visit the set one time and got so mad that he kicked the scale model of the train. Not realizing that it was a harder material than he thought it was and broke his foot.
I remember Johnny Carson used to make fun of Supertrain in his monologue. That must have drove Silverman up the wall, but he couldn't do anything about it because at that point in time, The Tonight Show was about the only thing on NBC that was making money and Johnny was also thinking about going to ABC himself.
It's amazing how someone who created such success at both CBS and ABC almost singlehandedly destroyed. NBC.
Vincent Price was on the Brady Bunch in the 3-part Hawaii adventure.
Vincent was a damn good actor- *and* a ham. He didn't mind making appearances like this. Even his commercials were great!
So many things to say, so little time. I saw how Greg looked at his mom. And at the same time I loved this.
What a DUMPSTER FIRE!!
This is no big deal for Vincent Price. He's appears in many horror shows😂
I’m surprised this show lasted as long as it did! I was an infant when this show aired so I was way too young to watch it.
Given that it was on only on once a month, maybe kept it a little under the radar for cancellation.
I look back now and i still remember why. ! I didn't watch this.
I remember as a kid we turned on one episode by accident and essentially watched maybe 5 minutes of it before we all had the urge to take a shower.
this has the same affect as taking a hallucinigen
And the ‘train wreck’ kept on rolling!!
Peter is an excellent dancer.
Vincent Price was in the Hawaii episodes of The Brady Bunch.
Puff-N-Stuff's career never recovered after this.
Oh my god!
It's embarrassing to watch. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
listed the series at No. 4 in a 2002 compilation of the 50 worst television series in American history.
This went on for a whole hour???
Incredibly, YES 🤣🤣
@@belarusian8380rumor has it. You're forced to watch it in prison to this day
Just remember this took a week of rehearsals to perfect...lol.
It was a different time.
There were other Brady shows after this. Like the Brady Brides and the 90's show called the Bradys. In those shows, the characters NEVER refer to the time they ran their own variety show.
It's like EVERYONE wanted to forget about this show's existence!
Yet the 90s Brady movies will bring it back up
I think the show should have been renewed!
I dialed 321-1321 and my phone went up in flames.
Swimming pool? That funny side number was horrific 😂
Hey everyone. " The New Jan Brady"...( no wig this time).
Omg this was so bad it was good. I was just a young kid then but I still enjoy the memories. Had no idea just how bad this show was. Haha
Yeah, even as a 12 year old kid I thought it was corny.
I keep thinking of That 70s show 'who gave these idiots a whole hour?!?' 😂 Its so bad but I love The Brady Bunch so cant look away. And whoa, Greg's hot! And Cindy's hair is the bomb.
I never understood Susan Olsen’s hair in this era. Never saw anybody else wearing that style either! Kinda weird but glorious.
ALL those gorgeous dancing girls will be around 75 now!!!
Life can be cruel.......
They're dancing in the old folks home.
❤❤❤❤❤ So what's your point?, Ace is the very sexy number.
Please,❤ Don't make fun of that.,, You talk like a dumb a**
How do you know for sure? They aren’t eternally young?!
@@Mister_Listener In the 7 months since I made this comment I have exchanged emails with a lady from Long Beach who was actually in this show as a dancer, she is 73 this year (2024) the show was broadcast 47 years ago making her 26 years old at the time... as they say TIME WAITS FOR NO ONE...🤪
I had a thing for Ann B Davis
Well of course, what pubescent young man didn't have pin ups of Ann B. Davis and Francis Bavier( Aunt Bea from Andy Griffith) lacquered on their walls and ceilings?
Greg and Carole really need to establish some boundaries.
Greg moved out, he didn't move to Mars
How many shows have their own holiday? January 2nd.
OMG! Greg didn't die, ya'll. He just moved out!
I have no words....
Awful and Terrible jump to mind.
I thought they found all copies of this and destroyed them.
No wonder Marcia was high as a kite during all these shows
Rip Taylor, good Zeus!
He always popped up in all these goofy 70s variety shows! 😂
RIP RIP
Florence Henderson was a babe! Yowsa! 👀
Poor Ann B. Davis got lower billing that H.R. Pufnstuf. If it wasn’t for my parents I wouldn’t even know that was but I tuned into The Brady Bunch on Nick at Nite in the 90s every night, so I knew who Alice was.
Another copy of The Brady Bunch Variety Hour has been deleted from the CZcams app. Why? CZcams will never say why they deleted the other copies of this episode which featured my favorite horror film actor, Vincent Price, as one of the guest stars. Please tell me why by responding to my comment here.
They probably needed that copy to show prisoners to scare them straight.
@@mackermaldrill2656 How could they do that when CZcams deleted the other copy of this episode of The Brady Bunch Variety Hour from the app?
I don't know what best word would be for "beyond cringe", but this qualifies.
Hardest working person was at the applause/whistle console.
Fake Jan was killing it! Top notch top notch singing and dancing in those 64 inch bell bottom pants. Now for the vomit bag. 😵
😂😂😂😂
On three. 1 2 3 BARF
The coke was flowing sooo freely during these 70s writer meetings. Also, Robert Reed thought the Brady Bunch scripts were corny, yet agreed to be a part of THIS!!??? He must have really needed the money!!!
Apparently in her biography, Maureen McCormick said she was completely coked out the entire time they did these shows. You can tell, too.
Reed was there to see Greg in a skin-tight jumpsuit.
He said it was because he would get to sing and dance.
Flaming
Ugh the aspect ratio. But thanks for the post regardless!
Ugh. I can't stand it when the image is stretched like this. Please present it in the correct 4:3 aspect ratio.
It’s awful either way
That'll improve the content of the show
So is this cannon in the Brady Bunch universe?
The ALL BY MYSELF musical sequence must be seen to be believed. Oh my goodness gracious. 26:44 is really unbelievably cheesy.
That split screen with H.R. Pufnstuf and the swimmers is 🤯
who is the announcer on this show
*ERNIE ANDERSON,* who was also the voice of ABC's endless promos durng that period (he also announced "THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW" for several seasons).
@@fromthesidelines thank you
Kill me. That DUET????!!!!! I remember being 10 and thinking this sux. The fact the Mom looked at Greg like that confirms all the stories!!😂😂
What do you mean? So did Robert Reed.
Dance clowns dance
Vincent Price was a Brady groupie apparently since he also did the Hawaii vacation episodes. Sweet, but a little sad as well.
Oh, it was just fun for him likely.
Vincent was also a ham. 🙂
I wonder if Professor Whitehead ever replaced Oliver with a new object of his affection ? I'm referring to the huge cave tiki, not the towheaded, bespectacled little cousin.
Hollywood has sometimes been descibed as a living machine.
This is what a machine having dry-heaves looks like.
All by myself
Where's Eve Plum?
She was busy filming a tv-movie.
Happily away from this set, hanging onto her dignity.
Are we sure they did not confuse them with the Partridge Family?
Rip and Robert would do lines backstage and go gay clubbing after filming
How did they persuade Mr. Reed to do this show? Blackmail?
Actually, believe it or not, he was the most enthusiastic about the show!
LMAO......
Broke
He could let his feathers out
Let me 🔥 flame
The glitz, the glamour, the costumes, the dancers, musicians....
You can put a milion dollar bill over a turd, it will still stink. Genious!
Same with "PINK LADY {& JEFF}" (also produced by the Kroffts). 😉
What happened to the real Jan
Perfect, because the show was scary.
I get the whole "tacky/horrible/can't look away from it" aspect of this show, and I think in part it's a seventies thing. May I respectfully point out one very compelling reason to watch? Maureen McCormick. Enough said.
I really liked “ fake” Jan
Yes, very bouncy bouncy!🤪
We're they all hard up for Money or what?
The deeply passive aggressive family disfunction is hilariously unsettling
Greg and mom sequence is creepy
You can almost taste the coke
Even the Simpsons couldn't do a variety show this bad - but at least they'd be doing it intentionally
Was there a reason that Eve was replaced with Geri on this show? Eve was one of the originals.
really? everybody know why Eva plumb didnt want to do this show!
Plumb has stated in interviews that she was willing to do the variety show's original special episode, but could not commit to a five-year option for additional shows
@@eddiejoewalt7746 After watching the first episode, I bet Eve Plumb realized 7 more would be the max for this ghoulish mess, lol.
@@bramlintrent1145 well when the producers through this was going to be the next Sonny and cher Variety show and by the late 70s and early 80s Variety shows with Celebrity name were dying!
Five years? 😆
Eve Plumb was in prison.
My formative years were during the Brady era, however very seldom watched the variety hour. Always wondered where my weird nightmares originated..
Was trying to figure out why Jans character has very little storyline or close-up attention, then realized it is not Eve Plumb playing Jan, 🤔
Did Greg try to nail new Jan!?
It’s #Fakejan, not new Jan!!
Nice to see the audience clapping for random nonsense...
well, the canned applause track anyway...
The swimming girls 😉
And I thought the original show itself sucked.
Yes, it was a low point for 70s television, but there was an older audience for this kind of slop, which is why there were so many variety shows around at the time. You had Lawrence Welk, Donny and Marie, Sonny and Cher, and quite a few more. All aimed at a target audience of at least 70 years old. Grandpa and grandma would watch one of these trainwrecks, and then go to sleep. It was the highlight of an otherwise uneventful day.
On the bright side, at least Robert Reed had fun with his delusion that he deserved to be on Broadway.
Makes sense. The variety show was the direct descendant of vaudeville.
Lawrence Welk was not a variety show.
Variety shows were actually an evolution of vaudeville and were around since the beginning of TV. Not all were bad and Carol Burnett was the gold standard.
However, toward the end of their run they were overused and it seemed that just about anybody who came on the scene with a hit record also got a variety show.
If you compare this show to any other variety show of the era you will see it pretty much follows the same formula. In terms of song and dance, comedy, guest stars and solo numbers.. Just insert a different person or group to theme the show around.
The writers for this went on to be speech writers for Joe Biden. 😂
Wow...this actually made it on tv? Was there a writers strike in the late 1970"s or something?
do the BRADY`s not notice that ` not their real sister Jan..an imposter pretending to be Jan..ruins everything!
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Thanks for pointing out a Simpson's joke.
Couldn't care less!
Worst idea ever, turn the Brady Bunch into a variety show 😂. I think Vincent Price was perfect for this because it's truly scary to try and Resurrect the Brady Bunch dancing and singing. Greg Brady singing all by myself, it's horrifying!!!
Not as horrifying as Peter Brady trying to dance. It's as if has he had no real interest in any of this. Oh that's right, he didn't.
There couldn't have been much done to save this train wreck. I'd have asked Flo to do the variety show herself and invite Brady kids on as guest stars. You can even have Geri play her daughter on the new show, even do a Seinfeld thing, where she goes back to the Brady family as her "real life" family for some skits and has her "TV" family variety show with just Geri and maybe a couple other people that are more talented singers/dancers than the rest of the kids were.
Marcia and Greg's singing was pretty dreadful, and you can sort of tell Maureen M. is really struggling around this time.
Maureen McCormick was in the middle of her cocaine addiction while filming the variety specials.
Are you related to fake Jan?
@@curtgottler9961 It's possible we both have the same great-great grandfather, he had like ten kids, he moved us here from Bavaria.
@@curtgottler9961 Actually the poster was right in that Florence and fake Jan were the only ones that could actually carry this kind of format. The others were horrible at this.
If i have to see the bradys singing im gonna throw up!
Too bad the Brady family, dad., Do Not come out of the Closet back then., He live a double life.
It's funny Robert Reed felt the "Brady Bunch" was beneath his serious stage acting background, but then he goes and agrees to this garbage. Anything for a paycheck I guess.
4:56 omg the dialog is just sooo badly crafted, almost as bad as the musical numbers
As bad as this was the Star Wars Christmas Special still might be worse