What Happened to the First Mrs. Brady? Find Out!
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- Ever wonder what happened to Mike Brady's first wife? Find out in a clip from the pilot episode of The Brady Bunch!
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I love how Cindy says she's going to miss her maternal grandparents but her mom says "They're only 20 minutes away"........and they are never seen again.
Carol didn't need them anymore.... she had Alice.
I guess they came to visit in between Marcias braces and Cindy's lisping issues and Jan and her glasses, when nothing was going on lol
they were too busy counting their 'S & H GREEN STAMPS' to come visit
@@esterdrass4964 What's the deal with Marcia only having braces for one episode? My brother had them for three years, and then a retainer after that.
@@emilyadams9986 I think I have the answer! She had an awesome dentist that was able to solve the dental issues with braces for a whole week rather than years. This would explain why she had a crush on the dentist a few years later. Remember? Mrs. Marcia Dentist. It all makes sense now.
'I don't want you to forget your Mother and neither does Carol'....
Mother immediately forgotten about and never mentioned again the rest of the Series.
karien...
@@billhosko7723No, Carol was the new bride
The irony is rather rich.
Carol's dead husband was also out of sight, out of mind. And the dog disappeared never to be seen or heard of ever again later on.
@@gardenplots283 , they killed Tiger! You bastards!
Carol wasn't upset by a photo of Mike's first wife.
But then again, she wasn't upset by the fact that the house had no toilets.
They had a sandbox in the backyard. 😁
The house actually dies have toilets. Mike and Carol have a bathroom. The kids share a bathroom, there is a bathroom downstairs....under the stairs. And Alice has her own room and her own bathroom
@@beautifuldreamer3991 If you look carefully in the kid's bathroom, there's a sink and a bathtub, but no toilet.
@@daniel_sc1024 I really wish people knew what they were talking about before they comment...you are 100% correct. No toilets at all, and you never even see the master bathroom in the bedroom, just a time or two Mike comes out from that area after taking a shower
Also, Mike is an architect, who designs rooms for a living, and they pile six kids into two bedrooms.
…and they never mentioned her again.
...And we never learned her first name.
And we never knew anything about Carol's first husband.
And we never saw Carols mom and dad again either. Not even a lousy phone call 😢
@@gaynorpatterson2915 At least we see Carol's Grandma, who visits in a later episode (same actress Florence Henderson just made up to look old) and then marries Mike's Grandpa. That episode is the only time we see them.
Yeah… pretty sus that we never hear a WORD about either of them…. Did Mike and Carol have an affair and ‘arrange’ for their spouses to ‘disappear’? 😒🤷♂️
Anyone else notice Mike brought Tiger but made Alice find her own way to the wedding
And how did Alice make it up to the honeymoon later in the episode? She didn't drive, after all.
@@frelvisbrady Cab?
Horseback 😜
@@frelvisbrady Sam the Butcher
@@protochrisSam gave her a piggy back ride.
"I don't want you to forget your mother, and neither does Carol - at least not until the end of this pilot episode. After that, we'll never speak of her again."
Don't forget the girls. We never learned if their father died or mom divorced. Grandparents promise to visit but when he said they'd miss her they meant it as they are never seen or heard from again.
Yeah, surprising the topic of the other spouses (deceased or divorced) didn't come up more often in the series as it would have been a good general lesson for viewers, but guess it was those times and TV land didn't want to deal with those discussions.
Expect Carol was a widow also, else the 3 girls would have had visitation at their Dad's home from time to time.
Of course, the whole topic of the merged families is only discussed during the first season of the show. By the latter seasons, it's as though Mike and Carol had always been parents to all six of the kids. There's even a late-era episode where Carol makes a comment about Greg when he was really young, as though she had been there. The only indicator that remained of the show's origins was the theme song.
Like the dog Tiger. He was never mentioned either. Seems that when you are a member of the Brady family and you leave, you are totally friggen gone forever and never talked about. So, today's lesson is this...don't leave.
The grandparents would have been great recurring characters. Especially the grandpa. 😁
⚰️ Meanwhile, Carols ex-husband remains buried in the backyard. 🤣
Wrong! Her ex-husband ran off with the first Mrs. Brady.
@@jgjg3848😂
@@jgjg3848 Wrong. The first Mrs. Brady died.
X- husband?? I had no clue after all these years..were they divorced?? No child support/ visitation?? Yikes!
Next to Fluffy.
I can remember this premiere episode which aired in 1969, as if it were yesterday. My friend and I walked home from Junior High that Friday afternoon, anxious to see this new show that was supposed to feature a bunch of kids our age in a TV show about a subject that was often not even mentioned in those days; blended families from divorce and/or death. It quickly became our favorite Friday night TV show, quickly followed by The Partridge Family the following year, and, of course, Room 222.
They don't make shows like those anymore. I can still remember the theme songs from all of them.
I didn't watch it until later on. I wish I had when it was on whatever night it was on. I don't recall when I began to watch it but it was still in the early 70s. I didn't watch the Partridge family either.
There were great shows back then.
didn't Partridge Family premiere the same year?
@@bjhelder Nope...Partridge Family premiered the following TV season, September, 1970. I know that little tidbit, for certain, as I was 13 and " smitten" with the young David Cassidy from his appearances ion The Mod Squad and Ironside a few years earlier, and was so anxious to see him as the star of this new series based on the Cowsill Family (on whom I had a crush on John and Barry...lol). It was much hyped in "16 "Magazine", so by the time it premiered that September, he was well on his way to superstardom.
It's funny but, this show is so sweet and wholesome, sometimes I actually cry. Love the Brady Bunch
Most shows are funny, sweet, nostalgic, silly and serious at the same time… that is not unique to this show
I was fortunate enough to meet The Bunch (sans Susan Olsen and Mike Lookinland), when they appeared in the record department of the long-defunct Korvettes Department store in NJ, back in the Spring of 1973. Got to plant a kiss on the cheeks of Barry Williams and Chris Knight. They were adorable and so sweet, sporting their curly-haired Afro "dos" , which was the style back then, as reflected in the show's episodes during that period.
@@tavonfenwick-yb5xv Not really, vintage shows always taught a life lesson, it was okay to be wrong and try better next time. Today's shows and commercials have an agenda, dad is stupid, mom saves the day, the children know mom will fix it.🙄
… until you find out how Robert Reed died.
everything went to hell when Jan, getting upset over Marsha getting all of the attention with her long straight blond hair, ended up running away from home in 1974, and then became a drug addicted prostitute. Not so sweet and wholesome after that
Robert Reed may not have liked this show but he still did a wonderful job as Mike Brady.
And, according to the "kids", he never let his dislike be known to them.
he made a good bottom too
@@brianbull3558Was he? I figured he was a top.
Robert Reed adored the kids on the show.
@@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc He just thought the show was sappy and would hurt his being cast for more serious roles.
After all these years I still love this show. It's timeless.❤
@Navybrat64 after stressful day, something not too hard to watch helps alleviate stress.
My pastor when i was in high school ( late 1970s) became a widower when his 3 boys were my age and older. A couple of years later he married a widow with 3 daughters . A real life Brady bumch!
What about Alice?
@@TheTJohnsonNetwork sorry I do not know if they hired a maid or got their meat from Sam the butcher
So that's the way they all became the Brady Bunch?
aww thats a wonderful outcome
The same thing happened at a church I attended and the step brother and step sister got married and had a kid.
And somehow I chuckled again when I saw the dog in the car with the boys and Mike!!! A TV show of my youth. 😊
Such great times to be a kid!!!
"He's our brother!"
And in the front seat.
And then Tiger proceeded to chase the cat and destroy the cake, all the food, and the entire reception! I could never forget that scene! Iconic! 🐈🐕🥴
My children had a similar experience when I remarried. My children are all adults now, 33, 31, and 28, but every time I see them I see their mother who passed away when they were 15, 13, and 10. The following summer, after her passing, we took her ashes to Ireland to scatter them. My children know there is a place where their mom is. I believe Mr. Brady handled that situation perfectly including bringing the dog.
Carol's parents were never seen again.
But her favorite Aunt was. She visited from Henderson, Ky., Florence Henderson's main hometown.
@@brianarbenz1329 I think Florence Henderson's hometown was Owensboro, KY. Didn't Imogene Coca play her?
@@lvsqcsl Florence was born in a rural place across the river in Indiana called Dale. From what I have read, she was removed from her home (or abandoned by parents?) and taken to a Catholic orphanage in Owensboro, Ky. about a dozen miles from Dale. She may have later had an adoptive or foster family in Henderson, which is around 35 miles west of Owensboro.
The trauma of her childhood was why she loved being part of the light and calming Brady Bunch, which interestingly mirrors how millions of children in the '70s and since have felt about the show, particularly children from troubled or unhappy real life homes.
And Carol assured Cindy in this scene that they only lived 2 blocks away...
We see Carol’s mom in the Brady Bunch movie, played by Florence Henderson, and Shelly Long plays Carol!
I'm pushing 60... you want the truth, I still watch it every day!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤😂😂😂😂😂😂Great days!!!
Nice, I watch it a lot myself.
I am 57, I watch it every night when I get in bed! I can recite every episode 😂😂
That’s very strange ladies 😳
@@GreenWitch1 Maybe so😂😂😂😂 But I guess I could have worse habits 😭
@GreenWitch1 yeah Miss green witch... it's quite strange that you call yourself a witch??? So touche honey
The bit with Bobby in the beginning is so sweet. Little kids are truly capable of surprising you and doing things that are unusually mature and insightful for their age. I’ve been involved with childcare in various capacities for years and can say from experience this exchange really rings true. I think people don’t give kids nearly enough credit sometimes.
True. Just ask Art Linkletter. "Kids say the darndest things."
*WARNING* ..... you won't find out what happened to Mike's first wife in this video. She obviously died, but it's not explained here.
right? so misleading lol
click bait.
I think story was he was a widower and she was divorced. The woman in the picture looks like Marion Ross. Was it?
Carol divorced! Heaven forbid. She a widow of course.
@@60gregmaIn the movie, he is lost at sea.
We need more good family shows such as The Brady Bunch.
Sadly People don't think like that anymore 😢. That's why those shows are GONE FOREVER
They were so little here
It was such a umm, annoying show! Though now I identify their parenting style as a form of attachment theory. I still watched it…I liked Jan. It was nice to discover Susan didn’t like the pigtails nor braids and keeping the lisp as she aged either.
I'm almost 54. Never tire of this classic.
It was a bit unrealistic
"I didn't want to upset my new mom." Priceless!
Funny how they never mention the boys Mom ever again. Also when Cindy says "You're going to visit us Grandpa" Carol says "Of course they are Cindy..Mike's house is only 20 minutes away" Then Carol's parents are never mentioned or seen ever again LOL.
Dispensed with them. 😆
Still didn't hear what happened to the mother?
Guessing she died, but how?
All this did was confuse me.
I was just thinking that
And what happened to Carols husband? “Inquiring minds need to know. I think I’m real life there would’ve been a long term of adjustment for the kids too.
@@rosemariekury9186 I wonder if the show made divorced people expect that upon marrying again, their kids were just supposed to fall into line. It’s so unfair for kids to be subjected to parents dating and dragging them into new situations.
I was one of the kids who thought the Brady's had the best family! A well-written, well-acted, fun show. And that house!
Tiger in the car cracks me up 😂
I liked Fluffy!
Especially after Mr. Brady says: "We're not taking the dog!"
The casting for this show was perfect. All great actors, and they really look like siblings even as they aged.
They actually cast two sets of kids before they decided who to cast as the parents. That way they had dark hair and light hair kids ready to go. Sucks to have been the off set of kids.
Really sucks how the perfect family, dad , mom , siblings are only on tv 📺
The sad truth is, NO REAL LIFE FAMILY could ever be like the Brady Bunch. That's what makes the show so UNREALISTIC.
@@alexanderpytko5394 oh so true
@@alexanderpytko5394 Don't expect realistic things from a broad sitcom in the late 60s. I don't care what Schwartz had in mind, this show became a silly fantasy, progressively as each season unfolded.
It's fun when you compare the seasons while watching. In the first year, the parents have a slight "JFK" accent in their manner of speech. A little more sophisticated than later seasons. I recall Mike pronouncing the name Peter in such a fancy way, LOL.
@@eduardo_corrochio It did. Probably one of the many reasons why Robert Reed didn't enjoy playing Mike Brady and often got into arguments with Sherwood.
@@alexanderpytko5394 Yes. Now, Florence Henderson apparently picked her criticisms carefully and she only bothered Sherwood when something really irked her In aninterview in her late 70s she recalled that one time, one of the Brady kids was bringing a friend home after school to study, and the writer didn't give the child any dialogue for the scene where she arrives at the Bradys' home. Florence thought that was ridiculous, and phoned Sherwood right then and explained the situation, even said "A kid comes over, they're going to say 'Hello, Mrs. Brady', not just nod silently ... I'll even pay for it myself if you want". Clearly this was the studio being cheap so they didn't have to pay the kid (an unpaid walk on part vs. a paid "Under Five" appearance in an episode) or give screen credit. What a business, LOL.
I loved Florence Henderson's joke about this on a podcast saying, "She's buried under the Astroturf"
Florence Henderson was a hoot.
Oh, new information.
I teared up when Mike said too Bobby "I don't want you to forget your mother"!
I was born in 1968, and I remember watching the later Brady seasons 1st run. Along with Happy Days, they were my first sitcoms, and at 55, I'm still watching them to this day.
Happy Days was a lot later than the Bradys tho...
Same!
Same!
Nice.
My kids now watch all these shows religiously on channels like MeTV and AntennaTV. They can't wait to put on The Brady Bunch or Gilligan's Island.
I felt a certain way when he said my new mom. Loving mothers can NEVER be replaced
Exactly!
Fortunately Carol was a BONUS Loving Mom, but NEVER a replacement!💗
Never replaced, but a second loving mom or dad is a bonus.
"So is Tiger." - Peter
"He's our brother!" - Bobby
I liked that quote.
I was 9 when this show first aired. This and The Partridge Family and Love American Style, all on ABC. That appeared to be the network to be on back then.
Friday nights.
Good times!
I think "Mike and Carol" were government agents. They were given these identities with the hope that nobody would question anything. "Alice" was the Chief Operative, whom they obviously had clones of. This conspiracy is the only way to explain so many people disappearing...not to mention the pets. And what about those mysterious neighbors "The Dittmeyers"? I think Sam the butcher was more like Sam "The Cleaner" when assignments got messy. The Grand Canyon and Hawaii were secret missions. Greg, or should I say Johnny Bravo's music was clearly part of the MKUltra program. And "Cousin Oliver"...? Wake up people. The truth is out there.
😂😂😂😂
Thank you so much for this LMFAO
LOL 😂😂😂
2 consecutive episodes from S2, "The Tattletale" & "What Goes Up" mention other neighbors, the Listons.
@@jehobden Just as I feared. 😧The list of people within the Brady circle who got "disappeared" keeps growing. Wow! Sherwood Schwartz created some really dark material. 🤪
It's a nice scene ( where Mike tells Bobby to keep his mother's picture out and that they'll never forget her.) But ironically after this first episode, you never see that picture again, and she's never mentioned again for the duration of the series! LOL And the girls' dad is never mentioned either!
I think they wanted to give the feel this was a real family even though it didn't start out that way. You saw Mike as the girl's dad not a stepdad and the same with Carol with the boys. The theme song was the only time viewers were reminded this was a blended family.
Plus, all the girls changed their names to Brady, no questions asked!
The thing about Brady Bunch is that despite it being a bit "aw shucks" it had really excellent comedic timing. The 'we are not taking a dog to a wedding' smash cut to Tiger in teh car is simply perfect!
It is.
This didn't explain how she died but it was always assumed his wife died by eiither sickness or by accident.
Carols husband and her supposedly got divorced but because of that taboo, in those days, it was never revealed as such.
Such a great wholesome show.
Sure miss those days.
Amen
If they were divorced, why did the girls never go see their biological father ever again? He's never even mentioned. That is what's very odd.
@@jgjg3848 because it was a taboo subject as I mentioned.
What Google says. "The absence of Carol's first husband remains a mystery. Sherwood Schwartz, the creator of the show, wanted her to be divorced. The network wanted her to be a widow, thought being divorced was too risque for the times. The compromise was that it was never addressed one way or the other". Then also this. "Creator Sherwood Schwartz maintained Carol was divorced from her first husband, but nothing about it was mentioned on the series."
Someone said Carol's husband was lost at sea. He was a teacher. Same name (first and last) as the Professor on Gilligan's Island.
I think the Brady Bunch should have another reunion with paying tribute to those who had passed. That would be special!
Speaking of which, did you see the HGTV series event about the big makeover for the house that was used in establishing shots? It was fun. The "kids" got to participate in the change. They showed Eve Plumb's collection of Brady stuff, with a bunch of original scripts, and I was like, "I want those!", LOL....
"A Very Brady Triple Funeral"
These old classic shows were the best!!!
I used to drink seven high balls and smoke a couple of packs of chesterfield cigarettes while I watched this show. Dem was days when us fellas had it made.
Loved this show! Bobby never did have his moms pic up ever again, Carols parents never visited and the cat went away too though.
They wanted fans to think that Mike & Carol had the children together and of course they didn't. I was born in 1966 so I had no idea about the original house until I saw reurns. This year marks the 45th Anniversary of the cast not getting any more royalties. It was from 1969-1979. They didnt think it would have the cult status that it did even when it went on Video, Cable, DVD or Blu Ray.
Such good feelings watching this show! As a kid, I wanted to be a Brady and live in that house. I thought it was so modern and so cool! 😊
Both of these houses were hidden away in LA’s memory banks, but nonetheless I was able to locate and visit both of them on a trip down there in 2007, thanks to a Brady contact I had at the time. Mike’s house sits in Studio City, just about 6 minutes away from the house ultimately used as the Brady dwelling. It was practically untouched since the location shots were done in 1968. Was really excited to see it in person.
I was going tonask, because Mikes house, i love the exterior/architecture. Those late 50s, early to mid 60s homes have awesome architecture. I.dont live too far from Studio City, id love to see it
@@rocknroller77 I can’t remember the address offhand, but the house sits in Iredell Canyon on Iredell Street, about 3/4 of the way up on the right hand side. At the end of the street there is a hiking trail, so it’s a well-traveled road. It’s maybe a 4 minute drive from the Brady house we’ve all come to know and love. It went up for sale about 4 or 5 years ago, and I remember the interior being like a museum. The house is at least twice as large as the one on Dilling Street used to be, pre-renovation. I want to say it’s around 6,000 sq ft, but it’s been so many years I can’t remember. When I went there in 2007, both house and property were completely untouched from their brief stint in the Brady pilot. It’s all minutiae, but we Brady fans must geek out! 😅
@@TVHouseHistorian With the clues you gave me in your comment, I think I found it on Google Earth at 12049 Iredell Street.
Coordinates:
34° 7' 52.07" N
118° 23' 45.43" W
You're welcome.
@@im1who84u 👍 that should be the one! 😁👍
9 people in the home and only 1 bathroom 😂
With Tiger in the front seat...
"Look the caterers (truck) are here."
Dum duuum duuuuuummmm!
Prophetic
So, the first Mrs. Brady died at some point in the past.
But they don't indicate how she died.
The Andy Griffith show was the same way, but even more so.
Opie's mother, Andy's wife was never mentioned, so the audience can only speculate on the unanswered question.
Opie's mother was mentioned when Andy explained love and marriage ot Opie when Aunt Bea considered getting married to Mr. Goss, the dry cleaner.
She was killed by a drunk driver. Oh wait, wrong show
Back then tv shows weren’t allowed to have divorcées. Everyone single had to either be that way from the start or widowed.
@@michellep9999 Viv on The Lucy Show was divorced, but they didn't harp on it.
@@cybernightzero5891 Dang it, Otis!!!
They also never said anything about Carol's husband. It sure would have been great to have parents like Mr. and Mrs Brady.
That's because he was lost at sea on a 3 hour tour A 3 hour tour
@@thehunterx1973 The Professor
@@DonahCouldn't be. (1) Professor's name was Hinkley, Roy Hinkley, not Martin, (2) Carol implied that she had been a widow for two years when the lovely lady married a man named Brady in 1969. Hinkley went on that fateful trip aboard that tiny ship in 1964.
Florence Henderson wanted the character of Carol to be divorced. The producers thought that such would be too controversial, even into the 1970s when this was. They compromised on there not being any mention of how her first marriage ended.
He was probably Reuben Kincaid, the manager of the Partridge Family.
STILL IN THE DARK ABOUT THE 1ST MRS BRADY!😮
They talked about her in the past tense. "she would be so proud of you." So while we get no details, we know she passed away.
Clickbait
she died
@@finster1968 No. The video clearly implies she died.
@@TheJpep2424 - No. Clickbait. You don't need a CZcams video for that information. You could've discovered that by watching in 1969.
I barely remember this episode. I've seen all the others many times. The Brady Bunch was a wonderful show, I'm very grateful they did not make it a more "serious" contemporary issues show. It filled an important place for kids who were facing enough real issues at home. It was a needed respite and joy. Thanks to the whole "Brady Bunch" family.
This was the pilot. It rarely aired in reruns.
Webster was pretty good too.
Compare the issues that kids faced then to the issues of today. Trans genderism, homosexuals, and gender ideology. The world has gone to Hell.
@@joecausey8508 I agree.
I watched this show every day for many years on reruns in the mid-late seventies on UHF. A real comfort in childhood.
I watched this show religiously as a child. But I never saw this pilot episode. For some reason they never seemed to air it.
Same. It was always a big mystery to me, watching the show as a child, just how this blended family came about. I kind of ended up assuming it was beause the first spouses had died, which felt a bit morbid.
My favorite show growing up❤️❤️❤️
Mike Brady, always had nice cars.
Architects make pretty good money
Except for that Green and Brown Station wagon...lol!!!
@@loriking3707 he had to have a station wagon for 9 people. Lol
I am talking about Mike's convertibles. I think Carol drove the station wagon.
Some architect - he’s got those boys living in a funeral home!😂
and in one of the episodes, he's designing a gas station. lol
LOL
Tiger, Mrs. Brady, Fluffy...
RIP Tiger. 😞The original Tiger was struck and killed by a delivery vehicle on the Paramount Studio lot during Season 1 just after 4 episodes. 😭 They found a replacement that "looked" like Tiger but he was not an acting dog and was afraid of noises on the set, and they even used other "look-a-likes", but none of those dogs really "worked out", which is why "Tiger" just vanished from the show during Season 2😢
czcams.com/video/JznGhiY4ih0/video.html
Don't forget Fluffy the cat. Gone and never mentioned again.
@@fourthgirl Good point! I just looked up, what ever happened to Fluffy, and all I could find was that she was only in the 1st episode and never mentioned again. 😞RIP Fluffy... 😿
I could have gone forever without knowing that
@@reida9 😿
Sherwood Schwartz made one mistake during the first season of The Brady Bunch- he should've had Frank Inn handle both Tiger and Fluffy, he trained Tramp on My Three Sons!!!
What caused her death? I watched the clip but didn't "find out" anything!!!
but you found out something
Autoerotic asphyxia was what was on the coroner's report. Carol's first husband was found guilty and given life without parole. Mike and Carol sought comfort with each other throughout the trial and ended up getting married.
@@jgjg3848 So I've heard.
@@jgjg3848explains why they kept certain details out of the show
Mike was a very good little actor. He was probably only seven or eight here.
The good ole days of family TV shows.
After Bobby says he put his mom's picture away, Mike asks him, "Because of Karen?" Instead of Carol. Not even married and already can't remember her name. lol.
No, he says "Carol". It's a little mushy...but it's "Carol".
Mrs. Brady’s parents lived next door to Chuck Cunningham.
😂
I see what you did there!😂😂
Great funny episode. Tiger is a beautiful dog.
He got hit by a delivery truck after the first season 😩
@@dafdfasdfdfasfdfadfd They were in the middle of filming the episode 'Katchoo' (they thought Jan was allergic to Tiger but then found out it was his flea-powder) when the original Tiger was hit by the delivery truck and died. The producers scrambled to find a replacement look-alike for Tiger so they could finish filming the episode, but the replacement dog wouldn't cooperate, so they ended up just eliminating the 'Tiger' character from the show altogether. In the 'Katchoo' episode, in the scene where 'Tiger' (the replacement) was chewing on a bone while the boys were telling him 'goodbye' (since he was being sent to live with grandma and grandpa), they actually had to nail the replacement Tiger's collar to the floor, to keep him there for that scene, lol.
Most of this is correct, but they DID get another TTiger that could act because Tiger is in Season two also and you can see the dog has different markings and coloring- the one with Greg's science project mouse and the one where Alice gets a prize letter from the mailman and Tiger takes it into his dog house, and he is in other Season 2 episodes also! @@morganjanelle4282
@@morganjanelle4282 Ironically, they kept the doghouse in the yard though.
It's incredible how perfectly done those Brady Bunch movies were.
Yes. They got the look down perfectly (sets, rpops, costumes), and filled the movies with fun inside jokes and references from the series that only real fans would get.
The original blended television family. ♥️
NO ONE can do as good of a job than this family.
Never ever saw this episode and I thought I had watched them all!!! I'm 53!!! What the hell!!!
I like that tiger is their brother , I also like Mr Brady's convertible
the first time they use what I call "the sad music" in the back ground when talking to their kids about an important thing. here it is used when Mike talks to Bobby about his mother"
😅
I like the scoring they used.
Amazing to see everybody so young here. Liked Mike's suit. Carol looks very young here too. To see the boys as kids is surprising.
The first Mrs. Brady pass away and had a health issue. So the father had to look after his 3 sons on his own. That's how the story goes.
They still never explain what she died from or what happened to Carol’s first husband.
She didn’t die she ran off and joined a hippie commune.
@@EastSide-qc5oy She was in a car wreck.
You forgot about Alice.
@@JimRPickens Since there’s no information presented in the show to support the idea that she was in a car wreck, and hippie communes were common in 1969 especially in California, I’m going with the hippie commune.
I think one of my favorite shows was Bobby finding out about "evil stepmothers".He was gonna move out and Carol was gonna move out with him.And she told him the only "stairs" were the ones that went to his room.
And the second favorite has Greg's new freinds ditching him,but his brothers packed his stuff to go camping with the family.
Thx.I grew up with the show but I never realized till the movies how much Robert Reed was being "Capt.Obvious" Lol.
@@bbbb-db9gr oh yea yea but I meant about the advise he would give the kids.Telling Jan going without her glasses she could really hurt somebody.The don't play ball ball in the house we got your nose Marcia All these things.
Susan Olson Cindy said she always knew too.
@samprimera5545--If you'll pardon a slight correction, because the plot dealt with the "evil stepmother", the line Carol tells Bobby is, "The only STEPS are the ones leading to your bedroom." This meant that in that family there were not going to be titles of step-family members. 😉
@@marka1422 yes I caught it after I posted it but I didn't want to remove the whole post thx.
❤❤❤😊😂😂😅hi I loved how Mike said we're not bringing the dog to the wedding next thing the dog is going to the wedding lol 🛍🐶
I've seen the pilot so many times growing up and I could swear that I do not ever remember seeing this scene.
Me either.
Ditto@@jojospeechy4848
I remember it. After school reruns in the 70s made sure of that.
That's called dementia, see your doctor.
Maybe it was cut from some airings?
This start of the first episode is very good and beyond where it gets cut off the laughs pile up more and more as you'll see elsewhere online. wherever you can find it on CZcams.
One of my five brothers really loved this show.
‘Don’t want you to forget your mother’, “ of course they can come visit we only live 20 minutes away!!’
Ha- none of them ever mentioned again!!
In fact after first few episodes never was like a blended family again!! Stepfamily was suppose to be premise, but they left that all behind!!
But I still loved it growing up!!
It certainly wasn't blended since all the kids last name was Brady
He always drove awesome cars!
I don't know... I think Bobby was right. I've never been in that position, but I think she would be at least a little creeped out by a big, framed photo of her new husband's dead wife staring out at her in (what's about to be) her own home.
CLICKBAIT!!! We STILL don't know how she died!!!
I know how she died...do you want me to tell you?
That's the word!
Unpopular opinion: I like this house.
Popular Opinon: So do I.
Mike's original home? R U kidding me? His house was INCREDIBLE! So cool. And you know MIKE designed it! HELLO! He must have been real pissed to have to move to that "TRACT" home probably in THE VALLEY!
@@chriswilson4112 why didn’t they just stay here??
Brings tears to my Eyes every time I watch this scene...
Maybe there was some in what Bobby thought of Carol. Think about it? In all of the episodes of the show, this was the only instance where his mother’s picture was ever shown in their house.
I always wondered what was of Opie’s mother, Andy’s Taylor’s wife, on Mayberry also.
You know the lake in the opening credits where Andy & Opie are going fishing
@@marklane61 !!!
I would love to have Mike's 1968 convertible.
Didn't he have a Challenger or Barracuda or something like that later on ?
@@msr1116 He had a 1971 Barracuda at one point and in the final year when Chevy became the sponsor, he had a 1974 Caprice.
@@hoagie1978 ....ah, ok. I remember a sporty two door convertible, and Carol having her trusty station wagon.
@@msr1116 Yes. The Barracuda convertible was the one Bobby put the umbrella through the vinyl top when he went on Greg's date with him at the drive in.
That was a pretty new car back when this came out...
J Pat O'Malley cackles that exact same laugh in the Twilight Zone episode, "The Self Improvement of Salvador Ross".
Still the greatest show ever.
I won't argue there.
Half the time, I forget that the Bradys were a blended family honestly LOL! It’s only when I watch some of the very early episodes that I’m reminded of it. After Season 1, they really did not mention much about them being a blended family anymore. They were just a typical family like anybody else which is nice to see.
It really was a groundbreaking show.
“Groundbreaking”?!? It was the definition of lame and derivative.
The movies that mocked it were funny for that reason.
I don't remember ever seeing those grandparents, after this episode.
One of them returned, but a different actor, Robert Reed and Florence also once played the two grandparents from both side of the families.
I've been infatuated with Peter Brady (Christopher Knight) almost my entire life. If I met him now I'd probably squeal and offer to make him some pork chops and applesauce!
They are all so interesting...
I identified with him as a kid (being a middle boy), but now I'm just infatuated with him. LOL
What exactly does that say about me? 😆
One of my favorite babysitting family jobs seemed to be on the same night as Brady Bunch - got the kids in bed and then got to watch BB. I never saw this first episode so glad I got to see ~3 minutes of it decades later...
This show showed some very poignant stories. Many families started after one of the original spouses passed away or there was a divorce. These were difficult situations for kids to deal with and for this show to face this and show kids that they weren't alone and that things can get better was very important for kids to see. Back then shows showed messages that were not agendas made up by social justice warriors nor were they forced into every show, movie, or even commercial. TV today is just 💩💩!
A load of it, too.
Touching scene!
0:01,
I like the house from the pilot a lot more than the one they used for the rest of the show. This house definitely looks the like the work of an architect. As it's mentioned that Mike designed it. The other house looks just too typical.
I believe that this original exterior Brady home (wherever it was photographed) was a place that was used in other Paramount productions, for whenever they needed an establishing shot for a pretty spa or a psychiatric hospital or a nice house; I know for sure I've seen this building on other sitcoms like Laverne & Shirley, The Andy Griffith Show, The Odd Couple, maybe Happy Days too.
The Brady house we all know was revamped inside to resemble the sets from the show--- they did it a few years ago on HGTV. Big nostalgia event for the surviving members of the sitcom. The house was recently sold, if I'm not mistaken. Now, to me, the interior (sets) of the house, particularly the main floor living room and den and dining room ... that looks like it was designed by an architect: the field stone, the art, the stairs, the high ceiling. Of course, we all joke about one bathroom for six children, and no toilet. I do agree that the exterior footage of Carol and Mike's house looks commonplace.
@@eduardo_corrochio I think the original house was also used in the Rodney Dangerfield movie, "Back To School."
@@alexanderpytko5394 Cool-- I haven't seen that one in a long time. Love Rodney's humor.
It was stated that Mike and the boys (To move or not to move)lived in the series house before Carol and the girls but as we see, that’s not true.
oh wow I was thinking much the same and came to comment along that line
Never concider any Pilot or First episode to be cannon for a series.
OF COURSE a pilot or first ep is canon (spelling, btw...). An UNAIRED pilot isn't...but a PILOT?? Of course... Also...."consider" (sp)...
What happened to the first Mrs. Brady? They just talked about how carol wouldn’t want him to forget her. But nothing said about what happened. They never included Carols mom and dad again. Still miss shows that had a lesson and had morals.
It’s implied she passed away. It isn’t really acknowledged in the series if I recall how the boys mother died.
I would have liked to have seen more of Carol's parents during the series.
Similar situation on My Three Sons, when Steve and Barbara tied the knot. BTW, like Tiger on The Brady Bunch, Tramp was also in attendance at the wedding. Uncle Charley wanted to ensure Tramp didn't disrupt the ceremony!!!
Oh wow, someone who knows about My Three Sons. Yeah, I watched that first.
After all these years, I never knew we got to see a photo of the original Mrs. Brady.
I wish the boys would have referred to her more.
That's a good idea.
They were too obsessed with their new sisters! They forgot about old drunken boozer mom toot sweet!
“I don’t want you to forget your mother, and neither does Carol.”
Narrator: The mother will never be mentioned again.
Lots of people in the comments noticing imperfections, people forgotten about or never talked about again. I didn’t notice it then and don’t care now. The Brady’s were great and were a major part of my childhood.
It sounds like Mike is implying that his original wife died. He obviously has no hatred or malice of her if he was able to be happy about the fact that he knew his wife would be proud of their son. Not to mention the fact that he still keeps her photo up.
It is, perhaps, STRONGLY implied. BUT THAT'S ALL. There's nothing in the show canon about either former spouse... End of story.
So Mike and his first family lived in a different one story house with Alice, he designed the cool house to live with Carol and the girls, and yet he still only made two kids’ bedrooms and one kids’ bathroom. Of course it’s a TV show, so the kids’ shared rooms had everything to do with filming and not real life. The Brady house was better than any set on TV to this day. But if Mike was really a successful architect, he would have thought to include a spare guest room, a sewing room for Carol comparable to Mike’s den, a sauna… And the writers seem to have made a mistake when Bobby puts the picture away because Carol is “moving in.” That makes no sense, but maybe they hadn’t conceived of the cool house yet in the pilot. Unrelated to that, Mrs. Brady must have had brown eyes, because Peter.
Which doesn't align with the episode where they consider moving to a bigger home when the kids fight over the bathroom. That episode implies Mike and the boys have lived there the entire time.
Pilot episodes have to be taken with a grain of salt. This episode was filmed in October 1968, almost a full year before regular production began. Tweaks are almost always made after a series sells. Even in this pilot there are inconsistencies. The house shown is clearly a sleek one-story midcentury modern house. Yet when Mike and Carol go back to pick up the boys, Carol says that Marcia, Jan, and Cindy are "waiting downstairs." Downstairs where, the basement?
In the episode where the boys and girls fight over the clubhouse, Peter mentions that Mike's talk with them before he ever proposed to Carol was "three months ago." Hardly time to design and build a house for nine people.
What they should have done was re-edit the pilot episode and substitute establishing shots of the Brady house we all know. It wouldn't have been difficult or expensive, and would resolve confusion. Yes, the interior sets are different, but they're not horribly far off from the "real" thing.
I know it was for drama, but Mike Brady should have made more bathrooms. Like one for the boys and one for the girls. He and Carol would have theirs and of course there would have to be at least one downstairs. I have always felt that there should be the same number of bathrooms as bedrooms in that way you are not waiting for someone to get out nor are you being rushed out.
I always wondered the same. 6 kids had 1 bathroom and 2 bedrooms. Alice had her own room ... I don't recall her having a bathroom but can't see her using the kids or parents. Mike had an entire room of his own for work which he should have given up lol. Oh well, still a great show.
@@BOLLOCKS1968 Especially as the kids get older they are not going to want to share a bed room anymore and want their privacy. As for the bathrooms I agree absolutely they would need more bathrooms.
Wow watched it on rerun my entire childhood and never remember seeing their wedding. 😮