Mama Brady's doing it for me! Loved watching Brady bunch as a kid and crushing on Marcia but seeing this know in my late 40's and can appreciate what a stunner Florence was. She was 🔥😍
He's pretty good. He's clean. Problem is he took himself too seriously and he didn't have the charisma to match the attitude. At the end of the day, Johnny Bravo just didn't work.
@nibornna Rober Reed was instumental in getting this show off the ground. He was the most keen to do it. Not because HE wanted to do it but because he loved the kids and thought they we were so taleted that he was prepaired to do this for the kids.
It's not really That bad. I mean when so 🧀 cheesey over the top camp & bad - it magically becomes good. Spot on choreography, lip synch, canned laughter, polyester, the colors, the songs, THE TALENT etc etc💃🕺🏵🌝🌞🎈🙂🤯🤯🤯
Robert Reed looks a lot more relaxed in this than he did in the original Brady TV shows, and Florence has lost her hair flip! Henderson was a Broadway-class singer and performer, the only person in this cast who really was, although Barry also appeared on Broadway. The Greg Brady dance routine should be played on an endless loop to break down foreign spies :)
Actually, Maureen appeared on Broadway as well, and Eve appeared OFF-Broadway AND in Grease: Live! on Fox...although her character (Mrs. Murdoch, the auto-shop teacher) doesn't sing. Still....the merging of the Brady Bunch and Grease made my little 70s heart soar!!!
I absolutely loved The Brady Bunch growing up. I'm a year younger than Christopher Knight...but I do not recall this variety show...looks like maybe 1975-ish?
They could have quit while they were ahead with the Brady Bunch show. But then someone had a "great idea" to create this show so we can remember this as their parting gift to TV.
@@harperstacey9604 He kind of still believe his big break is just around the corner. He was & had been living in the musically popular Branson, MO doing performances.
@@curtischildress9580 hi Curtis. I always come across your comments. I hope you're having a great day. Barry Williams and his Brady bunch castmates are milking the show for all it's worth for years and years. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
@@harperstacey9604 Those cast members are going to do all they can to make money off of what they once did as very young people...I don't blame them really...everybody wants to make money...I'd do the same thing probably because I could. They never got paid for reruns after the show ended & that wasn't fair...they deserved paychecks off their work...I did hear once a rumor that the makers of The Brady Bunch finally gave them some amount of money as a settlement, at least I'd hope so. It is interesting though how Barry Williams is still working out a singing career, but that's his choice, but it's odd that he doesn't do something else & maybe he does...I don't know. ...It's fun to always find your comments about so many TV & entertainment stories & celebrities. I wish you the best of times, & keep the good fun informative comments coming along!
The Brady's...so raw ...cutting edge. ...how many Emmys did this show win? The edginess gave me chills at times. ....the rawness actually scared me at times...what happened in thier lives to be so. ..real????!!!!
What they should have done was a Florence Henderson Show where she would play herself. She could have had the other Brady actors as guests as themselves (not as a Brady) individually along with other guests.
It paid the bills. Looks like they had fun. Hey it was the 70's. Big collars ,bell bottoms ,and perms. It was cheesy but there were a ton of variety shows at that time. I kinda figured the Brady's would do this at the time. They sang on the Brady bunch. So why not? They touched on popular tunes at the time. And older tunes as well. All the women looked delightful .sad that Eve Plumb wasn't there.
@@harperstacey9604 Yep....Knight played Binky Hodges - one of Joanie's first boyfriends. Thus completing the Brady Bunch/Happy Days Connection after Marion Ross appeared on a first-season ep of The Brady Bunch!! (With such a long run....there MAY be another HD guest star that appeared on the BB...but I haven't found one yet. And I've LOOKED!!
@@harperstacey9604 Well done. MOST BB experts know that one...but surprisingly a lot don't. Although probably not her "acting" debut......her TV debut. And capital B Bunch... Sorry...I'm the patriarch of The Pedantic Bunch. 😜
Ya know, if they had just dropped the "Brady" character names and went with their real names, this show MIGHT have been more successful. Viewers just couldn't wrap their minds around an upper middle class TV family suddenly having a variety show.
The whole idea was freaky. I agree and think it should have been Florence’s show with all the others appearing as guest stars. She’s the only one (except maybe Barry) whose heart was in it.
They sure do mix Barry and Maureen’s voices high and the others really low. LOL. Barry and Florence show they were the real stars of this awful show. And Fake Jan.
Does anyone else see that Chris Knight (Peter) didn't have his rehearsal routine well done? Since "Happy Together" he seems doubitant about what to do. But in "Happy Days" Knight have no clue. Look: 5:16 I love all six kids, indeed. But it´s just funny to point it out this "faux pas" from Chris.
The whole idea was freaky. The Brady name dropped might have made it more successful, like someone else commented - and I think it should have been Florence’s show with all the others appearing as guest stars. She’s the only one (except maybe Barry) whose heart was in it.
Well, if the show had been done by people who knew what they were doing, it might actually have worked as an occasional holiday special. The original one-off show for Thanksgiving, 1976, got huge ratings. But then, ABC threw it into series with an army of bad writers and almost no rehearsal time for the quantity of music they covered. ABC repeated the same rush-to-series disaster a couple years later with Battlestar Galactica (1978).
Poor Ann B. Davis. Why was she stuck with Rip Torn in every one of this Variety Hour medleys? She couldn't get one musical number with one of the "kids" that actually could sing/dance? Where the hell was "Sam the Butcher" in this train-wreck series?
I do remember watching this show, how could I miss it, I grew up in the 70s in the bay area( what kid wasn't?) and it always had me confounded about how the idea of installing a substitute 'Jan'. Show business is weird....and stupid more often than not.
I guess because the rest of the bunch signed on and because there was still a huge fanbase and demand for them, they had to find a replacement Jan. I read in an article that Eve Plumb didn't sign on because it required her to do up to 5 years of series etc and she was already branching out and making a new career for herself which is understandable. Although I'm 25 and was born way after they Brady Bunch heyday,( I still don't remember any of the actors for anything but the Brady Bunch and my parents probably wouldn't either) although, I still love the memory of my mother showing me 'The Brady Bunch'. So cheesy, yet so heartwarming and memorable
The sixties and seventies were the times for variety shows, I guess some producers had a brain storm idea to come up with the Brady hour. Kinda a cheesy show. I was in my twenties in the seventies and for some reason I don’t remember this show, maybe that’s a good thing 😬
Who is the dude with the mustache that is dancing with Alice? I wonder if they tried to get Sam the Butcher to do this show? I'm still shocked that Robert Reed did this entire variety show series, when he had such issues with the script during the actual show. I think he thought some of the scripts were either cheesy or something? Yet he did this variety show. Can someone explain that one to me?
Barry's dance moves were out of control!
It's like watching your drunk relatives at a wedding reception!
My relatives have never been THAT drunk.
I think I must have been high watching this crap!
🎉 greetings from coastal Mississippi. I have loved the Brady's since 1969. Flash forward to 2023.... Barry is on Dancing with the Stars ❤
Greetings from Coastal Mississippi! Same here but in 2024. Hi neighbor. ❤
Mama Brady's doing it for me! Loved watching Brady bunch as a kid and crushing on Marcia but seeing this know in my late 40's and can appreciate what a stunner Florence was. She was 🔥😍
Greg had a high opinion of himself.
All he ever did was leech off the sitcom.
Am I the only one in the world who loved this show???
Yes
No
No, you are not. 😉
In these troubled times it is somehow comforting,
Guilty as charged as well.
Wow Bradys singing Happy Days that is messin with my mind
That must have been some big balloon budget! : )
It's like an accident you drive by . . . you can't stop watching
The bradys sang Happy Days?!?!?! this is tearing apart my universe as i know it.
Change the channel
70s variety shows - that was fun!
I loved the Gong Show.
I like the TV show of the Brand Bunch ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
IMO they did a great job. I loved Geri's voice and dancing.
Fake Jan is all "hold my beer. I got this"
LOL
Best comment ever.
BEST comment ever, indeed. #FakeJan #TalentedGirl
😂😂
Happiness is a warm gun.
Ive always loved Jan's solo in "Happy Together" love her vocals and vibrator.
Jan's vibrator? 🤣
You mean vibrato?
WOW Greg , that jump and dance were, PATHETIC !
So raw and cutting edge!!! I never new the bradys could be this griitty!!!
It was all about the drugged up sex parties after the show. Rip Taylor came close to death so many times. Strange, he is the last one still living.
Cindy looks so beautiful! :) also the song selections were PERFECT! the dancing not so much! LOL! but still better than anything on TV nowadays!
I had always assumed they ramdomly picked the song list from a hat. This is the first time I've seen a cohesive theme.
The fake Jan is the only aside from Florence who can really sing!
Robert is like a peacock just letting it all out!
Barry knew he could sing. As a dance choreographer I've noticed his dancing is spot on.
Who do you choreography? Because if you think that is talent you need to get real.
I agree . . . he was pretty good. He was also the best actor of the kids (along with Eve Plumb).
@@dfa3366 Dumb comment from a peasant.
He's pretty good. He's clean. Problem is he took himself too seriously and he didn't have the charisma to match the attitude. At the end of the day, Johnny Bravo just didn't work.
@nibornna
Rober Reed was instumental in getting this show off the ground. He was the most keen to do it. Not because HE wanted to do it but because he loved the kids and thought they we were so taleted that he was prepaired to do this for the kids.
Timeless classic of the Brardys
I feel like for the cast members who couldn't dance, the go-to move was the side to side away with arms. "They can't screw this up, right?"
This is what it looks like when your local suburban church tries to put on a show to raise money for missionaries.
It's all in good fun. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
It's not really That bad. I mean when so 🧀 cheesey over the top camp & bad - it magically becomes good. Spot on choreography, lip synch, canned laughter, polyester, the colors, the songs, THE TALENT etc etc💃🕺🏵🌝🌞🎈🙂🤯🤯🤯
I actually liked the show.
Robert Reed looks a lot more relaxed in this than he did in the original Brady TV shows, and Florence has lost her hair flip! Henderson was a Broadway-class singer and performer, the only person in this cast who really was, although Barry also appeared on Broadway. The Greg Brady dance routine should be played on an endless loop to break down foreign spies :)
Actually, Maureen appeared on Broadway as well, and Eve appeared OFF-Broadway AND in Grease: Live! on Fox...although her character (Mrs. Murdoch, the auto-shop teacher) doesn't sing. Still....the merging of the Brady Bunch and Grease made my little 70s heart soar!!!
Robert Reed loved the variety show......
It's not very often that the Brady men get a respite from sequins.
The boys look like they got perms!! Oh the 70s
Wow! I never knew that Ann B Davis could actually carry a tune. I'm a little impressed.
Now I know where my prom date got his idea for his tux.
All of us guys wore that same style tux to all the formal dances back then...they were horrible, ruffled shirts included.
Carol with crabs...Mike thinking of men....Alice thinking of women....Marcia coked out...ahhh miss the innocence of the seventies!!!!
5:00 Wow, Ann B & Rip aren't bad; they've got the moves. Better than I can do!
Wow. That moment where you read a comment you wrote 12 years ago and don't remember! 😄
Poor Ann, couldn't they find anyone else to pair her up with. I mean wasn't Charles Nelson Rieley available?
2:08-2:22 I need to enter a room like that cause that's how you do it
I absolutely loved The Brady Bunch growing up. I'm a year younger than Christopher Knight...but I do not recall this variety show...looks like maybe 1975-ish?
Aired in March of 1977....
They could have quit while they were ahead with the Brady Bunch show. But then someone had a "great idea" to create this show so we can remember this as their parting gift to TV.
I love what another poster said :
" Robert Reed was horrible at singing and Dancing which leads me to believe He was Not Gay " .........lol hilsrious
I was lucky to see Florence Henderson perform in person, she’s incredible!
Lucky you! 🤩
I loved Her as the Wessonality lady!
Incredible.
I'd be happy too if I were constantly 'luded out.
Talented ppl! Thanks for posting this!
I remember when their show fist appeared on TV way back in the day, I was disappointed because the real Jan Brady (Eve Plumb) wasn't in this.
I saw Robert Reed on Father's Know Best. He was very young.
This is the cheesiest thing I have ever seen LOL....And I was a faithful Brady Bunch fan when their show came out.
Greg went really hard on that intro
This was Greg's stepping stone to a huge career.....
Barry Williams thought he was going to be the next David Cassidy. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
@@harperstacey9604 He kind of still believe his big break is just around the corner. He was & had been living in the musically popular Branson, MO doing performances.
@@curtischildress9580 hi Curtis. I always come across your comments. I hope you're having a great day. Barry Williams and his Brady bunch castmates are milking the show for all it's worth for years and years. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
@@harperstacey9604 Those cast members are going to do all they can to make money off of what they once did as very young people...I don't blame them really...everybody wants to make money...I'd do the same thing probably because I could. They never got paid for reruns after the show ended & that wasn't fair...they deserved paychecks off their work...I did hear once a rumor that the makers of The Brady Bunch finally gave them some amount of money as a settlement, at least I'd hope so. It is interesting though how Barry Williams is still working out a singing career, but that's his choice, but it's odd that he doesn't do something else & maybe he does...I don't know. ...It's fun to always find your comments about so many TV & entertainment stories & celebrities. I wish you the best of times, & keep the good fun informative comments coming along!
The Fonz shoulda come out..snapped his fingers and boned alice.
Fonz should have snapped his fingers and saved America from this. Please!!
Is this what hell is like????
Yes, but without the balloons!
Ladies and Gentlemen, tonight's performance: The Brady Bunch gets lobotomized by the alien balloon people and lose their minds.
The Brady's...so raw ...cutting edge. ...how many Emmys did this show win? The edginess gave me chills at times. ....the rawness actually scared me at times...what happened in thier lives to be so. ..real????!!!!
Are you ok?
WTF???!!!
Susan Olsen really looked pretty during this time!
What they should have done was a Florence Henderson Show where she would play herself. She could have had the other Brady actors as guests as themselves (not as a Brady) individually along with other guests.
This was never played in Oz. Thank Goodness LOL
Im sure I seen it im in melb
@@1971caz38 Really where?
@@redsed1565 on tv long time ago
Final episode of this show on same day of Star Wars came out in
It paid the bills. Looks like they had fun. Hey it was the 70's. Big collars ,bell bottoms ,and perms. It was cheesy but there were a ton of variety shows at that time. I kinda figured the Brady's would do this at the time. They sang on the Brady bunch. So why not? They touched on popular tunes at the time. And older tunes as well. All the women looked delightful .sad that Eve Plumb wasn't there.
Barry has perfect pitch, lol
Joe Taz it’s Berry
Also greg
Maureen McCormick was on an episode of Happy Days.
Christopher Knight also appeared on an episode of Happy Days. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
@@harperstacey9604 Yep....Knight played Binky Hodges - one of Joanie's first boyfriends. Thus completing the Brady Bunch/Happy Days Connection after Marion Ross appeared on a first-season ep of The Brady Bunch!! (With such a long run....there MAY be another HD guest star that appeared on the BB...but I haven't found one yet. And I've LOOKED!!
Classic. Smearing lipstick on Richie...and perhaps a bit of foreshadowing of her 90s stint on Broadway as Rizzo in "Grease".
@@bradyguy7701 Actress Rita Wilson, wife of Tom Hanks also made her acting debut on the Brady bunch. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
@@harperstacey9604 Well done. MOST BB experts know that one...but surprisingly a lot don't. Although probably not her "acting" debut......her TV debut. And capital B Bunch... Sorry...I'm the patriarch of The Pedantic Bunch. 😜
Ya know, if they had just dropped the "Brady" character names and went with their real names, this show MIGHT have been more successful. Viewers just couldn't wrap their minds around an upper middle class TV family suddenly having a variety show.
The whole idea was freaky. I agree and think it should have been Florence’s show with all the others appearing as guest stars. She’s the only one (except maybe Barry) whose heart was in it.
Alice & Rip out danced everyone! No contest!!
The 'Happy Days' portion wasn't bad. Maybe they should have done a TV show theme medley -- ending with the Brady Bunch theme song.
Geri Reichel is my favorite character,aka as Fake Jan. Eve Plumb. Was too serious.
LOL! Those dancing girls with the red balloons looked like haemorrhoids!
i absolutely WEEP that Jan wasnt in this..she would be SO FRIGGIN HOT in this crap.
Geri Reischel has a strange vibrato in every line of singing.
Oh, the pain... the pain...!
Like some things this is/might be more popular in reruns.
Barry's body 🔥
wonderful love everything glam glitz if the world was full of fun why be glum
gregs danc3e LOLOLOLOLO rewind rewind
Barry was awesome. Talented guy.
They sure do mix Barry and Maureen’s voices high and the others really low. LOL. Barry and Florence show they were the real stars of this awful show. And Fake Jan.
Does anyone else see that Chris Knight (Peter) didn't have his rehearsal routine well done?
Since "Happy Together" he seems doubitant about what to do. But in "Happy Days" Knight have no clue.
Look: 5:16
I love all six kids, indeed.
But it´s just funny to point it out this "faux pas" from Chris.
Don’t see many balloon costumes these days.
All the Brady girls were hot!
Cocaine is a hell of a drug!
I think they did more than that
@@PioneerGrrrl
Haha probably.
New fake Jan was smokin”
Brady Bunch Hour : Happy Medley
Where are the mics?
only this group could ruin "Happy Together" - scary!!!
yeah a little off
The whole idea was freaky. The Brady name dropped might have made it more successful, like someone else commented - and I think it should have been Florence’s show with all the others appearing as guest stars. She’s the only one (except maybe Barry) whose heart was in it.
Well, if the show had been done by people who knew what they were doing, it might actually have worked as an occasional holiday special. The original one-off show for Thanksgiving, 1976, got huge ratings. But then, ABC threw it into series with an army of bad writers and almost no rehearsal time for the quantity of music they covered. ABC repeated the same rush-to-series disaster a couple years later with Battlestar Galactica (1978).
Barry is channeling David Hasselhoff. Anyone else see it?
Suicide rates in the 70s were high because of this show
Oh LAWD!!!!!!!
Poor Ann B. Davis. Why was she stuck with Rip Torn in every one of this Variety Hour medleys? She couldn't get one musical number with one of the "kids" that actually could sing/dance? Where the hell was "Sam the Butcher" in this train-wreck series?
Ann b. Davis desperately needed the money. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
He was risqué and she was a devout Christian so it was like oil and water.
Not sure if this show caused the cast or the viewers to become alcoholics. Possibly both.
Florence is the only cast member who can actually sing
Barry Williams and Maureen McCormick also had decent singing voices, too.
Hey why is captain kangaroo on this show?
I do remember watching this show, how could I miss it, I grew up in the 70s in the bay area( what kid wasn't?) and it always had me confounded about how the idea of installing a substitute 'Jan'. Show business is weird....and stupid more often than not.
I guess because the rest of the bunch signed on and because there was still a huge fanbase and demand for them, they had to find a replacement Jan. I read in an article that Eve Plumb didn't sign on because it required her to do up to 5 years of series etc and she was already branching out and making a new career for herself which is understandable. Although I'm 25 and was born way after they Brady Bunch heyday,( I still don't remember any of the actors for anything but the Brady Bunch and my parents probably wouldn't either) although, I still love the memory of my mother showing me 'The Brady Bunch'. So cheesy, yet so heartwarming and memorable
Happiness doesn’t buy groceries.
I love peter... he still is hot as hell!!!
Happiness is a warm gun...bang, bang, shoot, shoot...….
That song is from happy days
You mean the song "Happy Days"??? Is from Happy Days??? Crazy.
Man, Marcia was hot.
Florence Henderson always dressed way better than the other people on the show. She knew that she was “Hawt”!
Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!!!!!!!
@sobuliak Hahahahaha!! Man that is funny!
Alice on OT over here….
The sixties and seventies were the times for variety shows, I guess some producers had a brain storm idea to come up with the Brady hour. Kinda a cheesy show. I was in my twenties in the seventies and for some reason I don’t remember this show, maybe that’s a good thing 😬
I think I saw it once. My parents must've said okay that's enough! I loved Donny and Marie. I was a pre teen.
Who is the dude with the mustache that is dancing with Alice? I wonder if they tried to get Sam the Butcher to do this show? I'm still shocked that Robert Reed did this entire variety show series, when he had such issues with the script during the actual show. I think he thought some of the scripts were either cheesy or something? Yet he did this variety show. Can someone explain that one to me?
Rip Taylor
Robert and Sherwood didn't get along,but he did the variety show because Sherwood Schwartz was not involved.
Still so painful to watch...