The Brady Bunch

Trivia: The house that is used for the shots from outside (the introduction) has only one storey. The window is fake, and was added simply to give the illusion that it's a two-story house.

Matty Blast

Trivia: Whenever they talked on the phone there wasn't even a stagehand on the other end. Mike was voted the best at talking to silence.

Trivia: Susan Olson, who played Cindy, loved the TV show 'Family Affair' and begged her mother to give her a 'Buffy' hairdo. The producers loved her hair that way and so for several seasons, she wore it that way (and grew to hate it).

Jeff Swanson

Trivia: The reason that there is no glass in the sliding back door, and the reason for a similar mistake in the popular sixties show Bewitched is that real glass is generally not used in windows in movies and TV shows, because the glare drives the camera crew nuts.

Trivia: The dog "Tiger" (who was replaced with a look-a-like) appeared in 10 early episodes.

KeyZOid

Trivia: Florance Henderson's hair style on the show was done on purpose. Few knew that since the 1950's she lost all hearing in both ears. The left hearing came back, but she had a hearing aid over her right ear.

bobmcdow4984

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Suggested correction: In the episode "A Fistful of Reasons" from Season 2, her hair was short and her ears fully showed (unless the hearing aid was so small it was BEHIND her ears).

Trivia: Some episodes featured cast members or guest stars from Gilligan's Island (both created by Sherwood Schwartz). Jim Backus (Mr. Howell), Natalie Schaefer (Mrs. Howell), and Denny Miller (Duke the Surfer, Tongo the ape man) all appeared in at least one episode of the series.

Trivia: Both Chris Beaumont and Hope Sherwood (Sherwood Schwartz's daughter) played three different characters in various episodes throughout the series.

Trivia: Each of the actresses playing the three girls were re-cast in a future Brady-related sequel, TV show or movie. A different "Jan" in "The Brady Bunch Variety Hour" (1976), a different "Cindy" in "A Very Brady Christmas" (1988), and a different "Marcia" in "The Bradys" (1990). The only sequel to feature the original three actresses together was "The Brady Girls Get Married" (1981). The other six characters always contained the original cast for all of these.

Trivia: According to one single line in one episode, it's revealed that Alice worked for Mike Brady and his boys while the first Mrs. Brady was still alive, meaning Alice was the Brady's housekeeper during two Mrs. Brady eras.

Trivia: Many believe the show was based on the movie Yours Mine and Ours, but Schwartz insisted he came up with the idea years before the movie came out.

hifijohn

Trivia: Mike Brady and Bobby Brady swapped character names with their real life first names. Mike's real name was Robert and Bobby's real first name is Mike.

terry s

The Winner - S2-E21

Continuity mistake: When Mike and Carroll drive Bobby to the TV show for the ice cream eating contest they leave in the blue convertible. They return home in the brown station wagon.

glanzone

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Season 2 generally

Question: In season 2, there were 5 episodes made without one of the kids appearing in the episode. (Marcia, Jan, Cindy, Peter, and Bobby were each absent one episode). What was the reason behind this?

Answer: Much trivia has been written about "The Brady Bunch, " including the various interrelationships and dynamics among the members of the cast. For example, much has been written about why Robert Reed's Mike Brady did not appear in a couple of episodes, including the series finale, due to rancorous creative and artistic differences with series creator, Sherwood Schwartz. However, in contrast, I have never run across any reasons given why a particular child did not appear in specific episodes - only that the episodes were missed. This suggests the causes were likely unexceptional, such as illness, injuries, vacations, or real-life family obligations.

Michael Albert

Although those options ARE possible reasons, it just seems a bit ironic that this happened all in Season 2 ONLY and within a short amount of nearly consecutive episodes. Never happened during the other 5 years of the show at all.

Answer: According to Lloyd Schwartz, in the book he wrote with his dad, Paramount studios made the decision to remove one child from each episode to save money. Sherwood Schwartz eventually told the studio that this was a mistake because "viewers have their favorites." The practice was eventually stopped.

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