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There was the old saying "The Best in the West!", said by one of the parents, of which I don't remember Mike or Carol saying, but it was said...  So, then I would'a automatically taken the show to be in California...

 

Also, it never even snowed! (And how many episodes ever even had rain?)

 

 

-- Dave
 
I think the grand canyon

episode has rain.

Also, I did not know it was possible to mow astroturf with a reel style mower. See, even the Bradys were "green" before it became fashionable
 
Grand Canyon episode, Jim Backus guests...

Well, that's another thing:

Did they drive East or West to get there?

(Now, a show of hands, to give us a hint of what locality is depicted...)

Also, Jim Backus, who played Thurston Howell III, from another Sherwood Schwartz creation, GILLIGAN'S ISLAND, is featured, in a special and villainous role...

-- Dave
 
A VERY BRADY THREAD, with More VERY BRADY THOUGHTS!

Here are couple more thoughts:

 

The cameo appearances by the late-Davy Jones (of The Monkees) and by Desi Arnez Jr. and that was to cater to a mad crush either Marsha or Jan had on one/both of 'em (a kiss on the cheek by the latter guy, led to the line: "I am never gonna wash this side of my face again!")...

 

Surely neither of 'em would'a traveled that far cross-country just for some ordinary "Girl Next Door", hankering to meet him... (And if the series had run long enough, Cindy could'a had David Cassidy!)

 

 

-- Dave
 
Avocado green

and orange were popular 70's kitchen colors, just not normally together. Usually, cabinets were walnut shaded laminate, wood, or plastic sheathed with large ugly hardware in the door centers.
Appliances were either avocado, white, or harvest gold, with orange counters.
A Chromecraft dinette set with swivel bucket chairs in green floral vinyl and dark walnut tone oval top and pedestal center legs.
Floor coverings were either complimenting shade pattern tile or sheet vinyl, or indoor outdoor carpet.
 
Speaking of indoor grills, has anyone here ever used one or even seen one in real life?  I’ve always liked the idea, but the reality of stoking the fire and cleaning the mess and having the residue out in the open in the kitchen doesn’t seem very practical.
 
Potential asphyxiation from burning charcoal indoors is an issue, too. Maybe these next-to-the-oven grills were always powered with natural gas.

I get a chuckle from how interested/concerned we are about the fictional house of a fictional family. We take our vintage TV shows seriously, LOL!
 
Years, and years, later, I remember EVERYTHING Brady!

Yes, seems as though the parents always have time for the kids...  No shortage of money either--Mike's income took care of everything (though hardly anything centered around him at work, but a few hints at some BIG projects his talents this side of Frank Lloyd Wright (any comical reference there?) were probably needed for...)

 

Carol supplementing the family income? Maybe she could be a baby sitter or an event planner...

 

But I don't really get the Boys' & Girls' Bathroom arrangements... Why strictly an entrance/exit through either room, as opposed to a common one via hallway? The parents had a Private Master Bath, but nothing else or NOWHERE else to "Go" upstairs...  Maybe there was one downstairs on the way to Mike's Den--well, his Office where he did his work, as opposed to the building he commented to/from--so a lot of bringing work home, or job homework, there...

 

There is a bath off to the side of the laundry room (that's where the family dog Tiger, in one episode, was given EIGHT baths (the episode where Jan seemed to have been allergic to him) but you'd think when you find out in the floor plan that it's Alice's bathroom, that there's be yet another "facility" for her...  I remember that room just having a toilet and sink, anyway, and briefly you got a shot or two of Alice's room, as well as reference to her "having a nice hot bath, reading a good book & going to bed", when Greg and Bobby were horse-playing & Bobby gets locked in a closet to be saved by Greg, in the episode in which Bobby saved Greg first, receiving a fallen bucket of paint on his head...

 

--Yes, how did they skirt around details of the girls' last names having to be changed on their birth certificates, the only official documents they were on, as Mom remarried and no formerly-married name, nor maiden except maybe as an occasional reference...

 

And there was a former house I remember the guys living in--I thought that had an Avocado Green gas range in it I saw a corner view of...  Seen when the boys disliked their Father remarrying, but Mike reminding them that: "when Mom had gone, he could be free to remarry whom he had chose to be with", only for one of his sons to pipe out: "Yeah, but you didn't say there'd be GIRLS!"... Hence this estate I thought had been quickly built for the expanded family... 

 

See? I KNOW all my B-B Episodes...! (Which had almost been called "The BRADLEY Bunch"...)

 

 

-- Dave

[this post was last edited: 6/27/2016-14:14]
 
Dave,

an Architects wife would not have to work. Today, many couples are both professionals.
My mom never worked after I was born, and she was an R/N, just never in this state. Having 5 kids within seven years took care of that. Still, we lived pretty good on my dads appliance tech income. He did moonlight some, for extra things.
Usually six day weeks, only Sunday off. He liked to work, and his job.
Some of those guys were lazy. They would D and C a service call because they didn't want to work overtime. Then the customer would have to have another tech. visit to finish it, or wait until the next day altogether.
My folks retired very comfortable.
The profit sharing was good all through the 60's, 70's and 80's.
 
Yea

It's so amazing what TV can make us think - especially before the internet. Now, we can look and and find out about almost anything - but then, not so much info was available. Definitely not as magical now as it was then.

I'll bet the SET in person looked like CRAP! I'll never forget in the 1993 or 94 I went to LA to visit a friend. We went on the NBC tour in Burbank - At that time, I had watched Days of Our lives and they had an outdoor mall on the show called Salem Place. When we were at NBC studio's and I saw that dinky little outdoor mall and it was nothing more than some chairs and a sliding window and a couple of signs just outside the entrance of the NBC Burbank building itself - I could not believe it.I was like, WHAT??? You mean that's it? That's all there is? It looked amazing on TV, but in real life. UGH I was so disappointed.
 
THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY

The Partridge family home had a dishwasher. It was mol D & M. circa mid 70"s, in harvest gold. Just Sayin! And like everyone said the Brady home, never showed one.
 
DaveAMKrayo

What I remember from the pilot episode is that Mike and sons were living someplace other than the house we see in all the other episodes. I am certain it was stated that Mike, the architect, had designed the new house himself, to contain the blended family. So all the strange features, like the pocket doors into the shared bathroom, were Mike Brady approved.
 
Florence Henderson

Actually lobbied hard for Carol Brady to have employment outside the home, thinking that is how things would have been in real life; something she ought to have known. However Sherwood Schwartz nixed the idea time and time again. Best thing they did was allow Mrs. Brady to do volunteer and charity work.

By the 1970's married women working outside the home was not just for income, but many women simply did it for personal reasons. Carol Brady obviously was in intelligent woman who probably attended college. Her youngest children were in grade school and she had a maid, there was no reason CB could not go out and work. Lord knows neither she nor Alice for that matter were ever seen doing much housework.

As the series dragged on the older children got drivers licenses and could thus take up some of the driving their younger brothers and sisters to whatever it was they went. That is how it was when one was growing up in the 1970's and am sure it was done in the 1950's and 1960', not to mention since and still.

At least Samantha Stephens when not housekeeping or taking care of her children acted as hostess to dinner parties or otherwise promoted her husband's interests. Never sat through the entire BB series but don't think the Brady's did much entertaining or even went out.
 
Circumstances surrounding Carol Brady and her daughters.

We know Mike Brady was a widower, which was socially acceptable at that time. However nothing is ever firmly stated about how Carol Ann Martin (née, Tyler), came to be single (again). It is hinted but never spoken that she was divorced, something the show's creators and producers (among others) felt was to risqué.

It is never discussed how the Martin girls had their last names changed to Brady, but of course that had to happen legally somehow.

In fact we never hear a word about either Mike's or Carol's former spouses. Something that simply is too odd for words especially for the children. IIRC only Bobby mentions/thinks of his mother and that was once in the first episode.

As one said the entire BB show was just too "white bread", IMHO.
 
Can only guess since the BB was aimed at kids/families

Topic of divorce was a problem. Meanwhile Maurice and Endora (Bewitched) not only were still married but not living together but openly carried on with others.

But off the top of one's head:

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Mrs. Muir was widowed)

Nanny and the Professor (Robert Long was a widower)

Family Affair (Brian Keith was a single man who "inherited" his orphaned nephew and niece).

My Three Sons (Fred MacMurray was widowed)

And so it goes....
 
Hmmmmm

Divorce definitely seems to have been a problem to present then, have read how Mary Tyler Moore was originally to have been divorced at the start of MTM show but apparently it was felt that there would have been a reaction to the concept of Rob and Laura Petrie divorcing, strange and all as that might seem there or four years after the end of the DvD Show.

Although wasn't Vivian Vance's character in The Lucy Show divorced? Lucy of course had to be widowed even though she and Desi had been through a high profile divorce by then, although in fairness the character Lucy was based on was widowed in real life.

Funny how, around 5 years on from the start of MTM divorce seemed to be more acceptable - when they spun out Phyllis into her own show wasn't she divorced? And the likes of Maude was divorced too
 

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