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Am guessing Maude, Phyliss and even All in the Family (Gloria and Mike split after the former found out her husband was having an affair), were all aimed at a different audience of sitcom territory.

Phyliss in particular would have to be sorted because we never saw her husband, Lars, when on the MTMS.
 
re: ALL IN THE FAMILY...

Hmmmmm... I didn't know Gloria and Mike split because of infidelity worked into it...

I remember the couple moving to California with their son, Joey, and the two sleeping separately, hence hinting to Archie and Edith that they were getting a divorce, (among doing other things that were a sign of growing apart) and on that show, we learned to be used to not bring so touchy about things that AITF had pioneered...

Really, though, the show had become quite boring without son-in-law "Meathead" Mike acting like tough foil towards Archie, who was his foil, too, when daughter Gloria moved to California with the grandson because of hubby's new job, hence seeing Archie lingering and lumbering around with niece Stephanie taking over, became the beginning of the end... Nothing afterwards was quite the same... Ditto for ARCHIE BUNKER'S PLACE, that Mad Magazine saw fit to do a Scrooge-like parody of around Christmas, acknowledging how Mr. Bunker had turned into too much of a nice guy, in contrast towards his initial character...

Other couples left to becoming single mates were Barney Hefner (wife left him?) and the Lorenzo's, with no more Frank, just Irene who flirted with Stretch Cunningham, Archie's co-worker, who later died, then no more Irene, either...

-- Dave
 
Recall the episode when Edith and Archie (and that little girl they adopted or whatever) were upset that Mike and Gloria weren't coming home for Thanksgiving. Edith in particular seems worried in that she cannot get a straight answer out of her daughter on several matters.

Anyway Edith gets the big idea they all should fly out to California (where Mike and Gloria moved) as a surprise, and boy was it ever.

Turns out Mike and Gloria had separated over the former having an affair, well he pretty much ran off and abandoned his wife and child.

Later on when Gloria made guest appearances on The Archie Bunker Show and her own short lived (Gloria) show it came out she divorced Mike.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Stivic

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/archive/index.php/t-174826.html

 
AITF

Stopped really working once Mike and Gloria moved out. That took away a good part of the focus for Archie's rants. Just he and Edith along with that kid and later a Latino/Hispanic female border (think she was going to nursing school) didn't really make for the same fun.

Of course once Edith passed away that really was "it", far as one is concerned.
 
ALL IN THE FAMILY, Spinoff: GLORIA...

Well, Gloria actually had her own show (she worked as a vet), suggesting a tenure at a Veterinary school--and that was where it was revealed that Mike had simply lived in some commune (although too late a date for any '60's sort of mentality)...

I only recall one episode, which is truthfully the only episode I ever saw, and that's where there was conflict of mother Gloria too busy at her job, and son Joey feeling neglected & alone from Mom being too busy, hence the end was resolved by her promising she would ALWAYS make what ever time for him that she could--and after that how many episodes of it did you really need?!

I remember the Latino/Hispanic border, who was a nurse at the hospital that Gloria was giving birth to Joey at, so almost immediately afterwards, she was briefly taken in... Forgot her name...

-- Dave
 
Alice was usually doing

dishes by hand, no? We never saw the back side of the Brady kitchen island, so I doubt they bothered to design the set with a dishwasher.
 
Brady Bunch

I've always liked this show, especially the earlier episodes. My favorite characters were Peter (Chris Knight) and Jan (Eve Plumb), with my least favorite being Cindy (Susan Olsen).

One of the neighbors on the next street over (long time family friends) had a brother who worked for ABC TV in Los Angeles. He sent me publicity photos from the show, which I still have. We took a trip to CA in the summer of '72, and he took us on a tour of ABC studios, but since the show was filmed at Paramount Pictures, we didn't get to tour the filming site. He tried to get it set up for me to meet Chris and Eve, and perhaps some of the other cast members, but we were there during the time they were doing location filming in Hawaii. I sure was sorry to miss out on that, but we couldn't stay an extra week until they returned.

I did however see the house where the exterior shots were filmed. I still remember that day well, as I went with my Uncle Ken when he bought their new '72 Gran Torino station wagon. We went driving around in Woodland Hills and surrounding area afterwards. I thought the house looked smaller in person than it appears in the show.
 
Those wide-legged pant dresses were all the rage back then. My sister had a couple pairs.

I have to say Chris (Pete) looks pretty good in those tight white pants! I just didn't like his hair all frizzed out; much cuter before.
 
Ah the Johnny Bravo episode!

One of my faves!

And imagine, 1970 Playmate of the Year, Claudia Jennings, being in a family oriented show........................

Another gaffe, Buddy, Tami's colorful sidekick, hands Greg a Strat in the office where "she hangs her beads" and then proceeds to tell him to whale on it, all the while the thing is not even plugged into the amp............details!
 
One of the inconsistencies I noticed with All in the Family is the front steps of their house. In the opening scene  (ff to the 45 sec mark) it's just a simple stairway to the front door with windows on each side. However in numerous episodes they have a covered front porch that extends the width of the front.  
 
Alastair (vacbear58) is right about Vivian Vance's character on The Lucy Show. Vivian Bagley was supposedly the first divorcee who was a regular on primetime TV.

The show was based on a book called Life Without George about two divorced women living in he same house (I almost said "living together," but that sounds wrong!) Lucille Carmichael was made a widow because it was thought the audience wouldn't "accept" her as a divorcee, despite the fact that Lucille Ball had just been through a high-profile Hollywood divorces a couple of years earlier.

Back on topic, I haven't watched The Brady Bunch since it was a first-run series, but nothing about the decor of the house struck 10-year-old me as being unusual back then. If you don't believe it, visit Graceland sometime!
 
Graceland is not much larger than a suburban house

In fact, if not for all the additions to make it a museum it is not even as large as a McMansion today, the living room seems to be almost cramped. Toward the back of the property is a building for Elvis' racquetball court he built in 1975. It is the size of a 3 car garage but higher ceiling and the bar there has a dinky sink. I would think even back then, there would have been a full kitchen in there.

The Brady Bunch and Knots Landing though different shows, had one thing in common: In the openings of both shows, they used "squares" to introduce the characters. Except the ones for KL were more dramatic, showing people yelling, kissing, punching somebody, and yes, I remember because it upset my dad.

I would not expect any house on TV to make sense as an actual house. A set on TV or even a stage has to be designed "inside out" to accommodate the audience and the cameras and the crew. A good example where you can tell is the opening to Rosanne, where they show the family around the table in what appears to be a complete circle, not possible in an actual building. I can remember when I was in school, a field trip to WQED and the set of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, all spread out in a studio the size of a high school gym.

Trying to do TV in an actual building does not seem like such a great idea. Toward the end, the Guiding Light soap opera used a "4th wall technique" with portable cameras and more outdoor scenes. The show was so herky jerky it made one dizzy to watch and the lighting was often terrible with peoples faces whited out, maybe this was one reason GL went off after more than 50 years.
 
To me,

they look like something straight off Little House on the Prairie or something. The way the guys are dressed in that song did not look nearly as bad. I'm trying to understand how anyone could possibly think those looked in any way good. But then again, the same goes for a lot of other looks in the 70s too, but those dresses take the cake for me...

I hated their frizzy hair in the later episodes too.
 
I thought there was one BB episode where the Brady's were holding a party or some special event (or maybe it WAS the family dinner) where Carol WAS cooking and leave it to hubby Mike to get a taste of what was cooking right from the spoon and it being put right back in the pot, dispensing his metaphorical, poetic complements, maybe adding a Julia Child bit along with it...

-- Dave
 

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