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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 9781415706817
Format: Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 1415706816
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 01, 2005
Running Time: 652 minutes
Sales Rank: 3079
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: September 26, 1969
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THE BRADY BUNCH – THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON tells the story of Carol, a single mother of three girls – Marcia, Jan and Cindy and architect Mike Brady, a single father of three boys – Greg, Peter and Bobby who get married and blend the two families into one. Added to the mix are housekeeper Alice and dog Tiger. The Bradys’ experience the same obstacles as any family, from adjusting to their new extended family, to sibling rivalry. The comedy series famous for its catchy theme song truly has become a pop culture icon and is still enjoyed by viewers of all ages.
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Because of Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch, writer-producer Sherwood Schwartz will forever be a TV hall-of-famer. They were his only real hits, but they were both grand slams in their prime times and have remained syndicated favorites ever since. Following closely on the Gilligan's Island season 2 release, The Brady Bunch is ready for home theaters with a nicely designed, 4-disc set of 25 first-season episodes. The pilot episode, 'The Honeymoon' sets up the story we all know from the theme song (lyrics by Schwartz) by giving us the marriage of Mike and Carol and the coming together of the six kids. Schwartz provides commentary for just this first show, but he fondly recalls his intention of sweet, subdued, and often corny gags the pre-fab family encountered as a precise format each week. Two other episodes include commentary by Barry Williams (Greg), Christopher Knight (Peter), and Susan Olson (Cindy), and their reminiscences are equally affectionate about time on the show and everyone's surprise at its enormous success. Every Brady episode is a classic in some sense, and this first of five seasons (those kids did grow up fast) includes some real charmers when the six Brady kids still seemed impossibly young. It's hard to say the show was ever hip, even though it became slightly more attuned to a pop sensibility as the Bradys moved into the '70s. But man, is this 1969 everyfamily ever square. Even so, it's hard to resist the way each one gets their own screen time with shows devoted to simple childhood joys and traumas--Jan's missing locket, Cindy's missing baby doll, Greg's crush on his math teacher, Peter's swelled head when he gets his picture in the paper, etc.
In a brief bonus featurette we get more innocuously entertaining interview comments from Schwartz, Williams, Olson, Knight, and Mike Lookinland (Bobby). It's interesting that all the subjects make note of how seriously the classically trained (now-deceased) Robert Reed took his role as patriarch, Mike Brady. His reputation as being 'difficult' followed the long run of the show, but if Schwartz's first choice had gotten the role it could have been a lot worse. (Schwartz is delighted to reveal the famous name and career path that followed, so the mystery shouldn't be spoiled here.) As it was during its TV run, The Brady Bunch on DVD is clearly meant for a specific generation--yours. --Ted Fry
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Rating:  - When Florence Henderson was at her loveliest, and the kids were at their cutest
I know this has nothing to do with the actual show, but what happened to Flo Henderson's looks after the Christmas episode (which, by the way, is one of the two best episodes in this set)? I know she was supposed to be sick in that one, but her appearance drastically changed after that. Not only did she have that ridiculous hairdo (sort of like a mullet), she also appeared gaunt and looked as if she had aged ten years. Did fashion change that much between 1969 and 1970?
As for Marcia, she was always wholesomely pretty (though she could have used a haircut in the succeeding seasons), Jan was still cute (before she turned into a nerd) and Cindy was absolutely adorable (she couldn't help but lose it as she got older, just as Shirley Temple did). Even Greg didn't look too bad in the beginning (I never thought he was much of a looker as he got older, especially with that Afro), Chris Knight, I could tell, would grow up to be handsome and little Bobby was just as adorable as little Cindy. And I can see why Jeffrey Hunter was turned down for this role--he was way too good-looking for the part. Not that Robert Reed was ugly, he was just right (for the part, and looked like your average soccer dad).
I do think the first season had an entirely different tone than the latter seasons. For instance, when Bobby thinks Carol doesn't really love him because he is just her "step", and she tells him the only steps in this house are those (and she points to their stairs), was so touching, ... Read More
Rating:  - Uncut & no commercials
How great it was to see all of the Brady's again without a commercial every 5 minutes. That was the first time in years that I saw the whole complete Christmas episode. On TV they cut half of it out. I highly reccomend this video for all of you Brady enthusiastic fans. If only we could return to the time period of wholesom families again.
Rating:  - Sappy, schmultzy, silly but still endearing
Ahhh, the Bradys. How can we ever forget that lovable textbook sitcom family that made us laugh, cry and throw-up! They were the last of the fairy-tale families from Cleaverville and Nelsontown before Norman Lear threw the Bunkers in our faces.
Created by Sherwood Schwartz, he came up with the idea in the mid-sixties but decided to sit on it. Then the success of Lucille Ball's film Yours, Mine & Ours (based on real life family of 20 kids the Beardsleys) came, and Schwartz went full steam ahead.
The pilot starts off with the wedding of two single parents which is never explained whether they're divorced or widowed. I can imagine they're of course widowed being how divorce was still a touchy subject especially for a sugar dripping show like this.
Florence Henderson's Carol (soon-to-be-Brady) Martin didn't exactly have the sex appeal of previous TV moms like Laura Petrie or Samantha Stevens, her face looks like it was squashed in a vice, but with the mini-skirts in style then, she sure had a great set of legs and a nice big rear-end as well. Then there's closet gay Robert Reed's all wise, all knowing and all even-tempered architect Mike Brady to round out the parental duties. The kids? Well, they're just a bunch of unknowns fresh off of commercials, modeling or whatever that can't act worth a mosquito's butt. Aside from the lack of acne, masturbation, drugs and drinking, they were pretty typical kids. And finally we have comic relief from veteran funny lady Ann B. ... Read More
Rating: - Great family show!
I watched the BB growing up when i was 8-12ish. I love it then and love it now.
My 3 and 6 yr old girls love it. I am going to get season 2 for Christmas 07.
There is simply nothing "of quality" on t.v. anymore and this is perfect for them... (and me too!) haha!
Rating: - Classy not corny
Do you have little kids, were you born somewhere between 1962 and 1972 and think that today's children's television programs are tacky at best? Then here's a possible solution - something we've been doing for the past year. Buy the entire Gilligan's Island and Brady Bunch series and play one episode before the kiddie's bed time. Mr. Schwartz got it right with both series - a combination of comedy, morals, ethics and team work that is frequently labled as corny by today's standards but I think will strike a chord with the offspring of the between Boomer and X generation, like myself.
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