The Brady Bunch

The Brady Bunch was a television situation comedy, based around a large family. Shown between September 1969 and August 1974 on ABC, there were 117 episodes.

The cast appeared in an opening title sequence in which video head shots were arranged in a three-by-three grid, with each cast member appearing to look at the other cast members. The sequence has been widely imitated and lampooned since:

Maureen McCormick (Marcia)	Florence Henderson (Carol)	Barry Williams (Greg)
Eve Plumb (Jan)	Ann B. Davis (Alice)	Christopher Knight (Peter)
Susan Olsen (Cindy)	Robert Reed (Mike)	Mike Lookinland (Bobby)

The show is somewhat of a cultural phenomenon, having lasted in the minds of the entire world for over thirty years. It is the show in widest syndication with the longest consecutive airing time in history. (Since its first show date, an episode of the show has been on T.V. somewhere in the world every single day.) The teenage talent on the show spun off singing careers as they toured the U.S.A. in the 1970's, and a variety show called "The Brady Bunch Variety Hour" was spun-off (featuring a replacement actress for Eve Plumb.) Several successful T.V. movies were made, and several spin-off sitcoms were attempted, including "The Brady Brides." All failed.

A 1995 movie, The Brady Bunch Movie placed the original 1970s sitcom characters, with their 70's fashion sense and 70's sitcom family morality, in a contemporary setting, and parodied the resulting culture clash. The resulting movie was successful enough that a reasonably well-received sequel , imaginatively titled A Very Brady Sequel, was produced, which made sly comment on the well-documented real-life sexual tension between some of the teenage cast members of the original TV series.