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{{short description|1990 television series}}
{{Infobox television
|image = The Bradys.jpg
|genre = [[Comedy drama]]
|creator =
|writer = {{ubl|Ed Scharlach|[[Lloyd J. Schwartz]]|[[Sherwood Schwartz]]|Sandra Kay Siegel}}
|director = {{ubl|[[Bruce Bilson]]|[[Nancy Malone]]|[[Dick Martin (comedian)|Dick Martin]]|[[Bob Sweeney (actor and director)|Bob Sweeney]]}}
|starring = {{ubl|[[Robert Reed]]|[[Florence Henderson]]|[[Ann B. Davis]]|[[Barry Williams (actor)|Barry Williams]]|[[Leah Ayres]]|[[Christopher Knight (actor)|Christopher Knight]]|[[Eve Plumb]]|[[Mike Lookinland]]|[[Susan Olsen]]}}
|theme_music_composer = [[Frank De Vol]] (main title)
|composer = [[Laurence Juber]]
|opentheme = "The Bradys" performed by [[Florence Henderson]]
|endtheme = "The Bradys" (instrumental)
|country = United States
|company = Brady Productions<br>[[Paramount Television]]
|distributor = [[CBS Television Distribution]]
|num_seasons = 1
|num_episodes = 6
|list_episodes = The Bradys#Episodes
|executive_producer = [[Sherwood Schwartz]]<br>[[Lloyd J. Schwartz]]
|producer = Barry Berg
|cinematography = King Baggot
|editor = Steve Shultz
|camera = [[Multi-camera setup|Multi-camera]]
|runtime = 44–48 minutes
|channel = [[CBS]]
|audio_format = [[Stereophonic sound|Stereo]]
|first_aired = {{Start date|1990|02|09}}
|last_aired = {{End date|1990|03|09}}
|preceded_by = ''[[A Very Brady Christmas]]''
|related = ''[[The Brady Bunch]]''
}}

'''''The Bradys''''' is an American [[comedy-drama]] television series that aired on [[CBS]] from February 9 to March 9, 1990. The series is a [[sequel]] and continuation of the original 1969-1974 [[sitcom]] ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'', focusing on its main characters as adults, and was the second such continuation after the 1981 sitcom ''[[The Brady Bunch#The Brady Girls Get Married .2F The Brady Brides|The Brady Brides]]''.

Airing on Friday nights, ''The Bradys'' failed in the [[Nielsen ratings|ratings]] against ''[[Full House]]'' and ''[[Family Matters]]'' as part of the [[TGIF (ABC)|TGIF lineup on ABC]] and was canceled after one month; the last of the six episodes produced aired on March 9, 1990. In its short run, the show went through three different [[Theme music|theme songs]] based on that of ''The Brady Bunch'', the last featuring revised lyrics sung by [[Florence Henderson]].

==Cast==
*[[Robert Reed]] as [[List of The Brady Bunch characters#Mike Brady|Mike Brady]]
*[[Florence Henderson]] as [[List of The Brady Bunch characters#Carol Brady|Carol Brady]]
*[[Ann B. Davis]] as [[List of The Brady Bunch characters#Alice Nelson|Alice Nelson-Franklin]]
*[[Barry Williams (actor)|Barry Williams]] as [[List of The Brady Bunch characters#Greg Brady|Dr. Greg Brady]]
*[[Leah Ayres]] as [[List of The Brady Bunch characters#Marcia Brady|Marcia Brady-Logan]]
*[[Christopher Knight (actor)|Christopher Knight]] as [[List of The Brady Bunch characters#Peter Brady|Peter Brady]]
*[[Eve Plumb]] as [[List of The Brady Bunch characters#Jan Brady|Jan Brady-Covington]]
*[[Mike Lookinland]] as [[List of The Brady Bunch characters#Bobby Brady|Bobby Brady]]
*[[Susan Olsen]] as [[List of The Brady Bunch characters#Cindy Brady|Cindy Brady]]
*[[Jerry Houser]] as Wally Logan, Marcia's husband
*Ron Kuhlman as Philip Covington III, Jan's husband
*[[Caryn Richman]] as Nora Brady, Greg's wife
*[[Martha Quinn]] as Tracy Wagner-Brady, Bobby's wife
*[[Ken Michelman]] as Gary Greenberg, Cindy's radio station manager and love interest
*[[Jonathan Taylor Thomas]] as Kevin Brady, Greg's and Nora's son
*Michael Melby as Mickey Logan, Marcia's and Wally's son
*Jaclyn Bernstein as Jessica Logan, Marcia's and Wally's daughter
*Valerie Ick as Patty Covington, Jan's and Philip's adopted daughter from Korea

==Influence and casting==
In 1988, CBS commissioned a ''Brady Bunch'' reunion [[television film|telefilm]] for its Christmas season programming. ''[[A Very Brady Christmas]]'' premiered on December 18, 1988 and drew a 25.1 [[Nielsen ratings|rating]] and 39 share, very high ratings for a television film at the time. The success of the film convinced series creator [[Sherwood Schwartz]] that a new Brady family TV series could be a hit, and work began on the show in December 1989. CBS re-aired ''A Very Brady Christmas'' on December 22, 1989, using it as a promotional tool for the upcoming new show.

[[Robert Reed]], [[Florence Henderson]], [[Ann B. Davis]], [[Barry Williams (actor)|Barry Williams]], [[Christopher Knight (actor)|Christopher Knight]], [[Eve Plumb]], [[Mike Lookinland]] and [[Susan Olsen]] all returned in their original roles from ''[[The Brady Bunch]]''. [[Jerry Houser]] and Ron Kuhlman, also, reprised their roles from ''The Brady Brides''. While [[Maureen McCormick]] had appeared in ''[[A Very Brady Christmas]]'', she declined to return for this series, and [[Leah Ayres]] assumed the role of Marcia.

==Style==
''The Bradys'' involved more dramatic storytelling than that which viewers had seen in the previous ''Brady'' series.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w8KztFy6QYwC&q=the+bradys%3A+1990&pg=PA177|author1=Terrace, Vincent|author2=Marsh, Earle F.|title=The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present|date=24 June 2009|isbn=9780307483201}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Maçek III, J.C.|title=What Happens When Happy Shows Turn All X-Files on You?|date=12 January 2017|work=[[PopMatters]]|url=http://www.popmatters.com/column/what-happens-when-happy-shows-turn-all-x-files-on-you/}}</ref> Unlike the original 30-minute sitcom, ''The Bradys'' was an hour long and featured far more serious plot lines. Among them:

* Family patriarch Mike begins a political career.
* Greg is now an [[obstetrician]], is married to a [[nurse]] name Nora, and have a son together, named Kevin.
* Bobby's budding auto-racing career ends abruptly in the first episode after an accident leaves him a [[paraplegic]]. As he recovers, he marries his college girlfriend.
* Peter breaks up with his fiancée, to whom he became engaged in ''[[A Very Brady Christmas]]'', and begins dating the abusive daughter of Mike's political rival.
* Jan and Philip, unable to conceive children of their own, adopt a Korean girl named Patty.
* Marcia, a stay-at-home mother, battles alcoholism while Wally loses yet another in a series of jobs, the latest being as Mike's campaign manager. Wally and Marcia, who have been forced to move in with Mike and Carol along with their two children, open a [[catering]] business to support their family.
* Radio host Cindy begins a romance with her boss, a widower more than ten years her senior who has two children.

Despite the more dramatic tone, the show did include a [[laugh track]].

==Cancellation==
The show was put on hiatus with plans to continue sometime later in the year, but production never resumed and ''The Bradys'' was quietly canceled after six episodes had aired. Following the premiere, which had semi-decent ratings, the show was among CBS' lowest-watched each week until its cancellation, only once outperforming another network primetime show, an episode of ''[[Tour of Duty (TV series)|Tour of Duty]]''. At the time, it was thought{{who|date=September 2020}} that the audience was simply unwilling to accept the sitcom characters in a more dramatic setting. The situation was further complicated by the show's time slot. When ''The Bradys'' launched, CBS placed it in the 8:00 p.m. slot on Friday nights, making it the third show of the season to lead off the network's Friday lineup; the other two, ''Snoops'' and ''Max Monroe: Loose Cannon'', both flopped. At the time CBS’ Friday night lineup also consisted of the serial dramas ''[[Dallas (1978 TV series)|Dallas]]'' and ''[[Falcon Crest]]'', both of which had been on the network for years but had in recent seasons seen a precipitous ratings decline.

The network placed the show against the comedy hits ''[[Full House]]'' and ''[[Family Matters]]'',
which comprised the first half of [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]'s Friday night ''TGIF'' lineup. In Barry Williams' autobiography ''[[Growing Up Brady|Growing Up Brady: I Was A Teenage Greg]]'', he stated that when the initial two-hour episode aired, ratings were poor for the first hour, but when the second hour aired, the show won its time slot and the producers believed a change could be beneficial. CBS, however, was not willing to disrupt its schedule to accommodate the producers’ request in spite of the continued struggles of the Friday lineup as a whole; ''Dallas'' would eventually finish outside the Top 30 in the Nielsen ratings for the first time since its first full season while the ratings for ''Falcon Crest'' dropped so low that CBS cancelled the series at the end of the 1989-90 season. Oddly enough, CBS would move ''Dallas'' ahead one hour as the producers for ''The Bradys'' had wished they would; the move, however, was made after the series was cancelled.

This would prove to be Robert Reed's final role of any significance. He fell ill in 1991, suffering from a combination of colon and bladder cancer that was exacerbated by his development of [[Human immunodeficiency virus|HIV]], and died in May 1992.

==Episodes==
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 1
| Title = Start Your Engines
| DirectedBy = [[Bruce Bilson]]
| WrittenBy = [[Sherwood Schwartz]] & [[Lloyd J. Schwartz]]
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|2|9}}
| ProdCode = 1-1
| ShortSummary = Cindy is a morning radio DJ, and Bobby is now a race car driver. He makes it to the Nashville 500 where he is in a serious car wreck and paralyzed from the waist down. Marcia, her husband Wally (who has lost another job) and their kids move in with Mike and Carol. Peter breaks up with his business-minded fiancée Valerie ([[Mary Cadorette]]) and becomes a playboy. Jan and husband Philip try to get pregnant. Greg, following Bobby's car wreck, considers going back to medical school and changing his specialty to orthopedics.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 2
| Title = Here We Grow Again
| DirectedBy = Bruce Bilson
| WrittenBy = S. Schwartz & L. Schwartz
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|2|9}}
| ProdCode = 1-2
| ShortSummary = The Bradys rally around Bobby in his efforts to recover. The arrival of Bobby's old college girlfriend Tracy Wagner helps to lift his spirits. Unable to conceive a child of their own, Jan and Philip adopt an Asian girl named Patty. Cindy is a morning radio DJ and begins dating her boss. Greg decides to stay with obstetrics after Tracy's pregnant sister goes into labor at Bobby's and Tracy's wedding, which is officiated by the same minister who performed Mike's and Carol's wedding.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 3
| Title = A Moving Experience
| DirectedBy = [[Bob Sweeney (actor and director)|Bob Sweeney]]
| WrittenBy = S. Schwartz & L. Schwartz
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|2|16}}
| ProdCode = 1-3
| ShortSummary = The Bradys are notified that the Department of Transportation will tear down their house to make room for a new freeway and, in a fight to save their home, they have it moved to a new location. Cindy's relationship with her boss intensifies. Gene and Mike decide to run for city council.
| LineColor = 000070
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 4
| Title = Hat in the Ring
| DirectedBy = [[Nancy Malone]]
| WrittenBy = S. Schwartz & L. Schwartz
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|2|23}}
| ProdCode = 1-4
| ShortSummary = Mike declares his candidacy for city council with the help of Peter and Wally as his campaign managers, but his political future is nearly threatened by a blackmail attempt by his opponent's campaign manager ([[Herb Edelman]]). In the end, Mike wins the election.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 5
| Title = Bottom's Up
| DirectedBy = Bruce Bilson
| WrittenBy = Sandra Kay Siegel
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|3|2}}
| ProdCode = 1-5
| ShortSummary = With Carol doing more things for Jessica and Mickey, Wally working overtime with Mike, Cindy debating about a job promotion, Jan busy managing the family's architectural firm and Peter, Bobby and Greg working on a new trauma center, Marcia feels left out and unneeded and turns to alcohol for escape.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 6
| Title = The Party Girls
| DirectedBy = [[Dick Martin (comedian)|Dick Martin]]
| WrittenBy = Ed Scharlach
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|3|9}}
| ProdCode = 1-6
| ShortSummary = Marcia, Nora and Tracy open their own catering business called The Party Girls, and their first assignment is a mistakenly Austrian-themed event at the Brady residence for an ambassador who is actually from Australia ([[Gerard Maguire]]). Meanwhile, Greg and Peter are constantly feuding when their schedules keep conflicting. Greg saves Peter from choking and the brothers make peace.
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}}
|}

'''Notes'''
*"Start Your Engines" and "Here We Grow Again" were later repackaged as a two-hour movie titled ''The Brady 500''.
*"A Moving Experience" and "Hat in the Ring" were later repackaged as a two-hour movie titled ''The Bradys on the Move''.
*"Bottom's Up" and "The Party Girls" were later repackaged as a two-hour movie titled ''Big Kids, Big Problems''.

==Home media==
On April 3, 2007, the two-hour pilot episode, ''The Brady 500'' (a.k.a. "Start Your Engines/Here We Grow Again"), was released as a bonus feature on ''The Brady Bunch: The Complete Series'' 21-disc [[DVD]] [[box set]] issued by [[CBS Home Entertainment]] and [[Paramount Home Media Distribution|Paramount Home Entertainment]].<ref name="amazon">{{Cite web | title = The Brady Bunch – The Complete Series (Seasons 1–5 + Shag Carpet Cover) (1969) | url = https://www.amazon.com/Brady-Bunch-Complete-Seasons-Carpet/dp/B000MGBSEY |work=[[Amazon.com]] | accessdate = Feb 16, 2010}}</ref>

In 2019, the series was released on DVD as a part of ''The Brady-est Brady Bunch TV & Movie Collection''.

{{Portal|1990s}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|id=0098756}}
* [http://www.bradyworld.com/episodes/thebrady.htm ''Brady World'' – episode guide]
* [http://www.bradyworld.com/cover/history.htm History of ''The Brady Bunch'' by Wendy Winans]

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