The Brady Bunch Variety Show - Episode 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- The Brady's return to television with their very own variety show and realize that their father Mike Brady (Robert Reed) is "stinking up the act." Starring Florence Henderson, Barry Williams, Chris Knight, Maureen McCormick, Mike Lookinland, Susan Olsen and Geri Reischel as fake Jan. Guest Stars: Donny and Marie Osmond, Tony Randall, Ann B. Davis and the Krofftetts and Water Follies.
This is the 70's-est thing that has ever 70's-ed.
even by 70s standards when this was new it was considered cringe.
Then you haven't seen that 70s Liberace special with the mod dancers and him trying to sing popular songs like Feeling Groovy...wearing this crazy flower power outfit.
This was a bit before my time but I have seen the reruns of the Brady Bunch. This seems very odd even for this time. Or any time. Like really odd.
That's a mouthful right there! 😝😝😝😝😝
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❤I’m here because 47 years ago I was in labor and had just checked into the hospital. All settled in and the tv in my room was on,and this is what was on. Just a memory 😊. That said,tonight I am sitting here with my beautiful daughter born that night. Happy Birthday My Ginger 🩷
Cool memory!
Ok
@@jat6547 are you jelly😂
2/11/24
Of The Brady Bunch. ? Really ? Funny
Lovely story! ❤️💕♥️
Clean, fresh.... intended corny fun. Thank you for posting.
no tattoos
Agreed!
I have always loved the Brady Bunch…❤️
Vapid, meaningless and totally American kitsch.
Yuck...its horrendously cringe.
Right up there with the Star Wars Christmas special.
The Star Wars Christmas Special had more class than this (and it had none).
I dunno. At least I understood the first 20 minutes of this. Maybe that's the drawback. 😂
😆😆😆😆
Don't you mean, down there?
The SW Holiday Special got the Rifftrax treatment. No reason why this shouldn’t! 😂
This is soooooooooo bad that it’s absolute f**king GENIUS. I remember watching copy of this on VHS back in the early ‘90s and watching it in altered states. A life-changing experience.
If I watched the clown part on acid I would have never come out of that bad trip
Peter him a date.
Clean up your mouth you piece of trash. That’s what I like about the 70’s. We didn’t go around cussing like these losers today. We had parents that showed us how to have respect.
What i will love forever, is they loved each other.
Except for Marcia, wanting Jan to be dead. 4:56
You've got the cutest little baby face. There ain't nobody can ever take your place. Unless you're Jan-- you've been replaced.
Get off Jan's case. If she was here she would spray you with mace. But overall this show is a waste.
What you talking about Willis
Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!
Poor Jan.
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People calling this horrible but honestly I love this so much.
It is sooo bad but I love it!! I grew up with The Brady Bunch on reruns 💗
@@kiranolan7104 same!!
I wanted to be Marcia so bad and had a crush on Peter and Greg.
Same
Pure entertainment
Lol, awful and cringeworthy for sure, but it immediately takes me right back to that place and time . . the nostalgia is deep.
This is so wonderfully bizzare. The variety show was big at the time but it was always Dean Martin, the Osmonds or whoever as the ringmaster. Here the actors are playing their TV characters hosting a variety show. Tony Randall, as himself, adresses' his fellow actors as the characters and its convincing. Its a mindf*** and I'm not sure anyone else was doing a variety show in quite this way.
Also you can tell Florence Henderson was working in her sweet spot. Her skill set was perfect for the variety show and I bet she loved doing those show tunes.
Their chemistry! So corny-fabulous! Beautiful routines and costumes. Talented.
Greg Banana
lol...this is just horrible.
They are actually pretty good actors- very entertaining!
The cheese factor is off the charts. But I can’t stop watching this!
Well....it's official....I'm now hopelessly insane.
Welcome to the club 😜
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was that a moment from Grease, hopelessly devoted, never mind
Red Foreman: "Who gave those people an entire hour?"
Sid & Marty Kroft
@TheOusooner56 I'm pretty sure Red meant that as a rhetorical question...
I’m just saying. Because nobody else with half a brain otherwise would’ve given them a show like this.
love it. Remember watching back in the 70's
Jumping on the Sonny & Cher, Donnie & Marie and Carol Burnett train but this one jumped the tracks and derailed😂😂😂
As a huuuuge fan of The Brady Bunch sitcom, I must agree!
I didn’t know this was a thing!!! I’m 32 and I LOVE The Brady Bunch!!! Please post all the episodes!!!
God bless Geri Reischl, Jan #2, the only replacement cast member capable back then of making me say "Marsha who?" Wonderful singer as well.
As much as Robert Reed hated doing The Brady Bunch, he was the first one to sign up to this show. He said he missed the kids.
He was a homosexual...so it shouldn't come as much of a shock
@@tommyriam8320He was way more swishy on this show.
Maureen McCormicks glassy dead eyes on this show say it all. She was high as a kite.
@@RJS1974this is true😅
Robert Reed really looked quite thrilled to have an outlet like this to vent his “inner flamboyant.”
Gotta say Greg looked pretty happy too.
yup, Bob was coming out!
LOL
Hah! 😂
This show was awesome! ❤
Show was a little gay.
Poor Robert Reed. He was a classically trained actor.
What's funny is that he was actually EXCITED to do the variety hour! In fact, I could be wrong, but it might be the only Brady-related project he was actually happy to do.
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He wanted to sing and dance.
You can’t keep an old queen down!
"Actors" are just professional deceivers...it's in the name!
I like that I thought Bobby looked a bit like Chaka from Land of the lost
LoL!
😅
Nailed it!
Can't unsee that now.
Right?! "Chaka Know!"
WOW! It's like taking LSD.....without actually taking LSD.
😂
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🤣😂
If I had an LSD trip that was anything like this I would consider that a pretty bad trip.
@@billhosko7723?????? 🥴
This is up there with the Star Wars Holiday Special. 😂
I disagree. Star Wars Holiday special was 100 times worse.
Maureen McCormick won the genetic lottery
So hot!
I was 10 and over the moon for this variety show! It was advertised for weeks before and I marked it on the calendar. We didn’t have VCR’s back then so if you missed it, that was it. My whole class was so excited that day and couldn’t wait for that evening 😂
Thanks for sharing.
Now I have been thoroughly entertained beyond comprehension.
It's going to take a lot of beer to forget this ever happened.
Well, there's no time like the present to get started.
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@@billhosko7723 Nein, nur ein entfurtner Cousin.
Marsha saying "Yeah, why can't Jan be dead?!?"... was a dark moment.
So funny!😂
Guess that explains why Eve Plumb is missing. 🤷♂️
That was crazy!😮
@@rickardroach9075 I believe it was because she didn't want anything to do with this disaster (and this coming from a kid who was a big Brady fan back in the day)...
I would love to see the entire series released.
Greg falling down unplanned, during the roller skating number, a fake Jan, underwater clowns? Yup, pretty scary.
But Maureen McCormick was just plain 🔥🔥🔥! Lol
@@pjjacunski7979 She was big time into cocaine at that time.
@@lullarmstrong3423 did not know that. Yet for some reason, not at all surprised
Camp at its best….
@@lullarmstrong3423 I recall Greg doing drugs during the original show..as he grew older...there were times he had a far off look in his eyes and you could tell he was on something...for Example in the episode when he worked with Sam at his Meat shop.. when he was hired to be the delvery boy...during the scene you could tell he had been on something by the look in his eyes.
This has to be at the apex of 70’s variety shows. The over the top outfits the corny jokes and dance routines. Yet for its time it was a hit. As a little kid I remember seeing this episode when it was first run.
Sid and Marty Krofft could do no wrong.
@sandmanontherun
I remember it was because there were already variety shows featuring "family members." . It began with The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, then the Donny and Marie Show; and the Jackson 5 had a half-hour variety show for a short while, so did the Keane Brothers. Oh the Hudson Brothers too, though they had a half-hour Saturday morning show.
Brady boys hair giving Land of the Lost vibes.
Kudos to Eve Plumb for staying far away from this disaster.
I love Geri Reichel playing Fake Jan. Did you know January 2nd is Fake Jan Day?
You celebrate with a good cheese ball.
nah she was unavailable because she was filming the tv movie 'Dawn Portrait Of A Teenage Runaway'....which was pretty good at least they have 'fake Jan' to fill in the role
"That happened, and we all let it happen." - Peter Griffin
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Her father kept her away
Those Man perms!!!
The Man perms made them look like poodles.
The Brady Bunch is a TV classic. I can’t get enough of those kids just took me back to the 80s. Those were the cool days. Today’s generation shows are not the same going back in the day is better no drama can you dig it?
You're absolutely RIGHT
70s
@@michelebazinet9003 the Brady Bunch is a 80s classic television show. This took me back to Hollywood.
The brady bunch tv show debuted in September 1969 and it's last episode aired in March 1974.
Maybe you are referring to having watched syndicated reruns of the show in the 1980s? I did that from the 1970s-1980s.
Or maybe you're referring to The Brady Brides? That originally aired in the 1980s.
@@lowbridge7070 dant, dant dant, dant!
Florence Henderson had a beautiful voice!! She is missed..
I'm sure someone down the line has mentioned this, but Robert Reid, who had written memo after memo to the Schwartz's complaining about Brady Bunch scripts, loved the variety show! They were all stunned.
The BB theme done on kazoo, really sets the stage for the show.
Haha! Yeah, that was beyond goofy!! I almost can’t watch this.
The world's entire supply of glitter was used for this programme
"Yeah! Why can't Jan be dead" 😂😂😂
Alice shaking her booty made me chuckle 🤭
Bobby's hair 😂 pure 70s perm
I don't know why, but I've always had an affection for the Brady Bunch. I watched this show when it first aired and remembered like it was yesterday. These song and dance variety shows were the thing at the time. To be perfectly honest, it's not that bad.
At first I thought this was a SNL skit 😂😂😂😂
Robert Reed really needed a drink.
We all needed a drink after watching it, so I don't hold that against him. He had to be in it.
Lol I grew up in the 70's I watched this every weekend the Hudson brothers too
Both shows are awful. 😖 🤮
This was only a six episode Summer replacement.
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The Hudson Brothers were great! The Adventures Of Chucky Margolis, The Island Of Pagi Pagi, and Rod Hull and Emu!
They really thought we wouldn’t notice an imposter.
Ah, the 70's - with the endless variety shows. Those were the days . . .
This is worth the view just for the costumes 😉
There are no words to describe this show
Awful
😂😂😂😂😂
Yes it is. BAD
Ice pick to my optic nerve will work.
How about putrid?
My childhood memories. Thank you for posting this!
The Osmonds were slumming it.😅
Love this tho. Mindless entertainment. Fake Jan is the best fake Brady because you know she appreciated her time with these people.
All this glorious disaster needed was Cousin Oliver. He would have solved everything.
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Or cousin Itt!
Eve Plumb said she was above doing this show, but 50 years later she came crawling back for the Brady home reno show.
I grew up with the Brady Bunch and love them oh, never saw this crap though
What about The Brady Kids?
I loved it in reruns. My.
Parents though never would have watched a variety show like this. They were into classical, opera, big band. This never would have seen the light of day. 😂
Just turned 55 and I have never seen this show. Don't know what possessed me to watch this now, other than it came up in my suggestions.
Same 😂
It was ludicrous - but fun! I'd never heard of this before either... and I'm 58.
18:42 Greg fell! 😂
They did pretty good considering they probably hadn’t done tons of roller skating…
I remember watching this when it first aired in Australia in the 1970s. I liked it then. We only had 4 TV stations then and any variety show was good to watch.
It’s amazing that this series even made it to 9 episodes
Three more than the hour-long drama from 1990 called The bradys
I was 11 when this first aired. I remember thinking to myself “what the heck is this”. I thought it was the dumbest thing I’d ever seen.
And you were right 😅
Same, I think I made it through 5 minutes then pouted as my sisters insisted on watching it on the family TV, and I had to go read a book. Simpler times!😊
😂😂😂
Greg Brady was the king of the Disco.
Yes but SO Cringe 🤣🤣🤣
'Rollerama'... piece... soo funny. Well done.
Barry Williams a legend in his own mind
He thought he was the new Elvis. In fact he was a 3rd rate David Cassidy.
@@jaengen4th rate Danny Bonaduce extra.
I think he thought he was the next David Cassidy
the dude hooked up with marcia brady so as far as I'm concerned he is
They sing 🎤, they dance 🕺 💃 , they do the old soft shoe 👞.
I imagine my family back in 1976 all sitting around the tv going “what IS this?!” And laughing their asses off. But then again, it WAS the 70s. And only 3 channels if you were lucky. I am not surprised it got canceled pretty quickly.
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@@billhosko7723calm down Billy
Really amazing how most of them look pretty much like they did on the show, but Jan really changed as she grew! Almost looks like a totally different person… :-)
Did anybody else fast-forward through this thing just to pick out the scenes with Marsha?😅
Did anyone not do that? 😄 The hover scan over the red time-line works well.
Marsha Marsha Marsha!!
There was no match for Maureen McCormick she was the reason the show was a success
Love the Brady Bunch.. my tv family..
Sid and Marty really hit a home run with this.
This was absolutely standard television for its time.
I have to admit, Bobby saying “we gotta dump him” was funny.
4:56 Marcia: Yeah! Why can't Jan be dead?!
Marcia being cold to Jan, again.
I never knew until now that this was a Sid & Marty Krofft show. I was always surprised that with all the complaining Bob Reed did during The Brady Bunch series that he agreed to do this show.
oww!! my eyes! my eyes! my ears!! So bad that it's good!!
I'm obsessed with fake Jan
I love everything about the 1970's!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I forgot how cute Marie Ozmond was! ❤
I was expecting a joke about how Jan changed so much growing up that she looks like a different person, lol. A missed opportunity.
Thank you!
A phone with a cord 🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️😂😂
It's the Brady and it was the 70's what more can you ask for except for the original Jan!
I was a kid in 70s and teen in 80s and we were at the roller rink all the time. 70s was peak roller rink!
Man, I miss the 70s
🚨🤭 There be NO MISTAKING where Sid and Marty Krofft's touches are in this special! 🙃🥸
Wish there were more shows like this on air today!!
Yeah it may be corny but at least it's not overrun with bl*cks
Roller rink scene was fun, Marie Osmond looked amazing, and Tony Randal was great...Vagus dancers to!
Yeah, that was well done, and pretty brave of them to try that (only one fall that I saw).
I can't believe Robert Reed agreed to do this!
My God, this is so bad it's hilarious 😂
Just watching the intro of this was more painful than a route canal without any novocaine 🤕
Fake Jan was gorgeous!
Fake Jan also had a good singing voice.
Still fake
fake jan always freaks me out
Wonder what happened with Eve Plumb😊
@@AntiHolyChrist She was in the brotherhood of satan.
Greg doing the Hustle is everything… he seems to be the one with the best groove.😂 40:58
Mr Brady was right at home with these song and dance numbers.
Perfect show to watch on Thanksgiving! 🍗
Nothing like a little fake Jan to spice up the evening. Everyone needs a little fake Jan once in a while
People call January 2nd Fake Jan day.
Pass the butter, salt & pepper for all this corn. I love it ❤ !
For those who don't know "up your nose with a rubber hose" became a catch-phrase after it was used a few times on Welcome Back Kotter as an insult the Sweathogs liked to say.
I did not remember how stunning Maureen was. She is really beautiful.
Proof right here that The Osmonds were better across the board at variety show business. The Brady Bunch had only one better bit using the pool rather than ice angels.
The Bradys Are My All Time Favorite TV Family,Love Them 💗
If they would have shown this to the prisoners at Guantanamo, they would cracked in five minutes
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4:04 God help us...if the "kids" hadn't already caught on to "Dad's" little secret by now moments like this would certainly be eye openers
Florence Henderson said they all knew. Just wasn’t something talked about in those days.