Wow what a great video! Thank you so much for this! Recently my husband and I drove by the Brady Bunch house in North Hollywood. We hadn't seen it since HGTV sold and the wife of a CEO bought it. What a cool person she is! They actually have a gold Satellite Station wagon sitting out front for people to go and take photos with the house and car! I'm not sure the year of the wagon but I'd guess 1971. I didn't realize they used several in the show! Prime has a channel of classics and a couple times a week they show Brady Bunch marathons. I can still watch the show and even have more appreciation for it now at 52. What a great show.
That appears to be true for the convertibles, since Chrysler no longer offered a drop top after 1971 ( at least until the K cars of the 1980s). The show seemed to carry on with the Plymouth Satellite wagon through to the series's end.
@@impalaman9707 But decades later and much older I think about the odd juxtaposition of Mr. Madison Avenue Derwood/Darwin/DumDum owning Chevys when in the real world he would have had Buicks or Oldsmobiles. And, of course, a human wife.
One fact that nobody has mentioned yet. The first car, the 71 barracuda convertible. Was done in late 71, and had a 72 front and back end. When Chrysler gave them that car, it was like a pre-production car, with the new 72 grille and tail panel. They wanted to show off the design of the 72 barracuda convertible. They hadn't finished building the new quarter panels and fenders yet, but wanted that new 72 look for the show. By the time they started producing 72s for sale, the convertible option had been scrapped. It's the only vehicle Chrysler ever produced that had a convertible top, with the 72 front and back end. More than likely Chrysler got the car back at the end of its use and destroyed it. If it was still around it would be worth a fortune.
Yep !! The car was also rare in that it had a shifter on the column, and was as plain as a Barracuda could get, with its family-car wheel covers and whitewall tyres. I remember wondering at the time if it had a slant-six sitting under the hood, One could say that Barracuda was as three-dollar-billish as ole Mike Brady himself.
In 1977, I bought a used 74 Chevy Caprice Classic convertible. I loved that car. It was the same color as the one in this clip, but mine had a white interior.
I agree, that TR6 is a very nice car. That TR6 is a shade of purple that Triumph called "Damson" which is actually the name of a kind of plum. One thing this video got wrong is that TR6 is not a 1973 model. The episode aired in 1973, but that car is older. Both the color Damson and the white TR6 lettering on the rear fender were only available on the TR6 from 1969-1972, starting in '73 Triumph put a Union Jack logo on the TR6 rear fender, and stopped painting any of their cars Damson.
@@Michael9-23-15 the GT6 is definitely a nice car! For others who don't know, a GT6 is a metal roofed fastback car that was mostly based on the Triumph Spitfire like the one "Jerry" drives at 7:54, but with a larger engine.
I always liked seeing Mr. Brady cruising into the driveway in whatever car after a long day's work at the office. Always an iconic part of a scene with the music playing. In the "Wheeler Dealer," he could have fixed up that 1956 the RIGHT way. I cannot see that car being a "lemon" given how simple it was built. My high school classmate had a 1955 and it was sweet.
At least the writers/producers showed cousin Oliver some respect (even if the Brady kids didn’t). Married with Children introduced Seven, and when he proved unpopular, he just disappeared with no explanation, except for once seeing his face on the side of a milk carton …
WOW!!! THIS WAS A AWSOME VIDEO ,, WITH ALL THE SITCOM CARS YOU BROUGHT UP AND THE YEARS AND MODEL..I DO REMEMBER IN THOSE DAYS ,,THESE CARS ARE THE BEST!! I ONLY DRIVE OLDER CARS STILL TO THIS DAY 60-70S THANK YOU.....
Fun fact: Greg’s ‘56 Chevy convertible was later destroyed in an episode of Mannix. A colleague of Joe’s died in the car when it exploded outside of his office/apartment at 17 Paseo Verde.
When you look closely at that car, it actually appears to be in not in too bad of shape for its age. It appears that they added the faux rust on the left side, removed the left front hubcap and applied something to the paint to make it look dull, as the shots of the right side after Greg supposedly fixed it, make it look pretty good from the right.
Jackie Coogan was his name and the first child actor laws are because of him "Coogan laws." He was a flight officer in WWII and flew gliders into combat in Burma.
The '69 Version of the Polara was used by the CHP. that in their tuned configuration would run over 140 MPH, and that was conservative. I have heard it was faster than that. Just like the 1985 Fox body Mustangs. I have talked to officers who drove both.
@@mt3311 please- my 73 satellite sebring plus could do 140 and it had only a 318 2-barrel/727 slap stick automatic. i still have my '68 cuda which i traded the satellite for.
Wow a lot of cars , no family would have that many different cars . A lot are blue . The convertibles are nice . Even the station wagons are now cool ! My mom had a Vista cruiser , it was beautiful maroon and fast
Built like tanks, too. Our Ambassador station wagon got T boned and the dent in the drivers door was almost a foot deep, but the door and window still functioned. The front end of the 240z that hit us was pushed back to the windshield.
Yes it would ,especially if was still in the shape it was in that episode ,but more than likely it had been scraped ,or is so rusted out and all parts on it had been removed years ago , it is not likely on the road for sure
@@alsmith9298 Good catch, I didn't notice the emblem was missing. Funny thing is I originally called it a Fury then went back and edited my post to say Sport Fury.
That scene was the only one that featured the kind of car my parents would have owned - the '60 Rambler my dad bought new and a friend's son (at like 8 years of age) blurted out "What a cheap car!" Dad never forgot nor probably forgave him.
those cars weren't classics- the studios usually haggled for stuff that the dealers were stuck with- meaning they were ordered by the dealers for lot stock, and if they were optioned too heavily- they would blow them out at cost because they were hard retail sells.
This was great. I had forgotten how many cars 'drove thru' that series. Other things: Like many young lads of that time, I sure had a big time crush on Marsha... ..and Carols "Shag" haircut. My girlfriend in '71 had that. Yuk!
9:16 I believe that's a '60 Rambler. 9:25 that's a '64 Plymouth next to the Cougar. Sadly all these cars ended up in the crusher. If we only knew......... another fun trip down memory lane, nicely done, thank you. How 'bout the Beverly Hillbillies? Bewitched? Rte.66?
He sure does. I used to be a broadcaster and that’s the mark to strive for: reading script so you draw no attention to yourself, try to sound like an announcer, or come across like your trying out some new nemonic phonetics. The transparency in his delivery brings alive all that Brady motors was.
What a fun and interesting review. This must have taken a lot of work! Strangely, I remember many of these episodes, especially the car accident and Oliver.
Fun guest star note: Mr. Duggan, the man involved in the fender bender, was Uncle Fester from The Addams Family (Jackie Coogan) and Aunt Jenny was Aunt Edna from National Lampoon's Vacation (Imogene Coca).
Imogene Coca at the time came from Your Show of Shows. Of which she, Carl Reiner, and Sid Caesar and others who starred. The writers for this show were no lass than Neil Simon, Mel Brooks, and Carl Reiner among others.
when he was inspector adam tobias he felt like a stud- but he hated working on brady bunch because he thought it to be beneath him. probably didn't stop him from railing some of mannix's co-stars, though.
1:46 Charles Martin Smith! (Toad from American Graffiti) 5:45 Jackie Coogan started his acting career in "The Kid" with Charlie Chaplin. He has a child labour law named after him. He went on to play Uncle Fester in the Adam's Family and countless other roles. I remember this episode well from childhood, as he played a schnook, but I knew he was only acting, so it was ok.
@@derrickjackson6737 I forgot to mention it being a convertible which is basically like a small pot of gold. Could have bought a project 71 cuda vert 20 yrs ago but passed on it. Big mistake.
@@tommurphy4307 --I almost guarantee today even if it had a 340, 383 or a 360 stroker that barracuda convertible would get plenty of $$$ if it was in a clean #2 condition. I think any rust-free '71 barracuda vert gets big bucks..
Mike's architecture firm must have been doing quite well as he would have to have been making a boatload of money back then to have the 6 kids, the non-working wife, the full-time housekeeper, the unique Avant Gard LA house and all of the expensive things they did. I would imagine over a $150,000 back in the early 70s. Now if you add him trading in two cars every year, that would also have added to his expenses. At least Mike was a down to earth guy, driving Plymouths and Chevy's. I grew up in a well to do neighborhood in that era and people with income like Mike's usually drove Cadillacs.
@@JTA1961 I think they also wanted them to look youthful and approachable and higher end cars would have run counter to that image. Case in point, the camping episode, where all nine of them went camping in an 8-passenger Plymouth wagon. However, they gave Alice the entire rear facing seat all to herself. That meant the rest of the family had to ride four to a row in the first two rows. There were ways around this with other makes that had 9-passenger wagons, but I think that a combination of the sponsorship agreement and the writer's image of the Brady's prevented this, as 9-passenger wagons were definitely the mark of a well to do family back then as they were kind of quasi-Cadillacs or Lincolns as those divisions didn't make wagons.
@@gerry-p9x Let's see $500 times 9 or $4,500 just for the airfare alone when the average salary that year was around 7 grand? That doesn't sound so cheap. Not to mention, Mike worked for a company where they paid all the expenses for him to take his large family on a business trip? Not to say that such a thing didn't happen, but if it did it would only be for some high producing employee that they didn't want to lose to the competition of whom they were already paying a very high salary for.
@@toddbob55 Garbage? Chrysler was making some of the most reliable cars back then the 318 and Slant 6 were some of the finest most famously reliable on the planet! The 383 and 440 Blocks along with the Hemi were all RELIABLE BEASTS!! YOU HAVE OBVIOUSLY NEVER OWNED ONE . I own a 67 Dodge Dart 340 4 speed , 1970 Cuda 383 4 speed , 1972 Plymouth Road Runner 440 4 speed , I would put any of them against any cars back in the day ! Back in the 70s Mopar made beautiful reliable cars . In the mid late 70s all the manufacturers started making crap cars. Smog ridden under powered big boats .
Back in the mid to late 1990's, I was in Orange County Calif at a well known Cuda restoration shop on the hunt for both the Mannix or Brady Bunch cuda convertibles. we got some leads remember no internet then but sitting in front of the shop was the blue Brady Bunch 1970 Fury convertible needing restoration. then owner offered it to me he had all documentation from the studio. he wanted $3,000 for it, car was all there and had no rust but needed restoration. seems cheap but at that time you could buy a 70 fury rag running and driving for about $500. told my kids about it but they showed no interest in it so I didn't buy it. later heard it was sold and shipped to Japan. never found the Cuda convertibles.
John60s70s: Adam 12 Season 3, Episode 5, Oct 17, 1970. Titled "Cigarettes, Cars, and Wild, Wild Women." Had guest star Tony Dow as a car theft victim. Great episode.
The interesting thing about the blue 1971 Barracuda convert is, it appeared in the following season with the taillight panel and grill changed out to 1972 pieces, making it a "1972 Barracuda convertible," which was a car Plymouth never made. They did the same thing with the Challenger convertibles on Mod Squad.
always liked the late 60's cudas better. got my eye on a '69 barracuda savage 340, fastback, aluminum heads and 4-speed. the guy wants a grip for it- but i'll keep pestering. he won't trade me for my '68 fastback 383-S (4-sp w/factory hurst) for some reason- worth about the same. gotta be his girl wants the $$$$.
If you listen to the background dialogue during Greg's part of the driving test in the parking lot, you can hear Marcia saying ".. he's coming in too fast...!" to which Bobby mocks her in an exaggerated repeat! Then you can hear her telling him "...oh! Be quiet..!" Haha!
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That blue 'Cuda convertible was a sweet car.
Brady Bunch & cool classic cars is something that'll never happen again in America.
Wow what a great video! Thank you so much for this! Recently my husband and I drove by the Brady Bunch house in North Hollywood. We hadn't seen it since HGTV sold and the wife of a CEO bought it. What a cool person she is! They actually have a gold Satellite Station wagon sitting out front for people to go and take photos with the house and car! I'm not sure the year of the wagon but I'd guess 1971. I didn't realize they used several in the show!
Prime has a channel of classics and a couple times a week they show Brady Bunch marathons. I can still watch the show and even have more appreciation for it now at 52. What a great show.
The early episodes were sponsored by Chrysler the later episodes GM/Chevrolet.
That appears to be true for the convertibles, since Chrysler no longer offered a drop top after 1971 ( at least until the K cars of the 1980s).
The show seemed to carry on with the Plymouth Satellite wagon through to the series's end.
Bewitched was ALL Chevrolet---which I thought was cool
@@impalaman9707 But decades later and much older I think about the odd juxtaposition of Mr. Madison Avenue Derwood/Darwin/DumDum owning Chevys when in the real world he would have had Buicks or Oldsmobiles. And, of course, a human wife.
One fact that nobody has mentioned yet. The first car, the 71 barracuda convertible. Was done in late 71, and had a 72 front and back end. When Chrysler gave them that car, it was like a pre-production car, with the new 72 grille and tail panel. They wanted to show off the design of the 72 barracuda convertible. They hadn't finished building the new quarter panels and fenders yet, but wanted that new 72 look for the show. By the time they started producing 72s for sale, the convertible option had been scrapped. It's the only vehicle Chrysler ever produced that had a convertible top, with the 72 front and back end. More than likely Chrysler got the car back at the end of its use and destroyed it. If it was still around it would be worth a fortune.
Yep !! The car was also rare in that it had a shifter on the column, and was as plain as a Barracuda could get, with its family-car wheel covers and whitewall tyres. I remember wondering at the time if it had a slant-six sitting under the hood,
One could say that Barracuda was as three-dollar-billish as ole Mike Brady himself.
@VerifiedVIPMember - Very interesting … Thanks for that info.
Mannix drove a dark green '71 Barracuda convertible with the updated '72 features.
@@Clyde-2055 😂
it has the correct 71 tail lights and fenders with the flush clearance lights though?
My parents had a '75 Caprice Classic. Very nice car. Rode like floating on a cloud
It would appear Mike & Carol trade cars instead of changing the oil...
I’ve read that Perry Mason used cars from whoever was sponsoring the show that week
Just like the FBI ALL FOMOCO CARS FEATURED
Which adds yet ANOTHER layer unto this question: "How can one guy-even a professional architect-possibly afford all this?"
Don't forget Charlie's Angels. You think Kate Jackson enjoyed being stuck with a Pinto?
Lol
I love when Mike climbs out the passenger door 😁
Same
Nope. But Greg did!
@@slicksmith856 The tension between Mike and Sam the butcher was palpable...
@@slicksmith856 many times, and with your mama !...😅
@@FGN666 WADH
These were magical cars. Often they left in a convertible and it turned into a station wagon while returning.
That's because they didn't show the wreck along the way. (Magic wreck)
The 1974 Caprice Convertible was my favorite in the last season
It has the optional 454 with a crest on the side of quarter panel. Very few 454 Caprice convertibles..
In 1977, I bought a used 74 Chevy Caprice Classic convertible. I loved that car. It was the same color as the one in this clip, but mine had a white interior.
tuna boats
By the late 70s, that 1956 Bel Air would have been a desired vehicle for car enthusiasts.
Even in late 60S. TRI GIVES WERE HOT AND COOL WITH THE GEAR HEADS
My brother paid s couple of hundred bucks for a 55 265 V8 😊 in 1968
and of course a teenager could do all that body work and paint job on his $5 a week allowance
@@kevinhamblin951 There were genuine Superbirds, and Daytona's, with the Hemi, for sale for $500 as late as 1978.
Not to mention there is nothing on that car that would be "unfixable" unless it was just completely rusted out.
That Triumph TR6 is pretty cool.
as long as they swapped out the gay redline tires.
@@tommurphy4307 tires have sexual orientation?
I agree, that TR6 is a very nice car. That TR6 is a shade of purple that Triumph called "Damson" which is actually the name of a kind of plum.
One thing this video got wrong is that TR6 is not a 1973 model. The episode aired in 1973, but that car is older.
Both the color Damson and the white TR6 lettering on the rear fender were only available on the TR6 from 1969-1972, starting in '73 Triumph put a Union Jack logo on the TR6 rear fender, and stopped painting any of their cars Damson.
I had a Triumph GT 6 ( 72 ) and I will never forget that car. They are so fun to drive, but they do take work as well.
@@Michael9-23-15 the GT6 is definitely a nice car! For others who don't know, a GT6 is a metal roofed fastback car that was mostly based on the Triumph Spitfire like the one "Jerry" drives at 7:54, but with a larger engine.
I always liked seeing Mr. Brady cruising into the driveway in whatever car after a long day's work at the office. Always an iconic part of a scene with the music playing.
In the "Wheeler Dealer," he could have fixed up that 1956 the RIGHT way. I cannot see that car being a "lemon" given how simple it was built. My high school classmate had a 1955 and it was sweet.
GREW UP WITH THE BRADY BUNCH IN THE 70 'S MAGICAL 🎩 TIME..
That was cool. I'm glad I clicked on this. Thanks for the work!
I always liked that Chevy/Greg episode! Good lesson on lemons for all car buyers too 😎
I would have bought it in a heartbeat.
Just like Wally Cleaver and his '32 "Coupay"!
Same with me , just could not figure out how Greg was able to afford all those parts to make car look good in short time
@@tron77x79definitely would of been cheap to buy it back in the day
@@trudygreer2491very true
"Cousin" Oliver addition to the show began its demise.
You knew a show was going down when they started bringing in new characters for the series other than guest stars.
"Jumping the shark" 🦈moment
At least the writers/producers showed cousin Oliver some respect (even if the Brady kids didn’t).
Married with Children introduced Seven, and when he proved unpopular, he just disappeared with no explanation, except for once seeing his face on the side of a milk carton …
@@Clyde-2055that's how he should have gone
Jump the Shark!
I always loved the cars in this show, oh and Jan!
I liked Jan the most back in the day.
This sure brought back memories.
WOW!!! THIS WAS A AWSOME VIDEO ,, WITH ALL THE SITCOM CARS YOU BROUGHT UP AND THE YEARS AND MODEL..I DO REMEMBER IN THOSE DAYS ,,THESE CARS ARE THE BEST!! I ONLY DRIVE OLDER CARS STILL TO THIS DAY 60-70S THANK YOU.....
Caps lock key stuck dumb ass?
Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.
Fun fact: Greg’s ‘56 Chevy convertible was later destroyed in an episode of Mannix. A colleague of Joe’s died in the car when it exploded outside of his office/apartment at 17 Paseo Verde.
When you look closely at that car, it actually appears to be in not in too bad of shape for its age. It appears that they added the faux rust on the left side, removed the left front hubcap and applied something to the paint to make it look dull, as the shots of the right side after Greg supposedly fixed it, make it look pretty good from the right.
@@kennethsouthard6042Just think what the car would be worth now even in that shape.
a fun fact Greg tried to sell his 56 to the toad from American Graffiti
Joe Biden?
see? santa monica used to be a ghetto....
Mr Duggin was Uncle Fester and, many years earlier, Chaplin's costar in The Kid (one of the greatest movies of all time).
Oh yeah many years earlier in the silent era
Jackie Coogan was his name and the first child actor laws are because of him "Coogan laws." He was a flight officer in WWII and flew gliders into combat in Burma.
a simple time when cars were fun!
And you could afford to fill up.
This is impressive. Nice work putting this together.
Well that ended abruptly! Some sweet cars of days gone by...
We had the hard top version of that 68 Polara 500. It was the HP 383 🙂I remember Dad really loved that car!
The '69 Version of the Polara was used by the CHP. that in their tuned configuration would run over 140 MPH, and that was conservative. I have heard it was faster than that. Just like the 1985 Fox body Mustangs. I have talked to officers who drove both.
@@mt3311 please- my 73 satellite sebring plus could do 140 and it had only a 318 2-barrel/727 slap stick automatic. i still have my '68 cuda which i traded the satellite for.
@@mt3311 That 69 CHP had the 440/ 375 in the new body. I don't believe any 318 could get near it.
My father had a 1969 Plymouth fury 3 convertible. The color was gold with a white top.
Wow a lot of cars , no family would have that many different cars . A lot are blue . The convertibles are nice . Even the station wagons are now cool ! My mom had a Vista cruiser , it was beautiful maroon and fast
Even though “Old” doesn’t automatically equate to “Classic,” It was cool to see these scenes again.
Love convertibles and wagons, I just bought a wagon and on the lookout for a vert
This is a great topic. The Brady's always had a new car in the driveway. Nice to see them get some attention. 😊
1970 plymouth fury is nice.
It only seems like yesterday watching the original shows. Time goes so fast,it's scary.
Very well done sir! Thank you.
Couldnt help notice how perky marsha is !
That's cuz coffee was made in a percolator...😂
A lot of woman/girls, wore a 'cross your heart' bras back then, the design gave a very perky look without them being big busted .
Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!!!
She stopped wearing a bra in the last season. A protest
@@Jleed989 Didn't Marcia and Jan burn their bras in support of Greg when he burned his draft card?
Great cars that the doors weighed more than entire car these days lol
Hey what a great show!
I enjoyed watching it so much. It brought back a lot of memories from my youth ❤
Those station wagons certainly held a lot of people and things all at once. 8 passengers and all their stuff. That’s quite an accomplishment.
Built like tanks, too. Our Ambassador station wagon got T boned and the dent in the drivers door was almost a foot deep, but the door and window still functioned. The front end of the 240z that hit us was pushed back to the windshield.
@@mickaleneduczech8373 parts for my 510!
I'd like to thank my dad and my whole family, for always letting me drive even when I was in a car seat 😉👍
Only car I remember is Greg’s 56 Chevy convertible in the one episode! 😂😂
mannix ruined it
My first car was a 1972 Impala 2 door. It was the same blue, but a hard top. Drove it for 8 years.
That 'Cuda convertible would be worth a few bucks now!
Somebody already posted that the Barracuda was bought, driven, worn out, and crushed. But thankfully, the documentation remains …
Yes it would ,especially if was still in the shape it was in that episode ,but more than likely it had been scraped ,or is so rusted out and all parts on it had been removed years ago , it is not likely on the road for sure
@@chrismarkes5488 this is southern california- cars don't rust here. i still have my '72 datsun- she's had about a gazillion motor-swaps.
In the parking lot scene there is a 1964 Plymouth Sport Fury sitting next to the '69 Cougar.
I believe it is just a Fury not a Sport Fury. Sport Fury had a different center trunk emblem. Just saying...
@@alsmith9298 Good catch, I didn't notice the emblem was missing. Funny thing is I originally called it a Fury then went back and edited my post to say Sport Fury.
wow- you guys are old- i was still playing doctor with little girls in '64
That scene was the only one that featured the kind of car my parents would have owned - the '60 Rambler my dad bought new and a friend's son (at like 8 years of age) blurted out "What a cheap car!" Dad never forgot nor probably forgave him.
I do recall seeing a couple of classic headlights on occasionally.
Lots of Convertibles for a big family. Can't remember seeing as much at all back than in the seventies.
All convertibles and station wagons, I like 60s and 70s cars.
Peter overthrows the football about 20 feet on a 5-foot pass attempt.
Wonderful memories old skool GM and Mopar timeless classic these cars worth some money after 50 years
those cars weren't classics- the studios usually haggled for stuff that the dealers were stuck with- meaning they were ordered by the dealers for lot stock, and if they were optioned too heavily- they would blow them out at cost because they were hard retail sells.
Excellent summaries!
True...probably a lot of editing to stay on topic
Harry Duggan at 5:46 is Jackie "Uncle Fester" Coogan.
Thanks! I thought I recognized him! I liked Fester! 😀
The 'parking lot' Z-28 would have to be the pick of the 'Bunch'.
This was great. I had forgotten how many cars 'drove thru' that series.
Other things: Like many young lads of that time, I sure had a big time crush on Marsha...
..and Carols "Shag" haircut. My girlfriend in '71 had that. Yuk!
Super cool video well put together
9:16 I believe that's a '60 Rambler. 9:25 that's a '64 Plymouth next to the Cougar. Sadly all these cars ended up in the crusher. If we only knew......... another fun trip down memory lane, nicely done, thank you. How 'bout the Beverly Hillbillies? Bewitched? Rte.66?
Mr. Drysdale drove a Chrysler.
@@sethfriedman2462 an Imperial I believe and Miss Hathaway a dart.
That was Southern California where a lot of the old cars still exist today.
That Barracuda looks awesome.
Would like to see one on Bewitched. You do a wonderful job with these videos, thanks.
Darren had a sweet Corvair!
He sure does. I used to be a broadcaster and that’s the mark to strive for: reading script so you draw no attention to yourself, try to sound like an announcer, or come across like your trying out some new nemonic phonetics. The transparency in his delivery brings alive all that Brady motors was.
@@Electrokid03 what vid were YOU watching??
Marcia, Marcia, Marcia.
What a fun and interesting review. This must have taken a lot of work! Strangely, I remember many of these episodes, especially the car accident and Oliver.
Nice idea here, well done. Just found the channel, you have a very unique, kind of retro voiceover sound. Looking forward to more.
Fun guest star note: Mr. Duggan, the man involved in the fender bender, was Uncle Fester from The Addams Family (Jackie Coogan) and Aunt Jenny was Aunt Edna from National Lampoon's Vacation (Imogene Coca).
Jackie Coogan also played a con man in an episode of The Andy Griffith Show.
Imogene Coca at the time came from Your Show of Shows. Of which she, Carl Reiner, and Sid Caesar and others who starred. The writers for this show were no lass than Neil Simon, Mel Brooks, and Carl Reiner among others.
Wow. THAT'S your point of reference for Imogene Coca?? One of the greatest TV comediennes of all time??? Yikes.
@@mt3311 GREATEST bullpen in TV history...
Oh the memories of that TV show and all the cars, which convertable was it that had the umbrella poke through the soft top??
That was the Barracuda.
Enjoyed!!! 👍👍
What a great era of cars
Would love to have that 74 Caprice....had a 73 was a true pleasure to drive until rust got the best of it.
It's cool that they got Robert Reed to narrate this. I never knew it existed!
Mike liked to cruise for dudes in those convertibles.
🤣🤣🤣
lol
@@jonmarks1862 you mean girls
He got bent over a hood a few times.
when he was inspector adam tobias he felt like a stud- but he hated working on brady bunch because he thought it to be beneath him. probably didn't stop him from railing some of mannix's co-stars, though.
Very comprehensive and informative! Thanks!
1:45 Charlie Martin Smith getting pressured to buy Greg's Bel Air.
1:46 Charles Martin Smith! (Toad from American Graffiti)
5:45 Jackie Coogan started his acting career in "The Kid" with Charlie Chaplin. He has a child labour law named after him. He went on to play Uncle Fester in the Adam's Family and countless other roles. I remember this episode well from childhood, as he played a schnook, but I knew he was only acting, so it was ok.
Ah the 1970s! When families owned 2-door convertibles and not an SUV nor a crossover in sight!
too butch for mike brady....
The 1971 B5 blue Plymouth Barracuda is by far the most valuable car in the series and today is probably worth $100K+. Basically a 401K on wheels.
Damm right that Barrcuda is worth $100000❤ not cheap anymore
@@derrickjackson6737 I forgot to mention it being a convertible which is basically like a small pot of gold. Could have bought a project 71 cuda vert 20 yrs ago but passed on it. Big mistake.
it was totaled by the guy who got a great deal on it. that '71 is not worth that much unless its got the hemi or the super commando.
@@tommurphy4307 --I almost guarantee today even if it had a 340, 383 or a 360 stroker that barracuda convertible would get plenty of $$$ if it was in a clean #2 condition. I think any rust-free '71 barracuda vert gets big bucks..
Cool.
Mike's architecture firm must have been doing quite well as he would have to have been making a boatload of money back then to have the 6 kids, the non-working wife, the full-time housekeeper, the unique Avant Gard LA house and all of the expensive things they did. I would imagine over a $150,000 back in the early 70s. Now if you add him trading in two cars every year, that would also have added to his expenses. At least Mike was a down to earth guy, driving Plymouths and Chevy's. I grew up in a well to do neighborhood in that era and people with income like Mike's usually drove Cadillacs.
Well put...I'm sure writers took that into account...to keep it more relatable for the larger audience...
A boat load😂
Naw air fare cheep from LA. TO HI. went to HI. IN 73. FROM. NYC ONLY. 500BUCKS AND RESORTS OUT THERE WANTED THE FREE PUBLICITY
@@JTA1961 I think they also wanted them to look youthful and approachable and higher end cars would have run counter to that image.
Case in point, the camping episode, where all nine of them went camping in an 8-passenger Plymouth wagon. However, they gave Alice the entire rear facing seat all to herself. That meant the rest of the family had to ride four to a row in the first two rows.
There were ways around this with other makes that had 9-passenger wagons, but I think that a combination of the sponsorship agreement and the writer's image of the Brady's prevented this, as 9-passenger wagons were definitely the mark of a well to do family back then as they were kind of quasi-Cadillacs or Lincolns as those divisions didn't make wagons.
@@gerry-p9x Let's see $500 times 9 or $4,500 just for the airfare alone when the average salary that year was around 7 grand? That doesn't sound so cheap.
Not to mention, Mike worked for a company where they paid all the expenses for him to take his large family on a business trip? Not to say that such a thing didn't happen, but if it did it would only be for some high producing employee that they didn't want to lose to the competition of whom they were already paying a very high salary for.
They didn't mention the 64 Dodge A100 van that was in the background. I owned one of those in the late 80s.
What a gold mine--I'm jealous. I wish I had thought of this. Keep them coming and I'll be a new subscriber.
*Hard Core MoPar fans boycotted **_"the Bunch"_** when they stopped featuring Chrysler cars exclusively...*
chryslers were garbage I doubt there were many " fans"
@@toddbob55 Garbage? Chrysler was making some of the most reliable cars back then the 318 and Slant 6 were some of the finest most famously reliable on the planet! The 383 and 440 Blocks along with the Hemi were all RELIABLE BEASTS!! YOU HAVE OBVIOUSLY NEVER OWNED ONE . I own a 67 Dodge Dart 340 4 speed , 1970 Cuda 383 4 speed , 1972 Plymouth Road Runner 440 4 speed , I would put any of them against any cars back in the day ! Back in the 70s Mopar made beautiful reliable cars . In the mid late 70s all the manufacturers started making crap cars. Smog ridden under powered big boats .
I lived in that generation I owned every single one and many more
The Beverly Hillbillies tv show was also used by Chrysler to showcase their new cars.
@@dougfisher1813 *I liked Mr Drysedales Imperial. And Miss Jane drove a Challenger with no windshield in it...*
Back in the mid to late 1990's, I was in Orange County Calif at a well known Cuda restoration shop on the hunt for both the Mannix or Brady Bunch cuda convertibles. we got some leads remember no internet then but sitting in front of the shop was the blue Brady Bunch 1970 Fury convertible needing restoration. then owner offered it to me he had all documentation from the studio. he wanted $3,000 for it, car was all there and had no rust but needed restoration. seems cheap but at that time you could buy a 70 fury rag running and driving for about $500. told my kids about it but they showed no interest in it so I didn't buy it. later heard it was sold and shipped to Japan. never found the Cuda convertibles.
Good lort, they had more new vehicles in the few years the show was on than I’ve had in the thirty years I’ve been driving! 😂🤣😂
The best classic car spotting tv show is Adam12.
The color episodes of Dragnet were pretty good too. Thank you Jack Webb.
The Adam 12 episode with the car theft ring using hot chicks is memorable. 😊
@@johnmcmullen456Do you know the title or the year of that episode? I think I missed that one.
John60s70s: Adam 12 Season 3, Episode 5, Oct 17, 1970. Titled "Cigarettes, Cars, and Wild, Wild Women." Had guest star Tony Dow as a car theft victim. Great episode.
Many sharp old cars seen in the chips tv show also.
Enjoyed the compilation of cars, I'm looking to own one or two of those models in the tv series.
look around LA or in the valley and there are car guys who specialize in celebrity and prop cars. worth a shot.
Seems like Mike never learned how to exit though the drivers side door.
He never got the "handle" of it
He had to do that for the cameraman!!!
He usually used the back door...
@@davedammitt7691Dammit, Dave!! 🤨🤭
@@davedammitt7691OMG
Nice shot of Marcia in the thumbnail, which is why I'm watching this now. 😍🤤
Me too 😍.
Yes but she was a psycho
@@kevinbarry71 Hardly. What proof do you have of that claim?
Groovy Baby!
Mike Brady loved him a clean donk 🤣🤣🤣
married- keep it on the down-low.....
Marsha’s blue sweater informed my adolescence.
Weird how many teenage boys suddenly become interested in Marcia.
I’m sure Marcia was on the mind of many a young boy as he took his happy-shower just after watching the show …
Yeah, it's a real head scratcher.
Jan even started getting some boy fan attention in the later shows.
@@kenlompart9905 IKR
And Mike was interested in teenage boys.
Excellent video. I wonder why Mr. Brady always exited the car from the passengers side?
Because you could. That was very common way to get in and out of a car to the curb with a bench seat.
@@prestonstephens7719especially when your door stuck out into traffic 4 feet
9:16 Rambler
Nice.
The interesting thing about the blue 1971 Barracuda convert is, it appeared in the following season with the taillight panel and grill changed out to 1972 pieces, making it a "1972 Barracuda convertible," which was a car Plymouth never made. They did the same thing with the Challenger convertibles on Mod Squad.
always liked the late 60's cudas better. got my eye on a '69 barracuda savage 340, fastback, aluminum heads and 4-speed. the guy wants a grip for it- but i'll keep pestering. he won't trade me for my '68 fastback 383-S (4-sp w/factory hurst) for some reason- worth about the same. gotta be his girl wants the $$$$.
3:15 nice sweater meat Marcia.
3:26 what ? A prostate exam ?
7:12 Marrone ! Carol got a wide load there, and “I like it !”
For a minute, I thought that was Robert Reed narrating.
Gregg hasn’t told his father about ‘Johnny bravo’
If you listen to the background dialogue during Greg's part of the driving test in the parking lot, you can hear Marcia saying ".. he's coming in too fast...!" to which Bobby mocks her in an exaggerated repeat! Then you can hear her telling him "...oh! Be quiet..!" Haha!
i only ever had eyes for Marcia, they could have been driving flintstone's cars and i wouldn't have noticed
I love the cars I love the word barracuda. It’s like the heart song and the fish and a car. 🚗
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The Bradys sure went through a lot of cars
they had share with mannix and mannix and co. were tough on cars.
Marsha Marsha Marsha