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{{Infobox film
===''The Brady Girls Get Married'' / ''The Brady Brides''===
|title= ''The Brady Brides''
{{Infobox television
|type= Comedy/ TV Series (NBC-TV), originally made as a TV film, ''The Brady Girls Get Married'' TV film (NBC, 1981)
| alt_name  = The Brady Brides
|image= The_Brady_Brides_opening_screenshot.jpg|250px
| image     = The Brady Brides.jpg
|caption=''The Brady Brides'' opening screenshot
| caption   =
|previous= ''[[The Brady Bunch Hour]]'' (ABC, 1976-77)
| genre    = [[Sitcom]]
|sequel= ''[[The Bradys]]'' (CBS-TV, 1990)
| creator  = [[Sherwood Schwartz]]<br />[[Lloyd J. Schwartz]]
|based_on = Characters created by [[Sherwood Schwartz]]
| writer    =
|cast= [[Maureen McCormick]]<br> [[Eve Plumb]]<br> [[Jerry Houser]]<br> [[Ron Kuhlman]]<br> [[Ann B. Davis]]<br> [[Florence Henderson]]<br> [[Keland Love]]
| director  = [[Peter Baldwin (director)|Peter Baldwin]]
|director= [[Peter Baldwin]] (3 episodes)<br>[[Herbert Kenwith]]  (1 episode) <br> [[Tony Mordente]] (1 episode) <br> [[Alan Myerson]] (1 episode)
| starring  = [[Maureen McCormick]]<br />[[Eve Plumb]]<br />[[Jerry Houser]]<br />Ron Kuhlman<br />[[Florence Henderson]]<br />[[Ann B. Davis]]<br />Keland Love
|producer= [[Lloyd J. Schwartz]] <br>[[Sherwood Schwartz]]
| theme_music_composer = [[Frank De Vol]]
|writer= Various, including Sherwood Schwartz
| opentheme =
|distributor= [[Wikipedia:Paramount Television|Paramount Television]]
| endtheme =
|runtime=25 min.
| composer =
|country=United States/English
| executive_producer = [[Sherwood Schwartz]]<br />[[Lloyd J. Schwartz]]
|released = aired from 5 February 1981 - 17 April 1981 (U.S.)
| producer  = John Thomas Lenox
| editor =
| location  = [[Paramount Studios]], Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
| cinematography = [[Lester Shorr]]
| country  = United States
| language = English
| num_seasons = 1
| num_episodes = 10
| camera =
| runtime  = 25 minutes
| company  = Redwood Productions<br />[[Paramount Television]]
| distributor = [[CBS Television Distribution]]
| network  = [[NBC]]<ref>"The Brady Brides (NBC) (1981)".    CTVA.    http://ctva.biz/US/Comedy/BradyBunch_07_(1981)_BradyBrides.htm</ref><ref name="History">{{cite web |last=Winans |first=Wendy |year=2005 |title=History of The Brady Bunch |url=http://www.bradyworld.com/cover/history.htm |website=Brady World}}</ref>
| picture_format =
| audio_format =
| first_aired = {{Start date|1981|2|6}}
| last_aired = {{End date|1981|4|17}}
| preceded_by = ''[[The Brady Bunch Hour]]''
| followed_by = ''[[A Very Brady Christmas]]''
| related  = ''The Brady Bunch''
}}
}}
'''The Brady Brides''' is a 1981 sitcom which aired on NBC-TV that was co-developed and produced by [[Lloyd J. Schwartz]], and with [[Sherwood Schwartz]].  The series' storyline was a continuation of the 1970s ABC television series ''[[The Brady Bunch]]''.


It was produced by Paramount Televison for the NBC-TV and first aired in February 5, 1981.
It was produced by Paramount Televison for the NBC-TV and first aired in February 5, 1981.
[[File:Brides_Marcia_and_Jan.png|thumb|left|Blushing "Brady Brides" Marcia (left) and Jan (right) in opening scene from the TV series.]][[File:Brady_Brides_cast.png|thumb|left|The Brady Brides cast: (Clockwise, from top left, Ron Kuhlman (Phillip Covington III, Jan's husband, Jan Brady-Covington (Eve Plumb), Wally Logan (Jerry Houser), and Marcia Brady-Logan (Maureen McCormick). Ann B. Davis (center) reprised her role as Alice for the series.]]
==About the series==
A TV reunion movie called ''The Brady Girls Get Married'' was produced in 1981. ''TV Guide'' indicated the movie would be shown in one evening, but at the last minute NBC divided it into half-hour segments and showed one part a week for three weeks, and the fourth week debuted a spin-off sitcom, titled ''The Brady Brides''. The reunion movie featured the entire original cast; this would prove to be the only time the entire cast worked together on a single project following the cancellation of the original series. The movie's opening credits featured the season-one "Grid" and theme song, with the addition of the "Brady Girls Get Married" title.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bradyworld.com/episodes/brides.htm |title=Brady World – Episode Guide |publisher=Bradyworld.com |date= |accessdate=August 11, 2010}}</ref> The movie shows what the characters had been doing since the original series ended: Mike is still an architect, Carol is a real-estate agent, Marcia is a fashion designer, Jan is also an architect, Greg is a doctor, Peter is in the Air Force, Bobby and Cindy are in college, and Alice has married Sam. Eventually they all reunite for Marcia and Jan's double wedding.


''The Brady Brides'' series features Maureen McCormick (Marcia) and Eve Plumb (Jan) in regular roles. The series begins with Marcia, Jan, and their new husbands buying a house and living together. The clashes between Jan's uptight husband, Phillip Covington III (a college professor in science who is several years older than Jan, played by Ron Kuhlman), and Marcia's slovenly husband, Wally Logan (a fun-loving salesman for a large toy company, played by [[Jerry Houser]]), were the pivot on which many of the stories were based, not unlike ''The Odd Couple''. Ten episodes were aired before the sitcom was cancelled. This was the only Brady show in sitcom form to be filmed in front of a live studio audience. Bob Eubanks guest-starred as himself in an episode where the two couples appear on ''The Newlywed Game''.
A TV reunion movie called ''The Brady Girls Get Married'' was produced in 1981. Although scheduled to be shown in its original full-length movie format, NBC at the last minute divided it into half-hour segments and showed one part a week for three weeks, and the fourth week debuted a spin-off sitcom titled ''The Brady Brides''. The reunion movie featured the entire original cast; this proved to be the only time the entire cast worked together on a single project following the cancellation of the original series (the complete surviving cast also appeared in these official projects together: ''Brady Bunch Home Movies'' from 1995, ''[[The Brady Bunch 35th Anniversary Reunion Special: Still Brady After All These Years]]'' from 2004, as well as various reunion programs in 2019 for the 50th anniversary). The movie's opening credits featured the season-one "Grid" and theme song, with the addition of ''The Brady Girls Get Married'' title.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brady World – Episode Guide |url=http://www.bradyworld.com/episodes/brides.htm |access-date=August 11, 2010 |publisher=Bradyworld.com}}</ref> The movie shows what the characters had been doing since the original series ended: Mike is still an architect, Carol is a real-estate agent, Greg is a doctor, Marcia is a fashion designer, Peter is in the Air Force, Jan is also an architect, Bobby and Cindy are in college, and Alice has married Sam. Eventually, they all reunite for Marcia and Jan's double wedding.


Throughout the late 1980s and '90s, ''The Brady Girls Get Married'', was rerun on various networks in its original full-length movie format.
''The Brady Brides'' features [[Maureen McCormick]] and [[Eve Plumb]] reprising their respective roles as Marcia and Jan Brady. The series begins with Marcia and Jan and their new husbands buying a house and living together. The clashes between Jan's uptight and conservative husband, Philip Covington III (a college professor in science who is several years older than Jan, played by Ron Kuhlman) and Marcia's slovenly and more [[Bohemianism|bohemian]] husband, Wally Logan (a fun-loving salesman for a large toy company, played by [[Jerry Houser]]), were the pivot on which many of the stories were based, not unlike ''[[The Odd Couple (1970 TV series)|The Odd Couple]]''. [[Florence Henderson]] and [[Ann B. Davis]] also appeared regularly. Ten episodes were aired before the sitcom was cancelled. This was the only Brady show in sitcom form to be filmed in front of a live studio audience. [[Bob Eubanks]] guest-starred as himself in an episode where the two couples appear on ''[[The Newlywed Game]]''.


====Episode titles====
Throughout the late 1980s and 1990s, ''The Brady Girls Get Married'' was rerun on various networks in its original full-length movie format.
{| class="wikitable" style="background:#ffe;"
|-
! №
! Title
! Original Airdate
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|1 || "The Brady Girls Get Married (Part 1)" || February 6, 1981
|- style="background:#ffffde;"
| style="text-align:center;"|2 || "The Brady Girls Get Married (Part 2)" || February 13, 1981
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|3 || "The Brady Girls Get Married (Part 3)" || {{nowrap| February 20, 1981}}
|- style="background:#ffffde;"
| style="text-align:center;"|4 || "Living Together" || March 6, 1981
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|5 || "Gorilla of My Dreams" || March 13, 1981
|- style="background:#ffffde;"
| style="text-align:center;"|6 || "The Newlywed Game" || March 20, 1981
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|7 || "The Mom Who Came to Dinner" || March 27, 1981
|- style="background:#ffffde;"
| style="text-align:center;"|8 || "The Siege" || April 3, 1981
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|9 || "Cool Hand Phil" || April 10, 1981
|- style="background:#ffffde;"
| 10 || "A Pretty Boy Is Like a Melody" || April 17, 1981
|}


==References==
In 2019, the series was released on DVD for the first time as a part of ''The Brady-est Brady Bunch TV & Movie Collection''.
<references/>


[[File:Brides_Marcia_and_Jan.png|thumb|left|Blushing "Brady Brides" Marcia (left) and Jan (right) in opening scene from the TV series.]]
[[File:Brady_Brides_cast.png|thumb|left|The Brady Brides cast: (Clockwise, from top left, Ron Kuhlman (Phillip Covington III, Jan's husband, Jan Brady-Covington (Eve Plumb), Wally Logan (Jerry Houser), and Marcia Brady-Logan (Maureen McCormick). Ann B. Davis (center) reprised her role as Alice for the series.]]


[[Category:TV series]]
====Episodes (1981)====
[[Category:The Brady Bunch spinoffs]]
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 1
| Title = The Brady Girls Get Married (Part 1)
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1981|2|6}}
| ShortSummary = Marcia and Jan announce that they are both getting married and plans soon begin for a double wedding.
| LineColor = f8e900
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 2
| Title = The Brady Girls Get Married (Part 2)
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1981|2|13}}
| ShortSummary = Jan and Philip want a traditional wedding, and Marcia and Wally want a modern wedding.
| LineColor = f8e900
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 3
| Title = The Brady Girls Get Married (Part 3)
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|{{nowrap| February 20, 1981}}}}
| ShortSummary = The weather spells disaster for an outdoor wedding, so they end up having the ceremony inside the Brady house.
| LineColor = f8e900
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 4
| Title = Living Together
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1981|3|6}}
| ShortSummary = After all the houses they see are too expensive, Marcia, Jan and their husbands decide to share a house.
| LineColor = f8e900
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 5
| Title = Gorilla of My Dreams
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1981|3|13}}
| ShortSummary = Marcia and Jan get some self-defense lessons from their mother, while a thief attempts to burglarize their home.
| LineColor = f8e900
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 6
| Title = The Newlywed Game
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1981|3|20}}
| ShortSummary = Game-show host [[Bob Eubanks]] asks Marcia and Jan to appear on ''[[The Newlywed Game]]'' with their new husbands.
| LineColor = f8e900
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 7
| Title = The Mom Who Came to Dinner
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1981|3|27}}
| ShortSummary = Carol temporarily moves in with her newly wedded daughters and their husbands while Mike is out of town.
| LineColor = f8e900
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 8
| Title = The Siege
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1981|4|3}}
| ShortSummary = Wally's guilt over parking tickets causes him to panic when a policeman visits the house, so he decides to impersonate Philip.
| LineColor = f8e900
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 9
| Title = Cool Hand Phil
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1981|4|10}}
| ShortSummary = Philip tries to change his image by dressing and acting "hip."
| LineColor = f8e900
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 10
| Title = A Pretty Boy is Like a Melody
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1981|4|17}}
| ShortSummary = Marcia is forced to use Wally and Philip in her fashion show after her models go on strike.
| LineColor = f8e900
}}
}}

Latest revision as of 16:53, 30 May 2022

The Brady Girls Get Married / The Brady Brides[edit]

The Brady Brides
File:The Brady Brides.jpg
Also known asThe Brady Brides
GenreSitcom
Created bySherwood Schwartz
Lloyd J. Schwartz
Directed byPeter Baldwin
StarringMaureen McCormick
Eve Plumb
Jerry Houser
Ron Kuhlman
Florence Henderson
Ann B. Davis
Keland Love
Theme music composerFrank De Vol
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes10
Production
Executive producersSherwood Schwartz
Lloyd J. Schwartz
ProducerJohn Thomas Lenox
Production locationsParamount Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
CinematographyLester Shorr
Running time25 minutes
Production companiesRedwood Productions
Paramount Television
DistributorCBS Television Distribution
Release
Original networkNBC[1][2]
Original releaseFebruary 6 (1981-02-06) –
April 17, 1981 (1981-04-17)
Chronology
Preceded byThe Brady Bunch Hour
Followed byA Very Brady Christmas
Related showsThe Brady Bunch

It was produced by Paramount Televison for the NBC-TV and first aired in February 5, 1981.

A TV reunion movie called The Brady Girls Get Married was produced in 1981. Although scheduled to be shown in its original full-length movie format, NBC at the last minute divided it into half-hour segments and showed one part a week for three weeks, and the fourth week debuted a spin-off sitcom titled The Brady Brides. The reunion movie featured the entire original cast; this proved to be the only time the entire cast worked together on a single project following the cancellation of the original series (the complete surviving cast also appeared in these official projects together: Brady Bunch Home Movies from 1995, The Brady Bunch 35th Anniversary Reunion Special: Still Brady After All These Years from 2004, as well as various reunion programs in 2019 for the 50th anniversary). The movie's opening credits featured the season-one "Grid" and theme song, with the addition of The Brady Girls Get Married title.[3] The movie shows what the characters had been doing since the original series ended: Mike is still an architect, Carol is a real-estate agent, Greg is a doctor, Marcia is a fashion designer, Peter is in the Air Force, Jan is also an architect, Bobby and Cindy are in college, and Alice has married Sam. Eventually, they all reunite for Marcia and Jan's double wedding.

The Brady Brides features Maureen McCormick and Eve Plumb reprising their respective roles as Marcia and Jan Brady. The series begins with Marcia and Jan and their new husbands buying a house and living together. The clashes between Jan's uptight and conservative husband, Philip Covington III (a college professor in science who is several years older than Jan, played by Ron Kuhlman) and Marcia's slovenly and more bohemian husband, Wally Logan (a fun-loving salesman for a large toy company, played by Jerry Houser), were the pivot on which many of the stories were based, not unlike The Odd Couple. Florence Henderson and Ann B. Davis also appeared regularly. Ten episodes were aired before the sitcom was cancelled. This was the only Brady show in sitcom form to be filmed in front of a live studio audience. Bob Eubanks guest-starred as himself in an episode where the two couples appear on The Newlywed Game.

Throughout the late 1980s and 1990s, The Brady Girls Get Married was rerun on various networks in its original full-length movie format.

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

Blushing "Brady Brides" Marcia (left) and Jan (right) in opening scene from the TV series.
The Brady Brides cast: (Clockwise, from top left, Ron Kuhlman (Phillip Covington III, Jan's husband, Jan Brady-Covington (Eve Plumb), Wally Logan (Jerry Houser), and Marcia Brady-Logan (Maureen McCormick). Ann B. Davis (center) reprised her role as Alice for the series.

Episodes (1981)[edit]

No.TitleOriginal air date
1"The Brady Girls Get Married (Part 1)"February 6, 1981 (1981-02-06)
Marcia and Jan announce that they are both getting married and plans soon begin for a double wedding.
2"The Brady Girls Get Married (Part 2)"February 13, 1981 (1981-02-13)
Jan and Philip want a traditional wedding, and Marcia and Wally want a modern wedding.
3"The Brady Girls Get Married (Part 3)" February 20, 1981 ( February 20, 1981)
The weather spells disaster for an outdoor wedding, so they end up having the ceremony inside the Brady house.
4"Living Together"March 6, 1981 (1981-03-06)
After all the houses they see are too expensive, Marcia, Jan and their husbands decide to share a house.
5"Gorilla of My Dreams"March 13, 1981 (1981-03-13)
Marcia and Jan get some self-defense lessons from their mother, while a thief attempts to burglarize their home.
6"The Newlywed Game"March 20, 1981 (1981-03-20)
Game-show host Bob Eubanks asks Marcia and Jan to appear on The Newlywed Game with their new husbands.
7"The Mom Who Came to Dinner"March 27, 1981 (1981-03-27)
Carol temporarily moves in with her newly wedded daughters and their husbands while Mike is out of town.
8"The Siege"April 3, 1981 (1981-04-03)
Wally's guilt over parking tickets causes him to panic when a policeman visits the house, so he decides to impersonate Philip.
9"Cool Hand Phil"April 10, 1981 (1981-04-10)
Philip tries to change his image by dressing and acting "hip."
10"A Pretty Boy is Like a Melody"April 17, 1981 (1981-04-17)
Marcia is forced to use Wally and Philip in her fashion show after her models go on strike.
  1. ↑ "The Brady Brides (NBC) (1981)". CTVA. http://ctva.biz/US/Comedy/BradyBunch_07_(1981)_BradyBrides.htm
  2. ↑ Winans, Wendy (2005). "History of The Brady Bunch". Brady World.
  3. ↑ "Brady World – Episode Guide". Bradyworld.com. Retrieved August 11, 2010.
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