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DVD The Brady Bunch - The Complete First Season
Because of Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch, writer-producer Sherwood Schwartz will forever be a TV hall-of-famer. They were his only real hits, but they were both grand slams in their prime times and have remained syndicated favorites ever since. Following closely on the Gilligan's Island season 2 release, The Brady Bunch is ready for home theaters with a nicely designed, 4-disc set of 25 first-season episodes. The pilot episode, "The Honeymoon" sets up the story we all know from the theme song (lyrics by Schwartz) by giving us the marriage of Mike and Carol and the coming together of the six kids. Schwartz provides commentary for just this first show, but he fondly recalls his intention of sweet, subdued, and often corny gags the pre-fab family encountered as a precise format each week. Two other episodes include commentary by Barry Williams (Greg), Christopher Knight (Peter), and Susan Olson (Cindy), and their reminiscences are equally affectionate about time on the show and everyone's surprise at its enormous success. Every Brady episode is a classic in some sense, and this first of five seasons (those kids did grow up fast) includes some real charmers when the six Brady kids still seemed impossibly young. It's hard to say the show was ever hip, even though it became slightly more attuned to a pop sensibility as the Bradys moved into the '70s. But man, is this 1969 everyfamily ever square. Even so, it's hard to resist the way each one gets their own screen time with shows devoted to simple childhood joys and traumas--Jan's missing locket, Cindy's missing baby doll, Greg's crush on his math teacher, Peter's swelled head when he gets his picture in the paper, etc.
In a brief bonus featurette we get more innocuously entertaining interview comments from Schwartz, Williams, Olson, Knight, and Mike Lookinland (Bobby). It's interesting that all the subjects make note of how seriously the classically trained (now-deceased) Robert Reed took his role as patriarch, Mike Brady. His reputation as being "difficult" followed the long run of the show, but if Schwartz's first choice had gotten the role it could have been a lot worse. (Schwartz is delighted to reveal the famous name and career path that followed, so the mystery shouldn't be spoiled here.) As it was during its TV run, The Brady Bunch on DVD is clearly meant for a specific generation--yours. --Ted Fry
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Brady Bunch Season One
Americans are notorious throughout the world, due to Hollywood's popularity, for avoiding films and TV shows that don't have happy endings. So what are you waiting for? Get 25 of 'em right here.
*The Brady Bunch* is perhaps the most iconic show in television history: from the iconic nine-box credit sequence that opens the show to lines that became a part of pop culture, and slowly seem to have become a part of culture, period. People who have never seen the show have heard of it, and either happily or derisively know of its wholesome, neatly packaged goodness.
But look a little closer, watch these episodes carefully, and you'll see -- albeit lightly -- that this wasn't always the case. As a matter of fact, *not* all the shows have pitch-perfect endings nor do all tie everything up neatly; furthermore, this show could be argued to have been one of the first in history to begin realism in television: The parents don't always agree, although one always defers to the other, and the kids can bicker so much in some episodes that they get on your nerves.
Sure, everything is sugar-coated, but creator Sherwood Schwartz was setting out to make a family show, and wanted it to teach morality if anything. Episodes weren't meant to be heavy; they were meant to be more like little fables unto themselves.
Who could argue that he didn't succeed? Practically everyone on the planet has heard of this show.
My seven-year-old niece is growing up on Brady Bunch DVDs. She might pass the series along to her kids, who knows.
It was a lot of fun to watch the Bradys again: two beautiful parents, six beautiful kids, and a host of problems that beset every family, and even adults. And Paramount gives all studios a lesson in *how to release DVD sets properly*: Single-sided disks, not overcrammed; the picture's not always perfect, but these episodes are over 30 years old; neat, concise menus; extras included but not too many extras, so as not to overwhelm the consumer; some interesting, informative and/or funny commentaries from the creator and from various stars of the show; and there's even a hologram design on the front of the package so the Brady faces shift around! Bravo, Paramount!
:) Peace.
THE BRADY BUNCH, THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON.
Great family shows.
Highly recommend. A+++
Took me back to my child hood and I remembered most episodes.
Great collection.
MARGARET.
Light hearted wholesome fun!
This has been one of my all time favorite shows when I was growimg up. It has not gone out of style. Some think that this show is corny-but I don't agree. It deals with subjects that every family goes thru-and if you have grown up in a large family-then you can idenify with the Brady Bunch.
Two of my favorite episodes from the first season is. "Dear Libby" & "The hero" The Latter is the one I want to discuss here a bit because in my opinion, it teaches a very important lesson about what happens when you allow your 15 minutes of fame go over your head.
In "The Hero", Peter(Kris Knight) is in a toy store where a little girl attempts to scale a shelf to reach a doll, the shelf begins to loosen from the wall and Peter rescues the girl before the shelf falls to the ground saving her life. A newspaper finds out about it and does a story on Peter. He gets his picture in the paper and everyone is impressed. But Peter allows it to get to him and ends up irratating his freinds and family. It goes from bad to worse when the mother of the girl offers to buy Peter anything and everything at the toy store. This is where the parents drew the line-they allowed hin to heep one of the gifts-but made hin send the rest back.
When the newspaper make hin "Hero of the month" He uses the $50.00 reward money to throw a party for himself, he invites his friends-but no one came. He learned his lesson. Peter did a wonderful thing here-he saved the life of the girl-and he should be commended for it-but the problem in this case is that Peter lets it go farther than that. Good episode!
Another favorite is "Found locket, lost locket" Jan recieves a locket from a secret admirer. They try to figure out who sent it-but when the locket disapears-the family does a reenactment of "the crime" where everyone is doing eactly what they were doing the night the locket disapears. Jan remembers an important detail that helps her find it. If you have not seen this episode, be prepared for a suprise as to who sent Jan the Locket! Wonderful episode.
I love the lighthearted nature of this show. I think the main reason why this show remains popular today is that it has everything a parent could want in a show for thier childern and does not have the trash that pervails in most sit-coms today.
Having these shows on DVD allows you to see things that are cut out for television. You get the full unedited versions of the show! This fact alone is worth the $30.00 price tag. You will not be disapointed!
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