The Brady Brides

The fantasy lives on as we watch the Brady girls overact and over cute themselves.

The limited run was obviously due only to our fascination with Maureen McCormick and Eve Plumb

I must be one of the few people who really liked The Brady Brides. It deserved at least three or four seasons, and shame on it being cancelled way too soon. Why oh why? Anyway, maybe The Brady Brides can be rebooted with a LGBTI twist for these contemporary times.

The Brady Brides premeired in 1981 after the success of the TV reunion film, "The Brady Girls Get Married".

IMHO, they simply should've just let this be a stand alone thing rather than make a TV series out of it.

As a TV reunion movie, it was funny, warm and entertaining. However, to see this made into a regular weekly TV series was another thing.

Each and every week, this series featured sisters Marcia and Jan (Maureen McCormick and Eve Plumb both reprising their respective roles from the original 1969-1974 TV series) both living under the same roof with their husbands. It featured them both getting on each other's nerves and comparing their own husbands with each other. It was the same old thing each and every week.

According to this site, this was THE only Brady Bunch spin-off to be taped before a live audience. However, I sometimes feel that they used a laugh tarck machine at certain intervals of the episodes when the audience really wasn't laughing.

Like its predecessor, "The Brady Bunch Hour", this should have had "Avoid at all costs" written all over it.

This spin-off of a really wonderful TV series is another one of THE worst ever. Despite the laughter, this series wasn't even that funny. It was simply a lethargic and pathetic excuse for a sit-com after the ratings success of a wonderful TV cast reunion movie. This series was truly "bottom of the barrel" in the worst possible way. It also doesn't even survive on a "So bad, it's good!" kind of level, which truly shows how bad and terrible this series was. This series was simply boring and uninspired. IMHO, it simply had no life within itself at all.

Again, IMHO, they should have left the TV reunion movie as a stand alone film, which means that they simply should've left well enough alone, rather than make this a weekly series.

After the TV movie, there were eight total episodes made, with the TV reunion split into two parts to make it ten.

Thank goodness for small favors that this series was cancelled as it was a ratings disaster.

Overall, one of THE worst spin-offs ever made for TV.

I thought this show really deserved more of a chance. Marcia and Jan are both newly married and are house-hunting. They quickly realize that they only way they can afford a nice house in California is to pool their resources and buy a house together.

The comedy comes from the fact that the man Marcia married is an easygoing slob, while Jan's husband is an uptight, neat-freak professor. Sound familiar? If Neil Simon did not demand royalties, it was only because the show disappeared so quickly.

Another appeal for me as a young man was that Eve Plumb had grown up to be a total babe. Despite her role as the awkward middle child on "The Brady Bunch", she played a self-assured young woman whose beauty completely outshone that of Maureen McCormick (who was still very attractive).

Perhaps this show would have done better without the Brady connection. Brady fans were probably disappointed that the show featured only two of the Brady family, while those who scorned "The Brady Bunch" never gave it a chance.

My rating of seven (one for each aired episode) may be higher that the show actually deserves, but I give credit for the potential of a show that never really got a chance to find itself

I recall the Family Channel airing The Brady Brides during the Thanksgiving season in 1997. The mediocrity of this 1981 revival was evident, and it's no surprise that the series was axed after just two months on the air. TV revivals in general are often inferior, and The Brady Brides was no exception. Nonetheless, I found it to be only slightly more watchable than the sorry one-hour dramedy that followed in 1990 ("The Bradys").