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SEASON 1 – ABC

Theme music: “The Brady Bunch” written by Frank DeVol, performed by The Peppermint Trolley Company

• 001. The Honeymoon – 9/26/1969
  • In his home in a California suburb, architect and widower Mike Brady (Robert Reed) is nervous on the morning of his wedding day, and his maid Alice Nelson (Ann B. Davis) is trying to calm him down. He is about to combine his family of three boys Greg (Barry Williams), Peter (Christopher Knight), and Bobby (Mike Lookinland) with his wife-to-be Carol Martin (Florence Henderson) and her daughters Marcia (Maureen McCormick), Jan (Eve Plumb), and Cindy (Susan Olsen). The boys talk Mike into letting them bring their dog Tiger to the wedding and this proves to be a disaster when he chases the girls’ cat Fluffy and destroys the wedding cake and decorations. Still the minister (Dabbs Greer) pronounces them man and wife and they take off for their honeymoon. They are unable to enjoy it though as they feel guilty for yelling at their kids during the wedding fiasco, so they go back home and bring the entire family – including Alice – along with Alice, much to the chagrin of the hotel manager Mr. Pringle (James Millhollin). J Pat O’Malley and Joan Tompkins are Henry and Mrs. Tyler. 4/23/13

• 002. Dear Libby – 10/3/1969
  • Marcia and the girls stumble across a letter in the newspaper sent into advice columnist Dear Libby which sounds as if it may have been written by one of their parents. It describes the fact that the writer, who has three kids,  has married a partner also with three kids  – and the results have been miserable. The kids first try hiding and obliterating the newspaper column, then try being on their best behavior to change the mind of whomever wrote the letter, but Alice convinces them to discuss this with their parents. Both Mike and Carol claim that they didn’t write the letter – both to the kids and to each other. One night the author of Dear Libby (Jo de Winter) pays a surprise visit to the Bradys to let them know that the letter had in fact come from a different state 2000 miles away. It seems that all six children – as well as Alice – had written to her to find out the source of the letter. Mike and Carol admit that they too had written letters but never sent them. 4/23/13
• 003. Eenie, Meenie, Mommy, Daddy – 10/10/1969
  • Cindy gets the lead role as the Fairy Princess in the school play The Frog Prince. She works with her parents and sisters on rehearsing her lines, and with her brothers on how to fly  -by being strapped to the clothes line. Then she finds out that due to limited seating at the school, only one guest per student will be allowed to attend. This causes a dilemma for Cindy, who tries to talk her parents out of coming. Greg and Marcia give Cindy conflicting advice on who to uninvite, so Cindy feigns a twisted ankle to get out of the play altogether. After Alice tells the folks of Cindy’s dilemma, Mike backs out of attending,  but then has a better idea and explains the situation to Cindy’s teacher. The kids end up putting on a special performance just for the Bradys. Brian Forster appears as the elf in the play. Marjorie Stapp is Mrs. Engstrom. Tracy Reed is Miss Marlowe.  4/24/13
• 004. Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore – 10/17/1969
  • Mike and the boys are turning to Alice to help them with household issues, and Alice senses that Carol is feeling neglected – so she refers all the problems to her. Carol is ecstatic that she suddenly feels so needed by the boys, but the girls start to feel neglected – and Alice begins to think that the household no longer needs her. Alice concocts a story that she has an ailing aunt in Seattle and is leaving the Brady household to live with her. Mike and Carol hardly buy her story, and when the girls overhears Alice telling a friend why she is really leaving, Marcia tells Carol. The Bradys then put on an act to show Alice how much they really need her by asking for favor upon favor as she’s getting ready to leave. Although Alice knows they’re only acting, she decides that they really must need her to go though so much trouble, and she decides to stay. Frank Pinkard is Mr. Stokey. 4/24/13
• 005. Katchoo – 10/24/1969
  • The Brady kids head out for school, save Jan who is suffering from a sneezing attack. Her mom keeps her home from school thinking that it is a cold, but eventually begins to think that she actually has allergies. When Mike stops home for a visit, Jan’s allergies come back out in full force. Everyone fears that Mike is the cause of her sneezing, but then it is revealed that Tiger had actually came into the girls’ room with him. Mike decides that Tiger will have to go live with Grandma since Jan is allergic, but that doesn’t stop the boys, Carol, Mike, and Alice each from giving Tiger a good bath unbeknownst to one another. Jan still sneezes after all of this, so they continue with the plan to send Tiger away. But when Jan grabs Tiger’s new flea powder to send along with him, he sneezing returns. She had been allergic to the flea powder, not Tiger. 4/28/13
• 006. A Clubhouse Is Not a Home – 10/31/1969
  • Mike and Carol are relishing the fact that it feels like ‘paradise’ around the Brady household, with all of the kids getting along so well together. Alice is skeptical that it will continue, and sure enough, each of the kids start arguing and bickering with their step-sibling counterparts, especially after the boys are forced to help the girls move their things into the house. Mike calls a family meeting and insists that they stop fighting and that everyone share and share alike. This goes well until the girls decide to move in on the boys’ clubhouse and decorate it their way. Mike and Carol each side with their own kids on this one, while also bickering amongst themselves about closet space. Alice suggests that the girls build their own clubhouse and appear ‘helpless’ to the boys. This works, and the men finish off the job and dedicate the new clubhouse to the girls. Just at that time, the boys’ house falls apart because Bobby had removed the nails for use on the other house. The boys then start to take over the girls’ clubhouse, bickering commences, and the Brady ‘paradise’ suffers another blow. The voices on Alice’s soap opera belong to Hans Conreid and June Foray. NOTE: This was actually the second episode filmed, and considering it shows Carol and the girls just beginning to unpack, the sequencing of events doesn’t make sense in broadcast order. 4/29/13
• 007. Kitty Karry-All Is Missing – 11/7/1969
  • When Cindy’s favorite doll Kitty Karry-All turns up missing, she is sure that Bobby has taken it. Despite his protests, everyone seems to think Bobby is guilty and starts to treat him poorly. Mike then reminds the kids that in America, a person is ‘innocent until proven guilty’. The kids stage a trial with Alice acting as judge, but the ‘jury’ is hung with both Peter and Jan switching their positions and siding with the sibling of the opposite sex. This causes further disagreements among all of the siblings. Bobby’s kazoo then comes up missing and he blames Cindy. Bobby then feels bad and uses his money to by Cindy a new doll, which doesn’t bring the same satisfaction as the old one. Tiger is then spotted carrying off the new doll, and Mike discovers Kitty Karry-All and the missing kazoo in Tiger’s doghouse. Pitt Herbert appears as Mr. Driscoll. 5/4/13
• 008. A-Camping We Will Go – 11/14/1969
  • The Bradys are getting ready for a camping trip, but the boys are resistant to taking along the girls, and the girls really don’t want to go at all. After loading up the car, which is delayed by a bathroom break from everyone, they are on their way. The boys each pair off with a girl to go fishing, but in each case the girls disrupt the actual catching of any fish. However, the girls save the day, having a packed a picnic basket of coldcuts and chicken. That night, the girls have trouble getting to sleep, getting scared by an owl, and then Alice’s leaking mattress, which they mistake for a rattlesnake. After Mike calms them down, Marcia and Jan sneak out and illuminate a cut-out of a bear on the boys’ tent, which sends them into a panic, eventually chasing the girls back into their tent, which then collapses. Mike and Carol think the trip was a failure, but then Greg tells them the he and the kids had had so much fun that they’d like to do all of their activities as a family from now on. 5/5/13
• 009. Sorry, Right Number – 11/21/1969
  • There are phone troubles in the Brady house as the kids are monopolizing the phone, potentially causing Mike to miss his phone calls. They first try adding a second line, but the costs go through the roof, plus the kids are still constantly using Mike’s line. When told to only use their own line, the bickering continues and Mike is forced to use a timer for their calls. Alice is upset by the problem, and while visiting her boyfriend Sam Franklin the Butcher (Allan Melvin), she gets the idea to suggest a payphone to Mr. Brady. Soon a payphone is installed in the house, and each kid gets enough allowance for two calls per day. When his line becomes tied up by a friend of Carol’s, Mike is forced to use the payphone to close a multi-million dollar deal with Mr. Crawford (Howard Culver). When he doesn’t have the correct change to continue the call, it nearly blows the deal… until Mike explains the payphone idea to Crawford, and likes the idea so much that he has one installed in his own home. The Bradys get rid of their payphone. 5/5/13
• 010. Every Boy Does It Once – 12/5/1969
  • After watching Cinderella with Cindy, Bobby becomes afraid that his mom is actually a wicked stepmother, which is made worse when Carol asks him to clean the fireplace. Despite the fact that Mike and Alice both try to convince him that Carol loves him as much as anyone,. When Mike and Carol leave to buy Bobby a new bike, Bobby’s depression becomes deeper when they leave without saying goodbye. Bobby decides to run away and confides in Peter, who tells Greg, who purposely lets it slip to Alice. The parents have a change of heart about ‘bribing’ Bobby with the bike. When they get home, the find Bobby ready to leave, but Carol proves her love for him by insisting that the go with him. He realizes that he is indeed wanted and decides to stay home. Michael Lerner is the bicycle salesman. Larry McCormick voices the TV announcer. 5/12/13 
• 011. Vote for Brady – 12/12/1969
  • Marcia and Greg are in competition for class president at school. Each thinks that the other is sabotaging their election, especially when Greg’s cassette tape of campaign promises gets erased and Marcia’s campaign slogans disappear. It turns out that Alice had accidentally thrown away Marcia’s paper, which makes Marcia angry at Alice. Mike and Carol eventually convince both kids to play fair. When Marcia overhears Greg’s campaign manager suggest starting a rumor about Marcia and then Greg firing him, she decides to concede the election during the election speeches. Greg wins by default, and all Bradys are there to celebrate. Martin Ashe is Mr. Dickens. Stephen Liss is Rusty. Casey Morgan is Scott. 5/12/13
• 012. The Voice of Christmas – 12/19/1969
  • As Christmas approaches in the Brady residence, Carol comes down with laryngitis just before she is supposed to sing at the church Christmas service. Cindy asks a department store Santa Claus (Hal Smith) to restore her mother’s voice instead of bringing her gift. She has faith that he will do it, although Mike is angry that he promised that. The other kids want to postpone the holiday until their mom gets back her voice, but Alice talks them out of it. Much to everyone’s surprise, Carol wakes up on Christmas morning and her voice is restored. She sings O Come All Ye Faithful in church. 5/12/13
• 013. Is There a Doctor in the House? – 12/26/1969
  • Peter comes home with measles, followed by Jan. Carol calls her pediatrician Dr. Porter (Marion Ross) and Mike call his, Dr. Cameron (Herbert Anderson). Both kids freak out when each of the wrong doctors shows up in their room. Mike and Carol realize they’ll have to decide which doctor to use in the future. The other four kids show up at home, all with measles as well. Between trying to tend to their every need, they eventually decide to use both doctors. This works out well since the doctors have decided to combine practices. They also notice that Mike has come down with the measles, and before it’s all over, Alice gets them as well. 5/19/13
• 014. Father of the Year – 1/2/1970
  • After Mike postpones a meeting to help Marcia with her homework, she decides to nominate him for “Father of the Year” in a contest put on by the local paper. She wants to do it in secret, so this means sneaking into Mike’s den to write the letter, skipping out on her chores to work on it, and then sneaking out at night to mail the letter. Mike is forgiving for these things at first, but eventually he is forced to ground her from attending the family ski weekend. All is explained and forgiven when the newspaper men show up to present Mike with the award. Meanwhile, Alice tries to practice her skiing techniques on a giant board covered with straw. Oliver McGowan is Hamilton Samuels. Bill Mullikin is Lance Pierce. Lee Corrigan is the cameraman. Bob Golden is Mr. Fields. 5/19/13
• 015. 54-40 and Fight – 1/9/1970
  • The boys and the girls have each been saving up trading stamps, the girls hoping to get a sewing machine, and the boys wanting a rowboat. When Alice pulls out a drawer full of more stamps, the kid begin to argue about who gets them. Mike and Carol instruct the kids to agree on one giant prize, but they are unable to, so they decide to have a contest building a card house, with all stamps going to the winner. The boys lose the contest when Tiger jumps on Greg and the cardhouse topples. The girls go to get their prize after the store has closed, but the frazzled proprietor (Herb Vigran) lets them in. When they return from the store, the boys are pleased that they didn’t end up getting the sewing machine, but have brought home a new color television. 5/20/13
• 016. Mike’s Horror-Scope – 1/16/1970
  • Carol gets a little bit concerned when Mike’s horroscope says that he will meet strange woman that day. Sure enough, cosmetics tycoon Beebe Gallini (Abbe Lane) enlists Mike’s architecture firm to design her a new factory building. Wanting it full of her personality, Mike struggles to keep her grounded in reality on what type of factory would actually be functional. With Beebe keeping Mike away from home, Carol is forced to take the boys fishing, while Alice takes the girls horseback writing. In the end, Beebe decides that Mike isn’t working out, but Mike is happy to lose the job since it means he can spend more time with the family. Joe Ross is Duane Cartwright. 5/22/13
• 017. The Undergraduate – 1/23/1970
  • Greg has been daydreaming and getting poor grades in math. Alice discovers that Greg had written a love poem to a girl named Linda, so the household tries to figure out who Linda is. When Carol brings home a friend named Linda (Teresa Warder) who has just moved into town from “Se-at-tle”, she assumes that she is ‘the’ Linda – but it turns out to be a dead end. Then Mike receives a note from Greg’s mather teacher – Linda O’Hara (Gigi Perreau) – wanting to meet to discuss Greg’s grades. It becomes clear that it is his teacher who is the object of his affection. However during the meeting with Mike and Greg, Miss O’Hara introduces her boyfriend, baseball player Wes Parker (himself). Greg is so taken by meeting one of his idols, that he forgets his crush. Later, Greg is daydreaming again, this time about a new substitute teacher. 5/25/13
• 018. Tiger! Tiger! – 1/30/1970
  • When Bobby goes inside to get their dog Tiger’s food, Tiger disappears. As time passes without his return, the family becomes more concerned. Everyone chips in to offer a financial reward to anyone who returns Tiger, but all of the people who show up with dogs have the wrong one. Alice notes that possibly a burgler lured Tiger away so the house could be robbed, so that night everyone is on edge. The boys set a booby trap which eventually falls on Alice. The next day, one of Greg’s friends spots Tiger, so the family scours the neighborhood. He eventually turns up a house quite a distance away – where he has fathered a litter of puppies. Gary Grimes appears as a boy bringing a wrong dog to the Bradys. Maggie Malooly is Mrs. Simpson. 5/25/13
• 019. The Big Sprain – 2/6/1970
  • With Carol called away to take care of her sick aunt, Alice is all geared up to handle all of the household tasks – but then she slips on the game of Chinese Checkers that the kids left out, and severely sprains her ankle. The kids are assigned to handle all of the chores, but do a miserable job. Meanwhile Sam hurts Alice’s feelings when he looks for another date to replace her for the Meatcutter’s Ball. The kids then band together and utilize teamwork to get the house running efficiently again. Sam also comes through and opts to spend the evening with Alice… after a little prodding from Mr. Brady. 6/15/13
• 020. Brace Yourself – 2/13/1970
  • Marcia’s dentist outfits her with braces, which crushes Marcia’s self-esteem. Through a few ups and downs, she gradually comes to accept them as her siblings do their best to convince her that the braces don’t make her look any worse. But the ultimate blow is when her date Alan (Mike Robertson aka Scott Paul Robertson) cancels out on her for the school dance. She is convinced that it is because of her ugly braces, although the truth is that his parents are whisking him out of town that weekend. Carol, Alice, and Greg all attempt to set her up with another date, but Marcia snubs them all. Alan then returns to tell her that his parents’ plans have been cancelled and that he can take her after all. When he comes to pick her up, she finds that he too has received braces after a bike accident nearly wrecks his teeth. John Daniels is Eddie. Brian Nash is Joey. Jerry Lavreau is Harold Reynolds. 6/15/13
• 021. The Hero – 2/20/1970
  • Peter saves a little girl named Tina Spencer (Melanie Baker) from having a shelf fall onto her at Driscoll’s toy store. His brothers at first do not believe his tale, until two reporters show up to take pictures of Peter. The little girl’s mother (Danni Sue Nolan) then buys Peter every item that he wants from the toy store. His new ‘hero’ status begins to go to his head and becomes off-putting to everyone in the house. When Peter is then given a $50 prize for being the “Citizen of the Week” from the local paper, he decides to use the money to throw a party… for himself. His siblings boycott the party and none of his friends seem interested either; consequently no one shows up. Just when Peter has learned his lesson about patting himself on the back, his siblings come through and join the festivities. Joe Conley plays the deliveryman. Dave Morick is Earl Hopkins. Randy Lane is Steve. Iler Rasmussen is Jason. Susan Joyce is Jennifer. 6/16/13
• 022. The Possible Dream – 2/27/1970
  • Marcia writes in her diary her deepest feelings toward actor Desi Arnaz Jr. (as himself) and hides the diary in the garage. When the Bradys donate their old books, Cindy finds the diary and sends it along with the rest. Marcia finds the diary missing and stops to talking to Cindy, and sends the family scouting all of the bookstores where the used books ultimately ended up – to no avail. Meanwhile, the real Desi Arnaz Jr. shows up at the Brady house to meet Marcia. Turns out that Alice is friends with his mother’s housekeeper and has arranged the meeting. Marcia forgets her obsession with the diary, content on having met her idol. Gordon Jump and Jonathan Hole appear as clerks at two of the bookstores. Pat Patterson is the collection man. 6/18/13
• 023. To Move or Not to Move – 3/6/1970
  • With the kids complaining about their lack of privacy, sharing two rooms and one bathroom, Mike reluctantly decides that it’s time to sell the house and move. Once the house goes on the market, the kids change their mind and decide they want to keep the house after all. The inexplicably make the house appear haunted for Carol and Alice, and more importantly continue the antics when their realtor Bert Grossman (C. Lindsay Workman) and prospective buyer Mrs. Hunsaker (Fran Ryan) visit the house. Mike catches Bobby and Cindy in ghost outfits, and the kids confess that they’ve been creating all of the ‘haunting’ commotion. Mike decides not to sell. 7/21/13
• 024. The Grass Is Always Greener – 3/13/1970
  • Carol has to spend the weekend helping Marcia with her Girl Scouts merit badges and Mike has been helping the boys with baseball. When each complains how exhausted they are, they begin to disagree on whose job is harder. To solve this, they each agree to work with the opposite group of kids the following weekend. Mike trips all over the kitchen while helping Marcia earn her cooking badge, and Carol trips all over the backyard helping the boys learn baseball. Each is incredibly sore after this and they agree to stick with their own kids. 8/4/13
• 025. Lost Locket, Found Locket – 3/20/1970
  • Jan receives a locket anonymously through the mail and immediately the family tries to figure out who sent it, their only clue being that the typewriter that typed the address dropped its letter ‘y’. Before they can figure it out, Jan loses the locket while asleep in bed. With a new mystery at hand, the Bradys try to re-create the scene of the crime, only to realized that Jan dropped it outside while stargazing out of her window. Jan is now happy and Alice comes forward to admit to Jan that she had sent the locket to her because like Jan, she knows what it’s like to be the ‘middle sister’. Jack Griffin is the guard. 12/26/13

SEASON 2

Theme music: “The Brady Bunch” written by Frank DeVol, performed by The Brady Bunch Kids

• 026. The Dropout – 9/25/1970
  • Mike is designing a home for L.A. Dodgers baseball player Don Drysdale (as himself), and while visiting the Brady home, he stops by the back yard to encourage Greg on his baseball playing. Greg then gets carried away as to his future career as a baseball star to the point of talking about not going to college, even deeming high school unimportant. Even a return visit from Drysdale can’t convince him otherwise. Greg is brought back down to earth when he is pulled from a game because he is allowing too many hits. Greg first talks of quitting baseball, but Mike convinces him that the key is finding a happy medium and having baseball in his life without letting it consume him. 12/26/13
• 027. The Babysitters – 10/2/1970
  • Mike and Carol have tickets to a show on the night that Alice plans to decorate at Sam’s place. They attempt to find a babysitter with no luck, much to the chagrin of Greg and Marcia who announce that they are old enough to babysit the other kids. Mike and Carol have a hard time enjoying their fancy dinner while worrying about Cindy’s sniffle and accidents in general, so they decide to stop back at home before their show. Greg hears them fumbling around outside and calls the police, who show up just after Alice does as well, and they have to explain that they are just checking up on the kids. Since Greg did the right thing, the folks are relieved and head out to their show. 12/28/13
• 028. The Slumber Caper – 10/9/1970
  • Mike and Carol agree to let Marcia have a slumber party. The boys are excited too because this means they can play practical jokes on the girls. At school, Marcia is called into the principal J.P. Randolph’s (E.G. Marshall) office because of a drawing and nasty comment that was written about her teacher Mrs. Denton. Marcia admits that she drew the picture, but was attempting to draw George Washington, not her teacher, and denies writing the comment. Still she is punished and her parents are notified, causing them to cancel the slumber party. The folks decide to believe Marcia and the party is back on. Marcia believe that her friend Jenny (Hope Sherwood, daughter of series creator Sherwood Schwartz) wrote the comment, so she un-invites her to the party. As the boys play pranks, Marcia’s friend Paula (Chris Charney) admits that she wrote the comment on Marcia’s drawing. Marcia invites Jenny back to the party. Robert Reed’s daughter Carolyn Reed appears as Karen. Florence Henderson’s daughter Barbara Henderson appears as Ruthie. 12/28/13
• 029. The Un-Underground Movie – 10/16/1970
  • Greg is excited that his history teacher is allowing them to do artistic projects that being history alive. Greg decides to use Mike’s 8mm camera and film a historical essay on the Pilgrims’ arrival in Plymouth Rock. He is pumped about the project until his parents start to ‘help’ him revise the script, his sisters argue over who gets to be Priscilla Alden, and his brothers only want to be Indians. Greg nearly calls off the project until Mike intervenes and tells everyone to remember that Greg is the boss of the production. Everyone in the family then cooperates, with Alice playing John Carver. After a series of mishaps and bloopers, they finally finish the movie. The family gathers around and Greg shows the production Our Pilgrim Fathers, or Through Hardship to Freedom, which is unintentionally hilarious. Greg then toys with the idea of making another movie about the American Revolution. 1/14/14
• 030. Going, Going…Steady – 10/23/1970
  • Marcia is head over heels for a boy at school named Harvey Klinger (Billy Corcoran), who doesn’t know that Marcia is alive. Despite Mike’s pleas for Carol to stay out of it, Carol suggests that Marcia find out what he’s interested in and learn all she can about it. His interest happens to be the insect world, so Marcia brushes up on her bugs. The plan works and he asks Marcia to go steady. Carol is nervous, but Mike doesn’t think it’s a big deal…until Marcia starts going overboard and acting older than she is. Mike has a talk with Harvey about planning for his future with Marcia, intended to scare him off. This plan works too, and Marcia and Harvey decide to limit their time together. In the tag, Marcia is with another boy named Lester (Rory Stevens), and Marcia alludes to the fact that she’s been through several boyfriends in the weeks since Harvey. 1/15/14
• 031. Call Me Irresponsible – 10/30/1970
  • Greg’s 15th birthday is coming up and he’s already thinking about buying a car, so he asks his father to get him a job at his architecture firm. His first big assignment is to deliver some plans to the printer, but on the way, he stops at the newsstand for latest car magazine and the plans fall out of the cylinder. Mike is disappointed and has to break the news to his boss Mr. Philips (Jack Collins). He works all night to re-create the plans, but decides to give Greg a second chance at delivering them. This time Greg’s bicycle chain breaks and he is given a lift by the father (Bob Peoples) of his girlfriend Randy Peterson (Annette Ferra), who drives off before Greg can retrieve the plans. Greg follows his trail by going to Randy’s drama school, and then the mechanic (Gordon Jump) where Mr. Peterson dropped off the car. Mike is nervous when Greg is late, but when he gets home, he says that the plans have been delivered without incident. William ‘Billy’ Benedict plays the newsstand vendor, and Barbara Morrison is the drama coach. 2/3/14
• 032. The Treasure of Sierra Avenue – 11/6/1970
  • While playing football in a vacant lot, the boys find a wallet with more than one thousand dollars in it. They finally agree to split it among themselves, but refuse to share with the girls. When Mr. Brady gets home, he lays down the law and they turn the wallet into the police. The girls give the boys the silent treatment, until Mr. Brady scolds them all, and they then decide to share with the girls. Eventually the money is claimed by a man named Mr. Stoner (Victor Kilian), who was traveling across country and changed a flat tire in the lot. He gives the boys a $20 reward, which they split six ways. 2/4/14
• 033. A Fistful of Reasons – 11/13/1970
  • Cindy comes home from school in tears because an older bully named Buddy Hinton (Russell Schulman) has been making fun of her lisp and calling her ‘baby talk.’ With her parents’ encouragement, she immediately starts out with a book of tongue twisters in order to improve her speech. When Peter later sees Buddy teasing Cindy, he intervenes but refuses to fight, leading to Buddy now referring to Peter as ‘chicken.’ When they meet again, Peter attempts to reason with him, but receives a black eye. Mike and Carol then each visit Mr. and Mrs. Hinton (Paul Sorensen, Ceil Cabot) separately, but nearly get into fights with them as well. They finally give Peter permission to defend himself and Mike, Alice, and Greg help teach him to fight. The next time Buddy picks on him, Peter offers to reason and then fights him, knocking his front tooth loose and causing him to now lips. Buddy comes over to the Bradys to see Cindy and ask to borrow her tongue twister book. 3/5/14
• 034. The Not-So-Ugly Duckling – 11/20/1970
  • Jan is shattered when her love interest Clark Tyson (Mark Gruner) pays more attention to Marcia. In order to make her feel better, the family decides to throw her a big party for her birthday. Jan meanwhile works on eliminating her freckles by applying lemons to her face at the advice of a druggist (Joseph Mell), but gives it up quickly. Instead she pretends that she has a boyfriend at school named ‘George Glass,’ and goes through great effort to prove he exists. When the family tries to track down George for the party, they come up short, which causes Mike and Carol to wonder why the boys don’t like Jan. They ask Clark and he says that he and the other boys consider Jan ‘a swell guy.’ Jan puts on a dress and Clark can hardly believe his eyes and at her party, he is all over her. Mike and Carol become concerned when they then see Cindy talking to a boy. 3/5/14
• 035. The Tattle-Tale – 12/4/1970
  • Mike and Carol chastise Cindy for eavesdropping on their neighbors the Listons, and then tattling on Peter for straining his fish in the salt shaker lid. When Cindy continues tattle, the kids give her the cold shoulder, which seems to help get her to stop. When Alice wins a jingle contest from the Everpress Fabric Company, she give the postman a hug – just as Cindy answers a phone call from Sam and gives him a play-by-play of the hug. As a consequence, Sam doesn’t show up for their date. Mike threatens punishment if she continues to tattle. A registered letter and voucher arrives to inform Alice that she has won a stereo set, but Tiger runs off with it. Cindy witnesses this but won’t tell on him, because Mike has threatened to send him to Siberia if he steals anything else. Eventually they get it out of her and Alice claims her prize. This inspires her to enter a jelly bean counting contest. 6/4/14
• 036. What Goes Up… – 12/11/1970
  • Peter’s friends Jimmy (Jimmy Bracken), Tim (Sean Kelly), and Tommy (Brian Tochi) reluctantly let Bobby into to their tree-house club, but Bobby falls and sprains his ankle when he attempts to climb up into it. After everyone in the house pampers him, including Mike who buys him a pet parakeet, he eventually heals – but then finds that he is scared to climb back into it. In addition, he fears the swing-set, climbing on a ladder, and bike riding with Greg. When it becomes obvious that Bobby is afraid of falling, Mike suggests that they get him back into action right away. He buys a trampoline and attempts to initiate “Project Bounce-back.” This doesn’t work, but when Tiger chases his parakeet out the window, Bobby climbs on top of the swing-set to rescue it. Fully cured, he joins Peter’s club – but then quits when they only let him sweep the floors. 6/6/14
• 037. Confessions, Confessions – 12/18/1970
  • While the boys are playing basketball in their room, Peter accidentally hurls the ball downstairs and breaks their Mom’s favorite vase. With an upcoming camping trip with his friends, Peter is convinced by his brothers and sisters to not admit it until after the trip. They try to glue it back together but it begins to leak at the table. Mike and Carol demand to know who did it, but every other kid – plus Alice – confess to breaking it. The folks deduce that Peter must have done it, so they let him dish out the punishments to his siblings, hoping that his guilty conscience will force him to confess. The punishments are too weak so he has to give them some hard tasks, and slowly starts to feel worse and worse. His parents buy him a lantern to see if that might push him over the edge, but he doesn’t crack…until he is ready to leave with his friends and suddenly confesses and takes over the chores of his siblings. Snag Werris is the hardware salesman. 8/20/14
• 038. The Impractical Joker – 1/1/1971
  • Jan’s new hobby is playing practical jokes, first with a fake ink stain on Alice and then with a fake spider for her sisters. Greg has brought home a lab mouse named Myron, whom he has to train to run through a maze, and Jan utilizes Myron for another practical joke on her sisters. But when Carol finds out about the mouse, she banishes it from the house. Mike proposes that they keep the mouse in the garage. Jan steals the mouse as a joke and puts it into the laundry hamper, but it gets out through a hole. When Alice sees the mouse, she calls an exterminator (Lennie Breman). Greg is heartbroken when he thinks that Myron has been killed, and Jan is even more inconsolable. They eventually find Myron alive in Tiger’s doghouse, and Jan has learned her lesson about playing jokes. 8/20/14
• 039. Where There’s Smoke – 1/8/1971
  • Greg is asked to play in his friend Tommy Johnson’s (Craig Handley/Huxley) band The Banana Convention. Greg enthusiastically agrees, and reluctantly takes a cigarette from Tommy and chokes his way through it – as Jan and Cindy spot him smoking. They tell Marcia and Marcia laments sharing it with their parents, but does so because she thinks its for Greg’s own good. Mike and Carol decide not to punish him, but demand that there is no smoking while he is a juvenile; Greg agrees. Carol then joins an anti-smoking group headed up by Tommy’s mother (Marie Denn), and while visiting the Brady house, witnesses a pack of cigarettes fall out of Greg’s pocket. Greg is adamant that they are not his. Carol believes him, but Mrs. Johnson does not, so Carol backs out of the group. Greg labors over figuring out  how the cigarettes got in his pocket, but it is not until Alice notices that the jacket is not really his does Greg realize that he has switched jackets with Tommy. Greg forces Tommy to tell his folks that he was the owner of the cigarettes, and then he has no choice but to tell his mother, who then apologizes for accusing Greg. Mrs. Brady re-joins the anti-smoking group. Greg sings Till I Met You. 9/18/14
• 040. Will the Real Jan Brady Please Stand Up? – 1/15/1971
  • When the invitation to Jan’s friend Lucy Winters’ (Pamelyn Ferdin) birthday party comes addressed to Marcia, Jan begins to suffer an identity crisis and fears that she blends in too much with her blonde sisters. Her solution is to buy a black curly wig that she intends to wear at the party. Everyone in her family thinks it is ridiculous, but her parents allow her to wear it to the party. Meanwhile Peter, who is also invited to the party, finds out that Margie Rimple (Karen Foulkes) will be at the party. She has a crush on him and Peter is sure that she will continuously follow him around. He feigns illness to get out going, but his parents call his bluff. When Jan and Peter arrive at the party, the kids laugh at Jan and think her hair is a joke. Jan scurries home in tears, followed by Lucy, Margie and Peter, who convince her that they only thought her wig was a joke because they all envy her beautiful blonde hair. Everyone returns to the party, Peter arm-in-arm with Margie. Marcia Wallace is the wig saleswoman. 9/19/14
• 041. The Drummer Boy – 1/22/1971
  • Peter, Jan, and Cindy all join the school Glee Club, but Bobby is rejected because of his terrible voice. While the other kids practice Loch Lomond, Mike and Carol encourage Bobby to try an instrument, and he choose the drums. His incessant playing nearly drives everyone crazy. Putting him outside in the garage only infuriates the neighbors. Peter is also criticized by his football teammates for being a ‘canary’ and singing in the Glee Club. The school coach (Bart La Rue) gets his pal, L.A. Rams player Deacon Jones (himself, billed as David “Deacon” Jones) to give the kids some pointers, and when he hears that Peter is being teased, he says that he also sings…as do many other football players. Back at home, Mike and Carol are about to tell Bobby that he is going to have to stop playing the drums, when he decides to quit on his own…so he can take up the bugle. 10/22/14
• 042. Coming Out Party – 1/29/1971
  • Mr. Phillips invites the Brady clan to spend an afternoon on his boat. The kids clear their Saturday for the event, and try to find ways to help Alice overcome her seasickness. Cindy however comes down with a sneeze that proves to be tonsillitis. The kids try and nurse her back to health, but ultimately her surgery to have her tonsils removed fall on the Saturday of the boat excursion. It turns out that Carol had to have hers removed as well. With strict instruction not to talk, Carol answers the phone and is caught by Mike. When Mr. Phillips calls, thinking that it is Mike calling just to trick her, Carol insults his boat. All is forgiven and even though Alice does in fact suffer seasickness, the family spends a great afternoon on the boat two weeks later. 10/23/14
• 043. Our Son, the Man – 2/5/1971
  • Now that Greg is in high school, he sees himself as a modern man and asks his father if he might have his own room to get some privacy from his siblings. Mike discusses it with Carol and they decide to let him have the den, which he decorates in pure psychedelia. When a pretty senior girl (Julie Cobb) rebuffs his advances, he thinks it’s because he’s not dressing like a boy (Chris Beaumont) in whom she’s interested. Mike loans Greg some money for new mod clothes. Everyone starts to get tired of his mod talk and attitude, but allow him to skip out on the annual family camping trip to Mount Claymore so that he can try out his new pad. Unfortunately, the girl still won’t go out with him and none of his friends are available. Greg decides that he wants to go on the camping trip after all, which works out since his brothers have already packed his bag. 11/3/14
• 044. The Liberation of Marcia Brady – 2/12/1971
  • Newsman Ken Jones (as himself) interviews Marcia about Women’s Lib, and she states that women should be given the chance to try anything that men can do. She tries to keep her brothers from seeing the broadcast, but when they do, they ridicule her. To prove her point, she joins up with Greg’s Frontier Scouts, and they are unable to keep her out because no rule states that members have to be boys. To get even, Greg talks Peter into joining Marcia’s group The Sunflower Girls, but after he is laughed at while trying to sell cookies, he quits. Marcia manages to pass all of the tests to be accepted into the group, despite Greg not making them easy on her, but when it comes time for initiation, she declines and says she just wanted to prove that she could do it. Clair Wilcox is Judy Winters. Ken Sansom is Stan Jacobsen. John Lawrence is Peter’s customer. 11/8/14
• 045. Lights Out – 2/19/1971
  • Cindy is having trouble sleeping in the dark after witnessing a magician make a woman disappear, keeping her sisters and parents up half the night. Peter wants to try out for a Vaudeville show at school doing a magic act. Mike thinks this might help Cindy, so he agrees and he and Peter visit the magic shop. He does tricks such as disappearing bottles, milk into the fist, linking rings, disappearing handkerchiefs in a bag, and disappearing banana – but his grand finale will be the disappearing lady. Cindy agrees to be his assistant until Bobby tries out the box and as a practical joke, doesn’t come back. This scares Cindy enough that she has Jan take her place in the act. But on the day of the audition, Jan sprains her ankle so Peter nervously tells the judges (led by C. Lindsay Workman as the teacher) about all of the tricks that he can’t do. At the last minute Cindy has a change of heart and performs the disappearing lady trick for Peter, enjoying it so much that she requests to do it again. Snag Werris is the magic store clerk. Joseph Tatner is Warren the accordion player. 11/19/14
• 046. The Winner – 2/26/1971
  • After Cindy wins a trophy for being the best jacks player, Bobby realizes that he’s the only one who hasn’t won one yet. He dreams of winning one for baseball, skiing, or boat racing, but ultimately tries to win one for selling the most magazines after a kid (Kerry MacLane) also selling them visits the Brady house. Everyone in the family buys magazines, and Mike and Carol prompt many of their friends to as well. But when Bobby finds out that his parents have helped him, he declares that he wants to win on his own. He enters an ice cream eating contest on the kids’ show Kartoon King (Hal March), where the kids race to finish with their hands behind their backs. Bobby loses – again – but when he comes home he finds that his siblings and Alice have arranged a party and present him with a trophy for trying so hard. 11/22/14
• 047. Double Parked – 3/5/1971
  • The Bradys are beside themselves when they find out that their favorite park Woodland Park is going to be eliminated when the erection of a city courthouse is announced. It turns out that Mike’s firm is responsible for constructing the building, and Mr. Phillips appoints Mike to head up the project. Mike tells his family to continue with fighting for their cause, so Carol pleads with City Hall and the kids work toward gathering signatures on a petition and picketing. Mr. Phillips starts to get concerned with the publicity and orders Mike to call off his family or lose his job. Mike refuses to bend to the ultimatum even though his family is willing to back off. They continue their pursuit, but Mike ultimately comes up with another plan: to build the courthouse on the site of the City Dump…and Mike is appointed the architect to design it. Jackie Coogan plays a petition signer. 1/1/15
• 048. Alice’s September Song – 3/12/1971
  • When Alice’s old boyfriend Mark Millard (Stephen Dunne) looks her off, she blows off Sam’s invitation to watch his bowling tournament and sets aside the week to spend with him. Her first date goes so well that she starts to fall for him, and believes that he is going to propose. At dinner he slyly mentions an investment opportunity and she fall for it, ready to give him her nest egg. She tells a skeptical Carol, who then tells Mike. He finds out from a friend of his that Millard is actually a pathological gambler who has had six wives. Mike brings over the District Attorney and Mark tries to escape the Brady house, but runs smack into Sam’s frozen meat that he is delivering. Alice revives him with a watering can, and then she and Sam head out for a picnic. Meanwhile Mike and boys work on a model airplane. 1/2/15
• 049. Tell It Like It Is – 3/26/1971
  • Carol is sneaking around at night working on a writing project that she won’t tell Mike about. After much curiosity, he finds her with Mr. Delafield (Dick Simmons), the editor of Tomorrow’s Woman magazine, and learns that Carol is writing an article about their family. Once the article is submitted, Delafield rejects it because it is too realistic and feels the reader want a more optimistic outlook of life. Mike convinces her to re-write it and it is accepted. However when Delafield’s editorial assistants – including Wally Witherspoon (Jonathan Hole) and Nora Maynard (Elaine Swann) – who up at the house for a photo shoot, they see the girls fighting, Peter with a black eye after a fight with Buddy Hinton, Greg with poison oak, Alice spilling the sandwiches, and Mike dropping the flowers. They chastise her for not telling it ‘like it is.’ Delafield however decides the print the original article. Alice later tries her hand at writing. 2/20/15

SEASON 3

• 050. Ghost Town U.S.A. – 9/17/1971
  • Mike and Carol surprise the family by purchasing a camper and announcing a trip to the Grand Canyon. They head out on the open road merrily singing Row Row Row Your Boat and Hail, Hail, the Gang’s All Here. A gas station attendant (Hoke Howell) along the way tells the Bradys about a ghost town called Cactus Creek, and they decide to visit it and set up camp there. The kids make a film they call The Great Stagecoach Robbery. They soon meet a denizen of the town named Zaccariah T. Brown (Jim Backus) and he they are enthralled by his tall tales of the Gold Rush. But things turn sour when he becomes scared they will make claims on his gold, and he locks them in an old jail cell and steals their car. The Bradys are able to get out of the cell by using their shoes and socks to retrieve a key on the wall. Mike and Peter head out to search for help leaving the family behind without food or water. NOTE: This is the first of a three part episode. 2/20/15
• 051. Grand Canyon or Bust – 9/24/1971
  • After being abandoned in Cactus Creek, the Bradys each try to do something helpful in their situation: Mike and Peter have set out in search of help, Greg and Bobby try to repair a phone, Marcia, Jan, and Alice try to spell out “HELP” for passing planes, and Carol and Cindy try to pump an old well for water. But soon Mike returns in the car, which Mr. Brown has returned to them after staking his claim on the gold, offering them 10% of his claim on a piece of paper he merely signed as X. The family heads toward the Grand Canyon, singing My Darling Clementine along the way, and arrives to enjoy its majesty and watch a Hopi rain dance. They take mules down to the bottom of the canyon and set up their camp in Yah-ta-hey Flats. Bobby and Cindy go in search of fossils and spot and Indian boy (Michele Campo), whom they follow until they get lost. The rest of the family split up to look for them as darkness approaches. NOTE: This is the second of a three part episode. 3/29/15
• 052. The Brady Braves – 10/1/1971
  • Bobby and Cindy, still lost in the Grand Canyon, get help from the Indian boy Jimmy Pocaya whom they had followed and he takes them back to camp. Jimmy has run away from his grandfather Chief Eagle Cloud (Jay Silverheels) and Bobby and Cindy smuggle him hot dogs and baked beans in their flashlight, while the family sings Down in the Valley and Home on the Range. Greg and Peter find them and bring them back to camp where they find out that Jimmy is afraid that his grandfather won’t understand that he wants to be an astronaut. Mr. Brady talks Jimmy into returning and talking to his grandfather. In appreciation, Eagle Cloud invites them to a ceremony where they are made honorary members of his tribe, giving them honorary Indian names: Big Eagle of Large Nest (Mike), Yellow Flower with Many Petals (Carol), Stalking Wolf (Greg), Middle Buffalo/Sleeping Lizard (Peter), Wandering Blossom (Cindy), Little Bear Who Loses Way (Bobby), Dove of Morning Light (Jan), Willow Dancing in Wind (Marcia), and Squaw in Waiting (Alice). Then they all dance around the fire. Later they take one last look at the Grand Canyon and head home. NOTE: This is the third of a three part episode 3/29/15
• 053. The Wheeler-Dealer – 10/8/1971
  • Greg takes his driving test and gets his drivers license, then drops the bomb on his parents that he wants to buy his won car. Mike is impressed that he’s managed to save over $100 so agrees, as long as Greg lets him see the car before he buys it. When his friend Eddie (Christopher Beaumont) high pressures him into buying a clunker, he snatches it up without consulting his father. Greg actually manages to make the car presentable, but it still falls apart at its unveiling. Mike teaches him the concept of ‘caveat emptor’, so Greg in turn tries to con his friend Ronnie (Charles Martin Smith) into buying it. Mike and Carol are disappointed that Greg would do such a thing, but then he tells them that even though he had Ronnie ready to buy the car, in the end he couldn’t go through with it. Greg sells the car to a junkyard for $50, and Mike impresses on him that he learned a valuable lesson and it only cost him $50. 6/25/15
• 054. My Sister, Benedict Arnold – 10/15/1971
  • Greg declares that classmate Warren Mullaney (Gary Rist) is his worst enemy after he makes the first string basketball team and Greg doesn’t. Simultaneously Marcia accepts a date from Warren, but when she finds out how Greg feels, she decides not to see him again. However when Greg demands that she not date Warren, Marcia decides to go out with him again just to make a point. Greg in turn asks out Kathy Lawrence (Sheri Cowart), who had beaten Marcia out her spot on the cheerleading squad. When both kids bring their dates home, it leads to an escalating argument, which is put to a stop by their parents, who remind Greg and Marcia that they are using their dates to irritate one another. They go to apologize only to find out that Warren and Kathy have left together for the pizza parlor. Meanwhile the family puts together a dunking booth for the school carnival, into which Alice inevitably falls. 6/28/15
• 055. The Personality Kid – 10/22/1971
  • Peter comes home from a party feeling dejected because one of the kids there told him that he is dull. His siblings try to cheer him up, Marcia even having her friend Kathy carry on about how great Peter describes the movie The Invasion of the Potato People. Cindy exposes their deception, leaving Peter even more depressed. Although his parents think the notion is ridiculous, Mike advises him to change his personality if he doesn’t like it. Peter first tries to emulate an Englishmen and then Humphrey Bogart, which everyone finds ridiculous. Then he turns to joke telling, and after having some success, decides to have a party to showcase his new sense of humor. Unfortunately some of the guests end up finishing his jokes for him, which sends him into his funk again. However some of the girls at the party surround him to build up his ego when he tells them how dull he feels. Peter enjoys the attention and accepts more party invitations. Meanwhile Bobby and Cindy spearhead a safety inspection in the house and Mike helps them by blowing a whistle for some fire drills. Monika Ramirez is Kyle. Margie DeMeyer is Judy. Karen Peters is Susie. 8/27/15
• 056. Juliet Is the Sun – 10/29/1971
  • Although she was trying out for the part of the nurse, Marcia is given the lead in the school play Romeo and Juliet. However her modesty makes her believe that she is not glamorous enough for the part, so her family goes on a campaign of flattering her into believing she is a prima donna. Soon her head swells and she is being rude to her siblings, her co-star Harold Axelrod (Randy Case), and is even re-writing some of the dialogue in the play to suit her ‘mood.’ Carol finally has enough of the behavior and has a talk with the play’s director Miss Goodwin (Lois Newman), and they pull Marcia from the play. Marcia nearly has a breakdown, but then humbly asks if she might be able to step into the role of Juliet’s mother Lady Capulet, when the original actress has to bow out. 8/28/15
• 057. And Now a Word from Our Sponsor – 11/5/1971
  • While grocery shopping one day, a strange man follows Carol and the kids through the parking lot staring at them. He turns out to be ultra-hip TV commercial director Skip Farnum (Paul Winchell), and he is interested in hiring the Bradys to do a commercial for Safe detergent. Mike agrees with the idea, and the kids immediately start thinking about how they are going to spend the money. However the commercial is nearly scuttled when Mike realizes that Carol has stopped using Safe and switched to Best detergent, but when Skip notifies them that Safe is now new and improved, they give it two tests to see which soap does the best job. Safe wins out, so the commercial is back on, but then Mike realizes he has no idea how to act. Carol brings in her friend Myrna Carter (Bonnie Boland) to give them acting lessons, but when her suggestions of find their motivation cause them all to overact for the commercial, Skip calls the whole thing off. Skip remarks to his producer Mr. Felder (Art Lewis) that the Bradys’ poor acting puts him in mind with another terrible actress… Myrna Carter. The Bradys are paid off with 2000 boxes of Safe. Leonard Breman is the truck driver. 11/23/15
• 058. The Private Ear – 11/12/1971
  • Peter borrows his father’s tape recorder to use to eavesdrop on his siblings. When he is able to quote so-called secrets that some of them have told each other, it causes rifts between Marcia and Jan, Greg and Marcia, and Bobby and Cindy. Dinner that evening is unbearably silent until Mike insists that everyone speak, causing the floodgates to erupt. Mike and Carol notice that Peter is the only one not arguing, but rather sitting there smirking, so the confront him about his actions. His punishment is simply to apologizes to his siblings, but Marcia and Greg think that his punishment isn’t severe enough. Consequently they plant a tape in his recorder in which they chat about a surprise party that their parents are going to throw for Peter for his good grades. Peter is naturally disappointed when this doesn’t actually happen, and Greg and Marcia start to feel bad and confess that they made it all up. However Mike and Carol have also heard the tape, and they return from a ski trip bearing gifts for Peter, cautioning Greg and Marcia that they will be the ones to handle the punishments from now on. 11/23/15
• 059. Her Sister’s Shadow – 11/19/1971
  • When Jan’s teacher Mrs. Watson (Gwen Van Dam) compliments her on her work, but then compares it to Marcia’s great work, Jan is offended and immediately goes home and throws all of Marcia’s awards into the closet. Marcia first confronts her brothers, but then realizes that Jan is the culprit. Mike and Carol convince Jan to try and make her own mark, so she practices hard for the Pom Pom Girl tryouts. Marcia and the family support her wholeheartedly, but when the teacher (Peggy Doyle) announces who will be on the team, Jan is one of two girls who doesn’t make it. However Jan is excited when she receives a score of 98 on her composition on “Americanism”, the highest score in the entire school. She is excited to be presented with an award at the school assembly, but then realizes that Mrs. Watson has made a miscalculation and she only received a 93, which means that Nora Coons actually had the higher score with 95. She debates keeping it a secret, but at the last minute, she tells Mrs. Watson the truth, which makes her teacher, parents, and the entire school proud of her honesty. It is now Cindy who complains of living in Jan’s shadow. C. Lindsay Workman is the principal. Julie Reese is Katy.  1/21/16
• 060. Click – 11/26/1971
  • Greg gets selected for the high school football team, much to the dismay of Carol, who is worried about injuries. Meanwhile Bobby hones his photography skills and takes Greg’s advice about taking candid photos. Alice struggles to remember a pie recipe. Carol’s worst fears come true when Greg suffers a fractured rib during the rib, just as he’s been moved to first string. Greg reluctantly attends the next game to take photos of his cheerleader girlfriend Linette Carter (Elvera Roussel). His team loses the game, but one of Greg’s photos reveals that a player catching a touchdown pass was actually in-bound even though he was called out-of-bounds by the referee. The Coach (Bert La Rue) ends up giving Greg a job as the team photographer. Alice remembers her recipe finally, but Peter erases it accidentally. Fortunately one of Bobby’s photographs saves the day, as it plainly shows the recipe on her kitchen chalkboard. 1/21/16
• 061. Getting Davy Jones – 12/10/1971
  • Marcia and her friends Laura (Kimberly Beck) and Doreen (Tina Andrews) are the entertainment committee for the Senior Prom, but have been unable to come up with a guest performer. When Jan informs them that singer Davy Jones (himself) is in town to record an album, Marcia is sure that she can get him since he had sent her, as president of the local chapter of his fan club, a handwritten letter saying that he would be glad to do her a favor if he is ever in town. Their teacher Mrs. Robbins (Marcia Wallace) has every confidence that Marcia will get him and has banner printed up welcoming him to the school. Marcia however can’t get into his hotel room amidst all of the other fans, and attempting to catch him during a taping of The Hank Coleman Show is fruitless because the page (Whitney Rydbeck) notifies her that the show is taped in advance. Alice helps Marcia and Greg sneak into Davy Jones’ room at the hotel disguised as busboys, but he has already gone. His manager (Britt Leach) however informs them that Davy is recording at Atlas Records. Marcia arrives and listens to him record the song Girl, but is kicked out by Davy’s manager. Davy hears Marcia’s plight over the intercom and visits Marcia at home, agreeing to play at the prom if she will be his date. 4/1/16
• 062. The Not-So-Rose-Colored Glasses – 12/24/1971
  • Mr. Brenner from the playground calls Mike to report that Jan has taken a bike that doesn’t belong to her. Meanwhile Mike arranges to have a photo of the kids taken to celebrate his and Carol’s three-year anniversary. Alice feigns a toothache to keep Carol occupied and they they head to absent-minded photographer Gregory Gaylord (Robert Nadder) and get the photo taken. Back home Carol gets a note from Jan’s teacher Mrs. Denhoff about Jan’s slipping grades. It becomes apparent that Jan is struggling to see, so Carol takes her to an eye doctor and Jan gets glasses. Jan is self-conscious about the glasses and tries to avoid wearing them. Because of this, she crashes her bike in the garage and destroys the portrait that was hidden there from her mom. Jan raises the money to have the photo taken again without telling her father, but she forgets to take off her glasses during the re-take. Mike notices this and confronts her about it, opting to punish her by taking away her bike. Jan however tells him that she sold the bike to pay for the portrait, so he says that is punishment enough. 4/1/16
• 063. The Teeter-Totter Caper – 12/31/1971
  • When Bobby and Cindy are snubbed in the invitation for Carol’s cousin Gertrude’s wedding, and then Cindy is denied helping Marcia and Jan paint a chair, and Bobby is pushed away from helping Greg and Bobby fix Marcia’s transistor radio, they feel like little kids get no respect. When they see on the news that two college boys are poised to beat a record of being on a teeter-totter for 124 hours. Bobby and Cindy decide to shoot for the record, so bright and early they hop on the teeter-totter just after 8am. They spend the entire day on there, eating their meals on the teeter-totter, and are interviewed for The Daily Chronicle by TV personality Mark Winters (Dick Winslow). They end up falling asleep that night and their parents put them to bed. The next day they are excited to see their story and pictures in the paper. Mike convinces them that they may have set a record for kids their age. Gertrude tries to get the new ‘celebrities’ to come to the wedding, but they now have no interest. Vito Scotti is the voice of the cooking show host. 7/4/16
• 064. Big Little Man – 1/7/1972
  • Bobby tags along with Greg as he attempts to fix a shutter on the girls’ room, but when Greg goes inside for a phone call, Bobby attempts to fix it on his own, falling from the ladder and needing rescued by Greg. Bobby admits that Greg saved his life, but also becomes convinced that he is nothing more than a ‘pee-wee’. Bobby tries to assert himself by first trying to fight the biggest boy in school, then trying to impress everyone with his ‘brain power’. When all else fails, he tries hanging from the swing set to ‘stretch’ himself into being taller. The girls take pity on him and keep lowering the tape on the door that he is using to measure himself. He eventually catches on and becomes even more sullen. Meanwhile Greg takes a job as a delivery boy with Sam in order to save money to buy a surf board. Alice entrusts Bobby with picking up some meat from the store, where he inadvertently locks Greg and himself in the meat cooler. Because of his small size, Bobby is able to climb through the locker window and get his father and Sam to come and rescue Greg. Bobby is thankful for his size, and feels that he has now saved Greg’s life, evening the score. 7/28/16
• 065. Dough Re Mi – 1/14/1972
  • Greg has been working hard on a song We Can Make the World a Whole Lot Brighter and wants to record it, but finds out that it will cost $150. Peter goes down to the studio and talks to the producer Mr. Dimsdale (John Wheeler) since his son is Peter’s classmate. While there he sees the sibling group The Monroes and thinks Greg will have better luck in recording as a group as well. They get all the kids to buy in and gets Mike to advance their allowances on the rest. As they are rehearsing, Peter’s voice, a victim of puberty, starts to crack. The other kids try to decide whether to let Peter stay in the group, and end up deciding to forget the session… until Greg has the idea to write a song called Time to Change, which incorporates Peter’s squeaky changing voice as their gimmick. They record the song to great success, and Greg hopes that Peter’s voice will stay that way for a while. 9/28/16
• 066. Jan’s Aunt Jenny – 1/21/1972
  • While cleaning out the attic, Jan stumbles across a photo of Carol’s Aunt Jenny (Imogene Coca), who as a child was virtually identical to Jan. She writes to Aunt Jenny and gets a response along with a recent picture of herself. Jan finds her to be ugly, and so begins worrying that she will grow up to look the same. Aunt Jenny comes for a visit, bearing interesting gifts for all of the kids, and tales of her wild exploits all over the world. It is obvious that Jan doesn’t care for her, and Mike and Carol have no choice but to tell her why. Jenny tells Jan that she remains single by choice and that she enjoys having her face, but if she wanted, she could have had plastic surgery. Jenny prepares an exotic oriental meal for the family, and keeps getting interrupted by dignitaries trying to reach her, eventually getting the call that she is expected in Paris for dinner at the American Embassy. Jan has finally warmed up to her and tells Aunt Jenny that she wishes she didn’t have to leave. When Jan later gets a call for a date, she makes sure to tell him that she’ll go, but won’t be ready to settle down for a long time. 9/28/16
• 067. The Big Bet – 1/28/1972
  • When Greg gets irritated at Bobby for spouting off about setting a class record for pull-ups, he spouts off that he can do twice as many as Bobby. They end up betting that Greg cannot in fact double Bobby’s number, the victor being permitted to tell the winner to do whatever he wants for a week. Bobby works hard at training, while Greg blows it off, causing him to only complete 19 pull-ups after Bobby completes 11. Bobby immediately pesters Greg with every conceivable chore, including having him do those of their siblings. Greg tries to put a nix on Bobby coming with him on his date with Rachel (Hope Sherwood aka Hope Schwartz), but their parents remind him that he made the bet and shouldn’t have done so if he wasn’t willing to pay. Bobby acts as obnoxious as possible on the date and ends up putting his umbrella through the roof of their father’s convertible. Bobby learns his lesson and agrees to help pay for its replacement, even if it means doing Greg’s chores. Meanwhile Mike and Carol bet the identical stakes on whether Carol can figure out who Mike’s old girlfriend ‘Bobo’ was, as they attend his class reunion. She wins the bet as well when Bobo introduces herself, and Carol puts Mike through his paces doing things for her. 12/26/16
• 068. The Power of the Press – 2/4/1972
  • Peter gets a job as a school newspaper reporter and takes on his own column The Whole Truth as “Scoop” Brady. Peter goes overboard immediately by commandeering every pencil in the house, demanding that he have the den to himself, and asking everyone to stay off the phone in case a story is called in. Once he completes a story, Greg and Alice give him some pointers to spice it up by complimenting people and using their names in print. This works like a charm, and since Peter’s mentions of classmates Iris (Jennifer Reilly), Harvey (Bobby Riha), and Diane (Angela Satterwhite) lead to positive things for the students, they begin doing favors for Peter. However all the neglect of his studies leads to Peter getting a D on his exam from Mr. Price (Milton Parsons). Peter thinks if he writes a flattering piece on Mr. Price, it will help his grade. When Mike gets wind of what Peter is doing, he encourages him to handle the problem correctly. Peter talks to Mr. Price, who agrees that he could be a little less stuffy with the students, and Peter ends up with a C, the grade he deserves, in the class. Meanwhile Marcia and Jan make puppets of some of the teachers to poke fun of them at the upcoming school jamboree. 12/26/16
• 069. Sergeant Emma – 2/11/1972
  • Alice heads out for vacation an in her absence, her cousin Emma (Ann B. Davis), a former Master Sergeant in the WACs, comes to stay for a week in her place. Emma runs the house with military precision, insisting everyone getting up early for calisthenics and jogging. The kids hope to get rid of Emma, but Mike and Carol remind them that it may hurt Alice’s feelings. They try to convince her in other ways, but offering to let her take a vacation, scaring her with a mouse, and convincing her that she looks sick. When nothing works, they decide to just ride it out. With Alice coming back at the end of the week, they decide to throw a party for her, but Emma mistakes it as a going-away party for her. Once Alice returns, she tries to emulate Emma’s morning wake-up call and is shut down by the Bradys. 4/4/17
• 070. Cindy Brady, Lady – 2/18/1972
  • Cindy is tired of being the youngest and treated like a child. After trying on her mother’s clothing and seeing that this doesn’t change anything, she goes to advice from Alice and tries to follow her advice by trying to act older by reading more advanced books. Greg and Peter each try and invite Cindy to hang out with them, but Cindy refuses. Later Cindy begins getting phone calls and gifts from a secret admirer who turns out to be Bobby. When pressed to meet up with her, Bobby pays his fellow student Tommy Jamison (Eric Shea) to come visit Cindy. When she tries to act old and mature, it turns Tommy off… but then Cindy reveals her true self and Tommy ends up liking her so much that he returns the money that he got from Bobby.
• 071. My Fair Opponent – 3/3/1972
  • Marcia is furious that her classmates, as a joke, have voted to have a wallflower named Molly Weber (Debi Storm) to compete with the popular Patty Holbrook for the hostess for Senior Banquet night. Marcia’s parents convince her to get involved and work with Molly ala My Fair Lady to get her ready for the competition. The experiment is a rousing success and Molly comes out of her shell and becomes popular. Things take a turn though when Patty is forced to drop out of the competition and Marcia is nominated to step in. Marcia is willing to drop out herself, even if the stakes have now been raised for the hostess to accompany astronaut Colonel Dick Whitfield (William Wellman Jr.). However when she starts to tell Molly that she’s dropping out, Molly’s stuck-up and ungrateful attitude convince Marcia to stay in the race. Although Marcia has already helped Molly write her competition speech, she writes a new one for herself. The judges ultimately pick Molly, stating that they were dead even until they hard the speeches, and felt that Molly’s was better. Marcia is furious, but Molly sees the error of her ways and brings Colonel Whitfield to the Brady house and proposes that they act as co-hostesses. Suzanne Roth is Suzanne. 11/12/17
• 072. The Fender Benders – 3/10/1972
  • While grocery shopping with Marcia, Bobby, and Cindy, Carol and another car back into each other in the parking lot. Although Carol claims that she had looked to make sure her path was clear, and that she and the other driver Harry Duggan (Jackie Coogan) had agreed to cover their own damages, Duggan shows up with a different story and claims that the accident was Carol’s fault and demands payment of his bill. Carol is willing fight Duggan in court, until both Bobby and Cindy reveal that they did not see Carol look back during the wreck. Marcia however distinctly remembers that Carol had in fact checked for clearance. Mike arranges to re-create the accident, and they determine that Bobby and Cindy were fighting so they couldn’t have seen the crash. Duggan shows up in court wearing a neck brace and puts on a performance about the nature of the accident. The judge (Robert Emhardt) sees the case of one word against the other, until Mike throws down his briefcase, which causes Duggan to turn his supposedly injured neck. This causes him to rule in favor of Carol. 11/12/17

SEASON 4

• 073. Hawaii Bound – 9/22/1972
  • Mike announces to the family that he is being sent to Hawaii to oversee a construction project, and all of the family is going with him. Upon arrival, they are met by David (Patrick Adiarte), who will serve as their tour guide. He takes them sightseeing over the weekend, including to Pearl Harbor, where he relates the story of the island natives cursing the land when the Americans took it over. Although he doesn’t believe it, construction worker Mr. Hanalei (David ‘Lippy’ Espinda) certainly does, and when he and another worker (Dennis Chun) find a small idol as they dig, he instructs him to throw it away since it is a cursed Tabu idol. Bobby finds the Tabu and considers it a good luck charm, although he sits on his ukulele and smashes it after he runs into Don Ho (himself) and his musical partner Sam Kapu Jr. (himself) and they sing Sweet Someone to the kids, a wall decoration almost hits him while he is wearing it, Alice throws her back out while receiving a hula lesson from an instructor (Elithe Aguiar) while carrying the idol, and Greg suffers a major wipeout while participating in a surfing contest judged by David and wearing the idol around his neck. In fact, the family cannot locate him after his surfboard surfaces. NOTE: This is the first part of a three-part episode. 6/16/18
• 074. Pass the Tabu – 9/29/1972
  • Greg recovers from his surfing accident with only minor injuries, but bad luck continues to befall the Bradys when a giant spider crawls into Jan’s purse while she his holding the Tabu. David tells the Brady boys that the Tabu represents bad luck to the owner, rather than good luck, so Bobby gives the Tabu to Peter. The tarantula-like spider crawls onto Peter while he is in bed, causing him to finally believe in the bad luck of the Tabu. David sends the boys to talk to Mr. Hanalei to find out how to lift the curse, and he gives them instruction to leave the Tabu on the site of the first king of Hawaii’s burial ground. Despite the objections of their parents, the boys sneak off to find the location and end up wandering into a cave, where they are stalked by a mysterious man (Vincent Price). NOTE: This is the second of a three-part episode. Cris Callow is Mandy, the girl Greg meets on the beach. 6/16/18
• 075. The Tiki Caves – 10/6/1972
  • The mysterious man in the cave turns out to be Professor Hubert Whitehead, a disenfranchised former archaeologist who now wants to gather the treasure in the caves for his own riches, who has lived so long in the caves that he refers to a giant Tiki inside as Oliver. He hold the boys against their will and ties them to Tikis while he plans to make his escape with the loot. However when the boys explain why they were their and show him the small Tiki, he believes they find it in the caves and there is an area of treasure that he missed. He insists they tell him, and after an escape attempt, Greg has no choice but to lie to him and tell him he found them in the caves to stall for time. Meanwhile Mike and Carol have become worried, and the girls tell their parents what the boys were up to. They go and visit Mr. Hanalei to determine the location of the caves and begin searching from them. When Mike and Carol arrive and confront Whitehead, he apologizes and explains that he only feared someone else would claim the discovery of the caves. Mike promises they’ll all vouch for Whitehead, so they report the caves to the state of Hawaii. The Mayor’s representative (Leon Lontoc) hosts a luau for Whitehead and the Bradys, complete with ritual fire dancing and the opportunity for each Brady to blow a large conch symbolizing the horn of brotherhood. As the Bradys depart Hawaii, Mike explains to Bobby that the idol was never really bad luck, and could be looked at as good luck because no one was hurt. When Mike breaks his sandal while closing the suitcase, Bobby insists it was good luck since his foot wasn’t in it. NOTE: This is the third and final part of a three-part episode. 1/12/19
• 076. Today, I Am a Freshman – 10/13/1972
  • The Brady kids are back to school, but Marcia decides she is sick. She sees a doctor (John Howard) who recognizes it as an obvious ruse to hide the fact that she is nervous about leaving Junior High where she was at the top of her classes both socially and academically, and now attending Westdale High. Mike suggests that Greg introduce her to some of his friends, but Marcia changes her personality to try to act sophisticated, quickly turning off his friends Tom Peterson (Kelly Flynn) and Dick Corsett (John Reilly). Marcia is angry about how the day want, and initially blames Mike for thinking she would be a wash-out and suggesting Greg introduce her. She comes to her senses and decides to sign up for virtually every activity being offered, including yoga, karate, archery, and scuba diving. She also hopes to be accepted into the Boosters Club and invites them to meet at her house. Meanwhile, Peter has joined the science club and is trying to build a volcano simulation on the patio. During the meeting, the volcano erupts all over Marcia and her guest, causing the snooty head of the club Kim (Vicki Cos) to bark at Marcia, who is so amused by the volcano that she laughs off not only the club, but the whole notion that she should be anything but herself to find friends. Later the volcano explodes on Alice as well. 1/12/19
• 077. Cyrano de Brady – 10/20/1972
  • Jan brings home her new friend Kerry Hathaway (Kym Karath), and Peter immediately falls for her when he meets her. Jan advises him to ask her out, so he tries to win her over by dressing up and being polite, but he ends up dropping her books in mud, spraying her with water, and then covering her in mud. Based on advice from his father, he then tries to write her a letter and Alice helps him make it poetic. Kerry is impressed by the letter, but doesn’t know who it is from since he forgets to sign his name. Then he gets the idea to visit her at night, using Greg to feed him his dialogue ala Cyrano de Bergerac. Kerry catches on, but thinks it is actually Greg who likes her, and she falls for him, much to Peter’s anger. Greg concocts a scheme to have Jan tell Kerry what a rat Greg is, but she only vows to try and change him. He takes it one step further by having Marcia pretend to be an ex-girlfriend named Debby, and then being cruel to her in front of Kerry. It nearly works, but then Peter comes home and exposes the ruse, commenting that if he had a girl like Kerry, he’d treat her like a queen… finally winning her over. Meanwhile Mike and Carol attend a modern art show. 1/11/20
• 078. Fright Night – 10/27/1972
  • The girls wake up one dark and windy night to creaks coming from the attic and an apparent ghost in the backyard. The boys seems concerned, but in reality they achieved the effect by projecting a slide of Peter covered in a sheet. Marcia figures out the trick, and the girls decide to get even. They bet their allowance that the boys can’t spend the night in the attic. When they accept, the girls rig up an old chest with a cellophane ghost inside and a tape recorder broadcasting Marcia’s voice sounding like someone locked inside. Peter and Bobby run downstairs in fear, and thus lose the bet. Mike orders the kids to stop trying to scare each other, but when Alice mentions that she never gets scared, the boys and girls decide to team up and try and scare her. When Mike and Carol attend an art show contest where Carol is entering a bust she made of Mike, the kids rig up the lights to not come on when Alice gets home, combined with a skull that lights up with a flashlight and a sheet cut like a ghost to descend the stairs. The only issue is that their parents come home before Alice does, and when Mike goes to check on the lights, Alice also returns, sees Carol’s bust that won third place in the show, thinks it is an intruder, and shatters it. With Carol disappointed about losing her piece of art, Mike takes all of the kids allowance away for two weeks. Alice starts a new art project to create a statue of Alice. 1/11/20
• 079. The Show Must Go On?? – 11/3/1972
  • With the Family Night Frolics coming up, Marcia asks Carol to do a vocal number with her in the show. Carol is reluctant, but Mike helps talk her into it. The family agrees to help sell tickets, and for Peter this means that he has to go to the movies with ugly Muriel (Karen Foulkes) so that her mother (Brandy Carlson) will buy tickets. Sam agrees to sell the tickets, but can’t attend the family night with Alice because he has plans to bowl that night. Meanwhile Greg has agree to play guitar in the show, and volunteers Mike to do a reading to accompany him. Mike thinks the dramatic reading is dull, so they plan to spice it up. Jan and Cindy visit Sam at the butcher shop and tells him that Alice has been seeing other man. Sam reacts furiously and demands to take Alice to the the frolics. After a brass performance from a father (Frank DeVol) and daughter (Bonnie Ludeka), Mrs. Tuttle (Barbara Morrison) introduces Carol and Marcia and they perform Together, Wherever We Go. Mike does his reading of Longfellow’s The Day Is Done, while Peter and Bobby pour feathers, water, and a chicken on them from above, all to great laughter from the audience. 4/26/20
• 080. Jan, the Only Child – 11/10/1972
  • Jan is getting tired of waiting in the line for the bathroom and not getting to watch TV when she wants, so she complains to her parents how difficult it is to have so many siblings. They are also disappointed that Jan plans to spend Saturday night with her friend Donna rather than participate in the family square dance at the charity hoedown. They caution the other kids to take it easy on Jan, and they go overboard to be polite and stay out of her way. Cindy lets it slip that the kids are only acting that way because their parents told them to, so Jan gathers them all together and tells them that she doesn’t need them and to stay out of her way. As Carol and Alice compete to see who can make the best strawberry preserves, and the entire family practices their square dancing, Jan goes about her life without her siblings. Soon she begins to miss having them around to talk to and play with, as they go out of their way to ignore her. When the other kids are busy practicing the potato sack race, she goes crying to her parents who advise her to break the deal. She stops them in the middle of the sack race, and won’t get out of the way until they agree to let her participate and to be her brothers and sisters again, to which they wholeheartedly agree. She cancels plans with Donna and they all go to the hoedown together, returning with an exhausted Alice. 4/26/20
• 081. Career Fever – 11/17/1972
  • Marcia goes looking for help from Greg with her Geometry homework and winds up reading aloud one of Greg’s compositions in which he professes that he wants to follow in his father’s footsteps and become an architect. He only wrote it because he couldn’t think of anything else, but when Mike overhears it, he becomes excited and proud. Greg tries to think of way to tell him, but find it easier to draw up the lousiest set of blueprints that he can imagine. Mike doesn’t have the heart to tell him, so instead he gives Greg his prized drafting tools and full access to his drafting board in the den. Greg then tries to create a design that is even worse. When Mike still refuses to give up on him, Greg finally tells him the truth. Both Mike and Carol respond that they want Greg to be whatever he wants in life. Meanwhile Peter and Jan get career fever as well, and decide to be a doctor and nurse duo. As they study medical journals, Peter diagnosis himself with Anacardiaceae and concludes that he is dying. When he breaks the news to his parents, they advise him that the pages have stuck together and he is blending the symptoms of diagnoses of two different diseases. He apparently has nothing more than poison ivy. Bobby and Cindy get in on the act as well, Bobby choosing to be an astronaut and Cindy a model. They both take their food intake down to prepare for both careers, but soon change their mind and decide to be a football player and a lady wrestler so they now want to load up on junk food. 8/8/20
• 082. Goodbye, Alice, Hello – 11/24/1972
  • Greg and Peter break a lamp with a Frisbee and attempt to glue it back together, making Alice to promise not to squeal on them. However Carol quickly notices the lamp and forces Alice to tell her what happened. Later when Carol asks Alice who has been playing records, Alice tells her that it was Marcia, which gets Marcia grounded for leaving it on. Bobby and Cindy take exception when Alice won’t let them go swimming naked at the neighbors’ house. The kids begin giving Alice the cold shoulder, and then Alice overhears Bobby and Cindy telling each other that Alice can’t be trusted. Alice laments all of this to her friend and fellow housekeeper Kay (Mary Treen), who advises her that it’s not good to get too close to the families. Alice tells Mrs. Brady that she needs to leave to go work in her Uncle Winston’s dress shop and that she has to quit immediately. Carol is crestfallen, but initially the kids are glad to have her out of their hair. However when Kay replaces Alice and proves herself to be a wet blanket, who will only do her work and not socialize with anyone, the kids really begin to miss Alice. Greg and Marcia confess to Carol that they gave her the cold shoulder, and she warns them that this is what happens when you push people too far. Kay overhears how much they miss Alice, and tells the kids that she is working as a waitress at the Golden Spoon Cafe. The kids rush over to see her, and despite irritating the manager Mr. Foster  (Snag Werris) and an irate customer (Harry Crigger), they convince Alice how much they miss her. Alice quits on the spot and heads back to her former job. 8/8/20
• 083. Greg’s Triangle – 12/8/1972
  • A girl at school named Jennifer Nichols (Tannis G. Montgomery) introduces herself and flirts with Greg, and he is ecstatic to agree to give her surfing lessons on Saturday, even if it means ditching his plans to play golf with his father. Carol begins practicing at golf so she can fill in whenever Mike might need a partner, but struggles at getting the ball into the cup. Greg and Jennifer have a great day surfing, and Greg brings her over to meet the parents before they go to the movies that night. Greg is clearly smitten, but Mr. and Mrs. Brady think she is giving him a snow job because he gives her whatever she wants. Meanwhile Marcia is rehearsing to try out for the cheerleading captain, but Greg warns her that she’ll get no special treatment from him since he is the chairman of the judging committee. Greg then finds out that Jennifer is trying out for captain as well. Marcia is livid, thinking that Greg will choose his girlfriend over her. He then begins to worry that he’ll be accused of playing favorites, but remembers that if the other three judges choose a winner, Greg won’t have to actually vote unless needed for a tie-breaker. After the four girls do their routines, one judge choose Jennifer, one choose Marcia, and another chooses a third girl named Pat Conway (Rita Wilson), leaving Greg forced to make the tie-breaking vote. As Mike is trying to teach Carol to golf, Greg returns home with a long face because he’s afraid both Marcia and Jennifer will hate him for choosing Pat as the winner. Marcia however apologizes to Greg for accusing him of playing favorites, because she agrees that Pat was the best. Jennifer hangs up on him when he tries to call her, leading him to think that she was using him. All is forgotten by the weekend when Greg goes golfing with his father and becomes smitten with the Golf Pro’s daughter. 11/23/20
• 084. Everyone Can’t Be George Washington – 12/22/1972
  • Peter is rehearsing to try out for the part of George Washington in the school play, but the teacher Mrs. Bailey (Sara Seeger) gives him the part of Benedict Arnold instead. Peter doesn’t want it, but his parents convince him that as the more challenging role, she likely thought only he would be up for the part. He dives into the role, but soon some his so-called friends like Edity (Cheryl Beth Jacobs), Harvey (Michael Barbera), and Stuart (Sean Kelly) start hissing at him and calling him traitor. Peter tries to change the script to make Arnold not be a traitor, and instead pinning the villain Major Andre, played by his friend Freddie (Jimmy Bracken), but Mrs. Bailey nixes the idea and causes Peter to get in a fist fight with Freddie. Peter then tries to get kicked out of the play first by flubbing his lines, and then by faking a sprained ankle, but Mrs. Seeger gives him a way to read the script on stage and tells him that Benedict Arnold actually had a limp. Finally Peter fakes laryngitis, which not only gets him out of the play, but gets the whole play cancelled since she won’t have time to replace him. Jan, who had been assigned to do the scenery with the help of Mike, is extremely disappointed. His parents remind him that to quit the play under false pretenses would make him an actual traitor, so Peter reconsiders and goes on with the play. Peter performs in the show, which covers Arnold’s life up until his death when he died with his wife – played by classmate Peggy (Barbara Bernstein) – by his side. The play garners Peter and the other actors a rousing ovation. Angela B. Satterwhite is is Donna. 11/23/20
• 085. Love and the Older Man – 1/5/1973
  • Marcia comes home from the dentist smitten with Dr. Gordon’s substitute dentist Dr. Stanley Vogel (Don Brit Reid). She can hardly wait for her upcoming return visit, and even more so when Jan reads her passages from Teentime Magazine indicating that the ideal man is 10-12 years older than she is. Mike also has an appointment with Dr. Vogel, who asks Mike if Marcia might be available to babysit while he and his wife attend the ballet. While Greg and the boys are trying to build a go-kart, Greg asks Marcia if she’s like to go out with Eddie Bryant on Friday when they go bowling. Marcia is less-than-thrilled about dating an ‘immature’ boy, but agrees anyway. When Mike mentions that Dr. Vogel was wondering if she had plans on Friday, so Marcia immediately cancels her plans with Eddie, thinking that Dr. Vogel is asking her on a date. She shows up to her appointment dressed to the hilt, telling how much she’s looking forward to Friday. Marcia is frankly shocked that her parents have approved the ‘date’, but is thrilled about her situation, daydreaming about a wedding with Dr. Vogel where the minister (Allen Joseph) pronounces them wife and dentist, and various home-life scenarios with Bobby and Cindy as her children, and her husband coming home beat and relaxing in a dentist chair. Everything comes to a halt when Jan informs Marcia that Dr. Vogel is married. Marcia goes to see Dr. Vogel and tells him that they have to call off their romance. This is all news to him, but he plays along and tells Marcia that she is wise beyond her years, and thanks her for giving him back to his wife and child. Marcia calls Eddie and tells him that she’s love to go out with him. The boys try to get the go-kart going and it ends up trying to mow Alice down. 3/12/21
• 086. Law and Disorder – 1/12/1973
  • Bobby is upset because everyone in his class seems to hate him since he has been appointed to be Safety Monitor at school. His parents talk to him about how it isn’t always pleasant to enforce the rules, but his teacher probably chose him because he was the right man for the job. Bobby then embraces the job and vows to do everything he can to do the best at the job. The next day, Bobby busts Steve (Harlen Carraher) for chewing gum, and girl (Cindy Henderson) for littering, and three boys including Jon (Jon Hayes) for disorderly conduct. He starts to become a tyrant at school, and even cites Cindy and her friends for running in the halls. When Cindy complains to her mother, Carol takes Bobby’s side. Bobby then starts creating a report to give his parents when his sibling start breaking household rules. Meanwhile, Mike has brought home a friend’s boat that he was going to discard and the family goes about trying to clean it up and paint it. The kids are so fed up with Bobby, however, that they don’t want him to participate at the boat’s launch. Bobby heads off in his good suit to get a picture with the other Safety Monitors. On his way home, a girl named Jill (Shawn Schepps) stops Bobby and begs him to help rescue her cat Pandora from a house slated for demolition. Since the house is condemned and the signs say to keep out, Bobby is reluctant, but goes in anyway and gets the cat from the chimney, dirtying his suit in the process. Bobby tries to cover up his crimes by washing his suit, but winds up flooding the laundry room with suds. His parents explain to him that they understand why he broke the rules by going into the house, and that his siblings had good reasons for breaking the rules as well, and that his authority at school does not extend to his home life. Bobby acknowledges that he’s behaved like a real stinker. 3/12/21
• 087. Greg Gets Grounded – 1/19/1973
  • Greg takes Bobby to the pet store so he can buy a frog named Spunker to enter into a frog-jumping contest, and when Peter gets wind of it, he wants in on the action as well, and claims he can win with a frog found at the creek. Greg tells Bobby he will also drive him to the contest, but when Bobby brags on Greg’s driving and how he was able to swerve out of an accident while he was looking at a record album while driving, his parents ground Greg for a week for not paying attention on the road. Greg is trying to get tickets to a rock concert, and can’t find them unless he drives to the stadium to pick them up, but Mike won’t budge on the punishment. Greg finds a loophole in the punishment, and borrows his friend George Thompson’s car to drive himself to the stadium, a fact that Carol finds out when she runs into George’s mother Jenny (Gracia Lee). When they confront Greg about this, he claims their ‘exact words’ were that he not drive their car, not someone else’s. They believe he understood the punishment, so Mike grounds him ten more days. However when Greg protests, Mike takes back the punishment, but tells him that now he has to live by his exact words. This bites Greg several times when he winds up having to wash Carol’s car right before midnight, and do Marcia’s chores since he agreed to. It also bumps into his plan for the concert with his date Rachel, because he forgot that he had a greed to take Bobby to the frog-jumping contest. Rachel is a good sport about it, and agrees to go to the movies with Greg after the contest. He doesn’t realize that Peter and Bobby left their box of frogs in the car, and they wind up jumping in Rachel’s hair and on their popcorn and pizza. That night, Greg tells his parents how it winded up being amusing only because Rachel was a good sport, and they all agree to forget their deal that will insist on ‘exact words.’ 7/18/21
• 088. Amateur Nite – 1/26/1973
  • The kids have saved up and bought their parents a silver platter for their anniversary, but Jan has decided to have it engraved with all of their names. She thinks the charge for this is 85 cents, but the clerk Alfred Bailey (Robert Nadder) actually 85 cents per letter, so they end up owing over $50, much more than they have. They all look for ideas to raise money, and when they ask Mike how money is raised, he says that people usually borrow from banks. Bobby and Cindy go to the bank to talk to the manager Mr. Goodbody (Harold Peary), but he won’t extend a loan without a co-signer and some collateral. Jan sings them up to perform on The Pete Sterne Amateur Hour on TV for a chance to win $100. The practice all day at home for their audition, under the curious eyes of their parents and Alice, and then go to the studio and perform It’s a Sunshine Day for Peter Sterne (Stephen Dunne). They pass the audition, and the station even offers to provide them costumes if they come early on Saturday morning. They perform Keep On, and then after the song, explain to the host and audience why they needed the money. Unbeknownst to them, Alice and their parents are watching the show on TV. They wind up only winning third place, but Carol and Mike are touched by the effort and go to the store and pick up the platter themselves. Later, Bobby and Cincy offer to pay them back by taking out a loan and using the platter as collateral. 7/18/21
• 089. Bobby’s Hero – 2/2/1973
  • Carol gets a call from the school principal Mr. Hillary (Richard Carlyle), who wants them to come in and talk about Bobby. It seems that he has written an essay on his hero…and Bobby’s subject was the outlaw Jesse James. He is concerned that Bobby has turned an outlaw and killer into a glamorous hero. Sure enough Bobby is back home pretending to be Jesse James and robbing a stagecoach with Cindy aboard, and then escaping to Mexico. Mike and Carol speak to him about this, but it seems to have no impact when Bobby asks to stay up late and watch the movie Jesse James on the Vengeance Trail. The initially refuse the request, but then have second thoughts and decide they’d rather let Bobby see how evil the man really was. Unfortunately, all of the violent scenes have been cut out, and Jesse comes across looking like a hero. Meanwhile, Mike has written a speech for his architect convention, and it turns up missing. Mike offers a one dollar reward for anyone who can find it, but it is Carol who ends up finding it in Mike’s briefcase. During the search, Bobby is pretending to be Jesse James and holding everyone up. While Mike is at the library returning books he used to write his speech, he asks the librarian Miss Perry (Ruth Anson) to help finding a book on Jesse James. The author of The Real Jesse James is Jethroe Collins (Burt Mustin), whose father was killed by Jesse James. They invite him to the house, and he tells Bobby what a despicable man James was. That night Bobby has a dream that he is with Jesse James (Gordon De Vol) when he robs a train that all of Bobby’s family is on. Bobby thinks it is cool… until James start shooting them in the back one by one. Bobby goes in to see his parents when he wakes up and turns his toy guns into his parents. He vows his next hero will be a good guy. The next day, Mike heads off to give his speech. 1/6/22
• 090. The Subject Was Noses – 2/9/1973
  • Marcia gets asked for a Saturday night date by the ‘big man on campus’ Doug Simpson (Nicholas Hammond), but after accepting it, she remembers that she had already planned a date with the nerdier Charlie Anderson (Stuart Goetz aka Stuart Getz). Marcia asks Greg for advice on how to cancel a date, and Greg suggests that she tell him that something ‘just came up.’ When Charlie comes to the house to deliver wallpaper samples since Mike and Carol are redecorating their bedroom, Marcia speaks to him and cancels the date, and Charlie accepts it gracefully. Marcia can’t help but feeling slightly guilty, and also has a close call when she comes home with Doug, while Charlie is back delivering more samples. While Peter and Bobby are practicing football, Marcia walks into the line of fire and gets hit in the nose with the ball, causing it swell up uncontrollably. Although she tires to hide her face, when Doug sees her the next day, he cancels their date and tells her that something suddenly came up. Marcia is now dateless and mortified by Doug, and still feels guilty about Charlie, so she confides in her parents, who are sleeping in the den following the family painting party in their bedroom. The next day, Charlie comes back over and asks Marcia if she might want to go out Sunday, and is completely unfazed by her horrible appearance. She doesn’t think she can go out with anyone looking the way she does, and turns him down. The next morning when she wakes up, her nose is fully healed. Doug sees her at school, and tries to get her to go out with her again. This time she tells Doug that something suddenly came up. She then admits to Charlie what she did, and asks him to go out on Saturday after all. Although he think it was a dirty trick, he gladly accepts the offer… and then trips over his shoelaces. Later after the date, Marcia reports that they ran into Doug after the movie at the pizza parlor. Doug and Charlie wound up in a fight when Doug teased Marcia for cancelling the date, and Charlie ended up punching Doug in the note. Carol is so happy with their room’s paint job, that she wants to paint more areas of the house. Lisa Eilbacher is Marcia’s friend Vicki. 1/8/22
• 091. How to Succeed in Business? – 2/23/1973
  • Peter is excited because he has applied for a job at Martinelli’s Bike Shop, and when Mr. Martinelli (Jay Novello) calls to tell him that he has gotten the job, Peter becomes ecstatic. Peter is polite, punctual, and a hard worker, but he seems to work at a snail’s pace. It takes him three days to work on a bike belonging to a Mr. Williams, who is anxious to get his bike back. Mr. Martinelli gives him repeated warnings about how being punctual is as important as being meticulous, until he finally has no choice but to tell Peter that he needs to talk to him at the end of his shift. Peter thinks he is going to get promoted to a salesman and tells his family as much, so he is particularly crestfallen when Martinelli tells him he is fired because he’s not mechanically inclined. Peter wants to tell his family, but they are all so excited that he has been promotion that they throw him a party with a cake with a bike on it. Peter looks to Greg for help, so he suggests asking Mr. Martinelli for a second chance, and then he won’t have to tell anyone. However, Mr. Martinelli insists that it will not work out. Before Peter can leave the bike shop, Marcia, Jan, and Cindy come in to give Peter some business, so Martinelli covers for him temporarily to not give away his secret. Meanwhile, Mike and Carol have been mulling over Peter’s suggestion that buy bikes, so they finally decide to go in and pick ones out… while Peter is in the park feeding pigeons and stewing about his situation. His parents then come riding up on their new bikes and tell Peter that Mr. Martinelli told them what was going on. They console him, and Mike tells him that he too has lost jobs. Peter finally has the weight lifted, so all of the Bradys go for a neighborhood bike ride. Bobby then comes to Mike and tells him that he got a job delivering papers, but that he will need to help Bobby by driving him around early morning to make the deliveries. 5/17/22
• 092. The Great Earring Caper – 3/2/1973
  • Marcia has borrowed a pair of her mother’s earrings, but tells Cindy not to play with them because they are important to their Mom. However, when Cindy is alone she gets into the earrings and tries them on in the bathroom. When her mother comes out to show her a new shirt she bought for her, Cindy hides the earrings under a towel in the bathroom, and when she returns, the earrings are gone. Peter has been playing around with his new detective kit and is in desperate search for a mystery to solve, so this works out when Cindy asks his help to determine the fate of the earrings. Peter thinks that it must have fallen down the drain, but when he takes it apart, there is nothing but water that falls in his face. They then begin to ‘secretly’ assemble fingerprints from everyone in the family by taking Alice’s mop, Mr. Brady’s glass of milk, and the other kids’ ping-pong paddles, but this only concludes that they’ve all been in the bathroom. Meanwhile, Mike and Carol work on their costumes of Cleopatra and Marc Antony, and Cindy overhears that her mother is going to want to use the earrings she loaned Marcia. Cindy tells Peter they need to speed up the investigation, so they go around and accuse all of their siblings and force an alibi out of all of them. Finally, Cindy has to admit to Marcia that she took the earrings, so Marcia marches her in to tell their parents the truth. Mike seems to think that the earrings must be in the couch, so he has them recount the story. Alice remembers that she had entered the bathroom and started to grab the towel and put it in the laundry when she remembered that Mrs. Brady wanted the kids to pick up after themselves and put the towel back. They deduce that the earrings must have fallen into the laundry bag, but Jan had picked up the bag and took it to the laundry room for Alice. Mrs. Brady recalls that she found it in the laundry room and did a load… but that had been several loads again. Mr. Brady has them check the washer, and sure enough, Alice finds both earrings, one now damaged. Cindy apologizes and Carol forgives her. Mike and Carol enjoy the party but don’t win the costume contest; they tell Alice that the honors coincidentally went to a couple dressed as Sherlock Holmes and Watson. 5/18/22
• 093. You’re Never Too Old – 3/9/1973
  • Carol’s grandmother Connie Hutchins (Florence Henderson) pays a visit from Kentucky. She is a spry old lady who plays basketball with the boys. Marcia and Jan get the idea to try and set her up on a date with Mike’s grandfather Judge Hank Brady (Robert Reed). Mike and Carol have dinner plans with Mike’s boss, and the kids decide to make themselves all scarce so that Alice can cook them a romantic meal. The girls get the Judge to the house by telling they need one of his books for a homework assignment, Whereas Connie spry and spunky, the Judge is conservative and stodgy, and isn’t very comfortable with Connie’s youthful way of speaking. During dinner, when Connie asks to dance, the Judge accuses her orchestrating an effort to land him. This leads to a fight whereby she calls him an old goat, and he retaliates by telling her that she’s no Spring chicken. When the girls hear about the encounter, they are discouraged, but they go to see the Judge to tell him that their great-grandmother had nothing to with setting up the date. He concedes that he may have been wrong, but refuses to apologize after what she called him. The next day when the girls find out that the Judge had taken Bobby to the park to fly a kite, they send Cindy to ask their grandmother to take her to the park. When they all run into each other, the Judge is anxious to leave, but Connie invites him to stay for a while. He responds by apologizing for jumping to the wrong conclusion about her, and the two warm up to each other. The Judge agrees to take her and show her around town, and even jokes about wearing his pajamas under his robe all day one time. Later, Mike and Carol wake up in the middle of the night when they hear Grandma leaving the house. Mike assumes that she is going home because of the Judge, and she admits that she is leaving because of the Judge… because he has proposed to her and they are eloping to get married in Las Vegas. Everyone in the house wakes up, and they all promise not to tell anyone their little secret. 9/11/22
• 094. You Can’t Win ‘Em All – 3/16/1973
  • Cindy comes home from school excited because she was selected to take a test to see if she qualifies to be one of four children representing Clinton Elementary on the TV game show Question the Kids against Woodside. Bobby downplays her achievement as he was also selected to take the test. Cindy cracks the books and studies with any sibling who will help her, whereas Bobby is over-confident and cocky, preferring to put together his tee-pee and do anything but study. After they both take the test, Cindy comes home and announces that she has scored high enough to be a contestant on the show. Bobby comes home sullen and defeated because he didn’t qualify. Cindy immediately lets it go to her head, refusing to play with Bobby in the teepee, refusing to eat Alice’s fattening food, and insisting on doing and re-doing her hair, trying on dresses, and trying to wear Marcia’s jewelry since she is going to be a TV star. She even offers her autograph to Greg and Peter. All of the kids get sick of her cockiness and obsession with how she looks, so they tell her they’re not going to watch the show. Meanwhile, Mike and Carol plan a small cookout of steaks for some friends, but as the crowd gets bigger and the date gets postponed, they change the menu to Mexican food so they can serve more. When it gets even bigger, they change to a smorgasbord menu… and then find out that their planned date is on the date of Cindy’s TV show. After they leave for the show, the kids do in fact gather around the TV so that they can watch Cindy crash and burn. When the host Monty Marshall (Edward Knight) tells the kids that when the lights go on, they’ll be in everyone’s living room, Cindy freaks out as soon as she sees the red light on the camera. She doesn’t answer one question or say one word for the duration of the entire show, even though her siblings know that she knew the answers. When her parents take her home, she is embarrassed to see her siblings, but they show her mercy and tell her how great she looked on TV. Bobby even tells her that he was the dum-dum for not even studying for the test that she passed with flying colors. This earns Bobby a kiss from Cindy, much to his disgust. Carol finally re-schedules their party, only to schedule it on a date that Mike will be out of town for a convention. Harlen Carrarher and Miyoshi Williams are Clinton students. Vicki Schreck, Claudio Martinez, and Tracey M. Lee are Woodside students. 9/12/22
• 095. A Room at the Top – 3/23/1973
  • Mike has his college friend Hank Carter (Christopher Beaumont) over for a visit and laments how he has no privacy whatsoever like Hank does. Greg is ecstatic when Hank tells him that he has extra room at his place and that Greg could rent a room. Greg excitedly asks his father about this, but Mike denies his request and says that he needs to stay home as long as he’s still in high school. Later, when the family begins clearing out the attic, Greg gets the idea that a good compromise would be for him to move into the attic, so he’d have some partial privacy but still be at home. Mike agrees that this is a good compromise and gives him permission. Meanwhile, Marcia gets the same idea so that she’ll have more room away from her sisters, and she asks her mother if she can move to the attic. Carol says yes, not knowing the arrangement between Mike and Greg. When Greg and Marcia start moving some of their things at the same time, the plans of each of them come to light. They take it to their parents, and both of them agree that Greg should have the room since he is the oldest and will be leaving soon. Marcia is furious and inconsolable. When Greg attempts to speak to her later, she is still upset, crying that she was planning a slumber party that weekend. Greg takes pity on her and tells her that she can have the room after all. He has Peter and Bobby help move his stuff back down. They too become annoyed that Greg is moving back into their room after they’ve spread their beds apart and were looking forward to the extra space. The decide to try and show Marcia how annoying it is in the attic by telling her that she has phone call after phone call when really there is no one there. Marcia has to run up and down two flights of stairs each time she checks the phone. Once she becomes aware of what is going on, she accuses Greg of trying to drive her out of the attic. He assures her that he had no part in this, and yells at his brothers for being so inconsiderate. Marcia then realizes how inconsiderate she was being, so she tells Greg he can have the room again. Peter and Bobby have to lug Greg’s stuff back up again. By the time Mike and Carol return from an evening rummage sale, they check in on all of the kids, having no idea that any drama took place all evening. 12/31/22

SEASON 5

• 096. Adios, Johnny Bravo – 9/14/1973
  • The kids audition for the TV variety show Hal Barton’s TV Talent Review with the song You’ve Got to Be in Love (To Love a Love Song). They are told by Hal Barton (Jeff Davis) himself that they’ve been accepted to appear on the show, but they get even more exciting news when a record agent named Tami Cutler (Claudia Jennings) tells Greg to call her. The kids all go home excited about the trajectory of their career. This all happens just as Greg is getting information about college, trying to choose whether he’d go to Norton College like Mike, or Carol’s alma mater at State. Greg calls Tami and finds out that she wants to see him, and him only, at the studio. The other kids are skeptical, but he assures him that he will cut a deal for all of them. Unfortunately, after he arrives and meets producer Buddy Berkman (Paul Cavonis), he learns that they are only interested in him performing. They give Greg a new jacket and a new name, Johnny Bravo, under which he will record. Mike becomes concerned that Greg will make the bad decision not to go to college because of this new career. The kids are also furious at Greg for betraying them and leaving them out of the recording contract. Alice tells the girls that if they were given the same opportunity, they’d likely do just as Greg did. They agree, so they get with Peter and Bobby and change their tune to be proud of Greg. Mike and Carol, however, are not so proud when Greg makes his final decision not to go to college right away. Greg returns to the studio and meets his PR man, who will set him up with interviews, photo sessions, and make sure he is mobbed by girls everywhere he goes. However, when they play back one of Greg’s recordings, it has been altered so much that it doesn’t even sound like him. Greg objects to this and asks why they chose him, only to find out that it was merely because he fit the suit of clothing that they had. Greg decides that he no longer wants any part of Johnny Bravo. Greg goes on as planned and sings React Positively with his brothers and sisters on Hal Barton’s show. Greg later reviews the brochures for Norton and State colleges, then jokingly tells his parents that he’s going to put off college so that he can travel. 12/31/22
• 097. Mail Order Hero – 9/21/1973
  • Bobby has literal dreams that he is playing backyard football with New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath (himself). The next day while he is playing football with his friends Eric Parker (Kerry MacLane), Tommy Hamner (Eric Woods), and Burt Stevens (Larry Michaels), and they start discussing pro sports encounters, Bobby tells the boys that he is friends with Joe Namath and that they have dinner whenever he is in town. The kids ask to invite them over next time he is in town, and Bobby agrees. Sure enough, it is announced that Joe Namath is coming to town for an exhibition game. Greg and Peter tell him that he should tell his friends the truth, but before he has a chance, words start to spread all over town that Namath will be having dinner at the Brady house. He tells his parents about his dilemma, but since they don’t know Joe Namath either, they also advise that he tell everyone at school the truth. Bobby tries calling the stadium and leaving a message for Namath, and Cindy gets the idea to write Namath a letter and tell him that Bobby is very sick and wants to meet Joe Namath while he can. Through his assistant Herb Keller (Tim Herbert), Joe finds out about the letter and decides to go visit Bobby. Keller calls the Brady house and speaks to Cindy, telling her that they will be stopping by. Joe makes good on his promise, surprising everyone else in the household when he shows up. Bobby has Joe sign an autograph that calls out all of the friends who didn’t believe him. As Mike and Carol come home, Jan and Marcia carry in a stretcher form Jan’s First Aid course, and Joe believes that it is the end for Bobby. He can’t understand why Bobby’s parents aren’t more upset… until they tell Joe that Bobby has pulled a fast one. Bobby and Cincy then come downstairs and confess everything. Joe lets Bobby keep the photo and then goes out back to pass the football with Bobby while his friends all watch. He tries to tell his friends that he met Joe for the first time that day, but none of them believe him. 7/1/23
• 098. Snow White and the Seven Bradys – 9/28/1973
  • Cindy’s teacher Mrs. Whitfield (Frances Whitfield) is getting ready to retire, so Cindy suggests getting her a $200 set of first edition books that she wants. In order to raise the money to buy them, she also suggests that she enlist her family to help build sets and perform the play Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. She is nervous about telling her father what she has done, but he agrees to help with the project. She then approaches each of her siblings and they all agree to play a dwarf… but they all want to be Dopey. Mike and Carol, who will play Prince Charming and Snow White, insist that each kid draw their part and agree to play it. Greg gets Doc, Peter gets Sneezy, Bobby gets Bashful, Marcia gets Sleepy, Jan gets Happy, and Cindy gets Grumpy. When they realize that there aren’t enough Bradys to play the dwarfs, Alice offers the role of Dopey to Sam. Everything is going well until Cindy finds out that she reserved the wrong day for the play with Mr. Gunther from the theater, and it is now rented. Cindy is inconsolable, although several family members try to find a backup place. When no one can, Mike decides they can fit the stage and the seating in the Brady backyard. The next problem is when Alice realizes she’s eaten all of the apples and they don’t have any for the play. Mike and Sam head to the grocery store to get one, but a police officer (Elven Havard) stops Sam when he parks in non-parking area at the store. He is suspicious of Mike and Sam’s costumes, but he lets them go when they tell him they are putting on the play in the backyard. However, he also tells them that they need a permit to do the play. By the time they get the permit, they arrive just in the nick of time for the play. With several gaffes during the show, they finish up to a rousing applause, and present the books to Mrs. Whitfield. Alice later tells Sam how she loves a happy ending, especially when the lovers get married. He tells her that once he is Prince Charming and she is Snow White, they can follow suit. 7/2/23
• 099. Never Too Young – 10/5/1973
  • When Greg and Peter turn down Bobby to shoot baskets in the driveway, Bobby pokes fun of them for thinking that girls is more important than basketball. Peter and Bobby tell him that he will soon be kissing girls and loving it, but he thinks they are crazy. A minute later, Cindy’s friend Millicent (Melissa Sue Anderson) comes over and thanks Bobby for sticking up for her when some boys were picking on her… and she plants a kiss on him. Much to his surprise, he sees skyrockets, throwing him into an amorous daze. He makes her promise not to tell anyone for fear of looking stupid in front of his brothers. However, Cindy did see the kiss and starts running round the house telling everyone she has a secret. Everyone is too preoccupied with preparing for a Roaring Twenties party that the entire family is going to attend. Mike is even practicing the ukulele and performs a duet of I Wanna Be Loved by You with Carol. Eventually the kids demand to know what the secret is, but Cindy decides not to give Bobby up, much to his appreciation. When Bobby can still think of nothing else but Millicent, he finally asks his father what it is all about. Mike tells him not to make wedding plans yet, and that when he is sure about being in love, he’ll know it. Bobby goes over to see Millicent and lays a kiss on her, once again seeing the skyrockets. She tells him that he did it too quick, before she can tell him that she might have mumps. Since Millicent will see her doctor the next day and find out for sure, Bobby decides to stay away from everyone until he knows. He even stays clear of the family when they practice the Charleston in the living room. That night, Carol discovers that Bobby has snuck out of the house and stuffed his bed to look like he was there. When they find him listening to the radio in the doghouse, he is forced to explain what is going on. Everyone finally finds out about the kiss, and they all wait for the call from Millicent. She eventually calls and tells Bobby that she does not have the mumps, and also tells Bobby that he’s a good kisser. He heads back over to her house, after he is warned that he shouldn’t keep secrets like this. Mike discovers when he kisses Carol that he still sees skyrockets as well. Later, the Bradys return from the Roaring Twenties party. Alice and Sam have won the Charleston contest, but Alice attributes this to having dropped ice down his back. 10/15/23
• 100. Peter and the Wolf – 10/12/1973
  • Greg brags to his friend Len (Bill Miller) that he was able to get a date with the elusive Sandra Martin (Cindy Crosby). However, Greg runs into Sandra at school and tells him that she has to break the date because her cousin Linda (Linda Gibboney aka Kathie Gibboney) is coming into town. Greg offers to find a date for Linda, but Sandra hasn’t seen her in six years and the last she recalls, Linda had pigtails and braces. Greg goes through his list of friends and no one is willing to take a chance and go out with them. When it seems all is lost, Greg finds Peter showing Peter the few whiskers on his chin and decides he might be a good answer to this date problem. He has Peter put on a fake mustache, lower his voice, and go by the name Phil Packer, and then offers him a date with an eighteen-year-old woman. Meanwhile, Mike asks Carol to join him in going out to dinner with a Mexican client named Juan Calderon (Paul Fierro) and his wife Maria (Alma Beltran). To prepare for the dinner date, they start polishing up on their Spanish and eating Mexican food. On the night of the date, Peter dons his fake mustache and they pick up the girls. Both are shocked when they see how attractive Linda is. Peter is nervous about what to do on the date, but Greg just tells him to do what he’s doing. As he repeats everything Greg says to his date, he also manages to spill the popcorn into Linda’s lap. He also nearly eats his own mustache while eating popcorn. After the guys drop them off at home, the girls start laughing at Peter’s fake mustache, and deduce that Peter is actually Greg’s younger brother. They decide to play a trick on the guys, and the next night they call and ask for another double date. When the Calderons arrive at the Brady house, they request to go out for pizza at Marioni’s. It turns out that this is also the same place where Greg and ‘Phil’ are taking the girls. During the meal, both girls fall all over Peter and ignore Greg, much to his annoyance. The Calderons are offended when they see how the American teenagers are ‘necking’ in the next booth, which turns out to be the girls hanging on the mustachioed Peter. They are both wide-eyed when the boys and the parents spy each other. Mike is able to smooth things over with the Calderons when the boys and their dates explain what is happening and apologize. Later, Jan tries the mustache on to see if it makes her look any older. 10/15/23
• 101. Getting Greg’s Goat – 10/19/1973
  • In retaliation against Coolidge High for stealing Westdale’s bear cub mascot before the big football game, some Westdale boys manage to steal the Coolidge High mascot goat Raquel and leave it with Greg to store her until after the game that night. He sneaks her into the house and up to his room, and then has to contend with her eating his homework and books. Greg fills up on breakfast and brings it up to share with Raquel. Peter and Bobby overhear Greg talking to Raquel through the vent in the linen closet and assume he has a girl up there. Then Mr. Brady hears him as well and jumps to the same conclusion. When he confronts Greg, they have a good laugh once Mr. Brady realizes he has a goat. He can sympathize since he once stole a mascot during his high school days, but he still wants Greg to return it as soon as possible. Greg talks him into letting him keep Raquel until after the game. Then they all find out that Mrs. Brady and some of her PTA cohorts, Mrs. Gould (Sandra Gould) and two other women (Margarita Cordova, Selma Archerd) are meeting with Vice Principal Binkley (George D. Wallace) to come up with a plan to make an example out of the kids who took the goat. In light of this, Mike suggests that Greg arrange a secret meeting with the Coolidge High boys who took the bear cub and arrange a swap before the game. When Mike takes him to meet with the boys, Peter and Bobby keep listening through the vent, still thinking there is a girl upstairs. When they start hearing animal noises, they go upstairs to find that Raquel has chewed through her rope. With the goat running free through the house, the PTA members decide to switch their meeting location and come to the Brady house. Greg and Mike return to the house to find that Mrs. Brady is giving everyone a tour of the house while Raquel is running loose. Greg can’t keep control of Raquel, and eventually she gets into the master bedroom just as Mike and Carol are showing to everyone. Greg locks her in the closet while Mrs. Gould is hiding in there. Mr. Binkley winds up assigning Greg to write a 5000-word essay on the danger of stealing mascots but gives Mr. Brady kudos for suggesting the swap with the other school. Mike admits that he was suspended for a week for doing the same thing in high school, while Binkley admits that he was actually suspended for a month for the same violation. 2/18/24
• 102. Marcia Gets Creamed – 10/26/1973
  • Peter has been looking all over town for a job so that he can save up for a tape deck, but Marcia is the one who happens to see a Help Wanted sign in the window of Haskell’s ice cream parlor and gets hired. Mr. Haskell (Henry Corden) thinks she does great work and considers putting her in charge of the afternoon shift so he can semi-retire and take up some hobbies. Marcia starts to work so often that she begins to neglect her boyfriend Jeff (Michael Gray), with whom she keeps cancelling plans and declining offers. She asks if she can hire Peter to work when he is off, and he agrees. Peter immediately begins taking advantage of his sister being his boss by messing around, listening to the radio. eating ice cream and sweeping dirt under the tables. When Marcia can take it no more, she fires him and asks if he would let her hire Jan. Unlike Peter, Jan does nothing but focus on her work, even when Marcia tries to get her to slow down. When Jeff brings another girl (Kimberly Beck) into the shop to show Marcia that he can get other dates, Marcia douses both of them with whipped cream, just as Mr. Haskell walks into the shop. Haskell tells Marcia and Jan that playing golf isn’t for him, and he has decided to come back to work. He tells Marcia that she is a very good worker, but that Jan is a little better and he has decided to keep Jan instead of Marcia. The argument spills over into the home when Marcia blames Jan for stealing her job. Jan gets so frustrated that she agrees to resign the position since it isn’t worth the fighting. However, Marcia gets a phone call from Jeff apologizing for trying to make her jealous. He has planned activities for them for every day after school, so Marcia decides to let Jan keep the job after all. Peter also finally finds a job at the Leaning Tower of Pizza and looks forward to trying every type they have. Despite Mr. Brady telling her that she needs to exercise willpower, Alice has been struggling with her diet, and with Mrs. Brady’s help, convinces him that he needs to go on one with her since he’s gained a few pounds since college. He is immediately denied his normal meals. When the weigh-in comes, it looks as though he’s gained even more weight, but it turns out to be Mrs. Brady’s foot on the scale. 2/19/24
• 103. My Brother’s Keeper – 11/2/1973
  • While Peter is working in the flower bed and Greg is painting the shutters on a ladder, Greg gets a phone call and Peter knocks the ladder over. Bobby sees the ladder coming down and pushes Peter out of the way and taking the brunt of the paint spill himself. When Peter sees how the ladder smashed some pottery, he believes that Bobby saves him life. He does a lot of pontificating about how it feels to be at the gates of death and get a second chance, even vowing to be Bobby’s slave for the rest of his life. Bobby is humble and tells Peter that he doesn’t need anything more than his thanks, but soon as Peter starts to do all of his chores, Bobby starts to take advantage of him. He starts giving Peter things to do for him, even when it interferes with Peter’s dates with his girlfriend Barbara. When Bobby starts manipulating Peter to do more and more, including selling magazines so that Bobby can win a prize, Peter finally has had enough. The two get into an escalating fight, and soon they are not talking to each other. They both ask Greg if they can room with him, but when he refuses, Peter draws a line down the middle of their room. Mike and Carol suggest that Bobby apologize to Peter for taking advantage of him. Bobby tries, but it comes out wrong, and he ends up telling Peter that he’s sorry that he saved his life. During one of their arguments, Bobby throws a pillow at Peter and breaks the model train he was working on. Peter retaliates by chasing him around the room, until Bobby locks himself in the closet. When the doorknob falls off, Bobby truly is locked inside. After pounding and pounding on the door, Peter finally hears him and lets him out. Bobby tells him that he saved his life now, but this time they agree that they are even, and no one has to be anyone’s slave. Meanwhile, the family teams up to wallpaper the girls’ room, and after everyone sees it, Carol tries to talk into doing more areas of the house. 7/7/24
• 104. Quarterback Sneak – 1/30/1973
  • As Marcia hangs up spirit posters to root for Westdale High over their rival team Fairview, the quarterback of the Fairview team, Jerry Rogers (Chris Beaumont) discusses with his friend Rich (Don Carter) how he is going to use her to win the game. First, he flirts with her and helps her put up the signs, even though they are trashing his team. Then he takes her home so that he can set up another date. When Greg sees this, he is aghast that Marcia is dating the enemy. Marcia thinks that he is being ridiculous and makes it clear that she will date who she wants. Meanwhile, Carol gets a phone call from her old boyfriend Tank Gates (Denny Miller), a sports all-star from Westdale who went on to play pro football. Mike starts to feel a little jealous when he calls her ‘Twinkles’ and asks to see her while he is in town to watch the game. He shows up and keeps referring to Mike as ‘Mack’, and then relives his glory days in the football games by using a pillow as a ball in the Brady house until he breaks a rare tropical plant in a vase. It is obvious that even Carol is annoyed with how highly he thinks of himself. The next time Jerry comes over, Bobby catches him trying steal Greg’s game playbook, but Jerry accidentally drops it and has to save the theft for later. Bobby tells this to Greg and Marcia, but Marcia doesn’t believe it. Greg says he is willing to give Jerry a fair chance, and then proceeds to give him another chance to steal the book. This time, however, Greg has created a duplicate book with all erroneous plays. Marcia doesn’t think he will take it, but he does in fact swipe it the next time he is there and then makes up an excuse why he has to leave right away. Greg and the guys find this hilarious, as following these fake plays will surely cost them the game. As soon as Mike hears it, he tells Greg that they are now fighting on Jerry’s level, and that this fake playbook will not only hurt Jerry, but could cost the whole team a game. Greg agrees that only a fair-and-square win will really mean anything, so he calls Jerry and tells him that the playbook is a fake. Jerry pretends that he has no idea what Greg is talking about. After the game, everyone comes home after a Westdale landslide victory of 20-7. Greg reports that Jerry got pulled from the game as soon as their coach found out about the stolen playbook, so they actually won fair and square. Alice serves up a congratulatory cake, and then shows them the backup cake in case they had lost. Tank stops by the house to say goodbye, and he reports that he lost $100 by betting against Westdale after hearing a rumor that Fairview had gotten a copy of their playbook. 7/7/24
• 105. Try, Try Again – 11/16/1973
  • Marcia, Jan, and Cindy are all taking ballet class, but when it comes time for Miss Clairette to announce who will be in the recital, Jan is told that she doesn’t have what it takes yet. Jan immediately quits the class and returns home in a funk. Carol suggests that she might consider trying some other type of dance, so she begins taking tap dance lessons. However, the noise generated by her practicing quickly enrages her brothers and sisters, so she decides that not only is she not good at tap, but she is not good at anything. Marcia feels bad for criticizing Jan, so she recommends joining the drum majorettes and starts teaching her how to twirl a baton. This too quickly ends in disaster when she throws her baton through the window. With Jan feeling like a loser again, her brother and sisters decide to take action to boost her confidence. Greg throws a ping-pong game in her favor. Her sisters let her win in Monopoly, and Peter and Bobby let her win at darts. When Cincy exposes the ruse to her parents, they tell the kids that letting her win isn’t the answer. The kids make a confession to Jan, but this only makes her feel like a loser again. Her parents suggest some school activities, and Jan decides to go out for the next school play. She auditions for the lead character, a starving American painter living in Paris. She auditions with fellow student Billy Naylor and brings her own painting to help set the mood. Unfortunately, she responds to the door before Billy knocks on it, forgets her lines, and winds up spilling her paint all over Billy. The director Mrs. Ferguson (Ruth Anson) tells her that she’s not up for the play. Later Jan reveals that although she wasn’t ready the play, Mrs. Ferguson is also their art teacher and was impressed by the artwork that Jan created for the play and wants her to enroll in her art class at school. Meanwhile, Mike criticizes the amount of oregano that Alice and Carol use in their spaghetti sauce, and when they start to bicker about cooking, Mike agrees to make a huge Saturday night dinner for everyone. After he cooks all day, Carol tells him that the kids are attending a surprise party so it will just be for the three of them. However, when he enters the dining room with gourmet meal, the kids are there to surprise him after all. 11/3/24
• 106. The Cincinnati Kids – 11/23/1973
  • Mike announces that he is developing some new plans for a structure in Cincinnati, Ohio and that he is taking the family on the trip with him. They are less than enthused until they realize that that the place they are going is Kings Island amusement park. Upon arrival, the family splits up to go ride the attractions. Bobby and Cindy are told not to fill up on too much before lunch but find every excuse possible to eat everything in sight. Greg is most interested in pursuing a girl named Marge (Hilarie Thompson) whom he met at a midway game and goes to the lengths of dressing up as the Hanna Barbera character Hair Bear to get close to her. Jan and Marcia ride rides, and Jan purchase a Yogi Bear poster. When everyone meets for lunch, Cindy and Bobby aren’t hungry, and Jan borrows one of Mike’s tubes that he is using for his blueprints, so she can put her poster in it. When Mike later presents his plans to Mr. Remington (Leslie H. Martinson), he has the Yogi poster. He tracks Jan, who has misplaced her tube, so this sets in motion all of the kids searching for the lost prints. Jan eventually find them in a canoe ride they took earlier, and they run toward the front of the park, passing the prints from Brady to Brady until they finally get them to Mike, who hands them off to Remington just as they are getting ready to leave. Mike finds out that his company is treating the family to more time at the park, so they all ride The Racer roller coaster. Producer Lloyd J. Schwartz appears as the man in the bear costume. Bob Hoffman is the Lost & Found attendant. 4/11/20
• 107. The Elopement – 12/7/1973
  • Sam’s cousin Clara and her fiancé are eloping and wants Sam and Alice to be their Best Man and Maid of Honor. She discusses this with him over the phone, and then they talk about their plans to meet the Saturday night before for their bowling tournament. Marcia and Jan happen to overhear just Alces’s side of the conversation and jump to the conclusion that Alice and Sam are going to be eloping. They tell their parents about this, and although they caution them not to eavesdrop and to respect their secret, they are excited about the prospect as well. More evidence seems to point toward the rumor being true, especially after Sam calls Mike to ask about ideas where a new couple getting married might purchase an affordable house. Bobby has borrowed an organ from his teacher and begins practicing playing The Wedding March. Greg and Marcia stop by Sam’s butcher shop and sees that he is talking to Reverend Melbourne (Byron Webster) who will be officiating the wedding, which naturally they assume is that of Sam and Alice. The family has a meeting to discuss the evidence and decide that Alice is ‘guilty of marriage’. When Alice asks for Saturday night off, this seems to really clinch the verdict, and the Bradys decide not only to throw them a reception but to hire a temporary maid for a week or two so that Alice can take off for her honeymoon. Carol brings over a maid from the temporary service named Gladys Harris (Bella Bruck) for an interview. When Alice returns unexpectedly, Carol has to act like she is an old family friend paying a visit. Unfortunately, Alice and Sam get into an argument over the wedding gift for Clara, as Sam want to buy them a set of bowling balls. The disagreement erupts, and soon they decide not to go the bowling tournament together. When she tells Mr. and Mrs. Brady that she no longer needs Saturday night off, they and the entire family are crestfallen. The kids try to intervene by telling both Sam and Alice that the other one is sorry, but each says that the opposite person has to make the first move. Carol suggests that Mike call Sam to come over to talk about the housing of which he inquired, hoping that when he and Alice see each other, there will be skyrocket again. Unfortunately, it doesn’t go that way initially and they have an awkward exchange. Sam then mentions that he’s getting Clara a set of electric mixers for her wedding gift. Alice takes this as him calling a truce, and soon they have made up and their bowling date is back on. When Sam and Alice return from their tournament, the Bradys have the house decorated and they throw them a big congratulatory party. Suddenly, Sam and Alice realize that the Bradys think they eloped and realize that it must have started due to Clara’s elopement. When Alice mentions how much trouble they’ve gone to, Sam says he has a big announcement to make… then tells them that they advanced to the finals in the bowling tournament. After Clara’s elopement the next day, Alice returns with the news that she and Sam really are engaged, although she’s not sure in what century the wedding will actually take place. 11/3/24
• 108. Miss Popularity – 12/21/1973
  • Jan comes home from school with the news that she has been nominated as the Most Popular Girl in school, but Peter has gotten home before her and already spread the news. Jan tells Marcia that she doesn’t think she will win because she is going up against the beautiful, brainy, and built Kathy Williams. Marcia advises her to get out and campaign for the award. Meanwhile, Mike tries to plan out a long weekend for Carol and him at the beach and has finally arranged to get it scheduled with his work. The kids all help Jan with posters and handbills promoting her as the most popular girl. For the right amount of money as a loan, Peter agrees to act as Jan’s campaign manager instead of being Kathy’s. Bobby agrees to help for a smaller loan. Jan then ties up the phone making campaign calls and promising other kids that she’ll do favors for them in exchange for their votes. Mike finds out that there aren’t any rooms available at the beach, so they decide to go to the mountains instead. Jan keeps her campaign going at full steam, even promising a student named Herman (Darryl Seamen) that Greg will help him with his algebra. She also promises a girl named Shirley (Jerelyn Fields) that she will babysit her little brother. In the end, Jan wins the campaign and becomes the Most Popular Girl. However, the requests from her constituents start to roll in as Greg gets a call from Herman, to whom he says he has no time to help with his Algebra. Jan also has to turn down Shirley, who wants Jan to babysit for her brother that night. Jan says that now that she’s won, she has no need to fulfill her campaign promises. Herman tells Jan that he and a lot of kids wish they could take their votes back. Peter and Bobby have to ask their father for a loan since Jan has also reneged on that promise. Mike find out that the ski lodge is overbooked, so they have to return to the drawing board for their weekend. Jan angers more sibling by refusing to keep her promise to do her laundry and then turns off the TV on Bobby and Cindy so that she can write her acceptance speech for her award. Mike and Carol make a booking to go to a dude ranch, but then find out that it conflicts with Jan’s award ceremony. Jan reads them her acceptance speech that mentions how she has more charm and personality than any other girl in the class. Her parents try to bring her back to earth and tell her that she needs to be more humble and grateful. Jan then gets even more upset when she finds out that the Most Popular Boy, Billy Garst, is going to the award dance with Kathy Williams, who has cancelled her date with Peter since he is the brother of the most unpopular girl in school. Jan thinks that everyone has suddenly changed, but her parents tell her that it is her who has changed, so she says she’s going to skip the awards dance. That night at dinner, Jan announces that she is going to the dance after all, but that she has written a new speech. This one is much humbler and contains the promise to fulfill all of her campaign promises to the other students. Peter asks Jan to be his date at the dance. Mike announces that he and Carol will be taking a weekend getaway, location and timing to be determined. The morning after the ceremony, Alice brings Mike and Carol breakfast in bed along with a ‘Do Not Disturb’ sign that the kids made for them since they had to miss their ‘second honeymoon.’ 11/6/24

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