Archive for Category 'The Brady Bunch'

01 Jan

The Brady Year That Was…

written by Eric Greenberg in Blog, The Brady Bunch | 1 comment

Brady mania was alive and well in 2007. On a high note, the whole gang was honored with the TV Land Pop Culture Award at the 5th annual TV Land Awards. We also saw the box set release of the entire “Brady Bunch” series along with “A Very Brady Christmas” and lots more wrapped up in a nice fuzzy green package.

Your favorite Brady cast members were on the go this year. Florence Henderson gave us a sneak peak of her upcoming Retirement Living TV talk show, while Maureen McCormick destroyed everyone in her path by dropping 38 pounds on “Celebrity Fit Club” (and oh yeah…you may have heard, she’s been writing a book). As for our leader, he spent the year tearing it up on Sirius Satellite Radio, starring in “Growing Up 70s” in the heart of Times Square, and just under the wire…launching The Greg Brady Project. He also became an honorary member of the Air Force, got his own Upper Deck baseball card and appeared with Maureen on “The Singing Bee.”

In sports…

30 Dec

50 Ways to Snub an Icon

written by Eric Greenberg in Blog, The Brady Bunch | No comments

I’m not one for kissing up to a new boss, but I’m laying it on thick for my first ever Brady blog. Some of you may have seen TV Land/Entertainment Weekly’s recent list of the “50 Greatest TV Icons”. If not, let me break the cold hard facts to you. There’s not a Brady kid in the bunch. This, in the very same week that Barry was edged out by Matt Damon for People’s “Sexiest Man Alive”. With the launch of The Greg Brady Project, the timing could not be worse for morale. Bottom line, this stinks worse than the Dittmayer’s grill.

Let me soften my tone a bit by saying that TV Land/EW did a reasonably good job with the top 50 names they included. While you can certainly debate the order (#11 Roseanne), most of your legends (Johnny, Lucy, Mary, Gleason) are accounted for. This is a tough playing field and there’s no way to make everyone happy. After all, we’re talking about a list where Henry Winkler, one of the faces of pop culture, can’t crack the top 30. (I’ll pick that fight in The Arthur Fonzarelli Project.)

Here’s where they went off the tracks.

28 Dec

A Very Brady Encounter

written by Bob Hunt in Blog, The Brady Bunch | No comments

May, 1992. The seventies were more than a decade removed, yet life was still quaint in many ways. Cell phones were uncommon, CD’s were read-only, and I was still limping along with a Commodore 64 computer. The prospect of owning a complete set of unedited Brady Bunch episodes in any format was but a dream. Into this bleak existence burst the stunning news that Barry Williams was scheduled to appear in my town.

Barry was starring in a touring production of City of Angels, and that was not all – he was also to autograph copies of his new autobiography, Growing Up Brady, at a local independent bookstore. I bought a pair of tickets to the show at once and lined up a vacation day so that I wouldn’t miss the signing.