Monday, November 30, 2020

Brady Rarity -- United States Savings Bonds Training Film






The Unites States Savings Bonds Division created a training film for payroll savings canvassers, titled "The All Star Spangled Mission". It was produced by Paramount Pictures, featuring Sandy Duncan and the stars of five TV series, including the casts of Bridget Loves Bernie, The Odd Couple, and The Brady Bunch.

Thanks to Ezekiele M. for this great info and clip!

Watch a Preview of the film here before its available on archive.org:

View Brady Payroll Savings Film Here



Sunday, November 22, 2020

Recycled Brady Set Decor

                                        




Before moving permanently into the Bradys home in 1969, these stock Paramount set decorations were used in a 1965 episode of "My Three Sons". It was filmed at Desilu/Paramount for its first seven seasons before moving to CBS/Radford in Studio City.


Later, it was used in this 1968 episode of "Mission: Impossible"

Another Early Appearance by The Brady Curio Cabinet

                                        

The Bradys' curio cabinet made a lot of television appearances prior to moving into the Brady home in 1969.  Here is one in a My Three Sons episode in 1965.  The episode also featured Kym Karath who later played Kerry in "Cyrano de Brady"

                                       

Saturday, November 21, 2020

Friday, November 20, 2020

The Brady Kids


Next time you see this on Facebook, check out this watermark. Seeing this again recently reminded me that Ebay marked all their images with this mark when I posted this back in 2011. I'm not sure why they did, they don't do it anymore

The Brady Bunch Cast



This photo was recently used by Facebook groups again, you'll see it on there.  I like this shot, part of a whole day of publicity photos the cast did at Griffith Park at Travel Town Train Museum. It was first posted in 2013! I met Susan at a Hollywood Collectors Show and was thrilled to get her to sign it, she was great.

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Barry Williams in Brady Bunch Pilot



Barry Williams first close-up is inverted in the pilot. It's so odd.  I don't know much about editing film back then, if it could be an accidental, reversal of the actual frames of film, or what. 

Monday, November 16, 2020

Robbie Rist on Instagram

Robbie on "Love Boat"
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Friday, November 13, 2020

Thursday, November 12, 2020

The Brady Kids


 I always enjoyed this photo from a 2013 post. Seeing it again recently reminded me that it came from “The Brady Bunch E! True Hollywood Story”. I had saved it for years on VHS and finally transferred it to MP3. I edited out the E! logo in the lower right hand corner and you can see the VHS tracking lines on the bottom! Would love to see clean copy of this if anyone has one. 

Thursday, November 05, 2020

Barry Williams Recreated His Autograph Seeker Role


After playing an autograph-seeking boy in "That Girl", Barry Williams played an autograph-seeking boy in "Gomer Pyle". (Sergeant Carter was appearing in a movie for some contrived reason)
Both episodes were filmed at Paramount Studios in 1968, just before the Brady Bunch pilot was filmed. John Rich, who directed the Brady pilot, also directed this Gomer Pyle episode.

Barry Williams "That Girl"

Uncredited role with Marlo Thomas