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The Brady Girls Get Married/The Brady Brides (1981)
A TV reunion movie called The Brady Girls Get Married and a spin-off sitcom were produced in 1981 and aired on NBC. The reunion movie featured the entire original cast; this would prove to be the only time the entire cast worked together on a single project following the cancellation of the original series. The ensuing series (titled The Brady Brides) featured Maureen McCormick (Marcia) and Eve Plumb (Jan) in regular roles. The series had Marcia and Jan both married and both couples living together. The clashes between Jan's uptight husband, Phillip Covington III (a college professor who was several years older than Jan), and Marcia's more slob of a partner, Wally Logan (a salesman who could never seem to keep a job), were the pivot on which many of the stories were based.
Bob Eubanks guest starred in this show as himself in the episode where the two couples appear on The Newlywed Game.
A Very Brady Christmas (1988)
A Very Brady Christmas is a 1988 television movie based on the television series The Brady Bunch, featuring all of the original actors who appeared in the series except Susan Olsen (Cindy Brady), who as legend has it, was busy on her honeymoon when the film was being made.
Synopsis
In the movie, Mike and Carol Brady try to reunite the entire family for Christmas. However, all of the Brady kids are facing personal obstacles that might keep them from coming. Greg Brady's wife is spending Christmas with her family while Peter Brady is involved with his boss. Bobby Brady has dropped out of graduate school to become a racecar driver.
Marcia's husband has been laid off while Jan is separating from her husband. Cindy is fighting for her independence.
Even their former housekeeper, Alice, is dealing with a serious issue: Her husband, Sam, has recently left her for another woman.
The plans are disrupted by Mike Brady being trapped in one of his buildings.
In the end, Mike gets out of the trap after Carol (and the rest of the gang) sings O Come All Ye Faithful.
The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)
The Brady Bunch Movie is a 1995 comedy film adaptation of the 1969-1974 television series The Brady Bunch.
The film features all the original regular characters, all played by new actors. It also took the unusual route of placing the original sitcom characters, with their 1970s fashion sense and 1970s sitcom family morality, in a contemporary 1990s setting, and parodied the resulting culture clash. The movie was a hit and was followed by A Very Brady Sequel in 1996, and a television movie called The Brady Bunch in the White House in 2002.
Plot
The movie begins with the Bradys' next door neighbor Mr. Dittmeyer (an unscrupulous real estate developer) being chewed out by someone on his cellular phone. After he utters the line, "What's their story," the long-familiar opening begins.
The Bradys are the last holdouts in Mr. Dittmeyer's scheme to raze the neighborhood in lieu of a new shopping mall. After being warned not to tattle, Cindy is sent to the Dittmeyers' because the Bradys accidentally got their mail; she is asked to see if he has their mail, too. One of the letters she brings home is notification that the Bradys face foreclosure on their house if they don't pay $20,000 in back taxes. It is the fifth notice; they missed the other two because Mr. Dittmeyer got them and threw them away without opening them. Mike and Carol brush off the crisis as solvable; they are sure Mike's boss will give him an advance if he can sell an architectural design. They are more concerned with Peter's voice changing.
Meanwhile, unbeknownst to her family, Jan is hearing psychotic voices in her head crying "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!". The school counselor Mrs. Cummings (played by RuPaul) advises her to consider a new look - one that will make her stand out from her sisters and be noticed. Jan enthusiastically accepts the advice, and Mrs. Cummings asks her to return when she's pregnant. Jan later purchases a huge black afro wig, but is still overshadowed by Marcia.
At school, Marcia has caught the eye of hunk Doug Simpson (as well as lesbian classmate, Noreen, Alanna Ubach). She accepts his offer to go to the school dance, but forgets that she has asked nice-but-unspectacular Charlie out. Greg's advice is to use the same line that other girls have used on him: "Something suddenly came up." Before the dance, Doug takes Marcia out for a drive to lookout point, parks the car and attempts to have sex with the lovely Brady girl (he french kisses her). Marcia tells him that she isn't interested, and a disgusted Doug leaves her stranded at the side of the road. As Doug pulls away a limousine pulls up.
At the dance, Greg does his "Johnny Bravo" performance and is booed offstage. Marcia arrives later and introduces the star performer of the night, Davy Jones. Although years past his Monkees heyday, he gets a rousing reception from the teachers present; when the backing rock band changes up his performance, the kids respond, too. Marcia arrives at the dance and apologizes to Charlie, who forgives her and asks her to dance with him. Doug, seeing Marcia with Charlie, becomes jealous and calls her a slut. Charlie attempts to confront Doug unsuccessfully. Noreen, witnessing the entire incident, punches Doug in the face, knocking him unconscious. When Marcia sees Doug on the floor, she assumes it was Charlie who punched him out and is flattered. Marcia and Charlie leave the dance together, and Noreen is heartbroken (but soon comforted by another attractive girl). Charlie takes Marcia home, who promptly gives him the thrill of a lifetime with a French kiss of her own.
The next day, Mr. Dittmeyer is going through his mail when he notices a letter for the Bradys marked "final notice." He discovers that the Bradys have past-due property taxes, and he confronts Mike. Mike, however, has sold one of his designs to an Asian entrepreneur and says he has the $20,000. Dittmeyer meddles in the deal and Mike loses his advance. The family packs up everything but the night before they have to move out Marcia suggests the kids enter a "Search For the Stars" contest for fresh young musical groups. Jan, having originally suggested this and been rejected, runs away from home in fury. Cindy sees her leaving and tattles, and the whole family goes on a search for her. They use their car C.B. radio which is heard by Schultzy (Ann B. Davis), the driver who picks Jan up and convinces her to return home.
The next morning, Mr. Dittmeyer is celebrating the success of his scheme when his plans become unraveled. First, the Bradys win the top prize of $20,000 on "Search for the Stars," the amount needed to cover the tax bill. Later, the Bradys' neighbors decide to withdraw their homes from the market, and the neighborhood is secured.
A Very Brady Sequel
A Very Brady Sequel is a 1996 comedy film and sequel to 1995's The Brady Bunch Movie. Both films are parodies-homages of the classic 1969-1974 television sitcom The Brady Bunch. The film is directed by Arlene Sanford and stars Shelley Long and Gary Cole as Carol and Mike Brady. The film was a moderate box office success, although not as successful as The Brady Bunch Movie. A second sequel, the made-for-television The Brady Bunch in the White House aired in November 2002.
Plot
Following its predecessor, the film places the 1970s Brady Bunch family in a contemporary 1990s setting, where much of humor is derived from the resulting culture clash and the utter lack of awareness the Bradys show towards their unusual lifestyle.
One evening, a man claiming to be Carol Brady's long-lost first husband, Roy Martin, shows up at the suburban Brady residence. The man is actually an impostor named Trevor Thomas, and is there to steal the Bradys' familiar horse statue which is actually a $20 million ancient artifact. When Trevor's ruse is uncovered by Bobby and Cindy, he kidnaps Carol and takes her and the artifact to the buyer in Hawaii. The remaining Brady family travels to Hawaii to save Carol and make sure that Trevor is arrested.
Besides the main storyline, the children have their own sub-plots in the film. Greg and Marcia both want to move out of their shared rooms, and when neither wants to back down, they have to share the attic together. When Roy's arrival suggests that Carol and Mike might not be married, Greg and Marcia realise they might not be brother and sister anymore, leading to sexual tensions rising between them. Jan's sub-plot involves her making up a pretend boyfriend named George Glass in order to make herself seem more popular. Peter, who is trying to decide what career path to choose, starts idolizing and emulating Roy's adventurous ways. The youngest, Bobby and Cindy, start a "Detective Agency" hunting down Cindy's missing doll, an act that unexpectedly leads them to discover Roy's true intentions.
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