In 1990, after the success of the CBS aired TV reunion movie "A Very Brady Christmas", CBS asked the original TV series creator and his son to develop a new series featuring the Brady family. Although they originally rejected that suggestion, they gave in and this is what was received.
In this series, the vast majority of the original cast reprised their respective roles from the original 1969-1974 TV series. The only exception was Maureen McCormick, who originally portrayed Marcia, because she was pregnant at the time with her daughter and couldn't reprise the role. In her place, actress Leah Ayers took over the role of Marcia.
IMHO, Maureen McCormick was smart in sitting this one out due to her pregnancy. Why? Because we are treated to yet another worse spin-off a wonderful TV series.
This whole series was much more a dramatic series rather than comedic. Likewise, as its predecessor, it was also boring and uninspiring. Although the cast tries to make the series work, they fail as this particular spin-off series suffers from bad writing and clumsy episode directing. The producers even added insult to injury by utilizing a laugh track machine for some of the episodes. Likewise, with it predecessor spin-offs, it also doesn't survive on a "So bad, it's good" kind of level, which means that this series was really bad. Another one of the worst parts was this; each of the episodes were an hour long rather than a half-hour, which really added to the painful and pathetic thing that this show really was.
Thankfully, the series was short lived as it only lasted six episodes. Thank goodness for small favors.
This was also compared with another one hour comedic-dramatic show called "Thirtysomething", which was absurd. Why? IMHO, "Thirtysomething" was funny, warm, well-written, well acted and enteraining, which this series wasn't.
Overall, another one of THE worst spin-offs ever made.
In this series, the vast majority of the original cast reprised their respective roles from the original 1969-1974 TV series. The only exception was Maureen McCormick, who originally portrayed Marcia, because she was pregnant at the time with her daughter and couldn't reprise the role. In her place, actress Leah Ayers took over the role of Marcia.
IMHO, Maureen McCormick was smart in sitting this one out due to her pregnancy. Why? Because we are treated to yet another worse spin-off a wonderful TV series.
This whole series was much more a dramatic series rather than comedic. Likewise, as its predecessor, it was also boring and uninspiring. Although the cast tries to make the series work, they fail as this particular spin-off series suffers from bad writing and clumsy episode directing. The producers even added insult to injury by utilizing a laugh track machine for some of the episodes. Likewise, with it predecessor spin-offs, it also doesn't survive on a "So bad, it's good" kind of level, which means that this series was really bad. Another one of the worst parts was this; each of the episodes were an hour long rather than a half-hour, which really added to the painful and pathetic thing that this show really was.
Thankfully, the series was short lived as it only lasted six episodes. Thank goodness for small favors.
This was also compared with another one hour comedic-dramatic show called "Thirtysomething", which was absurd. Why? IMHO, "Thirtysomething" was funny, warm, well-written, well acted and enteraining, which this series wasn't.
Overall, another one of THE worst spin-offs ever made.