Wow, this is just insane, especially at the end... Berle, Turner, the Bradys, all dancing around Alice.... BIZARRE and SURREAL... lol... I remember these shows from when I was about 7 years old. Even then I thought it was very strange. Cool to see it again after so long, though.
Just goes to show taht network execs are idiots! One Variety show gets popular so they shove variety shows down our throats.
Same thing is happening today with Reality shows. When a show starts out pretty good then all the executives decide to get involved and ruin it then cancel it. IDIOTS!
Ironically, Geri R., who plays "Fake Jan", actually was the best performer of the girls, likely because she was hired specifically for a variety show, as opposed to the rest who were there because they were the Bradys.
If I was Barry or lookinland or peter, I'd give florence mushrooms, and do a mom-sandwich, " It's the sandwich of love, one below and one above, she hasnt been laid in days, now we'll cover her in mayonaise."
This must have been around when Tina first left Ike and was broke and desperate...after her "What's Love Got to Do With t" comeback, she wouldn't have gotten within ten miles of this crap!
This is excrutiating. I have to have this on DVD. I salute their big brass Brady balls for getting up there and doing this. It must have been hell on earth for Robert Reed. Rip Taylor can't lip-sinch to save his life, even when all he has to say is "ooby dooby dooby". This makes me squirm, but I can't stop watching.
Rip Taylor is copping a feel on Alice (I think that's Alice) whilst they sing Good Morning Starshine? Sweet Jesus, I don't remember dropping acid, but whatever I'm on must be some seriously good shit.
@:27 Robert Reed looks at Florence Henderson as if to say "Whats that screeching crashing sound?" and @ :32 he turns again to her with the realization that it his career dying. Acceptance to this new reality was hard for him and he resorted to the only refugee left...DRINK!
I'm in the middle of reading the new Maureen McCormick (Marcia) autobiography and had to check this out. She says that she was totally ripped on coke during these shows, lol
you guys are too funny, bob shakes his head in character at how his 3 boy family became such a big bunch....he's looking at cindy first and then at the camera. he was living with 3 boys of his own (if he were all alone) then he sees his big family and is "wow, look at what i got now" robert reed loved all the kids that played the brady's. read, barry's book, and try to meet him, i met him in 2001 at a monkees concert. we were all yelling out questions
@eal1011 ...yeah, he had a big heart-on for at least three of em.... lol!! Sorry, I couldn't resist that.... you teed it up and it was beggin to be hit.. lol
This would've made a lot more sense if on the last episode of the Brady Bunch the Bradys won some kind of trip to Hollywood, and got discovered by someone there who gave them their own show. Otherwise, you wonder how they ended up here!!!
was already an accomplished singer, and he was a classically trained actor, and he enjoyed the energy and movement of the show. Most of us (kids) could sing, so it wasn't all bad. America though, HATED the show, and maybe that is because they were used to the Brady family living in a ranch style house in southern california". It is funny, you hear now that all the girls dislike the BB and don't want to talk about it. i suppose there are WORSE ways to be remembered in life...
he wanted further work in the industry, he honored his contract. But although he despised the 'brady bunch', he genuinely loved us (kids) and was very generous. One year he gave all of us Super 8 movie cameras for Christams, and another he took us on a cruise. He even went out of his ways to be in 'the brady brides' saying that 'no one is going to marry off my girls but me'. Of all the incarnations of the show, Bob enjoyed the variety hour because of the song and dance. Florence of course
Now speaking of CR@P...this was a doomed show fom the beginning. Ultra-terrible. Robert Reed can't sing - but word is he LOVED this series. probably gave him a hcance to check out dudes. anyhow - you KNEW this show was destined to suck because Sid & Marty Croft were involved in it. all their shows sucked. hey guys - the PUPPETS can't save you! ever notice all their shows seemed familiar? oh yes, that's right, THEY SUCKED!
I met barry williams (greg) at a comedy club before he gave a show for an interview (i was with a local radio affiliate and we had tickets for the show) and he said that, "Bob HATED the brady bunch...he disliked the scripts, thought they were pointless, and just not believable. Bob's training was classical theater, arts, drama, music. To him, the Brady Bunch being a sitcom was not reflective of the true arts, and felt the series beneath him. He was also under contract with the studio, and if
If you look at the Brady Bunch Theme from the first season, when the lyrics "That's the way they all became the Brady Bunch" comes up,he looks at Cindy and then shakes his head in disgust. I caught that when I was young and didn't understand it. Now after reading he hated the show,it became crystal clear.
I KNOW! I only started watchint the actual 'Bunch series this year because before I only watched the '90's movie spoofs and I liked them. I noticed Bob shaking his head too, he looks at Cindy I think, the looks around him with a sorta confused look on his face and then looks at the camera shaking his head. Very un-Brady-esque. I though Bob Reed was hot though!
I don't understand why people are getting worked up about the show. Back "then" many stars had variety shows or went on tour. David and Shawn Cassidy, David Soul of Starsky and Hutch fame and even Lindsay "The Bionic Woman" Wagner had their specials, records and faces out for the public. Unlike today, the stars were accommendating and understood how happy they made their fans by entertaining the fans. Is that so hard to understand today in a world where must starlets are dropping their nickers?
This is a great clip! While The Brady Bunch Variety Hour was the most campy show on television, people actually watched it. It was just good clean fun...something you rarely see on television anymore!
Ultracheese at its ranciest! Yes, I do remember this travesty. Blame it on the Donny & Marie show..they made an appearance, the ratings shot up and so did the execs who came up with the idea. Ah, television in the '70s!!!
Freakin' Awesome!! Pretty much destroys the gay stereotype about singing and dancing ability. However, the least talented person in the # is that shmuck Milton Berle. Carol is smoking hot! Is that Chris Knight or Donny Osmond(!)???
WTF is going on here? Why is the maid dancing with Rip Taylor? Was everyone so damned coked up during the 70's that they didn't see this as the train wreck that it is?
It's still fun to watch though, i was 5 when this came out.
Sweet Mother of God! Just when I think it can't get any more horrifyingly wonderful, it's Rip Taylor and Alice the Maid singing, "Gliddy glop gloopy nibby nabby nooby, la la la lo lo..."
what television family these days could get a show like this? i cant think of one that would have enough cast members. Except all those old TGIF friday night ABC shows.
not for nothing, but this isnt really that bad. its no different then any other 70's variety show. I think people bust on it because its the brady bunch. who ever thought they would get a variety show. but the singing is passable with carol, greg, fake jan and even marcia at times, and the others just being back up, and the dancing could be alittle better. I dont think any other t.v. family could get by with this. I mean, The 8 is enough variety hour....
Cool! Do you have any more clips from the Variety Hour? All I've got is the DVD with 2 episodes. I'd like to secure the whole series (even though it is pretty scary to watch). Thanks for putting this one up.
Ah, the Golden Age of television.
SukieTawdry1000 8 months ago
one dies of aids the marcia has sex for DRUGS SICK!!!
losemothergoose 9 months ago
Wow, this is just insane, especially at the end... Berle, Turner, the Bradys, all dancing around Alice.... BIZARRE and SURREAL... lol... I remember these shows from when I was about 7 years old. Even then I thought it was very strange. Cool to see it again after so long, though.
Tre404 1 year ago
this show should have run for 25 years.
1macboo 1 year ago
epitome of 1970's bad taste... How many weeks was this show on before being put out of it's misery?
irish89055 1 year ago
The Brady Bunch Variety Hour......big wheel keep on turnin'.
optio4 1 year ago
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tinzovideo 1 year ago
I remember this shit when I was a little kid and thinking Lord, why did you have to take a great cast and shove them into this piece of Sh**
My parents loved it: my friends and just said WTF???
Lalo3001 1 year ago
what year was this and how many episodes?
whiteqtipful 1 year ago
wow, this is hysterical. that arm choreography! lol!
now that simpson variety show episode makes sense, the jan replacement.
bcrocker33 1 year ago
its been said that osama bin ladin watched this to psych himself up for the 9/11 attacks
steventhestudent 2 years ago 2
This clip gives me gas.
philaman1972 2 years ago
We will feel just as sick about American Idol thirty years from now... At least Rip Taylor was featured in this...
Commentarian1 2 years ago
In "You don't have to be a star" , is it fake Jan doing solo with Greg?
jwmellott 2 years ago
Jan's fake??
Wonderplant 2 years ago
Proof that God hates us and wants us to suffer
DefconWarningSystem 2 years ago
This sort of show is still going on though.
Been to Vegas, lately??
Only the "Good" ones can survive there.
Cher, Bette Midler, Donny & Marie....
rhondawaldron 2 years ago
Just goes to show taht network execs are idiots! One Variety show gets popular so they shove variety shows down our throats.
Same thing is happening today with Reality shows. When a show starts out pretty good then all the executives decide to get involved and ruin it then cancel it. IDIOTS!
rhondawaldron 2 years ago
could'nt have said it better myself !!! people's got to run stuff in to the ground ! i hate reality tv anymore !!! peace to ya !
nibornna 2 years ago
I would still nail Marcia, balls deep.
wellsonors 2 years ago
4:44 kinda reminded me of Black Sabbath ~ Snowblind. Maybe I'm just stoned.
Aboxatax 2 years ago
Snowblind, that's a good one. Maybe Barry Williams should have replaced Ozzy instead of Dio.
miketodd67 2 years ago
Yeah, does it sound like that to you? go to 4:44
Aboxatax 2 years ago
I don't know why someone would give my comment a thumbs down. You must be a pussy whoever you are. Black Sabbath.
Aboxatax 2 years ago
I remember this. I thought it completely sucked.
majesticlizard 2 years ago
hahahahahahahahahah lmfao at yalls coments haha after seeing this i just wanna go look at the Jackson 5 Variety show xD lmao
JordinSparksFan08 2 years ago
Great new bio (All About Jeffrey Hunter)-- about the late actor who tried out for the part of Mike Brady--is for sale at amazon!
Bestmanme08 2 years ago
Proof that God hates us and wants us to suffer.
Ironically, Geri R., who plays "Fake Jan", actually was the best performer of the girls, likely because she was hired specifically for a variety show, as opposed to the rest who were there because they were the Bradys.
Poor Susan Olsen looked positively uncomfortable.
DefconWarningSystem 2 years ago
I was only six when this was on and even I knew what a piece of lame crap it was then!
BKRudy1970 2 years ago
this is just about as painful as it gets.
indianakennedy2 2 years ago
Tina's channeling Proud Mary
gman59 2 years ago
Rip taylor, joseph stalin called, he wants his hair and mustache back
saletious 2 years ago
If I was Barry or lookinland or peter, I'd give florence mushrooms, and do a mom-sandwich, " It's the sandwich of love, one below and one above, she hasnt been laid in days, now we'll cover her in mayonaise."
saletious 2 years ago
T.U.R.D. Robert reed must have just got cornholed backstage to sing that bad!
saletious 2 years ago
Aw hell, I'd rather watch this than some of the crap that is on TV...
BTW Can you imagine if Quentin Tarantino had directed one of THE BRADY BUNCH Movies ???
I can just see the entire Brady Clan repeating the Breakfast Table spiel before the opening credits in Reservoir Dogs !!!
SouthwestRanger 2 years ago
This must have been around when Tina first left Ike and was broke and desperate...after her "What's Love Got to Do With t" comeback, she wouldn't have gotten within ten miles of this crap!
mthivier 2 years ago
This is excrutiating. I have to have this on DVD. I salute their big brass Brady balls for getting up there and doing this. It must have been hell on earth for Robert Reed. Rip Taylor can't lip-sinch to save his life, even when all he has to say is "ooby dooby dooby". This makes me squirm, but I can't stop watching.
kosherspeare 2 years ago
catch a falling star was in Princess Diaries 1!!!!
StephenJSheridan 2 years ago
fucking hilarious !!!
mhuki 2 years ago
Rip Taylor is copping a feel on Alice (I think that's Alice) whilst they sing Good Morning Starshine? Sweet Jesus, I don't remember dropping acid, but whatever I'm on must be some seriously good shit.
wickedfeylady 2 years ago
but i think the tv show is better
garden4garden 2 years ago
i like the show
garden4garden 2 years ago
I cant believe that according to an arrticle i read this was in the top 10 worst shows ever..
Selendomono 2 years ago
@:27 Robert Reed looks at Florence Henderson as if to say "Whats that screeching crashing sound?" and @ :32 he turns again to her with the realization that it his career dying. Acceptance to this new reality was hard for him and he resorted to the only refugee left...DRINK!
2vonranke 2 years ago
I wish they would put out an infomercial for the entire Brady Bunch Variety Hour collection.
philaman1972 3 years ago
but whatever happened to geri reischel??
sickkat44 3 years ago
check her myspace page "fakejan".
nccodyssey 2 years ago
I can see a studio executive with a big glass of scotch with a pistol nearby as he prepares to blow his brains out over this programming choice.
chase6470 3 years ago
Florence Henderson is the ultimate MILF!
bennjr 3 years ago
lmao!!!
candyshockk 3 years ago
a sad phase in tina turner's career- man what a comeback she would later launch in 1983-1984 with the big hair! funny vid though.
newstarter11 3 years ago
I'm in the middle of reading the new Maureen McCormick (Marcia) autobiography and had to check this out. She says that she was totally ripped on coke during these shows, lol
lynnwoodsmeghead 3 years ago 2
That's too funny...and whoever produced this must have been dropping some heavy acid to have come up with this stuff.
mthivier 2 years ago
Barry and Geri are the best dancers.
bennjr 3 years ago
you guys are too funny, bob shakes his head in character at how his 3 boy family became such a big bunch....he's looking at cindy first and then at the camera. he was living with 3 boys of his own (if he were all alone) then he sees his big family and is "wow, look at what i got now" robert reed loved all the kids that played the brady's. read, barry's book, and try to meet him, i met him in 2001 at a monkees concert. we were all yelling out questions
phillygirl06 3 years ago
how cheezy can a show get?
swampzoid 3 years ago
I don't Rip Taylor is funny. He makes these dumb faces and thinks he's hilarious, it's just dumb.
bennjr 3 years ago
Robert Reed was actually a good dancer, in that kind of unusual injured bird style, LoL!
bennjr 3 years ago
Barry is so sexy and a very good dancer and singer! I love those moves he does, HUNK!
bennjr 3 years ago
is a pop culture those days and everyone enjoyed those shows. Bob Reed had a big heart for the kids.
eal1011 3 years ago 6
@eal1011 ...yeah, he had a big heart-on for at least three of em.... lol!! Sorry, I couldn't resist that.... you teed it up and it was beggin to be hit.. lol
Tre404 1 year ago
The Brady's were "Star Struck"!
CrossmanTelevision 3 years ago 3
I'm glad the seventies are over.....if it wasn't for All in the Family, I would have never survived.
fonna 3 years ago 3
Lovin' Barry Williams' Saturday Night Fever suit...!
FCas3 3 years ago 6
This would've made a lot more sense if on the last episode of the Brady Bunch the Bradys won some kind of trip to Hollywood, and got discovered by someone there who gave them their own show. Otherwise, you wonder how they ended up here!!!
FCas3 3 years ago 3
I'll agree, this is ultra-corny, but I grew up watching "variety shows" and I'd rather watch this stuff than the craploa that's on TV now!
FCas3 3 years ago 3
YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!!
3lpunkrock 3 years ago 2
was already an accomplished singer, and he was a classically trained actor, and he enjoyed the energy and movement of the show. Most of us (kids) could sing, so it wasn't all bad. America though, HATED the show, and maybe that is because they were used to the Brady family living in a ranch style house in southern california". It is funny, you hear now that all the girls dislike the BB and don't want to talk about it. i suppose there are WORSE ways to be remembered in life...
madskyltd 3 years ago
he wanted further work in the industry, he honored his contract. But although he despised the 'brady bunch', he genuinely loved us (kids) and was very generous. One year he gave all of us Super 8 movie cameras for Christams, and another he took us on a cruise. He even went out of his ways to be in 'the brady brides' saying that 'no one is going to marry off my girls but me'. Of all the incarnations of the show, Bob enjoyed the variety hour because of the song and dance. Florence of course
madskyltd 3 years ago
Now speaking of CR@P...this was a doomed show fom the beginning. Ultra-terrible. Robert Reed can't sing - but word is he LOVED this series. probably gave him a hcance to check out dudes. anyhow - you KNEW this show was destined to suck because Sid & Marty Croft were involved in it. all their shows sucked. hey guys - the PUPPETS can't save you! ever notice all their shows seemed familiar? oh yes, that's right, THEY SUCKED!
madskyltd 3 years ago
Really? I heard Robert Reed HATED this series and only did it because he loved the 'Brady Kids' and they wanted to do it.
pinkosmondfan 3 years ago
I met barry williams (greg) at a comedy club before he gave a show for an interview (i was with a local radio affiliate and we had tickets for the show) and he said that, "Bob HATED the brady bunch...he disliked the scripts, thought they were pointless, and just not believable. Bob's training was classical theater, arts, drama, music. To him, the Brady Bunch being a sitcom was not reflective of the true arts, and felt the series beneath him. He was also under contract with the studio, and if
madskyltd 3 years ago
I heard that Bob Reed hated "The Brady Bunch." (though he loved the kids) but he liked being on the "Brady Bunch Hour.:
JosieCashew 3 years ago 3
Yup. Isn't that oddly weird? :)
If you look at the Brady Bunch Theme from the first season, when the lyrics "That's the way they all became the Brady Bunch" comes up,he looks at Cindy and then shakes his head in disgust. I caught that when I was young and didn't understand it. Now after reading he hated the show,it became crystal clear.
bubblinbrownsugar616 3 years ago
I KNOW! I only started watchint the actual 'Bunch series this year because before I only watched the '90's movie spoofs and I liked them. I noticed Bob shaking his head too, he looks at Cindy I think, the looks around him with a sorta confused look on his face and then looks at the camera shaking his head. Very un-Brady-esque. I though Bob Reed was hot though!
bennjr 3 years ago
o my god!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
metalmark2112 3 years ago
Why do I keep coming back to this video?
pucksprattle 3 years ago 5
Probably for the same reason I keep going back to the Lurch dance video. If I figure out why I'll let you know.
lostindreams3 3 years ago
The same reason if you're driving by an accident, you have to stop and watch. Morbid fascination with tragedy.
mthivier 2 years ago
Even as a kid I realized this show sucked and needed to be put out it's misery. It didn't last long and wasn't entertaining at all.
Arctic49519 3 years ago
We must bring back this brilliant genre.
pucksprattle 3 years ago 2
I don't understand why people are getting worked up about the show. Back "then" many stars had variety shows or went on tour. David and Shawn Cassidy, David Soul of Starsky and Hutch fame and even Lindsay "The Bionic Woman" Wagner had their specials, records and faces out for the public. Unlike today, the stars were accommendating and understood how happy they made their fans by entertaining the fans. Is that so hard to understand today in a world where must starlets are dropping their nickers?
fredrika27 3 years ago
This All Star extravaganza is Great and/or Fun as much for Nostalgia's sake as well as for any sake.
stebaer4 3 years ago
This is a great clip! While The Brady Bunch Variety Hour was the most campy show on television, people actually watched it. It was just good clean fun...something you rarely see on television anymore!
Mattleycrue66 3 years ago 4
Ultracheese at its ranciest! Yes, I do remember this travesty. Blame it on the Donny & Marie show..they made an appearance, the ratings shot up and so did the execs who came up with the idea. Ah, television in the '70s!!!
captaineasychord1 3 years ago 2
What the hell,......?
loon65 3 years ago 3
Freakin' Awesome!! Pretty much destroys the gay stereotype about singing and dancing ability. However, the least talented person in the # is that shmuck Milton Berle. Carol is smoking hot! Is that Chris Knight or Donny Osmond(!)???
jksonny 3 years ago 2
Geri Reischel looked kind of hot back in the '70's
RCmack 3 years ago 3
Dear Sherwood,
I think the cow was running dry about this time. You should have put it to pasture at the wrap party of the Brady Bunch!
visor109 3 years ago 2
"Robert" should have stayed in Pasadena and not bothered with this show.
jerrysboys 3 years ago
Robert was HOT!
bennjr 3 years ago
I have a admit. This variety hours made be cheesy,but it's better than the shows today b/c it is clean. Do you have more.
dee72deedee 3 years ago 5
Gotta love classical tv. Clean.
prayer4you08 3 years ago 5
WTF is going on here? Why is the maid dancing with Rip Taylor? Was everyone so damned coked up during the 70's that they didn't see this as the train wreck that it is?
It's still fun to watch though, i was 5 when this came out.
bigdog1271 3 years ago 3
Fake Jan is SO excellent!
pucksprattle 3 years ago 4
GROOVY!!! I love them!
bennjr 3 years ago 2
The Simpsons Family Smile-Time Variety Hour!
RichoRosai 3 years ago 2
No wonder this was cancelled
dee72deedee 3 years ago 3
Sadly, vaudeville died before his hairdo did.
HypnoToad72 3 years ago 4
Sweet Mother of God! Just when I think it can't get any more horrifyingly wonderful, it's Rip Taylor and Alice the Maid singing, "Gliddy glop gloopy nibby nabby nooby, la la la lo lo..."
Brilliant television.
pucksprattle 3 years ago 2
"horrifyingly wonderful" just when I thought there were not words to describe this. This is your mind; this is your mind on drugs
and scripting the Brady Bunch Variety Hour.
JohnXHoward 3 years ago 2
Not just any drugs: Quaaludes.
pucksprattle 3 years ago 2
what television family these days could get a show like this? i cant think of one that would have enough cast members. Except all those old TGIF friday night ABC shows.
intheric 3 years ago
LOL at their "rhythm"
OrangeSFO 3 years ago
american TV is lacking this kind of crazy these days
OrangeSFO 3 years ago 2
Disturbing...LOL
stellaluna4u2 3 years ago
omg i luv the brady bunch variety hour do you have any more clips? cuz i only got the first 2 episodes but i dont know where to find the rest.
coolo236 3 years ago
this is just scary bizarre, but yes, truth be told, some of the cast could sing, fake jan is the best...
hanniballecturer 3 years ago 2
not for nothing, but this isnt really that bad. its no different then any other 70's variety show. I think people bust on it because its the brady bunch. who ever thought they would get a variety show. but the singing is passable with carol, greg, fake jan and even marcia at times, and the others just being back up, and the dancing could be alittle better. I dont think any other t.v. family could get by with this. I mean, The 8 is enough variety hour....
intheric 3 years ago
Yes, but I'd argue they broke the mold after this one. This is fantastic.
pucksprattle 3 years ago 3
Cool stuff! That was crazy how Tina Turner did that little cameo appearance...that dress was pretty risque even for the 70's!
friendly76 3 years ago 3
Cool! Do you have any more clips from the Variety Hour? All I've got is the DVD with 2 episodes. I'd like to secure the whole series (even though it is pretty scary to watch). Thanks for putting this one up.
woemcat 3 years ago