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[[Image:The Brady Bunch.jpg|250px|right|thumb|The nine stars of ''The Brady Bunch,'' which aired on [[ABC]] from 1969 to 1974.]]

[[Image:The Brady Bunch.jpg|250px|right|thumb|The nine stars of ''The Brady Bunch,'' which aired on [[ABC]] from 1969 to 1974.]]

'''''The Brady Bunch''''' is a classic television family sitcom. It ran on [[ABC]] from 1969 to 1974. The show was about a suburban Los Angeles blended family where a formerly-married housewife named Carol Martin (Florence Henderson) with three daughters married architect widower Mike Brady (Robert Reed) who had three sons and a live-in housekeeper Alice (Ann B. Davis).  The adults are all deceased now but most of the children reunite for television specials, including one for [[Christmas]] 2021 entitled "Blending Christmas."<ref>https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/brady-bunch-stars-will-reunite-for-christmas-movie/ar-AAKaPy8</ref>

'''''The Brady Bunch''''' was the last of the classic television family sitcoms. It ran on [[ABC]] from 1969 to 1974. The show was about a suburban Los Angeles blended family where a formerly-married housewife named Carol Martin (Florence Henderson) with three daughters married architect widower Mike Brady (Robert Reed) who had three sons and a live-in housekeeper Alice (Ann B. Davis).  The adults are all deceased now but most of the children reunite for television specials, including one for [[Christmas]] 2021 entitled "Blending Christmas."<ref>https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/brady-bunch-stars-will-reunite-for-christmas-movie/ar-AAKaPy8</ref>

Ranked as the 6th greatest sitcom of the 1970s,<ref>https://www.imdb.com/list/ls000695283/</ref> it became more popular in [[broadcast syndication|syndicated reruns]] than it had been initially.  But the cast never received royalties from the syndicated success after 1979, because of how acting contracts were written then.  As a result of its enduring and even increasing popularity, several reunion spinoffs were produced, such as ''The Brady Bunch Variety Hour'' (1976–77), ''The Brady Brides'' (1981), and ''The Bradys'' (1990).

Ranked as the 6th greatest sitcom of the 1970s,<ref>https://www.imdb.com/list/ls000695283/</ref> it became more popular in [[broadcast syndication|syndicated reruns]] than it had been initially.  But the cast never received royalties from the syndicated success after 1979, because of how acting contracts were written then.  As a result of its enduring and even increasing popularity, several reunion spinoffs were produced, such as ''The Brady Bunch Variety Hour'' (1976–77), ''The Brady Brides'' (1981), and ''The Bradys'' (1990).