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''The Brady Bunch'' is an American sitcom created by Sherwood Schwartz that originally aired from September 26, 1969, to March 8, 1974, on ABC. The series revolves around a large blended family with six children. Considered one of the last of the old-style family sitcoms, the series aired for five seasons and, after its cancellation in 1974, went into syndication in September 1975.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ann B Davis obit )〕 While the series was never a critical or ratings success during its original run, it has since become a popular staple in syndication, especially among children and teenage viewers. ''The Brady Bunchs success in syndication ultimately led to several reunion films and spinoff series: ''The Brady Bunch Hour'' (1976–77), ''The Brady Girls Get Married'' (1981), ''The Brady Brides'' (1981), and the 1988 television reunion movie ''A Very Brady Christmas''. That movie's success led to another spinoff series, ''The Bradys'', which aired on CBS in 1990. In 1995, the series was adapted into a satirical comedy theatrical film titled ''The Brady Bunch Movie'', followed by ''A Very Brady Sequel'' in 1996. A second sequel, ''The Brady Bunch in the White House'', aired on Fox in November 2002 as a made-for-TV movie. In 1997, "Getting Davy Jones" (season 3, episode 12) was ranked No. 37 on ''TV Guide''s 100 Greatest Episodes of All-Time. ==Development== In 1966, following the success of his TV series ''Gilligan's Island'', Sherwood Schwartz conceived the idea for ''The Brady Bunch'' after reading in ''The Los Angeles Times'' that "30% of marriages (the United States ) have a child or children from a previous marriage." He set to work on a pilot script called for a series tentatively titled ''Mine and Yours''. Schwartz then developed the script to include three children for each parent. While Mike Brady is depicted as being a widower, Schwartz originally wanted the character of Carol Brady to have been a divorcée but the network objected to this. A compromise was reached whereby Carol's marital past was left open (not made clear whether she was divorced or widowed). Schwartz shopped the series to the "big three" television networks of the era. ABC, CBS, and NBC all liked the script, but each network wanted changes before they would commit to filming and Schwartz shelved the project.〔The Biography Channel Documentary titled "''The Brady Bunch''", retrieved on June 16, 2008.〕 Although there are similarities between the series and two 1968 theatrical release films, United Artists' ''Yours, Mine and Ours'' (starring Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball) and CBS's ''With Six You Get Eggroll'' (starring Brian Keith and Doris Day), the original script for ''The Brady Bunch'' predated the scripts for both of these films. Nonetheless, the outstanding success of the United Artists film (the 11th highest grossing film of 1968) was a factor in ABC's decision to order episodes for the series.〔 After receiving a commitment for 13 weeks of television shows from ABC in 1968, Schwartz hired film and television director John Rich to direct the pilot, cast the six children from 264 interviews during that summer, and hired the actors to play the mother role (whose maiden name was Tyler and first married name was Martin), the father role, and the housekeeper role. As the sets were built on Paramount Television stage 5, adjacent to the to stage where H.R. Puffnstuff was filmed by Sid and Marty Krofft who would later produce The Brady Bunch Hour, the production crew prepared the backyard of a home in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, as the Tyler home's exterior location to shoot the chaotic backyard wedding scene. Filming of the pilot began on Friday, October 4, 1968, and lasted eight days. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Brady Bunch」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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