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Weekend Viewing: The Brady Brides on The Newlywed Game

This falls into the category of “yes, this show really existed.” After ABC did a successful made-for-TV movie where Jan and Marcia Brady both got married (not to each other), the network greenlit a spinoff where Marcia, Jan and their wussy husbands all have to share one house to save money. Shot before a live audience and full of cutesy innuendo, it was like a bad late ’60s sitcom had a bastard child with a bad early ’80s sitcom. Eve Plumb and Maureen McCormick looked good, though. In this episode, creator/showrunner Sherwood Schwartz goes back to that old sitcom standby, “characters appear on a popular gameshow,” with disastrous results! Oh, and with special guest star Bob Eubanks, host of The Newlywed Game.