Despite Florence Henderson’s many pleads to make her character, Carol Brady, an employed woman, promoters rejected her request. Carol Brady was a stay at home mother and unemployed. She did frequently volunteer and participate in charity fundraising.
During these years, it was commonplace for the woman of the household to stay home and care for the family while their husbands went off to work.
Surf’s Up Dude
Barry Williams was as athletic off the screen as he was on. In season four, when the family vacations in Hawaii, Barry, who plays Greg Brady, is actually surfing.
In one of the scenes, he really did hurt himself after wiping out near rocks. Filming had to be delayed in order to give him some time to recover.
No Secrets
When you’re spending so many hours filming with people day and night, it’s hard to keep any secrets. Although Robert Reed thought that his sexuality was his own little secret, other cast members were well aware that Reed was hiding something. Florence Henderson, who played his on-screen wife, Carol, noticed that Reed was uncomfortable being romantic with her during filming.
After Reed had finally come out to her, they worked around Reed’s discomfort and would rehearse together off-camera so that when they finally filmed, their relationship would look natural.
Friends in All the Right Places
When you have friends in the right places, you can often get hooked up with some pretty cool gigs. Well, when you’ve got parents in the right places, that’s pretty much a guarantee. Hope Juber, Sherwood Schwartz’s daughter, was lucky to make four guest appearances on the TV series.
She appeared in the following episodes: The Slumber Caper (1970), The Big Bet (1972), Greg Gets Grounded (1973), and The Hair-Brained Scheme (1974).
Brown-eyed Boy
"My brown-eyed boy, you, my brown-eyed boy. Do you remember when we used to sing"… Okay, so maybe the lyrics don’t go exactly like that, but Christopher Knight, who played Peter Brady, was the only cast member with brown eyes.
This didn’t bother him much and he got along great with his fellow cast members despite their physical differences.