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).
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.
Stay at Home Mom
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.
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.
Kitty Karry-All
If you were a big fan of the TV series, then you would know that Cindy’s favorite doll on the show was Kitty Karry-All. The young actress and her doll were attached to one another.
We imagine that Susan Olsen really did have a strong attachment to the doll, considering that she was so young when filming the series. Needless to say, she didn’t go anywhere without her doll.