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Kara Kovalchik<\/strong> and Mental_Floss<\/a> <\/strong>present 16 Things You May Not Know About The Brady Bunch<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/strong>Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n For the role of Mike Brady (the family\u2019s surname had changed by this time), \u201cthere were a number of men I wanted to interview, including Gene Hackman,\u201d recalled Schwartz in Brady, Brady, Brady<\/em>. \u201cParamount wouldn\u2019t even okay Gene Hackman for an interview because he had a very low TVQ. (TVQ is a survey that executives use to determine the audience\u2019s familiarity with performances. TV executives have don\u2019t admit to the existence of TVQs, but it is commonly employed in casting.)\u201d<\/p>\n They finally chose Reed because he was already under contract to Paramount, and he had a certain amount of marquee value because of his co-starring role on the popular legal drama series The Defenders<\/em>. \u201cThe year after The Brady Bunch<\/em> debuted, unknown Gene Hackman with no TVQ starred in The French Connection<\/em> and won the Academy Award for Best Actor, and has been a major star ever since,\u201d added Schwartz.<\/p>\n The Brady Bunch<\/em> was never a huge Nielsen hit during its original run; in fact, it never managed to crack the Top 30 shows. But it did well enough to run for five seasons, which gave Paramount enough episodes to sell as a package for syndication. The syndicated reruns were often shown in the late afternoon, which gave it more exposure to a younger audience. As a result, the show\u2019s fan base grew exponentially after<\/i> it had ceased production, and continues to grow today as each younger generation discovers it.<\/p>\n Like most shows of that era, no one who worked on The Brady Bunch<\/em> thought that the show would still be airing regularly over 40 years later after it had been cancelled. So sometimes little mistakes were left unfixed in the name of finishing an episode on schedule. After all, the show aired in the days before every home had a VCR, so who would notice something like the family leaving the house in a convertible and returning from the same errand in a station wagon? Or Jan\u2019s hair mysteriously switching from a ponytail to loose around her shoulders repeatedly while the kids were building a house of cards? Those flubs and others\u2014like a tired Susan Olsen sticking her tongue out as she exited a scene, thinking it was still a rehearsal\u2014have become part of the show\u2019s legend thanks to syndication, DVRs, and viewers with too much time on their hands.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kara Kovalchik and Mental_Floss present 16 Things You May Not Know About The Brady Bunch.\u00a0 Here are three of my<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,65,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-trivia","category-tv","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12738"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26851,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12738\/revisions\/26851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
4. GENE HACKMAN WAS IN CONTENTION TO PLAY MIKE BRADY.<\/b><\/h4>\n
14. THE SHOW WAS NEVER A HUGE HIT.<\/b><\/h4>\n
15. MANY FLUBS WERE NEVER CORRECTED.<\/b><\/h4>\n