The Brady Bunch: Vote for Brady

The Brady Bunch: Vote for Brady
ABC
December 12, 1969
Sitcom
DVD
B-

In this Elroy-Schwartz-written story are some of the motifs that would recur throughout the show: boys vs. girls, with particular emphasis on Greg vs. Marcia (you would rarely see, in contrast, Peter vs. Jan); the parents and Alice trying to stay neutral; a tape recorder; Marcia sobbing when she cries, even about relatively minor things; Marcia thinking Greg is a "groovy" brother; and the junior high stock footage of a girl handing out newspapers outside and of a restless audience in the auditorium.

Stephen Liss, who plays Greg's campaign manager Rusty, would turn up seven years later in my favorite ABC Afterschool Special, "Dear Lovey Hart: I Am Desperate."  Martin Ashe, who's Mr. Dickens, would be a Butler in the first Gilligan TV-movie.  This is the first of two BBunch episodes David Alexander directed.