The Brady Bunch : Alternate Reality: Recast of the Brady Bunch

Alternate Reality: Recast of the Brady Bunch

Let's say you can go back in time and recast the Brady Bunch with any actor from that time period and watch the show play out, same episodes, same scripts, same set, etc...

You can recast one or more people.

For me, as much as Robert Reed was perfect for Mike, I would love to see the show play out with Charles Bronson as Mike Brady. Leave everything else the same. That would be a hoot.

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The kids were too tame--maybe some edgier young actors in the role--Billy Mumy
as Greg; Mackenzie Phillips as Jan; Jodie Foster as Cindy (she wouldn't stand for
those lil' girl dresses at the age of twelve); Alfred Lutter (from Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore) as Bobby.




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I'd make sure that one of the kids was black, another Mexican, maybe a Chinese thrown in there as well to show how promiscuous Carol was in the 1960's culture.

Cast a man as a gay housekeeper, throw in a little foreplay between some of the kids, and there you have it.

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I wouldn't recast. (Ok, I don't really know of enough actors of that era who would be the right ages) But I'd do some changes:


Have Greg grow his hair longer and be in the hippy culture in high school

Have a recurring character or two as a long-term boyfriend or girlfriend for one of the kids, instead of the ones who only lasted one episode







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I can't imagine a recurring character being added one of the Brady kids boyfriend or girlfriend. Nine characters was a lot for a half-hour sitcom. I don't think the producers wanted to add recurring characters. I can almost imagine one of the Brady kids having a real boyfriend or girlfriend who was never seen. Does anyone remember Felice Schachter as Nancy on the first season of "The Facts Of Life"? It seemed all she did was talk on the phone with her boyfriend Roger. I don't think he was ever seen.

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I don't think Roger was ever seen on FOL either.

They could have had the mostly unseen girlfriend or boyfriend, and just maybe shown them for one or two episodes.

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I'd like to keep the cast as is but if it was to be a different just for fun version, well then:

Hazel (Shelley Booth) as Alice
Barney (Don Knotts) as Sam
Andy Griffith as Mike
Betty White as Carol

As for the kids, well just pluck some from regular life instead of actors. I like the naturalness the characters seemed.

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Mike: Clint Eastwood
Carol:Doris Day
Greg: Ron Howard
Peter: Brandon Cruz
Bobby: Clint Howard
Marcia: Susan Dey
Jan: Mackenzie Phillips
Cindy: Jodie Foster
Alice: Ann B. Davis She stays the same.

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Mike: Richard Chamberlain (He wasn;t doing a series then ,just TV movies)

Carol: Abby Dalton
(B. 1932 or 1935. Best known as Ellie Barnes from 'The Joey Bishop Show')

Greg: Robby Benson (Born 1956 ,perfect!)

Peter: Shaun Cassidy

Bobby: Peter Ostrum (Charlie in Willy Wonka movie)

Marcia: Lisa Gerritsen (Bess ,daughter of Phyllis & from Mary Tyler Moore Show)

Jan: Linda Blair (Seems appropriate)

Cindy: Erin Murphy (Of Bewitched)

Alice: Are you kidding? NOBODY ,gets to play Alice but Ann,on the show.





Sheesh! Marcia wasa toughie ,as I
didn'twant ot say the same answes as others .



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Linda Blair would have been an awesome Jan. Robby Benson overacted too much to play Greg.

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I am happy with the Brady Bunch the way they were (and that ALSO means NO spinoffs that actually happened post-74,etc.EXCEPT maybe the Brady variety show)




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"The Brady Bunch" did get recast a little for their reunions. Geri Reischl played Jan in "The Brady Bunch Hour" variety show. Jennifer Runyon played Cindy in the "A Very Brady Christmas" made for TV movie. And Leah Ayres played Marcia in "The Bradys".

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I would have liked to know how Mike and Carol met. I think I would have made the show into a one hour family dramady. In the first episode, Mike and Carol would have met, not gotten married. I would of had them marry eventually.

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I would cast Gomer Pyle as Mr. Brady, LouAnn Poovie as Mrs. Brady, and Sgt. Carter in a wig as Alice.

Or...

Adam West as Mr. Brady and Burt Ward as Greg. They would always be sneaking off together at night. HOLY BRADYMAN!!

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I would give Coco from the first episode of the golden girls a job!


HE SHOULD BE ALICE! OR AT LEAST THE HOUSEKEEPER!!

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Debi Storm was originally picked by Sherwood Schwartz to play Jan until he decided to cast all blondes for the girls. Storm did appear on "The Brady Bunch" once as Molly Webber in the "My Fair Opponent" episode. I wonder if any other guests had been considered to play main characters. Kym Karath played Kerry Hathaway in the "Cyrano de Brady" episode. She also could have played Jan.

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I read Kathy Hilton (then Kathy Richards) auditioned for Jan. However, I believe Eve Plumb was the perfect choice. This is off-topic, but Eve Plumb had made an appearance on Family Affair as a child who was dying. Susan Olsen made an appearance on Julia in 1968. Cindy was supposed to look like Buffy in the earlier seasons of The Brady Bunch.

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Cindy was supposed to look like Buffy in the earlier seasons of The Brady Bunch.


Complete with 'Kitty Carry-All' doll, similar to Buffy and Mrs. Beasley.

Thank GOD Cindy's doll didn't become part of the show and a character in it's own right.

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I might, instead of keeping it the same (see my last reply) have:
Carol:(agreed on osmeone's choice of this)Doris Day

Mike:Robert Reed

Alice:Ann B.Davis

Greg"Barry Williams

Marcia:Kathy Garver (though she was ten years older---old enough to be Tracy Partridge/Suzanne Crough's mother!)

Peter:Chris Knight

Jan:Eve Plumb

Bobby:Johnnie Whittaker

Cindy:Anissa Jones


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Isn't there a website devoted to original casting choices?
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