The Brady Bunch : Was it just lower ratings that go the show cancelled?

Was it just lower ratings that go the show cancelled?

I'm wondering if part of the reason was all the internal strife--the kids wanted more money and more control concerning the story lines (always have heard they wanted more musical episodes), plus Robert Reed was becoming more difficult. I'm thinking if all had been well on the set, they would have gotten a 6th season.

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Robert Reed sounded like a real prima dona. So he did Shakespeare, big deal!

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You know I don't know what it is with people like you Loomis.

Expect everything to last forever?

It had a good healthy 5 years run and if the shows ratings were bad the first season, ABC would of probably canceled it after that season.

Stop making a big to do about it.

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In any TV show you never know if you'll be on next year.

A show can be at the tops and once one of the competing networks schedules another show opposite of it, then there's always the chance that other show could be history.

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Loomis, shush.

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So all the deleted ones are by Loomis..what happened to this guy?

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Maybe he got tired of trolling?

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Ratings Phil.

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Someone else wrote on here that everyone thought the series would be cancelled midway through the last season, November 1973, which explains some of the oddball plots in the last part of the season in 1974.

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The plots were more stupid that's why is got cancelled.

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I saw a TV special years ago, where they basically said the kids wanted too much money and too many singing plots to help sell their records (and compete with The Partridge Family) so Sherwood got tired of their crap and called for the show to be canned.

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Did the singing plots make the show better or worst?

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Not being a fan of the singing plots, the Brady Bunch did do a good job of weaving those bits into the plot of the respective episode. It would have been much worse had they dimmed the lights at the end and randomly broke out unto song.

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It officially got canceled in early 1974

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Think we know that already.

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I think TV shows were changing you had all in the family good times Maude jeffersons. It was moving away from bubble gum shows like the Brady bunch. I love watching reruns now the times in the show any way seem innocent.

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Bingo. The Norman Lear shows you mentioned plus Chico and the Man and Sanford and Son came along. They proved to be very popular and had a more reality based biting humor to them.

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It was a combination of ratings and cost. Sanford and Son was running against it and really putting a dent in the Brady ratings (it was part of that new generation of sitcoms you spoke about. And everyone's contract was up, so a sixth season would have been more expensive.

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Sanford and Son was a Norman Lear show too, and another show he stole from the British.

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LOL - he didn't steal it. He adapted it and paid a royalty.

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Every episode of Sanford and Son did give credit to "Steptoe and Son." So it wasn't stolen. There were royalties paid. Similarly All in the Family was based on Till Death Us Do Part . Same thing goes for the Office.

I have seen the original shows and there is enough of a difference for each show to break off and goes into its own direction. I think that is what All in the Family and Sanford and Son accomplished.
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Call it what you will. It's proof that the Brits are better at the whole 'TV' thing than than the Yanks.

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It's not proof at all. Brits have also adapted American TV shows.

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"Three's Company" was the American remake of "Man About The House". Did they have to pay a royalty?

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i would think so. It is credited at the end of every single episode: https://youtu.be/U_5ST68nlpI

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