The Brady Kids

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The Brady Kids was an animated television series, produced by Filmation and seen on ABC from 1972 to 1974. It was an animated spinoff of ABC's sitcom, The Brady Bunch.

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[edit] Overview

In 1972, Filmation Associates and The Brady Bunch executive producer Sherwood Schwartz adapted the popular live action TV show to animation, resulting in this ABC Saturday morning (and later syndicated) show. The original show's children voiced their animated counterparts (in the first season); however, as the series' name implies, the parents and Alice the housekeeper were left off the show. The six kids were often seen in their tree house; it was never shown whether they lived in an actual house or not.

The animated series also added some animal characters. Marlon was an intelligent, talking mynah bird and also a wizard (complete with stereotypical wizard's cap) who used his magic to help the kids out of jams. Marlon was also notable for his method of flight: He spun his tailfeathers like a helicopter rotor rather than using his wings, which were instead used as hands, often for grand gestures as he cast spells.

The Brady's dog from the live-action series, Tiger, was replaced by a dog named Mop Top (whose thoughts were voiced by Larry Storch). There were also twin panda cubs, Ping and Pong (named after the game ping-pong).

Also, there were two human characters created for this show: Chuck White was a boastful, self-absorbed teenager (about Greg's age) who wasn't above cheating to get whatever he wanted, and Fleetwood was his easygoing sidekick. The two of them went to the same school as the Bradys, and Chuck was sometimes central to the plot as an antagonist.

Originally aired as a one-hour segment on The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie[1], the pilot episode was split into two half-hour segments on The Brady Kids. A total of 22 episodes were produced.[2]

[edit] Characters and voices

[edit] The Bradys

[edit] Other characters

[edit] Opening

The opening sequence featured the "grid" familiar to Brady Bunch viewers, but with the center column normally occupied by the elder Bradys and Alice empty and undivided; as the theme song (new lyrics set to the original Brady Bunch theme) plays, Marlon flies up and down the center, "magically transforming" the live-action children into their animated counterparts.

[edit] TV Theme Lyrics

(to the tune of "The Brady Bunch" theme)

Meet three sisters
Now meet the brothers
Greg's the leader and a good man for the job
There's another boy by the name of Peter
The youngest one is Bob
We see our sisters
They're all quite pretty
First there's Marcia with her eyes all sparkling blue
Then there's Jan the middle one who's really groovy
and sister Cindy too

Let's get set now for action and adventure
As we see things we've never seen before
You'll meet Mop-Top and Ping and Pong the pandas
And Marlon who does magic by the score

The Brady Kids
The Brady Kids
It's the world of your friends the Brady Kids

[edit] Trivia

[edit] External links

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