February 9, 1990 –
Proving that you can throw good money after bad, CBS TV tried with an hour-long Comedy-Drama(?) version of The Brady Bunch, The Bradys, starring the usual suspect, which debuted on this date. The show lasted six episodes.
Once again Robert Reed fought with Sherwood Schwartz over script quality. When Schwartz refused to make the changes he desired, Reed bypassed him and Paramount and went straight to CBS to complain. Schwartz was furious, and no one at CBS listened because due to the executive turnover at the time, people there feared for their jobs. This would be Robert Reed’s final involvement in a Brady Bunch project. Reed died two years after the series aired. Surviving cast members would continue to take part in various reunion specials and retrospectives and some made cameos in The Brady Bunch Movie.
