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Good one!

Why Vincent, why ????

😂😂😂

The money was good, and Vincent was a ham. 😉

How about a solo from Maureen McCormick…which was thin and scary…but deeply appreciated by the audience...that she made it through the song .

This needs to be a pinned comment 👏🏻👏🏻😂😂😂

She was busy

@@patfromamboy What do you mean?

@@LauRa-re9un she was willing to do a comeback episode-but not commit to 13 episodes. So she passed.

@@christophertomasello1227 Oh, thanks!

I'm with you. I'm certain she WANTED to be busy.

ABC's Fred Silverman, who was responsible for scheduling this brief series in the first place {he wanted another "DONNY & MARIE"; the Krofft brothers also produced their show}, also insisted that Garry Marshall come up with a "stunt" episode he could promote at the beginning of the 1977-'78 season- hence, "Fonzie jumps a shark in Hollywood". To the end of his life, Garry regretted filming that episode (and Henry Winkler still does).

Funny how canned applause and laugh tracks are that way.

​@kennetouthard6042 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 good one

Because the cringe has cursed you

Because it's unbelievably and unimaginably cringe

Train wrecks are weirdly fascinating

I agree 👍.

The meth does wonders to the brain.

Same old tired stupid and not true commend you see on EVERY VIDEO OF EVERY SHOW FROM THE 1950s until 2005. It’s silly inane pointless and NOT TRUE. Most tv Bach then and for all time IS stupid valid vacuous ugly and pointless. 🙄🤡🤮

Lsnakjsn wncanwev

Hopefully, some cast members of the show have seen these comments and get a laugh too.

Geri Reischl {"Fake Jan"} is always amused by these comments.

@@fromthesidelines Of everybody on that show only her and Florence Henderson had the capabilities to actually do well on those song and dance routines. Florence Henderson could have definitely have had her own variety show, but the timing probably was not right, as she was busy with the Brady Bunch during the time frame that she most likely would have been offered one.

She did appear with Bill Hayes in a brief NBC series, "OLDSMOBILE MUSIC THEATRE", during the spring of 1959.

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

This is the original theatrical release. 😂

@@MondoMiami LOL

No! I ❤ this!

I've got to admit........

Yes

I skipped the dancing and singing parts, only saw the sketch, which was good, at least intrigue. But singing parts are boring.

I actually love it.

Thank you for that. I was still cooking and wouldn't make my debut till September!

It would be interesting to do research on what other disasters took place on that day

A date which will live in infamy

That day, an earthquake in Romania killed 1,541 people. 😔

Vincent was a damn good actor- *and* a ham. He didn't mind making appearances like this. Even his commercials were great!

Oh yes it is!!! This is not the Carol Burnett Show, the Julie Andrews Hour or Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour .

Wrong

Well, if the only '70s variety shows you saw were this and Pink Lady and Jeff then you would be right.

The Kroffts were also involved in "PINK LADY {& JEFF}". Fred Silverman, as president of NBC in 1980, was determined to create another variety show along the lines of "DONNY & MARIE" and "TONY ORLANDO & DAWN" [never mind that Mie and Kei could barely speak a word of English]. One of his executives tried to tell him, "The variety show is dead." Silverman roared, "I'll tell you *exactly* how long the variety show is dead for!!!" "How long?", the executive said softly. "It's dead until the next hit variety show is on the air!!!", Fred insisted. Except for "BARBARA MANDRELL & THE MANDRELL SISTERS" (also a Krofft production), Silverman- in his three years with NBC- could never keep a variety show alive for more than a few episodes.

@@fromthesidelines Silverman almost bankrupted NBC with Supertrain. The costs for it were high and the ratings dismal. Supposedly he went to visit the set one time and got so mad that he kicked the scale model of the train. Not realizing that it was a harder material than he thought it was and broke his foot. I remember Johnny Carson used to make fun of Supertrain in his monologue. That must have drove Silverman up the wall, but he couldn't do anything about it because at that point in time, The Tonight Show was about the only thing on NBC that was making money and Johnny was also thinking about going to ABC himself. It's amazing how someone who created such success at both CBS and ABC almost singlehandedly destroyed. NBC.

Given that it was on only on once a month, maybe kept it a little under the radar for cancellation.

I remember as a kid we turned on one episode by accident and essentially watched maybe 5 minutes of it before we all had the urge to take a shower.

Incredibly, YES 🤣🤣

​@@belarusian8380rumor has it. You're forced to watch it in prison to this day

Just remember this took a week of rehearsals to perfect...lol.

It was a different time.

Never watched it.

Yet the 90s Brady movies will bring it back up

I never understood Susan Olsen’s hair in this era. Never saw anybody else wearing that style either! Kinda weird but glorious.

Yeah, even as a 12 year old kid I thought it was corny.

Life can be cruel.......

They're dancing in the old folks home.

❤❤❤❤❤ So what's your point?, Ace is the very sexy number. Please,❤ Don't make fun of that.,, You talk like a dumb a**

How do you know for sure? They aren’t eternally young?!

@@Mister_Listener In the 7 months since I made this comment I have exchanged emails with a lady from Long Beach who was actually in this show as a dancer, she is 73 this year (2024) the show was broadcast 47 years ago making her 26 years old at the time... as they say TIME WAITS FOR NO ONE...🤪

It's embarrassing to watch. From Ms. Harper Stacey.

Well of course, what pubescent young man didn't have pin ups of Ann B. Davis and Francis Bavier( Aunt Bea from Andy Griffith) lacquered on their walls and ceilings?

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On three. 1 2 3 BARF

He always popped up in all these goofy 70s variety shows! 😂

RIP RIP

Awful and Terrible jump to mind.

Apparently in her biography, Maureen McCormick said she was completely coked out the entire time they did these shows. You can tell, too.

Reed was there to see Greg in a skin-tight jumpsuit.

He said it was because he would get to sing and dance.

Flaming

What do you mean? So did Robert Reed.

They probably needed that copy to show prisoners to scare them straight.

@@mackermaldrill2656 How could they do that when KZfaq deleted the other copy of this episode of The Brady Bunch Variety Hour from the app?

It’s awful either way

That'll improve the content of the show

Same with "PINK LADY {& JEFF}" (also produced by the Kroffts). 😉

Oh, it was just fun for him likely.

Vincent was also a ham. 🙂

I wonder if Professor Whitehead ever replaced Oliver with a new object of his affection ? I'm referring to the huge cave tiki, not the towheaded, bespectacled little cousin.

*ERNIE ANDERSON,* who was also the voice of ABC's endless promos durng that period (he also announced "THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW" for several seasons).

@@fromthesidelines thank you

She was busy filming a tv-movie.

Happily away from this set, hanging onto her dignity.

Actually, believe it or not, he was the most enthusiastic about the show!

LMAO......

Broke

He could let his feathers out

Let me 🔥 flame

I really liked “ fake” Jan

Yes, very bouncy bouncy!🤪

Makes sense. The variety show was the direct descendant of vaudeville.

Lawrence Welk was not a variety show. Variety shows were actually an evolution of vaudeville and were around since the beginning of TV. Not all were bad and Carol Burnett was the gold standard. However, toward the end of their run they were overused and it seemed that just about anybody who came on the scene with a hit record also got a variety show. If you compare this show to any other variety show of the era you will see it pretty much follows the same formula. In terms of song and dance, comedy, guest stars and solo numbers.. Just insert a different person or group to theme the show around.

really? everybody know why Eva plumb didnt want to do this show! Plumb has stated in interviews that she was willing to do the variety show's original special episode, but could not commit to a five-year option for additional shows

@@eddiejoewalt7746 After watching the first episode, I bet Eve Plumb realized 7 more would be the max for this ghoulish mess, lol.

@@bramlintrent1145 well when the producers through this was going to be the next Sonny and cher Variety show and by the late 70s and early 80s Variety shows with Celebrity name were dying!

Five years? 😆

Eve Plumb was in prison.

well, the canned applause track anyway...

It’s #Fakejan, not new Jan!!

Not as horrifying as Peter Brady trying to dance. It's as if has he had no real interest in any of this. Oh that's right, he didn't.

Thanks for pointing out a Simpson's joke.

Couldn't care less!

Maureen McCormick was in the middle of her cocaine addiction while filming the variety specials.

Are you related to fake Jan?

@@curtgottler9961 It's possible we both have the same great-great grandfather, he had like ten kids, he moved us here from Bavaria.

@@curtgottler9961 Actually the poster was right in that Florence and fake Jan were the only ones that could actually carry this kind of format. The others were horrible at this.