'Brady Bunch' Marriage Anything But Mainstream

The Brady Bunch is a situational comedy which began television production in the late 1960s and hit its prime in the 1970s. In it, a man, Mike Brady, marries a woman, Carol. Both are widowed and each of them has three children from a previous marriage – Carol has three girls and Mike has three boys. The show follows their family as they learn to live together and as the children grow up. In watching the show, it becomes obvious that the drama is centered around the lives of the children as they come of age and learn to interact with their new siblings.