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THERE ARE FEW FAMILIES MORE WHOLEOME THAN THE BRADYS. Goal while conflicts on theClassic '70s Sitcom Were Always Resolved Within Half An Hour,BEHIND-THE-SCENES DRAMA WAS MORE OF A LASTING PROBLEM. In The Decades Since The Show Aired, Cast Members and Others Who WORKED ONTHE BRADY BUNCH Have Come Clean About Some of the Fights, Fires, and General Unpleasantness That Lurked Under The Surface of the Idyllic Family Comedy. AS IT TURNS OUT, STARRobert Reed, WHO Played Patriarch Mike Brady, Could Be Partly Prickly. Read on to Learn What One Line Reed Flat-Out refused to say.

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OnScreen, Mike Brady Was The Perfect Dad. AtTHE BRADY BUNCH SET, IT WAS A SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT STORY. Over The Years, The Cast and Creators of the Series Have Talked About Reed's Distaste for Some of the Material He Was Being Given. In a 2000Interview with ABC NewsShow CreatorSherwood Schwartz Explained That Reed, Who Had Just Been Doing Shakespeare, Didn't Always Embrace The Broad Comedy of the '70s Series.

"Television, in General Was Beneath Him," Schwartz Said. "And Situation Comedy Was Beneath Television, in His Opinion."

Schwartz Added That Reed "Wound Up On A Show That He Didn't Want to Do In The First Place, and It Became More and more Difficult For Him." Nevertheless, Reed Was A Good Actor, So Even When HE Objected to a Plot Line Gold A Joke, He Willd Ultimately Deliver A Strong Performance. "WHATEVER HE THING TO DO AFTER ARGUING AND FUSSING AND SO FERTH, HE WOULD do Well," Schwartz Contoud.

GENERALLY SPEAKING, REED WOULD ARGUE AND THEN COME AROUND-PIRE HE HAD HIS LIMITS. In The Behind-The-Scenes BookTHE WAY WE ALL BECOME THE BRADY BUNCH: How The Canceled Sitcom Beckame The Beloved Pop Culture Icon We Are Still Talking About TodayWriterKimberly Potts Details The Line That Reed Simply Would Not Say. As Summarized in theNew York Post, The Episode in Question Was Season 4's "Jan, The Only Child," In Which Mom Carol (Florence Henderson) and Housekeeper Alice (Ann B. Davis) Compete to make the best strawberry preserves.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

Mike Brady is Supposed to Come Home and Say That The House SMELLED LIKE "Strawberry Heaven," But Reed Put His Foot Down. ByTHE WAY WE ALL BECAME THE BRADY BUNCH, the actor insist on Fact-Checking Lines with theEncyclopedia Britannica. HE Found That Strawberries Did Not Smell While They Were Being Cooked, So He Felt The Line Was Inaccurcate. Schwartz Got Him to Agree to A Modified Version, and The Final Episode Features Reed Uttering, "I do Believe I've Died and Gone to Strawberry Heaven." No mention of a smell at all.

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Fans ofTHE BRADY BUNCH Know That the Series Final Of The Sitcom Is Missing One Pivotal Character: Mike Brady. Accordinging to biography.com, Reed WasUNHAPPY WITH THE PLOT of the Final Episode, Which Featured Greg Brady (Barry Williams) ACCIDENTALLY HAVE HIS HAIR DYED ORANGE BEFORE HIS HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION. Reed requests that the script be changed, goal schwartz refused to acquiesce. The End Result Was That The Character Was Written Out of the Episode EnTirely.

As Outsider Reports, Schwartz Said, "Not Only WasHis heart not in it, He Wasn't Either. People Have Spoken to Me About The Episode, And No One Has Ever Mentioned That They Didn't Realize Robert Reed Wasn't in It. "

In the 2000 Interview with ABC News, Florence Henderson Reflected on Reed's Behavior ONTHE BRADY BUNCH Set, Saying That Much of it May Have Stemmed from The Double Life He Was Leading As a Closeted Man. "Here He Was, The Perfect Father Of This Wonderful Little Family, A Perfect Husband," She Said. "He Was An Unhappy Person ... I Think Had Bob Not Been Forced to Live This Double Life, I Think It would have Have Dissipated a lot of that anger and frustration."

Barry Williams Said That Reed's Sexuality Was An Open Secret on Set, But That The Actor Did Not Want to Discussion IT. IT WAS ALSO A VERY DIFFERENT TIME: IF REED HAD COME OUT, IT COULD HAVE SERIOUSLY HURT HIM AND THE SERIES. "IT Probably Would Have Déded The Demise of the Show," Williams Acknowledged. "I THINK IT WOULD HAVE HURT HIS CAREER TREMENDOULY."

Despite the occasional behavior of Reed, however, the casting finally kissed it. "They were a family. They became a family," Schwartz said in ABC News. "They became very attached to each other ... Even Bob Reed, who was a personal pain for me, loved the children and they loved it."

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