Theme song

"The Brady Bunch" by Frank DeVol and Sherwood Schwartz

Here's the story of a lovely lady

Who was bringing up three very lovely girls.

All of them had hair of gold, like their mother,

The youngest one in curls.

Here's the story, of a man named Brady,

Who was busy with three boys of his own,

They were four men, living all together,

Yet they were all alone.

Till the one day when the lady met this fellow

And they knew it was much more than a hunch,

That this group would somehow form a family.

That's the way we all became the Brady Bunch.

The Brady Bunch,

That's the way we all became the Brady Bunch.

The Brady Bunch.

FIRST TELECAST:   September 26, 1969

LAST TELECAST:   August 30, 1974

The Brady Bunch was one of the last of the old-style, fun-around-the-house situation comedies, full of well-scrubbed children, trivial adventures, and relentlessly middle-class parents. The premise here was a kind of conglomerate family, formed by a widow with three daughters who married a widower with three sons; a nutty housekeeper, Alice, thrown in to act as referee; . . . and a shaggy dog, Tiger. All of these smiling faces lived in a four-bedroom, two-bathroom house in the Los Angeles suburbs, from which Dad pursued his nice, clean profession as a designer and architect. Typical stories revolved around the children going steady, family camping trips, competition for the family telephone, . . . and of course war in the bathroom.

-- from The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows

Copyright © 1979-1998 Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh

Original airdate: October 6, 1972

Directed by Jack Arnold

Written by Tam Spiva

In "The Tiki Caves," the third segment on the Bradys' Hawaiian trip, the boys return the tiki they found to the burial cave. There they meet Professor Whitehead, who believes they intend to steal his latest "find."

Whitehead, Prof. Hubert (Vincent Price)

Paranoid archaeology professor who holds the Brady boys hostage in an ancient burial cave on Oahu when he suspects them of stealing artifacts. Shamed by Mike's discovery of his deed, he pledges to report the cave's location to the state and is later named developer and curator of the Whitehead Wing of a Hawaiian museum.

Prof. Whitehead (to the boys): "I've turned my back on the academic world. There are treasures buried in this cave that are worth a fortune -- a fortune! And they're mine, all mine!"

Merrill shows Greg the broken-down apartment.  It has a sofa with a leg missing.  "For your posture," says Merrill.  Someone knocks.  "He who holds the key to this chamber, prepare to receive me within," comes the voice from the hall.  The guest is surprised to find that Merrill and Greg are still warm.  He claims to be investigating a ghost.  They realize he's Vincent Price.  Price insists Greg is a ghost named Binky Beaumont. Merrill leaves in a hurry.  Price relates the story of Zelda Myzkowski, who was pecked silly by an oversized cuckoo in her clock.  He warns Greg not to kill any flies.