Characters of The Brady Bunch
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The following is a list of characters from the American
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 television series The Brady Bunch
The Brady Bunch
The Brady Bunch is an American sitcom created by Sherwood Schwartz and starring Robert Reed, Florence Henderson, and Ann B. Davis. The series revolved around a large blended family...

, and related shows and movies.

Carol Brady

Caroline "Carol" Ann Brady (née
NEE
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 Carol Ann Tyler) portrayed by Florence Henderson
Florence Henderson
Florence Agnes Henderson is an American actress and singer. She is perhaps best known for her role of Carol Brady on the ABC sitcom The Brady Bunch from 1969 to 1974...

 is the wife of Mike Brady. At the beginning of the pilot, her last name is Martin from her first marriage, during which she had had three daughters. She gains three stepsons when she marries Mike Brady. Carol enjoys singing in the church choir, and with her daughter Marcia in the high school Family Frolic Talent Show. In the episode "A Fistful of Reasons," in which Cindy is bullied because of her lisp, Carol confesses that she too overcame a lisp while growing up in Swampscott, Massachusetts
Swampscott, Massachusetts
Swampscott is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States located 15 miles up the coast from Boston in an area known as the North Shore. The population is 13,787...

.

During the original Brady Bunch series, Carol is a stay-at-home mother. In the sequels, she becomes a real estate agent, converting the boys' old room into her home office
Home Office
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.

How Carol's previous marriage ended (i.e. due to a death or divorce) is not mentioned. Creator and Executive Producer Sherwood Schwartz
Sherwood Schwartz
Sherwood Charles Schwartz was an American television producer. He worked on radio shows in the 1940s, and created the television series Gilligan's Island on CBS and The Brady Bunch on ABC...

 had originally intended for Carol to be a divorcee; however, ABC refused to allow the fate of her first marriage to be revealed on the show. Sherwood Schwartz later wished to use her divorce to his advantage, and wanted to use Carol's previous husband as a mechanism to replace Robert Reed on the show should the show enter its sixth season. The show was canceled before Schwartz could execute his plan.

Mike Brady

Michael Paul "Mike" Brady portrayed by Robert Reed
Robert Reed
Robert Reed was a prolific American character actor of stage, film and television. In his first big break, he played Kenneth Preston on the popular 1960s TV legal drama, The Defenders, alongside E. G. Marshall. But he was best remembered for portraying the father, Mike Brady, on the popular...

 is the head of the Brady household. He has three sons of his own. Mike, a widowed architect
Architect
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, became the stepfather of three daughters when he married Carol Martin. Mike enjoyed fishing and camping.

Shortly after the fourth season began, Mike grew his hair into a longer, curly style. He was named "Father of the Year" by a local newspaper after his stepdaughter Marcia submitted an essay. His parents have sometimes been mentioned, but never seen. Mike has a firm personal integrity (i.e. he refuses to participate in a commercial
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 if it means saying a product is the best that he believes isn't) coupled with a strong sense of ethics.

It is implied that Mike is a very highly qualified and well-respected architect, although he has had his share of failures. For instance:
  • In "How to Succeed in Business?" Mike says that he has lost jobs (in reassuring Peter that failure and getting fired are a part of life).
  • In A Very Brady Christmas, contractor Ted Roberts (who is looking to save money on his building project) fires Mike when he refuses to cut corners and take out important safety provisions. Mike, however, is later proven right when the structure begins to crumble (trapping two security guards, and later Mike, inside); everyone escapes with only a few bruises.


Mike was one of the staff architects with the firm he worked at; the name was never mentioned in the series, and Mr. Ed Phillips was his boss. By the time A Very Brady Christmas and The Bradys aired, he was the senior partner at the firm.

In episode #4 of The Bradys, "Hat in the Ring," when sworn in as City Councilman, his full name is given as Michael Thomas Brady.

Both Gene Hackman
Gene Hackman
Eugene Allen "Gene" Hackman is an American actor and novelist.Nominated for five Academy Awards, winning two, Hackman has also won three Golden Globes and two BAFTAs in a career that spanned five decades. He first came to fame in 1967 with his performance as Buck Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde...

 and Jeffrey Hunter
Jeffrey Hunter
Jeffrey Hunter was an American film and television actor. His most famous roles are as Jesus in the film King of Kings, as Martin Pawley in The Searchers, and as Capt...

 were considered for the role of Mike Brady. Hackman was Sherwood Schwartz
Sherwood Schwartz
Sherwood Charles Schwartz was an American television producer. He worked on radio shows in the 1940s, and created the television series Gilligan's Island on CBS and The Brady Bunch on ABC...

's first choice, but was rejected by Paramount for not having enough experience. Jeffrey Hunter approached Schwartz to play Mike Brady, but Schwartz felt Hunter was too attractive to play a down-to-earth architect.

In 2004, TV Guide
TV Guide
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ranked him number 14 on its 50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time list.

Greg Brady

Gregory "Greg" Brady is the oldest Brady son and was played by Barry Williams
Barry Williams
Barry William Blenkhorn , known professionally as Barry Williams, is an American actor best known for his role as Greg Brady in the ABC television series The Brady Bunch.-Early life and career:...

. Greg is a Westdale High School student who plays football, plays guitar, surfs, and aspires to be a singer. Greg is portrayed as self-confident and brassy at times, and generally acts as leader and spokesman for the other kids. Being the oldest of the Brady children, Greg is usually the one who devises their plans. As the series went on, Greg became somewhat of a "ladies' man" at school. Also as the character got older, Greg often attempted to disassociate himself from the younger siblings, eventually getting his own room in the attic
Attic
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.

Despite this, Greg always sticks up for his younger siblings and helps them out whenever he can. He also frequently shows an ample sense of fair play, as when he refused to go along with a classmate's plan to spread a false rumor about Marcia at school. However, he has been known to cross the lines when he believes the situation warrants it (specifically, when he created a phony playbook to thwart a cheating quarterback from a rival high school). He has also been known to use the line, "Something suddenly came up," to break off a date (without giving a further explanation) so he can go out with a more desirable girl.

Greg's dream of becoming a singer almost comes true when he was handpicked by record producers to be a pop singer under the stage name "Johnny Bravo"; however, he walked away from a potentially lucrative deal when he found out his recordings were being electronically "sweetened" and that the producers were more interested in the visual product than substance. "They didn't want me; they wanted a robot," he said about the incident.

Greg eventually became an obstetrician (as mentioned in A Very Brady Christmas
A Very Brady Christmas
A Very Brady Christmas is a 1988 movie based on the television series The Brady Bunch, featuring all of the original actors who appeared in the series except Susan Olsen who was on her honeymoon when the film was being made; Jennifer Runyon took her place as Cindy...

). His wife's name is Nora (who is a nurse), and they have a son, Kevin.

Marcia Brady

Marcia Brady (née Marcia Martin, later Marcia Brady-Logan) is the oldest Brady daughter and was portrayed by Maureen McCormick
Maureen McCormick
Maureen Denise McCormick is an American actress, celebrity and recording artist. She is most widely known as a child actress who played Marcia Brady in the television series The Brady Bunch from 1969 to 1974.- Early life and career :...

. Marcia is portrayed as a mature and popular girl at Westdale High School. Her popularity is an ongoing source of contempt for her younger sister Jan. She is a great fan of TV-star idols Desi Arnaz Jr. and Davy Jones
Davy Jones (actor)
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 (Both actors, portraying themelves, appeared in their own episode). Despite Marcia's reputation, she has her share of problems, such as unrequited crushes, insecurity over having braces
Dental brace
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, and insecurity over receiving a swollen nose from a stray football thrown by Peter. She has a fragile ego that sometimes goes amok (as evidenced in "Juliet is the Sun," when she becomes so hard to get along with she is dismissed from her star role as Juliet).

In The Brady Girls Get Married, Marcia had graduated from college, became a fashion designer, and marries Wally Logan. However, by the time A Very Brady Christmas aired, she was a stay-at-home mother (raising two children, daughter Jessica and son Michael "Mickey"). She was still unemployed at the beginning of The Bradys, and at this point her ego began to take such a beating she briefly turned to alcohol for solace. By the end of the series, Marcia and her husband, Wally (a toy salesman who was frequently out of work, due to either layoffs or getting fired) join their sisters-in-law (Nora and Tracy) to open a catering business.

Peter Brady

Peter Brady is the middle Brady son and was played by Christopher Knight. Peter often thinks badly of himself, such as believing he has no personality in the episode "The Personality Kid". The clumsiest of the bunch, he sometimes gets overexcited and acts before thinking. Nevertheless, he is a fun-loving boy whom girls adored later in the original series. He has a non-related twin named Arthur Owens (also played by Christopher Knight), who is shown in the episode "Two Petes in a Pod". Peter is also the only one in the family with brown eyes—all the others had blue or green eyes.

Peter later joined the military for career guidance, as seen in The Brady Girls Get Married. In later sequels, he is an administrative assistant (at one point, working under his fiancee, Valerie; they later end their engagement), and still later, a business partner with Bobby. Peter was the only Brady child to not have a spouse or significant other when The Bradys was cancelled.

Jan Brady

Jan Brady (née Jan Martin, later Jan Brady-Covington) is the middle Brady daughter and was portrayed by Eve Plumb
Eve Plumb
Eve Aline Plumb is an American actress and painter. She is best known for her portrayal of Jan Brady in the iconic television sitcom The Brady Bunch.-Early career:...

. Storylines which involve Jan often feature her jealousy of her seemingly more popular older sister Marcia, or her awkward position as the middle child. In addition, Jan is insecure about having freckle
Freckle
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s and wearing glasses
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, embarrassed about the fact she does not have a boyfriend (she invents a fictional boyfriend named "George Glass" in an effort to save her reputation), and concerned about her future appearance. A typical plot line surrounding Jan would feature her attempting to carve out her niche in the family, or make a name for herself at school. Once, in exasperation at her supposed inferiority to Marcia, she uttered the now famous catch phrase
Catch phrase
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, "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia" which was later parodied in the Brady Bunch
The Brady Bunch Movie
The Brady Bunch Movie is a 1995 American comedy film based on the 1969–1974 television series The Brady Bunch.The film features all the original regular characters, all played by new actors...

movie and in a recurring Saturday Night Live sketch.

As a young teen, Jan had a striking resemblance to her Great-Aunt Jenny (played by Imogene Coca
Imogene Coca
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) in her younger days. Jan is also occasionally absent-minded, once losing the tube containing her father's architectural plans while visiting King's Island amusement park in Cincinnati. In her later high school years, Jan found she had a talent for painting (as does Eve Plumb), which likely led to her career choice as an architect, following in her father's footsteps (as shown in later reunion films).

In The Brady Girls Get Married Jan marries Phillip Covington. The two met in college (he was her professor). The Covingtons briefly separate in A Very Brady Christmas, but reconcile. However, they are unable to conceive their own children and in The Bradys adopt a Korean girl named Patty.

Bobby Brady

Robert "Bobby" Brady is the youngest Brady son and was played by Mike Lookinland
Mike Lookinland
Michael Paul "Mike" Lookinland is an American actor. He is best known for his role as the youngest brother Bobby Brady on The Brady Bunch from 1969 until 1974.-Early life:...

.
Bobby was the "safety monitor" at his school and occasionally gets the other siblings into trouble. The precocious and often overlooked youngest boy, Bobby was often portrayed as a whimsical dreamer, fantasizing about having various adventurous lifestyles, such as being a race car driver
Auto racing
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, a cowboy
Cowboy
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, and an astronaut
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. On one occasion, one of his fantasies came true when he got to play football with Joe Namath
Joe Namath
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.

On another occasion, Bobby became a professional race car driver, which led to a crash and Bobby's paralysis on The Bradys. Bobby is going through rehabilitative therapy when he marries his girlfriend, Tracy (Martha Quinn
Martha Quinn
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). Bobby — who had dropped out of business school to pursue his dream of racing cars — resumes his originally intended career path, joining Peter in a business venture.

Cindy Brady

Cynthia "Cindy" Brady (née Cynthia Martin) is the youngest Brady daughter and was played by Susan Olsen
Susan Olsen
Susan Marie Olsen is a former American child television actress and current animal welfare advocate. Olsen is best known for her role as Mike and Carol Brady's youngest daughter, Cindy Brady, on the 1970s television sitcom The Brady Bunch for the full run of the show, from 1969-1974.-Early...

. She was portrayed as a naive, but occasionally precocious little girl, who was most often seen wearing her hair in pigtails
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 and had a pronounced lisp
Lisp
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. She frequently liked to snoop and share secrets she had found out. In one episode, the family had to help her correct her habit of tattling. She also had various failed attempts at fame, such as attempting to break a world record for teeter-tottering
Seesaw
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, appearing on a game show (on which she suffered from stage fright
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 and had a catatonic attack), and trying to become "the new Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple
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". However, she does play a pivotal role in helping Bobby meet boyhood idol Joe Namath
Joe Namath
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 by signing Bobby's name to a letter stating he is "really, really sick."

On The Bradys, Cindy became a deejay
Deejay
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 (much like Susan Olsen
Susan Olsen
Susan Marie Olsen is a former American child television actress and current animal welfare advocate. Olsen is best known for her role as Mike and Carol Brady's youngest daughter, Cindy Brady, on the 1970s television sitcom The Brady Bunch for the full run of the show, from 1969-1974.-Early...

 herself did). At the radio station, she becomes romantically involved with her boss, a Jewish widower who is more than 15 years her senior and has two children. The relationship did not have time to develop before The Bradys was cancelled.

Alice Nelson

Alice Nelson, best known to television viewers as simply Alice, is the housekeeper
Housekeeper (servant)
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 to the Brady family. She was portrayed by Ann B. Davis
Ann B. Davis
Ann Bradford Davis is an American television actress.Davis achieved prominence for her role in The Bob Cummings Show for which she twice won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series...

.

Alice grew up in the same neighborhood as the Bradys, graduating from Westdale High School, the school Greg and Marcia attended in the series. Alice was the housekeeper to Mike Brady, his previous wife (who died before the series started), and their three boys. Alice stayed on, to be the housekeeper for not only his boys, but for his new wife, Carol, and her three daughters. Alice was generally impartial toward the children, although she presented Jan with a locket at one point, "from one middle sister to another."

Alice was best known for telling jokes (often self-deprecating, and usually interspersed with drier humor than the rest of the Brady clan), which were almost invariably met with multiple "Oh, Alice!" responses. Alice was also known for her sky blue housekeeping uniform, which she almost always wore. She also joined in the children's games (including playing basketball
Basketball
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), and went along with the family on vacations.

In an apparent running gag with the character, strenuous physical activity would sometimes cause Alice to throw her back out, making her immobile for a short period of time.

Alice had an identical cousin, Emma (also played by Davis), who was a retired master sergeant
Master Sergeant
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 in the Women's Army Corps
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. Emma once filled in for Alice when Alice traveled out of town. Alice quit her job at one point when she felt the children no longer trusted her, becoming a waitress at a local restaurant. Her replacement Kay (who did her work faithfully, but never tried to become close with the Bradys) told the kids where to find her ("The Golden Spoon at Fourth and Oak..."), and they begged Alice to come back.

For most of the series, Alice dated Sam Franklin (Allan Melvin
Allan Melvin
Allan Melvin was an American character actor who appeared in several television shows, including the roles of Corporal Henshaw on The Phil Silvers Show; Alice's boyfriend Sam the Butcher on The Brady Bunch; and Archie Bunker's friend Barney Hefner on All in the Family and Archie Bunker's...

), who ran the local butcher
Butcher
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 shop. In the final season, Alice and Sam were engaged. Alice and Sam have won awards in Charleston dancing
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 and bowling
Bowling
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, which was parodied in the Brady Bunch Movie
The Brady Bunch Movie
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, in which Sam gave Alice a new bowling ball instead of an engagement ring. They were married some time after The Brady Bunch left the air in 1974 and before The Brady Girls Get Married.

In the 1990s parody movies, Alice was played by actress Henriette Mantel
Henriette Mantel
Henriette Mantel is an Emmy Award-winning American writer, actress, producer, director, and stand-up comic from Vermont.She was born and raised in Newfane, Vermont on her family's farm....

. In the first film, Davis makes a cameo
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 as a truck driver whose CB handle is "Schultzy" (Davis first became popular in the 1950s playing a character named Schultzy on The Bob Cummings Show
The Bob Cummings Show
The Bob Cummings Show is an American sitcom starring Robert "Bob" Cummings which was produced from January 2, 1955 to September 15, 1959, and originally sponsored by R.J. Reynolds' Winston cigarettes...

).

The role of Alice was originally to have been played by Monty Margetts, but at the last minute, the role was recast. This was due to the fact that producers of the show changed their mind about casting Joyce Bulifant
Joyce Bulifant
Joyce Bulifant is an American television actress, notable for her sunny "little girl"-like Southern lilt of a voice. She was a frequent panelist on the television game show Match Game, more often than not giving bizarre answers that seldom matched the contestants.-Life and career:Bulifant was born...

, who was originally cast as Carol Brady, and instead replaced her with Florence Henderson
Florence Henderson
Florence Agnes Henderson is an American actress and singer. She is perhaps best known for her role of Carol Brady on the ABC sitcom The Brady Bunch from 1969 to 1974...

, who took on the role; producers felt a more comedic, zany housekeeper was called for, to balance Henderson's soft-spoken, low key presence.

Sam Franklin

Sam Franklin is Alice's boyfriend, who owns a local butcher
Butcher
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 shop. While he is frequently mentioned in dialogue, Sam actually appears in only eight episodes, although his appearances span all the seasons. In the made-for-television film The Brady Girls Get Married, Sam had been married to Alice for quite some time. Sam was portrayed by Allan Melvin
Allan Melvin
Allan Melvin was an American character actor who appeared in several television shows, including the roles of Corporal Henshaw on The Phil Silvers Show; Alice's boyfriend Sam the Butcher on The Brady Bunch; and Archie Bunker's friend Barney Hefner on All in the Family and Archie Bunker's...

. Lewis Arquette
Lewis Arquette
Lewis Michael Arquette was an American film actor, writer and producer. Arquette was known for playing "J.D. Pickett" on the TV series, The Waltons, where he worked from 1978–1981.-Life and career:...

 portrayed Sam briefly in A Very Brady Christmas
A Very Brady Christmas
A Very Brady Christmas is a 1988 movie based on the television series The Brady Bunch, featuring all of the original actors who appeared in the series except Susan Olsen who was on her honeymoon when the film was being made; Jennifer Runyon took her place as Cindy...

, wearing a Santa Claus beard.

Cousin Oliver

Cousin Oliver stays with the Brady family during the last six episodes of the fifth and final season of The Brady Bunch
The Brady Bunch
The Brady Bunch is an American sitcom created by Sherwood Schwartz and starring Robert Reed, Florence Henderson, and Ann B. Davis. The series revolved around a large blended family...

. As explained in the episode "Welcome Aboard" from season five, Carol's brother Jack and his wife Pauline are traveling to an archaeological dig in South America
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, and because their son Oliver is unable to accompany them, he is sent to live with the Bradys. Cousin Oliver was played by actor Robbie Rist
Robbie Rist
Robert Anthony Rist is an American actor and musician.-Acting and voiceover work:As a child, Rist played Cousin Oliver in the final six episodes of The Brady Bunch. With the regular children all getting older, his inclusion was intended to reintroduce cute younger children to the series...

.

Cousin Oliver was eight years old (Rist was actually nine) and very young in contrast to the other kids, all of whom were twelve or older—an apparent attempt, despite Oliver's precociousness, to restore some of the appeal the series had enjoyed when the other children were younger. Some fans would later call the addition of Cousin Oliver the moment when the series "jumped the shark
Jumping the shark
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". Similarly, in The Partridge Family
The Partridge Family
The Partridge Family is an American television sitcom about a widowed mother and her five children who embark on a music career. The series originally ran from September 25, 1970 until August 31, 1974, the last new episode airing on March 23, 1974, on the ABC network, as part of a Friday-night lineup...

a precocious four-year-old neighbor named Ricky (Ricky Segall) was added for its final season (the same year as the final season of The Brady Bunch). The addition of younger children to sitcoms that seem to have run their course, in an attempt to improve declining ratings, became a television trend popularly known as "Cousin Oliver Syndrome".

Years later, Rist appeared with members of The Brady Bunch cast on an episode of the game show
Game show
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 The Weakest Link
The Weakest Link
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. Introducing himself, he joked: "I hope I don't kill this show too!" Rist ended up being the first "weakest link" of the episode.

The Bradys' pets

Tiger is the name of the Brady Family's dog, who appeared in many of the early episodes. The original dog used was run over by an automobile and died of his injuries before the fourth episode, but a replacement look-alike (named "Tiger
Tiger (dog actor)
Tiger was a mixed-breed dog and animal actor owned by Lou Schumacher and trained by Joe Hornok.-Career:Tiger appeared in one episode of the American television situation comedy The Brady Bunch, produced by ABC. During the taping of the episode "Katchoo" during the first season, the dog actor who...

" in real life) was found. This version stayed on until partway through the second season, when he was quietly written out of the series. This paralleled the Brady's Friday night companion show The Partridge Family
The Partridge Family
The Partridge Family is an American television sitcom about a widowed mother and her five children who embark on a music career. The series originally ran from September 25, 1970 until August 31, 1974, the last new episode airing on March 23, 1974, on the ABC network, as part of a Friday-night lineup...

 whose dog Simone
Simone
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 also disappeared that year without an explanation. Tiger appeared in a total of 10 episodes.

Fluffy is the name of the cat owned by Carol Brady and her girls. Fluffy only appeared in "The Honeymoon" episode from Season One, and was never seen again.

The children had a series of other pets throughout the series, each of them were featured in one episode apiece (to advance a plot). These pets ranged from frogs and birds to rabbits, goldfish and hamsters.

Characters making three or fewer appearances

  • Felix Brown—The school creep (unseen all throughout the series' entire run) who is untruly said to be Marcia's boyfriend in both Season 1 episodes "Vote For Brady" and "Father of the Year."
  • Rusty (Stephen Liss)—A classmate of Greg's who worked as his campaign manager for class president. The friendship is broken off when Rusty suggests spreading false rumors about Greg's opponent (and sister) Marcia, and Greg fires him on the spot in the episode "Vote for Brady" from Season 1.
  • Buddy Hinton (Russell Schulman)—A bully who taunts Cindy for her lisp in the episode "A Fistful of Reasons" from Season 2 and also says to her, "Baby talk, baby talk, it's a wonder you can walk." When Peter — who is Buddy's age — tries to stick up for Cindy, but doesn't want to get into a fight, Buddy calls Peter a chicken. Eventually, Peter gets the upper hand, which results in Buddy Hinton being given a "looth" tooth.
  • Bebe Gallini (Abbe Lane
    Abbe Lane
    -Biography:Born Abigail Francine Lassman in a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, Lane began her career as a child actress on radio, and from there she progressed to singing and dancing on Broadway....

    )—A fussy cosmetics maven who approaches Mike to design her factory in the shape of a powder puff in the episode "Mike's Horror-Scope" from Season 1.
  • Jennifer Nichols (Tannis G. Montgomery)—A conniving classmate of Greg's, whom she dates solely to win his vote for head cheerleader in the episode "Greg's Triangle" from Season 4. Greg ultimately votes for another girl, who is talented, Pat Conway (played by Rita Wilson
    Rita Wilson
    -Early life:Wilson was born Margarita Ibrahimoff in Los Angeles, California.Her father, a Bulgarian who worked at a racetrack, was born in Greece. Before immigrating to the US, he had lived in Bulgaria and Turkey....

    ) over Marcia Brady, who is very understanding of Greg's vote, and Jennifer Nichols, who immediately dumps Greg.
  • Pat Conway (Rita Wilson
    Rita Wilson
    -Early life:Wilson was born Margarita Ibrahimoff in Los Angeles, California.Her father, a Bulgarian who worked at a racetrack, was born in Greece. Before immigrating to the US, he had lived in Bulgaria and Turkey....

    )—A talented classmate of Greg's, whom he ultimately votes for as head cheerleader over Marcia, who is very understanding of Greg's vote, and Jennifer Nichols (played by Tannis G. Montgomery), who immediately dumps Greg, in the episode "Greg's Triangle" from Season 4.
  • Mr. Ed Phillips (Jack Collins
    Jack Collins (actor)
    Jack Collins, , is a stage, film, and television actor. He played Mike Brady's boss, Mr. Phillips, in the television series The Brady Bunch, and Peter Christopher's boss, baby-food manufacturer Max Brahms, in the short-lived sitcom Occasional Wife.-Filmography:*The Brady Bunch * The Other * The...

    )—Mike's boss at the architectural firm, who appeared in the following three episodes, "Call Me Irresponsible", "Coming-Out Party", and "Double Parked", all from Season 2.
  • Mr. Harold Matthews (Jim Backus
    Jim Backus
    James Gilmore "Jim" Backus was a radio, television, film, and voice actor. Among his most famous roles are the voice of Mr...

    )—Mike's second boss, who sent Mike a pool table as a thank you gift, in "The Hustler" episode from Season 5.
  • Mr. Harry Duggan (Jackie Coogan
    Jackie Coogan
    John Leslie Coogan , known professionally as Jackie Coogan, was an American actor who began his movie career as a child actor in silent films. Many years later, he became known as Uncle Fester on 1960s sitcom The Addams Family...

    )—The plaintiff
    Plaintiff
    A plaintiff , also known as a claimant or complainant, is the term used in some jurisdictions for the party who initiates a lawsuit before a court...

     in "The Fender Benders" episode from Season 3. Mr. Harry Duggan plots to seek exaggerate damages from Carol Brady in court over a parking lot fender bender. The court finds in favor of Carol Brady.
  • Martha—A friend (unseen all throughout the series' entire run) of Carol Brady's, whose name is frequently mentioned throughout the series' run, usually whenever Carol Brady's on the phone with her friend Martha.
  • Mrs. Denton—Marcia's English teacher (unseen all throughout the series' entire run), who, according to Marcia's school principal Mr. J. P. Randolph (played by E. G. Marshall
    E. G. Marshall
    E. G. Marshall was an American actor, best known for his television roles as the lawyer Lawrence Preston on The Defenders in the 1960s, and as neurosurgeon David Craig on The Bold Ones: The New Doctors in the 1970s...

    ), turned in a piece of paper with Marcia's name written on it, which has an insulting remark written on it about Mrs. Denton, which eventually is discovered to have been written by Paula Tardy (Chris Charney
    Christine Baranski
    Christine Jane Baranski is an American stage and screen actress, and is perhaps best known for her Emmy Award winning portrayal as "Maryanne Thorpe" in the sitcom Cybill, and her Emmy nominated portrayal of "Diane Lockhart" in The Good Wife...

    ) in "The Slumber Caper" episode from Season 2.
  • Mr. J. P. Randolph (E. G. Marshall
    E. G. Marshall
    E. G. Marshall was an American actor, best known for his television roles as the lawyer Lawrence Preston on The Defenders in the 1960s, and as neurosurgeon David Craig on The Bold Ones: The New Doctors in the 1970s...

    )—Marcia's school principal, who orders Marcia to stay after school for an entire week after her English teacher Mrs. Denton (unseen all throughout the series' entire run) discovered an insulting remark, which was written about Mrs. Denton, on a piece of paper with Marcia's name written on it in "The Slumber Caper" episode from Season 2.
  • Jenny Wilton (Hope Sherwood, daughter of the creator
    Sherwood Schwartz
    Sherwood Charles Schwartz was an American television producer. He worked on radio shows in the 1940s, and created the television series Gilligan's Island on CBS and The Brady Bunch on ABC...

    )—Marcia's best friend, to whom Marcia apologizes to and re-invites to her slumber party after all in "The Slumber Caper" episode from Season 2.
  • Ruthie (Barbara Henderson, daughter of Florence Henderson
    Florence Henderson
    Florence Agnes Henderson is an American actress and singer. She is perhaps best known for her role of Carol Brady on the ABC sitcom The Brady Bunch from 1969 to 1974...

    )—One of Marcia's many friends at Marcia's slumber party in "The Slumber Caper" episode from Season 2.
  • Karen (Carolyn Reed, daughter of Robert Reed
    Robert Reed
    Robert Reed was a prolific American character actor of stage, film and television. In his first big break, he played Kenneth Preston on the popular 1960s TV legal drama, The Defenders, alongside E. G. Marshall. But he was best remembered for portraying the father, Mike Brady, on the popular...

    )—Another one of Marcia's many friends at Marcia's slumber party in "The Slumber Caper" episode from Season 2.
  • Paula Tardy (Chris Charney
    Christine Baranski
    Christine Jane Baranski is an American stage and screen actress, and is perhaps best known for her Emmy Award winning portrayal as "Maryanne Thorpe" in the sitcom Cybill, and her Emmy nominated portrayal of "Diane Lockhart" in The Good Wife...

    )—Another one of Marcia's friends in "The Slumber Caper" episode from Season 2, who confesses to writing the insulting remark about Marcia's English teacher Mrs. Denton (unseen all throughout the series' entire run), which not only resulted in Marcia's school principal Mr. J. P. Randolph (plE. G. Marshall
    E. G. Marshall
    E. G. Marshall was an American actor, best known for his television roles as the lawyer Lawrence Preston on The Defenders in the 1960s, and as neurosurgeon David Craig on The Bold Ones: The New Doctors in the 1970s...

    ) ordering Marcia to stay after school for an entire week for something Marcia didn't do, also as a result of Paula Tardy's misdeeds, Marcia very nearly didn't have her slumber party, and because of the very embarrassing circumstances, Marcia apologizes to and re-invites her best friend Jenny Wilton (Hope Sherwood, daughter of Sherwood Schwartz
    Sherwood Schwartz
    Sherwood Charles Schwartz was an American television producer. He worked on radio shows in the 1940s, and created the television series Gilligan's Island on CBS and The Brady Bunch on ABC...

    ) to her slumber party after all. Note: In "The Tattle-Tale" episode from Season 2, Mrs. Denton, who, according to Marcia, made Paula Tardy (unseen in that episode) go right into the washroom and scrub off her mascara.
  • Rachel (Hope Sherwood, daughter of Sherwood Schwartz
    Sherwood Schwartz
    Sherwood Charles Schwartz was an American television producer. He worked on radio shows in the 1940s, and created the television series Gilligan's Island on CBS and The Brady Bunch on ABC...

    )—Greg's date on two occasions who appeared in "The Big Bet" from Season 3 and in "Greg Gets Grounded" from Season 4.
  • Doug Simpson (Nicholas Hammond
    Nicholas Hammond
    Nicholas Hammond is an American actor best known for his roles as Friedrich von Trapp in the film The Sound of Music, and as Peter Parker/Spider-Man on the CBS television series The Amazing Spider-Man...

    )—The class hunk whom Marcia wanted to get a date with in "The Subject Was Noses" episode from Season 4. Doug breaks the date when he sees Marcia's swollen nose (due to Peter having accidentally hit her in the nose with a thrown football). Doug was later portrayed in The Brady Bunch Movie
    The Brady Bunch Movie
    The Brady Bunch Movie is a 1995 American comedy film based on the 1969–1974 television series The Brady Bunch.The film features all the original regular characters, all played by new actors...

    by Shane Conrad.
  • Charlie (Stuart Getz
    Stuart Getz
    Stuart Getz is an American born actor. Stuart is best known for his role in the movie The Van, in which he played the role of a sex crazed high school graduate...

    )—In "The Subject Was Noses" episode from Season 4, Charlie has a crush on Marcia, but she breaks a date with him to go out with Doug Simpson (Nicholas Hammond
    Nicholas Hammond
    Nicholas Hammond is an American actor best known for his roles as Friedrich von Trapp in the film The Sound of Music, and as Peter Parker/Spider-Man on the CBS television series The Amazing Spider-Man...

    ). Charlie's not as hung up on looks as Doug is, as he still wants to date Marcia, no matter what her nose looks like. Marcia eventually apologized to Charlie for blowing him off and agreed to go out with him after all. During Charlie's and Marcia's date, Charlie ran into Doug, who mocked Marcia for breaking their date, leading to an altercation where Charlie punched Doug in the nose, leaving him with an injury similar to what Marcia had. Charlie was later portrayed in The Brady Bunch Movie by R.D. Robb.
  • Connie Hutchins and Judge Hank Brady (Florence Henderson
    Florence Henderson
    Florence Agnes Henderson is an American actress and singer. She is perhaps best known for her role of Carol Brady on the ABC sitcom The Brady Bunch from 1969 to 1974...

     and Robert Reed
    Robert Reed
    Robert Reed was a prolific American character actor of stage, film and television. In his first big break, he played Kenneth Preston on the popular 1960s TV legal drama, The Defenders, alongside E. G. Marshall. But he was best remembered for portraying the father, Mike Brady, on the popular...

     in dual roles)—Carol's maternal grandmother and Mike's paternal grandfather, who are fixed up with one another by the kids in the episode "You're Never Too Old" from Season 4.
  • Clark Tyson (Mark Gruner)—Jan's classmate and object of an unrequited crush in "The Not-So-Ugly Duckling" episode from Season 2. Clark confides to Carol later that his lack of a romantic interest in Jan (whom he considers a friend) is because of her tomboyish appearance in how she dresses. He refers to Jan as "a really cool guy," and wishes she wore "groovy clothes" that were more girlish.
  • George Glass—An imaginary boyfriend Jan creates (all in her mind from looking at a glass from across a room) after her crush on her classmate Clark Tyson (Mark Gruner) is unrequited
    Unrequited love
    Unrequited love is love that is not openly reciprocated or understood as such, even though reciprocation is usually deeply desired. The beloved may or may not be aware of the admirer's deep affections...

     in "The Not-So-Ugly Duckling" episode from Season 2. George Glass is also used in A Very Brady Sequel
    A Very Brady Sequel
    A Very Brady Sequel is a 1996 comedy film and sequel to 1995’s The Brady Bunch Movie. Both films are parodies-homages of the classic 1969–1974 television sitcom The Brady Bunch. The film was directed by Arlene Sanford and stars Shelley Long and Gary Cole as Carol and Mike Brady. The film was a box...

    , only to be a real person (Michael Lundberg) who returns Jan's feelings.
  • Mark Millard (Stephen Dunne)—An old boyfriend of Alice's, who appears unexpectedly in the episode "Alice's September Song" from Season 2, appearing to want to rekindle their relationship. However, he turns out to be a scam artist, trying to get her to participate in a phony investment scheme.
  • Millicent (Melissa Sue Anderson
    Melissa Sue Anderson
    Melissa Sue Anderson is an American-Canadian actress. She played the role of Mary Ingalls on the NBC television series Little House on the Prairie. She starred on the show from 1974 until 1981, leaving after Season 7, but later appeared in 2 episodes of Season 8 in late 1981. She won an Emmy...

    )—Cindy's friend who gives Bobby his first kiss as a thank you for defending her, causing him, in a state of delirium
    Delirium
    Delirium or acute confusional state is a common and severe neuropsychiatric syndrome with core features of acute onset and fluctuating course, attentional deficits and generalized severe disorganization of behavior...

    , to imagine he sees skyrockets. This phenomenon has him so curious that he decides to return the favor by going over to Millicent's house to kiss her back and sees the skyrockets again, only to have a stunned Millicent tell him that she may have the mumps
    Mumps
    Mumps is a viral disease of the human species, caused by the mumps virus. Before the development of vaccination and the introduction of a vaccine, it was a common childhood disease worldwide...

     - meaning he might now also have them as well in the episode "Never Too Young" from Season Five.
  • Margie Whipple (Karen Foulkes)—A friend of Jan and Peter, who has a crush on Peter. Peter suffers from the presence of Margie Whipple at Lucy Winter's (Pamelyn Ferdin
    Pamelyn Ferdin
    Pamelyn Ferdin is a former American television and film child actor, active both in live action and as a voice actress in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s and has since appeared in several voice acting roles as late as 2009...

    ) birthday party, where Jan's new black wig was thought to be a joke in the episode "Will the Real Jan Brady Please Stand Up?" from Season 2.
  • Lucy Winters (Pamelyn Ferdin
    Pamelyn Ferdin
    Pamelyn Ferdin is a former American television and film child actor, active both in live action and as a voice actress in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s and has since appeared in several voice acting roles as late as 2009...

    )—A friend of Jan and Peter, who hosts a birthday party, where Jan's new black wig was thought to be a joke. Both Margie Whipple (Karen Foulkes) and Lucy Winters each tell Jan that they both envy Jan's long blonde hair in the episode "Will the Real Jan Brady Please Stand Up?" from Season 2.
  • The Coach (Bart LaRue
    Bartell LaRue
    Bartell LaRue was known mainly for his work as a voice actor for many US television shows including Star Trek, Mission: Impossible and Mannix....

    )—An unnamed character who coaches football at all sub-college levels (little league to high school). Seen in "The Drummer Boy" episode from Season 2 and in the episode "Click" from Season 3.
  • Warren Mulaney (Gary Rist)—Greg's rival in the episode "My Sister, Benedict Arnold" from Season 3. Greg unfairly blamed Warren for taking a coveted starting spot on the varsity basketball team and beating him out for class president, and is even more infuriated when Warren asks Marcia out. Warren is very nice, but he and Marcia realize they have no chemistry and break it off, but she resumes the relationship when Greg threatens her not to see Warren again.
  • Kathy Lawrence—A classmate of Marcia's seen in two episodes from Season 3. In one episode from Season 3 "My Sister, Benedict Arnold" Kathy and Marcia are apparent rivals; Marcia had accused Kathy of using underhanded means to take the final spot on the cheerleading squad, and is angered when Greg asks Kathy out for the sole purpose of getting even with Marcia for continuing to go out with Warren Mulaney after Greg warned Marcia against it. In a subsequent episode from Season 3 "The Personality Kid" Kathy is Marcia's friend who helps in an ill-fated attempt to develop Peter's personality.
  • Kay (Mary Treen)—A friend of Alice's who temporarily takes over as Brady housekeeper (after Alice resigns following a series of misunderstandings and falling-outs with the kids). Kay does her work faithfully, but citing a previously bad experience with another family she had worked for - she had also felt betrayed by that family, just like Alice - she decides not to become close to the Bradys. Eventually, she reveals to the kids that Alice had gotten a job at a diner on the edge of town, which leads to Alice's return in the episode "Goodbye, Alice, Hello" from Season 4.
  • Jerry Rogers (Chris Beaumont)—An unethical star quarterback at a rival high school, who aims to steal Greg's football playbook in "Quarterback Sneak" from Season 5. Unknown to Marcia, Jerry asks to drive her home (so he can get in the house and thus at the playbook). Greg's initial suspicions are confirmed when Bobby sees an attempted theft. Marcia refuses to believe Greg about Jerry at first, but later sees Jerry's true colors when she witnesses the second attempt, which is successful. Jerry — who has actually stolen a phony playbook Greg created — is later kicked off the team when his coach finds out about the theft.
  • Tank Gates (Denny Miller
    Denny Miller
    Denny Scott Miller is an American actor, perhaps best known for his guest-starring roles on Gilligan's Island and as Tarzan in the late 1950s....

    )—Carol Brady's egomaniacal ex-high school boyfriend in "Quarterback Sneak" from Season 5 actually bets against his high school alma mater and loses the bet when he learns of the stolen playbook.
  • Linda and Sandra (Linda Gibboney and Cindi Crosby)—Two cousins of one another, each who dates Peter (who poses as Greg's fictitious classmate "Phil Packer" by donning a false mustache) and Greg, respectively, in "Peter and the Wolf" from Season 5. The two cousins of one another, who both discover Greg's ruse, plot revenge on Greg by trying to expose Phil's true identity, but it nearly backfires when their plan is hatched in front of conservative clients of Mike's.
  • Phil Packer—A fictitious classmate (who Peter Brady poses as by donning a false mustache) of Greg Brady's in "Peter and the Wolf" from Season 5. Linda (Linda Gibboney) and Sandra (Cindi Crosby), two cousins of one another, who both discover Greg's ruse, plot revenge on Greg Brady by trying to expose Phil's true identity, but it nearly backfires when their plan is hatched in front of conservative clients of Mike's.
  • Linda O'Hara (Gigi Perreau
    Gigi Perreau
    Gigi Perreau, , is an American actress.-Biography:She achieved success as a child actress in a number of films. She played the daughter of Claude Rains and Bette Davis's characters in the 1944 film Mr. Skeffington. In Shadow on the Wall , she starred as the sole witness to a murder...

    )—Greg's beautiful math teacher, whom Greg has a crush on in "The Undergraduate" from Season 1.
  • Linda (Teresa Warder, uncredited)—Marcia's new friend in "The Undergraduate" from Season 1, who, according to Carol Brady, is not the Linda, whom Greg has a crush on, according to Mike Brady, it's Greg's beautiful math teacher Miss Linda O'Hara (Gigi Perreau
    Gigi Perreau
    Gigi Perreau, , is an American actress.-Biography:She achieved success as a child actress in a number of films. She played the daughter of Claude Rains and Bette Davis's characters in the 1944 film Mr. Skeffington. In Shadow on the Wall , she starred as the sole witness to a murder...

    ), whom Greg has a crush on.
  • Aliens from Kaplutis Herlo and Shim (Frank
    Frank Delfino
    Frank Delfino , was an American actor. Delfino was a midget, and most of his roles were related to his small stature....

     and Sadie Delfino)—Bobby discovers one night in a dream two Aliens from Kaplutis Herlo (Frank Delfino
    Frank Delfino
    Frank Delfino , was an American actor. Delfino was a midget, and most of his roles were related to his small stature....

    ) and Shim (Sadie Delfino) in "Out of this World" from Season 5. The Delfinos had long worked on The Brady Bunch
    The Brady Bunch
    The Brady Bunch is an American sitcom created by Sherwood Schwartz and starring Robert Reed, Florence Henderson, and Ann B. Davis. The series revolved around a large blended family...

    set. Frank Delfino
    Frank Delfino
    Frank Delfino , was an American actor. Delfino was a midget, and most of his roles were related to his small stature....

     was Mike Lookinland
    Mike Lookinland
    Michael Paul "Mike" Lookinland is an American actor. He is best known for his role as the youngest brother Bobby Brady on The Brady Bunch from 1969 until 1974.-Early life:...

    's 'Bobby Brady' stunt double while Sadie was Susan Olsen
    Susan Olsen
    Susan Marie Olsen is a former American child television actress and current animal welfare advocate. Olsen is best known for her role as Mike and Carol Brady's youngest daughter, Cindy Brady, on the 1970s television sitcom The Brady Bunch for the full run of the show, from 1969-1974.-Early...

    's 'Cindy Brady' stunt double until Mike Lookinland
    Mike Lookinland
    Michael Paul "Mike" Lookinland is an American actor. He is best known for his role as the youngest brother Bobby Brady on The Brady Bunch from 1969 until 1974.-Early life:...

     and Susan Olsen
    Susan Olsen
    Susan Marie Olsen is a former American child television actress and current animal welfare advocate. Olsen is best known for her role as Mike and Carol Brady's youngest daughter, Cindy Brady, on the 1970s television sitcom The Brady Bunch for the full run of the show, from 1969-1974.-Early...

     substantially grew too big.
  • Mr. and Mrs. Henry Tyler (J. Pat O'Malley
    J. Pat O'Malley
    James Patrick O'Malley was an English singer and character actor, who appeared in many American films and television programs during the 1940s–1970s, using the stage name J. Pat O'Malley...

     and Joan Tompkins
    Joan Tompkins
    Joan Tompkins, legally known as Joan Swenson was an American actress of television, film, radio, and stage, who co-founded with her husband, Karl Swenson, an acting company in Beverly Hills, California...

    )—Carol's parents Mr. Henry Tyler and Mrs. Tyler who appear only in "The Honeymoon" from Season 1.
  • Mr. Larry Dittmeyer and Mrs. Dena Dittmeyer—The Bradys' next door neighbors, whose names are frequently mentioned throughout the series' run. Larry makes his only appearance (played by an unnamed and uncredited actor) by briefly peeking over the side fence in the episode "Coming-Out Party" from Season 2 (while Dena is unseen all throughout the series' entire run). The Dittmeyers have three children, Nancy Dittmeyer, Carla Dittmeyer, and Mary Dittmeyer (all three unseen all throughout the series' entire run). In The Brady Bunch Movie
    The Brady Bunch Movie
    The Brady Bunch Movie is a 1995 American comedy film based on the 1969–1974 television series The Brady Bunch.The film features all the original regular characters, all played by new actors...

    , Larry Dittmeyer (Michael McKean
    Michael McKean
    Michael John McKean is an American actor, comedian, writer, composer and musician, perhaps best known for his portrayal of Squiggy's friend, Leonard 'Lenny' Kosnowski, on the sitcom Laverne and Shirley; and for his work in the Christopher Guest ensemble films, particularly as David St...

    ) is a shady real estate developer and Dena Dittmeyer (Jean Smart
    Jean Smart
    Jean E. Smart is an American film, television, and stage actress. She is known for her comedic roles, one of the best known being her role as Charlene Frazier Stillfield on the CBS sitcom Designing Women. She later gained critical acclaim for dramatic work, with her portrayal of Martha Logan on 24...

    ) is a miserable housewife who attempts to get Mr. Brady in bed with her. They only have two children, Eric (Jack Noseworthy) and Missy (Moriah Snyder), in the film.
  • Nancy Dittmeyer and Carla Dittmeyer—The older two (both unseen all throughout the series' entire run) of the three Dittmeyer children. Nancy and Carla Dittmeyer are friends of Marcia's and Jan's as mentioned in the "Every Boy Does it Once" from Season 1.
  • Mary Dittmeyer—The youngest one (unseen all throughout the series' entire run) of the three Dittmeyer children. Mary Dittmeyer was beat out for the lead part of the fairy princess by Cindy Brady in the Dixie Canyon Elementary School play "The Frog Prince
    The Frog Prince
    The Frog Prince can refer to the following titles:*The Frog Prince ,*"The Frog Prince" , a song by English band Keane*The Frog Prince , the soundtrack album of a British film released in 1984, featuring Enya...

    " in "Eenie, Meenie, Mommy, Daddy" from Season 1.
  • Cousin Emma (Ann B. Davis
    Ann B. Davis
    Ann Bradford Davis is an American television actress.Davis achieved prominence for her role in The Bob Cummings Show for which she twice won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series...

    , dual)—Alice's look-alike cousin in a dual role), stays with the Bradys to fill in for Alice, during her vacation in "Sergeant Emma" from Season 3. A retired Sergeant in the Army, Emma turns the Brady household into a virtual barracks, forcing the Brady kids to do early morning calisthenics and running things with military precision. Though she gets on everyone's nerves, Carol, Mike and the kids are all afraid to complain for fear of offending Alice.
  • Arthur Owens (Christopher Knight, dual)—Peter's lookalike classmate in "Two Petes in a Pod" from Season 5.
  • Mr. Driscoll (Pitt Herbert)—The owner of Driscoll's Toy Shop (Pitt Herbert) appeared for Season 1 only in "Kitty Karry-All is Missing" and "The Hero".
  • Alfred Baily (Robert Nadder)—The department store clerk (Robert Nadder), who tells Jan the engraving of the Brady kids' names was 85 cents per letter - not 85 cents for the entire engraving - for the silver platter tray - as a four year wedding anniversary present to Carol and Mike from the kids - in "Amateur Nite" from Season 4.
  • Gregory Gaylord (Robert Nadder)—The photographer who, according to Jan, was so mixed up that he lost the negative, and that he has to do the re-take photo of the Brady kids - with Jan in her glasses - after Jan, who balked at wearing her glasses, ruined the original photo with her bicycle - in which Jan didn't have her glasses as yet - as a three year wedding anniversary present to Carol from Mike - in "The Not-So-Rose Colored Glasses" episode from Season 3.
  • Mrs. Marcia Dentist—Marcia's daydream fantasy of herself ("Love and the Older Man" from Season 4); Mrs. Marcia Dentist marries Dr. Stanley Vogel (Don Brit Reid), then her two children (Bobby and Cindy) and housekeeper (Alice) come in the kitchen with her, and then Dr. Stanley Vogel comes home from a hard day's work at the dentists' office and sits down in his favorite dentists' chair (in Marcia's daydream fantasy of Dr. Stanley Vogel). Marcia's daydream fantasies of her future with Dr. Stanley Vogel all vanish when Jan tells Marcia he's married.
  • Dr. Stanley Vogel (Don Brit Reid)—The Brady family's new dentist in the episode "Love and the Older Man" from Season 4. Marcia has a crush on Dr. Vogel and has daydreams of becoming "Mrs. Marcia Dentist" until Jan tells Marcia Dr. Vogel is married.
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