Speaking of Tee Vee...

[David Morris]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58223-2002Jan16.html

One Shy of a Bunch
It's the Story of a Man Named Brady. So Why Is He No Longer in the Picture?

By Hank Stuever
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, January 17, 2002; Page C01

[...]
On the 2002 Brady Bunch wall calendar the original characters from the 
sitcom are all present and accounted for, in their eternal circa-1972 states 
of being, except for one.

Mr. Brady doesn't live here anymore.

He's . . . gone.

It's not just the calendar. On all licensed "Brady"-related lunchboxes, 
T-shirts and other merchandise currently available (since it appears Brady 
stuff will always be available) Mike Brady has been rubbed out.

There's something sort of Stalin-era about it all, once the eye is alerted 
to Reed's absence, some sinister and creepy feeling. Though Mike Brady lives 
on in reruns on Nick at Nite, he's been cropped out or digitally removed 
from the faded Politburo shots in the Brady canon. On the trademark "Brady 
grid" from the show's opening theme -- the 3-by-3 layout of the faces of 
those who "must somehow form a family" -- his place has been taken by Alice 
Nelson (Ann B. Davis), the family's live-in housekeeper. (Her place, in the 
holiest center square, has been filled with the show's logo.)





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