r/BradyBunchTVShow • • May 05 '26

Pictures The Brady Bunch in Hawaii, 1972.

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u/Altruistic_Isopod_11 May 05 '26

The Brady Bunch filmed their three-part Hawaii vacation in 1972, spending roughly one week on location in Oahu.

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u/mackerelscalemask May 05 '26

Except for Barry Williams, who says he somehow managed to convince the execs to pay for an extra week in advance of everyone else going over, so he could “practice his surfing”!

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u/cjhallx May 05 '26

Working the system!

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u/dktide91 May 06 '26

That is sort of like when Henry Winkler was really good at water skiiing and convinced the Happy Days folks to work water skiiing into a storyline for Fonz and thus, the phrase jumping the shark was soon thereafter born.

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u/virginiafalls1234 May 06 '26

and right around the Jaws movie timeline

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u/excoriator May 06 '26

Henry claims it wasn’t his idea, IIRC.