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 | | Schwartz says the idea for the Brady's came when he noticed government figures showing an increasing number of Americans living in "blended families" by the late 1960’s -that up to 30% of all families had at least one child from a previous marriage. |
 | | (The Brady's benefited from the growing trend of "demographics", which found that TV shows could have the right audience, rather than the largest audience, and still succeed.) It was never a top-25 hit during its original run, but The Brady Bunch proved to be good counter-programming against more adult shows on rivals CBS and NBC. |
 | | The joke was that the Bradys were still living in the 1970’s (bad hair, bad clothes, avocado green kitchen and all), while the cruder, meaner world of the mid-1990’s lies outside their Clinton Way home. |
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