The Brady Bunch - Episode Guide

In the series opener, Mike Brady, a widower with three boys, marries Carol Martin, a widow with three girls. Just as the minister says "I do" the boy's dog, Tiger gets loose and chases the girl's cat through the wedding party. Chaos breaks loose which prompts Carol and Mike to yell at their kids to control their pets. Guilt over yelling at their kids comes into play later during Mike and Carol's honeymoon.

An article in an advice column, Dear Libby, draws Marcia's attention. In the article, an anonymous person is in the same situation as Mike and Carol is in and this particular person is unhappy. This leads Marcia to draw the conclusion that Mike or Carol wrote the letter. She later shows the article to the other kids and they devise a plot to keep their newly formed family together.

Cindy has been cast as the fairy princess in the school play. She's excited that her mom and new dad will be able to see her in the production until she learns she can only invite one parent. Torn between who she should choose, Cindy fakes an injury to get out of being in the play.

No longer feeling needed around the Brady household, Alice makes up a story about an ailing aunt in Seattle in order to leave. Later the family finds out the truth and put "Operation Alice" in effect in an attempt to make her stay.

Jan comes down with a mysterious allergy and Carol and Alice try to determine just what is causing it. They deduce that the cause is Tiger, the family dog. Or is it?

With more and more of the girls belongings being moved over from storage, the boys become fed up and take to their 'No Girls Allowed' clubhouse in the backyard which sparks the first of many battles between the sexes. This leads the girls to try to build their own clubhouse.

When Cindy's doll, Kitty Karry-All turns up missing, she accuses Bobby. This leads to a mock trial with Alice as the judge to determine Bobby's guilt or innocence. Then later Bobby's kazoo turns up missing and he blames Cindy.

Mike and Carol prepare for a family camping trip. However, the boys are not thrilled that the girls will be coming along. Meanwhile, the girls aren't exactly thrilled about sleeping in the wilderness. Later on the trip, things go awry when the girls mess up the boys fishing plans and freak out when they hear owl hoots.

With nine people in the house, Mike gets frustrated when he can never get any time on the phone for himself. He decides to install a second phone line, but that only makes the problem worse. Thanks to one of Alice's ideas, Mike decides to install a pay phone in the family room. The plan works ... until Mike needs to use the phone one day to set up an appointment with a hard-to-please, heavily scrutinizing developer ... and when the phone company cuts the call off and Mike doesn't have a dime, the developer isn't too amused at all. But in the end, the pay phone proves its worth, both for Mike's blood pressure and securing a multi-million-dollar contract for Mike's firm.

After watching "Cinderella" on TV, Bobby becomes concerned about stepmothers—especially since Carol asks him to sweep out the fireplace. Soon after, feeling worthless, Bobby decides to run away.

Both Greg and Marcia rush home after school with the news that they're both running for student body president. May the best candidate win, as the boys and girls each take sides and soon each one of them is accusing the other of sabotage. Later, rudeness and apathy abound as each candidate rehearses their campaign speech, leading to a stern lecture from Mike about family unity and how they will be a family far longer than either Greg or Marcia will be class president. It's a speech that Greg take seriously when he fires his campaign manager for recommending that they spread a lie around school that Marcia was seen in the balcony of the local movie theater with an older boy. Marcia (who witnessed the exchange without Greg knowing it) realizes that, while Greg is indeed intensely competitive, he also has integrity and will stick up for his siblings ... and then understands that Greg is the best for the job after all.

Carol is to sing in church on Christmas, but days before the event, she loses her voice. Later at the mall, a hopeful Cindy asks a Santa Claus to bring Carol's voice back by Christmas. Meanwhile, Alice and the kids find it a difficult task hiding Christmas gifts in the house.

When all of the kids come down with the measles, Carol and Mike call their respective doctors – the girls' doctor is a woman, and the boys' doctor is a man – and the kids are refusing to see the other's respective doctor. As a result, both doctors decide to combine their practices in order to better serve the Brady family.

After Mike helps her with some tough math homework, Marcia decides to nominate him for the local newspaper's father of the year contest. When Marcia inadvertently breaks curfew to mail it to the newspaper office before the deadline, Mike and Carol ground her when she won't say why she was out past her bedtime, and as a result she'll be missing the family's upcoming ski weekend. However, when Mike discovers Marcia's motive's for breaking curfew, he has a change of heart of the punishment handed down.

The Brady family learns that a trading stamp company is going out of business. A fight breaks out over who should get all of the saved stamps, the boys or the girls. If the girls get them, they'll buy a sewing machine and if the boys get them, they'll by a rowboat.

The day after Carol reads Mike's horoscope, which states "a strange woman will enter your life tomorrow," Beebe Gallini enters Mike's office and proves to be a most difficult client. Soon, Mike finds himself spending more time at the office than at home with Carol and the kids.

When Greg begins constant daydreaming and his grades start to drop the Brady's quickly think something is wrong. They soon deduce he has puppy love, for a certain girl named Linda. However, they are having an incredibly hard time finding the right Linda but soon the Bradys quickly learn just who this Linda is.

One afternoon, Bobby briefly leaves Tiger unattended and returns to find him missing. Soon a city wide search is on. Meanwhile, a string of burglaries in the neighborhood has Alice paranoid. Could the robbers have lured Tiger away in order to rob the Brady house?

Carol is out of town visiting her sick Aunt Mary and Alice is all prepared to take care of the Brady home. However, she sprains her ankle, after tripping on Chinese checkers, putting Mike and the kids in charge of the household duties. Meanwhile, her boyfriend Sam finds himself in a dilemma over whether or not to take someone else to the upcoming Meatcutters Ball.

Marcia is distraught after getting braces and becomes convinced she's ugly. This compounds when her boyfriend Alan breaks their upcoming date, thinking it's due to her braces. Meanwhile, the Brady kids try their best to make Marcia not feel so self-conscious but with little success.

When Peter saves a little girl from falling shelving at a local toy store, the little girl's mother declares him a hero and calls upon the local newspaper to let them know about Peter's good deed, and then offers to pay for a shopping spree to show her appreciation. However, the extra attention then goes to Pete's head and as a result, his family and friends find it difficult to hang around him.

When Cindy accidentally puts Marcia's diary in the collection of books to be donated to a local book drive, Marcia is crushed when she finds out what happens and vows to never speak to Cindy again. The family then sets out to find her diary before a stranger can read her deepest, darkest secret is that her crush is Desi Arnaz, Jr.

As the boys and girls start bickering about having to share the cramped bathroom and other things around the house, Mike takes it as a sign to move into a bigger house. However, when he shares the news with the kids, they decide they don't want to move and decide to take some drastic measures to show Mike and Carol how much they want to stay where they currently live.

After spending a day on the weekend complaining about how hard it is to help Greg and Marcia with their respective extracurricular activities, Mike and Carol scoff at one another, saying the other has it easier with their kids' activities. As a result, Mike suggests they swap for a day to prove his point and Carol wholeheartedly agrees to the swap. However, it doesn't take them long to realize how difficult it can be helping their kids out with their activities – only both are reluctant to admit it to each other.

Everyone in the family gets intrigued when Jan receives a locket from a secret admirer. As a result, they start investigating who might have sent it. Their investigation broadens when Jan accidentally loses her locket and they have to figure out how she lost it as well.

One afternoon while practicing baseball, Greg gets a complement from the famous Dodgers pitcher Don Drysdale. As a result, Greg becomes so obsessed with the game that he soon contemplates dropping out of school in order to focus solely on his baseball career. However, when his next game takes place, Greg bombs so bad that he soon realizes that he has a lot more to learn before become a pro player.

Mike and Carol agree to let Greg and Marcia babysit their siblings when they're going to be gone for the evening and Alice will be out. However, after Cindy comes down with a case of the sniffles, the adults fear that Greg and Marcia are going to be in over their heads.

After Mike and Carol agree to let Marcia have a slumber party over a weekend, a classmate almost derails Marcia's plan when a teacher of theirs finds what she thinks is an unflattering picture that the girls made of her. When they discover the misunderstanding, Carol and Mike put the party back on track, only to be left in the dark of the boys' plans to wreak havoc on the girls' slumber party.

Greg's history project is a home movie about the pilgrims with the rest of the Bradys clan as the cast. However, soon the other Bradys take over and pretty soon Greg loses control of his project.

Marcia has a crush on a boy who doesn't even know she's alive, at least not until she studies up on his favorite hobby, insect collecting.

Greg gets his first job as an office boy at Mike's architectural firm. However, he places his job in jeopardy when he carelessly loses some important designs.

The boys find a wallet with $1,100 in a parking lot while playing football. The kids argue about who gets to keep the money and finally agree about sharing it but, the owner comes forward after seeing the ad in the lost and found section.

A bully named Buddy Hinton has been making fun of Cindy's lisp. So in order to defend her, Peter tries to learn how to defend himself.

Clark Tyson, a boy that Jan has a crush on, likes older girls, especially Marcia. This leads Jan to make up an imaginary boyfriend, George Glass.

Cindy has become somewhat of a tattletale leading Alice to get in a fight with Sam and the other siblings leaving her out of their activities. In the end, Cindy learns there are times when she has to tell what's going on when it's "important" ... such as when Tiger doggie-swipes a claim voucher for a prize Alice won in a jingle-writing contest.

When Bobby falls from a tree and sprains his ankle, he devolops a fear of heights. This prompts the Brady family to try to cure his fear.

Peter breaks Carol's favorite vase on the eve of a camping trip that he's looking forward to. So in order for him to go on the trip, the other Brady siblings unknowingly each confess.

Jan's practical joking puts Greg's science project, a mouse named Myron, in mortal danger when he gets loose allowing Alice to catch a glimpse of him which leads to her calling the exterminator.

Jan and Cindy catch Greg smoking with some friends. This leads to them telling Marcia who in turn tells Mike and Carol.

Jan thinks she is being given the cold-shoulder at school because of her blonde hair. She buys a brunette wig to gain attention at a party.

When Bobby gets a set of drums he drives the family up the wall. Meanwhile, Peter is made fun of for being in the glee club by his football teammates.

Mike's boss, Mr. Phillips, invites him and his family on a fishing trip on his boat. However when Cindy comes down with tonsillitis, the trip is postponed. Tonsillitis quickly claims another, when Carol also must have her tonsils taken out.

Greg, tired of the antics of his younger siblings, thinks he should have his own room. Mike allows Greg to turn his den into his own room. This also leads to Greg dressing a whole new way and talking a whole new way, including calling his parents by their first names.

A reporter interviews Marcia and asks her about her views on Women's Lib. This leads to her joining Greg's Frontier Scouts to try to prove a woman can do anything a man can do.

After witnessing a magician performing a disappearing act, Cindy refuses to sleep with the lights off. Meanwhile, Peter begins to develop a magic act and a reluctant Cindy agrees to be his assistant.

Bobby goes for the gold on a TV-show's ice-cream-eating contest after he sees that he is the sole Brady without a trophy.

The Bradys take sides when the kids crusade to save their park from becoming the site of a new courthouse, which Mike is designing.

Alice is wooed by an old flame, whose shady stock tips tip Mike off to his real reasons for romancing the housekeeper.

Carol is secretly writing an article about life with the Brady Bunch for Tomorrow's Woman Magazine. But soon after sending the article in, she gets a rejection letter.

The Bradys set out for a family vacation at the Grand Canyon. But when the family stops in an old ghost town, a paranoid old prospector locks them in a jail cell, believing the Bradys to be after his claim.

The Brady family finally arrives at the Grand Canyon and sets up camp. But the family is thrown into a panic when Bobby and Cindy get lost in the canyon while chasing an Indian boy.

On vacation in the Grand Canyon, Bobby and Cindy become lost and befriend an Indian boy named Jimmy.

Greg buys his first car for $100 from his smooth-talking friend Eddie. Finding that he has been stuck with a lemon, Greg attempts to repeat Eddie's snow job when he tries to resell the car to another sucker.

When Greg learns that Marcia got asked out by rival at his school, he forbids her from seeing him. As a result, decides to go out with him more than once out of spite.

Convinced he doesn't have personality, Peter goes all out to try to get one. After imitating celebrities, Peter tries to be a comedian, but his jokes bomb when he tells them to his party guests. Pork chops...and applesauce!

When Marcia lands the lead role of Juliet in the school play, she lets it go to her head, which leads to her losing the role and having a meltdown when told the bad news.

A commercial producer discovers the Brady family while they are grocery shopping and wants them to be in a laundry soap commercial. But the family doesn't use the product, leading to a classic Brady dilemma.

Peter eavesdrops on his siblings' private conversations with the help of Mike's tape recorder.

Tired of being in Marcia's shadow, Jan is determined to do something that Marcia never did. But Jan becomes more depressed when she fails to make the cheer squad. Then she wins first prize in an essay contest only to discover that her teacher had made a mistake in scoring.

Greg's rib injury keeps him on the football sidelines, but Bobby's new photography hobby leads to a game-deciding discovery.

Marcia makes a promise that she will get Davy Jones to perform at the prom, but finds it almost impossible to reach the former Monkee -- until he surprises her with a visit to the Brady house.

After taking the wrong bike from school and with her grades beginning to slip, Jan is fitted with a pair of glasses. But her unwillingness to wear the glasses leads to the destruction of Mike's anniversary gift to Carol, a portrait of all six children, and the kids must try to reshoot the photo without Mike knowing.

When Bobby and Cindy are not invited to a wedding because they're too young, they set out to do something important: break a teeter-totter record.

Bobby becomes self-conscious about his height and tries different ways to make himself "big." First he tries stretching himself, and then he decides to improve his mind by memorizing a bunch of worthless facts.

Wanting to make a record, Greg books a recording studio and writes a song to perform with his siblings. However, when Peter's voice begins cracking, Greg realizes it's time to change and he's got to rearrange the music.

Jan discovers that Aunt Jenny had closely resembled her in her youth. Jan corresponds with Jenny and receives a photo in return, leading her to worry that she will grow up to look just like her strange-looking aunt. But when Jenny visits, Jan comes to appreciate her unusual lifestyle.

Bobby and Greg make a bet on how many chin-ups each can do. Confident Greg relaxes while Bobby practices, and when the two finally compete, Bobby ends up on top, with Greg doomed to be his servant.

Peter finds popularity after mentioning his classmates in the school newspaper column. But with his schoolwork suffering, he tries the same tactic on his teacher with much different results.

Alice takes a vacation, leaving her duties to her cousin Emma. But the Bradys have trouble adjusting to Emma's militaristic style.

Feeling immature because she is the youngest, Cindy feels that she isn't appreciated until she gets a mysterious letter from a secret admirer.

As a joke, Marcia's plain-looking friend Molly Webber is nominated to be hostess on Banquet Night. Marcia's mission to transform Molly into a knockout succeeds, only to discover that she is running against her friend.

Carol is in a car accident with a man who agrees to pay for his own damages. However, he changes his mind and Carol finds herself summoned to court with Bobby and Cindy testifying against her.

When Mike is informed by his boss that he needs to go to Hawaii to check on the progress of a project he's working on, the family is able to go as well. Upon arriving on their family vaction, Bobby stumbles upon a taboo tiki that ultimately starts bringing bad luck to everyone who touches it.

During a surfing competition, Greg wears Bobby's tabu idol and wipes out. Soon after, Greg, Peter and Bobby learn of the ancient superstition from a construction worker, Mr. Hanalei. This leads the boys to search for an ancient burial ground in which to return the idol and break the curse. However, they are unaware of a shadowy figure (Vincent Price) trailing them in the cave.

An archeologist (Vincent Price) traps the boys in a cave and takes them hostage, insisting that they tell him where they found the idol. Meanwhile, Jan, Marcia and Cindy debate whether to tell Mike and Carol about the boys' whereabouts when they fail to come back for dinner.

It's the beginning of another school year, and Marcia panics about becoming a freshman, going as far as pretending to be sick. However, after her parents see through Marcia's act, they encourage her to get involved -- but she joins every club available.

Smitten with Jan's friend Kerry, Peter seeks Greg's advice on landing a girl. This leads to Greg playing Cyrano for Peter, but Kerry mistakenly thinks Greg is the one who has feelings for her.

After Jan and Cindy are spooked by a trick ghost rigged by the boys, the girls try to retaliate. But things get out of hand when Alice becomes a victim of their attempts to spook their brothers.

The high school puts on a "Family Frolics" show, with Marcia and Carol performing a routine together while Greg and Mike team up for their own.

Fed up with the number of people in the household, Jan voices her desire to be an only child. The other kids oblige and treat her that way, but Jan changes her tune when she's excluded from the other kids' activities.

In a paper for English class, Greg writes about wanting to follow in his dad's footsteps and become an architect. When Mike reads the paper, he enthusiastically encourages his son, but Greg is uninterested. Meanwhile, Peter and Jan also explore careers.

The kids give Alice the cold shoulder after she reveals that Greg and Peter broke an antique lamp of Carol's. The girls join the bandwagon when Alice innocently tells Carol that Marcia left the stereo on all night. Feeling unwanted and no longer needed, Alice quits.

Greg is crazy for his latest girlfriend, Jennifer, but things get difficult for him when he learns that both Jennifer and Marcia are competing for head cheerleader -- and he just happens to be one of the judges.

Peter is determined to get the part of George Washington in the school play, but the teacher thinks Peter would be better in the role of Benedict Arnold. When his friends start making snide comments about it, Peter decides to get himself kicked out of the play.

When the family dentist, Dr. Vogel, asks Mike if Marcia would be interested in babysitting his kids, Marcia misinterprets the request as a date.

Bobby is crestfallen when he is picked to be safety monitor at school. But with Mike's and Carol's encouragement, Bobby becomes determined to do the job well but goes overboard, becoming the most unwelcome person both at school and at home.

Bobby tells his parents that Greg nearly got into a freeway accident because he was reading the cover of a new record. Mike and Carol suspend Greg's car privileges for a week, but Greg has plans to take out his girlfriend Rachel. When Greg decides that his father's directive has a "loophole" and takes a buddy's car to procure rock concert tickets for the date, Mike really hits the roof and grounds him. Greg talks his way out of the severe punishment but is bound by "exact words" ... and it leads to a drive-in movie date that neither Greg nor Rachel will ever forget.

The Brady kids want to buy a silver platter for their parents' wedding anniversary. But short on money, they perform on a TV amateur contest.

The principal calls home to alert Mike and Carol to the fact that Bobby's playing Jesse James at school. This leads Mike and Carol to learn just how obsessed Bobby about his "idol" and try to dissuade him from worshiping a cold hearted killer.

When Marcia breaks her date with a homely classmate to go out with Doug Simpson, the "big man on campus," her brothers accidentally hit her in the face with a football. As a result, when Doug sees Marcia not long after her accident, he promptly breaks their date.

Peter is elated over getting his first job in Mr. Martinelli's bike shop, repairing bicycles. However, when Mr. Martinelli has to fire him after 3 days for his slow work, Peter is unsure how to break the news to his family.

Peter's new detective kit comes in handy when Cindy touches and then loses a pair of antique earrings that Marcia was borrowing from Carol that she warned her not to touch. This leads Peter and Cindy on an all out search for the missing earrings.

Both Robert Reed puts in double duty as Grandpa Brady as does Florence Henderson when she portrays Grandma Hutchins in an episode where the Brady kids play matchmakers and try to get Grandpa Brady and Grandma Hutchins together. However, their efforts may all be for naught when an argument erupts between Grandma and Grandpa during a romantic dinner.

Both Bobby and Cindy have to opportunity to try out to be on a televised children's quiz show if they get a certain score on a written test. However, an overconfident Bobby doesn't study at all and fails while Cindy is chosen and her ego alienates the rest of the Brady kids.

When the family cleans out the attic, both Greg and Marcia realize what a great room it would be and they both begin fighting over who gets it. This leads to yet another battle between the sexes.

A musical agent spots Greg and offers him the chance of becoming solo star Johnny Bravo, but he soon learns the real reason he was selected -- he's a perfect fit for a garish suit.

Bobby lies to his friends by telling them he knows NFL legend Joe Namath. So Cindy sends a bogus letter to Namath stating that Bobby is dying and that his last wish is to meet the football star.

To earn money for a retirement gift for a teacher, the Brady family puts on a production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. But a mistake in dates threatens the performance by leaving the Bradys with no theater in which to perform.

After Bobby defends a girl at school, she rewards him with a kiss and he immediately sees skyrockets. But after a second kiss, she tells Bobby that she may have the mumps.

Greg's date can only go out with him if he can get a date for her visiting cousin. So Greg gets Peter to wear a fake moustache and act like an older man on the double date.

When a rival high school steals the mascot from Greg's school, Greg gets involved in stealing the rival schools goat to get even and hides it in his room.

Marcia loves her new job at the ice cream parlor -- until the shiftless Peter fouls things up and Jan outperforms her.

After Bobby pushes Peter out of the way of a falling ladder, Peter volunteers to be Bobby's slave for life. But Bobby takes advantage of the situation.

Marcia's new beau, the quarterback of the rival Fairview team, uses her to get to Greg's Westdale playbook.

After a string of failures, Jan becomes she has no talent -- until she discovers tap dancing, which drives the Brady family crazy.

Mike brings along the family on a business trip to an amusement park in Cincinnati. But when a mix-up occurs with Mike's blueprints, the Bradys must scour the park to find them.

The family mistakenly believes that Sam and Alice are eloping, so they plan a wedding reception.

Jan is competing in a popularity contest at school. However, she finds herself making promises to her classmates that she can't keep.

This failed backdoor pilot attempt finds the Bradys' friends, the Kellys, adopting three ethnically diverse boys and dealing with an inhospitable neighbor.

Greg and Marcia settle a bet about their driving skills by participating in a head-to-head competition, with the whole family cheering them on.

After meeting an astronaut, Bobby and Peter claim to have spotted a UFO and camp out in the backyard to get it on film.

When Carol tells Mike she's expecting an addition to the family, eavesdropping Cindy and Bobby think that Carol is pregnant and pass the rumor along to the rest of the family. But the new addition isn't a baby, it's Carol's nephew Oliver, a clumsy boy who seems to bring trouble wherever he goes.

Peter meets a schoolmate who looks and sounds exactly like him. When Peter finds he has two dates for the same night, he hatches a plan to use his doppelganger to stand in for him.

When an FBI agent visits to check Mike's security clearance, Bobby and Oliver become convinced that Mike is working on plans for a top-secret project. They also suspect Sam of being an international spy scheming to steal the plans.

Marcia plants a bogus story in her diary to trap the snooping Cindy, which leads Cindy to believe a talent scout wants her to be the next Shirley Temple.

When Mike's boss, Mr. Matthews, sends the family a pool table, Bobby becomes obsessed with pool, challenging all comers including Mr. Matthews himself.

Wanting to get rich quick, Bobby begins selling bottles of hair tonic. But the tonic turns Greg's hair orange just days before his high-school graduation. In what happened to be the final episode of the series, series star Robert Reed got himself written out of the episode when he objected to the episode's plotline and writing and neither he nor the Schwartzes would budge.