The Honeymoon
When Sherwood Schwartz first pitched the pilot episode, “The Honeymoon”, to NBC, they believed that the story of the parents taking their blended family with them on their honeymoon was too much of an unbelievable storyline. They only agreed to the pilot if the ending was changed. ABC actually liked it so much that they wanted to turn the story into a 90 minute television movie. However Sherwood was sure that it would be too dull and the series wouldn’t get picked up.
The Honeymoon
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Shirley Jones was originally offered the part of Carol. However, she refused to take the part because, as she put it, she refused to play a part where all she did was “take a pot roast out of the oven”. Just a year after The Brady Bunch premiered, Jones would played another iconic mother on The Partridge Family.
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