The Brady Bunch – “Fright Night”
Season 4, Episode 6
Original Air Date: October 27, 1972
Here’s the story… of how I watched an episode of The Brady Bunch for the first time in 25 years.
This a show that I’m sure people of a certain age probably have a fair amount of nostalgia for, but I’m not quite of that certain age. That said, I do have memories of The Brady Bunch reruns airing on Nickelodeon in the late ’90s for reasons that aren’t terribly clear to me. At the time, I thought the show was passible entertainment, but even then felt of a different time, despite the most topical thing about the show being its garishly groovy fashion. I was a bit surprised to read that The Brady Bunch wasn’t one of the more popular shows on television when it was airing, but instead earned its cultural ubiquity in syndication. I’ll get into my theories as to why this show became so popular later, but let’s get into this spooky episode that much like the episode of Dick Van Dyke I reviewed, aired early in the fourth season of a five-season run. Continue reading →