ABC’s “The Brady Bunch” wasn’t really a top-rated show when it ran from 1969 to 1974. In fact, during its five seasons, it never once cracked Nielsen Media Research’s top 10 shows (via History), and Kimberly Potts, who researched the show’s history and wrote the book “The Way We All Became The Brady Bunch,” told NPR that critics at the time hated it. But in syndication, the show became an iconic series that entertained an era’s latchkey children. In a 2011 Boston Globe article, columnist Joanna Weiss theorized that the show’s simplicity lent it its power.
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