Mandatory Credit: Photo by Everett/REX/Shutterstock (458960a) 'The Brady Bunch' - Susan Olsen, Mike Lookinland, Eve Plumb, Christopher Knight, Maureen McCormick, Barry Williams, Ann B. Davis, Florence Henderson, Robert Reed, 1969 - 1974 'THE BRADY BUNCH' TV SERIES] His comments came during a discussion with his co-host Knight as they reflected on the Miss Popularity episode which aired in 1973.
‘I know that we’re the whitest show on television, but I do think that there were very deliberate attempts to try and integrate the show,’ he said on the latest episode of his podcast The Brady Bros. ‘There were a couple of episodes that specifically dealt with that, and we see this a lot, especially when there are crowds and then maybe there are two or three friends, we’ll see different ethnicities and et cetera.’.
70s star makes candid remarks about being in the ‘whitest show on television’ A star of The Brady Bunch has said there were attempts to diversify the series despite it being viewed as ‘the whitest show on television’.
The success of The Brady Bunch saw it spark several spin-off series and TV reunion films however last year Olsen said plans for a revival in recent years was axed because of her ‘controversial’ views.
It starred Robert Reed as Mike Brady, a widowed architect with three sons who marries Carol Martin (Florence Henderson), who herself has three daughters.
