The Brady Bunch Season #3

THE BRADY BUNCH SEASON #3

EPISODE #1: GHOST TOWN, U.S.A. – The Brady’s take a trip to the Grand Canyon, but when they stop at an old ghost town, they meet a crazy old prospector named Zaccariah, who locks them in an old jail cell. Part 1 of 3: The kids and Alice have no clue as to what the surprise that Mike and Carol have for them. When Mike and Carol get home, the surprise is revealed as the Bradys have bought a camper and are planning a trip to the Grand Canyon. As the Brady’s set out for the vacation, en route, the family stops in an old ghost town where an old prospector locks them in a jail cell and steals their car. The Brady kids are all excited because Mike and Carol have promised them a big surprise. The surprise is a camper for a great big trip to the Grand Canyon. While the boys help out with the sleeping bags, Mike tells them that they will learn about the Indian tribes who inhabit the Canyon. While the girls are packing, Carol tells them they will be going down to the bottom of the Canyon on mules and they have some reservations as to whether Alice can do this. Next morning they set off (almost without their trailer). On the way they stop at a gas station and the attendant tells them about the ghost town at Cactus Creek. The kids are eager to see the ghost gown and suggest spending the night there as the detour means they will not make the Grand Canyon by nightfall. Mike and Carol agree to the ghost town. In the ghost town the Brady’s set up their camp and an old stagecoach gives the kids inspiration for shooting a film. “The Great Stagecoach Robbery.” But the Brady’s do not realize they are being watched by a strange man. The man is a prospector who thinks the Brady’s are out to steal his gold claim. He approaches the Bradys, introduces himself as Zaccariah T. Brown, and pretends to be friendly. A joke from Bobby about looking for gold reinforces Brown’s mistaken belief that they are out to steal his claim. Brown starts showing them around the town, telling them stories about the place. Eventually he lures them into the town jail with a (questionable) story about Jesse James, where he locks them in a cell and accuses them of stealing his claim. Their protests of innocence are unavailing. Brown then steals their car and trailer. Bobby notices the spare key meant for the deputy hanging from the post. The Brady’s make a makeshift rope out of their belts to lasso the key. When this fails, they switch to Plan B – use their shoes to knock the key to the floor and then use another makeshift rope made of socks and Carol’s purse to drag the key in. The Bradys are now free, but they are still stranded. Mike sees no other way but to walk back to the highway (20 miles away) to get help. Peter goes with him. The others are left in the ghost town with their tents, but no water or food.

EPISODE #2: GRAND CANYON OR BUST – Part 2 of 3: After escaping the jail cell, Mike and Peter return with the prospector, who apologizes for locking them up and stealing their car. Later, the Bradys finally arrive in the Grand Canyon and set up camp. Later, the family is thrown into a panic, when Bobby and Cindy get lost in the canyon while chasing an Indian boy. Carol ruefully gives a recap in flashback as to how they came to be stranded in Cactus Creek ghost town. They took a detour from their trip to the Grand Canyon to set up in the ghost town,. But a prospector, Zaccariah T. Brown locked them in the jail and stole their car because he thought they were stealing his gold claim. They managed to free themselves, but they were still stranded, without the car, food or water, so Mike and Peter went to seek help. Carol rounds up the remaining kids to seek ways of raising help themselves. Greg manages to repair the old telephone, only to find Cindy on the other end. The town phones are connected to each other, not outside lines. Other attempts at setting up signals and finding water are equally fruitless. Then the car returns, with Mike, Peter and Brown. Brown apologizes for his actions. He says he only meant to use their car to go into town and file his claim. He did intend to return and he met up with Mike and Peter on the way. He gives them 10% of his claim (of which he has not any gold as yet) as compensation. All the Bradys see on the claim is a “X”, but they forgive Brown. The Bradys leave the ghost town and head for the Grand Canyon. The kids are awed when they see it. The Bradys go on a tour to savor the sights, including an Indian rain dance and then a thunderstorm breaks out before they make the mule trek to the Canyon the following morning. As the Bradys anticipated, Alice has problems with riding a mule, but she does manage the trek. They set up camp at the bottom for a three-day campout. Mike warns the kids against wandering as the environment is wild and can be dangerous. But Cindy and Bobby do wander when they see an Indian boy and chase after him. As a result, they get lost. Back in camp, Bobby and Cindy are missed and the family divides into search parties to look for them. But they have no success and it is getting dark.

EPISODE #3: THE BRADY BRAVES – Cindy and Bobby get lost at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, but with the help of an Indian boy named Jimmy, they manage their way out. Cindy and Bobby promise him food when they find out he is running away from his grandfather. Part 3 of 3: In the conclusion, while trying to find their way back to their camp, Bobby and Cindy encounter the Indian boy again who leads them back to their camp. This brings relief to a worried Mike and Carol. However, Bobby and Cindy wanting to help the Indian boy, Jimmy, in his quest of running away to become an astronaut gets them into more trouble. Cindy and Bobby are still lost in the Grand Canyon and the family is still looking for them. Cindy blames Bobby for chasing the Indian boy. Then the boy himself reappears and introduces himself as Jimmy Pakaya. Jimmy knows where their camp is, but is reluctant to take them because he has run away from home. Eventually he does so when Cindy and Bobby promise to say nothing about him. They also promise to smuggle him some food when everyone is asleep. Soon Cindy and Bobby have a joyful, tearful reunion with their family. Mike tells them not to go off again without company of an adult or their oldest siblings. This poses a problem for smuggling food to Jimmy, but Bobby has a plan. So Bobby and Cindy hide some food during a campfire song session and then smuggle it out to Jimmy while everyone is asleep. But they get caught by Greg and Peter, and then by Mike and are forced to explain. Mike has a talk with Jimmy. Jimmy says he ran away from home because he wants to be an astronaut and did not know his grandfather, an Indian traditionalist, would take it. Mike tells Jimmy he is not giving his grandfather a fair chance and he should talk to him about his ambition to be an astronaut. He then lets Jimmy spend the night in their camp. Next morning, they find Jimmy has disappeared. At first they think Jimmy has run off, but then they find him with his grandfather, Chief Eagle Cloud. Jimmy took Mike’s advice and spoke to his grandfather .Chief Eagle tells Mike, “the foolishness of this child. He thinks because I speak of buffalo, I do not understand blastoff.” In gratitude, Chief Eagle Scout invites the Bradys to his village where they will be welcomed to his tribe and have “a groovy time.” At the ceremony, the Bradys receive Indian name: Mike: Big Eagle of Large Nest, Carol: Yellow Flower with Many Petals, Greg: Stalking Wolf, Peter: Middle Buffalo (Peter does not like it) Cindy: Wandering Blossom, Bobby: Little Bear Who Loses Way, Jan: Dove of Morning Light, Marcia: Willow Dancing in Wind, Alice: Squaw in Waiting. When the Brady’s go home, Bobby says they are now the Brady Braves.

EPISODE #4: THE WHEELER-DEALER- Greg really wants a car, so his friend Eddie offers him a “good” deal for his old run-down car. Greg takes the car and comes to the conclusion that his car is worthless and tries trading it away. Greg is all excited as he’s about to go in for his driver’s test. When he passes the test, he decides he needs his own car so he buys a car for $100 from his friend Eddie who made the car into something it’s not. Finding that he has been stuck, Greg attempts to do the same thing Eddie did, when he tries to sell the car. Greg passes his driving test and now wants to buy a car of his own. Mike tells Greg not to buy a car without letting him look at it first. Carol is worried about Greg buying a car, but Mike assures her that Greg cannot buy a car for $100 (the amount Greg has so far). But Mike has reckoned without Greg’s (so-called) friend Eddie, who is out to make a fast $100 by selling a car. Eddie uses a slick, pushy, hard sales pitch to persuade Greg to buy it. Naively, Greg does so, despite the warning signals that Eddie is deliberately selling him a lemon and his promise not to buy a car without his father examining it first. The family is horrified when they see (and hear) the car. Mike is angry that Greg bough the car without him examining it first, but Greg still believes what Eddie told him, and that it just needs a bit of work. He and his siblings set out to do it. The result impresses Mike – until Greg turns on the engine. He rewired the car incorrectly and now it is even worse. Greg finally realizes that he has been taken by Eddie. Mike tells Greg that he allowed Eddie to do it and gives him a talk about how salesmen operate and “caveat emptor” let the buyer beware. Greg tells Mike that he has learn his lesson. But not in the way Mike thinks – Greg means to sell the car to an even bigger sucker and let him do the “caveat emptoring”. So Greg tries to sell the car to another friend, Ronnie, by using the same tactics that Eddie used on him. When Carol and Mike come back home, they discover the car has gone and what Greg has been trying to do. When they confront Greg, he says he found he could not go through with it and let Ronnie off. As for the car, it literally fell to pieces on the way to the junkyard, where Greg sold it for $50. Afterwards, Carol gives the girls a lift to their ballet class. Greg begs for the keys to Mike’s car so he can make his sports practice. Mike agrees, thinking Carol can give him a lift to golf. When he finds Carol has gone, Alice gives him her bus pass.

EPISODE #5: MY SISTER, BENEDICT ARNOLD – Greg gets mad at Marcia, when she starts dating his rival football player Warren Mulaney. He tries to make her mad when he goes out with Marcia’s rival Kathy, who beat her in cheerleading tryouts. Greg comes home furious when he is replaced on the basketball team by Warren Mulaney. When he discovers Marcia is dating Warren, he hits the roof and demands that Marcia stop seeing him. When she refuses, Greg tries to get revenge and begins dating the woman who beat Marcia out in cheerleading. Meanwhile, the Bradys prepare a dunking booth for a carnival. Bobby, Peter and Alice are making a dunking booth for the school carnival. Then Greg comes home in a temper because the coach took him off the first-string basketball team and replaced him with Warren Mulaney. What makes Greg even more angry is that Warren also beat him for the position of student council president by making phony he did not keep. He says Warren got his place on the team by buttering up the coach but goofs off when the coach is not looking. Mike tries to reassure Greg that the coach will find out. Meanwhile, Marcia is all excited because a boy from high school asked her out on a date to the pizza parlor. And the boy is none other than Warren Mulaney. When Marcia finds out about how Greg feels about Warren, she realizes she is a quandary. She asks her mother for advice, she says it’s really Greg’s problem. But Marcia is still worried and with the help of Alice, tries to keep Greg and Warren apart when Warren comes over. But Greg sees Warren anyway and is furious. The intervention of Carol and Mike keeps things from getting ugly. When Marcia returns from her date she says that she did not find Warren all that great and she does not want to upset Greg any further by dating him. But before she can tell Greg, he tells her “Benedict Arnold” angrily tells her not to date Warren or there will be trouble. This rubs Marcia off the wrong way and she continues to date Warren to annoy Greg. Meanwhile, the dunking booth dubbed “Brady Booth” is finished and the younger kids are eagerly trying it out. Greg hits back at Marcia by dating the girl who beat her at cheerleading, Kathy Lawrence. When Jan tells Marcia, she is furious and takes the cunning tactic of not letting it bother her. When Kathy arrives, Marcia acts politely and friendly and concentrates on her homework with Warren. Greg tries to infuriate Marcia by having Kathy practice her cheerleading in earshot of Marcia, Marcia comes and makes snide remarks about the basketball team. This really angers Greg and he and Marcia go out to have an argument. The younger kids are enjoying the show through the window. But then the parents come home and ask what the attraction is. The kids tell them Greg and Marcia invited Warren and Kathy over for the purpose of bugging each other. The parents tell Marcia and Greg that they have not only been behaving badly but have used other people to do it and have been very selfish and unfair to them. Marcia and Greg realize what they have done and are sorry. Mike orders them to tell this to Kathy and Warren. Outside,  Alice is collecting towels off the dunking booth when she decides to try out the dunking machine. Just as she is about to do so, Greg and Marcia ask where Warren and Kathy are. Alice tells them that Kathy and Warren have hit it off and they have gone to the pizza parlor. Marcia and Greg are delighted for them, but still have to apologize. They go down to the pizza parlor to do so. When they are gone, Alice (accidentally) dunks herself, but enjoys it. The Bradys come home from a great carnival with goldfish, balloons and ot her prizes. Alice, who has her hands tucked under her coat, says her only prize was a pair of handcuffs. When the others are gone, Alice reveals the coat to reveal that her hands are locked in the cuffs.

EPISODE #6: THE PERSONALITY KID – Peter goes to a party and apparently someone there tells him that he’s dull and doesn’t have a personality. Convinced he doesn’t have a personality, Peter goes all out to try to get one. After imitating celebrities, Peter decides to try a funny personality in which he stocks up on jokes and plans to show his new personality off at a party. Meanwhile, Bobby and Cindy whip the house into shape after learning about fire safety at school, Cindy and Bobby have their parents and Alice checking all the electric sockets because they are having a safety drive at school. Then Peter comes home from a party looking miserable. A boy at the party said he had no personality and now Peter believes he is dull. He won’t listen to his parents when they try to boost his self-esteem. When Peter turns down another party invitation because he keeps calling himself dull, his parents have had enough. They tell him to stop moping and feeling sorry for himself and change his personality if he doesn’t like it. Peter turns to television and starts learning to impersonate celebrities. Meanwhile, Cindy and Bobby’s safety drive continues. Cindy gives Mike a whistle for a fire drill and they start practicing. At the first fire drill, Peter comes out dressed up as his first celebrity. Peter’s siblings laugh, so he decides to try again. He next impersonation is Humphrey Bogart. The parents are amused, but tell Peter that impersonating celebrities is not the answer, he should develop his own personality. Peter turns to his joke book and his jokes have his family laughing (?the kids have to be quietly prompted to do so). Peter gets so confident that he throws a party to show off his new joking personality. But at the party things go wrong when other kids keep stealing his punch lines. Peter is back to believing he is dull and he is moping at his own party. The girls notice and cluster all around him to comfort him. Then Bobby intervenes with another fire drill. Afterwards, Peter still believes he is dull. But now he likes being dull because it is making him the center of attention with the girls.

EPISODE #7: JULIET IS THE SUN – Marcia becomes egocentric when she lands the lead role in the school production of Romeo and Juliet starring opposite Harold. The rest of the family gets irritated and feel bad when Marcia wants to drop out. When Marcia gets the lead as Juliet in the school play, she’s not sure she can handle such an important part. But when the Bradys encourage her, she lets it go to her head which causes her to become unbearable at home and at school and plays which is the major reason why she is replaced by her understudy. Auditions are being held for Romeo and Juliet at school. Jan and Peter come home with the news that they are playing palace guards. Marcia auditioned for the role of the Nurse, so it’s a surprise when she is chosen to play Juliet. Marcia is upset and dismayed when she hears, because she does not have the confidence to play the role. Her parents and siblings come up with pep talk and other tactics to boost her confidence. It works and she accepts the role. But the family’s encouragement backfires when the role goes to Marcia’s head. She starts behaving arrogantly and snobbishly toward her siblings, which leads to quarrels and other problems that make her “too much” to live with. She is just as arrogant with Harold, the boy playing Romeo. (It does not help matters that Harold is a geeky boy who looks miscast as Romeo). When her parents help Marcia with her lines, she keeps altering them to suit herself. She refuses to listen when they say she cannot improve on Shakespeare. Finally, Marcia’s arrogant behavior ()combined with Harold’s clumsiness because he does not have his glasses) turns a rehearsal into a disaster. Miss Goodwin the drama teacher is forced to end it. Carol is watching from the wings and is dismayed. She and Miss Goodwin talk about the problem. Miss Goodwin says there’s not much time left to sort it out and they decide there is no option but to replace Marcia with her understudy. Marcia is naturally extremely upset when she hears, but Carol says it is her own fault because of the way she has been behaving,. Then Miss Goodwin phones with more bad news – the girl playing Lady Capulet has mumps. They need to find a replacement or the play will be canceled. Marcia overhears and humbly volunteers for the role. The family comes home thoroughly enjoying the play, despite Jan and Peter muddling their lines.