- #GILLIGAN ISLAND SEVEN DEADLY SINS SHERWOOD SCHWARTZ MOVIE#
- #GILLIGAN ISLAND SEVEN DEADLY SINS SHERWOOD SCHWARTZ TV#
14, 1916, in Passaic, N.J., Schwartz received a bachelor's degree from New York University and was working on his master's degree in biological sciences at USC in 1939 when he unexpectedly abandoned his plan of becoming a doctor.Īt the time, he was living with his older brother, Al, a comedy writer for "The Bob Hope Show," then in its first year on radio. We write and produce for people, not for critics."īorn on Nov. "I honestly think I could sit down and write a show tonight that the critics would love, and I know it would be canceled within four weeks," Schwartz said in a 1990 interview with The Times. Schwartz, who practically made a career out of the two shows, put little stock in what the critics had to say about his creations.
#GILLIGAN ISLAND SEVEN DEADLY SINS SHERWOOD SCHWARTZ TV#
"Gilligan's Island" likewise continued to air in reruns around the world and spawned two animated series, three TV movies and a 1992 stage musical, "Gilligan: The Musical," for which Schwartz and his collaborator son, Lloyd, wrote the book. There was even a stage production in the early 1990s, "The Real Live Brady Bunch," which re-created episodes word-for-word, as well as "The Brady Bunch Movie" (1995), a hit spoof starring Shelley Long and Gary Cole that was followed by "A Very Brady Sequel" with Long and Cole (1996) and "The Brady Bunch in the White House," a 2002 TV movie.
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"The Brady Bunch" also begat a 1972-74 Saturday morning animated series ("The Brady Kids"), a 1977 comedy-variety series ("The Brady Bunch Hour"), a 1981 TV movie ("The Brady Girls Get Married"), a 1981 sitcom ("The Brady Brides"), a 1988 TV movie ("A Very Brady Christmas") and a 1990 hourlong dramatic series ("The Bradys.") But the idyllic suburban tale of Marcia, Jan, Cindy, Greg, Peter, Bobby, Mike, Carol and Alice took on a life of its own in endless syndicated reruns around the world, watched by succeeding generations. Like "Gilligan's Island," "The Brady Bunch" was dismissed by the critics, and it never did as well as Schwartz's gang of castaways in the ratings. The Brady kids were played by Maureen McCormick, Barry Williams, Eve Plumb, Susan Olsen, Christopher Knight and Mike Lookinland.
The series, starring Robert Reed and Florence Henderson as Mike and Carol Brady, aired on ABC from 1969 to 1974. The story of the marriage between a "lovely lady" with three daughters and "a man named Brady" with three sons, "The Brady Bunch" became TV's first sitcom to feature a blended family. Here are the same men who are forever saying: 'For heaven's sake, won't somebody give us something other than the wife and the husband and the two children?' "įour years later, Schwartz served up his own version of that television staple: the family sitcom. In a 1965 TV Guide interview, Schwartz said he was not disheartened by the negative reviews - "only a bit angry with the lack of understanding of what was being attempted. It is "quite possibly the most preposterous situation comedy of the season," wrote Jack Gould of the New York Times.īut the show's very preposterousness struck a chord with millions of viewers.įor all its crude sight gags, low-brow humor and pratfalls, Schwartz viewed "Gilligan's Island" as something more: It is, he proclaimed, "my version of a social microcosm, where seven people from various backgrounds had to learn to live together."
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