Her Sister's Shadow

The Real Brady Bros

Wynnefield Productions

After Shows, Tv Reviews, Tv & Film

5 • 700 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Jan is tired of her teachers constantly comparing her to the popular and successful Marcia. She dumps Marcia's awards in the closet and complains that all she hears is "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia". Eventually, she is thrilled to establish her own successful identity by winning an Honor award for an essay she wrote. When she realizes there is a scoring error and she actually came second, Jan grapples with her conscience and considers keeping secret her discovery.

This week's episode: The Brady Bunch S3 E10 "The Liberation of Marcia Brady" originally aired November 19, 1971

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episodic breakdown here on our podcast. Now, this episode
0:19.9	is titled Her Sister's Shadow.
0:24.1	But for those of you that know what Marcia, Marcia, Marcia is,
0:29.3	I think you'll have a clue as to where we're headed.
0:33.1	I'm Barry Williams, and I'm Christopher Knight.
0:36.2	We are the real Brady.
0:40.5	Bros.
0:42.5	This was a treat to go back and revisit this after all the times we've heard that phrase Marsha, Marcia, Marsha.
0:48.8	I don't know about you, Chris, but when I meet somebody named Marcia, and I know they're Brady fan, I always apologize.
0:57.1	In their lives, hearing their name in Triplett.
1:00.1	You know, in this episode, just maybe it's because it's cliche, but boys and girls don't operate the same way.
1:07.6	This episode made it clear to me, you know, how early that begins.
1:12.5	Well, drama in a girl's life. You mean in the 70s. Okay, I'm going to assume that this is,
1:19.6	we've become the same over the last 50 years. So, yeah. Well, I don't know. Things seem to be
1:26.1	changing as far as I can tell. Anyway, I mentioned the title of the show, Her Sister Shadow,
1:30.8	which certainly makes sense, and does come up when we get there. It comes up in the Marshall, Martian, Martian scene.
1:37.0	But tell us about it. We're in season three. Episode 10 of season three, episode 59 of the entire series, first aired November 19th, 1971.
1:48.4	Created by Sherwood Schwartz, the executive producer, produced by Howard Leeds, written by Al Schwartz and Phil Leslie with a story by Al Schwartz and Ray Singer.
1:58.7	A very, very large billing card on screen for them.
2:03.2	I guess Al and Ray sat down and kind of came up with this idea of Sister Shadow,
2:09.6	you know, a middle child kind of story and developed some of the points.
2:14.5	But when it came to writing it for television, Al wrote it with Phil Leslie,
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