The Driver's Seat

The Real Brady Bros

Wynnefield Productions

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5 • 700 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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This week's episode: The Brady Bunch S5 E15 - "The Driver's Seat" originally aired January 11, 1974

After a nervous failure at her first driver's test, Marcia gets her license on her second try. A debate ensues with Greg over which gender has the better driving abilities. To put their argument to rest, Mike creates a driving course for them both to run. In the subplot, Jan is preparing for a crucial debate on her debate team. Nervous about presenting in front of people, Mike gives her the advice to picture them in their underwear.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to our show, our podcast for another dissection of an episode.
0:19.7	We hope you'll find special. I can tell you and promise you
0:22.7	this show that we are going to do today is something that really requires some perspective,
0:28.6	some distance. It needs to be, it needs to be shredded a little bit and taken apart. And we are
0:35.7	the two that are going to do that for you. I'm Barry Williams.
0:39.5	I'm Christopher Knight. And we are the real Brady Bros.
0:46.3	And I can't wait to do this episode. Oh, boy. This is a, it starts right off with a bang,
0:51.9	doesn't it? I mean, talk about the characters being developed.
0:55.7	Now, this is season five. So now the writers are starting to write us as real people with real ideas, with real intentions, and oops, what was appropriate then, maybe not so now.
1:07.6	Interesting that you say that, because in part, I'm thinking, you know, this episode has the earmarks of the episodes in the first season, especially those first, you know, 13, where they had a real strong idea of who each character was supposed to be, the youngest girl, you know, the oldest boy, because they etched the Greg character as the
1:30.8	perfect foil for well any woman out there you know the women's lib moment movement was i don't know
1:42.3	how you lived through this actually i mean maybe there's a side that you can share with us about how you took some grief from this show as Greg becomes sort of male chauvinist big.
1:54.2	I can shed light on how perspectives change over the years, that's for sure. Let's tell them what episode we're talking about here, Chris.
2:03.3	We are dealing today with the driver's seat from season five.
2:09.5	It was the 110th episode to be aired on January 11, 1974.
2:16.7	It was the 15th episode of season five. It was written by George
2:22.3	Tibbles, directed by Jack Arnold. And then this is in the fifth season. Sherwood is only credited
2:29.1	in the opening credits as created by Sherwood Schwartz. It is produced by Howard Leeds and Lloyd Schwartz on separate cards.
2:37.8	At the end of the show, though, on the fifth season, Sherwood Schwartz is credited as executive.
2:42.7	I do want to just mention to our listeners because I understand, I get that you don't know the titles of these episodes necessarily. This is the egg on the
2:53.9	pylon driving test, driving competition between Greg and Marcia, Marcia, Marcia.
3:01.5	You know, Barry, I'm going to add something here because I was under the impression like you
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