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Weekend Viewing: The Brady Brides on The Newlywed Game

This falls into the category of “yes, this show really existed.” After ABC did a successful made-for-TV movie where Jan and Marcia Brady both got married (not to each other), the network greenlit a spinoff where Marcia, Jan and their wussy husbands all have to share one house to save money. Shot before a live audience and full of cutesy innuendo, it was like a bad late ’60s sitcom had a bastard child with a bad early ’80s sitcom. Eve Plumb and Maureen McCormick looked good, though. In this episode, creator/showrunner Sherwood Schwartz goes back to that old sitcom standby, “characters appear on a popular gameshow,” with disastrous results! Oh, and with special guest star Bob Eubanks, host of The Newlywed Game.

Jaime Has So Many News Links Instead of Original Content, They Replaced Him With a _______

It was inevitable, wasn’t it? After they revived Password and announced plans for new versions of Celebrity Family Feud and The Something-or-other-Dollar Pyramid, I thought: “When are they gonna revive Match Game?” Well, now, that’s when. TBS is shooting a Match Game pilot with Andrew Daly as the host, Sarah Silverman and Norm MacDonald and two familiar Canadian entertainers (Scott Thompson from Kids in the Hall and “Super” Dave Osborne) among the panelists, and Robert Smigel as the executive producer.