Episode
The Brady Bunch: Mail Order Hero
Overview
Joe Nameth guest stars as himself in this episode where Bobby lies to his friends when he tells them that he knows Joe Nameth. This leads Cindy to make up a bogus letter stating that Bobby is dying and his last wish is to meet the football star.
Details
- Series
- The Brady Bunch
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 1973-09-21
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
Mail Order Hero is Episode 2 in Season 5 of The Brady Bunch. It aired on 1973-09-21. The runtime is 25 min.
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Episode 1: Adios, Johnny Bravo
As the Bradys are auditioning for a TV amateur show, a musical agent spies Greg and offers him the chance of becoming a solo star. This begins to worry Mike and Carol who hoped he would go onto college and angers his siblings for deserting them, since they were a group.
Episode 3: Snow White and the Seven Bradys
To get enough money for a retirement gift for a teacher, the Brady family puts on a production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, but a mistake in dates threatens the performance when the Bradys have no theatre to put it on.
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Episode 4: Never Too Young
After Bobby defends Millicent at school she rewards him with a kiss and he immediately sees sky rockets. This leads him to try to kiss her again but after seeing those sky rockets again, she delivers the news that she may have the mumps.
Episode 5: Peter and the Wolf
Greg has finally landed a date with Sandra but he will only be able to go out with her if he can get a date for her visiting cousin, Linda. He turns to the last resort, he gets Peter to wear a fake mustache and act as if he were an older man.
Episode 6: Getting Greg's Goat
Greg becomes the person who has to house Raquel, a goat who happens to be the rival school's mascot, after him and his teammates swipe her in retaliation after the other team swiped their mascot. Things get out of control when Raquel proves to be hard to handle, easy to feed and not easy to catch.
Episode 7: Marcia Gets Creamed
Marcia's got a new job working after school at a ice cream parlor. With both school and work, Marcia has little time for her boyfriend who, fed up comes into the parlor with another girl. Meanwhile, Marcia suggests Peter for a job but when he goofs off she is the one who fires him.
Episode 8: My Brother's Keeper
After Bobby pushes Peter out of the way of a falling ladder, Peter volunteers to be Bobby's ""slave for life."" However, Bobby begins to take advantage of the situation which yet again leads to discord in the Brady household.
Episode 9: Quarterback Sneak
Marcia becomes involved with Jerry Rogers, a quarterback for the Fairview team. Greg immediately tells Marcia the only reason he's dating her is to get his playbook, a notion Marcia scoffs at, but no one is scoffing when he actually does swipe the playbook.
Episode 10: Try, Try Again
Jan becomes convinced she is a "no talent loser" after she fails to make it into a ballet recital which follows with her totally dropping out of ballet and on to tap dancing which totally drives the Brady family crazy.
Episode 11: The Cincinnati Kids
Mike has to present some plans for an addition at King's Island, an amusement park in Cincinnati, so he invites the whole family along but when a mix-up occurs Mike is left with a Yogi Bear poster while Jan is left with Mike's plans which she loses on one of the many rides in the park.
Episode 12: The Elopement
Marcia and Jan mistakenly overhear Sam and Alice discussing elopement and jump to the conclusion that Sam and Alice are secretly planning to. This leads the Brady family to begin planning a wedding reception.
Episode 13: Miss Popularity
Surprisingly the ""once no talent,"" Jan is competing in a popularity contest at school. With Peter as her campaign manager and the rest of the family pitching in, she's got a great chance of winning. However, she quickly finds herself making promises to her classmates that she can't possibly keep.