‘Here’s the story, of a lovely lady, who was bringing up three very lovely girls.” That’s the opening fragment of the theme song from “The Brady Bunch,” a sitcom that was, somehow, so much more than a sitcom.
The show, which ran from 1969-74 on ABC, offered a vision of America that left a lasting civilizational impression on the minds of young viewers, perhaps especially in the non-Western world. Watching reruns in India as a young boy, I formed some of my first clear ideas of America from “The Brady Bunch”—rose-tinted ideas, for sure, but also important ones.
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