I loved this show when I was a kid. I think part of the reason is that it was so different from my own life. While I was totally happy with my own childhood, I must admit that living in a high rise in New York City seemed quite exotic to me. Sort of like the way I enjoyed reading stories of girls in boarding schools. I would never have wanted to do that myself but I did enjoy reading about something so foreign to my own way of life.
What about you? Were you ever enamored with something way outside your frame of reference? Even as an adult, I love the fact that a book, movie or television show can take me to a world I’ve never experienced.
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I LOVED this show!!! (Weird that there was never any explanation about the age gap between the siblings … but then, I had that in my family too, so it seemed familiar)
Also interesting that there were so many of these single parent family shows in an era now touted as the age of the ideal nuclear family …!
And yes, yes, yes. Take me away, Calgon, and Eddie's Father, and Lost in Space, and Sound of Music, and Emily of New Moon, and Book of Live Dolls, and anything at all by Madeleine L'Engle.
"I LOVED this show!!! (Weird that there was never any explanation about the age gap between the siblings … but then, I had that … See Morein my family too, so it seemed familiar)
Also interesting that there were so many of these single parent family shows in an era now touted as the age of the ideal nuclear family …!
And yes, yes, yes. Take me away, Calgon, and Eddie's Father, and Lost in Space, and Sound of Music, and Emily of New Moon, and Book of Live Dolls, and anything at all by Madeleine L'Engle."
I know it's just me, but I really didn't like that show. Just didn't resonate with me. However, like so many other American girls, I wanted to BE Marcia Brady. I absolutely LOVED the Brady Bunch, maybe because, as you said, it was so unlike my own life.
Stephanie: That's a good point about the single parent thing. The Partridge Family was another one of those.
Cherie: I loved the Brady Bunch, too, and yes, I wanted to be Marcia. These days I just wish I had an Alice.