The Mother/wife.
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blynnpatton — 15 years ago(July 31, 2010 03:05 PM)
They briefly mention the boys' mother in one episode of the Brady Bunch. I believe it might have been the pilot or one soon after that. Bobby thinks he want be allowed to have a picture of his real mother out on his dresser.
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blynnpatton — 15 years ago(August 07, 2010 04:13 PM)
I was just saying that they didn't completely ignore the fact that the boys or girls, at one time, had other parents. There is also the episode where Bobby wants to run away. He thinks Carol doesn't love his as much because he is her stepson. Then there was the episode where the kids see the column in the paper about the family who is struggling because each parent had 3 kids from a previous marriage. They think one of their parents wrote it. The song also implies that they are a blended family. They might not have talked about the deceased parents, but the implication was always there.
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dhdodge — 13 years ago(May 05, 2012 11:55 PM)
We also didn't hear much or anything about what happened to the mother/wife in The Andy Griffith Show, which started ten years earlier. It's clear that she died, but how it happened and how Andy and Opie felt about her loss wasn't addressed. I agree, the writers must have thought it was too depressing to mention in a half-hour comedy show.
Some episodes of The Andy Griffith Show did have a melancholy mood, however, particularly in scenes with Andy and Opie alone together on the front porch. I'm surprised their memories of her weren't written into the script, at least not that I can recall.
Anyone remember if the wife/mother on The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1969-1972) was ever mentioned? Perhaps there was an unwritten rule at the time that death generally shouldn't be talked about in comedy shows.
There was an episode of Room 222 (1969) in which a boy with leukemia dies after we've gotten a chance to appreciate his brave fight for life. Room 222 was perhaps more a drama than a comedy, but I recall this character's death as absolutely shocking to me (I was about eight years old). -
ghostfan — 13 years ago(June 06, 2012 06:43 PM)
Actually in the pilot episode, the professor does mention his wife - their mother to his eldest son.
But you're right - for the most part, all the shows you mentioned - and others that have a widowed parent don't mention the dead husband or wife because the shows are comedies - it's more about learning to move forward and go on - but it isn't realistic in the ultimate scheme of things!
There was an episode of Family Affair where Jody gets what everyone thinks is a crush on his teacher - at the end, their older sister quietly brings it up that the teacher (played by June Lockhart) bears a striking resembelence to Jody's dead mother. It was a very touching episode, as I remember, but why Uncle Bill didn't figure it out the minute the teacher walked into his apartment is beyond me! -
Countryford — 11 years ago(May 22, 2014 08:05 AM)
In Make Room for Daddy, the mom ends up dying. I believe there is a season that Danny is single, but at the end of that season he ends up remarrying. For the remainder of the series he is married to his second wife(she had a daughter) and I'm not sure if the first wife was mentioned again.
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SoapWatch — 11 years ago(March 30, 2015 06:56 AM)
Obviously, the mother of the Nanny kids was a natural bright colored blond since all the kids have blond hair to where the father has jet black hair.
Fits in completely with the whole opposites attract theory which may be why they specifically chose blond actors for the kids.
The Brady Bunch did the opposite choosing kids to look like the parent we saw them with onscreen to the point of even dying the youngest boy's hair, when he was a blond in real life.