The Brady Bunch - Pilot Outline

Classic of all classics. Blended family shows are still all over the place and it seems like there's at least one sold every season, so why not honor the one that started it all with an outline. Plenty to learn from the simplicity and the balancing act going on in this script. We meet a lot of people but we get to know them well, and quickly. 

Written by Sherwood Schwartz

COLD OPEN

• Mike Brady is nervous at home before getting married. Breakfast with the three kids.
• Carol is at home with her 3 girls. Also nervous. Then mike calls.

 
 
ACT ONE

• The boys get ready. Head out for wedding with dog in car.
• Carol readies the wedding at her place. We meet her parents.
• The boys arrive.
• Carol and Mike get a minute of alone time. They are happy to be together and he says she’s pretty.
• Peaceful altar ceremony interrupted when the boys’ dog attacks the girls’ cat.
• It takes a few pages and devolves into total madness. The cake and ceremony are a mess.

 
ACT TWO

• they try to enjoy honeymoon but keeping thinking of the kids
• cut to the kids. But in their own areas, both upset that their parents yelled at them at te hwedding.
• Bunch of intercuts til the parents decide to leave the hotel and go back to the kids
• They wake up the kids and say they’re gonna take them along on the moon. Mike wakes up the girls.
• Carol wakes up the boys.
• The whole troop goes to the honeymoon hotel and parades past the snooty desk manager.
• The whole crew marches off.