What was it like working with Barbara Eden on the Harper Valley PTA show?
Barbara Eden is a wonderful lady, I just came in as a favor to Universal, cause I was doing The Brady Brides at the same time, but I really didn’t want to do this other one. they were floundering around. They wanted me to do it. that was how I met her, the performers were very good, it was kind of a dead end show, but I didn’t know where it was going to go. How was the experience of making Big John Little John for Saturday mornings? Same approach, just aim for simpler dialogue (And with yet another theme song that told the whole story, CLICK HERE to watch a rare video clip of the show’s intro) Was Cousin Oliver your idea, or was that just thrown at you by the studios? I was against Oliver, no reason to bring in another kid, the guy in charge of Paramount insisted on a younger kid getting brought in, because the kids had outgrown the appeal. There’s an episode called “Kelly’s Kids” that barely has The Brady Kids in it, and has a neighbor with an adopted Hispanic, Asian, and black kid th
