In 1966, following the success of his TV series Gilligan's Island, Sherwood Schwartz conceived the idea for The Brady Bunch after reading in The Los Angeles Times that "30% of marriages in the United States have a child or children from a previous marriage." He set to work on a pilot script for a series tentatively titled Mine and Yours.

The setting of the show is a large, suburban, two-story house designed by Mike in a Los Angeles suburb.

When Jan's teacher, Mrs. Watson, gushes over former pupil Marcia, it's the last straw for Jan who is sick and tired of being compared to her older, seemingly perfect sister. The plethora of Marcia's awards and trophies in their bedroom doesn't help matters. She dumps Marcia's awards in the closet and complains that all she hears is "Marcia this, Marcia that ... Marcia, Marcia, Marcia."

When the season 1 episode "Katchoo" was being filmed, the original Tiger was killed by a florist truck while crossing the street. A replacement dog was found, but due to its unpredictable behavior, the new Tiger disappeared from the series after the episode "What Goes Up..."

When Peter's wildly thrown football hits Marcia's nose, causing it to swell and bruise, the school's star football player cancels their date.

The Brady Bunch kitchen was an ode to the 1970s with orange laminate countertops and avocado green appliances. They even had a matching green and orange table and chairs.

After seeing Cinderella, Bobby believes that Carol, Marcia, Jan and Cindy hate him due to him being a "step" to them. He decides to run away from home, but Carol clears everything up by explaining that the only "steps" in the Brady house are on the stairs.

Marcia and her friends are the entertainment committee in charge of finding someone to perform at their senior prom. With two weeks until the prom, they come up with the idea of Davy Jones, who is in town to do some promotions. Marcia, president of his local fan club, is certain she can get him to appear, but getting in touch with him through his heavy security is more difficult than she imagined.

When Peter is cast as Benedict Arnold in "Everyone Can't Be George Washington", he can't take his classmates' teasing and schemes to get himself dismissed from the play.

When a talent agent signs Greg to become a rock star named "Johnny Bravo", he lets the fame go to his head, until he discovers that he was only signed because he "fit the suit."