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It's fitting that the two most popular sweeps-TV topics today are mythology (Jason and the Argonauts, Arabian Nights) and classic television. For TV is the closest thing to our own mythology, a tradition of shared tales reflecting our values. Yea, just as chaos doth follow when gods lie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Tale Told By An Idiot Box | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

Take NBC's Growing Up Brady (May 21, 9 p.m. E.T.). Based on the memoir by Barry ("Greg") Williams, it's a dishy, winking candy valentine that focuses on how much action Williams got from his screen sister, Maureen ("Marcia") McCormick. But at heart it's really about how darn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Tale Told By An Idiot Box | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

Mum is going mad, Da is a drunk, and what's worse, 12-year-old Francie Brady (played by the remarkable Eamonn Owens) lives in a provincial town in Ireland in the early '60s. That means neighbors who are either dim or actively disapproving as the Bradys fall further and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Childhood Nightmares | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

MOM ALWAYS SAID... Yeah, it's a story all right. A story of a boy named MIKE LOOKINLAND who, after playing Bobby Brady, had to learn to cope with both his strange, pseudo fame and a less-than-stellar emergence from puberty. Lookinland, 36--who on the short-lived 1990...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 24, 1997 | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

COLOR PHOTO: ALAN LEVENSON FOR TIME ONE MIND, TWO CLASSICS: Schwartz gave us the Bradys and seven castaways [Sherwood Schwartz sitting cross-legged in front of palm tree]

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE INVENTOR OF BAD TV | 3/13/1995 | See Source »

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