Season 4 (1972–1973)
23 episodes
| # | Airdate | Prod. Code | Title | Overview |
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| 73 | Friday, September 22, 1972 | 073 | Hawaii Bound | Mike is sent to Hawaii to check on a
construction project, and his firm allows
him to take his whole family and Alice
along. There, Bobby discovers an ancient
tiki which seems to bring bad luck ...
starting with Greg getting into a serious
surfing accident.
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| 74 | Friday, September 29, 1972 | 074 | Pass the Tabu | The tiki continues to bring bad luck to
the family. The boys learn the idol is tabu
and must discard it at an ancient burial
ground.
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| 75 | Friday, October 6, 1972 | 075 | The Tiki Caves | An archaeologist, believing the boys
have come to steal his latest "find," holds
them captive on the burial grounds. After
the girls reveal their siblings'
whereabouts, Mike rescues his sons, then
convinces the professor that they have no
intention of claiming credit for finding the
burial grounds. A Hawaiian party wraps up
the Bradys' latest vacation.
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| 76 | Friday, October 13, 1972 | 076 | Today, I Am a Freshman | Marcia is overly anxious about her freshman year of high school. After she stays home from school with a bout of "new school-itis" (since most of her friends are attending a different school), Mike asks Greg to introduce his sister around school. However, Marcia – still nervous about her freshman year – tells his friends she's looking forward to "the intellectual stimulation" of high school. Later, she decides to join every club at school ... including the Boosters, a club of stuck-up girls who adhere to strict social rules. When Marcia invites the Boosters over for her interview, Peter – who in the subplot had been working on a model volcano – finally manages to get his science project to work. |
| 77 | Friday, October 20, 1972 | 077 | Cyrano de Brady | Peter has a crush on a pretty classmate named Kerry (played by Kym Karath, who portrayed Gretl in the Academy Award winning film, "The Sound of Music"), but has no idea how to break the ice with her and enlists Greg's help. The end result: Kerry's mistaken conclusion that Greg is the one who wants to go out with her. Greg enlists Marcia's help in convincing Kerry that he is a playboy. However, Peter sees through the ruse and wins Kerry's love as a result. |
| 78 | Friday, October 27, 1972 | 078 | Fright Night | The boys' and girls' compete to scare each other, then team up to scare Alice. In the subplot Carol makes a sculpture of Mike's head. The stories come together when the boys and girls attempt to scare Alice and cause her to break the sculpture so that the parents (Robert Reed/Florence Henderson) would think it was a real man (Alice) |
| 79 | Friday, November 3, 1972 | 082 | The Show Must Go On?? | Greg and Marcia each enlist their parents to perform with them in the Westdale High School's talent revue. In the subplot Alice and Sam have a fight and break up but get back together and attend high school talent night together. |
| 80 | Friday, November 10, 1972 | 081 | Jan, the Only Child | Jan complains about the lack of privacy and personal space, and declares she wants to become an only child. Eventually, her siblings become so annoyed that they grant her wish by ignoring her and staying out of her way. In the subplot the Bradys plan to squaredance at a Hoedown party, while Alice and Carol both compete by making strawberry preserves for the dance. |
| 81 | Friday, November 17, 1972 | 079 | Career Fever | In this episode about career exploration, Mike mistakenly believes Greg wants to follow in his father's footsteps to become an architect. Also, Peter and Jan want go into the medical profession and borrow large medical encyclopedias from the library. While reading one of the giant volumes, Peter mistakenly concludes that he has contracted a rare disease, thanks to his failing to notice that two pages had become stuck together (he had only developed a rash). |
| 82 | Friday, November 24, 1972 | 084 | Goodbye, Alice, Hello | A series of misunderstandings leads
Alice to believe she has irreparably
breached the kids' trust, prompting her
resignation. Her replacement is Kay, a
friend of Alice's, who is unemployed.
Eventually, the kids, with help from Kay,
track down Alice at a restaurant she now
works at and convince her to return home.
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| 83 | Friday, December 8, 1972 | 087 | Greg's Triangle | Greg, chairman of his school's
cheerleading committee, must decide whether
to choose his girlfriend, Jennifer – who has
been dating him to cajole him into voting
for her – or his sister, Marcia. In the end,
Greg chooses a third girl who was the most
talented. Marcia is gracious in defeat and
acknowledges the other girl was better than
her, while Jennifer dumps Greg. In the
subplot Carol takes up golf.
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| 84 | Friday, December 22, 1972 | 086 | Everyone Can't Be George Washington | When Peter is cast as Benedict Arnold in a school play about George Washington, he decides to get himself kicked out. |
| 85 | Friday, January 5, 1973 | 085 | Love and the Older Man | Marcia develops a crush on the family dentist, and mistakenly concludes that a favor he plans to ask of her is to date him (he had wanted her to baby-sit for his son so he could take his wife out for an evening on the town). In the subplot, Greg, Peter, and Bobby build a motor go cart. |
| 86 | Friday, January 12, 1973 | 080 | Law and Disorder | Bobby learns about power, discretion and responsibility when he is named safety monitor at his school. In the subplot the Bradys restore an old dilapidated sailboat called the "SS Brady". |
| 87 | Friday, January 19, 1973 | 090 | Greg Gets Grounded | Mike and Carol prohibit Greg from
driving the family car after Bobby described
Greg getting into a near accident, leading
Greg to borrow a car from a friend to get
tickets to a rock concert. When Greg – who
interprets the directive as meaning just the
family's cars are off limits — borrows a
friend's car to get rock concert tickets,
Mike and Carol put their foot down and
restrict Greg to the house. Greg manages to
negotiate his way out of the punishment,
insisting that the ambiguity of Mike's
punishment left the driving restriction
unclear, leading to an "exact words"
agreement. Greg eventually misses the rock
concert, since he had to take Peter and
Bobby (per an earlier agreement) to a
frog-jumping contest. The frogs wreak havoc
later when Greg takes on-again, off-again
girlfriend Rachel to a drive-in movie.
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| 88 | Friday, January 26, 1973 | 093 | Amateur Nite | The kids appear on a television talent
show to raise funds for Mike and Carol's
anniversary gift. This was the result of
Jan's misunderstanding the price for the
engraving of a tray the kids had intended to
give their parents (it was 85 cents per
letter, not for the entire engraving).
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| 89 | Friday, February 2, 1973 | 088 | Bobby's Hero | When they learn Bobby's hero is Jesse
James, Mike and Carol set out to teach him
the truth about the outlaw. When books and
heavily-edited television movies fail to
make an impression, Mike tracks down a
relative of one of James' victims to share
his story with Bobby. That, plus a nightmare
about James killing the Bradys during a
train robbery, finally get through to Bobby.
In the subplot, Mike is preparing a speech
for a work function.
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| 90 | Friday, February 9, 1973 | 091 | The Subject Was Noses | The classic "Ooh, my nose!" episode.
Marcia, wanting to date the school hunk
instead of the nice but unspectaular son of
a wallpaper salesman, breaks her date.
Peter's errantly thrown football causes
Marcia's nose to swell and her dream date
with Doug Simpson (played by Nicholas
Hammond, who portrayed Freidrich in the
Academy Award winning film, "The Sound of
Music") to unravel. In the subplot, Mike and
Carol paint their bedroom with help from the
kids.
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| 91 | Friday, February 23, 1973 | 092 | How to Succeed in Business? | Peter gets his first job as a bicycle
repairman. He fails to even finish his first
repair job over three days. He unwittingly
annoys his boss, Mr. Martinelli, (even
accidentally squirting him with oil). Peter
is totally unaware that his performance is
not even mediocre. He even tells his family
he may even be promoted. At the end of his
third day at work, his boss fires him for
his plodding workrate, but stating that he
is a "very nice boy" but he just isn't
"mechanically inclined". Mike & Carol
misinterpreted Peter's talk of how work was
going earlier that day and believe he is
indeed being promoted to bike salesman and
gives him a party and cake. Peter than
suppresses the truth from his family, until
Mike and Carol visit the shop to purchase
bicycles. At that time Mr. Martinelli tells
them that Peter is a nice boy but not cut
out for repairing bikes. Mike and Carole
then console Peter, telling him his firm has
been fired many times by contractors. Then
they give him a check from Mr. Martinelli
for commission for the two bikes they
bought.
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| 92 | Friday, March 2, 1973 | 089 | The Great Earring Caper | Cindy loses the earrings Carol loaned to Marcia, and enlists budding detective Peter to help search for the missing jewelry before Marcia ... or Carol (who wants them for a costume party, which is the subplot) find out. |
| 93 | Friday, March 9, 1973 | 094 | You're Never Too Old | The kids set up their maternal
great-grandmother and paternal
great-grandfather to get together. After
some problems the two get married.
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| 94 | Friday, March 16, 1973 | 083 | You Can't Win Them All | Bobby and Cindy vie for a spot on a
children's television quiz show. Cindy earns
her spot, and gains a huge ego as a result.
In the subplot Mike and Carol plan a dinner
party which was originally going to be a
barbecue, then Mexican food, then a
smorgasbord, changing dates on several
occasions. They never did resolve a date for
this dinner party.
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| 95 | Friday, March 23, 1973 | 095 | A Room at the Top | Greg and Marcia each want to convert the newly cleaned-out attic into their own room. |