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If you look at the premise of Here Come the Brides
on paper, the whole series sounds rather bizarre:
three brothers head East to find 100 young women who
agree to move to untamed Seattle to marry the single
men in town. The potential brides have to remain in
Seattle for at least a year. If they don't, the
siblings could lose their family business. But this
show isn't set in a society where there's a
Starbucks on every corner. Rather, it takes place in
the late 19th century. Add some sassy dialogue and
throw in Bobby Sherman and David Soul as youngest
brother Jeremy and middle brother Joshua,
respectively, and voila! The show evokes charming
innocence, if not antiquated notions of how the
sexes should behave. The episode in which a visiting
Mormon bogarts four of the women for his own brides
isn't so much shocking as it is curious. Why aren't
the local men more worked up that this could cause
some of their own to be without brides?
The series, which lasted just two seasons, premiered
on television in 1968 and helped springboard Sherman
into a teen idol. The acting on the show by Sherman
and his cast mates at times is self-conscious and
stilted, but they share good chemistry and have fun
with the scripts. One of the better-thought-out
episodes aired early in the season. Jeremy's
stuttering is miraculously cured by a charismatic
magician (played by the late Jack Albertson, who ate
up the scenery with relish), who turns out to be
somewhat of a charlatan. The ending drives the point
home that Jeremy needed as much faith in himself as
he had in the magician. Like the series itself, yes,
the sentiment is predictable. But it still makes for
good TV. --Jae-Ha Kim
Product Description
Robert Brown, pop music superstar Bobby Sherman and
David Soul (TV's Starsky and Hutch) star in the
classic television series HERE COME THE BRIDES, a
delightful comedy that combines romance and
adventure in the rugged landscape of the
mid-nineteenth century Pacific Northwest.
The Bolt brothers own a mountain and logging camp in
Seattle, and as the area's only employer, the
brothers borrow money and head east to bring back a
shipload of lovely ladies to boost morale. But if
any of the women leave Seattle within a year, the
Bolts lose their mountain to the man that lent them
the money.
Also starring legendary actress Joan Blondell
(Grease, The Public Enemy), the complete first
season of HERE COME THE BRIDES is presented for the
first time ever - and is only available - on DVD.
