On The Brady Bunch, did Carol really say sexual double entendres to Mike in bed?

[Don_Draper]

@Ranger_Jeff

You should remember that “The Brady Bunch” broke tv barriers when it was the FIRST series on television that portrayed a man and a woman who were married to each other sharing a bed. Before that, all married couples slept in twin beds a night stand’s width apart. And they had 6 kids sharing a bathroom that had no toilet in it.

So I doubt if on the tv show there was much sexy talk or innuendo between Mike and Carol.

Ironically enough, actor Robert (Mike Brady) Reed was gay, though very closeted. I don’t hink he ever came right out and told Florence Henderson he was gay, but she did catch on. She has said in interviews that Reed was INCREDIBLY uncomfortable during those ‘snuggly’ moments.

[Lamia]

@Ranger_Jeff

You should remember that “The Brady Bunch” broke tv barriers when it was the FIRST series on television that portrayed a man and a woman who were married to each other sharing a bed. Before that, all married couples slept in twin beds a night stand’s width apart.

According to Snopes, the first TV series to show a married couple sharing a bed was Mary Kay and Johnny was back in the 1940s. Ozzie and Harriet also shared a bed, as did Fred and Wilma Flintstone and Herman and Lily Munster. Lucy and Ricky Ricardo did sleep in twin beds, but they were pushed together.

It may be that The Brady Bunch showed Mike and Carol in bed together more frequently than these other shows, though. It’s my recollection that they were often shown talking in bed.

@Lobot

That honour goes to Bewitched.

ETA: At least when it comes to two actors who weren’t married IRL.

Excluding real-life married couples rules out most of the above, but The Flintstones premiered several years before Bewitched (although they were just cartoons) and The Munsters premiered the same year as Bewitched. But since the runs of these series overlapped, I don’t know which was actually the first to broadcast an episode showing a couple in the same bed.