Editing The Brady Bunch (section)

===Recurring characters===
* Sam Franklin ([[Allan Melvin]]) is Alice's boyfriend. He is the owner of a local [[butcher]] shop. Sam appears in only eight episodes, but they span all five seasons. He is also frequently mentioned in dialogue, and Alice occasionally goes on dates with him off-screen. By the time of the 1981 made-for-TV film ''The Brady Girls Get Married'', Alice and Sam are married.
* Tiger the dog&nbsp;— [[List of The Brady Bunch characters#The Bradys' pets|the original dog]] that played Tiger died early in the first season.<ref>{{cite book| title=Growing up Brady: I was a teenage Greg| first1=Barry| last1=Williams| first2=Chris| last2=Kreski| page=175| url=https://archive.org/details/growingupbradyiw00will/page/174/mode/2up?q=tiger| publisher=HarperPerennial| year=1992| isbn=978-0-0609-6588-4| access-date=March 20, 2022| url-access=registration}}</ref> A replacement dog proved problematic, so the producers decided the dog would appear only when essential to the plot. Tiger appeared in about half the episodes in the first season and about half a dozen episodes in the second season. Tiger seemingly vanished without an explanation and was not shown again after "The Impractical Joker" (last episode shown with Tiger) and "What Goes Up" (last episode made with Tiger); however, his doghouse remained in the back yard for the entire run of the series.
* Mr. Phillips ([[Jack Collins (actor)|Jack Collins]]) is Mike's boss at the architectural firm. He appears only in season two, in three episodes, but is often mentioned in other episodes when work-related issues occur.
* Cousin Oliver ([[Robbie Rist]])&nbsp;— in the middle of season five, producers added a new character named Oliver, Carol Brady's young nephew, who is sent to live with the Bradys while his parents are living in South America. The character was added in an attempt to fill the age gap left by the maturing Brady children&nbsp;— the youngest (Susan Olsen) was 12 years old during the show's final season. Lloyd Schwartz, son of creator and executive producer Sherwood Schwartz, later admitted that the character threw off the balance of the show. Fans disliked the character of Oliver, regarding him as an interloper. Oliver appears in the final six episodes of season five, which proved to be the final season, as ABC cancelled the series in 1974. The addition of the character has been cited as the moment the series "[[Jumping the shark|jumped the shark]]".{{sfn|Schwartz|Schwartz|2010|page=201}} The term "Cousin Oliver" has been used to describe the addition of a young character as an attempt to save a series from cancellation.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ariano |first1=Tara |title=Television Without Pity: 752 Things We Love to Hate (And Hate to Love) About TV |last2=Bunting |first2=Sarah D. |publisher=Quirk Books |year=2006 |isbn=1-59474-117-4 |page=63}}</ref>