| "It's All Greek to Me" | |
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| Series The Brady Kids Season 1, Episode 13 | |
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| Air date | December 2nd, 1972 |
| Writers | Marc Richards |
| Director | Hal Sutherland |
| Producers | Norm Prescott; Lou Scheimer |
| Starring | Barry Williams; Maureen McCormick; Christopher Knight; Eve Plumb; Michael Lookinland; Susan Olsen; Jane Webb; Larry Storch |
| Episode guide | |
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"It's All Greek to Me" is the thirteenth episode of season one of The Brady Kids animated television series. It was directed by Hal Sutherland with a script written by Marc Richards. It first aired on ABC on Saturday, December 2nd, 1972.
Plot[]
Jan Brady wants to buff up her intellect for the television game show Brains vs. Brawn. She goes to the local university where she inquires with Diana Prince - the administrative assistant of the Mathematics Department. Diana excuses herself after hearing a radio broadcast about a Coast Guard emergency. She changes into Wonder Woman and swims across the ocean where she rescues a ship that had crashed on some rocks. She tows it back to shore with her Lasso of Truth.
Returning to the university, Wonder Woman changes back into Diana Prince and meets with Jan, who is now accompanied by her siblings. While trying to answer the kids' inquiries as to the importance of brains over brawn, Marlon the Mynah accidentally uses his magic to transport them all to ancient Greece. The group meets the Greek mathematician Euclid.
While Euclid promotes the value of a strong analytical mind, his pompous contemporary Chuckonis Ospro believes that physical discipline is more important. Chuckonis has the Brady kids try their hand at various sporting events, including track and field and pole vaulting. Diana is not impressed with Chuckonis' bragging, and decides that she might have to teach him a lesson as Wonder Woman.
The Brady Kids are coaxed into entering a competitive race against Chuckonis. Taking the lead during the race, Chuckonis cheats by applying a sticky substance on the track, which slows Greg and Marcia down. He also cheats in the discus competition by tying a tight string on Peter Brady's discus. Chuckonis cheats again by changing the route markers during the Marathon race. Wonder Woman witnesses this, and switches them back. As such, Chuckonis tires himself out, and cannot complete the race.
Throughout the course of all of this, Wonder Woman has also been acting to preserve history and preventing any actions that might cause changes, such as the pandas erecting a Trojan Panda rather than a Trojan horse. Marlon likewise flies around, acknowledging that history must be preserved. The Brady Kids and Diana Prince discover a magic spell that when translated, sends them back to their proper place and time.
Cast[]
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Barry Williams | Greg Brady |
| Maureen McCormick | Marcia Brady |
| Christopher Knight | Peter Brady |
| Eve Plumb | Jan Brady |
| Michael Lookinland | Bobby Brady |
| Susan Olsen | Cindy Brady |
| Jane Webb | Wonder Woman, Diana Prince |
| Larry Storch | Marlon/Euclid/Chuckonis Ospro |
Notes & Trivia[]
- The opening and closing credits of the show shows the live-action thumbnails of the actors as seen on The Brady Bunch television series.
- The feature song is called "In No Hurry" and is performed by the Brady Bunch, courtesy of Paramount Records.
- Actor Mike Lookinland is credited as Michael Lookinland in this episode.
- The name of the TV game show the kids are watching in the beginning is called "Brains vs. Brawn".
- This is the first television appearance of the DC Comics character Wonder Woman, aka Princess Diana, aka Diana Prince.
- This is not the first time that the Brady Kids encountered DC Comics super-heroes. In episode 1x05, "Cindy's Super Friend", the kids met Superman and Lois Lane.
- Actor Mike Lookinland will go on to appear in another DC Comics property. He will play Tom Anderson in the "To Find a Friend" episode of The Secrets of Isis in 1975.
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Quotes[]
- Wonder Woman: This is a job for... Wonder Woman.