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14. Kelly's Kids

This failed backdoor pilot attempt finds the Bradys' friends, the Kellys, adopting three ethnically diverse boys and dealing with an inhospitable neighbor.

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Ken ( Ken Berry ) and Kathy Kelly ( Brooke Bundy ), friends of Carol and Mike, plan to adopt a boy named Matt (Todd Lookinland, Mike Lookinland 's brother) from a local orphanage. By chance they also adopt Matt's two best friends: Dwayne (William Attmore II), an African American and Steve (Carey Wong), who is Asian, much to the chagrin of the Kelly family's bigoted neighbor Mrs. Payne ( Molly Dodd ). Notes: This is the only episode other than the pilot episode, "The Honeymoon", credited to Sherwood Schwartz. It is a backdoor pilot for a planned series that was never produced. Sherwood Schwartz used the concept for Together We Stand in 1986, which would later relaunch as Nothing Is Easy in 1987.

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