What happened to Mr. Brady's wife?

She was sleeping with the milkman and died mid bj.

Actually, I'd like to know what happened to Carol's husband.   If I remember correctly Mr. Brady was a widow and Carol was divorced.  Why no visitation rights?

Was he just a dead beat dad?  That the daughters never cared if they saw him again, dropped his last name and then moved on to live a superficial life as a Brady kid?  

Posers...

Maybe she died of embarrassment when she found out he was gay...not that there's anything wrong with that.

Quoting kb714:

Actually, I'd like to know what happened to Carol's husband.   If I remember correctly Mr. Brady was a widow and Carol was divorced.  Why no visitation rights?

Was he just a dead beat dad?  That the daughters never cared if they saw him again, dropped his last name and then moved on to live a superficial life as a Brady kid?  

Poser's...

 

 

She must have sued for child support. How else could they support all those kids and the maid and everything on an architect's salary? Not to mention Oliver.

It's kind of scary this even exists: 

http://www.bradyworld.com/cover/faq.htm

Q. What ever happened to Mike and Carol's first spouses, the children's other biological parents?
A. We learn in the first episode that Mike's wife passed away. However, the absence of Carol's first husband remains a mystery. Sherwood Schwartz, the creator of the show, wanted her to be divorced. The network wanted her to be a widow, thought being divorced was too risque for the times. The compromise was that it was never addressed one way or the other.

Quoting roachiesmom:

 

It's kind of scary this even exists: 

http://www.bradyworld.com/cover/faq.htm

Q. What ever happened to Mike and Carol's first spouses, the children's other biological parents?
A. We learn in the first episode that Mike's wife passed away. However, the absence of Carol's first husband remains a mystery. Sherwood Schwartz, the creator of the show, wanted her to be divorced. The network wanted her to be a widow, thought being divorced was too risque for the times. The compromise was that it was never addressed one way or the other.

But what was the cause of death? "Accidental" cyanide ingestion perhaps?

 Not to mention Oliver.

Oh that's right! OLIVER... can't forget about that little pest.  I see your suspicion about Mr. Brady's first wife...   I have to agree that maybe something happened to her after she found out her husband was gay.   Not that there is anything wrong with that in today's society of course, but back then.. TABOO TABOOOO!

Perhaps, and this is just my theory, that the first Mrs. Brady died in childbirth of the elusive 7th Brady that nobody talks about.

As for Carol's husband, didn't y'all see the movies? He was "lost" at sea while trying to bring back that horse statue. He was some kind of pirate or something.

My theory is that the ex's ran off together and then were lost at sea. Problem soved.