[bgwfreak]

So I had heard for years that they had filmed one of the Brady Buch episodes at PKI, but never managed to see it.

My Tivo picked it up last night at 1:00 though! Sorry, I was going to post something earlier but kept forgetting.

At the time of the filming The Racer and Beastie were only 1year old (whatever Beastie was called then).

They had some great footage of the park in it's early days, PC's flyers (well they're ours now) were shown with a totally different color scheme. Red,white and blue. Not the normal blue and white flying eagles color scheme.

One thing I'm curious of, rcdb.com does not show another coaster in the park then but the "3".

However, in the footage you can see a small junior steel coaster somewhere in the general area of where Italian Job is now.

Does anyone know about this coaster, and what happened to it?

The show is really good from a historical standpoint. The footage of course is high quality for the period because it was Paramount filming it.

If you can catch it, I'd recommend checking it out.

How ironic that Paramount would become the owners of the park later in it's life.

[TheFluffyGun]

I heard about that tooo on a Biography show on The Brady Kids. I thought it was cool that they filmed there. I had no Idea that they had filmed there. They had stated that while they were on location they had a problem with Privacy. Apparently they had found out the hotel that they were staying at. Fans were all over the hotel. I have always wanted to watch that show. Are they going to run it again soon? I do have DVR and would like to catch it.

[swampfox43]

Marsha! Marsha! Marsha!

The small steel coaster was a Galaxi. It was actually located to Kings Island from <a href='http://rcdb.com/id736.htm' target='_blank'>Coney Ohio.</a>.

Kings Dominion also had <a href='http://rcdb.com/ig710.htm?picture=1' target='_blank'>one</a>.

The Partridge Family (kids show about a big family of musicians) also filmed an episode at Kings Island one season before the Brady Bunch. I remember watching these 2 episodes as a kid. Man, I was in roller coaster heaven!! I wanted to go there sooooo bad!!!

Both shows had lots of great footage. Definately worth a look if you like seeing old park footage. The funny scene in the Partridge Family was when they were riding the Racer and David Cassidy got sick and puked. That episode had some nice POV footage of the Racer.

I guess I will also point out that <a href='http://booksteveslibrary.blogspot.com/2006/01/dinah-at-kings-island.html' target='_blank'>Dinah Shore</a> filmed an episode at Kings Island in 1977. And last but not least, the movie "Fresh Horses" (1989) had a scene from Winterfest at Kings Island. Also some great footage of kids walking the tracks of the <a href='http://rcdb.com/ig322.htm?picture=2' target='_blank'>Screechin' Eagle</a> at nearby LeSourdsville Lake.