Task: Question Answering
Input (English): Context: The Brady Kids is an animated television series , produced by Filmation in association with Paramount Television and seen on ABC from 1972 to 1973 . It was an animated spin - off based on ABC 's live action sitcom , The Brady Bunch and spun off another Filmation series , Mission : Magic ! , starring rock star Rick Springfield . The series is distributed by CBS Television Distribution ., Paramount Television is an American television production/distribution company that was active from 1967 until 2006 and revived in 2013. Most of this time it served as the television arm of the Paramount Pictures film studio. Its predecessor is Desilu Productions., Desilu Productions was an American television production company co-owned by husband and wife Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball, best known for shows such as "I Love Lucy", "", and "The Untouchables". Until 1962, Desilu was the second-largest independent television production company in the U.S. behind MCA's Revue Productions until MCA bought Universal Pictures, and Desilu became and remained the number-one independent production company until being sold in 1967. Ball and Arnaz jointly owned the majority stake in Desilu from its inception until 1962, when Ball bought Arnaz out and ran the company by herself for several years. Ball had succeeded in making Desilu profitable again by 1967, when she sold her shares of Desilu to Gulf+Western / Paramount Studios for $17 million. After the sale, company officials renamed it Paramount Television., Filmation Associates was a production company that produced animation and live-action programming for television from 1963 to 1989. Located in Reseda, California, the animation studio was founded in 1962. Filmation's founders and principal producers were Lou Scheimer, Hal Sutherland and Norm Prescott., Norman "Norm" Prescott (January 31, 1927  July 2, 2005) was co-founder and executive producer at Filmation Associates, an animation studio he created with veteran animator Lou Scheimer. Born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, his real name was Norman Pransky. His father Edward was a tailor and a shirt-maker., Subject: the brady kids, Relation: director, Options: (A) desi arnaz (B) hal sutherland (C) lou scheimer
Output (English): hal sutherland