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“The Brady Bunch” star Christopher Knight revealed that he has a bone to choose with the present.
Throughout a current episode of “The Real Brady Bros” podcast, which Knight, 67, co-hosts with Barry Williams, 70, they have been joined by Susan Olsen, 63, who performed Cindy Brady, and Mike Lookinland, 64, who performed Bobby Brady.
“I took offense to it,” Knight mentioned, referring to the opposite actors stating how the present didn’t distinguish between step-siblings and blood-related siblings.
He added, “I thought that was the part of the show that really failed us as kids. And I was just 12 years old, thinking at that time, ‘They’re not really my sisters.’ And I know growing up, I would have said, ‘You’re not really my sister.’”
The hit sitcom, which initially aired from 1969 to 1974, adopted a blended household, as Mike Brady (Robert Reed), a widower with three sons (performed by Knight, Williams, and Lookinland), married Carol Martin (Florence Henderson), who had daughters Marcia (Maureen McCormick), Jan (Eve Plumb) and Cindy (Olsen).
In the course of the podcast, Williams identified that within the present, “We don’t ever refer to ourselves as stepbrother, stepsister or stepmom.”
Olsen mentioned that the writers finally “forgot” they weren’t siblings by blood.
“They had Jan say to Peter, ‘You’re my brother, blood is thicker than water,’” she recalled. “And Eve and Chris went to the producers and said, ‘We’re not related.’” However the producers mentioned “nobody” remembered that, she added.
Knight mentioned that as he displays on the present as an grownup and appears again on its “undoubtable” success, “I recognize that the reason in part for that success is because we didn’t do that. It was all about getting along.”
If the Brady boys had a photograph of their delivery mother up, it might be “a potential wedge issue,” he added.
He continued, “So it was completely put aside.”
Williams identified that the mixing of households was collection creator Sherwood Schwartz’s “whole idea” for “The Brady Bunch” as a result of he had learn information articles about “the number of families in the ’60s that the parents were getting divorced,” which led to the phenomenon of “latchkey kids” who have been dwelling with out mother and father.
