'The Brady Bunch' star Christopher Knight opened up about the uneven way the series treated the step sibling relationships.
Knight and his costar Susan Olsen pointed out that the writers even 'forgot' the kids weren't related at one pointVictoria Edel is a staff writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has previously appeared in POPSUGAR,The cast of 'The Brady Bunch.
From left: Maureen McCormick, Mike Lookinland, Christopher Knight, Eve Plumb, Susan Olsen and Barry Williams in 1970. The actor, who played middle son Peter Brady, spoke about the titular family’s sometimes odd dynamics on the April 21 episode of, the hosts were joined by Susan Olsen, who played Cindy Brady, and Mike Lookinland, who played Bobby Brady, the two youngest siblings. The episode featured the wedding between Florence Henderson’s Carol and Robert Reed’s Mike. The cast members noted that Carol and her three daughters — Maureen McCormick’s Marcia, Eve Plumb’s Jan and Olsen’s Cindy — all changed their last names to Brady, even though viewers never saw Mike actually adopt them in an episode.ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Williams, 70, also said, “We don't ever refer to ourselves as stepbrother, stepsister, or stepmom.” He “credited” the show’s creator, Sherwood Schwartz, with that decision.Olsen, 63, said that the writers eventually “forgot” they weren’t siblings by blood. “They had Jan say to Peter, ‘You're my brother, blood is thicker than water,’ ” she remembered. “And Eve and Chris went to the producers and said, ‘We're not related.’ ” But the producers said “nobody” remembered that, she added.ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty “I took offense to it,” Knight, 67, said. “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.’ ” As a child actor, he found it confusing that the Brady kids never used this tactic when they had fights.to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. But now as an adult, he said, “Looking back on the show and its success, which is undoubtable, 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 photo of their birth mom up , it would be “a potential wedge issue," he added. Later in the episode, Williams noted that the idealistic blending of families was “Sherwood’s whole idea” for the series. He had read a news article about “the number of families in the '60s that the parents were getting divorced,” leading the kids to be home alone as “latchkey kids.” The costars also noted that in many episodes of the show, “Carol’s kids” and “Mike’s kids” got into fights as factions.How I Met Your MotherThe Summer I Turned PrettyJoAnna García Swisher Says TV Parents Reba McEntire and Christopher Rich 'Stepped In' After She Lost Her Mom and DadEnds on an Emotional Note: How the Family Honored Roseanne in the Series Finale
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