Davis, who died in 2014 at 88 after a fall in the bathtub. Reuniting with his Brady siblings for the HGTV series has been an exciting way to honor the show’s legacy, but also comes with an emptiness for the other three cast members: Robert Reed, who died in 1992 at 59 of intestinal cancer Florence Henderson, who passed away in 2016 at 82 of heart failure and Ann B. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Getty Images right) Maureen McCormick, Florence Henderson, Barry Williams, Christopher Knight bottom row: Eve Plumb, Mike Lookinland, Robert Reed and Susan Olsen. But it was all very wholesome.”Ĭirca 1972: The Brady family, from the television series, 'The Brady Bunch'. “Imagine going to school of six kids and you have one age-appropriate person in that school for you. “It was the equivalent of high school crushes,” he says. “Barry was doing whatever he could to get Maureen’s attention.”ĭuring their carpool rides, Knight describes McCormick as “the girl version of sugar and spice and everything nice” while he was the “snails and puppy-dog tails.” In fact, he was completely unaware about what was happening with the messages that McCormick was tasked with passing along to him from Plumb: “Eve had been lavishing me with attention for a couple of years, but I wasn’t even at that point yet.” “Most of those conversations were about what Barry had said that he wanted Maureen to hear or she was telling me that I needed to tell Barry,” Knight reminisces. Knight would spend another hour or two a day with McCormick in the car since his mom drove them both to set. The middle brother also found himself caught in the middle of a budding romance between Williams and McCormick. Maybe at this point, I'm 12 and Susan is eight, so it was all kid talk.” I remember them talking about getting married in the doghouse. Knight says he was completely aware of the romances at the time: “I guess they were playing house. Now it’s been built large enough for the two grown-up Brady kids to still fit inside. On A Very Brady Renovation, a major adjustment was made was to Tiger’s doghouse to honor an off-camera memory: Olsen and Lookinland used to sneak inside and kiss. (Photo by Paramount Television/Courtesy of Getty Images) Getty Images (L-R): Robert Reed, Florence Henderson, Barry Williams, Maureen McCormick, Christopher Knight, Eve Plumb, Susan Olsen and Davis. Davis leads the Brady family in a rigorous jog in a still from the television series. So I wasn't aware that was my last day of freedom of being somebody else.”Īctor Ann B. Within six months or so, I had to deal with the recognition thing, which only has grown in 50 years. “No longer was I just going to be able to walk down the street and expect it to be the same. “Little did I anticipate the effect that the premiere would have immediately on the world around me,” Knight says. “So now, all of a sudden, we're having to buy a big television just because I get this series.” “My dad was anti-television because he liked his work in theater,” Knight says. After all, his dad had been a Broadway actor (and his paternal grandfather was a cobbler who made shoes for the Zeigfeld Follies), who had his doubts about the new medium. In fact, his family got a new TV for the occasion since all they had was an old Admiral black-and-white set. Watching his own television debut was especially thrilling for Knight since he hadn’t even previewed the episode before that day. (Photo by �� John Springer Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images) Corbis via Getty Images Publicity handout of the cast of "The Brady Bunch" television series, all beaming with their heads.
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