Christopher Knight ‘took offense’ to how ‘The Brady Bunch’ treated step-siblings: They ‘really failed us’

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“The Brady Bunch” prima Christopher Knight revealed that he has a bony to prime pinch nan show. 

During a caller section of “The Real Brady Bros” podcast, which Knight, 67, co-hosts pinch Barry Williams, 70,  they were joined by Susan Olsen, 63, who played Cindy Brady, and Mike Lookinland, 64, who played Bobby Brady. 

“I took discourtesy to it,” Knight said, referring to nan different actors pointing retired really nan show didn’t separate betwixt step-siblings and blood-related siblings. 

He added, “I thought that was nan portion of nan show that really grounded america arsenic kids. And I was conscionable 12 years old, reasoning astatine that time, ‘They’re not really my sisters.’ And I cognize increasing up, I would person said, ‘You’re not really my sister.’”

The deed sitcom, which primitively aired from 1969 to 1974, followed a blended family, arsenic Mike Brady (Robert Reed), a widower pinch 3 sons (played by Knight, Williams, and Lookinland), married Carol Martin (Florence Henderson), who had daughters Marcia (Maureen McCormick), Jan (Eve Plumb) and Cindy (Olsen). 

During nan podcast, Williams pointed retired that successful nan show, “We don’t ever mention to ourselves arsenic stepbrother, stepsister aliases stepmom.” 

Olsen said that nan writers yet “forgot” they weren’t siblings by blood. 

“They had Jan opportunity to Peter, ‘You’re my brother, humor is thicker than water,’” she recalled. “And Eve and Chris went to nan producers and said, ‘We’re not related.’” But nan producers said “nobody” remembered that, she added. 

Knight said that arsenic he reflects connected nan show arsenic an big and looks backmost connected its “undoubtable” success, “I admit that nan logic successful portion for that occurrence is because we didn’t do that. It was each astir getting along.”

 If nan Brady boys had a photograph of their commencement mom up, it would beryllium “a imaginable wedge issue,” he added. 

He continued, “So it was wholly put aside.”

Williams pointed retired that the blending of families was bid creator Sherwood Schwartz’s “whole idea” for “The Brady Bunch” because he had publication news articles astir “the number of families successful nan ’60s that nan parents were getting divorced,” which led to nan arena of “latchkey kids” who were location without parents.