Christopher Knight Says ‘Brady Bunch’ Producers ‘Lied to Me’ Earlier than Filming with a Actual Spider

Christopher Knight says he was tricked into working with an actual spider throughout his Brady Bunch days. 

On Thursday, Nov. 7, the previous youngster star, 67, appeared on NBC’s At the moment together with his Brady Bunch costars Barry Williams and Eve Plumb — who performed his siblings Greg Brady and Jan Brady, respectively — and mentioned a number of nostalgic moments from the sitcom.

One reminiscence Knight cannot overlook got here from a season 4 episode filmed in Hawaii known as “Cross the Tabu.”

The scene known as for Knight’s character, center son Peter Brady, to get up in his mattress with a tarantula crawling up his physique in direction of his face. Nevertheless, the actor says he was duped by the small print. 

“They did mislead me. They informed me that they put ball bearings on its fangs in order that it could not inject [anything],” he informed At the moment hosts Hoda Kotb and Carson Daly of what producers informed him on the time. 

Knight continued, “I used to be terrified, however I used to be an ideal type of terrified as a result of I obtained to show my hero self to the women. I should not allow them to know I am scared to dying.”

Williams, 70, remembered the scene vividly, including, “And that was an actual spider and he had nothing underneath it, it was on him. After which I got here in and I had to determine how one can get it off of him.”

Whereas Williams performed the oldest Brady brother on digital camera, he channeled the position in actual life when it got here to securely getting the creepy crawler off of Knight. 

“I had a tarantula as a pet and I did not need it to be harm, so I used to be in a position to scoop it up and let it land,” he stated.

In the meantime, Plumb, 66, recalled that the Brady ladies had their very own particular pet on set — although Fluffy the cat finally “simply form of light away” after the sitcom’s pilot episode.

“That’s TV,” she added. “Stuff comes and it goes.”

Including to her level, Knight remembered that Fluffy’s substitute, Tiger the canine, additionally disappeared from the present with none clarification after the second season.

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“Watching the early reveals with Tiger – Tiger’s an necessary aspect, you’re proper,” Knight stated. “And he simply disappears.”

The Brady Bunch, which aired from 1969 to 1974, additionally starred Susan Olsen (Cindy Brady), Maureen McCormick (Marcia Brady) and Mike Lookinland (Bobby Brady) as the extra siblings, with the late Florence Henderson as matriarch Carol Brady, spouse to Robert Reed’s Mike Brady. The collection is obtainable to stream on Pluto TV and Paramount+.