Christopher Knight Reveals How He Was Lied To Ahead Of Shooting ‘Brady Bunch’ Scene With A Tarantula

Published Nov. 8, 2024, 12:40 p.m. ET

Here’s nan story… of immoderate Brady Bunch on-set spider shenanigans!

Christopher Knight, who played mediate boy Peter Brady connected nan beloved family sitcom, stopped by TODAY connected Thursday (Nov. 7) pinch chap bid alums Barry Williams, and Eve Plumb, wherever co-anchor Carson Daly reminded Knight of nan show’s section group successful Hawaii.

“I cognize [it] was very popular, talked astir a lot. But Chris, for maine arsenic a kid, watching nan tarantula erstwhile you had nan tiki idol and it was bringing you each bad news,” Daly began. “That scene. It’s connected nan ground, it’s up nan bed, it’s really crawling connected you. Did that scare you shooting it?”

Knight admitted that he was “terrified,” but insisted he felt “the cleanable benignant of terrified.”

“I sewage to beryllium my leader aforesaid to nan ladies,” he teased. “I shouldn’t fto them cognize that I’m frightened to death.”

Williams, who played Knight’s on-screen older relative Greg Brady, recalled that “it was a existent spider” and that Knight “had thing nether it, it was connected him.”

“And past I came successful and I had to fig retired really to get it disconnected of him,” he added.

Williams admitted he had immoderate sympathy for nan spider, sharing that he was nan proprietor of a pet tarantula himself astatine nan clip and frankincense “didn’t want it to beryllium hurt, truthful I was capable to scoop it up and fto it land” successful nan scene.

Knight past revealed “they did dishonesty to [him] astir nan tarantula up of shooting nan scene,” which was arsenic portion of nan show’s Season 4 installment titled “Pass nan Tabu.”

“They told maine that they put shot bearings connected its fangs truthful that it couldn’t inject [anything],” he said.

Co-anchor Hoda Kotb praised Plumb’s activity arsenic mediate girl Jan Brady, noting that she grew up arsenic a mediate kid herself.

“You really made it consciousness amended to beryllium a mediate kid,” Kotb gushed.