The erstwhile kid stars of “The Brady Bunch” person weighed successful connected 1 of nan show’s biggest crippled holes.
Stars Barry Williams, Eve Plumb and Christopher Knight dropped by NBC’s “Today” show connected Thursday and discussed nan mysterious disappearance of nan Brady family’s dog, Tiger, aft big Carson Daly brought nan beloved pet up.
Surprisingly, not moreover nan Brady kids cognize what happened to their cherished dog, who stopped appearing connected nan show aft its 2nd play without immoderate explanation. And it turns retired Tiger wasn’t nan only Brady pet to spell missing during nan show’s five-season tally from 1969 to 1974.
Plumb, who played mediate kid Jan, pointed retired that successful nan bid aviator episode, nan Brady girls — Marsha, Jan and Cindy — had a cat, Fluffy, who was ne'er seen again. Family pets successful nan Brady family “just benignant of faded away,” Plumb, 66, noted.
Knight, 67, who played Peter Brady connected nan iconic sitcom, was peculiarly struck by Daly’s observation. “Watching nan early shows pinch Tiger, Tiger’s an important element, you’re right,” said nan actor, who has been rewatching nan bid pinch co-star Williams, 70, connected their podcast, “The Real Brady Bros.”
“And he conscionable disappears.”
“Continuity was not 1 of nan beardown points of our show,” quipped Williams, who played nan oldest Brady brother, Greg. “And truthful 1 time he’s there, 1 time he’s not there.”
Speaking of missing members of nan Brady family, Maureen McCormick (Marcia Brady), Mike Lookinland (Bobby Brady), and Susan Olsen (Cindy Brady) — who past period said a revival of “The Brady Bunch” was canceled because of her support for Donald Trump — did not subordinate their TV siblings connected Thursday’s “Today” broadcast.
While nan Brady children won’t beryllium returning location for a family reunion anytime soon, “Brady Bunch” fans now person a unsocial opportunity to sojourn nan TV show’s famed North Hollywood, Calif. house.
As “Today” big Hoda Kotb pointed out, nan spot — which was only utilized for exterior establishing shots connected nan show — is nan second-most visited location successful nan U.S. aft nan White House, but those visits do not see tours of nan house’s interiors, which were renovated for a 2019 HGTV reality show, pinch nan thief of nan “Brady Bunch” cast, to replicate nan original TV sets of nan Brady family home.
Up until now, visitors person only been capable to thrust by and return photos of nan house’s exterior. But acknowledgment to Tina Trahan, an creation collector who purchased nan location from HGTV successful 2023, fans person a chance to triumph a formation to LA, wherever they’ll brunch pinch nan Brady Bunch formed astatine nan Brady house.
Trahan joined Williams, Plumb and Knight connected “Today” to beforehand nan sweepstakes she created pinch nan formed to use nan non-profit No Kid Hungry.
Five winners will beryllium chosen, and erstwhile they locomotion done nan beforehand doors of nan Brady family’s iconic house, Trahan assures they will not beryllium disappointed. She told Kotb and Daly that she had not altered thing successful nan location since HGTV did their overhaul.
“It’s for illustration a life-sized doll house,” Trahan said. “You locomotion into your puerility erstwhile you locomotion into that house.”