“The Brady Bunch” star Mike Lookinland admitted that his behavior “completely went off the rails” after finding mega stardom with “The Brady Bunch.”
Lookinland and Christopher Knight talk about their experience as young adults in the Hollywood industry after starring as Bobby and Peter Brady in the 1970s sitcom.
“How come you guys didn’t end up as mugshots?” JayBeau Jones asked during an episodereal brady brothers“…No one has ever said a bad thing about any of the kids on ‘The Brady Bunch.’
“Probably because we didn’t want to let Florence and Bob down,” Knight responded. “I mean, that was the beginning of it. It’s like there are certain people you don’t want to let down. I think it was stronger for me with those two than it was with my own parents.”
Florence Henderson and Robert Reed starred as Carol and Mike in “The Brady Bunch”, playing parents to Lookinland and Knight.
Lookinland admitted she struggled more in her 20s.
“I lived my childhood into my 20s because I couldn’t do that when I was a kid,” he said. “And in my 20s, I had a car, money and freedom… I was completely derailed.”
He later said: “I’m just grateful that when I was 25, every man, woman and child didn’t have a high-def camera in their pocket like they do now, because it would have ruined my life.”
Knight said he had heard “stories” about what Lookinland had done at that time. “Some of it was under the radar,” Lookinland responded.
Knight joked, “What happens in Salt Lake City stays in Salt Lake City.”
During the last episode of “The Real Brady Brothers”, Lookinland and Knight’s co-star Susan Olsen revealed that she “almost died” while filming the first episode of “The Brady Bunch” as Cindy Brady. While re-watching the pilot episode with her co-stars, Olsen revealed that this was the last time there was a close-up shot of Cindy because “I got injured.” Her co-star couldn’t hide her shock at the news and added, “Yeah, I almost died.”
Olsen said, “On the Culver Lot, they were shooting something – I think, in the girl’s bedroom – and I was getting body makeup on my legs.” “I was standing on a makeup chair and something fell off the catwalk, where they keep all the lights and everything.”
“It hit the makeup man first, bounced off the body makeup woman and hit me in the face.”
“You can tell, if you look at the (wedding) ceremony, and you see three girls on one side, if you really zoom in, you can see my face is quite swollen,” Olsen explained. “I look different. You can even see it in some of the early publicity shots. You can tell my face is a little swollen.”
“The Brady Bunch” aired from 1969 to 1974. The show featured a blended family of three boys and three girls from previous marriages.
The sitcom followed the life of a family, featured adventures and more.
