Christopher Knight Says 'Brady Bunch' Producers Lied to Me Before Filming With a Real Spider: 'I Was Terrified'

The former child star said he was duped by the details

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Christopher Knight

Christopher Knight says he was tricked with a real spider during his work Brady Bos to dawn.

On Thursday, November 7, the former child star, 67, appeared on NBC’s Today with his Brady Bos costars Barry Williams And Eva Lead – who played his siblings Greg Brady and Jan Brady, respectively – and discussed several nostalgic moments from the sitcom.

One memory Knight can’t forget came from a Season 4 episode filmed in Hawaii called “Pass the Tabu.”

The scene called for Knight’s character, middle son Peter Brady, to wake up in his bed with a tarantula crawling down his body toward his face. However, the actor says he was duped by the details.

“They lied to me. They told me they put ball bearings on the canines so he couldn’t inject anything,” he said. Today hosts Hoda Kotb And Carson Daly from what producers told him at the time.

Knight continued, “I was terrified, but I was the perfect kind of terrified because I had to prove my hero self to the ladies. I shouldn’t let them know I’m terrified.’

Williams, 70, remembered the scene vividly, adding: “And that was a real spider and he had nothing underneath, it was on him. And then I came in and had to figure out how to get it off him.”

While Williams played the eldest Brady brother on camera, he channeled the role in real life when it came to getting the creepy crawler safely off of Knight.

“I had a pet tarantula and I didn’t want it to get hurt, so I was able to scoop it up and land it,” he said.

Meanwhile, Plumb, 66, recalled that the Brady girls had their own special pet on set — although Fluffy the cat ultimately “just kind of faded away” after the sitcom’s pilot episode.

“That’s TV,” she added. “Things come and they go.”

To add to her point, Knight recalled that Fluffy’s replacement… Tiger the dogalso disappeared from the show after the second season without any explanation.

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“Watching the first shows with Tiger – Tiger is an important element, you’re right,” Knight said. “And he just disappears.”

The Brady Gangaired from 1969 to 1974, also starred Susan Olsen (Cindy Brady), Maureen McCormick (Marcia Brady) and Mike Lookinland (Bobby Brady) as the additional siblings, with the late Florence Henderson as matriarch Carol Brady, wife of Robert’s Mike Reed. Brady. The series can be streamed on Pluto TV and Paramount+.