In 1976, Brady Bunch cast members Olsen, Robert Reed, Florence Henderson, Ann B. Davis, Barry Williams, Maureen McCormick, Chrispher Knight, Eve Plumb, and Mike Lookinland were all approached to star in The Brady Bunch Variety Hour, a musical TV special that ultimately turned into an eight-episode series. Everyone but Plumb signed on to the project, so she was replaced by Geri Reischl, now forever known as “fake Jan” Brady.
Meanwhile, her long-time co-stars were appearing in corny variety show sketches with Rip Taylor and singing alongside synchronized swimmers called the Water Follies.
Cast of 'The Brady Bunch Variety Hour.' (Photo by ABC Photo Archives on Getty Images)Photo by ABC Photo Archives on Getty Images
“Eve Plumb had done Dawn, Portrait of a Teenage Runaway, this TV movie that was huge and just broke her image, and she was off to the races. She's going to have a great career,” Olsen said in the 2025 interview. “And she was contractually signed to do the sequel, which was called Alexander the Other Side of Dawn. And so they replaced her, and it's kind of sad because Eve is enough of a team player that it bothered her.”
“They were all talking about Eve, and you know, what she's doing with this and that," Olsen continued. "And I said, ‘Don't we all wish we had something better to do than this show?’”
Despite Henderson’s evil eye, Olsen was always close with her TV mom as well as with Henderson’s real-life children.
As a child, she sometimes had sleepovers with Henderson’s daughter Lizzy. “Lizzy and I had made a mess in the bathroom, I think, and I got to see her get mad at us. It was neat,” Olsen said of one of her off-camera moments with Henderson.
“I’m not a strong swimmer at all,” Olsen said. “I didn’t have any family on that outrigger to calm me down. Except for Florence.”
Susan Olsen was embarrassed by other 'Brady Bunch' projects that didn’t include Henderson
Evgen though the show had been canceled, there was talk of continuing the younger cast members’ musical act after the six Brady kids’ had toured in 1973 and 1974.
“We were still going to continue the music, but Barry wanted to do his own solo thing. And Maureen wasn't into it,” Olsen told Corgan. “And Chris stopped. Chris quit before the show was canceled. We had a last appearance with Chris in Minnesota, and he hated it, he didn't feel like he could sing …it was embarrassing to him."
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