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“Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!”
On Sept. 26, 1969, The Brady Bunch series premiered on ABC, introducing audiences to a wholesome blended family living in Los Angeles and the iconic catchphrase.
Created by Sherwood Schwartz of Gilligan’s Island, the sitcom followed the story of a lovely lady, Carol (Florence Henderson), and a widowed architect named Mike Brady (Robert Reed), who merged their six children — Mike’s three sons and Carol’s three daughters — into one happy and hilarious unit.
While the pioneering situational comedy didn’t win over critics or huge audiences during its original run, syndication turned it into a pop culture classic, spawning multiple spinoffs, reunion specials and made-for-TV movies. “Ain’t that swell?”
The series signed off on March 8, 1974, after five seasons. Since then, the cast has reunited for tributes and an appearance at the 2022 Emmy Awards. The former costars also teamed up for the 2019 HGTV reality TV show A Very Brady Renovation, set inside the famous split-level Brady family home. (A superfan later purchased it from HGTV for $3.2 million in 2023.) The 2021 Lifetime film Blending Christmas featured some of the cast members as well.
According to Barry Williams, who played Greg Brady, the bond they formed on set never waned.
“I think that translated from the show, the chemistry we had, and is evidenced by our lifelong friendships, relationships,” Williams told PEOPLE in May 2025. “We know the ups and downs. We’ve been through weddings, we’ve been through separation, we’ve been through kids, we’ve been through college now.”
With its lighthearted portrayal of family dynamics, sibling rivalries, growing pains and relatable life lessons, The Brady Bunch paved the way for future sitcoms like Full House and Modern Family.
Here’s what the groovy cast has been up to after leaving their unforgettable mark on TV history.
Maureen McCormick as Marcia Brady
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With early TV credits for Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie and more, Maureen McCormick had her breakout role on The Brady Bunch as eldest sister Marcia — a part she went on to reprise on several spinoffs, including The Brady Kids and The Brady Brides. However, when it comes to a modern reboot, McCormick told PEOPLE it would take a lot more convincing.
“It’s so hard to do a reboot or a remake of something,” she said in December 2024. “So I feel very protective of it in a way. It has such great memories for so many people, but it would just have to absolutely knock my socks off for me to want to do anything with it. I would know in my heart.”
She continued, “But it was such an incredible show to be a part of,” adding, “And my best memories of the show are the people, the crew and their families.”
In the years following The Brady Bunch, McCormick has appeared on other shows like The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Teen Angel, Passions and Fantasy Island. Like her castmates, she also returned for many of the Brady reunions — including HGTV’s A Brady Renovation — and dabbled in reality competition shows such as Hollywood Squares, Celebrity Fit Club and on season 23 of Dancing with the Stars.
The actress married actor Michael Cummings in 1985, and the pair welcomed their daughter, Natalie, in 1989.
Barry Williams as Greg Brady
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Earning his stripes on shows like That Girl, Mission: Impossible and It Takes a Thief, Williams found his footing on The Brady Bunch as the eldest Brady son, Greg. On- and off-screen, Williams took on a “big brotherly” role among his castmates.
“I’m the youngest of us three boys in my family, so I was excited to become the eldest. But of course, I took lessons from my brothers, who weren’t very kind, and I suddenly now pressed Chris [Knight] and Mike [Lookinland],” he told PEOPLE in June 2025. “Because there’s so many things, there are so many moving parts to that. You become protective, and being older, you actually have more experience.”
Post–Brady Bunch, he followed in the footsteps of many of his costars, joining many of the Brady specials and reunions while otherwise maintaining a relatively low profile. In 2022, Williams reunited with Knight and Lookinland as the trio The Mummies on The Masked Singer.
“It might’ve been 53 years ago that we met, but we’ve been sort of revolving — and evolving — in each other’s worlds for those 53 years,” Knight told PEOPLE at the time. “So we are respectful, close friends and know each other very, very well.”
He also launched The Real Brady Bros podcast with Knight that same year. In 2023, he competed on season 32 of DWTS, placing seventh.
Williams has two children: a son born in 2003 and a daughter born in 2012.
Eve Plumb as Jan Brady
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Eve Plumb joined the Brady Bunch cast as beleaguered middle daughter Jan, who delivered the famous “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia” catchphrase on one episode to express her frustration with being compared to her older sister.
“The thing that I like about Jan is that she’s just unafraid to fail. She’ll just keep trying,” Plumb told Yahoo! Entertainment in October 2023.
Since then, Plumb has made guest appearances on That ’70s Show and Army Wives, and she had a recurring stint on Fudge and The Path. While she returned for many of the Brady specials, Plumb also declined some of the Brady reunions over the years. Lately, she has turned her focus to painting, with many of her works featured at Bilotta Gallery.
Plumb is set to release her memoir, Happiness Included: Jan Brady and Beyond, about her TV and stage career in April 2026.
“Over the years, many people have asked me to share my stories for their book. But I finally said to myself, if I’m going to share my stories, it’s going to be in MY book,” she told PEOPLE in August 2025. “I had a unique childhood that I would like to share now because looking back, it gives me joy.”
Plumb has been married to business and technology consultant Ken Pace since 1995.
Christopher Knight as Peter Brady
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After starring as the middle son Peter, Knight also reunited with his former castmates on various spinoffs, reunions, podcasts and more.
“It just seems like there’s always a cycle of four or five years where something’s bringing us back together,” Knight told PEOPLE in May 2025. “I mean, we’re talking about three different states amongst the world, so we’re a little spread out now. We don’t run into one another until something brings us together. But like family, it’s never enough time together when we do.”
Beyond The Brady Bunch, Knight had guest-star appearances on shows like Joe’s World, Another World and soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. However, he is most known for reality TV. He was cast on The Surreal Life from 2003 to 2005, falling in love with former America’s Next Top Model winner Adrianne Curry. The pair married in 2006.
Their relationship played out in front of more cameras on their reality series My Fair Brady; in 2011, however, they announced their separation. In November 2016, the actor wed for the fourth time, sharing the news on Facebook. He and Cara Kokenes tied the knot, with Knight revealing that Henderson was welcoming of his new bride.
“She totally approved of Cara,” Knight told PEOPLE days after Henderson’s death. “It was wonderful having her make her part of the family.”
Susan Olsen as Cindy Brady
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Susan Olsen was a relative newcomer when she joined The Brady Bunch as the youngest daughter, Cindy, in 1969. However, growing up on-screen wasn’t all sunshine; the then-child actress secretly hoped the show would get the axe.
“I’d been praying for the show to be canceled,” she told Billy Cogan on a May 2025 episode of his The Magnificent Others podcast. “It’s bad enough to go through your awkward stage and to feel really ugly, but doing it on national TV is not something I wanted to do.”
Over time, however, Olsen came to appreciate the show’s cultural footprint and the comfort it brought for viewers.
“I first became really proud of the show when I found out that child psychiatrists were using it,” she later said. “They were using episodes for kids that were coming from horrible abuse. And I would’ve thought, well, ‘Why would they want to see this perfectly good family?’ They do. They want to see somebody being happy. They want to see that there’s hope.”
Like most of her former costars, her post-Brady years include several cast reunions (the most recent being in 2021’s Blending Christmas) as well as appearances on reality TV.
Twice married, the actress has one son, and, like Plumb, Olsen found a creative outlet in art.
Mike Lookinland as Bobby Brady
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Outside of his role as Bobby — the youngest Brady boy — Lookinland didn’t do much in Hollywood that didn’t have Brady in the title.
“The problem for me was, I lived my childhood in my 20s,” Lookinland said on a 2013 episode of Oprah: Where Are They Now?, per HuffPost.
He ultimately turned to drinking to cope, finding himself struggling with alcoholism at a young age.
However, Lookinland eventually got sober, married his high school sweetheart and now has two sons. He even left a career in film production to make concrete countertops.
“From the age of 8, I learned that nothing in the entertainment industry is real,” he told Oprah Winfrey. “It’s all fake. Your face, your clothes, what you say — it’s all a fake. I think I was drawn to something more real that I could do myself.”
Lookinland has been present for many of the Brady reunion specials and competed on The Masked Singer alongside his former castmates, Knight and Williams.
Florence Henderson as Carol Brady
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After earning the nation’s adoration as Brady matriarch Carol for five seasons, Henderson went on to rack up dozens and dozens more film credits, including a handful of Brady Bunch spinoffs and TV series from Handy Manny and The Cleveland Show to The Hollywood Squares and an eponymous talk show.
She also had a run on reality TV — appearing on both The Surreal Life and season 11 of Dancing with the Stars — and three cooking shows, Country Kitchen (1985), Good Food, Good Deeds (2011) and Who’s Cooking with Florence Henderson (2013).
The actress died at the age of 82 on Nov. 24, 2016, after being hospitalized for heart failure.
In May 2025, four of the six Brady kids recounted how Henderson and Reed managed to ease things when filming got tense.
“Sometimes the set could get stressful. Even our set, we’d be behind schedule or there’d be personality struggles, and Florence Henderson would just light up and say, ‘Come on now people, let’s get to work,’ ” Knight told PEOPLE.
Olsen jokingly added, “[She’d say,] ‘We all want to go home.’ ”
“Bob and Florence could both play … mess around and have fun,” Williams said.
Robert Reed as Mike Brady
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Henderson’s on-screen husband got his start in the mid-’50s, finding fame on the TV series The Defenders in 1961. Following his role as patriarch Mike on The Brady Bunch, he joined the cast of the 1977 miniseries Roots, earning an Emmy nomination for his performance as physician and slaveowner William Reynolds. In addition to guest appearances on The Love Boat, he landed another full-time gig on the 1980s drama series Nurse.
He famously butted heads with Brady Bunch creator Schwartz, telling PEOPLE shortly before he died on May 12, 1992, “To the degree that it serves as a baby-sitter, I’m glad we did it. But I do not want it on my tombstone.”
At 59, Reed died from colon cancer. However, according to The New York Times, it was later revealed he was also HIV-positive. The actor had kept his homosexuality a secret (he’d been married to a woman, Marilyn Rosenberg, with whom he’d had a daughter, from 1954 to 1959).
“I don’t think The Brady Bunch could have existed at that time with the public knowing that Robert Reed was gay,” Henderson told ABC in December 2000. “I just don’t think they would have bought it.”
Ann B. Davis as Alice Nelson
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Anne B. Davis starred on The Bob Cummings Show in the ’50s and The John Forsythe Show in the mid-’60s before donning her iconic blue dress and white apron for her role as housekeeper Alice on The Brady Bunch and its various spin-offs.
The Emmy-winning actress never married and never took on another major gig, living comfortably on her Screen Actors Guild pension and pursuing interests in aerobics and theology.
“It is obvious,” she told PEOPLE in 1992, “I am where the Lord wants me to be.”
She died at the age of 88 in 2014.