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Eve Plumb Exposes Shocking Brady Bunch Residuals!

Former Brady Bunch star Eve Plumb has revealed what the cast of the beloved 70s sitcom earns in residual pay.The 68-year-old actress recently published a memoir...

Eve Plumb Exposes Shocking Brady Bunch Residuals!
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Former Brady Bunch star Eve Plumb has revealed what the cast of the beloved 70s sitcom earns in residual pay.

The 68-year-old actress recently published a memoir called Happiness Included: Jan Brady and Beyond, in which she wrote, 'If I had a dime for every rerun episode, I’d pay off the national deficit. I don’t.'

To be clear, she reiterated on the PauseRewind podcast, per KOMO News, 'We don’t make residuals.'

The successful ABC sitcom ran from 1969 to 1974, and its reruns have been popular among younger generations for decades.

Susan Olsen, 64, who played Cindy on the series, previously explained on the Network's Where Are They Now series that the cast's lack of residual pay is the result of 'the way things were before 1973.'

Plumb's revelation comes on the heels of in residual pay from the 90s TV show.

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Former Brady Bunch star Eve Plumb has revealed what the cast of the beloved 70s sitcom earns in residual pay

She said on the PauseRewind podcast, 'We don’t make residuals'; the cast pictured in a season five promo photo in 1973

Olsen noted that in the early 70s actors were only 'paid for reruns for the first 10 runs.'

The cast's checks dried up in 1979 as she said, 'So [we've] made no money since then.'

, climbing from $22,500 per episode in the first season to $1 million each by the final two seasons.

They later reunited for a one-off special on  Max in 2021, reportedly earning $2.5 million apiece for their reprisals.

Speaking to The Times recently, Kudrow said she's only recently been able to 'appreciate just how great' the show was.

'There was a genius at work. And whatever any of us do in the future, we will never experience something like that again,' she told the publication.

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