Overview
- Eve Plumb, who played Jan Brady, says in her new memoir and recent interviews that the show’s child actors receive no residuals from decades of reruns.
- Rules in place before 1975 capped payments at roughly the first 10 replays, and castmate Susan Olsen has said the final checks arrived in the late 1970s.
- Barry Williams has written that the top child salary in the final season was $1,100 a week, about $24,000 for 22 episodes before commissions and taxes.
- Plumb has suggested the show’s low-cost rerun terms help keep it in heavy rotation on cable and on services like Paramount+ and Pluto TV, which fuels the myth that the cast still earns big.
- The disclosure lands as actors across TV question shrinking payments in the streaming era, with peers like Jodie Sweetin describing residual checks as pennies.