Plumb performed Jan Brady on the beloved ABC sitcom, which ran from 1969 to 1974. Reruns of the present are nonetheless in style to today. However the star, now 68, revealed in her current memoir that the forged doesn’t make a cent from the repeated showings.
“If I had a dime for each rerun episode, I’d repay the nationwide deficit,” she wrote. “I don’t.”
There’s a easy motive for the cash drought – residuals did not exist again then. Plumb’s onscreen sister, Susan Olsen, 64, who performed Cindy on the sequence, weighed in as properly, saying that was simply “the best way issues had been earlier than 1973.”
Olsen famous that within the early ’70s, actors had been solely paid for reruns for “the primary 10 runs.” After that, the forged’s checks dried up, so, as she put it, “[We’ve] made no cash since then.”