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Happy Fake Jan Day!
It's Jan. 2, Fake Jan Day. Think about it.
Actress & singer Geri Reischl was #BornOnThisDay, Dec. 31,1959. A child & teen actress in the #1970s, known today as "Fake Jan" when she played "Jan Brady" on the variety show The Brady Bunch Hour (1976-'77). Wishing Reischl the BEST #birthday #today & #Forever #BOTD #fakejan
21 times new actors inherited famous TV roles in honor of Fake Jan Day | Considerable
Geri Reischl is the poster child for an actor inheriting an established TV role. But she's in good company.
Geri Reischl is the poster child for an actor inheriting an established TV role. But she's in good company.
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Happy Fake Jan Day!
21 times new actors inherited famous TV roles in honor of Fake Jan Day
Geri Reischl is the poster child for an actor inheriting an established TV role. But she's in good company.
by Marc Berman • January 2, 2020
When you think of a new actor taking over an established role, the TV show that immediately comes to mind is Bewitched. And, let’s face it, Dick York as Darrin No. 1 in the classic ABC fantasy sitcom was far better than Dick Sargent as Darrin No. 2. Of course, it’s no easy feat stepping in for an actor known for a certain role.
But there is one actor has made a career inheriting a part from someone else, and it was in those painful but eerily addictive eight episodes of variety-themed The Brady Bunch Hour. I am talking about Geri Reischl in the 1976-77 TV season, who in place of Eve Plumb as Jan Brady is so firmly entrenched in popular culture as “Fake Jan” that today, January 2nd, is designated as “Fake Jan Day.”
‘Real Jan’ Eve Plumb in 1988.
Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, Inc/Getty Images
Plumb was the first actress to bow out of playing a Brady girl in one of the revivals, with Susan Olsen as Cindy replaced by Jennifer Runyon in 1988 television movie A Very Brady Christmas; and Maureen McCormick as Marcia replaced by Leah Ayres in 1990 dramedy The Bradys. Even Allan Melvin as Sam the butcher, Alice’s (Ann B. Davis) “squeeze” on The Brady Bunch, was replaced by Lewis Arquette (the father in real life to the acting Arquette siblings) in A Very Brady Christmas.
In honor of “Fake Jan Day,” let’s take a walk down TV memory lane for a look at other established roles that had another actor replace the original.
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21 times new actors inherited famous TV roles in honor of Fake Jan Day
Geri Reischl is the poster child for an actor inheriting an established TV role. But she's in good company.
by Marc Berman • January 2, 2020
When you think of a new actor taking over an established role, the TV show that immediately comes to mind is Bewitched. And, let’s face it, Dick York as Darrin No. 1 in the classic ABC fantasy sitcom was far better than Dick Sargent as Darrin No. 2. Of course, it’s no easy feat stepping in for an actor known for a certain role.
But there is one actor has made a career inheriting a part from someone else, and it was in those painful but eerily addictive eight episodes of variety-themed The Brady Bunch Hour. I am talking about Geri Reischl in the 1976-77 TV season, who in place of Eve Plumb as Jan Brady is so firmly entrenched in popular culture as “Fake Jan” that today, January 2nd, is designated as “Fake Jan Day.”
‘Real Jan’ Eve Plumb in 1988.
Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, Inc/Getty Images
Plumb was the first actress to bow out of playing a Brady girl in one of the revivals, with Susan Olsen as Cindy replaced by Jennifer Runyon in 1988 television movie A Very Brady Christmas; and Maureen McCormick as Marcia replaced by Leah Ayres in 1990 dramedy The Bradys. Even Allan Melvin as Sam the butcher, Alice’s (Ann B. Davis) “squeeze” on The Brady Bunch, was replaced by Lewis Arquette (the father in real life to the acting Arquette siblings) in A Very Brady Christmas.
In honor of “Fake Jan Day,” let’s take a walk down TV memory lane for a look at other established roles that had another actor replace the original.
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