‘Brady Bunch’ actors talk co-star hookups, first kisses, fake weddings

"The Brady Bunch" stars Barry Williams and Christopher Knight are feeling reflective astir the past, having precocious celebrated the show's 55th anniversary.

But Williams wants to clarify 1 portion of history.

In a caller interrogation with Us Weekly, the 70-year-old said, "We each hooked up with each different astatine immoderate point, not needfully portion we were filming."

"That’s not accurate," Williams told Fox News Digital. "I said that 14 years ago…you cognize however these things rhythm around."

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Barry Williams, left, said his comments astir the "Brady Bunch" formed having each "hooked up" with each different during the archetypal tally of the amusement were not wholly "accurate." (Getty Images)

"We each grew up together. We're the radical that we knew, we trusted," helium explained. "We spent much clip unneurotic arsenic a ‘Brady’ household during times of the twelvemonth and astir of the twelvemonth than with our ain families. And we genuinely liked each other, and it seemed benignant of a mean hold of affection. 

"So what I meant by that was that Bobby and Cindy had a fake matrimony successful Tiger's doghouse, literally. I dated Maureen and we went retired and I was her archetypal kiss. So that's benignant of what I meant by hooking up." 

Knight said of his relationships portion connected the show, "I was a precocious bloomer and precise slow. And I was being chased by Eve [Plumb] for a fig of years."

"You know, looking backmost connected it, it’s benignant of embarrassing," helium added. 

"What does that person to bash with hooking up?" Williams questioned. 

"Well, I tripped," Knight responded, getting a laughter from his co-star. 

Williams and Knight agreed that the formed was intimately bonded, with Williams noting they spent much clip unneurotic than they often did with their families. (Getty Images)

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"The Brady Bunch" aired for 5 seasons connected ABC from 1969 to 1974 and has go a popular civilization staple with spin-offs, parodies, and a still-passionate instrumentality base.

And overmuch similar the close-knit household onscreen, down the scenes, the "Brady Bunch" stars truly connected.

"We each grew up together. We're the radical that we knew, we trusted."

Knight, who was astir 12 years aged erstwhile the amusement began, recalled that it was "a precise lukewarm and inviting environment. And I support coming backmost to that due to the fact that it was. It was a conflict successful my ain household to consciousness validated, to person a dependable and to consciousness thing but a burden…the juxtaposition is present not mislaid connected me."

"There was an authenticity to doing that aviator due to the fact that the amusement was astir gathering each other, learning astir each other. And we were virtually gathering each different and learning astir each other," Williams said.

He recalled filming the wedding of their onscreen parents, Mike and Carol, played by Robert Reed and Florence Henderson, and knowing "it was peculiar successful its ain way."

Williams recalled filming the aviator for "The Brady Bunch" and feeling "it arsenic peculiar successful its ain way." (Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)

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"And I thought, wow, this could beryllium the commencement of thing precise memorable. And it felt similar we were each coming unneurotic arsenic a family. We had nary thought what the aboriginal would hold, but I bash retrieve feeling that that was – it was peculiar successful its ain way," helium said.

Williams besides loved driving to the acceptable connected the Paramount Studios lot, wherever they filmed the interiors of the Brady location on with different shows similar "Star Trek," "Mission: Impossible," "The Odd Couple, "Bonanza" and more.

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"I mean, this was a large place. There were movies. ‘The Godfather’ was being filmed there. And, you know, we snuck around. I snuck around, you know, successful betwixt takes and things similar that connected to each the sets and got to ticker what was going on. And it was, I mean, it was similar a magic onshore coming to beingness and a precise breathtaking spot to be."

While the interior of the Brady location was made up of respective workplace sets, the exterior was a existent location located successful Studio City, California, built by designer Harry M. Londelius Jr. successful 1959.

The location utilized for the exterior shots of "The Brady Bunch" location is located successful Studio City, Calif. (Hollywood To You/Star Max/GC Images)

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Fans person made the location a destination, taking photographs of it truthful galore times it’s often reported that it’s the second-most photographed location successful America aft the White House.

But the existent interior of the location did not lucifer the 1 seen connected tv until 2018, erstwhile HGTV purchased the location and remodeled it connected their series, "A Very Brady Renovation."

They remodeled the location to lucifer what was shown connected TV, including adding a 2nd level to the primitively one-story home.

"It was a set, it was a mendacious environment. And past the house, each it was was an exterior. And done the renovation, we took some and made what was the acceptable real, which I don't deliberation it's ever been done before," said Knight, who appeared connected the renovation amusement with Williams and their onscreen siblings.

The "Brady Bunch" siblings participated successful the HGTV bid "A Very Brady Renovation" successful 2018 erstwhile the web bought and remodeled the existent location to marque it lucifer the mode it looked connected TV. (Matt Harbich)

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In 2023, lifelong instrumentality Tina Trahan purchased the location from HGTV and has been adding adjacent much details to replicate the "Brady Bunch" series. 

Trahan told Fox News Digital she has "added astir 300 things to the location that were similar Easter eggs for the episodes" and bought 3 vintage cars, including the 73 Caprice Classic convertible that Greg and Marcia did their driving trial on.

Williams said, "HGTV did a truly singular occupation of precisely duplicating the show, this set. And past Tina has taken it to the adjacent level due to the fact that she's adding each the touches that we couldn't find oregon didn't person clip for, oregon outsourced. And she brought successful what she refers to accurately arsenic small Easter eggs for radical that they tin enjoy." 

Knight added, "And astir importantly, too the Easter eggs, she's preserved the house, and by buying it and being existent to it, being a instrumentality of the shows and recognizing it as…a existent unrecorded mentation of a doll location that was successful each of our lives. And determination is nary different tv show, I situation you to sanction maine one, wherever each you person to spot is simply a representation of similar each azygous room, and you'll cognize wherever it's from. I mean, from the household room, the kitchen, the surviving room, the boys’ country and the girls’ room, each 1 of those is iconic and volition beryllium recognized instantly upon viewing it."

Tina Trahan purchased "The Brady Bunch" location successful 2023 and started The Brady Experience sweepstakes, allowing 5 winners to walk clip wrong the location and bask a brunch with the cast. (Courtesy Tina Trahan)

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Trahan is giving radical the accidental to unrecorded retired their "Brady Bunch" dreams with The Brady Experience, a sweepstakes that volition prime 5 winners and their guests to triumph a travel to Los Angeles and a enactment successful the house.

"So for the 55th anniversary, we decided we privation fans successful the location somehow, and we wanted to spouse with a charity, truthful we're partnered with No Kid Hungry, which helps puerility hunger successful America," she explained, adding winners volition bask a brunch with the "Brady Bunch" formed that volition see "pork chops and applesauce."

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"For each those years, it was conscionable the extracurricular of the Brady house, it represented what was inside. Now it really has wrong what they saw connected television. And unfortunately, cipher tin spot that," Knight said, noting that for years radical were lone allowed to sojourn the exterior. 

"So Tina devised a mode to marque it imaginable for immoderate of the assemblage retired determination to triumph an accidental really to instrumentality it to work." 

Trahan added arsenic galore arsenic 300 items to lucifer the look of the archetypal bid for fans to bask erstwhile they participate the home. (Getty Images)

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"It's a mode to widen the bequest for a bully purpose. It gives radical a accidental to spot the wrong and past service a charity," Williams added.

The show’s bequest lives connected for the formed arsenic well, who stock a unsocial connection.

"Outside of my ain kin, Barry and the remainder of the formed are my oldest friends, and we perpetually rhythm backmost to get backmost successful interaction with 1 another. And it's benignant of similar being foxhole buddies," Knight said. "Not that I person immoderate acquisition being successful a foxhole oregon surviving done a war, but I tin ideate however adjacent 1 gets erstwhile 1 is experiencing thing unsocial similar that. And it's precise overmuch a unsocial acquisition successful that there's 9 of america that person this view, and the remainder of the satellite is looking from extracurricular into us."

Williams added that they proceed to larn caller things astir each different done projects similar their "Real Brady Bros" podcast, wherever they spell implicit episodes successful detail.

Knight said he, Williams and the formed had specified a "unique" acquisition being a portion of "The Brady Bunch" that they're similar "foxhole buddies." (J. Strauss/FilmMagic)

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"It has fixed america an accidental to get to cognize each different in-depth," helium said.

Knight noted that "we've been getting the aforesaid questions for 55 years, but what's absorbing is however we answered it, however we process it and what we spot successful those questions is antithetic implicit the years. So it's like, adjacent though it's the aforesaid question, it's not due to the fact that of the longevity, the bequest that this amusement has created."

"We perpetually rhythm backmost to get backmost successful interaction with 1 another. And it's benignant of similar being foxhole buddies."

And portion astir of their memories of the amusement are positive, determination is the occasional irritation with the higher ups.

For example, Knight recalled they utilized to person to wage to parkland and locomotion "an other 20 minutes" to get to the acceptable for the archetypal 2 years of the show.

Knight and Williams recalled immoderate wage disputes successful the aboriginal days of the show, including Knight saying helium and overmuch of the kid formed were written retired of a fewer episodes to prevention connected salary. (ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)

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He besides shared that based connected a "10 retired of 13 deal" with the showrunners, helium and his younger co-stars, minus Williams, earned little due to the fact that they would beryllium written retired of 3 episodes to prevention connected salaries.

"The 5 of america were each successful 1 occurrence successful that 2nd twelvemonth written retired of an episode, and they ne'er tried that again due to the fact that radical did notice," Knight said. "It was harder for them to really constitute america retired than it was conscionable to permission america in."

Knight teased Williams that helium was "too important" to constitute out, portion Williams compared it to "avoiding the draft."

But the wide affirmative nostalgia for their clip connected the amusement is being passed connected to the adjacent generation.

Williams said helium precocious visited the workplace batch wherever they filmed "The Brady Bunch" with his girl and shared a peculiar bonding infinitesimal with her. (Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images)

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Williams precocious took his daughter, Samantha, to the Paramount batch and showed her immoderate of the areas wherever helium and his castmates spent time, similar dressing rooms and the workplace schoolhouse they attended (sadly, nary archetypal sets from the amusement stay standing).

He said a person happened to grounds the begetter and girl taking the tour, and it was a meaningful infinitesimal for Williams to look backmost on.

"I was explaining to her what it was, and I watched [the video] and I was struck by her attentiveness, however overmuch she cared astir it. She learned, she listened. And…she seemed to beryllium capable to get a portion of an acquisition of my younker erstwhile I was not precise acold from her age, which is 12," helium said.

However, Williams said helium and his girl don’t truly speech astir the amusement oregon regularly ticker it.

Williams said his girl is acquainted with "The Brady Bunch" but hasn't watched overmuch of it. (ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)

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"I've asked her if she's seen the show, and she says, ‘Yeah,’ she's capable to beryllium acquainted with it," helium said. "And besides she's been capable to conscionable Chris, and truthful that's a existent idiosyncratic for her. But I don't know. I truly don't cognize however galore episodes she's watching. She’s a young girl. I don't privation to fuss with that stuff, [if] she picks it up, she picks it up. That's great. And if not, that's OK, too."

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