While many people grew up with Barry Williams on their television screens as Greg Brady in The Brady Bunch, he recently revealed he’s never watched a single episode with either of his kids.
“I have two kids. One is just turning 20 and the other is just turning 11 – Brandon, my eldest, and Samantha, my youngest,” Williams, 71, said on a bonus episode of The Brady Bros published on November 11. “I have never watched a Brady Bunch episode with either one of them. I never introduced them to the series.”
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He continued, “And this is a cavalier on my part. I just didn't feel that I wanted to throw that element into the mix until they kind of discovered it for themselves. I know that neither one has seen all of the episodes.”
Williams added that he thought it was “fun” for his children “to discover the show with their sitters.”
“I would have, you know, their nannies come over and they say, ‘Have you ever seen your dad on TV?’ And then I'd come home and find that,” he explained. “So I didn't make a rule about it either, you know, if they wanted to watch it. And I thought that was kind of a nice introduction. It's not easy for kids to grow up with someone who's recognizable or been on TV a lot.”
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Williams noted that his son did experience “some hazing” after his classmates discovered who his dad was, but thankfully, he was able to shrug it off.
“Brandon, for instance, was accused of thinking he was special or arrogant and kind of had to put up some hazing,” Williams said. “Fortunately, he's pretty well adjusted so he could just knock it off and then he'd kind of make fun of them right back.”
Williams grew up on set as the oldest Brady sibling, playing clean cut Greg from the pilot episode in 1969 through the end of the series in 1974. The show ran for five seasons and became one of television’s most popular family sitcoms, and its spinoffs included reunion specials, TV movies and, later, reality projects that kept the Bradys in front of new generations.
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Williams was only 14 when filming began, and he spent some of his most formative years balancing school, studio tutors and the nonstop attention that came with teen idol status. Even after the original run ended, The Brady Bunch never stopped airing which meant that Greg Brady stayed part of his life long after the cameras shut off.
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