The Brady GroupJournalist Barry Williams recently took a trip down memory lane, showing his 12-year-old daughter the studio where the beloved ’70s sitcom was filmed.
The cute backstage tour took place back in July, and Williams, 69, shared the video on her official Instagram account (watch it here).
Of course, the iconic Brady house set on Paramount Television Stage 5 is long gone — the show ended in 1974. But Williams, who played Brady’s oldest sibling Greg, gave daughter Samantha, as well as his Instagram followers, a peek into the backstage hallway which he called a “back alley”.
The cast of ‘The Brady Bunch’ in 1969.
Courtesy of the Everett Collection
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“It’s a little bit different because we had pictures of all our fans along these walls here,” he explained. “Thousands of letters on these walls. It was like wallpaper.”
Williams also pointed to a sign on a nearby door warning people not to enter when the light is red.
“See where it says ‘closed set’?” he said. “We never had a closed set.”
But, Williams explained, the show’s young stars used a “back alley” corridor to get to their classrooms.
“There was a classroom here,” he noted, pointing to a door across the hall, “It was just me and Maureen McCormick (Marcia)—it was the high school. And then this next room was for small children.”
This wasn’t the first time Williams revisited the Brady home. Although the show’s interiors are gone, the real house built by Harry M. Londelius Jr. and used for exterior shots in the series still stands in the Studio City neighborhood of LA, and was the subject of a 2019 HGTV reality show. A very bold renovation. Williams, McCormick and their TV siblings Christopher Knight, Eve Plumb, Mike Lookinland and Susan Olsen all appeared on the series, helping HGTV stars Jonathan and Drew Scott, Mini Starsiak, Lara Spencer and others remodel the house to look exactly like the famous sets of the series.
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Barry Williams on ‘The Brady Bunch’ in the 1960s. Courtesy of the Everett Collection
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“It’s very nostalgic,” Williams told PEOPLE of the finished product in 2019. “I felt like a teenager walking in. Memories keep flooding back — episodes, scenes, what happened and what happened. As Maureen pointed out, we can feel the presence [deceased costars] Robert [Reed]Florence [Henderson] and Annie [B. Davis] there with us. Maybe they see it. It will be nice for them to enjoy it too.”
Most recently, Williams appeared on ABC’s 32nd season Dancing with the stars at the end of last year. Although he was eliminated from the competition on November 14, The The Brady Bunch the former student told PEOPLE that he “loved every minute” of his time on the show.
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