Barry Williams on What ‘Brady Bunch’ Parents Taught Him

And Reed approached acting as a craft.

Official response and confirmed impact

Williams remembers him mentoring the young performers and teaching them to be responsible, take the work seriously and not let television fame go to their heads.

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Davis and Robert Reed taught him during The Brady Bunch.v

The strange thing about The Brady Bunch is that it was not a giant ratings phenomenon during its original run.

It never reached the Nielsen Top 10. Then syndication happened.

Children who were not even born when the show premiered suddenly knew Marcia, Greg, Jan, Peter, Cindy and Bobby. They knew Alice. They knew the staircase.

They knew the backyard. They probably knew that theme song after hearing about three notes.