Growing Up Brady (TV film)

Growing Up Brady is an American television movie based on the 1992 autobiography written by actor Barry Williams with Chris Kreski, Growing Up Brady: I Was a Teenage Greg.

It first aired May 21, 2000 in the United States on the NBC network and was released on DVD in 2004.

The movie is a slightly fictionalized tale about the production of the 1969-1974 ABC sitcom The Brady Bunch, on which Williams played teenager Greg Brady, with backstage dramas among the cast and the show's producer.

Cast

• Adam Brody - Barry Williams
• Kaley Cuoco - Maureen McCormick
• Daniel Hugh Kelly - Robert Reed
• Rebeccah Bush - Florence Henderson
• Michael Tucker - Sherwood Schwartz
• Michael Fetters - Lloyd J. Schwartz
• Ricky Ullman - Christopher Knight
• Kaitlin Cullum - Eve Plumb
• Scott Lookinland - Mike Lookinland
• Carly Schroeder - Susan Olsen
• Suanne Spoke - Ann B. Davis
• Barbara Mallory - Frances Whitfield
• Paul Greenberg - Davy Jones
• Marianne McAndrew - Doris Williams
• Sherwood Schwartz - Himself
• Barry Williams - Narrator

Scenes not like the book

In his book, Williams writes that he first kissed McCormick in Hawaii, rather than in a limousine bringing them home from a Who concert in Los Angeles. The flirting between McCormick and Williams whilst filming for "A Room At The Top" (episode 94) happened a few months before the Hawaii episodes and was boosted for the TV movie. Although in the movie Eve Plumb's character is unfazed when a security guard stumbles upon her and Christopher Knight making out in a prop car on the Paramount Pictures backlot, Knight has said Plumb was "mortified" and started to cry. Also a scene where Williams' agent tells him that The Brady Bunch had been canceled is changed somewhat. Instead of drinking a bottle of Bourbon, he is drinking a bottle of Scotch.

External links

• Growing Up Brady at the Internet Movie Database