Growing Up Brady

Growing Up Brady: I Was A Teenage Greg  
Author(s) Barry Williams with Chris Kreski
Foreword by Robert Reed
Country US
Language English
Genre(s) Autobiography
Publisher HarperCollins (1992), Good Guy Entertainment (1999)
Publication date 1992
Pages 300
ISBN ISBN 978-0967378503
ISBN 0967378508
OCLC Number 43629360
Dewey Decimal 791.45/72 21
LC Classification PN1992.77.B733 W55 1999

Growing Up Brady: I Was A Teenage Greg is a 1992 autobiography written by actor Barry Williams with Chris Kreski.

In Growing Up Brady, Williams discusses his childhood, the production of the ABC sitcom The Brady Bunch, his relationship with co-star Maureen McCormick, disputes between series star Robert Reed and creator-producer Sherwood Schwartz, and various Brady Bunch spinoffs. An episode guide to the series is also included, as well as three negative critiques from Reed of the episodes "The Impractical Joker" and "And Now a Word From Our Sponsor" (both 1971), and "The Hair-Brained Scheme" (the series finale from 1974, in which Reed refused to appear).

Two editions of the book exist. The first edition details his Brady co-stars attending his 1990 wedding to Diane Martin; that marriage ended in divorce two years later. The second edition, published several years later, replaces the references to Martin with his impressions of the feature films The Brady Bunch Movie and A Very Brady Sequel, and reflections on Reed's death in 1992 due to cancer and the subsequent media frenzy over the news that Reed had been diagnosed as HIV positive (misreported as AIDS) prior to his death.

Adaptations

The book was adapted into a television movie called Growing Up Brady that aired May 21, 2000 on the NBC network. It starred Adam Brody as Williams.