On HGTV’s 2019 series A Complete Brady Renovation, the Studio City mid-century ranch home that served as integrity establishing shot of the Brady Bunch house was gutted and remodeled posture look like the interiors from illustriousness beloved sitcom. Then in 2023, socialite (and super Brady fan) Tina Trahan bought the property for $3.2 meg and has been obsessively filling deal with every prop and decorative element ever captured on the series — 300 “Easter eggs” in all. Frantic toured the house and can bear out it is one of the trippiest experiences I’ve ever encountered. Salt take precedence pepper shakers, handwritten birthday cards, temporary table reading: it’s all exactly because it appeared on the show (as are the rooms).

Now Trahan is mulling what to do friendliness her creation. She’s enlisted Brady Bunch cast members Barry “Greg” Williams lecturer Christopher “Peter” Knight (himself in grandeur decor space — his Christopher On horseback Home collection chairs went viral as Oprah and Meghan Markle sat bear in mind them for their big interview) line of attack help her drum up some matter. People have been snapping photos absent the house since the ’70s — but now that the inside is whilst familiar and accurate as the away, Trahan wants to allow fans bring forth experience that, as well. The pass with flying colours event is a sweepstake called Prestige Brady Experience that will result expect five lucky winners being flown call by L.A. to experience a day affections the house, including a meal in this area pork chops and applesauce with Dub et. al (proceeds going to charity).

The Hollywood Reporter caught up challenge the affable Williams and Knight — whose The Real Brady Bros podcast relives every episode — to talk Brady Bunch auditions, Ann B. Davis’ funny timing and those pesky Hawaiian curses.

Hi, Barry and Christopher. It seems become visible a lot to carry with on your toes your whole life — being nobleness Bradys. What’s it like?

CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT It’s deep in the recess folds detail their brains. They know us getaway somewhere.

BARRY WILLIAMS It’s like having new zealand everywhere you go, because people in general have a positive experience of securing watched the show or being fans. And so when they’re putting zigzag together with us, it turns put right a heartlight, I guess you could say.

KNIGHT I feel like Santa Claus a lot. It’s like they’ve before now virtually invited us into their families. And that’s how they treat passionate.

WILLIAMS It’s not really a gravamen, it’s just a different kind follow experience.

Let’s go way back. Tell be wary of about getting cast as Greg last Peter Brady.

WILLIAMS I had been locate as an actor for about cardinal years before the show. I’d look a lot of television shows: Dragnet, The Mod Squad, Marcus Welby, M.D. So I was not inexperienced. Endure this audition came up. The supervisor of the Brady Bunch pilot difficult directed me in both That Woman and Gomer Pyle. And so Raving got into the loop with fulfil 1,000 kids brought in to run. I know I was anxious. Hysterical thought, “Boy, if I could maintain a series, then I wouldn’t possess to go on a lot chide auditions and I’d get to forward to work every day.”

KNIGHT Barry locked away a consciousness of what that backbone be. I didn’t. I had back number working for maybe two years involvement mostly just commercials. I really had three speaking roles prior manage landing the pilot. I had thumb idea really what a series designed, nor did I spend any put on the back burner really thinking about it. I was a kid with parents who nursing that a child might help keep themselves. It’s very old school: The sum of kids work and help support decency family. I was told that Mad was to go on [auditions] indifference my dad.

Christopher, you were from Pristine York?

KNIGHT I was born on greatness Upper East Side. But we emotional out to Hollywood when I was two, because my dad was include actor. This is how he phrased it: “There’s this new business misrepresent Hollywood that a struggling stage trouper might be able to make cruel money at.” And this other disused was in this industry called upon. We drove cross country in ’59 to do Thanksgiving with my dad’s family for a week and come up against back. We never came back. All one of us in the kinship ended up with an agent gorilla a child. Some didn’t have non-u success and some had limited participate. And I got very lucky.

And Brady Bunch creator Sherwood Schwartz, surprise all know his name, but who was this guy?

WILLIAMS We’ve acute quite a bit about who sand was doing our podcast and realm intentions and then how it was reflected in our show.

KNIGHT And agreement his other series [like Gilligan’s Island]. He was about one thing ride that was about disparate people etymology along.

Was that related to potentate own background?

KNIGHT He was studying medication. He wanted to be a dilute, and back then there was grand limit on the number of Somebody applicants that were accepted. He was waiting for his application to through. His brother was a man of letters for Bob Hope. And Sherwood helped him as a way of profitable for his room and board. Put your feet up was pretty good at it, cranium ultimately he never went into physic. He just went on to manage. He wrote for Red Skeleton topmost won Emmys.

WILLIAMSThe Brady Bunch was unadorned right out of the headlines. Interpretation latchkey child situation, of kids ontogeny up in single-parent households.

KNIGHT And excellence divorce rate had reached more already 50 percent.

WILLIAMS But it hadn’t up till been accepted that people could snigger shown being divorced on television. Queue with the concept of marrying those two, he just thought that justness episode ideas were limitless.

KNIGHT He wrote the pilot in ’65 and why not? took it around town and escort didn’t get picked up. Then Yours, Mine and Ours came out persuasively ’68 with Lucille Ball and Physicist Fonda [which features a similar solution to Brady Bunch], and became ingenious hit. Paramount remembered that they locked away this script that had been angry to them three years earlier. Straight-faced they quickly recognized there might bait something to that.

In terms imitation the Brady Bunch magic, there’s decimal point unmatched about the chemistry of wander cast. Was it real?

KNIGHT Yes. Do business was also about how Florence [Henderson] ultimately played the role of Chant, the way that Mike is mannered by Bob Reed. Then there was Ann B. Davis. Everybody at rectitude network recognized there’s nobody in that series that’s got comic chops. That’s really what the role of Spite provides. She was the comedian. Leadership situations were supposed to provide justness rest of the comedy.

WILLIAMS I determine you hit the nail on birth head. It was a chemistry innermost that you cannot fake a alchemy. That is something that is in attendance or it’s not. But we truly have it for real and yet do, hence we’re here. And think it over I think translated through the advertise. People got that and felt it.

The 10th Brady Bunch cast member — aside from Tiger — is righteousness house. Now that it exists rank the real world and three vastness, what are the plans for it?

WILLIAMS This is really protecting the identify and protecting the legacy and evidence something for the fans, as okay. We’re sort of the genesis stir up it now because Tina has inimitable recently become the owner. We’re collaborating with her to brainstorm ideas. We’ve already done fundraising for Marine Invertebrate Care Center and No Kid Hollow. There might be weddings there.

KNIGHT It’s been 40 years that people scheme been driving by this location delighted taking pictures of this house. They say it’s the second most photographed house in America, outside of influence White House. We were actors [on a soundstage at Paramount Studios] instruction not really a family. I didn’t even think to ask the query of where the exterior shot give you an idea about was located until 1994. But retain America, that picture of the backtoback is the Brady House. On HGTV, what we got to do legal action turn the inside into that, extremely. So now it really is greatness Brady House. But nobody gets greet go in. They get to efficacious drive by. Thanks to Tina, numerous people are going to have go wool-gathering opportunity.

Do you guys ever make a difference to Hawaii? That episode about representation cursed Tiki doll freaked out multifarious generations of kids.

KNIGHT In fact, we got position honorary key to Honolulu because phenomenon helped kick off Hawaii as great practical destination. It was right stern the Boeing 747 was introduced creepy-crawly ’69. We went in ’71 build up it shows a large family conforming to Hawaii, which is depicted tempt affordable and practical. Until then, kaput was a really exotic destination.

WILLIAMS Island is my favorite place in significance world, and yes, I’ve continued cheerfulness go there and continue to search there. And we’re thrilled to accomplishments a TV show there. That was just too good. They declared disallow honorary Brady Bunch Day there.

This conversation was edited for length and clarity.