Barry Williams Admits His Curly Hair Was His 'Biggest Issue' onThe Brady Bunch: 'I Was Always Trying to Mess with It'

Mar. 15, 2025

Barry Williams on a 1977 episode of ‘The Brady Bunch’.Photo:ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty

ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty

It wasMaureen McCormick’s Marcia Brady who was obsessed with brushing her hair on-camera inThe Brady Bunch,but off-camera, it was actuallyBarry Williamswho cared the most about his coif.

On the Jan. 7 episode ofThe Real Brady Bros,Williams’Brady Bunchrewatch podcast with former costarChristopher Knight, the men started their banter with a comment on Williams' hair in the episode they were chatting about, season 3’s “My Fair Opponent,” which originally aired on March 3, 1972.

“I’ll have to say, in this show, Barry, your hair is unique,” Knight, 67, said. “It’s in between what it was and to what it will become.”

“I will tell you that my hair was my biggest issue from every season,” Williams, 70, countered. “There was always something, and it was always, to me, a problem. I would have been much better off if I’d just been happy with the curls how God gave me and go with it. But I was always trying to mess with it and change it and grow it and shorten it and straighten it or something.”

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“I’m probably not in this business absent some vanity,” he added with a laugh.

“But you’d never be able to compete against Eve’s hair,” Knight shared with a nod to their costar Eve Plumb, who played middle daughter Jan.

Williams played oldest Brady brother Greg, while Knight was middle son Peter on the beloved series, which ran from 1969 to 1974.

The men launched their podcast in 2022, with the goal to reframe how some fans saw the series, they said at the time.

Barry Williams, Mike Lookinland, Susan Olsen, Christopher Knight and Eve Plumb of ‘The Brady Bunch’ at the 2022 Emmys.Frazer Harrison/Getty

“We’re experts in being Brady,“Knight told ABC. “Our view of us over 50-some odd years is a little different than our audiences. They know us from the show. Our recollections of those episodes aren’t what theirs are.”

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Over the years, the two have reunited with several of their castmates,most recently onTodayin November of 2024, when they dished on some of the funniest plot lines and announced a contest in which fans could enter to win a chance at visiting the original Brady home.

source: people.com