Greg loves Marcia.
“The Brady Bunch” star Barry Williams spoke about his “on-again, off-again” relationship with Maureen McCormick on Tuesday’s re-run episode of his and Christopher Knight’s “The Brady Bros” podcast.
The hosts discussed the 1973 episode “The Subject Was Noses,” in which Peter (Knight) throws a football at Marcia’s (McCormick) face and breaks her nose, which leads to a jock canceling his date with her.
Knight, 67, said that he observed Williams’ closeness with McCormick, 68, when they filmed the iconic episode.
“It did look like she was dating somebody very close to her on the set, judging from the relationship that I was witnessing between the two of you during this show,” Knight said to Williams, 70.
“You two were looking a little bit close, a little bit less like brother and sister and more like…” Knight added.
“You mean dreamy eyed?” Williams interjected.
Knight elaborated that Williams appeared “longing kind of wide-eyed” and McCormick “was looking dreamy” at the time. “You guys you were going through a good week, I would say,” he added.
Williams explained, “It was sort of like on-again, off-again with Maureen and I throughout the years. There was always a little dance being played that was broken up by hiatus.”
“When she was pretending to have to be affectionate with other guys and going out on dates and stuff, I liked to just stay out of the way and let her do her job and focus on and concentrate until, you know, until an episode that called for us to be sitting next to one another,” the actor continued.
Williams confirmed that he purposely came to set anytime McCormick filmed a romantic scene with someone else. “At all times. Always … Just to have a presence,” he said.
Williams and McCormick played step-siblings Greg and Marcia Brady, respectively, on the show.
Back in 2013, Williams confirmed on The Oprah Winfrey Network that he dated McCormick.
“The second most-asked question in my world is: Did Maureen McCormick and I date? Were we an item? And yes we did. Definitey,” he said.
“In fact, I was her first kiss,” Williams revealed. “That was in Hawaii when we were filming those episodes. We snuck away. It was a full moon. We walked along the sand and well I knew where that was headed. Of course I set it up.”
McCormick, for her part, opened up about her romance with Williams while recalling the cast’s trip to Hawaii in her 2008 memoir “Here’s the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My Voice.”
“As soon as I stepped off the plane, I started to think about him more intensely in the way I had fantasized for a long time,” she wrote in her book. “We had spent the past three and a half years staving off the desire of a mutual attraction despite the intimacy of working closely with each other every day.”
“The Brady Bunch” aired for five seasons on ABC from 1969 to 1974. The series also starred Robert Reed, Florence Henderson, Ann B. Davis, Eve Plumb, Susan Olsen and Mike Lookinland.
Last year, Williams told Us Weekly that the cast “all hooked up with each other at some point.”
He also admitted he had a “teenage crush” on Henderson, who played his TV mom.
