Pop Culture Retro interview with Christopher Knight from The Brady Bunch!
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- Опубліковано 4 лют 2025
- Join Disney's Ike Eisenmann, and author, Jonathan Rosen, as they chat with Christopher Knight from The Brady Bunch!
Chris discusses his time on the iconic series, his podcast with Barry Williams, The Real Brady Bros, the documentary he helped produce, Truelove, his brand of furniture, & much more!
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Thank you for defending the wholesomeness of the show. The same characteristics that existed in the Waltons and Little House on the Prairie. My family was flawed just like every family has flaws, but that family dynamic is what we strived for. It was what my parents tried to provide. It was not unrealistic.
Agreed. The show resonated with many for portraying that sense of wholesome family togetherness. You have kids today watching 50 year old episodes for the same reason.
Every so often I read a comment from a poster who saw the BB as respite from the turmoil in their home lives.
Right, that was before the establishment started to demoralize and corrupt society through tv and movies. Before shows like Married With Children, etc. made fathers look like idiots and where the kids don't respect their fathers. And they make it look like having a family is bad for you. You know, they actually tried to show people and families with morals and ethics. That is a big part in why society is like what it is today....Monkey See, Monkey Do, they know people do what they see on tv. Enjoy! Kurt in Santa Rosa, Ca.
Everything about Brady Bunch makes me happy. Christopher Knight has real talent.
Agreed! And still doing great work! :)
Thoroughly enjoyed this interview. Such a unique path to an iconic career & role. I'm grateful for the show & glad the entire cast was selected to create our "fantasy reality" through The Bradys - the textbook example of how families could & should interact (even if we didn't have that in real life)! Even to this day, i consider it my "security blanket" as Chris says because no matter what's going on in my life, watching the show always brings me a feeling of peace, joy, & security. I wish all the cast members well with any and all future endeavors, & thank them all for providing such great performances to elevate our lives! Love you guys always!!!
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There most definitely is a comforting warmth when watching The Bradys and many other shows from childhood, but the Brady Bunch is right at the top.
Thanks for watching!
My favorite, and most handsome of the Brady boys. I remember in the '90s, every day after school my twin sis and I would put a pizza in the oven, turn on TBS, and watch The Brady Bunch. I love this.
Was a staple in our house growing up. Was always on after school. :)
No, Greg was the cutest. Greg Brady made me gay.
@@americanmanhood That sounds like the title of a fun memoir!
The Brady Bros pod cast is so good, I highly recommend it,
Love it as well! So much fun :)
Great interview with Christopher Knight, I love the Brady Bros Podcast too. Thank you for doing this.
Thank you for this interview. I love Variety shows so the BBVH came at a perfect time. I liked cousin Oliver because I knew I couldn't be a Brady but I could be Cousin David 🙂
That's a good way of looking at it! :)
So many interviewers don't let their subjects talk. Thank you for this! You're a great host and I really enjoyed this.
Don't know how we missed this comment. Thanks for watching! :)
I still watch those shows too and I am 56 years old 😊
They're comfort viewing :)
I haven't watched the Brady Bunch since I was a child in the early '70s, but certain scenes and moments are etched forever in my memory. Christopher (Peter) was my favourite of the Brady Boys. Whatever crazy story lines were thrown at him, I found him believable.
Revisited within the last few years, and was immediately transported back to childhood.
And, yes, Chris was fantastic in it! :)
Riveting interview. Chris is a fantastic storyteller and that history surrounding that era of tv and the BB is so fascinating to me. So glad it got recorded.
We felt the same listening to Chris's stories. :)
Thanks for watching!
In the mid-1970s my parents split up when i was young. About 5-6 years old. Mother retained custody of us kids. After the split, she turned into this psychotic, abusive monster. I turned towards watching LOTS of tv as a way of providing myself with escape and comfort from my misery.
Out of the many, many tv shows i watched in daily syndicated reruns, the Brady Bunch was (and still is) my number one favorite tv show. The Brady Bunch tv show more than just entertained me. It helped me to preserve what few shreds of sanity I had plus provided me with much needed happiness, laughter, and joy in an otherwise joyless existence.
More than once my mother said to my face, "I wish you were never born." Can anyone see Carol Brady saying THAT to any of her 6 kids? Much less multiple times?
The Brady family i saw on tv is the family i wished i had. Nice, normal, loving, no abuse, etc. My desire to belong to the Brady Bunch family was so intense, that on more than one occasion, while I slept, I actually dreamed that I was a Brady family member. They are easily the fondest, most happiest dreams I ever had in my lifetime.
Dont get me wrong. I had no illusions. I was well aware that the brady bunch wasnt a real life family. Just a bunch of actors playing a part. But at the same time i just knew that the fictional brady family was much more closer to how a real family was supposed to behave. And much, much more closer to happy, loving, and above all, NORMAL than my real life family, home, and circumstances.
I swear, if I ever get rich, I'm building for myself an EXACT replica of the Brady Bunch home.
So sorry that you experienced that. Amazing what some shows can do for you, and glad the Brady Bunch became a life preserver for you. That show, still to this day, brings me back to memories of childhood as well.
I can relate. Eight Is Enough was my escape from a miserable family experience. It's too bad your Mom couldn't seek mental health counseling. Verbal abuse towards one's children leaves deep scars.
Another great informative and balanced discussion of the range of his career and life in the industry. I remember when he appeared on an episode of the Krofft Show Bigfoot and Wildboy in late seventies. He played a boy who was bitten by a wolf who was experimented on and he became enraged and strong. Great job overall on this episode guys.
Great career and extremely level-headed. Chris was great to talk with! :)
Love Christopher Knight and the Brady Bunch! I'd love to see some of the child cast of the original Yours, Mine and Ours on here (just a request 😉). Great interview!
Will see what we can do! :)
Thanks for watching!
This is great!
Thanks for watching!
So sad that he had a terrible family life as a child. From looking at Chris now, u would NEVER know it. God definitely had his arms embraced around him. Such a wonderful guy....and still so handsome.
Can confirm that Chris was equally nice off the air and on. Great guy! :)
Great interview!!
Thanks for watching! :)
I love Orlando, Florida. I wish I lived there.
It's a great place to live! :)
Eve Plumb and Robert Reed were on Family Affair but at different times
Thank you! Christopher is awesome. Longtime fan.
He really was great! :)
Totally! So candid and genuine.
He came to where I work in Vegas a few years ago (a Cirque du Soleil show). He and his group came to my station. He was turned away and another person handed me the tickets. I saw the name on the tickets and was just about to say, "That's the same name as the guy who played Peter on The Brady Bunch," he turned around towards me. Being a big Bradymaniac, I was star struck. Everyone else disappeared and reached out to shake his hand. He was very nice and I'm sure I embarrassed myself.
I'm sure he gets that a lot. Glad he was so nice to you! :)
I identify so much with Christopher, aside from my name being Gustavo, a Germanic/Spanish variation of Christopher, I was the middle child of three boys with three sisters, all of us born within 7 years, 1971 - 1978. We grew up with the Bradys as Mexicans living the American dream. I had a magic show, beat up and gotten beaten up just like Peter. I always wanted to say this, doesn't Chris resemble a more clean cut version of fat Mike from NoFX?
When I was an outbound caller for a data research company in Calabasas, Ca, miles down on Ventura blvd. From Brady home in Studio City, my Alias on the phone was Christopher Knight. When I been hearing the podcasts with Barry recently, the way he introduced himself was about identical to the way I sounded over the phone, in a smooth suave sort of way with a deep tenor.
That is soooo awesome! Love that you did that :)
When the Brady Bunch came out, I wasn’t even around yet was not born yet ❤ until 1970 I was just a baby when it came out 1971 I was only one years old 1972. I was two years old 1973. I was three years old 1974. I was only four years old I started watching it when I was older late 70s I watched it from time to time hello everyone hello Marine McCormick hello eve plum hello Susan Olsen hello Christopher Knight, hello barry Williams hello Mike lookingland cool
Oh, so like Sanibel island
Eve Plumb as an adult is the attraction hot beautiful 😍 Something about her
I hope you can get all the Brady kids on your show.
So do we! :)
@@PopCultureRetro And yes, that includes Robbie Rist.
He's on our wishlist as well! :)
@@PopCultureRetroHow about the substitute Brady Girls? Leah Ayres, Geri Reischl and Jen Runyan?
They are on the wishlist as well. :)
Wish I could ask him what Carol and Mike’s backstory was. I thought they were both divorced but learned recently that Mike was a widower. Don’t know if Carol was divorced or widowed as well.
Mike was supposed to have been a widower, and I believe that I read that Carol was supposed to have been divorced, but they never mentioned him again.
Sherwood Schwartz wrote the character as divorced but in 1969 divorce was uncommon in conservative and still somewhat religious American society. The network didn't want Carol to have had a failed marriage so her status was not specified.
That would be having chocolat have it in moderation
The kids of today would say, "These kids are cool but why are they wearing these weird clothes, and why do the guys all have such long hair?"
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My kids actually LOVE the Brady Bunch. Partridges too :)
@PopCultureRetro I thought the actors were talented, the writers not so much. All the Brady kids had acting talent, the Partridges down to Danny Bonaduce. The two youngest ones didn't have all that much to do. And David Cassidy's singing voice was quite underrated, because he sang mostly formula pop material. His voice was excellent though. He reminded me a lot of Howard Kaylan from the Turtles. But those clothes...ugh. I purged them from my closet sometime around 1980. And cut my hair, finally, sometime around 2000.
Great interview!
Thanks for watching! :)