Barry Williams reflects on being ‘on-again, off-again’ with ‘Brady Bunch’ co-star Maureen McCormick

He may not have been as cool as Johnny Bravo, but “Brady Bunch” star Barry Williams still managed to woo co-star Maureen McCormick.

Williams said he had an “on-again, off-again” relationship with co-star McCormick during a rerun of an episode of his “A Very Brady Re-Run” podcast that aired this week.

Williams, who played Greg on the classic sitcom, was discussing the popular Season 4 episode “The Subject Was Noses,” in which McCormick’s Marcia has her nose broken, causing a jock at her school named Doug to cancel their date after she had previously backed out of a date with her mild-mannered classmate, Charlie, to go out with him.

“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,” said Williams’ co-host, Christopher Knight, who played his brother Peter on the show.

“You two were looking a little bit close, a little bit less like brother and sister and more like — you were looking at her, at times, the way the directions in the script probably told Charlie to look at Marsha,” he continued.

“You mean dreamy-eyed?” Williams replied.

“The longing kind of wide-eyed. Yeah. That was you. And she was looking dreamy,” Knight said. “Yeah. You guys you were going through a good week, I would say.”

Williams said there was always chemistry with McCormick.

“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,” he said.

He also said that he tried not to let his emotions get in the way of the job he and McCormick had to do on the show.

“When she was pretending to have 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 an episode that called for us to be sitting next to one another,” Williams said.

Knight also wondered if Williams made a point to be on the set when McCormick had a scene with someone like Nicholas Hammond, who played Doug in the episode.

“At all times. Always … Just to basically have a presence,” he said.

McCormick has echoed Williams’ comments about their relationship in the past.

“Barry and I were extremely attracted to each other,” she told TODAY in 2008. “It was even hard to be in a scene together. I was just dreaming of this romance. I had such an amazing attraction for him. It was awkward to be in scenes playing brother and sister. People started seeing it. Fortunately, it was on-again, off-again. We look at it now and we laugh.”

Williams and McCormick have spoken many times over the years about their relationship. In his book “Growing Up Brady,” Williams wrote about how they first kissed while shooting the Season 4 episodes when the Bradys were in Hawaii.

When McCormick was asked about the kiss during an appearance on “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen” in 2019, she said, “It was good.”

Williams also confirmed he and McCormick dated during a 2013 interview with OWN, noting he initiated the kiss in Hawaii.

“That was in Hawaii while we were filming those episodes,” Williams said. “We snuck away, it was a full moon, (we) walked along the sand. Well, I knew where that was headed. Of course, I set it up.”