The Brady Bunch Kids Reveal Which of Their Recent Reunions Was ‘the Number-One Best’ (Exclusive)

The Brady Bunch cast cherished the opportunity to reunite on HGTV.

Although the cast has been fortunate to have many occasions to get together in the years since the beloved sitcom’s 1974 conclusion, one of their favorites was in 2019 for A Very Brady Renovation.

“That was probably the number-one best reunion show, in my book,” Christopher Knight, 67, who played Peter Brady, told PEOPLE at The Chocolate Expo at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., earlier this year.

“Well, we weren’t playing characters. We were ourselves,” noted Barry Williams, 70, who played Greg Brady.

Mike Lookinland and Susan Olsen, who also appeared at the expo, agreed.

“We were reflecting on the characters,” Williams said, with Knight adding, “And doing something very real … as opposed to faking it.”

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While people saw the series as the siblings reuniting at the Brady home for the first time, it was really an introduction to the house itself for many of stars.

“That wasn’t the Brady House [to us]. We didn’t even know where that was. I mean, I didn’t know until 1995 or so. That house was a photograph or a video used as an establishment, but we never worked there,” Williams explained.

“I deliberately had never been there because as a child … it couldn’t possibly be the Brady House,” Olsen shared.

“It wasn’t until my friend Allee Willis, who passed away, she was a big songwriter. She had a day in the Wienermobile. She invited me to come along with her and she goes, ‘We’re really close to the Brady House.’ I said, ‘I’ve never been,’ ” Olsen, 63, recalled.

“She goes, ‘We’re going.’ And there were fans outside. So here comes the Wienermobile and up pops Cindy. But that’s how I [first] saw the house.”

Turning the home into the Brady house as they knew it on the HGTV series was “pretty fabulous,” according to Williams. The plot of the HGTV series was to transform the interior to appear more like the soundstage that stood in for it during the show’s run.

“Now it’s very much the Brady House,” Knight said. “It’s amazing.

“And it’s a house! We worked on a set. So it’s better than what it was. It’s kind of wild. We took something … we made something real out of something that was a fantasy,” Williams said.

“To watch people walk through the doors … I wanted to do a talk show there because it was almost like getting people drunk, because they walk through the doors and they turn it into 9-year-olds,” Olsen said with a laugh.

“It’s a pretty special set, or was a special set. And this is not just reminiscent of it,” Knight added of the renovated home. “It’s like being on the set.”