The Very Brady Soap Stars

The surviving cast of the Brady Bunch have reunited for HGTV’s a very Brady Renovation, premiering on September 9. Five of the six brady kids have also done soaps. Here, the gang looks back on their daytime days.

- Tom Stacy

Maureen McCormick (exRebecca, PASSIONS, 2000) Next year will be 20 years since you visited Harmony. “Wow! Thank you for telling me because I had no idea.”

You only did 10 episodes. Why didn’t you stick around? “It’s funny. Sometimes you say, ‘No,’ and after you’re like, ‘Should I have stayed?’ But in my heart at the time, I thought this character seemed to be stuck in the same place, and I wanted to do new things with her. With the pacing of the show, sometimes a day would last for a week or a month — or two! That was frustrating because as an actor, you want to keep trying new things. But I have to say that everyone on the show was really lovely — and the girl who played my daughter [Liza Huber, ex-Gwen] was Susan Lucci’s [ex-Erica, ALL MY CHILDREN] daughter! I was really honored to be playing her mother, and she was so down-to-earth, which I really admired — and I met Susan She was a lovely lady and so sweet.”

Rebecca was quite a character. “She was. I like wacky and I like crazy. That’s the fun stuff to play.”

Would you ever do another soap? “I’ll never say no to anything. I like to read a script and think, ‘Can I give my all to this and can I do it well?’ ”

You declined to do THE BRADYS, which was very soapy. “I totally agree. It was like a soap opera.”

What influenced your decision? “Honestly, I read the script and I wasn’t excited about the direction they were going in. At the time, I was in development with Blake Edwards and his television company. We were working on something that didn’t happen but in the end, I have to say, I felt right about my choice. I love our show and I care about its legacy.”