THE KANSAS CITY STAR

                  July 10, 1997 Thursday  METROPOLITAN EDITION

SECTION: FYI;  Pg. E1;  RE:
HEADLINE: Re: Greg Brady

BYLINE: TIM ENGLE, Staff Writer

BODY:
   It figures: The one - one! - episode of   "The BRADY BUNCH"
included in TV Guide's list   of the 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time
was   the one about Marcia getting Davy Jones to sing   at a school
dance.

   All we have to say -   besides "Marcia!  Marcia!  Marcia! " -   is:
What about Greg?

   Greg was, after all,   pretty darn groovy.  Actor Barry Williams,
who   played him, is in town starring as flim-flam   man Harold Hill in
"The Music Man" at   Starlight Theatre, which runs through   Sunday.   

   (Greg Brady, you'll recall, grew up to   become a gynecologist.)

   Out of the way, TV   Guide!  Here now, according to the former  
babe magnet himself, are the Five Greatest Greg   Brady Episodes of "The
BRADY BUNCH":

   5.   Greg gets a job working for his dad the   architect and not
once but twice loses plans   he's in charge of delivering.  A
father-son   talk at the end "remains one of the most   outstanding
moments we had in
the show"   because of its strong moral message, Williams   says.

   4. The "Cyrano de Brady" episode,   in which Greg feeds Peter
pickup lines outside   a girl's bedroom window.  Williams likes this  
one because it's one of the few shows to   portray a close relationship
between Greg and   Peter.

   3. Part 1 of the big Hawaiian   vacation, in which surfer-dude Greg
wipes out.    This one was memorable because "I had an   accident that
almost took my life," Williams   says.  He surfed right into some
jagged coral,   but fortunately, only his feet were sliced up.    And
yes, the accident footage is in the   episode.

   2. A zealous agent transforms   Greg Brady into pop music sensation
Johnny   Bravo.  But Greg ultimately chooses to stay   Greg - and to
keep making music with his Brady   sibs.  Williams thinks Greg made a
mistake.

   And the No. 1 Greg Brady episode: Greg turns   Mike's den into a
bachelor pad and himself into   something of a hippie (actually

uttering things   like "I dig your scene, baby").  This episode   was
the '70s, Williams says: beaded curtains,   black-light posters, bell
bottoms, fringe   vests, headbands and "me, a white guy with   an
Afro."

   Williams, 42, says he doesn't   mind being so strongly identified
with "The   BRADY BUNCH" - even all these years after the   show
stopped production.

   "I'm just   thrilled I have such a connection with people,   that
I'm able to continue to work in my chosen   field, and we have this
great common ground to   start from."