In
Growing Up Brady, Williams discusses his childhood, the production of the 1969–1974
ABC sitcom
The Brady Bunch, his relationship with co-star
Maureen McCormick, disputes between series star
Robert Reed and creator-producer
Sherwood Schwartz, and various
Brady Bunch spin-offs. An
episode guide to the series is also included, as well as three negative critiques from Reed of the episodes "The Impractical Joker" and "And Now a Word From Our Sponsor" (both 1971), and "The Hair-Brained Scheme" (the series finale from 1974, in which Reed refused to appear). Two editions of the book exist: the first edition details his
Brady co-stars attending his 1990 wedding to Diane Martin; that marriage ended in divorce two years later; the second edition, published several years later, replaces the references to Martin with his impressions of the feature films
The Brady Bunch Movie and
A Very Brady Sequel, and reflections on Reed's death in 1992 due to
cancer and the subsequent media frenzy over the news that Reed had been diagnosed as
HIV positive (misreported as
AIDS) prior to his death. A third edition was printed in 2000. ==Adaptations==