Many of us remember when we were young sitting in front of the television every Friday night, watching the antics and adventures of the stepsiblings of “The Brady Bunch.” Who didn’t want a date with Marsha or Greg? They were so popular. Of course, there were other Brady kids and one of them was Peter Brady, one of the middle children.
Meet Christopher Knight, AKA Peter Brady, at the Southern Arizona Home Show, set for Friday, March 27, through Sunday, March 29, at the Tucson Convention Center. Knight will be appearing at 1 p.m. Friday and Saturday during the show.
He will discuss all things Brady and, once his talk is finished, he will be greeting fans, taking selfies with them and signing autographs. Basically, he will be talking about what fans seem to want to hear about, his time with the Bradys. Most asked question?
“Are you friends?” he said.
The answer?
“We all are friends,” he said. “As a matter of fact, Eve (Plumb) and I are close. We talk every two weeks on Zoom. I maintain close relationships with all (of them). … Like a big family that grows up and has influences from outside and moves away, you see each other rarely or at holidays so you’re growing apart and together. I do know with our group when it’s almost been years that we’ve been back together, when we’re back together it’s almost as though no time has passed.”
The Home Show will feature about 250 exhibitors, both home-related professionals and artisans. Look for information about construction, renovation, interior design, flooring, windows, doors, kitchen and bath remodeling, heating and cooling systems and landscaping and swimming pools. There will also be a section that features more than 50 young innovators from the Tucson Children’s Entrepreneur Market.
Knight was just a kid when he made “The Brady Bunch.” Through the years he’s made guest star appearances on television, has been a game show host and competed on “The Masked Singer” with his two Brady brothers as The Mummies. He and the other Bradys worked on “A Very Brady Renovation,” where they gutted and rebuilt the Brady home. They added a commode to the upstairs bathroom the kids supposedly shared and tried to recreate the interior of their television home as closely as they could, which, incidentally, was on a set, not in a home.
Most recently, Knight has a podcast with Barry “Greg Brady” Williams called “The Real Brady Bros.”
Knight left acting for a time and made his living in the computer industry. He has worked as a very successful sales manager. Unsurprisingly he landed at least $1 million contract. A few minutes chatting with him and you understand that he is a born salesman.
He co-founded one software company and founded a couple of others. He also worked for a company that produced electronic keyboards. Throughout this time, Knight loved tinkering around the house. He said if not for the Bradys he would have probably pursued engineering, but that love of tinkering brought him to Christopher Knight Home, an online indoor/outdoor furniture brand. One set of his line of furniture will be given away at the Home Show.
“The Brady Bunch” made its debut in September 1969 and, more than 55 years later, the show is still on television. Why? Knight said he feels it’s because it speaks to people about something very important to all of us.
“One of the things that I had to get used to is that it wasn’t going to go away,” he said. “Backing away from that it’s like, is that a problem? Only insofar as that I’ll always be recognized for it. But if I turn that around and I get appreciated for it and then find out why it is that people are driven to it, if they’re appreciating it for all good reasons. They’re appreciating it because of what it says about family.”