Monday, December 1, 2014

Countdown to Christmas: The Voice of Christmas (The Brady Bunch, 1969)

Here's a Christmas treat from The Brady Bunch & Hulu:

Carol (Florence Henderson) comes down with laryngitis right before a Christmas pageant. Now, that's no way to prepare for the holidays, is it now? Here's "The Voice of Christmas":

Edit, 12/13/21: Hulu lost the rights a while ago. All that's available now is this sample clip.



This episode was repeated every year during the series' run, as memory serves, and why not?

Rating: A-.

2 comments:

magicdog said...

I only wish there had been a new Christmas ep for each season. It always seemed odd to me to have only one Christmas themed episode.

I'd always appreciated this episode for many reasons - one of which was the fact that it showed the Brady Family went to church (Episcopalian I'm assuming) and that Carol played an active role in it as a singer. You rarely see that in TV now. Plus - there was the miracle of Carol getting her voice back in time for Christmas mass.

Plus, Hal Smith as Santa!

hobbyfan said...

Oh, yeah, forgot about that. I recall seeing this ep at least twice in syndication. Watch. Me-TV will roll it out right before Christmas in the Sunday block.