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Christmas Past

Interview: Christopher Knight on The Brady Bunch: The Voice of Christmas

Christmas Past

Brian Earl

Kids & Family, Society & Culture

4.9791 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

The Brady Bunch is an iconic American sitcom that ran for five seasons. But it produced only one Christmas episode during its original run. "The Voice of Christmas" from season 1 finds Carol with laryngitis days before she's scheduled to sing a solo for her church's Christmas service. The one and only Christopher Knight joins Brian to break this episode down.Mentioned in this EpisodeThe Real Brady BrosMusic in this Episode"A Very Brady Special" — Kevin MacLeod, via Incompetech"Brady Bunch Ima...

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And then there was one when the boys tried to like ruin the girl's sleepover party.

0:05.8

And they like put a ghost outside on a string, a flashlight.

0:10.3

And I think they put itching powder in the sleeping bag.

0:12.6

I guess I remember that.

0:13.8

I was talking to my brother and sister not long ago.

0:16.4

Hi, I'm Jen.

0:17.2

Hi, I am Rich.

0:18.2

We were taking a little trip down memory lane and back to our childhoods growing up in the

0:22.5

70s and 80s.

0:24.1

Every weekday, in the late afternoon, sometime between school and dinner, we can't remember exactly.

0:29.3

It was a big part of our dinner time routine.

0:31.8

I think it was on when we were eating.

0:33.8

But was it on at night or after school?

0:35.6

After school. But every weekday, Boston's Channel 56 would run back-to-back syndicated episodes of one

0:42.0

of our favorite shows, the Brady Bunch.

0:45.4

And every weekday, my siblings and I, all five of us, one Brady shy of a bunch in our own

0:50.2

right, would gather in front of the old 19-inch television set to watch and re-watch

0:55.6

and re-watch the escapades of the Brady family.

0:59.3

I remember the one with something with Kitty Cariel and...

1:03.2

Over the years, we'd seen every episode so many times that we could tell which one it was

1:07.6

within the first few seconds of the opening camera shots.

1:10.5

Then there was the bully at the school. I'm trying to remember what his name was.

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