This episode has us experiencing the Brady’s first Christmas together as a new family and features probably one of the sweetest television scenes between a child and Santa Claus.

Everyone is excited about Carol Brady’s big solo in the church choir on Christmas morning. That is until Carol discovers she has lost her voice. A further diagnosis is that she has laryngitis, probably from all the rehearsing she has done.

So Mike, being the doting husband and Alice, being the handy-dandy housekeeper, go into action to help out. Alice makes a home remedy concoction for Carol to wear around her neck, one so smelly even Alice herself can’t tolerate it. Mike has the boys get the Christmas tree and takes Cindy to the mall to see Santa.

In a touching moment, Cindy tells Santa all she wants for Christmas is for her Mommy to get her voice back so she can sing for Christmas. Of course, Santa reassures her that her mother will get her voice back, much to Cindy’s delight.

She excitedly tells Mike that “Santa’s going to give Mommy her voice back for Christmas”.

Mike: “Oh, honey, how could he do that? He’s not a doctor.”

Cindy: “He’s better than a doctor. He’s Santa Claus”.

Mike goes to the mall locker room and berates Santa for promising Cindy that her mother would get her voice back.

We jump to Christmas Eve and Greg, Marcia, Jan and Peter can’t sleep. One by one they sneak downstairs and sit on the stairs moping. Alice discovers them and Marcia suggests they postpone Christmas until their mother can talk again. The others agree. Then Alice pipes in:

“Ok, it’s unanimous, we’ll cancel Christmas. Take the tree down, get the presents back to the store, I’ll throw the turkey away. Of course, it might disappoint your mother a little. She’s had one tough break already. She and your Dad were looking forward to us all having a wonderful first Christmas together. Well, why worry about how they feel?”

Of course it’s all Marcia’s fault. Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!

They all agree it’s a bad idea and march off to bed. Of course, when Carol wakes the next morning, she’s humming and realizes—miracles of all miracles—Santa has come through and she has her voice back. Halleluia!

In the final scene we are treated to a beautiful rendition of Carol singing “O Come All Ye Faithful”.

And all was once again right in the Brady household.