Episode
The Brady Bunch: Jan, the Only Child
Overview
Jan is fed up with the number of people in the household and voices her want to be an only child. So the other kids oblige and give her all the space she wants and she finds that she has more space than she needs or even wants when she begins to excluded from the other kids activities.
Details
- Series
- The Brady Bunch
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 8
- Air date
- 1972-11-10
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
Jan, the Only Child is Episode 8 in Season 4 of The Brady Bunch. It aired on 1972-11-10. The runtime is 25 min.
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Episode 7: The Show Must Go On??
Marcia and Greg's high school is putting on Family Frolics activity which is a type of variety show with the students and their families providing the entertainment. This leads Marcia to talk Carol into performing a routine with her while Greg and Mike collaborate on their own.
Episode 9: Career Fever
In a paper for English class, Greg writes about wanting to follow in his dad's footsteps and become an architect. When Mike, reads the paper, he is ecstatic and goes all out encouraging him unknown to him Greg just picked whatever career to write the paper. Meanwhile, Peter and Jan also explore careers.
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