Danny Bondauce revealed that his favorite episode of The Partridge Family was the one and only Christmas episode that aired in 1971.
In a 2025 interview on the That’s Classic podcast, Bonaduce, who played middle son Danny Partridge on the classic musical sitcom, said, “My favorite episode, one would be the Christmas episode. It was just great. And I got to ride a horse, which was very exciting.”
Bonaduce, 66, also spoke about the episode in an interview with Seattle Refined. "There was a lot of get-up-and-go in the Christmas episode where—I don't even remember exactly how it happened—I don't know if it's somebody's dream, but we end up in the Old West, but with David Cassidy as the sheriff," Bonaduce said. "And everything is these weird pastel colors."
The episode, titled “Don’t Bring Your Guns to Town, Santa,” originally aired on Dec. 17, 1971, on ABC. It was the only Christmas episode—and the only holiday episode at all—from The Partridge Family’s four-season, 96-episode run.
In the Christmas -themed episode, the Partridge bus breaks down after the musical clan’s performance in Las Vegas. The family ends up in a ghost town with one inhabitant, a gruff prospector (Dean Jagger) who tells them a Christmas story that features some wild imagery—including Cassidy as a lollipop-licking, singing sheriff and a heroic Bonaduce, aka Little the Kid, riding a white horse through the town.
The episode also featured two holiday performances by the Partridge Family: “Winter Wonderland” was performed at the front of the episode, and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" at the end.
The two Christmas songs were also included in a holiday album released that year. A Partridge Family Christmas card was released in November 1971 and was a No. 1 Billboard Christmas song that year, beating out the Jackson 5’s Christmas album and Elvis Sings the Wonderful World of Christmas. In addition to holiday classics such as “Jingle Bells,” “White Christmas,“ and “Frosty the Snowman,” the album featured an original Partridge Family song, “My Christmas Card to You,” as well as a signed cover that looked like a Christmas card. As with other Partridge Family albums, Cassidy and co-star Shirley Jones were the only two actors from the show who also performed vocals on the album.
Cassidy, who died in 2017 at age 67, once told fans in an online chat that he hoped to record another Christmas album someday. “I would really love to make a Christmas album again as well,” the actor and singer told fans in 2001. “I made a Christmas album in 1971 and it was very successful, and people still talk to me about it and ask me about it, and it was when I was with the Partridge Family," he said at the time. "So I think that 30 years later, it might be time to do one of my own.”
In 2016, Cassidy released a digital EP of Christmas songs that included his rendition of “Blue Christmas,” “Silent Night,” and “Santa Claus is Coming to Town.”
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