Christy Trivia

The amount MGM used to buy the filming rights to the ‘Christy’ novel… and never use it. $250,000.

The named ‘Christy’ is latin for ‘follower of Christ’.

It took around 1.2 million dollars to produce each episode. Primarily because of it’s on location filming.

Christy producer Barney Rosenzweig was also a producer on the 1960’s series Daniel Boone, starring Fess Parker.

No stages were used for the series. Every structure was built on site.

John Schneider known as Bo in the hit series ‘The Dukes of Hazzard’ guest starred in the episode ‘Amazing Grace’.

Don Sundquist, governor of Tennessee asked all Tennesseans to support the series. At the time it was one of his favorite TV shows.

Tyne Daly (Alice Henderson) won the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for ‘Christy’ in 1996.

The bird call at the beginning of the theme song is a Mourning Dove. The call was left out of 5 episodes including A Closer Walk, Judgment Day, Babe in the Woods, The Road Home, and of course the Pilot.

Kellie Martin was a writer for the season 2 episode ‘Babe in the Woods’.

Christy was shot on location and the cameras used 35 millimeter film in a cinematic process like movies. It’s possible that film restoration could provide a widescreen HD format.

The 1980s police detective series ‘Cagney and Lacey’ were both produced by Barney Rosenzweig / the Rosenzweig Company. Tyne Daly (Miss Alice) starred in both series.

Although the series is set in The Great Smokies, the filming area (Townsend, TN) is set just outside of the park. The real life location (Del Rio, TN) is in the Cherokee National Forest around 15 miles north of the Smokies. All of the areas are a subset within the Blue Ridge Mountains.

The episode credits of The Lie, Green Apples, The Hostage and The Road Home all contain unseen footage from the episode.