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When their mother (Shirley Jones) fills in for a sick singer, The Partridge Family is born. Danny (Danny Bonaduce) persuades Reuben Kincaid (Dave Madden) to manage them and they play their first performance, which might also be their last.

Cameo appearance made by: Johnny Cash

A minor fender bender turns into a major pain for the Partridges when they decide to fight a fraudulent lawsuit from Whiplash Willie.

Guest Stars: Harry Morgan as 'Whiplash' Willie Larkin, and Farrah Fawcett

Shirley's dad is having a mid-life crisis and decides to hit the road with the band to pursue his long-lost dream of being a star, but will his act appeal to the new generation?

Guest Stars: Ray Bolger and Rosemary DeCamp as Fred and Amanda Renfrew

Just as they're about to record their first album, the Partridges have a bomb dropped on them: ten-year-old Danny's been drafted into the Army.

Guest stars: Jack Riley as Corporal Wrzesinski, Jonathan Daly as Officer Moody

Shirley begins dating an old flame but the kids are suspicious of him, especially when they see him leave a jewelry store with a beautiful young woman.

Guest Stars: John McMartin as Larry, Jaclyn Smith as Tina

Now that their record is out, Keith finds himself with major girl trouble: he cannot keep them away from him! But his troubles really begin when he falls for the one who doesn't care who he is.

Guest stars: Lane Bradbury as Janet, Claire Wilcox as Cathy

While performing in Las Vegas, Danny tutors the beautiful girlfriend of a mob boss in finances so she can leave town and finds himself with a new hit but one that has nothing to do with music.

Guest Stars: Pat Harrington Jr. as Harry, Barbara Rhoades as LaVon LaVerne, Richard Bakalyan as Skee, Vic Tayback as Rocco

The Partridge Family is about to leave a different kind of lasting impression on their audience after a skunk hitches a ride on their bus and leaves them . . . and all their clothes . . . covered with the unpleasant scent.

After a mishap onstage leaves the audience laughing, Danny takes it upon himself to provide a little comic relief to their show. Unfortunately, he's not as funny as he thinks he is.

Guest Stars: Morey Amsterdam as Ziggy Shnurr, Jackie Coogan as Max Pepper

The Partridge Family find themselves with a captive audience when they perform at a prison, but then find themselves being held captive by a prisoner who wants them to hear his songs.

Guest Star: Stuart Margolin as Hank

While Keith struggles with a creative dry spell, Danny attempts to write his first hit. Their sibling rivalry peaks when Danny writes a great song just as Keith has a breakthrough with the exact same tune.

Keith promises his feminist girlfriend that the Partridge Family will perform at an upcoming rally, which puts them under attack from the morality watchdog group in their neighborhood.

Guest Star: Jane Actman as Tina

When Danny gets singled out in a review by a prominent journalist, the praise goes to his head and he decides to go solo. But he changes his mind when he sees his family happily auditioning for his replacement.

Guest Stars: Dick Clark as himself, Mitzi Hoag as Sheila Faber

During a stopover in a small town, the Partridges offer to revive the career of a folk legend who's been out of circulation for twenty years, but find that he would rather sing in church than be in the spotlight.

Guest Star: William Schallert as Red Woodloe

Reuben books a European tour but there's one condition: the groovy promoter thinks Shirley's too old. She quits the band, but discovers she has fans there after all.

Guest Star: Gino Conforti as Logan Mays

Laurie gets braces right before a television show comes to film the band. As if that isn't bad enough, when they begin to play, her braces pick up radio signals and all she can hear is The Rolling Stones!

Guest Star: Mark Hamill as Jerry

Shirley has doubts about what being on the road is doing to the Partridges' lives so she suggests they take a break and start living like a normal family again. But she forgets one thing: they're not a normal family.

Guest Star: Richard Mulligan as Dr. Jim Lucas

Due to a booking mix-up, two Detroit club owners expecting the Temptations get the Partridge Family instead. Can they find an audience in Motown?

Guest Stars: Richard Pryor as A.E. Simon, Louis Gossett Jr. as Sam Simon

Song: "Bandala"

Laurie refuses to cross the picket line and play when the hotel workers where they're scheduled to perform go out on strike.

Guest Stars: Harvey Lembeck as Marino, Michael Lembeck as Marc

The Partridges are happy for Reuben when he falls in love and decides to marry, even though his new life doesn't include managing the band – but the band quickly finds they can't manage without him.

Guest Star: Nancy Malone as Cathleen

Danny forces Keith to put the brakes on his spending when his car drains his finances and he realizes he may not be able to afford to take his girlfriend to the prom.

Guest Stars: Annette O'Toole as Carol, Carl Ballantine as Pitchman

The Partridges find themselves in the middle of a domestic squabble when they give a ride to a teenage girl—who turns out to be a serial runaway, with the police hot on her trail.

Guest Stars: Laurie Prange as Maggie Newton, Sandy Kenyon as Maggie's Father, Ian Wolfe as Grandpa

The rumor mill starts buzzing at school when a hot new guy arrives on campus. Keith initially sees him as a rival until Laurie, who doesn't believe the rumors, accepts a date with the alleged Lothario.

Guest Star: Michael Ontkean as Lester Braduck Song: "I'll Meet You Halfway"

A series of coincidences leads Danny to believe he was adopted and there doesn't seem to be anything anyone can say to convince him he's a natural-born Partridge.

Guest Stars: Bernard Fox as Marty Burnes, Ned Glass as Detective Harry Klein, Art Metrano as Mike Young

When the Partridges introduce a hip, multi-talented musician to a square, tone-deaf poet, no one expects them to score a hit—but somehow they manage to do just that.

Guest Stars: Bobby Sherman as Bobby Conway and Wes Stern as Lionel Poindexter

Song: "Stephanie"

Notes: This was Jeremy Gelbwaks' final episode as Chris Partridge.

The Partridges learn that Reuben has booked them as backup for a beautiful 18-year-old girl...whose singing voice makes Jean Stapleton sound like Judy Garland.

Guest stars: Robyn Millan as Dora Kelly, Jack Burns as Stillman Kelly

Song: "I Woke Up In Love This Morning"

In order to boost publicity for the family, Reuben stages a contest in which the winner will spend a week with the Partridges. Unfortunately, the winner is a 60-year-old Jewish mother.

Guest star: Kay Medford as Gloria Neugast

A motorcycle gang member develops a crush on Laurie, and she shocks everyone when she agrees to go out with him.

Guest Star: Rob Reiner as Snake

When Shirley enrolls in college, one of her male classmates develops a crush on her, much to the chagrin of his parents.

Guest stars: Michael Burns as Paul Bruner, Norman Fell and Ann Morgan Guilbert as Mr. and Mrs. Bruner

Danny has to have his tonsils out and as the operation approaches, he believes he is going to die. Afterward, he believes he has lost his singing voice.

Guest star: Gary Dubin in his first of several appearances as Danny's best friend Punky Lazaar

Danny wants to add a singing whale to the act in order to cash in on the ecology movement.

Guest stars: Bert Convy as Dr. Whelander, Dub Taylor as Flicker, and Howard Cosell as himself

Keith is determined to be a good influence on his brothers and sisters, but goes overboard with his good intentions.

Song: "Summer Days"

The Partridges help a young, awkward delivery boy build up his confidence in the dating department.

Song: "I'm On My Way Back Home"

When the Partridge kids decide to raise hamsters and their little pets keep multiplying, the family is forced to bring them along on tour.

Guest star: Gordon Jump as Albertson

Songs: "24 Hours A Day"; "I Woke Up In Love This Morning"

Shirley's mom and dad are about to split up over his new hip lifestyle, so the family devises a plan to get them back together.

Guest Stars: Ray Bolger and Rosemary DeCamp as Fred and Amanda Renfrew

In order to buy his mom a mink coat for her birthday, Danny starts stealing and selling off Keith's possessions to his lovesick fans.

The Partridges hire a temporary bus driver who turns out to be an ex-con.

Guest star: Milt Kamen as Johnny

When their bus breaks down in a ghost town, it looks like the family will miss Christmas, so a prospector entertains them with a Christmas tale set in the Old West.

Guest star: Dean Jagger as Charlie

A free-spirited girl leaves the Partridges one million dollars, and suddenly their lives are turned upside down as they deal with their newfound wealth.

Guest Star: Meredith Baxter as Jenny

After Chris and Tracy are scolded for leaving a mess, they decide to run away . . . to Reuben's apartment.

Guest Star: Elaine Giftos as Bonnie Kleinschmidt

Keith tries to prove he is a great filmmaker, but not everyone thinks so . . . until a movie theater agrees to show his "masterpiece".

In order to be independent, Keith moves into a room in the house next door.

Keith and Shirley get some unsavory publicity when Danny writes a story about them for the local paper.

A Russian handyman, who claims to be a world-class artist, paints a nude woman on the family's garage that puts the neighborhood in an uproar.

Guest Star: Arte Johnson as Nicholas Minsky Pushkin

When the Partridge women go camping in the wilderness, the Partridge men decide to follow them, just in case they need to be rescued.

Guest Star: Cindy Henderson as Girl Scout

Danny is in love for the first time. But the 11-year-old girl he would like to ask to the sixth grade dance would rather go with Keith.

Guest Star: Patti Cohoon as Gloria Hickey

Danny donates Laurie's diary to the school auction by mistake, and the editor threatens to publish it in the high school paper. This includes a Mission: Impossible send-up.

A married couple tries to get the Partridges to perform at a benefit in order to aid Native Americans.

Guest star: Harry Morgan as Cal

A former psychic whose business is in trouble cons Danny and Keith into lending him money by predicting bad luck during an upcoming Partridge Family concert.

Guest star: John Banner as Max Ledbetter

Laurie embarrasses Keith by defending him from Goose, the school bully.

Guest Stars: James Carroll Jordan as Goose, David Jollife as 1st Biker, Tim Patrick as Guy, Cindy Cassell as Girl

Shirley is chosen as "Mother of The Year" by a magazine, but she and the family experience a not-so-smooth journey to the award ceremony in Sacramento.

Guest stars: Edgar Buchanan as Judge McElwreath, Rick Hurst as Deputy Haynie, Yvonne Wilder as Sheila, Mitzi Hoag as Mrs. Halfussi, Jack Lukes as Driver

Keith dates a princess.

Guest stars: Season Hubley as Princess Jennie, Laurie Main as Frederic La Forge, Cecil Turnbow as Hal Buckley, John Bernard as Valentine, Sheldon Lee as Photographer

Reuben and Danny become roomies while wagering on a bet to tackle their vices.

Biker pal Snake returns to the Partridges, desperate. He's in love, but suicidal because his beloved Penny has rejected his marriage proposal.

Guest stars: Stuart Margolin as Snake, Judie Stein as Penny, James Beach as Tinker, Henry Olek as Gorgo, Helen Kleeb and Bryan O'Byrne as Penny's parents, Bill Quinn as the Pastor

Danny's problems in school become a problem at home, when his quest to become more "mature" alienates him from the family.

Guest star: Charlotte Rae as Dr. Beecher, Bruce Kimmel as Richard Whipple, Maggie Wellman as Molly, Patti Cohoon as Gloria Hickey

Shirley's parents try to enliven their marriage.

Guest stars: Ray Bolger and Rosemary De Camp as Grandpa and Grandma, Bill Zuckert as Dwight, Gordon Jump as Minister, Toni Berrell as Candy, Ondine Vaughn as Daisy Songs: "Something New Got Old"

Keith campaigns for a politician who likes Shirley.

Guest star: Bert Convy as Richard Lawrence, Ann Carol Pearson as Cathy

A days-long rainstorm strands the Partridges in a remote cabin. Tempers flare as the family compete over who will get the two small beds and the meager supply of food.

Guest Stars: Charles Shull as E.J. Whacker

Laurie falls for a minister. Her mother fears their relationship is moving too fast.

Guest star: Anthony Geary as Greg Houser, Ta-Tanisha as Mary-Lou Trimper

Song: "Sunshine"

A talent scout recruits Keith for a movie role.

Guest Stars: Shelley Morrison as Mrs. Kornegge, Robert B. Williams as Otis Butrum, Mark Lambert as Dale, Jim Connell as Gus Gorney, Ray Buktenica as Assistant Director, Pat Peterson as Guard, Cindy Cassell as Kitty, Claire Wilcox as Cindy

Danny wins an insomniac racehorse.

Guest star: Slim Pickens as Will Fowler, Lázaro Pérez as Pete Navarro, Dick Balduzzi as Homer Peck

The Partridges try to sell their house.

Guest stars: Bert Freed and Lurene Tuttle as Mr. and Mrs. Sharp, Gordon Jump as Father, Donna Lynne as Girl, Marilyn Childs as Mrs. Gibson, Bobby Baum as Ed Hoffsteader, Sari Price as Mother, Susan Neher as Gwen, Robin Raymond as The Woman

Shirley tries to ditch an ardent suitor and his mother.

Guest stars: Gerald Hiken as Dr. Bernie Applebaum, Nancy Walker as Mrs. Applebaum, Donald Phelps as Maitre'D

After the Partridge home is burglarized, Reuben has a security alarm installed . . . with disastrous results when the alarm keeps getting set off accidentally.

Guest star: Arte Johnson as Morris Dinkler, Nelson D. Cuevas as Officer Metscur, Mel Gallagher as Sam Barner

Laurie is dragged into student court at school when she's caught unwittingly returning a copy of a stolen math test to her teacher.

Guest Stars: Dana Elcar as Mr. Felcher, Noah Keen as Mr. Brown, Eric Laneuville as Judge, Tannis G. Montgomery as Cindy Brown, Jim Wakefield as Brad, Scott Ehrlich as Student, Michelle Cook as Melinda

At a gig at the Kings Island amusement park outside Cincinnati, Keith finds himself falling for a PR agent, an older woman; before long, Danny also falls for her.

Guest stars: Mary Ann Mobley as Audrey Parson, Johnny Bench as Pool Waiter

Songs: "Together We're Better", "Girl You Make My Day"

Shirley's old flame comes to town with his daughter Julie. As they begin to re-ignite old sparks, Julie discovers feelings for Danny.

Guest stars: Bert Convy as Richard Lawrence, Jodie Foster as Julie Lawrence, Dennis Lee Smith as Waiter

Reuben signs the family up for a series of commercials in support of a fast-food chicken outfit looking to change its hokey image.

Guest star: William Windom as Uncle Erwin, Elaine Giftos as Bonnie Kleinschmidt, John Lawrence as Conventioneer, Ondine Vaughn as Gwen

Could America's "heartthrob" Keith be failing his sex-education course in school?

Guest star: Ramon Bieri as Mr.Grisbee

A purchase of a $29 cuckoo clock becomes a $2,900 headache when a computer glitch mistakenly overcharges Shirley's credit account.

Guest stars: Vic Tayback as Harlan Laws, Alan Oppenheimer as Mr. Atwater, John David Carson as Tom Baker, Robert F. Simon as Mr. Gordon, Gary Morgan as Albert, Lou Frizzell as George

Danny finds himself in trouble when his friend Punky coerces him into shoplifting.

Guest stars: Henry Jones as Mr. Phelps, Gary Dubin as Punky, Joseph Perry as Police Sergeant, Jack Collins as M.C., Angela Clarke as Myra Fromacher

Keith finds himself in a hotly contested battle for student-body president with a shy girl for whom Laurie is campaign manager. He finally comes to realize she is more qualified.

Guest star: Holly Near as Phyllis Goldberg, David Dominguez as Ted, Geri Berger as Girl #1, Lori Farrow as Girl #2, Jason Wingreen as Principal, Bobby Kramer as Myron, Ann Carol Pearson as Band Member Song: "There'll Come A Time"

The family crosses paths with a rich recluse who is drawn to them but afraid of crowds.

Guest star: John Astin as Sidney Rose, Jim Antonio as Pearson, Sari Price as Woman

A mystery writer challenges the Partridges: if all of them can elude his search for 24 hours, he'll donate $25,000 to charity.

Guest Stars: Richard Schaal as Rezo, Martin Speer as Lazaar, Bruce Kimmel as Delbert, Susan Neher as Girl

The Partridges come up against a new neighbor who hates show business and resorts to enforcing noise pollution ordinances against the family.

Guest stars: Nita Talbot as Doris Stevens, Ronne Troup as Donna Stevens, Teddy Wilson as Sam Mulvaney

Songs: "I'll Never Get Over You", "Sooner Or Later"

Keith discovers his ladies-man reputation precedes him when the new girl in town refuses to go out with him.

Guest star: Kathleen Cody as Dina Firmly, Mike Rupert as Mark and Gary Morgan as Scotty

Keith is challenged by a new girlfriend to stop making "simple" music, so he tries to write a classical music piece to impress her.

Guest stars: Barbara Sigel as Rachel, Harold Gould as Walter Yost

After becoming a pest tagging along after Keith and Laurie, Danny is encouraged by Shirley to make friends his own age by trying out for the baseball team.

Guest stars: Herb Edelman as Darby Willis, Dick Balduzzi as Marv Fillmore, Gordon Jump as Zack Feldman, Jackie Earle Haley as Rusty

Shirley encourages the kids to be a little nicer to Reuben, but the plan backfires when Reuben mistakes the show of appreciation for bad news from the doctor. Reuben's middle name is revealed to be Clarence.

Guest stars: Margaret Hamilton as Clara Kincaid, Elaine Giftos as Bonnie Kleinschmidt

Keith pulls the classic boner by having two dates for the same night: one of them is the prettiest girl in school, the other a friend of Laurie's.

Guest stars: Elaine Giftos as Bonnie Kleinschmidt, Bobby Kramer as Wally Benton, Cheryl Ladd as Johanna Houser and Cindy Cassell as Sally Winkler

Songs: "Oh No, Not My Baby", "A Little Bit Of Lovin'"

Laurie is the object of a rich admirer on a cruise ship, but all is not exactly how it appears.

Guest star: Bruce Kimmel as Howard Crump

A smitten ambassador asks Shirley out on a disastrous first date, but his quest for a second date turns her world upside down after she refuses.

Guest stars: Richard Mulligan as Howard Lipton, Pat Harrington as Roger Harper

Keith enrolls in a college sociology course, but finds himself infatuated with an older (and very happily married) co-ed.

Guest star: Brooke Bundy as Dory Kimmel

After Danny gets caught sneaking into a movie theater, Shirley tries teaching him a lesson by enforcing 24 hours of total honesty for the whole family.

Reuben's nephew, an aspiring comedian, tries to fill in for the absent manager, with nightmarish results for the Partridges.

Guest stars: Alan Bursky as Alan Kincaid, Gino Conforti as Maître D'

After her parents start fighting again, Shirley unwittingly hires her mother as the family's new maid.

Guest stars: Jackie Coogan as Walter Renfrew, Rosemary DeCamp as Amanda Renfrew

Songs: "Workin' On A Groovy Thing", "Grandma (We Love You Just The Way You Are)"

Shirley takes up painting as a hobby, but while her art is panned by her family, her teacher seems to think she's the second coming of Picasso.

Guest star: Alan Oppenheimer as Lorenzo Bernard

Reuben's latest discoveries, a twin singing act, split up because of a crush on a girl, Laurie.

Guest stars: Andy and David Williams (nephews of singer Andy Williams), Henry Olek as Skip Radnitz

Danny decides to drop out of school, and focus on songwriting as a career.

Guest stars: James Gregory as Claude Tubbles, Mitzi Hoag as Miss Farrow, Gary Durbin as Punky Lazaar

When Laurie's girlfriend is denied a spot on the boys' basketball team, Laurie decides to run for homecoming queen so that people might listen to what she has to say. When Keith and Danny get wind of it, they convince a male friend to challenge her for homecoming queen.

Guest stars: Tracy Brooks Swope (daughter of producer Mel Swope) as Frankie, Ken Swofford as Coach, Chris Beaumont as Jerry Bishop

To impress a Jewish girl, Danny pretends he's Jewish, but when her father, a rabbi, mistakenly believes him, the lie begins to spiral out of control.

Guest stars: Noam Pitlik as Rabbi Ben Stern, Lark Geib as Renee Stern, Gary Durbin as Punky Lazaar

Laurie becomes a student-teacher for Danny's class, but becomes more than anyone bargained for when she overcompensates in class to not look like she's favoring him.

Guest stars: Maxine Stuart as Miss Halstead, Gary Durbin as Punky Lazaar

Dueling dilemmas come together: Laurie needs to get out of babysitting in order to go skiing, and Keith needs someone to make a girl he's interested in jealous.

Guest stars: Sherry Miles as Karen Bailey, Jack Stauffer as George Parkington

In an attempt to become a model family for conserving electricity, Danny suggests printing the names of "energy hogs" in the news, but when the Partridge electric meter is read incorrectly, they risk being called "hogs" themselves.

Guest stars: Jack Collins as Mayor Towbin, Maureen Reagan (daughter of Ronald Reagan) as Photographer

Danny gives his mother a found brooch for her birthday, but when the rightful owner of the brooch turns out to be his teacher, he must try to find a way to give it back.

Guest stars: Liam Dunn as Salesman, Kathryn Reynolds as Mrs. Bullock, Gary Durbin as Punky Lazaar

When an old flame sails into town from the navy, Shirley is smitten, and everyone approves . . . except for Danny, who suspects the sailor has a girl in every port.

Guest star: George Chakiris as Captain Chuck Corwin

A one-hour celebration featuring the casts of The Partridge Family and My Three Sons discussing their current lives and memorable moments from their past shows.

A two-hour biographical TV movie focusing on star David Cassidy and co-star Danny Bonaduce through the four years of the show's production.

• David Cassidy
• Shirley Jones
• Danny Bonaduce
• Susan Dey
• Jeremy Gelbwaks
• Brian Forster
• Suzanne Crough
• Dave Madden

• The Partridge Family Album
• Up to Date
• Sound Magazine
• A Partridge Family Christmas Card
• Shopping Bag
• The Partridge Family Notebook
• Crossword Puzzle
• Bulletin Board

• At Home with Their Greatest Hits
• The World of the Partridge Family
• Greatest Hits
• The Definitive Collection
• Come On Get Happy!: The Very Best of The Partridge Family

• "I Think I Love You"
• "Doesn't Somebody Want to Be Wanted"
• "I'll Meet You Halfway"
• "I Woke Up in Love This Morning"
• "It's One of Those Nights (Yes Love)"
• "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do"
• "Looking Through the Eyes of Love"
• "Walkin in the Rain"

• Partridge Family 2200 A.D.

• Thanksgiving Reunion with The Partridge Family and My Three Sons
• Come On Get Happy: The Partridge Family Story

• Episodes
• Discography
• David Cassidy discography
• The Cowsills
• Wes Farrell
• Rick Segall
• Goober and the Ghost Chasers
• Fred Flintstone and Friends