List of The Partridge Family episodes: Difference between revisions

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

Cameo appearance made by: Johnny Cash

Song(s): Let The Good Times In; Together (Havin' A Ball)

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 (TV's 'Charlie's Angels')

Song(s): I'll Leave Myself A Little Time

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

Song(s): Baby I Love Love, I Love You; Together (Havin' A Ball); On The Road; Bye Bye Blackbird

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.

Song(s): On The Road

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, and Jaclyn Smith (TV's 'Charlie's Angels') as Tina

Song(s): I Really Want To Know You

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

Song(s): Somebody Wants To Love You

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 Star: Pat Harrington Jr. as Harry

Song(s): That'll Be The Day

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 in stink.

Song(s): I Think I Love You; Brand New Me

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 and Jackie Coogan (TV's The Addams Family) 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.

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

Song: I Think I Love You

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 Star: Dick Clark as Himself

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

She'll always have Paris. 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, Detroit club owners expecting the Temptations get the Partridge Family instead. Can they find an audience in Motown?

Guest Stars: Richard Pryor and Louis Gossett Jr.

Song(s): Bandala

Laurie jumps on the anti-establishment bandwagon when the hotel workers where they're scheduled to perform go out on strike and she refuses to cross the picket line and play.

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

Song(s): There's No Doubt In My Mind; Umbrella Man

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

Song(s): She'd Rather Have The Rain

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 Star: Annette O'Toole as Carol

Song(s): You Are Always On My Mind

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 Star: Laurie Prange as Maggie

Song(s): Point Me In The Direction Of Albuquerque

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(s): 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.

Song(s): Doesn't Somebody Want to Be Wanted; I Can Feel Your Heartbeat

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 Back-door pilot for the short-lived series Getting Together.

Song(s): Stephanie

The Partridges learn that Reuben has booked them to perform with a beautiful 18-year-old girl - who can't sing a note on key.

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.

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.

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.

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

"Whale Song," featuring primary vocals by Shirley Jones, is featured.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Song: I Would Have Loved You Anyway

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. Featured is a performance of "It's One Of Those Nights (Yes Love)."

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

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.