Susan Dey

The Partridge Family sold records and a kind of sunshine: Shirley Jones driving, Cassidy’s chart hits, Dey’s Laurie as the older-kid poise on the bus. Music-machine grin up front; fame-spiral gossip elsewhere. She plays the sibling as a lead the merch could not flatten. Watch it as the family-band hour that still photographs like a poster and plays like a household.

The desk files The Partridge Family under ABC 1970–1974. Laurie Partridge is the temperature Dey brought to the room. s01e03 is a useful mid-run tab — Whatever Happened to the Old Songs? is the catalog arguing with itself. Clean California longing: the bus still the set, the records still the real merchandising, the fame-spiral still off-camera. The handshake remains s01e01: What? And Get Out of Show Business? opens Shirley Jones driving the Mondrian bus. Cassidy already a teen-idol industry with chart hits; family-band sitcom as a music-machine grin. The desk does not need a trailer beat. Dey's place in the room is the point.

L.A. Law moved her into peak Bochco legal drama: talky, addictive, a rotating firm stacking Drama Series heat, Harry Hamlin and Jimmy Smits in the photocall, Corbin Bernsen’s oily Arnie. Litigation as a lifestyle brand. On TV Flash Dey is the catalog’s costume change — the bus and the brief, the lunchbox and the elevator. Watch Laurie for the longing. Watch the firm for the template every later law hour raided.

Dey's Grace Van Owen lives on L.A. Law — NBC from 1986–1994, 1980s weather still attached. s02e01 is a useful mid-run tab — The Lung Goodbye is season two's punning open: Bochco-era network legal drama already addicted to title wit and rotating counsel. The handshake remains s01e01: The Pilot makes the firm a lifestyle: Hamlin, Dey, Smits, Bernsen's oily Arnie — talky legal soap as the 1986 water-cooler. TV Flash files Dey here as craft you can actually cue.