The Partridge Family

S01E01 What? And Get Out of Show Business? 1970-09-25

Recently widowed mother, Shirley Partridge is struggling while working in a bank to raise her five children who are playing in a band.

S01E02 The Sound of Money 1970-10-02

After a fender bender, an angry motorist claims whiplash and sues the family.

S01E03 Whatever Happened to the Old Songs? 1970-10-09

Shirley's mother is upset when Shirley's dad joins the band.

S01E04 See Here, Private Partridge 1970-10-16

Shirley tries to clear up the government's error when Danny gets drafted.

S01E05 When Mother Gets Married 1970-10-23

Shirley's romance with an old flame concerns the kids.

S01E06 Love at First Slight 1970-10-30

A smitten neighbour shadows Keith, who has fallen for a 16-year-old store clerk.

S01E07 Danny and the Mob 1970-11-06

A mobster thinks Danny is romancing his girlfriend.

S01E08 But the Memory Lingers On 1970-11-13

While the family is on a picnic, a skunk sneaks on board the bus and winds up spraying them.

S01E09 Did You Hear the One About Danny Partridge? 1970-11-20

After a song performance, Danny has an awkward moment and decides to try his hand at stand-up comedy.

S01E10 Go Directly to Jail 1970-11-27

When the Partridges are invited by to play a show at a prison, one of the inmates tries to sell them some songs he claims to have written.

S01E11 This is My Song 1970-12-04

When Keith is worried that he may not be able to write songs anymore, Danny decides that it's time for him to become the group's songwriter.

S01E12 My Son, the Feminist 1970-12-11

Keith's latest girlfriend is a member of a junior women's lib organization and he volunteers the group to play at one of their rallies.

S01E13 Star Quality 1970-12-18

A flattering newspaper article swells Danny's head.

S01E14 The Red Woodloe Story 1971-01-01

Shirley encounters a famous folk artist, long believed dead, and convinces him to perform with the Partridges.

S01E15 Mom Drops Out 1971-01-08

A European tour promoter tells Shirley she's "out" with the "in" crowd.

S01E16 Old Scrapmouth 1971-01-15

Laurie refuses to speak after she has to get braces.

S01E17 Why Did the Music Stop? 1971-01-22

Shirley thinks they are still a normal family, so when on a tour Danny talks about the high life, Shirley thinks it is time for a break.

S01E18 Soul Club 1971-01-29

The Partridges are in Detroit for a performance, due to a booking mix-up, they arrive at the place where the Temptations are expected.

S01E19 To Play or Not to Play? 1971-02-05

The band gets caught up in a nightclub's labour woes.

S01E20 They Shoot Managers, Don't They? 1971-02-12

Shirley's matchmaking nearly costs the family its manager.

S01E21 Partridge Up a Pair Tree 1971-02-19

Keith's new car drains his wallet.

S01E22 Road Song 1971-02-26

The Partridges and Ruben meet a girl at a diner who wants to hitch a ride when they drive off to Albuquerque.

S01E23 Not with My Sister, You Don't 1971-03-05

Laurie finds out the hard way that the rumours about a new boy in school are true.

S01E24 A Partridge by Any Other Name 1971-03-12

When Danny is unable to find his birth certificate or pictures of himself as a baby, he is convinced that he is adopted.

S01E25 A Knight in Shining Armor 1971-03-19

The Partridges meet Bobby Conway, a composer who plays beautiful music and who is looking for a lyricist.

S02E01 Dora, Dora, Dora 1971-09-17

The Partridge Family is forced to add another member to the group, a young girl who can't sing a note.

S02E02 In 25 Words or Less 1971-09-24

To raise money and create publicity, Ruben hosts a contest where the winner can spend a week with the Partridges at their home.

S02E03 A Man Called Snake 1971-10-01

No one in the family is very happy about Laurie's new boyfriend, a biker named Snake.

S02E04 The Undergraduate 1971-10-08

A freshman develops a crush on Shirley when she takes a college course.

S02E05 Anatomy of a Tonsil 1971-10-15

Danny fears losing his singing voice after having his tonsils removed.

S02E06 Whatever Happened to Moby Dick? 1971-10-22

The Partridges make a record featuring the song of a whale to raise awareness of the whale's plight.

S02E07 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Partridge 1971-10-29

Keith decides that being the eldest, he should take more responsibility for his siblings.

S02E08 Days of Acne and Roses 1971-11-05

Danny and Keith try to give a shy, awkward grocery clerk enough confidence to ask Laurie for a date.

S02E09 Tale of Two Hamsters 1971-11-12

Mother Nature gives Danny a hand in another of his money making schemes.

S02E10 The Forty-Year Itch 1971-11-19

Shirley's father visits and announces he left home and plans to go to Big Spur.

S02E11 I Can Get It for You Retail 1971-11-26

Danny sees his mother looking at a mink coat in a store window, and with Shirley's birthday coming up, Danny decides to buy it for her. To raise money, Danny starts selling Keith's personal belongings to the love sick girls at school.

S02E12 Guess Who's Coming to Drive? 1971-12-10

Reuben sets up an aggressive summer tour schedule. Shirley does not want to go on tour as it is tiring to drive all day and sing all night, so they hire a bus driver. But Danny is suspicious when they find out that he's an ex-con.

S02E13 Don't Bring Your Guns to Town, Santa 1971-12-17

After performing in Vegas on Christmas Eve, the Partridges start the drive home. The bus breaks down in a town with one inhabitant. Disappointed about being away from home for Christmas, the prospector tells them a Christmas story.

S02E14 Where Do Mermaids Go? 1971-12-31

Driving home after a tour, the Partridges stop for a picnic on a country road and meet a young woman who likes to travel alone.

S02E15 Home is Where the Heart Was 1972-01-07

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

S02E16 Fellini, Bergman, and Partridge 1972-01-14

After seeing some experimental films at a theater, Keith says he can do better than any they saw. Keith pulls out the movie camera and begins filming various random clips. Danny becomes his partner. The premiere is not what he expects.

S02E17 Waiting for Bolero 1972-01-21

Keith wants his own apartment so he can have some peace and quiet to write music. Shirley reluctantly agrees to let him move into a room in the house next door. Having his own place is not what he expects.

S02E18 I Am Curious Partridge 1972-01-28

Danny gets a job writing articles about the Partridge Family for the local newspaper. To be sure his article is a success, he embellishes the truth about the family.

S02E19 My Heart Belongs to a Two-Car Garage 1972-02-04

Chris and Tracy invite a street worker into their home. He says he is a world class Russian painter and says he can paint a work of art on their garage door. The completed picture is a nude woman that all the neighbors complain about.

S02E20 Hel-l-l-p 1972-02-11

It's a battle of the sexes as Shirley and Laurie prove to their male chauvinist counterparts to be better able to handle the wilderness.

S02E21 Promise Her Anything, But Give Her a Punch 1972-02-18

Danny retaliates when the object of his affections admits that she is in love with Keith.

S02E22 The Partridge Papers 1972-03-03

The school newspaper is collecting items for an auction to raise money. While Laurie is out, Danny accidentally grabs the wrong box with Laurie's items to contribute. Her personal diary is contributed. The newspaper threatens to publish it.

S02E23 All's War in Love and Fairs 1972-03-10

As the Partridges start their vacation, the bus breaks down in a small town. The locals want them to do a benefit show to help Native Americans build a school. The mechanic finds ways to delay fixing the bus until the day of the show.

S02E24 Who is Max Ledbetter and Why is He Saying All Those Horrible Things? 1972-03-17

The Partridges hire a psychic performer for Tracy's birthday party. Keith and Danny keep asking for predictions about their lives, so the psychic asks them to help his failing business from a foreclosure.

S03E01 This Male Chauvinist Piggy Went to Market 1972-09-15

Its role reversal time in the Partridge household as Keith takes home economics and Laurie takes auto shop. Laurie embarrasses Keith by defending him from the school bully.

S03E02 M is for the Many Things 1972-09-22

The family travels by bus to Sacramento for Shirley to accept a Mother of the Year award. Taking the back road leads them to wrong turns, lost wallet, traffic tickets, and other annoyances.

S03E03 Princess and the Partridge 1972-09-29

A princess flies into town with the express purpose of having a date with Keith. They find it difficult to act natural around each other until the princess tells all to relax. Keith and the princess manage to slip away from bodyguards.

S03E04 Each Dawn I Diet 1972-10-06

Danny wants to lose weight to impress a girl, so Shirley puts him on a diet. After a week, he weighs more because of cheating. Ruben teases him about no will power so they decide to tackle their own vices - Danny's food and Ruben's smoking.

S03E05 A Penny for His Thoughts 1972-10-13

Snake, a motorcyclist friend of the Partridges, visits and wants help with the woman he loves.

S03E06 You're Only Young Twice 1972-10-20

The school psychologist suggests a radical treatment to get to the bottom of Danny's behavioural problems.

S03E07 The Mod Father 1972-10-27

Shirley's parents visit, and they try to find a hidden meaning from every sound and sentence when these are simple every day things.

S03E08 A Likely Candidate 1972-11-03

Keith campaigns for a politician who likes Shirley.

S03E09 Swiss Family Partridge 1972-11-10

The Partridges are isolated in a mountain cabin during a record-breaking rainstorm.

S03E10 Ain't Love Grand 1972-11-17

Greg, a former childhood friend of Laurie's, who is now a minister, returns to town and reconnects.

S03E11 Whatever Happened to Keith Partridge? 1972-11-24

A talent scout convinces Keith that he would be perfect for a part in a new movie.

S03E12 Nag, Nag, Nag 1972-12-08

Danny wins an insomniac racehorse.

S03E13 For Sale by Owner 1972-12-29

The Partridges start looking at new homes, but first have to sell their current home.

S03E14 Aspirin at 7, Dinner at 8 1973-01-05

After accepting a date with an old admirer, Shirley later has to figure out how to get rid of him and his mother.

S03E15 For Whom the Bell Tolls...and Tolls...and Tolls 1973-01-12

Ruben has a burglar alarm installed in the Partridge home, but they keep setting off the alarm accidentally.

S03E16 Trial of Partridge One 1973-01-19

Laurie is accused of cheating while covering up for a friend.

S03E17 I Left My Heart in Cincinnati 1973-01-26

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.

S03E18 The Eleven-Year Itch 1973-02-02

Shirley's recent boyfriend, the politician, comes to town and brings his daughter along.

S03E19 Bedknobs and Drumsticks 1973-02-09

The Partridge family makes a commercial for a takeout chicken restaurant.

S03E20 Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex... But Couldn't Pronounce 1973-02-16

School finals are approaching and America's heartthrob Keith is failing Sex Education.

S03E21 Forgive Us Our Debts 1973-02-23

A department store computer plays havoc with Shirley's account.

S03E22 The Partridge Connection 1973-03-02

Dared into shoplifting, Danny feels he has disgraced the family.

S03E23 The Selling of the Partridges 1973-03-09

Keith wants the school presidency, at any cost.

S03E24 Diary of a Mad Millionaire 1973-03-16

The Partridges bring a lonely millionaire out of his self imposed isolation.

S03E25 Me and My Shadow 1973-03-23

The Partridges have to hide from a mystery writer to win $25,000 for charity.

S04E01 Hate Thy Neighbor 1973-09-15

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

S04E02 None But the Onely 1973-09-22

Keith wants to date the new girl in school, but she does not want to go with him because he has a love 'em and leave 'em reputation.

S04E03 Beethoven, Brahms, and Partridge 1973-09-29

Keith's newest girlfriend is a cellist in the school band. Rachel thinks Keith is wasting his talent on rock and roll songs, and convinces him to write a piece of classical music.

S04E04 The Strike-Out King 1973-10-06

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.

S04E05 Reuben Kincaid Lives 1973-10-13

Shirley tells the children they have to start being nice to Reuben. But since he is not used to this new attitude, he thinks it is because they heard he is dying. The nicer they are, the more he thinks he is dying.

S04E06 Double Trouble 1973-10-20

Keith, stuck with two dates for one night, tries to scheme his way out of one.

S04E07 The Last Howard 1973-10-27

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

S04E08 The Diplomat 1973-11-03

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.

S04E09 Heartbreak Keith 1973-11-10

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

S04E10 A Day of Honesty 1973-11-17

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.

S04E11 Al in the Family 1973-11-24

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

S04E12 Maid in San Pueblo 1973-12-08

Shirley's father and mother Amanda argue over Amanda wanting a job outside the house. She leaves home and goes to Shirley's home. Amanda gets a job with a service company, and Shirley hires a maid. Guess who is the maid?

S04E13 Art for Mom's Sake 1974-01-12

Shirley goes to an art school for classes. Her teacher raves about her work, but the family knows it is not good. It seems the teacher has a motive to praise the bad art work.

S04E14 Two for the Show 1974-01-19

Reuben manages a new twin singing act, but the boys have a crush on Laurie. They won't perform until they get a date from her.

S04E15 Danny Drops Out 1974-01-26

Danny seems to be getting into a lot of trouble at school, and decides to drop out. Shirley and his teacher discuss how to prevent this. They decide to let him think he has dropped out, and find out what the real world is like.

S04E16 Queen for a Minute 1974-02-02

Laurie runs for homecoming queen so she can speak her mind on discrimination, Keith has a male friend compete against her.

S04E17 Danny Converts 1974-02-09

Danny pretends to be Jewish to date a rabbi's daughter.

S04E18 Miss Partridge, Teacher 1974-02-23

Laurie student-teaches Danny's English class.

S04E19 Keith and Lauriebelle 1974-03-02

Keith cons Laurie into posing as his date in order to make a girl jealous.

S04E20 Morning Becomes Electric 1974-03-09

Danny has a promotional plan to show the Partridges conserves energy, the newspaper does an article to show their energy saving ways.

S04E21 Pin It on Danny 1974-03-16

It's Shirley's birthday and the family and Ruben gather to celebrate. Danny's gift is a beautiful broach. He does not tell Shirley he found it rather than buying it. Later, Danny finds out it is the broach his teacher lost.

S04E22 . . . - - -. . . (S.O.S) 1974-03-23

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.