The Partridge Family
Come on get happy — family band sitcom that sold real records.
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Screen Gems put The Partridge Family on a Mondrian bus: Shirley Jones driving, David Cassidy becoming a teen-idol industry with actual chart hits. A family-band sitcom that sold records, lunchboxes, and a kind of clean California longing. Music-machine grin up front; the fame-spiral gossip Cassidy never fully escaped. TV Flash files the bus as a merch engine and a show.
The Partridge Family is the Screen Gems catalog title — Jones at the wheel of a Mondrian bus, Cassidy becoming a teen-idol industry with real chart hits. Family-band sitcom as a record machine. Lunchboxes, California longing, a grin that sold. The fame-spiral gossip Cassidy never fully escaped is part of the aftertaste. Music up front. The bus is the logo and the plot.
Start on TV Flash with The Partridge Family and listen to the hits as well as the hugs. The slate feels like a television studio's music-machine sitcom — Screen Gems on the card, clean longing, a family that is also a touring product.
The Partridge Family — Shirley Jones, David Cassidy, Mondrian bus, family-band sitcom with chart hits.
The Partridge Family page. Watch the bus-and-band hours; the records are the extra season.
Clean California longing with a merch aftertaste. Music-machine grin, teen-idol heat, a sitcom that sold lunchboxes on purpose.
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