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That popular singing aggregation the Partridge Family -- mom Shirley (Shirley Jones), sons Keith (David Cassidy), Danny (Danny Bonaduce), and Chris (Brian Foster), and daughters Laurie (Susan Dey) and Tracy (Suzanne Crough) -- is back for more music and mirth in season three of The Partridge Family. Also on hand is the family's avaricious agent, Reuben Kinkaid (Dave Madden), who stills insists that he hates children, but isn't fooling anyone. This season opens with a typical "1970s" episode, in which gender roles are reversed, with the Partridge boys learning housekeeping and knitting skills and the girls taking up industrial arts and self-defense. Other classic episodes find Keith Partridge being set up for a fall when he is tapped to star in a movie, Danny Partridge winning a broken-down race horse in a raffle, and Laurie Partridge clearing herself of theft charges levied by her math teacher. Guest stars in season three include Edgar Buchanan as a crooked small-town judge who arrests Shirley after she runs through a speed trap; future Rockford Files regular Stuart Margolin as a lovelorn motorcycle hippie named Snake (a role played in the previous season by Rob Reiner); Bert Convy as a congressional candidate and potential suitor for the widowed Shirley; Arte Johnson as an impish escaped convict who holds the family hostage -- with a harmonica; Anthony Geary, several years removed from his tenure as Luke on General Hospital, as a minister for whom Laurie harbors a crush; Jodie Foster as an obsessed fan who won't leave Danny alone; and John Astin as a Hughes-like reclusive millionaire who adopts several disguises to attend a Partridge Family concert. Possibly the season's most talked-about episode is the one filmed on location at the King's Island amusement park in Cincinnati -- in which former Cincinnati Reds player Johnny Bench pops up unexpectedly in the role of a waiter! Hal Erickson

Product Details

• UPC: 043396144569
• Source: SONY PICTURES
• Region Code: 1
• Aspect Ratio: Pre-1954 Standard (1.33.1)
• Sound: Dolby Digital Stereo
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English
• Time: 10:43:00
• Sales Rank: 17,492

This set contains DVDs which may be available separately:

• The Partridge Family: A Likely Candidate
• The Partridge Family: I Left My Heart in Cincinnati
• The Partridge Family: Diary of a Mad Millionaire
• The Partridge Family: Me and My Shadow
• The Partridge Family: The Eleven Year Itch
• The Partridge Family: This Male Chauvinist Piggy Went to Market
• The Partridge Family: M is for the Many Things
• The Partridge Family: Princess and the Partridge
• The Partridge Family: Each Dawn I Diet
• The Partridge Family: A Penny for His Thoughts
• The Partridge Family: You're Only Young Twice
• The Partridge Family: The Mod Father
• The Partridge Family: Swiss Family Partridge
• The Partridge Family: Ain't Loveth Grand
• The Partridge Family: Whatever Happened to Keith Partridge?
• The Partridge Family: Nag, Nag, Nag
• The Partridge Family: For Sale by Owner
• The Partridge Family: Aspirin at 7, Dinner at 8
• The Partridge Family: For Whom the Bell Tolls...and Tolls...and Tolls
• The Partridge Family: Trial of Partridge One
• The Partridge Family: Bedknobs and Drumsticks
• The Partridge Family: Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex...but Couldn't Pronounce
• The Partridge Family: Forgive Us Our Debts
• The Partridge Family: The Partridge Connection
• The Partridge Family: The Selling of the Partridges

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