dc once said tracy had the personality of a rock, did he not like suzanne crough? in interviews people mention david, danny, susan dey and shirley and act like suzanne was unimportant and had no contribution whatsoever.i don`t know of anything david could hold against her. i just feel like they slight her.

I agree with you. they always show Shirley,David,Susan,Danny,Brian Foster, &sometimes the other Chris Jeremy Gelwalk. Hardly ever do they mention Suzanne Crough.
I can't imagine why David Cassidy didn't like her. Last I saw or heard she was on the E! Truly Holly Wood Story of The Partridge Family. She has children & is married. They did treat her like she was a nobody though.

I read in People Magazine (in one of those "where are they now" issues of 1970's stars) that after PF ended, Suzanne just did not want to do anymore acting, she wanted to finish school, and go to college and lead a "normal" life. Anything I have read about her *never* indicated that DC disliked Suzanne, if anything, it was some of the guys that Susan Dey was dating (since DC had a crush on SD big time) that he did not like.

I think DC *did* make a comment once about some of the limited hours they ALL had to work, due to the Calif. child labor laws and them having to have a tutor on the set for schoolwork. But I don't interpert that as David singling out Suzanne or anything like that.

I read in People Magazine (in one of those "where are they now" issues of 1970's stars) that after PF ended, Suzanne just did not want to do anymore acting, she wanted to finish school, and go to college and lead a "normal" life. Anything I have read about her *never* indicated that DC disliked Suzanne, if anything, it was some of the guys that Susan Dey was dating (since DC had a crush on SD big time) that he did not like.

I think DC *did* make a comment once about some of the limited hours they ALL had to work, due to the Calif. child labor laws and them having to have a tutor on the set for schoolwork. But I don't interpert that as David singling out Suzanne or anything like that.

This is really really really really an old thread, but I never heard anything about David Cassidy "hating" or "slighting" Suzanne Crough.

What I read once was a quote from David (maybe paraphrased) that Suzanne was so young that he did not interact with her much. I guess it also goes for the kids who played "Chris" too whether it was Gelbwalks or Forster.

If David did say that "Tracy had the personality of a rock" then what you should pay attention to is that he said "Tracy" not "Suzanne."
He could have been referring to the character she played.
And after all, it is true that Suzanne's character was hardly mentioned, and did not have lines in the show like Danny did. She, and her character, were like inanimate objects. "Tracy's" personality was not actually presented.
Danny was the one who talked the most, and who did things that resulted in adventures and mishaps for others.
I recall reading in one of the teen magazines back then that Suzanne Crough is not featured on the show much. "Chris" was a close second.
Everyone who watched the Partridge Family to a decent extent knows this.
The lines were reserved for Danny,David, Dave, Shirley, and Susan, usually in that order.

As far as I know, Suzanne Crough did do some minor roles after her stint in the Partridge Family, but she went on to leave the business and become a mom and wife and the very last job she was reported to have was as a manager of a Staples store .

I have a feeling they probably planned more for the younger kids like The Brady Bunch but Danny was so popular that the scripts began to revolve around him.

I have a feeling they probably planned more for the younger kids like The Brady Bunch but Danny was so popular that the scripts began to revolve around him.
In interviews I've seen with Bernard Slade, the creator of The Partridge Family, it sounds like the presumption was made from the beginning that the two youngest kids (Jeremy and Suzanne) wouldn't be able to handle much dialogue so very little was written for them.

There's only so many lines per episode, and with the others so popular, yeah, Chris and Tracy got pushed back. But another factor could simply be that at their age, those kids really weren't as polished at their craft yet, and that might have made it difficult to write a real personality, let alone whole episodes, for them.

Sounds like the original post is a case of trying to make a controversy where there probably wasn't one.

I read in People Magazine (in one of those "where are they now" issues of 1970's stars) that after PF ended, Suzanne just did not want to do anymore acting, she wanted to finish school, and go to college and lead a "normal" life. Anything I have read about her *never* indicated that DC disliked Suzanne, if anything, it was some of the guys that Susan Dey was dating (since DC had a crush on SD big time) that he did not like.

I think DC *did* make a comment once about some of the limited hours they ALL had to work, due to the Calif. child labor laws and them having to have a tutor on the set for schoolwork. But I don't interpert that as David singling out Suzanne or anything like that.

"DC had a crush on SD big time"? !!
From what I read, it was Susan Dey who had a crush on David Cassidy big time and though David Cassidy liked Susan very much as a friend, he did not have the same romantic feelings toward her. In fact Shirley Jones wrote in her memoir or had mentioned in interviews that she knew Susan had a crush on David but had to tell Susan (not harshly but frankly) that such a relationship won't work because David has too many other girls after him and that she (Susan) would only have her feelings hurt in such a situation and she ought to forget about seriously romancing him.
Also, reportedly David wrote in his own biography that out of sympathy he did "go to bed" with Susan, but did not care for anything but a platonic relationship with her. And it has been mentioned in articles that Susan Day refuses to take part in any more reunions because she was displeased that David mentioned this.
I don't think I read anything about David disliking guys that Susan dated.
It might have been more that Susan disliked girls that David dated since her crush on him was so strong.

As far as David's feelings toward the younger children (not including Danny), not much was mentioned about that. Again, David has said that the two youngest cast members were too young for him to interact with them much. He had acted in other TV shows before he hit it big in the Partridge Family and in his acting spot on Bonanza "The Law And Billy Burgess" you can see that he is among a lot of young children in certain scenes and I guess he just thought of them as extras or a part of the scene but he did not know each one personally, and that probably went for a lot of adults whom he acted with in any TV show.
I recall watching David be interviewed on the Oprah Winfrey show many years after the Partridge Family went off the air, and he mentioned that he had "Worked with kids" during his acting life, and that the one kid who stood out in his mind was Danny Bonaduce because Danny grew up to get into so much trouble as a former child star.

I also recall reading that David said that the original "Chris" was a "Shin whacker" (meaning he was a bratty kid who kicked everyone's shins) so he was replaced .

If we are wondering about David's feelings toward Suzanne here, why not wonder about how he felt about Brian Forster too?
My best guess is that David did not hate them , but they were kids, and he was in his 20s and had nothing much in common with them and he was dealing with a lot of teenage girls rampaging at his concerts already.

Most of us know that the PF episode in which Chris and Tracy got the most recognition was "Home Is Where The Heart Was" in which both Chris and Tracy ran away from home to live with Rubin.

Otherwise, Chris had one more episode in his pocket than did Tracy.
It was "I Can Get It For You Retail" in which Danny enlists Chris to steal items from Keith so as to sell them.

Strangely, one very tell-tale sign that it was obvious that the two youngest Partridge children were "irrelevant" was the scene in "I Can Get It For You Retail" when Danny is bringing the day's mail to all the family and he mentions everyone's name who got letters, meaning Keith, Lori, Shirley, himself, but both Chris and Tracy only get letters addressed to "Resident."
It could have been coincidental or not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfe4jnMdi38

Tracy had a substantial role in "The Red Woodloe" story in the first season, so I would put Chris and Tracy about even in the episode count. But neither one had an episode that focused on them individually. They were mostly given one-liners and were never really given a chance to develop their character's personality.

Another scene which made light of the younger characters' unimportance was during the episode "Swiss Family Partidge" when they were concerned about having enough food rations for Chris and Tracy. Then Reuben said in a dead-pan tone "How important are they to the act?" and the line got a big laugh from the studio audience. Such self-deprecating humor!

I just found this on the internet.
It seems to show that before Brian Forster took over the role of Chris, the character of Chris was given a good deal of scenes. It appears that the show was still such a new sitcom when Jeremy was still acting in it, and it was not yet apparent that Danny would be the main cast member for whom entire episodes would revolve around, and this would be the standard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaLKI7DcFWM

The 2 1/2 minutes of dialogue in the You Tube clip are pretty much all of the lines that Chris had throughout the whole first season. He was not a major character even then, although it does seem that Chris and Tracy were heard from more in the 1st season than in later seasons. The show was more even with the cast in the first season, and became increasingly Danny-centric as the show went on.