Why were there so many episodes built around Danny in the first season? It seemed that it was all about him with the fact that they were a musical family second. I didn't get it. I found it difficult to watch because Danny was very annoying, not to mention one of the ugliest child actors ever to grace a TV screen.

Yeah, I never would have thought about him being annoying or ugly but he was the center of attention quite a bit during that first season.

The funniest episode about him in that season was where he trys to become a comidien however you spell that

..it's spelled C-O-M-E-D-I-A-N. [If female, C-O-M-E-D-I-E-N-N-E.]

And it WAS funny!! That's why Danny became the center of attention during the first season episodes. His exchanges with Dave Madden were brilliant!

He was a brilliant child actor. They called a "forty year old midget" for a reason. He had the comedic talent and mind of a forty year old. I can remember my dad watching the show and laughing at Danny's lines. Sure, his lines were written by adult comic writers, but few people can deliver lines that well.

Danny was my favorite person on the show. It was supposed to be a comedy and he was the comedian. Shirley and David did the music and Laurie had teenage guys go wild. Of Course David did that with the teenage girls too.It was a pretty good ensemble show.

Yeah, it's true Danny did have good comic delivery. Also true he was about the ugliest kid in TV history (while co-star Jeremy Gelbwaks was about the cutest). Anyways, I guess Danny being featured in so many early shows was cause the producers hadn't yet realized just what a gold-mine they had in David Cassidy (just like they didn't know they had a good lead singer right under their noses til step-mom Shirley Jones suggested they give him a try-out). It's hard for younger people to realize just what a pop phenomana David Cassidy was in the early Seventies. You couldn't pass a magazine rack without seeing pics of the guy gracing several covers. Usually takes awhile for a show to really hit it's stride (Susan Dey was relatively under-used that 1st season, as well). Another funny episode about Danny was "Star Quality", where he gets a big head and plans to leave the group to go solo.....yet it's not revealed just what his act is even gonna be -- Singing? Guitar-playing? Telling jokes? Mercifully we never find, as the now-contrite Danny is welcomed back into the fold, and all is forgiven.