Did the partridge family have an unaired pilot which never aired on ABC

Yes. The unaired pilot was almost exactly the same as the pilot which did air with the following differences:

1. The Partridges lived in Ohio, not California

2. In the garage/recording session and Las Vegas scenes, Laurie has additional dialogue establishing her as more militant

3. In the garage scene, Laurie assures her mother she has a sweet voice by reminding her how Mom and Dad would sing Christmas Carols until Dad got too drunk. (Yup, Mr.P is actually mentioned and established as a bit of a lush)

4.Mom's original name is Connie

5. There is an extended epilogue which features a scene where Mom returns home from a date (then husband Jack Cassidy plays her suitor) and a scene in which Danny's voice start's to change

Yes. The unaired pilot was almost exactly the same as the pilot which did air with the following differences:

1. The Partridges lived in Ohio, not California

2. In the garage/recording session and Las Vegas scenes, Laurie has additional dialogue establishing her as more militant

3. In the garage scene, Laurie assures her mother she has a sweet voice by reminding her how Mom and Dad would sing Christmas Carols until Dad got too drunk. (Yup, Mr.P is actually mentioned and established as a bit of a lush)

4.Mom's original name is Connie

5. There is an extended epilogue which features a scene where Mom returns home from a date (then husband Jack Cassidy plays her suitor) and a scene in which Danny's voice start's to change

If god forbid sony does the complete boxset of the series, they can find the original unaired pilot. I tried to find the unaired pilot on youtube, but it was not on there. So what you are saying is that in the unaired pilot they lived in ohio right. i think i remember a scene where david and shirly ran into each other and the family was perorm in a high school like Auditorium
and it looked like an older kid was playing the drums, i could e wrong. was the unaired pilot done in 68 or 69

If god forbid sony does the complete boxset of the series, they can find the original unaired pilot. I tried to find the unaired pilot on youtube, but it was not on there. So what you are saying is that in the unaired pilot they lived in ohio right. i think i remember a scene where david and shirly ran into each other and the family was perorm in a high school like Auditorium
and it looked like an older kid was playing the drums, i could e wrong. was the unaired pilot done in 68 or 69
do you have any tapes of the lost unaired pilot

No, I don't have any tapes of the unaired pilot. I only read about it at http://www.comeongethappy.com the official website of The Partridge Family.

Wow--I never knew any of this!!

Hey if i am not mistaken although my mind could be playing tricks on me, i remember along time ago which could have been shown in the un aired pilot before the late johnny cash introduce the family for the very first time i think i remembered seeing the family performing in like a high school auditorium with the blue curtin background and it looked like an older kid was playing the drums and danny was playing a les paul like gibson based reddish brown guitar with a white color in the middle of it again i could be wrong as a matter of fact if you go to amazon.com and type in partridge family vhs you will see the cover with the family holding there instrument and danny is sitting on his amp holding that bass guiter