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The Partridge Family is an American television sitcom about a widowed mother and her five children who embarked on a music career. The family lived in San Pueblo, a small fictional town in Northern California. The series was originally broadcast on ABC from 1970 to 1974.

I don't think the show ever boned. Came close with the Ricky Seagall silliness, but they didn't keep him long.

Instead of bringing in Ricky Segall, they should have given Chris and Tracy more to do!

Season 4 when they brought in Ricky. It wasn't entirely his fault. The show had just run it's course and the music wasn't that great anymore.

Instead of bringing in Ricky Segall, they should have given Chris and Tracy more to do!

agreed!

I agree with one of the other posters....

I think the show would have "boned" if they kept Ricky on there for ALL of Season 4 - but seeing that they didn't end up using him in the 2nd half of the season...they kind of saved the season for me. Plus it has a couple of my favorite episodes near the end "Danny Converts" and "Keith and Lauriebelle"

agreed!
Same with me! Chris and Tracy needed to be in there more.

It's easy to blame it on Ricky Segall, as terrible as he was (poor kid), but the show was destined to be shelved when the hit songs dried up. I voted Ricky Segall since it was the most accurate of the voting options given.

It's easy to blame it on Ricky Segall, as terrible as he was (poor kid), but the show was destined to be shelved when the hit songs dried up. I voted Ricky Segall since it was the most accurate of the voting options given.



I find it appalling that a lot of fans of TV shows, (in this instance fans of the show, The Partridge Family) take it so personal that the show eventually ran its course and then was cancelled. It seems that people who are that much into TV shows are neurotic and unstable.
The many negative comments about Ricky Seagall seem to be from people who feel that the new character ruined their personal lives.

A lot of TV shows , after being on the air so long, changed characters,or introduced new ones who turned out not to fit with the rest of the characters or with the very "atmosphere" of the individual TV show. A name came up for it as of recent years, it is called "Jumping the Shark" and I used that term a few times in my posts.
It has to do with the writers of the TV show running out of fresh, new ideas for plots and dialogue. It has to do (sometimes) with the actors getting fed up with being typecast and wanting to go on to do something different and shedding the image of the character they played for several seasons to the point where the public only think of them ( the particular actors) as the character they made famous.
It definitely happened to David Cassidy. He may be the poster child for such a situation.