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angel139 · 07-09-2003, 08:35 PM

Hi
I was watching a old win lose and draw show with shirley jones on it today. She said they was makeing a partridge reunion movie. i dont ever remember seeing it . what ever be came of it.
she said in the movie keith was married with kids
and she was a grand mother .

TV Guy · 07-26-2003, 09:22 PM

In the 1980s, Columbia was toying with revivals of a lot of the old Screen Gems 1960s shows. "Gidget" and "The Monkees" were both revived in series form, and there were pilots for new versions of "I Dream of Jeannie" and "Dennis the Menace".

Columbia also had plans for a new syndicated version of "The Partridge Family" as well. It was going to start with a two-hour reunion movie, and if that went well, it was going to lead to a weekly series. Columbia actually had tentative agreements with everyone but Susan Dey -- they were going to say that Laurie had moved to Los Angeles and became a lawyer, in a nod to Dey's role on "L.A. Law". Keith was going to be a single father, and the series would have focused on his new musical act with his teenaged daughter.

For whatever reason, David Cassidy decided to pull out of the new project. Suzanne Crough (Tracy) has stated that Cassidy didn't like the fact that the other cast members were still included in the project, and wanted the new series to focus on him exclusively.

ficlopri · 07-28-2003, 01:28 AM

If Crough is correct then that makes David Cassidy's claim in his book (C'Mon Get Happy) hard to understand. The claim was something like about how he was sorry that by quitting PF he put 5 other people out of work (as they cancelled the show rather than getting someone to replace Cassidy). But DC himself admitted in his book that he smoked dope a lot during the early 70's so his memories could be extra distorted from that drug addiction of his in addition to the passage of time between the end of PF and the time he wrote his book. So in short: who knows how accurate his memories are?

ficlopri · 08-06-2003, 11:41 AM

Maybe David felt really sorry for Shirley Jones as he saw PF get cancelled due to his decision to quit. He knew her the best of all the cast (she was his step-mother in real life for almost 15 years prior to the show's start).

07-09-2003, 08:35 PM	#1
angel139 Member Forum Cub Join Date: Jul 09, 2003 Posts: 2	reunion Hi I was watching a old win lose and draw show with shirley jones on it today. She said they was makeing a partridge reunion movie. i dont ever remember seeing it . what ever be came of it. she said in the movie keith was married with kids and she was a grand mother .

07-26-2003, 09:22 PM	#2
TV Guy Member Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Jun 25, 2001 Location: Boston, MA, USA Posts: 3,419	In the 1980s, Columbia was toying with revivals of a lot of the old Screen Gems 1960s shows. "Gidget" and "The Monkees" were both revived in series form, and there were pilots for new versions of "I Dream of Jeannie" and "Dennis the Menace". Columbia also had plans for a new syndicated version of "The Partridge Family" as well. It was going to start with a two-hour reunion movie, and if that went well, it was going to lead to a weekly series. Columbia actually had tentative agreements with everyone but Susan Dey -- they were going to say that Laurie had moved to Los Angeles and became a lawyer, in a nod to Dey's role on "L.A. Law". Keith was going to be a single father, and the series would have focused on his new musical act with his teenaged daughter. For whatever reason, David Cassidy decided to pull out of the new project. Suzanne Crough (Tracy) has stated that Cassidy didn't like the fact that the other cast members were still included in the project, and wanted the new series to focus on him exclusively.

07-28-2003, 01:28 AM	#3
ficlopri Member Forum Regular Join Date: Jun 27, 2001 Location: Methuen, Ma.USA Posts: 659	If Crough is correct then that makes David Cassidy's claim in his book (C'Mon Get Happy) hard to understand. The claim was something like about how he was sorry that by quitting PF he put 5 other people out of work (as they cancelled the show rather than getting someone to replace Cassidy). But DC himself admitted in his book that he smoked dope a lot during the early 70's so his memories could be extra distorted from that drug addiction of his in addition to the passage of time between the end of PF and the time he wrote his book. So in short: who knows how accurate his memories are?

08-06-2003, 11:41 AM	#4
ficlopri Member Forum Regular Join Date: Jun 27, 2001 Location: Methuen, Ma.USA Posts: 659	Maybe David felt really sorry for Shirley Jones as he saw PF get cancelled due to his decision to quit. He knew her the best of all the cast (she was his step-mother in real life for almost 15 years prior to the show's start).