The Partridge Family is an American musical sitcom created by Bernard Slade, that aired in the United States from September 1970 to March 1974 on ABC. Following its final first-run telecast on ABC in March 1974, the show went into reruns from March 30 to August 31, 1974.
The series follows the lives of a fictional pop music band formed by the titular family, including Shirley (Shirley Jones), Keith (David Cassidy), Laurie (Susan Dey), and Danny (Danny Bonaduce), as well as their manager Reuben Kincaid (Dave Madden). The family was loosely based on the real-life musical family the Cowsills, a popular band in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
The show was broadcast on ABC as part of its Friday night line-up, and had subsequent runs in syndication.
