The Partridge Family literally gets roped into a gig in 23rd century Texas when the promoter who invited them decides he doesn't want them to leave.
Here's "If It's Texas, It Must Be Doomsday", Susan Dey's final episode as Laurie.
Joan Gerber (ex-Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp, among others) did a near perfect mimic of Shirley Jones as Shirley, so you'd be forgiven if you thought Jones had reprised. And, yes, that is Frank Welker as the voice of Orbit, the Partridges' dog.
Rating: C-.
4 comments:
You know, if they had only gone ahead with that Jetsons 10 years later idea.....
Who am I kidding? It probably would have lasted a season anyway. Although the thought of a teenage Elroy and adult Judy Jetson might have been more entertaining.
Yeah, with Elroy thinking about girls, and Judy getting close to settling down, and....!
I don't know who the program director for CBS' Saturday block was back then, but they blew it.
It was Fred Silverman, then prez of CBS, who initiated the idea of swapping the Jetsons for the Partridges.
Silverman never was the sharpest tool in the drawer when it came to programming Saturdays, and even worse luck as a producer in the 80's.
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