Yeah, I watched partridge family in daily syndicated reruns too.
The music was indeed good every episode. The show was lucky in that they had a very talented songwriting team of the time writing up their music, Boyce and Hart. If the music sucked, it wouldn’t have been believable that the partridge family was a successful band.
Though I didn’t watch the partridge family for the music. I didn’t care about the music. I watched for the comedy and I liked to look at the interior of their house (even if it was a fake set). Much like the brady’s, they had a beautiful, nice house I would have loved to own and live in.
My family lived in an old, run down, cockroach infested apartment in the city. The partridges and the bradys had a private house to call their own out in the suburbs, with grassy front and back yards to play in. I didnt.
They had wall to wall carpeting. I didn’t. We had bare wooden floors or linoleum that was in dire need of replacing.
They had second floors for their bedrooms which provided more privacy for the bedroom area. I didnt.
They had fireplaces. I didnt. Etc, etc.
One thing that was a real turnoff for me regarding the partridge family was that the kids were being raised by a single mother like I was. Didn’t matter to me that shirley partridge was a sweet, kind, loving woman who never did and never would abuse her children. No screaming. No yelling. No hitting. No cursing like my mother.
There wasn’t a straight teenage boy that didn’t have the hots for Susan Dey.