The Partridge Family Episode #3

 

The Partridge Family Episode #3

Baby I love you
Oh baby I love you
Baby I love love love I love you
Baby I love you
Baby I love you
Baby I love love I love you

Welcome to my far out third review of The Partridge Family. This episode originally aired on October 9, 1970 and is called “Whatever Happened to The Old Songs?” This episode is about Shirley’s parents, played by Ray Bolger and Rosemary DeCamp, coming to visit. Her dad wants to be a cool and hip younger person, but mom is more level headed. Dad tries to join the music group and feelings are hurt but of course there’s a happy ending.

The scene opens with the youngest kids running into the kitchen. They’re talking about how Chris tore out the seat of his pants. Jeremy Gelbwaks says his line and then sticks his tongue out at either Susan Dey or Suzanne Crough. I don’t think that was written, but it’s very cute and probably very much like the person Jeremy Gelbwaks was as a little boy.

Grandma and Grandpa pull up in a groovy yellow corvette. Grandpa is played by the same actor who played the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz. You could knit a blanket out of his sideburns. What’s up with that?

The next scene shows Grandpa walking in to the band’s rehearsal toting a mandolin. He joins them for their canned rendition of “Baby I Love You”. Tracy looks confused. Shirley looks incredible. Grandma looks on and has somewhat of a cold hard look about her and is most likely thinking, “God, my husband is an ass”.

Sitting on the porch talking to Danny, Grandpa sounds and looks like his scarecrow part in The Wizard of Oz. In the next scene, he catches up with the family bus on the road by catching a ride in the back of an El Camino. When he jumps out, he looks just like the scarecrow coming down off his post.

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Grandma and Grandpa make up and prepare for a trip around the world. They burn rubber as they’re driving away in their yellow corvette with Grandma at the wheel. Rock on, Grandma!  Please check back in a few weeks for another review of The Partridge Family. I also review The Brady Bunch episodes if you want to check those out as well. See you soon!

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