The Partridge Family (1970)

Comedy · Family · Music

The Partridge Family is an American television sitcom series about a widowed mother and her five children who embark on a music career.

IMDb rating: 6.6 (5,558 votes)
Episode average: 7.6 ↑ +1.0 vs IMDb
Seasons: 4
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 4 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1970)

7.43 avg 25 episodes 7.4 → 7.4 30 min avg

Mid-peak

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	What? and Get Out of Show Business?	7.4	216
2	The Sound of Money	7.4	184
3	Whatever Happened to the Old Songs?	6.8	157
4	See Here, Private Partridge	7.4	141
5	When Mother Gets Married	7.0	137
6	Love at First Slight	7.4	147
7	Danny and the Mob	7.6	156
8	But the Memory Lingers On	7.4	134
9	Did You Hear the One About Danny Partridge?	7.1	130
10	Go Directly to Jail	7.4	122
11	This Is My Song	7.2	115
12	My Son, the Feminist	7.6	132
13	Star Quality	7.2	117
14	The Red Woodloe Story	7.1	124
15	Mom Drops Out	7.4	113
16	Old Scrapmouth	7.7	131
17	Why Did the Music Stop?	7.3	100
18	Soul Club	8.2	185
19	To Play or Not to Play?	7.4	112
20	They Shoot Managers, Don't They?	7.6	106
21	Partridge Up a Pear Tree	7.8	107
22	Road Song	7.5	127
23	Not with My Sister, You Don't!	7.9	115
24	A Partridge by Any Other Name	7.6	110
25	A Knight in Shining Armor	7.4	145

Season 2 (1971)

7.77 avg 24 episodes 7.3 → 7.8 30 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Dora, Dora, Dora	7.3	119
2	In 25 Words or Less	7.4	105
3	A Man Called Snake	7.9	122
4	The Undergraduate	8.0	118
5	Anatomy of a Tonsil	7.6	93
6	Whatever Happened to Moby Dick?	7.5	105
7	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Partridge	7.8	95
8	Days of Acne and Roses	7.7	93
9	A Tale of Two Hamsters	7.6	93
10	The Forty-Year Itch	7.1	83
11	I Can Get It for You Retail	8.3	98
12	Guess Who's Coming to Drive?	7.8	87
13	Don't Bring Your Guns to Town, Santa	8.1	165
14	Where Do Mermaids Go?	7.6	110
15	Home Is Where the Heart Was	7.9	94
16	Fellini, Bergman, and Partridge	7.7	94
17	Waiting for Bolero	7.9	91
18	I Am Curious Partridge	8.1	99
19	My Heart Belongs to a Two Car Garage	7.4	97
20	Hel-l-l-p	8.0	102
21	Promise Her Anything, But Give Her a Punch	8.0	98
22	The Partridge Papers	8.3	106
23	All's War in Love and Fairs	7.6	89
24	Who Is Max Ledbetter and Why Is He Saying All Those Terrible Things?	7.8	86

Season 3 (1972)

7.72 avg 25 episodes 8.0 → 8.0 30 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	This Male Chauvinist Piggy Went to Market	8.0	110
2	M is for the Many Things	8.2	100
3	Princess and the Partridge	7.8	108
4	Each Dawn I Diet	8.1	88
5	A Penny for His Thoughts	7.3	87
6	You're Only Young Twice	7.9	89
7	The Modfather	6.8	90
8	A Likely Candidate	7.5	79
9	Swiss Family Partridge	7.8	90
10	Ain't Loveth Grand?	7.7	90
11	Whatever Happened to Keith Partridge?	8.3	96
12	Nag, Nag, Nag	7.3	89
13	For Sale by Owner	8.1	85
14	Aspirin at 7, Dinner at 8	7.4	83
15	For Whom the Bell Tolls... and Tolls... and Tolls	7.6	92
16	Trial of the Partridge One	8.2	94
17	I Left My Heart in Cincinnati	8.2	113
18	The Eleven-Year Itch	7.7	103
19	Bedknobs and Drumsticks	7.1	91
20	Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex... But Couldn't Pronounce	7.7	85
21	Forgive Us Our Debits	7.6	89
22	The Partridge Connection	7.6	84
23	The Selling of the Partridge	7.5	82
24	Diary of a Mad Millionaire	7.7	88
25	Me and My Shadow	8.0	86

Season 4 (1973)

7.46 avg 22 episodes 6.9 → 7.8 30 min avg

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Hate Thy Neighbor	6.9	108
2	None But the Onely	7.7	84
3	Beethoven, Brahms and Partridge	7.6	97
4	The Strike-Out King	6.9	90
5	Reuben Kincaid Lives	7.6	90
6	Double Trouble	7.4	93
7	The Last of Howard	7.6	82
8	The Diplomat	7.3	81
9	Heartbreak Keith	7.7	85
10	A Day of Honesty	7.7	82
11	Al in the Family	7.3	79
12	Maid in San Pueblo	6.7	91
13	Art for Mom's Sake	6.9	78
14	Two for the Show	7.2	99
15	Danny Drops Out	7.8	79
16	Queen for a Minute	7.0	93
17	Danny Converts	8.0	88
18	Miss Partridge, Teacher	7.8	83
19	Keith and Lauriebelle	7.9	79
20	Morning Becomes Electric	7.6	75
21	Pin It on Danny	7.8	81
22	...---... (S.O.S.)	7.8	100