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Partridge Family creator Bernard Slade who made a star of heartthrob David Cassidy and also wrote the film Same Time Next Year dies at age 89
Slade died at his home in Beverly Hills on Wednesday from Lewy Body Dementia
The producer was best known for creating the TV series The Partridge Family
The show was inspired by and loosely based on the Cowsills
Shirley Jones signed on first as mom Shirley Partridge. Later David was cast as her son
Bernard Slade died at his home in Beverly Hills on Wednesday from complications from Lewy Body Dementia, his family revealed to People.
The producer was best known for creating the TV series The Partridge Family which starred David Cassidy, Shirley Jones and Susan Dey. The family friendly show about a family in a musical band aired from 1970 until 1974.
The Canadian is also known for the movies Same Time, Next Year (1978), Tribute (1980) and The Girl with Something Extra (1973).
In the mid Sixties he moved to LA where he worked on Bewitched with Elizabeth Montgomery.
He then worked on other TV shows such as The Flying Nun, Bridget Love Bernie, The Girl With Something Extra
Next came his big hit The Partridge Family.
The show was inspired by and loosely based on the Cowsills, a family pop music group that was famous in the late 1960s.
Jones signed on first as mom Shirley Partridge. Later David was cast as her son and he became an overnight teen heartthrob. After a long battle with addiction that was on and off for years, he died in 2017 at age 67.
After the show ended, Slade created Broadway's Same Time, Next Year, starring Charles Grodin and Ellen Burstyn.
The film in 1978 starred Alan Alda and Burstyn.
The plot is about the married who have an affair. Instead of writing it off as a one-night stand, the pair decide to meet at the inn every year for a romantic retreat, away from their respective spouses and families.
Slade was wed to Jill Foster, an actress, for six decades until she passed away in 2017.
He is survived by his sister Shirley Rabone; his two children, Laurie Newbound and Chris Newbound; and four grandchildren.
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