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On the bonus feature “The Sound of Partridge,” we finally meet the real Partridge Family: the seasoned studio singers who backed up David Cassidy and Shirley Jones on the band’s records. But what’s most shocking is that in all the reminiscing, the name Cowsill is never muttered. The Cowsills were the singing family from the 1960s on which the Partridges were not-so-loosely based. There may be no admission that the Partridges ripped off the Cowsills, but there’s something far more damning to be found on “The Partridge Family: the Complete First Season”. Two episodes of the spinoff cartoon “The Partridge Family 2200 A.D.,” a stinker that, for no apparent reason, puts the family into a Jetsons-like future. A real bonus feature would have been getting Susan Dey to finally own up to her Laurie Partridge past.
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