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"While in Canada I had written a television play called 'The Big Coin Sound,' which was about a vocal group," Slade recalled in his memoir, "Shared Laughter" (2000). "Then one night I happened to catch a family group called the Cowsills on 'The Tonight Show.' Since 'The Sound of Music' was enormously popular at the time, I thought the combination of original music and comedy could be very effective in a television series."
The producers originally thought of casting some members of the Cowsills, but, as Slade put it, they "didn't really fit into any of the characters that I had written," and so Jones, Cassidy, Susan Dey, Danny Bonaduce and others were cast as Partridges. The resulting show ran for four seasons on ABC, made a teenage idol out of Cassidy, spawned hit records and became a touchstone of the 1970s kitsch.
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