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It's been 50 years since "The Partridge Family" urged people to "C'mon, Get Happy!"

The sitcom premiered Sept. 25, 1970 on ABC, turned co-star David Cassidy (Keith Partridge) into an overnight teen idol and marked movie star Shirley Jones' entree into series television. She played Shirley Partridge, the matriarch of a family singing group modeled after The Cowsills, whose string of hits in the mid-to-late '60s included "The Rain, The Park and Other Things."

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