Episode
The Partridge Family: Go Directly to Jail
Overview
The Partridge Family find themselves with a captive audience when they perform at a prison, but then find themselves being held captive by a prisoner who wants them to hear his songs.
Details
- Series
- The Partridge Family
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 10
- Air date
- 1970-11-27
- Runtime
- 24 min
Episode context
Go Directly to Jail is Episode 10 in Season 1 of The Partridge Family. It aired on 1970-11-27. The runtime is 24 min.
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Episode 9: Did You Hear the One About Danny Partridge?
After a mishap onstage leaves the audience laughing, Danny takes it upon himself to provide a little comic relief to their show. Unfortunately, he's not as funny as he thinks he is.
Episode 11: This Is My Song
While Keith struggles with a creative dry spell, Danny attempts to write his first hit. Their sibling rivalry peaks when Danny writes a great song just as Keith has a breakthrough with the exact same tune.
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Episode 8: But the Memory Lingers On
The Partridge Family is about to leave a different kind of lasting impression on their audience after a skunk hitches a ride on their bus and leaves them...and all their clothes...covered with the unpleasant scent.
Episode 12: My Son, the Feminist
Keith promises his feminist girlfriend that the Partridge Family will perform at an upcoming rally, which puts them under attack from the morality watchdog group in their neighborhood.
Episode 7: Danny and the Mob
While performing in Las Vegas, Danny tutors the beautiful girlfriend of a mob boss in finances so she can leave town and finds himself with a new hit but one that has nothing to do with music.
Episode 13: Star Quality
When Danny gets singled out in a review by a prominent journalist, the praise goes to his head and he decides to go solo. But he changes his mind when he sees his family happily auditioning for his replacement.
Episode 6: Love at First Slight
Now that their record is out, Keith finds himself with major girl trouble: he cannot keep them away from him! But his troubles really begin when he falls for the one who doesn't care who he is.
Episode 14: The Red Woodloe Story
During a stopover in a small town, the Partridges offer to revive the career of a folk legend who's been out of circulation for twenty years, but find that he would rather sing in church than be in the spotlight.
Episode 5: When Mother Gets Married
Shirley begins dating an old flame but the kids are suspicious of him, especially when they see him leave a jewelry store with a beautiful young woman.
Episode 15: Mom Drops Out
Reuben books a European tour but there's one condition: the groovy promoter thinks Shirley's too old. She quits the band, but discovers she has fans there after all.
Episode 4: See Here, Private Partridge!
Just as they're about to record their first album, the Partridges have a bomb dropped on them: ten-year-old Danny's been drafted into the Army.
Guest stars: Jack Riley as Corporal Wrzesinski, Jonathan Daly as Officer Moody
Song: "On the Road"
Episode 16: Old Scrapmouth
Laurie gets braces right before a television show comes to film the band. As if that isn't bad enough, when they begin to play, her braces pick up radio signals and all she can hear is The Rolling Stones!