Episode
The Partridge Family: Guess Who's Coming to Drive?
Overview
Reuben sets up an aggressive summer tour schedule. Shirley does not want to go on tour as it is tiring to drive all day and sing all night, so they hire a bus driver. But Danny is suspicious when they find out that he's an ex-con.
Details
- Series
- The Partridge Family
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 1971-10-12
- Runtime
- 24 min
Episode context
Guess Who's Coming to Drive? is Episode 12 in Season 2 of The Partridge Family. It aired on 1971-10-12. The runtime is 24 min.
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Episode 11: I Can Get It for You Retail
Danny sees his mother looking at a mink coat in a store window, and with Shirley's birthday coming up, Danny decides to buy it for her. To raise money, Danny starts selling Keith's personal belongings to the love-sick girls at school.
Episode 13: Don't Bring Your Guns to Town, Santa
After performing in Vegas on Christmas Eve, the Partridges start the drive home. The bus breaks down in a town with one inhabitant. Disappointed about being away from home for Christmas, the prospector tells them a Christmas story.
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Episode 10: The Forty-Year Itch
Shirley's father visits and announces he left home and plans to go to Big Spur. Minutes later, her mother shows up and says she ran away. Both parents are determined to split up. The Partridges find a way to bring them together again.
Episode 14: Where Do Mermaids Go?
Driving home after a tour, the Partridges stop for a picnic on a country road and meet a young woman who likes to travel alone and enjoy her freedom. After hours together, she stays at their home, leaves, and gives them a million dollars.
Episode 9: A Tale of Two Hamsters
Danny and the two other younger children tell Shirley they have decided to go in the hamster business. When the two hamsters multiple with their offspring, the Partridges have to take them on tour so they can feed and take care of them.
Episode 15: Home Is Where the Heart Was
After being scolded from a mess, Chris and Tracy decided to run away from home but, ended up at Ruben's apartment causing mayhem.
Episode 8: Days of Acne and Roses
The grocery guy who delivers to the Partridges has a crush on Laurie, but he feels shy around her. He wants to ask her out, but has never been on a date. The other family members help him change his appearance and get over his shyness.
Episode 16: Fellini, Bergman, and Partridge
After seeing some experimental films at a theater, Keith says he can do better than any they saw. Keith pulls out the video camera and beings recording various random clips. Danny becomes his partner. The premier is not what he expects.
Episode 7: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Partridge
Keith decides he has to be a better role model to his younger brothers and sisters, but it seems like everything backfires.
Episode 17: Waiting for Bolero
Keith wants his own apartment so he can have some peace and quiet to write music. Shirley reluctantly agrees to let him move into a room in the house next door. Having his own place is not what he expects.
Episode 6: Whatever Happened to Moby Dick?
Danny is interested in the whales singing and tells the family they need to include whales in their act to show their support of ecology.
Episode 18: I Am Curious Partridge
Danny gets a job writing articles about the Partridge Family for the local newspaper. To be sure his article is a success, he embellishes the truth about the family.