The Partridge Family - Season 1, Episode 24 (24)
Title: A Partridge By Any Other Name
First aired: March 12, 1971
Synopsis:
As The Partridge Family are preparing for their Canadian tour, they are required to have their birth certificates. When Keith, Laurie and Danny are searching the attic for their birth certificates they find all of them, except Danny's.
When the family is introduced to the booking agent Marty Burnes, he jokingly refuses to believe Danny is a Partridge, after that Danny is convinced he is an adopted child. Shirley tries her hardest to talk Danny out of his belief, but Reuben and the others kid Danny about his origin, only to confirm his belief that he is not a Partridge.
At the hospital where all the others were born, Danny finds there is no record of his birth. Heartbroken, he refuses to believe Shirley when she tries to tell him that he was born unexpectedly early in a hospital in another town, where they were having a family picnic and that's why he wasn't born at the same hospital where the others were.
Danny returns to the local hospital and finds out the name of the one male child who was born on his birthday, a son to a Mr. and Mrs. M Young. Danny looks up all the M. Youngs in the phone book who live in the city and goes to find who he thinks are his parents. Several series of strange confrontations ensue between Danny and his "father." One, Mike Young, a construction worker and single, tells Danny he would have had to be born in Korea. Then Danny meets a priest, and an old man wielding an ear trumpet, a widow who produces a 10-year-old M. Young and catches up with one in the cemetery.
Meanwhile, Shirley and Reuben have contacted the local hospital and learned what Danny was doing. They finally catch up to him at the last address, which is answered by a handsome, African American man.
Later, a happy Danny admits he has made two mistakes, one thinking he was adopted and two, not realizing that to be adopted by the Partridge Family would be the greatest compliment anyone could ever be paid. Keith and Laurie call out to Shirley and Danny because they have finally found Danny's baby photos.
Synopsis written by April Dent.
Songs:
Doesn't Somebody Want to Be Wanted,
I Can Feel Your Heartbeat
Cast:
Shirley Partridge - Shirley Jones
Keith Partridge - David Cassidy
Laurie Partridge - Susan Dey
Danny Partridge - Danny Bonaduce
Chris Partridge - Jeremy Gelbwaks
Tracy Partridge - Suzanne Crough
Reuben Kincaid - Dave Madden
Directed by: Harry Falk
Written by: Ron Friedman
Guest Stars: Bernard Fox as Marty Burnes, Art Metrano as Mike Young, Ned Glass as Detective, Jim Connell as Orderly, Renie Riano as Mrs. Reinbolt, Sid McCoy as M. Young, Jeff Burton as Workman.
Screen Shots:
Thank you Weronika for the pictures.
