The Partridge Family - Season 3, Episode 13 (62)

Title: For Sale by Owner

First aired: December 29, 1972

Synopsis:
Shirley thinks that The Partridge Family house isn't big enough, they need more bathrooms and just more room in general. Reuben takes Shirley to look at a new larger house. Shirley feels that The Partridge Family house is home to her so she doesn't really want to move, but all the kids are keen to.

Reuben offers to be their real estate agent and sell their house. They put their house up for sale. After a week nobody cares to come and look at the house, so Reuben and Danny come up with a scheme for "open house" with The Partridge Family. The open house is very popular and hundreds of people show up. As the family overhear disparaging remarks about their home from the visitors, they begin to realise just how much the house means to them. When the kids are about to tell Shirley that they don't want to move, Reuben arrives with the news that he's sold the house.

When the buyers, Mr and Mrs Sharp come to look at the house, the kids sabotage the plumbing, the doors and windows to make it look like the house is falling apart. They confess they don't want to move, but the Sharps still want the house and they've signed the papers.

The Partridge Family have only got two weeks to move. They learn that someone else bought the new house, so if Reuben can't get it, they have nowhere to go. The Sharps arrive with the news they don't want the house, everyone sees through their reasons and that they'd realised that they'd feel bad if the kids had to move against their will. Reuben ruins the happy moment with the news that he managed to buy the other house. He manages to get out of the contract with the owner if The Partridge Family will entertain at his son's birthday party, so The Partridges get to keep their house.
Synopsis written by April Dent

Song:
As Long As You're There

Cast:
Shirley Partridge - Shirley Jones
Keith Partridge - David Cassidy
Laurie Partridge - Susan Dey
Danny Partridge - Danny Bonaduce
Chris Partridge - Brian Forster
Tracy Partridge - Suzanne Crough
Reuben Kincaid - Dave Madden

Directed by: Russ Mayberry

Written by: Charlotte Brown

Guest stars: Bert Freed as Mr Sharp, Lurene Tuttle as Mrs Sharp, Donna Lynne as Girl, Marilyn Childs as Mrs Gibson, Ed Hoffsteader as Bobby Baum, Maxine Stewart as Gloria Hoffsteader, Gordon Jump as Father, Sari Price as Mother, Susan Neher as Gwen, Robin Raymond as The Woman

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