Title: The Partridge Family
Content:  The Partridge Family is an American musical sitcom starring Shirley Jones and featuring David Cassidy. Jones plays a widowed mother, and Cassidy plays the oldest of her five children, in a family who embarks on a music career. It ran from September 25, 1970, until August 24, 1974, on the ABC network as part of a Friday-night lineup, and had subsequent runs in syndication. The family was loosely based on the real-life musical family the Cowsills, a popular band in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Title: The Partridge Family
Content:  The Partridge Family was created for television by Bernard Slade, and the series' executive producer was Bob Claver. The show was inspired by and loosely based on the Cowsills, a family pop music group that was famous in the late 1960s. In the show's early development, the Cowsill children were considered by the producers, but because the Cowsills were not trained actors and were too old for the roles as scripted, Slade and Claver abandoned that idea. Shirley Jones had already been signed as mother Shirley Partridge and star of the show. Surviving members of the Cowsill family have more recently suggested that in fact they were the leading contenders for the child roles, but the deal was wrecked because their tyrannical 
Title: The Partridge Family
Content: Shirley Jones as Shirley Partridge: vocals, keyboard, tambourine, percussion ; David Cassidy as Keith Partridge: lead vocals, rhythm guitar, electric lead guitar, banjo ; Susan Dey as Laurie Partridge: vocals, harmony, piano, Hammond organ, percussion ; Danny Bonaduce as Danny Partridge: vocals, bass guitar. ; Jeremy Gelbwaks as Chris Partridge (Season 1): vocals, drums ; Brian Forster as Chris Partridge (Seasons 2–4): vocals, drums ; Suzanne Crough as Tracy Partridge: tambourine, percussion ; Dave Madden as Reuben Kincaid: band manager ; Ricky Segall as Ricky Stevens (Season 4): singer ; Simone, the family's pet dog (Season 1, occasionally in later seasons)  No members of the cast played any music on the show or the soundtrack albums and only Jones and Cassidy sang. The actors pretended while listening to recordings by session musicians, who provided the real vocal and instrumental music attributed to the Partridge Family.
Title: Suzanne Crough
Content:  On The Partridge Family, a musical sitcom TV show which ran from 1970 to 1974, Crough played Tracy Partridge, the youngest Partridge sibling, who played the tambourine. After The Partridge Family, she made several TV movies and made guest appearances on television shows, including Mulligan's Stew. Her last credited on-screen role was as Kate in the 1980 TV movie Children of Divorce.
Title: Partridge Family 2200 A.D.
Content: Sherry Alberoni . . . Laurie Partridge ; Danny Bonaduce . . . Danny Partridge ; Suzanne Crough . . . Tracy Partridge ; Susan Dey . . . Laurie Partridge (in 2 episodes) ; Brian Forster . . . Chris Partridge ; Joan Gerber . . . Shirley Partridge, Energetic Emma ; Chuck McLenan . . . Keith Partridge, Zappy Zak ; Micky Dolenz . . . Wonderful Wayne, Spotless Sam ; Julie McWhirter . . . Marion Moonglow ; Hal Smith . . . Texx ; John Stephenson . . . Reuben Kincaid ; Lennie Weinrib . . . Jolly Joe ; Frank Welker . . . Orbit, Veenie  Chuck McLenan also was the singing voice for musical numbers.
Title: The Partridge Family
Content:  Mulligan, Michael Ontkean, Noam Pitlik, Annette O'Toole, Charlotte Rae, Rob Reiner, Jack Riley, Jaclyn Smith, Vic Tayback, Nancy Walker, and Frank Welker. Country singer Johnny Cash made an uncredited cameo appearance in the pilot episode. Ray Bolger played Shirley's father in three episodes, and Rosemary DeCamp played Shirley's mother in four episodes. Then-Governor Ronald Reagan's daughter, Maureen Reagan, was also featured in one episode. Future Charlie's Angels stars Jaclyn Smith, Farrah Fawcett and Cheryl Ladd all made guest appearances on separate episodes. Baseball Hall of Fame catcher Johnny Bench appeared in a cameo role as a pool waiter in a third-season episode. Bobby Sherman appeared in the last episode of the first season as struggling songwriter Bobby Conway. This episode led into a short-lived spinoff series on ABC, Getting Together, starring Sherman and Wes Stern as Conway's business partner Lionel Poindexter.
Title: The Partridge Family
Content:  insisted that his own wife should play the mother role, despite the producers' insistence that Jones's casting in the role of Mrs. Partridge was not negotiable. The pilot was filmed in December 1969. This unaired pilot differs from the pilot that was broadcast in 1970. In the unaired pilot, Shirley's name is Connie and she has a boyfriend played by Jones's real-life husband at the time, Jack Cassidy, father of David Cassidy. Laurie mentions her late father once getting drunk at a Christmas party. The family has a different address and lives in Ohio. The show proved popular, but the fame took its toll on several, if not most, of the starring cast, particularly David Cassidy. In the midst of his rise 
Title: September 1970
Content: The Partridge Family, a situation comedy about a fictitious family of pop musicians, premiered on ABC television. Only two members of the cast, Shirley Jones and her stepson, David Cassidy, could actually sing or play a musical instrument, and a team of studio musicians and singers recorded the popular record albums and singles which the actors would lip sync to during the filming.  Critics were generally negative, with one commenting that "It's a genuine plastic imitation of the Cowsills family act and comes equipped with Shirley Jones, five children and an easily amused laughing machine" and another, referring to the opening credit sequence, wrote "'The Partridge Family' lays eggs"; but another critic opined that while "the prognosticators don't give it much of a chance", the show "is 
Title: Shirley Jones
Content:  In 1970, after turning down the role of Carol Brady on The Brady Bunch, a role that ultimately went to her best friend, Florence Henderson, Jones was the producers' first choice to audition for the lead role of Shirley Partridge in The Partridge Family, an ABC musical sitcom based loosely on the real-life musical family The Cowsills. The series focused on a young widowed mother whose five children form a pop rock group after the entire family painted its signature bus to travel. She was convinced that the combination of music and comedy would be a surefire hit. Jones realized, however, that: "The problem with Partridge—though it was great for me and 
Title: Suzanne Crough
Content:  Suzanne J. Crough (March 6, 1963 – April 27, 2015) was an American child actress best known for her role as Tracy Partridge on The Partridge Family.

Question: who played the mom in the partridge family?
Answer: Shirley Mae Jones.