Anyway, she was being interviewed recently, I saw, about the state of musicals and whether shows like Oklahoma could ever be made again, things like them. And they got around to asking her, “What about The Partridge Family? Could a show like that come back on TV?”
(paraphrasing) “Oh, no, she said, there’s no way. Times were much happier. People were much happier back then. You couldn’t put a show like that on the air today and have it survive. People would mock and laugh at the happiness on our show.” And I thought she had a good point, what she was saying. It’s not that the show’s old-fashioned; it’s that culturally it wouldn’t fit, because it would be mocked as not being representative of the real America because there’s too much happiness on the show.
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