With her shag hairdo and colorful polyester pantsuits, Shirley Partridge was the grooviest of moms. Academy Award-winning actress Shirley Jones took on the part in The Partridge Family in 1970 and, for four years, played the widowed matriarch of a family that also happened to be a pop music group. In between touring the country in a psychedelically painted bus, the six also experienced the normal ups and downs of family life. The cast included Dave Madden as the family's kid-hating agent Reuben Kincaid, and David Cassidy, Susan Dey, and Danny Bonaduce as the older siblings.