The Partridge Family (TV Series) The Eleven-Year Itch (1973) User Reviews

Highlight of this episode is Keith singing "Walking in the Rain"

[gaylapija · 7/10 · 9 February 2018]

Although another routine episode in Season 3 with some humorous lines, the highlight to me is hearing Keith sing "Walking in the Rain". The cover songs done on this series are often done very well with of course the talented singing of David Cassidy.

Good episode

[ghcheese · 10/10 · 24 July 2021]

I don't know what these others where reviewing but I loved it. It was funny. It was entertaining. You got Jodie Foster punching Dani Bonaduci. What more do you want.

Bert Convy and Jodie Foster

[kevinolzak · 5/10 · 24 March 2014]

"The Eleven-Year Itch" marks the return of Bert Convy's Richard Lawrence, previously seen in "A Likely Candidate" (before that a different character in "Whatever Happened to Moby Dick?"), this time with a younger daughter, Julie, played by none other than Jodie Foster, already a veteran of nearly three dozen TV episodes, and more than a year before her starring role as Addie Pray on the teleseries PAPER MOON, based on the successful Tatum O'Neal feature. Unfortunately, it's just a retread of "Promise Her Anything But Give Her a Punch," with Julie instead of Gloria Hickey, only here she's the aggressor chasing after Danny. Realizing that Mom's best chance to romance Lawrence is for him to be nicer to Julie, Danny makes the mistake of going overboard by actually kissing her, leaving him with a black eye for his efforts. The two patch things up by the end, but we've seen it all before (neither Convy nor Foster would return). The featured song is a wonderful cover of "Walking in the Rain," composed by Phil Spector, Barry Mann, and Cynthia Weil, a 1964 hit (number 23 on the Billboard singles charts) for Spector's girl group The Ronettes, which earned Spector his only Grammy as a producer. The Partridge version was issued three months before on sixth LP NOTEBOOK, which also featured a cover (never heard on the series) of Mann-Weil's "We Gotta Get Out of This Place," the 1965 hit for The Animals, #13 on Billboard.

Even with Jodie Foster guesting, it's a lackluster love affair

[blockerlover · 4/10 · 20 September 2007]

Shirley's semi-boyfriend Richard Lawrence brings his pre-teen daughter over to meet the Partridges, and the precocious blonde tyke gets a crush on...Danny? One of the weakest episodes of the otherwise first-rate third season has Jodie Foster guest-starring, yet the script gives her no sharp lines and the director doesn't utilize her inherent smarts or charm. One would think a romantic-minded little girl might swoon over pop-idol Keith instead of Danny, and pudgy Danny Bonaduce is an ill-fitting screen-match with small-stature Foster, who was ten when this was filmed but looks about eight. Not even Women's Lib-minded Laurie bothers to say anything when Foster's Julie turns down her favorite vegetable because Danny hates carrots. The episode smacks of writing done by someone who probably never even watched the show, and the only lively sequence is when Keith and the family launch into "Walking in the Rain" at an unnamed outdoor venue.