NEW YORK — Dave Madden, who played the child-hating agent on the hit 1970s sitcom “The Partridge Family,” died Thursday in Florida at 82. His niece Mary Frances Miller said he died at a hospice center ...

When The Partridge Family first hit TV screens in 1970, it brought together pop music, family comedy and a technicolor sense of optimism that perfectly captured the early ’70s. With Shirley Jones as ...

Danny Bonaduce is opening up about his dynamic with his Partridge Family castmate, Dave Madden. In a September 2025 interview on That's Classic!, Bonaduce, who played the middle Partridge child, Danny ...

They weren’t a real family. Except for the mom, perhaps, who was a real-life stepmother of the eldest son and lead singer. And they weren’t really musicians — other than the mom and again, her stepson ...