sentences:  "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.