A Knight in Shining Armor The Partridge Family : Season 1 Episode 25
TV-G ABC 30m int(0)
Aired: March 19th, 1971 @ 8:00 PM EST on ABC
The Partridge Family and Reuben return home one night after a long trip and are awakened by loud music. To their surprise, they discover a young man – Bobby Conway – playing his tapes in their garage. Bobby explains that he has waited one week for their return so that he could play his music for them. But he doesn't write lyrics and the Partridges don't perform instrumentals. Danny remembers some poems they received in the mail and suggests they try to find the author, Lionel Poindexter, who lives in Denver. The Partridges and Bobby travel to Denver and find Lionel who is a bit strange. He greets them dressed in a full suit of armor – one of his jobs is distributing leaflets on the street for a product called Sir Lancelot Plums. Lionel tells the group that he is tone deaf but will listen to Bobby's tapes to see if he can come up with lyrics. Bobby discovers that Lionel has all his jobs to enable him to give gifts to the orphanage where he was raised. Bobby meets two of the little girls