What was Season Hubley's first acting job? It was playing the title character in a half-hour pilot for a proposed series called
Bobby Jo and the Big Apple Good Time Band in 1972. Apparently, she had accompanied a friend to an audition for the pilot and producer Paul Junger Witt handpicked her to be the star.
Bobby Jo and the Big Apple Good Time Band didn't end up being made into a series, but the association with its production company, Screen Gems, did get Season Hubley a guest role on
The Partridge Family later that year.
Here are some brief newspaper clippings discussing the project. You'll notice that even in a review of her very first gig, Season Hubley is singled out as being "destined for stardom."
The clipping below describes just how close the
Bobby Jo... project got to actually becoming a series. Apparently, there was rumor of a recasting...with the exception of Season Hubley, of course!
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ReplyDeletethanks for posting. i have been trying to find information about this proposed pilot for decades. i saw it the night that it aired. i was 10 years old then. i am now 56. the band was having difficulty coming up with a potential hit song. in the middle of the night one of the band members while half asleep wrote a catchy song. they would go onto to record the tune. then before it's great unveiling they realized they had written a song about the residents of their home town! in the song they revealed that one of the residents wore a toupee. then the band had reservations about proceeding with the song. i would love to see this again. over the years i had forgotten the title, but i knew the word 'apple'was included. thanks again! i greatly appreciate it.
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