The Torkelsons

  • Premiered: Sep 1991
  • Episodes: 33
  • Followers: 1
  • Ended
  • NBC
  • Unknown
  • Comedy

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Season 1
1x1
Fence Neighbors
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 21, 1991
A homespun family led by a single mom tries to get by, but teenage daughter Dorothy Jane isn't thrilled when her mom's forced to take in a border to make ends meet.
1x2
The Cotillion
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 28, 1991
Dorothy Jane hopes for a fairy-tale resolution to a school-dance, but she has no dress, no date, and Riley, her Prince Charming next door, seems oblivious.
1x3
A Kiss is Still a Kiss
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 05, 1991
Dorothy Jane would like a romance between Millicent and the new pastor but when he comes calling, its only to report that Steven Floyd nearly turned a hayride into a roll in the hay.
1x4
For Love or Money
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 12, 1991
Millicent deems it necessary to be regularly employed, giving Dorothy Jane the job of looking after the other kids.
1x5
Poetry in Motion
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 19, 1991
A blackmailing Ruth Ann reveals Dorothy Jane's private poems of passion to the world, but the unveiling ends up emboldening lovelorn Dorothy Jane.
1x6
An American Almost in Paris
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 26, 1991
Dorothy Jane wants desperately to bid adieu to Oklahoma and say bonjour to Paris, and she might, if she's selected the winner in a student-exchange competition.
1x7
Men Don't Leave
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 02, 1991
Randall Torkelson blows in from Texas after more than a year away, but his arrival is an ill wind to Dorothy Jane, and she may be the last gasp of his marriage to Millicent.
1x8
Thanksgivingmesomething
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 24, 1991
Pastor Langley and his assistant will be guests for Thanksgiving, prompting Dorothy Jane to push Millicent to play up her femininity.
1x9
Return to Sender
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 01, 1991
Wesley's estranged former daughter-in-law who, along with his granddaughter, is reunited with Wesley thanks to some good-hearted butting in by Millicent.
1x10
I Fought the Law
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 01, 1991
Millicent stands up for the American way, and the right to sell homemade pickled goods, by insisting on operating her annual roadside stand without a license.
1x11
A Sigh is Just a Sigh
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 08, 1991
Steven Floyd goes to bat for Millicent by beating up a school big mouth - but she doesn't know that until after she's chewed him out and he's run away.
1x12
Educating Millicent
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 22, 1991
Millicent had her reasons for not finishing high school, but there's no good reason why she couldn't take an equivalency exam now.
1x13
Double Date
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 09, 1992
Radio ""Love Professor"" Kitty Drysdale wires into the affairs of Dorothy Jane and Millicent's hearts and jump-starts their dating lives.
1x14
The Ice Princess
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 12, 1992
Dorothy Jane resolves to become the kind of girl who makes guys melt, and she looks to the school's resident ice princess for guidance.
1x15
Swear Not By the Moon
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 19, 1992
Never was there a story of more woe (except maybe one) than of Dorothy Jane's trial playing Juliet in the school play opposite her Romeo, Riley Roberts.
1x16
Say Uncle
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 16, 1992
Dorothy Jane and Millicent get a double dose of relentless wooing by two Scroggins men - Kirby and his big-talkin' uncle, who takes a liking to Millicent.
1x17
The Long Goodbye
Episode overview
Air date
May 02, 1992
Randall Torkelson returns with a big hello for Millicent and the kids, but Dorothy Jane is fretting over college-bound Riley, who didn't say goodbye.
1x18
The Egg and I
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Air date
May 30, 1992
Dorothy Jane and Kirby learn parenthood isn't all it's cracked up to be when a school assignment requires them to care for an egg.
1x19
It's My Party
Episode overview
Air date
May 30, 1992
Dorothy Jane is exposed to the perils of popularity when she throws a party to increase her social standing, but leaves a new friend standing out in the cold.
1x20 Season finale
Aunt Poison
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 13, 1992
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