All Episodes of The Torkelsons

Season 1

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  8.2/1069 votes

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  Fence Neighbors

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1991

  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.

  Director: Arlene Sanford

  Writer: N/A

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  8.2/1070 votes

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  The Cotillion

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1991

  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.

  Director: Arlene Sanford

  Writer: N/A

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  7.4/1069 votes

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  A Kiss is Still a Kiss

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/1991

  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.

  Director: Arlene Sanford

  Writer: N/A

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  7.7/1066 votes

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  For Love or Money

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/12/1991

  Millicent deems it necessary to be regularly employed, giving Dorothy Jane the job of looking after the other kids.

  Director: Arlene Sanford

  Writer: N/A

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  8.2/1072 votes

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  Poetry in Motion

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/1991

  A blackmailing Ruth Ann reveals Dorothy Jane's private poems of passion to the world, but the unveiling ends up emboldening lovelorn Dorothy Jane.

  Director: Arlene Sanford

  Writer: N/A

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  8.0/1069 votes

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  An American Almost in Paris

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/26/1991

  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.

  Director: Arlene Sanford

  Writer: N/A

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  7.9/1067 votes

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  Men Don't Leave

  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/2/1991

  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.

  Director: Arlene Sanford

  Writer: N/A

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  7.8/1066 votes

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  Thanksgivingmesomething

  Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/24/1991

  Pastor Langley and his assistant will be guests for Thanksgiving, prompting Dorothy Jane to push Millicent to play up her femininity.

  Director: Arlene Sanford

  Writer: N/A

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  7.6/1067 votes

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  Return to Sender

  Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/24/1991

  Wesley's estranged former daughter-in-law who, along with his granddaughter, is reunited with Wesley thanks to some goodhearted butting in by Millicent.

  Director: Arlene Sanford

  Writer: N/A

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  8.6/1067 votes

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  I Fought the Law

  Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/1/1991

  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.

  Director: Arlene Sanford

  Writer: N/A

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  8.2/1067 votes

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  A Sigh is Just a Sigh

  Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/8/1991

  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.

  Director: Arlene Sanford

  Writer: N/A

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  8.2/1067 votes

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  Educating Millicent

  Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/22/1991

  Millicent had her reasons for not finishing high school, but there's no good reason why she couldn't take an equivalency exam now.

  Director: Arlene Sanford

  Writer: N/A

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  7.7/1066 votes

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  Double Date

  Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/9/1992

  Radio "Love Professor" Kitty Drysdale wires into the affairs of Dorothy Jane and Millicent's hearts and jump-starts their dating lives.

  Director: Arlene Sanford

  Writer: N/A

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  8.8/1070 votes

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  The Ice Princess

  Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/12/1992

  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.

  Director: Arlene Sanford

  Writer: N/A

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  8.7/1073 votes

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  Swear Not By the Moon

  Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/19/1992

  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.

  Director: N/A

  Writer: N/A

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  7.8/1069 votes

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  Say Uncle

  Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/16/1992

  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.

  Director: N/A

  Writer: N/A

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  8.1/1067 votes

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  The Long Goodbye

  Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 5/2/1992

  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.

  Director: Arlene Sanford

  Writer: N/A

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  8.6/1066 votes

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  The Egg and I

  Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 5/23/1992

  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.

  Director: Arlene Sanford

  Writer: N/A

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  7.6/1080 votes

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  It's My Party

  Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 5/30/1992

  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.

  Director: N/A

  Writer: N/A

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  7.1/1066 votes

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  Aunt Poison

  Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 6/13/1992

  Millicent's aunt leaves her a diverse inheritance...and lots of unanswered questions.

  Director: Arlene Sanford

  Writer: N/A