All Episodes of The Torkelsons
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Season 1
8.1/1070 votesFence 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: Unknown
- 8.2/1070 votes
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: Unknown
- 7.4/1069 votes
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: Unknown
- 7.7/1066 votes
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: Unknown
- 8.2/1072 votes
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: Unknown
- 8.0/1069 votes
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: Unknown
- 7.9/1067 votes
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: Unknown
- 7.6/1067 votes
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: Unknown
- 7.6/1067 votes
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: Unknown
- 8.6/1067 votes
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: Unknown
- 8.2/1067 votes
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: Unknown
- 8.2/1067 votes
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: Unknown
- 7.7/1066 votes
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: Unknown
- 8.8/1070 votes
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: Unknown
- 8.1/1067 votes
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: Unknown
- 8.6/1066 votes
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: Unknown
- 7.1/1066 votes
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: Unknown