Details

Release year: 1991

Storyline

A working-class single mother provides for her quirky family of five kids in rural Oklahoma.

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Cast

Connie Ray — Millicent Torkelson
Olivia Burnette — Dorothy Jane Torkelson
Lee Norris — Chuckie Lee Torkelson
Rachel Duncan — Mary Sue Torkelson

Did you know

• Series creator Lynn Montgomery claims to have gotten the name "Torkelson" from a real-life Steven Floyd Torkelson, who had shown her his bug collection and shared his first kiss with her 30 years earlier.

• Connie Ray's first major on-screen acting role.

• The Torkelsons (1991) was nearly cancelled at the end of the first season, which executive producer Michael Jacobs blamed on NBC's decision to move the show from Saturday nights to Sundays opposite 60 Minutes (1968). Instead of cancelling it, NBC had it retooled, retitled it Almost Home (1993), and aired it on Saturday nights. This revamp was also unsuccessful and NBC officially cancelled the series in the spring of 1993.