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Season 1

Season 1 • 1991

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In the small town of Pyramid Corners, Oklahoma, Millicent Torkelson is struggling to raise her five children with no money after her husband abandoned the family. While she's busy trying to put food on the table, the kids are often getting into and out of trouble in ways that test her patience. Elderly loner Wesley Hodges pays for room and board to help them out, and becomes a quasi-family member before long.

Episodes

1. Fence Neighbors

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.

1991-09-2124 min

2. The Cotillion

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.

1991-09-2824 min

3. A Kiss is Still a Kiss

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.

1991-10-0524 min

4. For Love or Money

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

1991-10-1224 min

5. Poetry in Motion

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

1991-10-1924 min

6. An American Almost in Paris

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.

1991-10-2624 min

7. Men Don't Leave

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.

1991-11-0224 min

8. Thanksgivingmesomething

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

1991-11-2424 min

9. Return to Sender

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

1991-11-2424 min

10. I Fought the Law

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.

1991-12-0124 min

11. A Sigh is Just a Sigh

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.

1991-12-0824 min

12. Educating Millicent

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

1991-12-2224 min

13. Double Date

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

1992-01-0924 min

14. The Ice Princess

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.

1992-01-1224 min

15. Swear Not By the Moon

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.

1992-01-1924 min

16. Say Uncle

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.

1992-02-1624 min

17. The Long Goodbye

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.

1992-05-0224 min

18. The Egg and I

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.

1992-05-2324 min

19. It's My Party

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.

1992-05-3024 min

20. Aunt Poison

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

1992-06-1324 min