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Millicent Torkelson does what she can to hold her family together as it shrinks to just her and her children after her husband Randy abandons the family.
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Episode 1 - Fence Neighbors
Release Date: 1991-09-21A 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.
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Episode 2 - The Cotillion
Release Date: 1991-09-28Dorothy 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.
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Episode 3 - A Kiss is Still a Kiss
Release Date: 1991-10-05Dorothy 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.
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Episode 4 - For Love or Money
Release Date: 1991-10-12Millicent deems it necessary to be regularly employed, giving Dorothy Jane the job of looking after the other kids.
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Episode 5 - Poetry in Motion
Release Date: 1991-10-19A blackmailing Ruth Ann reveals Dorothy Jane's private poems of passion to the world, but the unveiling ends up emboldening lovelorn Dorothy Jane.
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Episode 6 - An American Almost in Paris
Release Date: 1991-10-26Dorothy 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.
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Episode 7 - Men Don't Leave
Release Date: 1991-11-02Randall 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.
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Episode 8 - Thanksgivingmesomething
Release Date: 1991-11-24Pastor Langley and his assistant will be guests for Thanksgiving, prompting Dorothy Jane to push Millicent to play up her femininity.
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Episode 9 - Return to Sender
Release Date: 1991-11-24Wesley's estranged former daughter-in-law who, along with his granddaughter, is reunited with Wesley thanks to some goodhearted butting in by Millicent.
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Episode 10 - I Fought the Law
Release Date: 1991-12-01Millicent 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.
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Episode 11 - A Sigh is Just a Sigh
Release Date: 1991-12-08Steven 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.
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Episode 12 - Educating Millicent
Release Date: 1991-12-22Millicent had her reasons for not finishing high school, but there's no good reason why she couldn't take an equivalency exam now.
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Episode 13 - Double Date
Release Date: 1992-01-09Radio "Love Professor" Kitty Drysdale wires into the affairs of Dorothy Jane and Millicent's hearts and jump-starts their dating lives.
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Episode 14 - The Ice Princess
Release Date: 1992-01-12Dorothy Jane resolves to become the kind of girl who makes guys melt, and she looks to the school's resident ice princess for guidance.
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Episode 15 - Swear Not By the Moon
Release Date: 1992-01-19Never 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.
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Episode 16 - Say Uncle
Release Date: 1992-02-16Dorothy 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.
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Episode 17 - The Long Goodbye
Release Date: 1992-05-02Randall 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.
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Episode 18 - The Egg and I
Release Date: 1992-05-23Dorothy 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.
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Episode 19 - It's My Party
Release Date: 1992-05-30Dorothy 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.
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Episode 20 - Aunt Poison
Release Date: 1992-06-13Millicent's aunt leaves her a diverse inheritance...and lots of unanswered questions.