Do you remember The Torkelsons?! I do! It was a brilliant show about this woman, Millicent Torkelson, raising her five children in the small town of Pyramid Corners, Oklaholma. Millicent has a lot of financial woes, which she struggles with throughout the show. The money problem gets so bad, they have to get a boarder to live in their basement, whom they refer to him as "Boarder Hodges..." because his name is Wesley Hodges. And by the way, I always find it odd when people refer to one another as whatever they are followed by their name. For example: Widow Jenkins (Buttercream Gang reference) or Cousin Dick (Full House reference). I would hate to be singled out as "Courier Mary" or "Daughter Mary."
Either way the show was tops! One of the best of it's time.
All the kids had double names: Dorothy Jane, Steven Floyd, Ruth Ann, Chuckie Lee and Mary Sue (that's also the order of their ages from oldest to youngest...how do you like them apples!?). Dorothy Jane was a whimsical teenager who frequently sat on her widow seat and conversed with "the man in the moon." As a kid, I thought she was so cool for having a window seat. I wanted a window seat more than anything. So much so that I tried to craft one by setting up my toy chest in front of a window and putting a bunch of pillows on it. It was not the most comfy. So when that didn't work, I tried to climb onto a shelf that was built into the wall underneath this window that we had in a little alcove. I didn't fit, and I most likely did a bit of damage to the shelf.
Anyways, I digress! Dorothy Jane was the kid they focused most on. The rest were kind of secondary and annoying.
One eppisode I remember really well was when Dorothy Jane was trying to get advice from the most popular girl in school, Callie Kimbro. Callie's advice to DJ was something like this, "Just be confident. Say to yourself, 'I'm better than everybody else. I'm the homecoming queen." You have to imagine that being said in a very many southern voice (because Callie was cursed with a deep voice). Me and Kitty still quote her on this. Hey! It's good advice!
Oh! I did some IMDBing, and it looks like everybody in the cast has a pretty long acting resume (Ruth Anne's was the shortest).
Anyways, it's a great show. If you didn't ever get a chance to see it, here's a clip:
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