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TMC
01-01-2023, 03:29 AM
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Remember the show The Torkelsons (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031125202/http://www.jumptheshark.com/t/torkelsons.htm)? Well not too many do. It lasted one season and then was repackaged as the show Almost Home. In this video, I take a look at the entire series.

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Hosted by Rachel Cox and Valerie Temple, Sliders and Wings is a podcast about the TV shows Sliders, Wings, and all the other forgotten TV shows of the 90s.

On this episode, Val and Rachel and Special Guest Sarah Cox (Rachel's VERY OWN SISTER) discuss The Torkelsons (https://web.archive.org/web/20140406113111/http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/topic/3139819-the-torkelsonsalmost-home/?view=getnewpost), whose pilot is on YouTube. The Torkelsons is an American sitcom television series which aired on the NBC television network from September 21, 1991, to June 6, 1993. The series starred Connie Ray, Olivia Burnette, and William Schallert. For the second and final season, the series was retooled and renamed Almost Home, at which point the show's setting moved from Oklahoma to Seattle and a young Brittany Murphy joined the cast.

Hot topics include: 1.) Recurring segments Accent Corner, What Ya Watching? (Val goes deep on The Queen's Gambit), The Most 90s Thing (Is The Torks timeless?) and new segment MAD Magazine headline 2.) Embracing the new cool slang "Fence Neighbors" 3.) Thrift store pride! 4.) Stick with us to the end and you will hear a special rendition of the Torkelsons theme song by the Cox Sisters, the closest thing to the Judds you will ever hear.