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.
According to a bit about network pilots from The Tonight Show on April 3rd, 1991, the working title of this series was Them Torkelsons.
Millicent Torkelson's maiden name was "Dowd."