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1 :01x01 - Fence Neighbors
Writer: Lynn Montgomery
Director: Arlene Sanford
Guest star: Richard McGonagle (Howard Roberts), Lynn Milgrim (Lillian Roberts), Gil Roscoe (Tall Man), Michael Landes (Riley Roberts), Skip O'Brien (Barly Guy), Jeanine Jackson (Appliance Saleslady), Ernie Lively (J.W.)
Single mom, Millicent Torkelson, is just trying to get by after her husband left her with 5 children and no money. Her daughter, Dorothy Jane, is horrified when she learns that her mother is going to take in a border, just so they can make ends meet.
2 :01x02 - The Cotillion
Writer: Lynn Montgomery
Director: Arlene Sanford
Guest star: Ronnie Claire Edwards (Bootsie), Nicki Vannice (Shawna), Paige Gosney (Kirby Scroggins), Michael Landes (Riley Roberts), Tanya Fenmore (Laine), Alyson Kiperman (Dreama)
Dorothy Jane longs to go to her school's dance, but faces the problem of not having a dress or a date. Even the boy that she likes will not pay attention to her. Millicent convinces Dorothy Jane to get a dress a the resale store, but Dorothy soon finds out that the dress belonged to a girl she goes to school with.
3 :01x03 - A Kiss is Still a Kiss
Writer: Wayne Lemon
Director: Arlene Sanford
Guest star: Jeff McCracken (Reverend Langley-Wilson), Katie Jane Johnston (Debra Jo), Ronnie Claire Edwards (Bootsie)
Dorothy Jane is hoping that Millicent will fall in love with their new pastor. When he shows up at the door, it turns out that he did not come to make a social call, but to report that Steven Floyd was disruptive on the church's hayride.
4 :01x04 - For Love or Money
Writer: Norma Safford Vela
Director: Arlene Sanford
Guest star: Ronnie Claire Edwards (Bootsie), Michael Landes (Riley Roberts)
Millicent decides that the time is right for her to re-enter the work force. However, this means that Dorothy Jane is going to get the job of looking after the kids when she gets home from school which is something she is not looking forward to.
5 :01x05 - Poetry in Motion
Writer: Philip LaZebnik
Director: Arlene Sanford
Guest star: Suzie Plakson (Verna), Michael Landes (Riley Roberts), Doren Fein (Nancy)
Ruth Ann decides to blackmail Dorothy Jane by revealling to everyone some of her private love poems. However, the plan backfires when the revelations just encourage Dorothy Jane to write more.
6 :01x06 - An American Almost in Paris
Director: Arlene Sanford
Guest star: Paige Gosney (Kirby Scroggins), Lenny Wolpe (Mr. Wheeler), Alyson Kiperman (Dreama)
Dorothy Jane longs to say good-bye to her depressing home in Pyramid Corners, Oklahoma and "bonjour" to the always exciting Paris, France. She thinks that she has found the perfect outlet to get her there, a student-exchange program. However, only two things stand in her way - the fact that she has to win the program's competition and her mother, Millicent.
7 :01x07 - Men Don't Leave
Writer: Susan Sebastian, Diana Ayers
Director: Arlene Sanford
Guest star: Ronnie Claire Edwards (Bootsie), Gregg Henry (Randall Torkelson)
After leaving more than a year ago, Randall Torkelson makes a return appearance much to the surprise of everyone in the family. Randall thinks he can use Dorothy Jane to make Millicent take him back. However, Dorothy Jane has a few things she has to say to her father about his walking out on them before she'll even try to help him.
8 :01x08 - Thanksgivingmesomething
Writer: Wayne Lemon
Director: Arlene Sanford
Guest star: Remy Ryan Hernandez (Jenny Blackwing), Michael Horse (David Blackwing), Jeff McCracken (Reverend Langley-Wilson)
Millicent announces to the family that Pastor Langley and his assistant are going to be their Thanksgiving dinner guests this year. Dorothy Jane is more than thrilled about this because she is convinced that she can get Pastor Langley and her mother together. However, according to Dorothy Jane, this is going to require Millicent to dress more "feminine".
9 :01x09 - Return to Sender
Writer: Michael Jacobs, Norma Safford Vela
Director: Arlene Sanford
Guest star: Dave Florek (Mr. Katsotis), Ashley Peldon (Molly Jeffers), Patty Duke (Catharine Jeffers)
Wesley has been sending items to his granddaughter, but the always keep coming back. After another item is returned, Dorothy Jane convinces Millicent to call the girl's mother and see if she can get to the bottom of the situation. Much to everyone's surprise, including Wesley, his estranged daughter-in-law and his granddaughter arrive for a visit and learn the true reason why the gifts were never received.
10 :01x10 - I Fought the Law
Writer: Philip LaZebnik
Director: Arlene Sanford
Guest star: Molly McClure (Gertrude Perkins), Ken Thorley (Burke Miller), Stephen Root (Sheriff Bobby Clinton), Lou Hancock (Elvira Grandy), Paige Gosney (Kirby Scroggins)
Millicent feels like it's time to stand up for the American way of life. She decides the best way to do that is by selling her pickled goods at her annual roadside without a license. This plan does not set well with the sheriff, however.
11 :01x11 - A Sigh is Just a Sigh
Writer: Wayne Lemon
Director: Arlene Sanford
Guest star: Paige Gosney (Kirby Scroggins)
Steven Floyd ends up beating up one of the kids at school because of the things he said about his family. However, Millicent does not find this out until after she grounds him and he runs away.
12 :01x12 - Educating Millicent
Director: Arlene Sanford
Guest star: Kevin Clash (Elmo), Paige Gosney (Kirby Scroggins)
Millicent had many reasons for not graduating high school, mainly the reasons of getting married and having children. However, Dorothy Jane tells her that there is no reason for her to not go and try for her equivalency exam. Millicent wants to take it, but wonders if she is too old to learn anything new.
13 :01x13 - Double Date
Writer: Richard Christian Matheson, Thomas E. Szollosi
Director: Arlene Sanford
Guest star: Omri Katz (Jason), John Calvin (Michael), Mother Love (Kitty Drysdale), Paige Gosney (Kirby Scroggins)
After listening to the local "Love Professor" Kitty Drysdale on the radio, Millicent and Dorothy Jane find themselves longing for love even more. Soon they both decide to enter the dating scene.
14 :01x14 - The Ice Princess
Writer: Philip LaZebnik
Director: Arlene Sanford
Guest star: Paige Gosney (Kirby Scroggins), Michael Landes (Riley Roberts), Amy Hathaway (Callie), Scott Campbell (Big Jock), Rachel O'Neill (Daisy)
Dorothy Jane is tired of being a plain Jane and decides that she wants to transform the way she looks. She wants to be one of the girls who can make the boys melt just by looking at them. So to achieve her goal, she decides to go to an expert, the school's resident ice princess, Callie.
15 :01x15 - Swear Not By the Moon
Director: Wayne Lemon, Arlene Sanford
Guest star: Vinessa Shaw (Meredith Reed), Shawn Phelan (Mercurio), Danuel Pipoly (Benvolio), Paige Gosney (Kirby Scroggins), Alyson Kiperman (Dreama), Rick Lieberman (Mr. Whitman), Ian Bohen (Capulet), Michael Landes (Riley Roberts)
Dorothy Jane is nervous about playing Juliet in the school's play. It's not just because of the part, it's because she is having to play opposite the man she dreams of being her own Romeo, the one and only Riley Roberts. It gets even tougher when she realizes that he is going to have to kiss her.
16 :01x16 - Say Uncle
Director: Arlene Sanford, Wayne Lemon
Guest star: Drew Carey (Herby Scroggins), Paige Gosney (Kirby Scroggins), Adam Wylie (Young Kirby), Sara Rose Johnson (Young Dorothy Jane)
Dorothy Jane and Millicent both have a Scroggins after them. Dorothy Jane tries desperately to get Kirby to leave her alone and now Millicent has his uncle to contend with, Herby Scroggins.
17 :01x17 - The Long Goodbye
Writer: Thomas E. Szollosi, Lynn Montgomery, Richard Christian Matheson, Wayne Lemon, Philip LaZebnik
Director: Arlene Sanford
Guest star: Paige Gosney (Kirby Scroggins), Gregg Henry (Randall Torkelson), Mother Love (Kitty Drysdale)
Randall Torkelson makes another return with a big hello for Millicent and the kids, although none of them are happy about his arrival. Meanwhile, Dorothy Jane is upset because Riley Roberts has graduated and gone off to college, but did not tell her goodbye.
18 :01x18 - The Egg and I
Writer: Philip LaZebnik
Director: Arlene Sanford
Guest star: Paige Gosney (Kirby Scroggins), Kassandra Gibbs (Jennie), Mother Love (Kitty Drysdale), Noah Cristopher (Greg), Kelsea Gibbs (Jennie)
Dorothy Jane is less than thrilled when she has to do a school assignment with Kirby Scroggins. Especially when she finds out that it will be "parents" to an egg.
19 :01x19 - It's My Party
Writer: Christopher Vane, Virginia K. Hegge
Director: Robert Berlinger
Guest star: Alanna Ubach (Willie), Amy Hathaway (Callie), Nick Ayers (Bobby Jo), Paige Gosney (Kirby Scroggins)
To try and gain a way into the popular crowd, Dorothy Jane decides that it is time to throw a party and invites everyone almost everyone in school to attend. However, Millicent is less than thrilled when she discovers that Dorothy Jane has left one of her close friends off the list because she is not well liked by the invitees.
20 :01x20 - Aunt Poison
Writer: Richard Christian Matheson, Thomas E. Szollosi
Director: Arlene Sanford
Guest star: Patrick Reilly (Delivery Boy), Wayne Tippet (Strickland), Steven Gilborn (Dr. Euless)
Among the things that Millicent's very eccentric aunt willed her are a terribly sick dog, a valuable ring, an annoying riddle, an ugly painting and a ton of unanswered questions as to why she has received them all.
21 :02x01 - New Moon
The Torkelsons end up getting a new start, as Millicent and her kids move to Seattle, where she has taken a job as a nanny for the two spoiled children of a widower named Brian Morgan. In the opener, Brian's daughter Molly plots to disrupt the closeness between Dorothy Jane and Millicent.
22 :02x02 - Girls and Boy
Writer: Philip LaZebnik
Director: Linda Day
Guest star: James Gleason (Male Customer), Shirley Prestia (Female Customer), Peter Van Norden (Mel), Kimberlee Corney (Megan), Joey Lawrence (Jeff Thornton)
Dorothy Jane is loving her new job at a local fast food chicken joint. That is partly because of her young, handsome supervisor. After learning about Dorothy Jane's new "love", Molly wants to work at the restaurant as well, something Dorothy Jane prays does not happen.
23 :02x03 - Sleeping with the Enemy
Writer: Lisa A. Bannick
Director: Arlene Sanford
Guest star: Erin Gray (Jennifer)
Dorothy Jane is positively horrified when she is informed that she will have to share a bedroom with Molly. However, Molly is not the least bit concerned because she's too busy worrying about her father after catching him with a really attractive woman.
24 :02x04 - Is That All There Is?
Writer: Patricia Nardo
Director: Bruce Bilson
Guest star: Ben Affleck (Kevin Johnson)
The top jock in the school ends up asking out plain old Dorothy Jane which irritates Molly. She ends up becoming very popular, but the relationship turns out to be pretty bland.
25 :02x05 - The Fox and the Hound
Writer: Wayne Lemon
Director: David Trainer
Guest star: Jared Leto (Rick Aiken), Frank Birney (Captain), Paxton Whitehead (Sir Reginald Harrington), Sarah Douglas (Lady Harrington)
After Brian's dinner date cancels on him at the last minute, he decides to ask Millicent to fill in for her. The reason is because the client he is meeting is a posh man who feels that a man is only as good as the woman that he has in his life.
26 :02x06 - Winner Take Millicent
Writer: Wayne Lemon
Director: Patrick Maloney
Guest star: Christopher Rich (Jim Morgan)
Brian gets an unexpected visit from his hot shot younger brother, Jim. Jim decides to ask out Millicent and soon things heat up between them. This new connection ends up leaving poor Brian out in the cold. However, he still will not admit that he has feelings for Millicent.
27 :02x07 - To Jane Eyre is Human
Molly decides to plagiarize Dorothy Jane's old book report for Jane Eyre, instead of using it as a guide like Dorothy Jane had intended. After she fights with Molly about it, Dorothy Jane finds out the real reason Molly ended up copying the report. The reason being is that Brian had gotten on to her for her failing report card and he told her if she got another bad grade in English she would be grounded for a year.
28 :02x08 - Duelling Birthdays
Writer: Philip LaZebnik
Director: Arlene Sanford
Guest star: Trish Ramish (Linda), Stephanie Brown (Chandice), Marguerite Moreau (Kimberly), Devon Gummersall (Party Boy)
Dorothy Jane and Molly have a slight problem. It turns out that their 16th birthday parties are going to be on the exact same day. While Molly's is an all out backyard extravaganza, Dorothy Jane's is just a small indoor affair with only her family. Both end up longing to have the other one's party for different reasons.
29 :02x09 - To Date or Not to Date
Writer: Wayne Lemon
Director: Arlene Sanford
Guest star: Curnal Achilles Aulisio (Bill), Vincent Ventresca (Dave), James Calvert (Patrick)
Millicent tells Molly that she is not allowed to date the college boy that she has been secretly seeing anymore. This ends up causing Molly and Dorothy Jane to bond and the two end up sneaking out late one night together so that Molly can see her boyfriend.
30 :02x10 - The Dance
Writer: Mark Lisson
Director: Linda Day
Guest star: James Gleason (Mr. Hacker), Alyson Hannigan (Samantha), Richard Panebianco (Craig Keets), Jay Lambert (Tom)
Gregory has a very close friend Sam, who just so happens to be a a girl. However in Gregory's eyes, he has never really seen her that way. He ends up shocked when Sam transforms herself into a beautiful young woman with the help of Millcent. She then asks him to attend the Girl's Choice Dance with her.
31 :02x11 - You Ought to Be in Pictures
Writer: Lisa A. Bannick
Director: Dennis Erdman
Guest star: Mark Shera (Paul), Linda Larkin (Kim), Wayne Federman (Assistant), Cristine Rose (the Director)
Chuckie Lee ends up posing for Brian's clothing catalog. After a director sees it, he is then offered the role in a commercial. At first, Millicent is not to thrilled with the idea of him doing the job, but after Brian convinces her that it will be okay, she lets him do it. However, Chuckie Lee quickly realizes that commercial work is much different than print work.
32 :02x12 - Hot Ticket
Writer: Philip LaZebnik
Director: Patrick Maloney
Guest star: Donal Logue (Tommy Tom), Peter Van Norden (Mel), Alyson Hannigan (Samantha)
To prove to Samantha how much he cares about her, he promises to get her some tickets to a hot concert. The problem is that the only way he can purchase them is with a credit card. Gregory decides to take his father's credit card and use it, but it does not turn out like he planned.
33 :02x13 - Bowling for Daddies
Writer: Lisa A. Bannick
Director: David Trainer
Guest star: Robert Costanzo (Big Bob Petrelli), Jacob Kenner (Bobby Petrelli)
So Chuckie Lee won't be left out, Millicent decides to enter Chuckie Lee's Wilderness Troop's father-son bowling tournament. However after he gets there, Chuckie Lee feels left out as he sees all the other boys with their fathers.