[1] Produced by Walt Disney Television in season 1 and Touchstone Television in season 2, the series starred Connie Ray, Olivia Burnette, and William Schallert.

Series creator Lynn Montgomery claims to have gotten the name "Torkelson" from a real life Steven Floyd Torkelson, who had showed her his bug collection, and shared his first kiss with her thirty years earlier.

[3] The Disney Channel aired reruns of The Torkelsons and Almost Home on their weekday and weekend lineups from January 1994 to late 1999.

All Disney Channel advertising for the shows packaged both seasons under The Torkelsons name, but when the Almost Home episodes aired in circulation, the title was never altered in the opening credits.

The Disney Channel also aired the series' episodes in production order.