10 TV Characters Who Disappeared Without A Trace

2. Two Out Of Five Torkelson Children - The Torkelsons/Almost Home

The Torkelsons was an odd bird. It was this fluffy little show about a folksy, traditional family living in Oklahoma. They're dirt poor, as the mother Millicent struggles to support her five children after her husband left them.

The show lasted for one season in this incarnation, and then was retooled and renamed (becoming Almost Home) before the second season in an effort to increase ratings. Millicent takes a job as a nanny, and hauls her three children up to Seattle. You read that right. Three children. Because you see, in between seasons, Millicent managed to unload the less memorable children of the family, and vowed never to speak of them again. Imagine the surprise of sitting down to watch this show, and thinking, "Wait. I'm pretty sure there were five kids last year. I know there were!"

But of course, Wikipedia didn't exist back then, so you would have no way of knowing if you had just made up these two extra kids in your head. Alas, it's true: 12-year-old Steven Floyd and 10-year-old Ruth Ann did not make the cut. Did they just expect us all not to notice? And after all that, Almost Home was canceled after only one season.