Small Wonder(1985–1989)

Vicki's Homecoming

Ted brings home his own cyber creation an android in the form of a ten year old girl he nicknames Vicki.

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

The Brindles, the Lawson's nosy neighbors, come across Vicki and tries to find out their secret.

Robositter

Jamie has the entire house to himself, not knowing that Vicki is his babysitter!

Nerd Crush

Warren Enright, the class nerd, falls in love with Vicki.

Runaway Jamie

Because Vicki is getting more attention, Jamie decides to run away to see what his parents might think.

Lights! Camera! Ego!

Jamie and his friend Reggie Williams are involved in putting together a sci-fi movie project for school, but the power of directorial duties goes to Jamie's head.

White Lies

Jamie realizes the value of constant truthfulness when he can't convince his parents that he's not responsible for breaking (and secretly gluing together) a teapot caused by Harriet's smart-aleck cousin.

The Bully

A bully extorts money from Jamie's neighborhood club, which quickly reconsiders its boys-only policy via Vicki's strong-arm "assistance."

DisHonor Student

Jamie uses Vicki's new speed-scan reading ability to complete 55 chapters of his homework overnight, which earns him the school honor roll -- along with snowballing guilt.

Vicki's Adoption

Tipped off on the sly by busybody Bonnie Brindle, Child Services threatens to take Vicki away unless the Lawsons can produce her past -- and she passes a medical exam.

Child Prodigy

To circumvent Child Services' orders to send Vicki to school and risk exposure, the Lawsons hire a pompous tutor who mistakes her computer abilities for genius. To remedy the situation, Joan crams to follow-through her marriage-postponed teaching degree to act as Vicki's "tutor," while Ted takes over the kitchen and creates a mess.

Brindles Move In

A house fire moves Ted's new boss, Brandon Brindle, into the Lawsons' house, scheming for insurance fraud.

RoboBrat

When overexposure to Harriet infects heuristically mimicking Vicki with Harriet's personality traits and shrieking tantrums, Ted must purge the brat out of her at his factory -- but not before Harriet and Bonnie Brindle wonder where Vicki suddenly vanished to and summon the police.

The Burrito Story

Jamie attempts to mass-produce burritos made by Vicki.

Babes in the Woods

The Lawsons and Reggie and Harriet take a wilderness camping trip, and get lost.

First Love

To charm prissy and picky Jessica, Jamie throws an expensive party for her, ignoring a surprising school tomboy.

Substitute Dad

When golf-crazed Ted neglects taking Jamie to a Father-and-Son picnic for a golf tournament, Brandon steps in and incites a "father war" while Joan uses Vicki to voice her disapproval to Ted.

The Robot Nappers

When keen-eyed recruitment officers from a rival robotics firm drop by to interview Ted, they suspect Vicki is a robot and plan to "robotnap" her.

Ted's Lay-Off

United Robotronics cutbacks have the Lawsons scrambling for odd jobs.

Health Nuts

Ted is motivated to get the family into shape when an obese co-worker loses a record amount of weight.

The Reluctant Halfback

Ted is proud that Jamie's made the Pee Wee Football league, unknowing that Jamie only does it to please his dad.

Vaudeville Vicki

When a vaudeville actor thinks Vicki is his long-lost daughter, he drafts her into a show and threatens her adoption.

The Birds, The Bees, and Robots

When timid Ted uses the "stork theory" in answering Jamie's questions about sex, Jamie believes Dad's in serious need of sex education and tries to help him out.

Vicki and the Pusher

When a schoolyard pusher tries to hook Vicki on drugs, the Lawsons help the police on a undercover sting.

The Strike

Root Beer, Women and Song

Still out to flatter the redoubtable Jessica, Jamie takes her out to an expensive restaurant while tightwad Ted puts Vicki in charge of household expenses.

My Mother the Teacher

Big J, Private Eye

Prompted by Ted and his class to get his school reading assignment going, Jamie videos a book report based on a 1940s P.I. named Rick Savage.

School Monitor

On their first day in junior high, Vicki becomes a hall monitor and Jamie tries to avoid Harriet for a dance while vying for a class fox. Meanwhile, Ted prepares to host a cybernetics conference.

More About L.E.S.

L.E.S. is back, and despite Ted's assurances that the rogue A.I. program has been rendered harmless, it comes back in a big way by possessing Vicki's body (chassis?) as its own.

Game Show

The Lawsons enter a game show to get back at the Brindles for trying to kick them off the eligibility list.

Jailbirds

Jamie and Vicki are arrested for spray-painting a wall -- and its owner's $60 shirt.

I Dream of Vicki

To keep his company's presence in an Arab country, Ted lets its visiting young ruler draft Vicki into his harem.

Golddigging Ida

Joan's doctor father drops by to visit and Ida Mae smells a plump husband. Meanwhile, Vicki vies for school cheerleader.

It's a Gas

A digestion feedback problem with Vicki's polynucleotide processor generates nitrous oxide gas that brings laughs to anyone near her, but not to Vicki herself -- just as Ted's boss is about to visit about lay-offs.

SuperSuds

While playing with Jamie's chemistry set, Vicki creates a potent laundry detergent that Ted -- and Brandon -- leap to market themselves.

Battle of the Sexes and Robot

Ted, Jamie and Reggie go macho on an all-male fishing trip-- tailed by a slighted and competitive bevy: Joan, Vicki and Harriet.

Vicki and the Skyjacker

Fly-shy Brandon bribes the Lawsons' company to fly with him on a company job on a plane that is hijacked for Cuba.

Luke and Ray

To help a withdrawn and bitter classmate cope with leukemia, Jamie and Joan help set up a play on fighting disease.

Vicki's Glasses

Jamie regrets putting Vicki on guard duty for his pricey new bike when her eyes start to malfunction in a schoolyard of prowling thieves.

Double Dates

Jamie winds up handling two dates on the same night, blind to the fact that one of them is Harriet in disguise.

Vicki's Expose

Benny, an old college chum of Ted and Joan's is up to his same trashy school paper tricks in a big city rag now, fabricating a tabloid feature which by sheer chance ""exposes"" Vicki as a robot just as she's about to join a fashionable clique of girls.

Doolittle Vicki

A new language translation device (Random Access Multiple Concurrent Linquistic Analytical Sequencer) installed in Vicki enables her to understand any language...even animals, like the bosses' dog. Mrs. Jennings forces Mr. Jennings to fire Ted when Joan balks at doing uncredited work for an affair.

Radio Show

Ted prepares for a robotics interview on a local radio talk show while Jamie looks for an idea for a class play.

Pool Shark Vicki

To land a new promotion with the boss, Ted invites him over for dinner and a playful game of pool -- until Jennings starts betting the shirt off his back and a lot more playing against Vicki.

Singing Telegram

Ted's singing telegram birthday greeting makes him pine back to his ""youthful years"" with a surfboard and prompts Jamie to start a singing telegram for schoolmates -- and competing with Reggie.

The Rip-Off

While on a company vacation at a health resort, Jamie, Vicki, Brandon and Harriet see a burglar hitting their residence -- each with a different eyewitness account.

My Favorite Martian

While Jamie tests out Ted's new laser projection system in Vicki's eyes, unwary Brandon glimpses her projection of a movie's flying saucer and calls the Air Force to investigate.

Hooray for Hollyweird!

Ted brings back ""Bad Seed"" Vanessa, who again takes Vicki's place, locks Vicki in her/its cabinet and joins the family to Hollywood, where Ted must repair a movie's robot while Vanessa mugs into a screen test on the sly.

See No Evil

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