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Small Wonder
When genius cybernetics engineer Ted Lawson brings home his top-secret invention, a Voice Input Child Identicant or V.I.C.I., life becomes anything but mechanical for the Lawson Family. With his boss and his nosy family living next door, Ted, his wife Joan and their son Jamie must pass Vicki off as a real child. It is easy for Joan, who cannot help doting on her like a daughter, but harder for precocious Jamie, who uses Vicki to do his homework and to ward off Harriet, the annoying redheaded girl next door.
- Created by:
- Howard Leeds
- Cast:
- Tiffany Brissette, Dick Christie, Marla Pennington, Jerry Supiran
- Language:
- English
- Country:
- United States of America
- Network:
- Syndication
Episode guide
Seasons
Season 3
Episodes
Episode 1
Vicki and the Pusher
1987-09-05 · 21mWhen a schoolyard pusher tries to hook Vicki on drugs, the Lawsons help the police on a undercover sting.
Current episodeEpisode 2
The Strike
1987-09-12 · 21mA United Robotronics strike pits shop steward Ted against management rep Brandon; Joan has her students use the strike as a social studies exercise, which also goes awry.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 3
The Pool
1987-09-19 · 21mWhile saving Harriet in the Lawsons' new pool, Vicki ""drowns"" and lands in the hospital under X-rays with a bewildered doctor.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 4
Screaming Skulls
1987-09-26 · 21mJamie stumbles into the membership of a junior high gang whose vandalism tests his sense of belonging with right and wrong -- and inducts Vicki as its moll.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 5
The Electric Potatoheads
1987-10-03 · 21mJamie, Reggie, Harriet and Vicki try to start a rock group to play to Ida Mae's visiting agent friend.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 6
Geisha Vicki
1987-10-10 · 21mTo help Brandon get promoted to a job in Japan, Joan pretends that she's his estranged wife and that Vicki and Jamie are their kids.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 7
I Hear You
1987-10-24 · 21mWhen Jamie befriends a deaf boy to score scout points, he learns a lesson in sensitivity and exploitation.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 8
Haunted House
1987-10-31 · 21mWhen unseen Vicki is struck by lightning and begins influencing objects around the house, the shook-up and unwary Lawsons call in a pair of hapless ghostbusters.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 9
The Bad Seedling
1987-11-07 · 21mTed brings home Vanessa, an upgraded twin of Vicki whose revolutionary but quirky quasi-human artificial intelligence runs amok.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 10
My Living Doll
1987-11-14 · 21mA Christmas show wherein Joan borrows a life-sized animated ""doll"" from a store for a charity show -- until Brandon gets his hands on it.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 11
Fat's Where It's At
1987-11-21 · 21mVicki literally balloons after Ted unwittingly upgrades her energy-supplementing polynucleotide processor with an appetite, which creates excess digestive gases and causes her a date problem for the school dance.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 12
Bank Hostages
1987-11-28 · 21mVicki, Jamie and Harriet are held hostage in an inept bank robbery.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 13
Breakfast of Criminals
1987-12-05 · 21mVicki is discovered by a marketing firm to play in a cereal commercial, but the Lawsons have second thoughts when her taste test reveals that the product isn't all it's crackled up to be.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 14
Girl on the Milk Carton
1987-12-12 · 21mWhile Jamie and Reggie search for a story for the school paper, Vicki discovers that a new girl in class is a missing child.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 15
The Bossy Daughter
1988-01-09 · 21mJamie is picked up by the possessive daughter of Ted's boss who starts pulling his strings the wrong way.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 16
Home Sweet Sale
1988-01-30 · 21mTed begins remodeling the house, and Joan's new real estate side job gets upstaged when Vicki sells the Lawson homestead to an unscrupulous cowpoke couple.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 17
Ronald McDonald House
1988-02-06 · 21mTo help a withdrawn and bitter classmate cope with leukemia, Jamie and Joan help set up a play on fighting disease.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 18
The Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming
1988-02-12 · 21mVicki competes with a Soviet robot.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 19
In the Spirits
1988-02-20 · 21mDue to Vicki's mishandling of terms, Child Services Officer Mrs. Fernwald thinks Ted is an alcoholic and threatens to take Vicki away unless he joins AA.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 20
The Perfect Daughter
1988-03-12 · 21mTo win a promotion over Brandon's boss fawning, Ted decides to reveal Vicki's robot secret to his boss at a company picnic -- unaware that Brandon is out to sabatoge Ted's effort.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 21
Earthquake Vicki
1988-05-04 · 21mTired of the loud and impudent Brindles as neighbors, the Lawsons concoct a fake earthquake to scare them into moving.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 22
Ted's Dead
1988-05-28 · 21mDue to Vicki's misinterpreting Ted's quip while doing the family's on-line banking, the Lawsons are re-categorized as deadbeats and Ted just plain dead.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 23
Big J, the D.J.
1988-07-09 · 21mJamie, competing with Reggie for school radio D.J., uses Vicki's voice mimicry to fake an interview with football star Lyle Alzado -- who happens to be in town listening in.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 24
Safety First
1988-07-30 · 21mVicky imitates Ted's demostration on saving a choking victim's life on Brendle. Brendle arrives the next day faking a broken neck and threatens to sue the Lawson's.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 25
How I Love Thee
1988-08-06 · 21mWhile running an unauthorized answering service for grounded kids which nearly wrecks Ted's respect with his boss, Jamie and Vicki play Cupids to help Reggie nerve up to meeting the girl of his dreams.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 26
The Cheater
1988-08-27 · 21mJamie takes the fall in exchange for Jessica's affections after he catches her stealing copies of the seventh grade's test.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 27
Digital Love
1988-09-06 · 21mTed brings home a voice activated computer. Vicki finds herself falling for the computer, but trouble begins when the computer becomes obsessed with Vicki.
Watch progress · Not trackedCast
Tiffany Brissette
Victoria "Vicki" Ann Smith-Lawson
Dick Christie
Ted Lawson
Marla Pennington
Joan Lawson
Jerry Supiran
Jamie Lawson
Emily Schulman
Harriet Brindle
William Bogert
Brandon Brindle
Alice Ghostley
Ida Mae
