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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 4
Episodes
Episode 1
Big J, Private Eye
1988-07-23 · 21mPrompted 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.
Current episodeEpisode 2
School Monitor
1988-07-30 · 21mOn 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.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 3
More About L.E.S.
1988-08-06 · 21mL.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.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 4
Game Show
1988-08-13 · 21mThe Lawsons enter a game show to get back at the Brindles for trying to kick them off the eligibility list.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 5
Jailbirds
1988-08-20 · 21mJamie and Vicki are arrested for spray-painting a wall -- and its owner's $60 shirt.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 6
I Dream of Vicki
1988-09-18 · 21mTo keep his company's presence in an Arab country, Ted lets its visiting young ruler draft Vicki into his harem.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 7
Golddigging Ida
1988-09-25 · 21mJoan's doctor father drops by to visit and Ida Mae smells a plump husband. Meanwhile, Vicki vies for school cheerleader.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 8
It's a Gas
1988-10-02 · 21mA 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.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 9
SuperSuds
1988-10-09 · 21mWhile playing with Jamie's chemistry set, Vicki creates a potent laundry detergent that Ted -- and Brandon -- leap to market themselves.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 10
Battle of the Sexes and Robot
1988-10-16 · 21mTed, Jamie and Reggie go macho on an all-male fishing trip-- tailed by a slighted and competitive bevy: Joan, Vicki and Harriet.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 11
Vicki and the Skyjacker
1988-10-23 · 21mFly-shy Brandon bribes the Lawsons' company to fly with him on a company job on a plane that is hijacked for Cuba.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 12
Luke and Ray
1988-10-30 · 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 13
Vicki's Glasses
1988-11-06 · 21mJamie regrets putting Vicki on guard duty for his pricey new bike when her eyes start to malfunction in a schoolyard of prowling thieves.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 14
Double Dates
1988-11-13 · 21mJamie winds up handling two dates on the same night, blind to the fact that one of them is Harriet in disguise.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 15
Vicki's Expose
1988-11-20 · 21mBenny, 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.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 16
Doolittle Vicki
1988-11-27 · 21mA 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.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 17
Radio Show
1988-12-03 · 21mTed prepares for a robotics interview on a local radio talk show while Jamie looks for an idea for a class play.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 18
Pool Shark Vicki
1988-12-10 · 21mTo 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.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 19
Singing Telegram
1988-12-17 · 21mTed'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.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 20
The Rip-Off
1989-01-05 · 21mWhile 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.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 21
My Favorite Martian
1989-01-12 · 21mWhile 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.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 22
Hooray for Hollyweird!
1989-02-09 · 21mTed 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.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 23
See No Evil
1989-05-13 · 21mJamie regrets putting Vicki on guard duty for his pricey newJamie regrets putting Vicki on guard duty for his pricey new bike when her eyes start to malfunction in a schoolyard of prowling thieves. bike when her eyes start to malfunction in a schoolyard of prowling thieves.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 24
Thy Neighbor's Wife
1989-05-20 · 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 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