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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

5 available

Season 4

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E01

Episode 1

Big J, Private Eye

1988-07-23 · 21m

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.

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E02

Episode 2

School Monitor

1988-07-30 · 21m

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.

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E03

Episode 3

More About L.E.S.

1988-08-06 · 21m

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.

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E04

Episode 4

Game Show

1988-08-13 · 21m

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

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E05

Episode 5

Jailbirds

1988-08-20 · 21m

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

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E06

Episode 6

I Dream of Vicki

1988-09-18 · 21m

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

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E07

Episode 7

Golddigging Ida

1988-09-25 · 21m

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

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E08

Episode 8

It's a Gas

1988-10-02 · 21m

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.

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E09

Episode 9

SuperSuds

1988-10-09 · 21m

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

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E10

Episode 10

Battle of the Sexes and Robot

1988-10-16 · 21m

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

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E11

Episode 11

Vicki and the Skyjacker

1988-10-23 · 21m

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

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E12

Episode 12

Luke and Ray

1988-10-30 · 21m

To help a withdrawn and bitter classmate cope with leukemia, Jamie and Joan help set up a play on fighting disease.

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E13

Episode 13

Vicki's Glasses

1988-11-06 · 21m

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

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E14

Episode 14

Double Dates

1988-11-13 · 21m

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

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E15

Episode 15

Vicki's Expose

1988-11-20 · 21m

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.

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E16

Episode 16

Doolittle Vicki

1988-11-27 · 21m

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.

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E17

Episode 17

Radio Show

1988-12-03 · 21m

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

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E18

Episode 18

Pool Shark Vicki

1988-12-10 · 21m

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.

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E19

Episode 19

Singing Telegram

1988-12-17 · 21m

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.

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E20

Episode 20

The Rip-Off

1989-01-05 · 21m

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.

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E21

Episode 21

My Favorite Martian

1989-01-12 · 21m

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.

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E22

Episode 22

Hooray for Hollyweird!

1989-02-09 · 21m

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.

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E23

Episode 23

See No Evil

1989-05-13 · 21m

Jamie 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.

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E24

Episode 24

Thy Neighbor's Wife

1989-05-20 · 21m

To 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.

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Cast

Tiffany Brissette

Tiffany Brissette

Victoria "Vicki" Ann Smith-Lawson

Dick Christie

Dick Christie

Ted Lawson

Marla Pennington

Marla Pennington

Joan Lawson

Jerry Supiran

Jerry Supiran

Jamie Lawson

Emily Schulman

Emily Schulman

Harriet Brindle

William Bogert

William Bogert

Brandon Brindle

Alice Ghostley

Alice Ghostley

Ida Mae

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