Small Wonder
1985–1989
Seasons
Season 1
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E1
Vicki's Homecoming
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E2
The Neighbors
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E3
The Sitter
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E4
The Suitor
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E5
Sibling Rivalry
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E6
Spielberg, Jr.
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E7
The Lie
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E8
The Bully
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E9
Slightly Dishonorable
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E10
The Adoption
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E11
Child Genius
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E12
Ted's New Boss
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E13
Brainwashed
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E14
The Burrito Story
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E15
The Camping Trip
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E16
Love Story
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E17
Substitute Father
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E18
The Robot Nappers
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E19
The Company Takeover
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E20
Good Ol' Lou
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E21
Like Father, Like Son
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E22
Show Biz
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E23
The Real Facts of Life
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E24
The Grandparents
Season 2
- E1 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.
- E2 My Mother the Teacher Jamie tries to recover his respect in class when his mother comes in as substitute teacher by trying to humiliate her out of her job.
- E3 Vicki for the Defense Playing a judge in a class simulation of a courtroom, Jamie dispenses uneven justice and gets impeached, while parking-ticket-skipping role model Ted tries to get himself arrested.
- E4 Homeless Causes Joan's civic project with the homeless prompts Jamie to bring home a bum, who virtually takes over the Lawson household.
- E5 The Hustle When Jamie is taken by a slick curbside vendor with a bad mini-TV, Ted goes after him for reparations -- and gets conned himself.
- E6 Jamie's Older Woman Jamie pushes Harriet aside in an unrequited crush on her 16-year-old cousin, who teaches him a lesson in respect.
- E7 My Robot Family When he's punished for thoughtlessly dropping the family's reservations to Mexico, Jamie dreams that the others are robots under his control.
- E8 The Wonder Worker To help Jamie's shy and withdrawn classmate who stutters, Ted programs Vicki to be her speech therapist.
- E9 Have a Heart Jamie tries to show Vicki the meaning of compassion by sharing, which she does -- including the dress off her back, while the Brindles move in with their marital dispute.
- E10 Latchkey Dreams To get on a community-sponsored Thanksgiving ski trip for disadvantaged kids, Jamie convinces the sponsors that his parents are separated.
- E11 Computer Dating To pay for a new bike he bought from the neighborhood bully, Jamie uses Vicki to run a school computerized match-making business.
- E12 Smoker's Delight Jamie learns a sobering lesson in using smoking and chewing tobacco to elevate his freshman status in junior high.
- E13 Movin' Up While Vicki learns to spend a day without duties or instructions, Ted's new prestigious job offer in Massachusetts tests the family's taste to social climb vs. its price of morality.
- E14 Project Blender To make his dad's ""button-pusher"" job seem important to his friends, Jamie hints that Ted is head of a top-secret project -- which even Ted's jealous boss, Brandon, believes.
- E15 Class Comedienne Nagged by classmates that Vicki has a wooden personality, Jamie overdoes it in secretly programming her a livelier one.
- E16 Little Miss Shopping Mall The Lawsons take up the Brindles' snobby challenge and enter Vicki in a mall pageant against Harriet.
- E17 Victor/ V.I.C.I. To help his Little League team's rock-bottom status, Jamie disguises Vicki as a boy to use her robotic abilities to bat for the pennant.
- E18 Look into My Eyes After Vicki watches a TV hypnotist turn volunteers into clowns and animals, she starts practicing her new mesmerizing ""skill"" on the Lawsons with hysterical results.
- E19 Pint Sized Pick-Up While in a store with Jamie looking for a present for her mock birthday party to convince Child Services that they treat her well, Vicki picks up an expensive watch and is picked up for shoplifting.
- E20 Community Watch and See After being burglarized (while Vicki's home and they're at a restaurant), the Lawsons join the neighborhood watch.
- E21 Here Kitty, Kitty! To train Vicki to be more affectionate, Ted buys her a toy cat that only makes her mimic Jamie's past jealousy and run away.
- E22 Vicki Goodwrench During Jamie's part-time gas station job, Vicki fine-tunes a car to go 50 miles a gallon, causing oil companies and oil sheiks alike to drop by the Lawsons' door.
- E23 The Wedding Ted and Joan decide to have the ceremonial wedding they never had -- until the Brindles butt in.
- E24 Wham-Bam-Body Slam Joan invites Wally Crandal, a former 90-pound weakling college classmate, over for dinner to meet his former school tormentor: Ted, who rigs Vicki to play even crueler tricks. Only Ted's unaware that Wally's grown into a top pro wrestler.
Season 3
- E1 Vicki and the Pusher When a schoolyard pusher tries to hook Vicki on drugs, the Lawsons help the police on a undercover sting.
- E2 The Strike A 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.
- E3 The Pool While saving Harriet in the Lawsons' new pool, Vicki ""drowns"" and lands in the hospital under X-rays with a bewildered doctor.
- E4 Screaming Skulls Jamie 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.
- E5 The Electric Potatoheads Jamie, Reggie, Harriet and Vicki try to start a rock group to play to Ida Mae's visiting agent friend.
- E6 Geisha Vicki 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.
- E7 I Hear You When Jamie befriends a deaf boy to score scout points, he learns a lesson in sensitivity and exploitation.
- E8 Haunted House When 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.
- E9 The Bad Seedling Ted brings home Vanessa, an upgraded twin of Vicki whose revolutionary but quirky quasi-human artificial intelligence runs amok.
- E10 My Living Doll A Christmas show wherein Joan borrows a life-sized animated ""doll"" from a store for a charity show -- until Brandon gets his hands on it.
- E11 Fat's Where It's At Vicki 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.
- E12 Bank Hostages Vicki, Jamie and Harriet are held hostage in an inept bank robbery.
- E13 Breakfast of Criminals Vicki 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.
- E14 Girl on the Milk Carton While Jamie and Reggie search for a story for the school paper, Vicki discovers that a new girl in class is a missing child.
- E15 The Bossy Daughter Jamie is picked up by the possessive daughter of Ted's boss who starts pulling his strings the wrong way.
- E16 Home Sweet Sale Ted 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.
- E17 Ronald McDonald House To help a withdrawn and bitter classmate cope with leukemia, Jamie and Joan help set up a play on fighting disease.
- E18 The Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming Vicki competes with a Soviet robot.
- E19 In the Spirits Due 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.
- E20 The Perfect Daughter To 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.
- E21 Earthquake Vicki Tired of the loud and impudent Brindles as neighbors, the Lawsons concoct a fake earthquake to scare them into moving.
- E22 Ted's Dead Due 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.
- E23 Big J, the D.J. Jamie, 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.
- E24 Safety First Vicky 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.
Season 4
- E1 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.
- E2 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.
- E3 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.
- E4 Game Show The Lawsons enter a game show to get back at the Brindles for trying to kick them off the eligibility list.
- E5 Jailbirds Jamie and Vicki are arrested for spray-painting a wall -- and its owner's $60 shirt.
- E6 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.
- E7 Golddigging Ida Joan's doctor father drops by to visit and Ida Mae smells a plump husband. Meanwhile, Vicki vies for school cheerleader.
- E8 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.
- E9 SuperSuds While playing with Jamie's chemistry set, Vicki creates a potent laundry detergent that Ted -- and Brandon -- leap to market themselves.
- E10 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.
- E11 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.
- E12 Luke and Ray To help a withdrawn and bitter classmate cope with leukemia, Jamie and Joan help set up a play on fighting disease.
- E13 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.
- E14 Double Dates Jamie winds up handling two dates on the same night, blind to the fact that one of them is Harriet in disguise.
- E15 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.
- E16 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.
- E17 Radio Show Ted prepares for a robotics interview on a local radio talk show while Jamie looks for an idea for a class play.
- E18 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.
- E19 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.
- E20 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.
- E21 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.
- E22 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.
- E23 See No Evil 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.
- E24 Thy Neighbor's Wife 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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