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Small Wonder

7.01985Ended4 seasons

ComedyFamily

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.

About the series

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
Network: Syndication
Episodes: 99

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Episodes

Season

Episode 1

Vicki's Homecoming

1985-09-07

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21 min

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

Episode 2

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

1985-09-14 21 min

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

Episode 3

Robositter

1985-09-21 21 min

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

Episode 4

Nerd Crush

1985-09-28 21 min

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

Episode 5

Runaway Jamie

1985-10-05 21 min

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

Episode 6

Lights! Camera! Ego!

1985-10-12 21 min

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.

Episode 7

White Lies

1985-10-19 21 min

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.

Episode 8

The Bully

1985-10-26 21 min

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

Episode 9

DisHonor Student

1985-11-02 21 min

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.

Episode 10

Vicki's Adoption

1985-11-09 21 min

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.

Episode 11

Child Prodigy

1985-11-16 21 min

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.

Episode 12

Brindles Move In

1985-11-23 21 min

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

Episode 13

RoboBrat

1985-11-30 21 min

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.

Episode 14

The Burrito Story

1986-01-04 21 min

Jamie attempts to mass-produce burritos made by Vicki.

Episode 15

Babes in the Woods

1986-01-11 21 min

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

Episode 16

First Love

1986-01-18 21 min

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

Episode 17

Substitute Dad

1986-01-25 21 min

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.

Episode 18

The Robot Nappers

1986-02-08 21 min

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.

Episode 19

Ted's Lay-Off

1986-02-15 21 min

United Robotronics cutbacks have the Lawsons scrambling for odd jobs.

Episode 20

Health Nuts

1986-02-22 21 min

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

Episode 21

The Reluctant Halfback

1986-03-01 21 min

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

Episode 22

Vaudeville Vicki

1986-05-03 21 min

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

Episode 23

The Birds, The Bees, and Robots

1986-05-10 21 min

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.

Episode 24

Grandpa Lawson's Visit

1986-05-17 21 min

Ted has the unenviable task of explaining to his unwary Vicki-doting father, who bitterly lost his job to automation, that his new lovely adopted granddaughter is really a robot.

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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