Small Wonder

The zany adventures of a suburban family, their next-door neighbors, and an innovative robot designed to look like a human child.

Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

Cast:Richard Christie , Marla Pennington , Jerry Supiran , Tiffany Brissette , Emily Schulman , Paul C. Scott , William Bogert , Edie McClurg , David Moses , Bobby Herbeck , Kelly Britt , Lihann Jones , Daryl Bartley , Donald Craig , Alice Ghostley , Bobby Jacoby , Danny Wells , Lucy Lee Flippin

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Vicki's Homecoming

Sat, Sep 7, 1985

Genius United Robotronics cybernetics engineer Ted Lawson, brings home for assembly and long-term field beta testing Vicki, or V.I.C.I. (Voice Input Child Identicant): a secretly constructed robotic domestic aide in the form of a 10-year-old girl, to whom housewife Joan takes a shine while 10-year-old son Jamie instantly takes advantage of Vicki as a maid to clean his room and do his homework.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ The Neighbors

Sat, Sep 14, 1985

Nosy neighbors, the Brindles, invite themselves over for dinner due to a power outage at their house. Naturally, Vicky tickles their curiosity, leading them to ask several questions that the Lawsons have no answers for. Can the Lawsons keep Vicky from blowing the evening - and her cover?

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ The Sitter

Sat, Sep 21, 1985

In need of a sitter for son Jamie, Ted and Joan decide to give Vicky the job for the evening. But can Jamie be trusted to not take advantage of a useful robot? And is Vicky ready to be a sitter?

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ The Suitor

Sat, Sep 28, 1985

When Jamie's classmate Warren stops by the house, he becomes smitten with Vicky. But when Jamie tries to interfere in the relationship by programming Vicky with insults, Warren's feelings are hurt.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Sibling Rivalry

Sat, Oct 5, 1985

Feeling neglected due to his parents' preoccupation with Vicky, Jamie decides to run away. But when he uses Vicky to avoid contact with his parents, the family gets a scare.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Spielberg, Jr.

Sat, Oct 12, 1985

Jamie turns into a dictator when he puts himself in charge of his school project. But best friend Reggie and Jamie's parents won't let him continue without being taught a lesson in etiquette.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ The Lie

Sat, Oct 19, 1985

Jamie's parents don't believe him when he says that Harriet's cousin was the one who broke a teapot. Leave it to the robot and her tape recorder to save the day the Jamie.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ The Bully

Sat, Oct 26, 1985

When a bully extorts Jamie's Fearless Five Club for a daily dollar, Jamie ends up with a black eye. Lucky for him and the club, Vicky is tougher than any bully.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ Slightly Dishonorable

Sat, Nov 2, 1985

Jamie uses Vicky's new read-and-scan computer program to do his school reports for him. She does such a good job, though, that his teacher wants to move Jamie to the honors class. But when his parents find out, they give him the chance to come clean on his own.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ The Adoption

Sat, Nov 9, 1985

When nosy Mrs. Brindle reports the Lawsons to child services for not having Vicky enrolled in school, the Lawsons rush to forge adoption papers. But their plan gets complicated when a doctor's exam is required - on their robot.

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ Child Genius

Sat, Nov 16, 1985

Ms. Fernwald of Child Services forces the Lawsons to hire a tutor for Vicky. But when the tutor gets too excited about Vicky's super memory, Ted gets worried and comes up with an idea for a replacement teacher.

12Season 1

S1.E12 ∙ Ted's New Boss

Sat, Nov 23, 1985

Ted loses a promotion to Brindle, but the worst is yet to come.

13Season 1

S1.E13 ∙ Brainwashed

Sat, Nov 30, 1985

Vicki goes to play with Harriet and she teaches her how to demand things from parents. This impacts Vicki's internal circuit and creates a problem for the Lawsons.

14Season 1

S1.E14 ∙ The Burrito Story

Sat, Jan 4, 1986

Jamie learns about business when he sells burritos,

15Season 1

S1.E15 ∙ The Camping Trip

Sat, Jan 11, 1986

Ted and a group of kids get lost while camping.

16Season 1

S1.E16 ∙ Love Story

Sat, Jan 18, 1986

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

17Season 1

S1.E17 ∙ Substitute Father

Sat, Jan 25, 1986

Brandon steps in for Ted Jamie's school picnic.

18Season 1

S1.E18 ∙ The Robot Nappers

Sat, Feb 8, 1986

Two electronics engineers plan to steal Vicki.

19Season 1

S1.E19 ∙ The Company Takeover

Sat, Feb 15, 1986

A takeover threatens Ted's job and family finances.

20Season 1

S1.E20 ∙ Good Ol' Lou

Sat, Feb 22, 1986

Ted's plan for physical fitness backfires.

21Season 1

S1.E21 ∙ Like Father, Like Son

Sat, Mar 1, 1986

Ted pushes Jamie to try out for the football team.

22Season 1

S1.E22 ∙ Show Biz

Sat, May 3, 1986

An aging entertainer says Vicki is his daughter.

23Season 1

S1.E23 ∙ The Real Facts of Life

Sat, May 10, 1986

Jamie attempts to educate his dad in the ways of love.

24Season 1

S1.E24 ∙ The Grandparents

Sat, May 17, 1986

Grandma and Grandpa Lawson learn about Vicki.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ Chewed Out

Sat, Sep 13, 1986

Jamie and Reggie, learns a sobering lesson by, smoking cigarettes and chewing tobacco to elevate their freshman status in junior high.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Money, Money, Money

Sat, Sep 20, 1986

Jamie tries to buy the love of a pretty classmate.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ My Mother the Teacher

Sat, Sep 27, 1986

Joan becomes substitute teacher in Jamie's class.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Here Comes the Judge

Sat, Oct 4, 1986

Jamie takes a bribe while playing a judge in school.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ Home Sweet Homeless

Sat, Oct 11, 1986

Joan contacts a local news channel about doing a story on the homeless in an effort to raise awareness for those who are as Joanie would put it residentially handicapped. After running an errand for their parents, Jamie and Vicki find a homeless man sleeping in an alley who introduces himself as Roland Cardwell. Jamie quickly finds a role model in the self proclaimed professional vagabond and invites him to stay in their home. After witnessing his admiration, Joan and Ted frantically think of ways to change Jamie's preconception of how easy the life of a homeless man is. However, when Roland goes missing they find their job is much easier than predicted. The family revisits the shady alley in which they had originally found him in and Jamie finds that the lifestyle isn't nearly as glamorous as he had previously thought.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Crazy Like a Fox

Sat, Oct 18, 1986

A con man sells Jamie and Vicki stolen merchandise that doesn't work.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ The Older Woman

Sat, Oct 25, 1986

Jamie falls for Harriet's 16-year-old cousin.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ Who's the Boss?

Sat, Nov 1, 1986

Jamie has a dream that he's the boss of his parents.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ P-P Paula

Sat, Nov 8, 1986

Jamie is assigned to tutor a girl who stutters.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ You Gotta Have Heart

Sat, Nov 15, 1986

The Brindles involve the Lawson's in their squabble.

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ The Shoplifter

Sat, Nov 22, 1986

Vicki is caught shoplifting.

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ Thanksgiving Story

Sat, Nov 29, 1986

Jamie learns the value of family on Thanksgiving.

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ Neighborhood Watch

Sat, Dec 6, 1986

After being burglarized (while Vicki's home and they're at a restaurant), the Lawsons join the neighborhood watch.

14Season 2

S2.E14 ∙ Moving Up

Sat, Jan 10, 1987

Ted is offered a new job in Massachusetts.

15Season 2

S2.E15 ∙ Top Secret

Sat, Jan 17, 1987

Ted tells a lie so that Jamie will be proud of him.

16Season 2

S2.E16 ∙ The Personality Kid

Sat, Jan 24, 1987

Jamie reprograms Vicki to please his friends.

17Season 2

S2.E17 ∙ Matchmaker, Matchmaker

Sat, Jan 31, 1987

Jamie starts a dating service to pay for a bicycle.

18Season 2

S2.E18 ∙ Little Miss Shopping Mall

Sat, Feb 7, 1987

Against Ted's wishes, Joan enlist Vicki into the "Little Miss Shopping Mall" Beauty Pageant. After finding out that Harriet is also in the pageant, Ted changes his mind.

19Season 2

S2.E19 ∙ Victor/Vicki-toria

Sat, Feb 14, 1987

Jamie pretends Vicki is a boy so she can play baseball.

20Season 2

S2.E20 ∙ Look into My Eyes

Sat, Feb 21, 1987

Joan's high-school friend is not what Ted expects.

21Season 2

S2.E21 ∙ Wally the Wimp

Sat, Feb 28, 1987

Pro-wrestler, Jesse Ventura, is invited to the Lawson house for dinner. He has a surprise for Ted, as years before he was the nerdy little kid named Wally who Ted teased in college.

22Season 2

S2.E22 ∙ The Cat's Meow

Sat, May 9, 1987

Vicki becomes jealous of an electronic cat.

23Season 2

S2.E23 ∙ Vicki Goodwrench

Sat, May 16, 1987

Vicki turns out to be a wizard at car repairs.

24Season 2

S2.E24 ∙ Double Wedding

Sat, May 23, 1987

The Lawsons decide to renew their wedding vows.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Woodward and Bernstein

Sat, Sep 12, 1987

Reporters Jamie and Reggie learn to check facts.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Everyone Into the Pool

Sat, Sep 19, 1987

Vicki saves Harriet from drowning in the pool.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ Whodunit?

Sat, Sep 26, 1987

Jamie takes the blame for a theft to protect a girl.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ Bride and Groom

Sat, Oct 3, 1987

The boss's daughter sets her sights on Jamie.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ It's Okay to Say No

Sat, Oct 10, 1987

Jamie and Vicki help the police catch a drug dealer.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Read My Lips

Sat, Oct 17, 1987

Jamie befriends a deaf boy for the wrong reasons.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ The Promotion

Sat, Oct 24, 1987

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 sabotage Ted's effort.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ The Lawsonville Horror

Sat, Oct 31, 1987

An electrocuted Vicki behaves as though possessed.

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ The Bad Seed

Sat, Nov 7, 1987

Ted builds a more advanced robot, but his plans to scrap Vicki are halted when the new model refuses to obey orders.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ TV or Not TV

Sat, Nov 14, 1987

Vicki is asked to appear in a cereal commercial.

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ The Fats of Life

Sat, Nov 21, 1987

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 issue for the school dance.

12Season 3

S3.E12 ∙ The Bank Job

Sat, Nov 28, 1987

Harriet, Jamie and Vicki foil a bank robber.

13Season 3

S3.E13 ∙ Oooga Mooga

Sat, Dec 5, 1987

The Lawsons perform at a lodge fund-raiser.

14Season 3

S3.E14 ∙ Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

Sat, Jan 16, 1988

Vicki gives a bank computer data that Ted is dead.

15Season 3

S3.E15 ∙ Bye Bye Brindles

Sat, Jan 23, 1988

The Lawsons plot to convince the Brindles to move.

16Season 3

S3.E16 ∙ For Sale by Robot

Sat, Jan 30, 1988

Vicki accidentally sells the Lawson's house.

17Season 3

S3.E17 ∙ Ronald McDonald House

Sat, Feb 6, 1988

Jamie stages a play to help a boy cope with leukemia.

18Season 3

S3.E18 ∙ The Russians Are Coming

Sat, Feb 13, 1988

Vicki competes with a Soviet robot.

19Season 3

S3.E19 ∙ I'll Drink to That

Sat, Feb 20, 1988

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.

20Season 3

S3.E20 ∙ Big J, the D.J.

Sat, Feb 27, 1988

Vicki imitates Lyle Alzado to help auditioning Jamie.

21Season 3

S3.E21 ∙ The Rock Band

Sat, Apr 30, 1988

Jamie forms a rock band and Ida Mae has amnesia.

22Season 3

S3.E22 ∙ Book-It

Sat, May 7, 1988

Jamie avoids reading a book for a school assignment.

23Season 3

S3.E23 ∙ Safety First

Sat, May 14, 1988

Brandon claims injury from Vicki's Heimlich maneuver.

24Season 3

S3.E24 ∙ When You Hear the Beep

Sat, May 21, 1988

Jamie starts an answering service for his friends.

1Season 4

S4.E1 ∙ Divided We Stand

Sat, Sep 17, 1988

The men and women camp separately.

2Season 4

S4.E2 ∙ Double Dates

Sat, Sep 24, 1988

Jamie, Vicki and Harriet have multiple dates.

3Season 4

S4.E3 ∙ The Gang's All Here

Sat, Oct 1, 1988

Jamie and Vicki join a gang.

4Season 4

S4.E4 ∙ Rashomon

Sat, Oct 15, 1988

A burglar strikes the Lawsons at a health resort.

5Season 4

S4.E5 ∙ Come Fly with Me

Sat, Oct 22, 1988

The Lawsons' plane is hijacked.

6Season 4

S4.E6 ∙ Love at First Byte

Sat, Oct 29, 1988

Vicki falls in love with a computer program.

7Season 4

S4.E7 ∙ The Sheik

Sat, Nov 5, 1988

A teenage sheik wants Vicki for his bride.

8Season 4

S4.E8 ∙ Togetherness

Sat, Nov 12, 1988

The Lawsons and Brindles compete on a game show.

9Season 4

S4.E9 ∙ My Favorite Martian

Sat, Nov 19, 1988

Brandon sees Vicki's hologram of an alien spaceship.

10Season 4

S4.E10 ∙ Mommie Dearest

Sat, Nov 26, 1988

Joan's father dates Ida Mae.

11Season 4

S4.E11 ∙ No Laughing Matter

Sun, Dec 4, 1988

Vicki leaks nitrous oxide; Jamie teaches for a week.

12Season 4

S4.E12 ∙ Tag, You're It

Sun, Dec 11, 1988

There's a dance at Jamie's school wherein the girls get to ask the boys out. Jamie's hoping that a girl he likes will ask him. But Harriet is chasing Jamie trying to get him to bring her to the dance. Eventually she does so to get out of it, he tries to get enough demerits so that he would be grounded and can't go.

13Season 4

S4.E13 ∙ The Jailbirds

Sat, Jan 7, 1989

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

14Season 4

S4.E14 ∙ Riches to Rags

Sat, Jan 14, 1989

Vicki and Jamie invent a cleaning solution.

15Season 4

S4.E15 ∙ Radio Days

Sat, Jan 21, 1989

Jamie produces a radio play about World War II.

16Season 4

S4.E16 ∙ Kid-O-Grams

Sat, Jan 28, 1989

Jamie starts up a singing-telegram business.

17Season 4

S4.E17 ∙ More About L.E.S.

Sat, Feb 4, 1989

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 as its own.

18Season 4

S4.E18 ∙ Hooray for Hollyweird!

Sat, Feb 11, 1989

Ted's robot, Vanessa, wreaks havoc in Hollywood.

19Season 4

S4.E19 ∙ Minnesota Vicki

Sat, Feb 18, 1989

To land a new promotion with the boss, Mr. Jennings. 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.

20Season 4

S4.E20 ∙ Vicki Doolittle

Sat, Feb 25, 1989

When Ted installs a new language translation device (Random Access Multiple Concurrent Linguistic Analytical Sequencer) into Vicki it enables her to understand any language including even animals, like the bosses' dog. Mrs. Jennings forces Mr. Jennings to fire Ted when Joan balks at doing uncredited work for an affair.

21Season 4

S4.E21 ∙ The Tattletale

Sat, Apr 29, 1989

A gossip reporter reveals Vicki's secret.

22Season 4

S4.E22 ∙ The Strike

Sat, May 6, 1989

Ted's union strike inspires the whole family.

23Season 4

S4.E23 ∙ See No Evil

Sat, May 13, 1989

Her sight failing, Vicki cannot identify bike thieves.

24Season 4

S4.E24 ∙ Thy Neighbor's Wife

Sat, May 20, 1989

Joan poses as Mrs. Brindle to impress a businessman.