Episode 1
Root Beer, Women and Song
21m
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.
Episode credits
Written by Howard Meyers
TV series
Small Wonder
1985TV-G4 seasons6.9 / 10
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.
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Checked Jul 22, 2026
Small Wonder premiered September 7, 1985. We don't have a confirmed streaming, rental or purchase option yet.
Synopsis
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.
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Episode 2
My Mother the Teacher
21m
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.
Where to watch Small WonderEpisode 3
Vicki for the Defense
21m
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.
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Homeless Causes
21m
Joan's civic project with the homeless prompts Jamie to bring home a bum, who virtually takes over the Lawson household.
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Guest stars Foster Brooks
Episode 5
The Hustle
21m
When Jamie is taken by a slick curbside vendor with a bad mini-TV, Ted goes after him for reparations -- and gets conned himself.
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Directed by Peter Baldwin
Episode 6
Jamie's Older Woman
21m
Jamie pushes Harriet aside in an unrequited crush on her 16-year-old cousin, who teaches him a lesson in respect.
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Written by Michael PoryesGuest stars Leslie Bega
Episode 7
My Robot Family
21m
When he's punished for thoughtlessly dropping the family's reservations to Mexico, Jamie dreams that the others are robots under his control.
Where to watch Small WonderEpisode 8
The Wonder Worker
21m
To help Jamie's shy and withdrawn classmate who stutters, Ted programs Vicki to be her speech therapist.
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Guest stars Emily Moultrie
Episode 9
Have a Heart
21m
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.
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Latchkey Dreams
21m
To get on a community-sponsored Thanksgiving ski trip for disadvantaged kids, Jamie convinces the sponsors that his parents are separated.
Where to watch Small WonderEpisode 11
Computer Dating
21m
To pay for a new bike he bought from the neighborhood bully, Jamie uses Vicki to run a school computerized match-making business.
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Written by Jeffrey Duteil, Jerry Ross
Episode 12
Smoker's Delight
21m
Jamie learns a sobering lesson in using smoking and chewing tobacco to elevate his freshman status in junior high.
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Directed by Leslie H. Martinson
Episode 13
Movin' Up
21m
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.
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Written by Jerry Ross
Episode 14
Project Blender
21m
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.
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Directed by Leslie H. Martinson
Episode 15
Class Comedienne
21m
Nagged by classmates that Vicki has a wooden personality, Jamie overdoes it in secretly programming her a livelier one.
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Little Miss Shopping Mall
21m
The Lawsons take up the Brindles' snobby challenge and enter Vicki in a mall pageant against Harriet.
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Victor/ V.I.C.I.
21m
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.
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Directed by Peter Baldwin
Episode 18
Look into My Eyes
21m
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.
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Directed by Peter Baldwin
Episode 19
Pint Sized Pick-Up
21m
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.
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Directed by Leslie H. Martinson
Episode 20
Community Watch and See
21m
After being burglarized (while Vicki's home and they're at a restaurant), the Lawsons join the neighborhood watch.
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Directed by Leslie H. MartinsonWritten by Jack Gross Jr.
Episode 21
Here Kitty, Kitty!
21m
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.
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Written by Donald Ross
Episode 22
Vicki Goodwrench
21m
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.
Where to watch Small WonderEpisode 23
The Wedding
21m
Ted and Joan decide to have the ceremonial wedding they never had -- until the Brindles butt in.
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Directed by Leslie H. Martinson
Episode 24
Wham-Bam-Body Slam
21mfinale
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.
Episode credits
Directed by Peter BaldwinWritten by Dick Christie
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Cast
Tiffany BrissetteVictoria "Vicki" Ann Smith-Lawson
Dick ChristieTed Lawson
Marla PenningtonJoan Lawson
Jerry SupiranJamie Lawson
Emily SchulmanHarriet Brindle
William BogertBrandon Brindle
Alice GhostleyIda Mae
Edie McClurgBonnie BrindleCredits
- Created by
- Howard Leeds
- Written by
- Steve Granat, Dick Christie, Howard Meyers, David Ruprecht, Ed Jurist, Jurgen Wolff, Stephen Sustarsic, Jerry Ross, David Adam Silverman, Jack Gross Jr., Jeffrey Duteil, Ralph Phillips, Donald Ross, Michael Poryes, Lawrence H. Levy, Wendy Graf
Production details
- Status
- Ended
- Series type
- Scripted
- Episodes
- 99
- Original language
- English
Networks & production
- SyndicationUnited States
- Metromedia Video Productions
20th Century Fox TelevisionUnited States
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