Episode 1
Vicki and the Pusher
21m
When a schoolyard pusher tries to hook Vicki on drugs, the Lawsons help the police on a undercover sting.
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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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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
The Strike
21m
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.
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The Pool
21m
While saving Harriet in the Lawsons' new pool, Vicki ""drowns"" and lands in the hospital under X-rays with a bewildered doctor.
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Screaming Skulls
21m
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.
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The Electric Potatoheads
21m
Jamie, Reggie, Harriet and Vicki try to start a rock group to play to Ida Mae's visiting agent friend.
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Geisha Vicki
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.
Episode credits
Directed by Dick Christie
Episode 7
I Hear You
21m
When Jamie befriends a deaf boy to score scout points, he learns a lesson in sensitivity and exploitation.
Episode credits
Directed by Leslie H. Martinson
Episode 8
Haunted House
21m
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.
Episode credits
Written by Dick Christie
Episode 9
The Bad Seedling
21m
Ted brings home Vanessa, an upgraded twin of Vicki whose revolutionary but quirky quasi-human artificial intelligence runs amok.
Episode credits
Written by Stephen Sustarsic, David Adam Silverman
Episode 10
My Living Doll
21m
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.
Episode credits
Directed by Leslie H. Martinson
Episode 11
Fat's Where It's At
21m
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.
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Bank Hostages
21m
Vicki, Jamie and Harriet are held hostage in an inept bank robbery.
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Breakfast of Criminals
21m
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.
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Girl on the Milk Carton
21m
While Jamie and Reggie search for a story for the school paper, Vicki discovers that a new girl in class is a missing child.
Episode credits
Directed by Leslie H. Martinson
Episode 15
The Bossy Daughter
21m
Jamie is picked up by the possessive daughter of Ted's boss who starts pulling his strings the wrong way.
Where to watch Small WonderEpisode 16
Home Sweet Sale
21m
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.
Episode credits
Directed by Leslie H. MartinsonWritten by Steve Granat
Episode 17
Ronald McDonald House
21m
To help a withdrawn and bitter classmate cope with leukemia, Jamie and Joan help set up a play on fighting disease.
Episode credits
Directed by Leslie H. MartinsonWritten by Lawrence H. Levy
Episode 18
The Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming
21m
Vicki competes with a Soviet robot.
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In the Spirits
21m
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.
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The Perfect Daughter
21m
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.
Episode credits
Directed by Leslie H. MartinsonWritten by Stephen Sustarsic, David Adam Silverman
Episode 21
Earthquake Vicki
21m
Tired of the loud and impudent Brindles as neighbors, the Lawsons concoct a fake earthquake to scare them into moving.
Episode credits
Written by Wendy Graf
Episode 22
Ted's Dead
21m
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.
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Big J, the D.J.
21m
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.
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Safety First
21m
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.
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How I Love Thee
21m
While running an unauthorized answering service for grounded kids which nearly wrecks Ted's respect with his boss, Jamie and Vicki play Cupids to help Reggie nerve up to meeting the girl of his dreams.
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The Cheater
21m
Jamie takes the fall in exchange for Jessica's affections after he catches her stealing copies of the seventh grade's test.
Episode credits
Written by Steve Granat
Episode 27
Digital Love
21mfinale
Ted brings home a voice activated computer. Vicki finds herself falling for the computer, but trouble begins when the computer becomes obsessed with Vicki.
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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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