Episode 1
Big J, Private Eye
21m
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.
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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
School Monitor
21m
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.
Episode credits
Directed by Dick ChristieWritten by Steve Granat
Episode 3
More About L.E.S.
21m
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.
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Game Show
21m
The Lawsons enter a game show to get back at the Brindles for trying to kick them off the eligibility list.
Episode credits
Directed by Leslie H. MartinsonWritten by David Ruprecht, Dick Christie
Episode 5
Jailbirds
21m
Jamie and Vicki are arrested for spray-painting a wall -- and its owner's $60 shirt.
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I Dream of Vicki
21m
To keep his company's presence in an Arab country, Ted lets its visiting young ruler draft Vicki into his harem.
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Golddigging Ida
21m
Joan's doctor father drops by to visit and Ida Mae smells a plump husband. Meanwhile, Vicki vies for school cheerleader.
Episode credits
Directed by Peter Baldwin
Episode 8
It's a Gas
21m
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.
Episode credits
Directed by Leslie H. Martinson
Episode 9
SuperSuds
21m
While playing with Jamie's chemistry set, Vicki creates a potent laundry detergent that Ted -- and Brandon -- leap to market themselves.
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Battle of the Sexes and Robot
21m
Ted, Jamie and Reggie go macho on an all-male fishing trip-- tailed by a slighted and competitive bevy: Joan, Vicki and Harriet.
Episode credits
Directed by Leslie H. Martinson
Episode 11
Vicki and the Skyjacker
21m
Fly-shy Brandon bribes the Lawsons' company to fly with him on a company job on a plane that is hijacked for Cuba.
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Luke and Ray
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 Dick Christie
Episode 13
Vicki's Glasses
21m
Jamie regrets putting Vicki on guard duty for his pricey new bike when her eyes start to malfunction in a schoolyard of prowling thieves.
Episode credits
Directed by Leslie H. Martinson
Episode 14
Double Dates
21m
Jamie winds up handling two dates on the same night, blind to the fact that one of them is Harriet in disguise.
Episode credits
Written by Steve Granat
Episode 15
Vicki's Expose
21m
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.
Episode credits
Written by David Ruprecht, Dick Christie
Episode 16
Doolittle Vicki
21m
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.
Episode credits
Directed by Leslie H. Martinson
Episode 17
Radio Show
21m
Ted prepares for a robotics interview on a local radio talk show while Jamie looks for an idea for a class play.
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Pool Shark Vicki
21m
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.
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Singing Telegram
21m
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.
Episode credits
Directed by Leslie H. MartinsonWritten by Ralph Phillips
Episode 20
The Rip-Off
21m
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.
Episode credits
Written by Steve Granat
Episode 21
My Favorite Martian
21m
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.
Where to watch Small WonderEpisode 22
Hooray for Hollyweird!
21m
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.
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See No Evil
21m
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.
Episode credits
Directed by Leslie H. Martinson
Episode 24
Thy Neighbor's Wife
21mfinale
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
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More about Small Wonder
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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