Small Wonder
Small Wonder

Small Wonder

1985 4 Seasons 99 Episodes ⭐ 6.9 Comedy Family

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.

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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Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Vicki's Homecoming

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

EP 2

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

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

EP 3

Robositter

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

EP 4

Nerd Crush

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

EP 5

Runaway Jamie

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

EP 6

Lights! Camera! Ego!

Jamie and his friend Reggie Williams are involved in putting together a sci-fi movie project for school, but the power o

EP 7

White Lies

Jamie realizes the value of constant truthfulness when he can't convince his parents that he's not responsible for break

EP 8

The Bully

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

EP 9

DisHonor Student

Jamie uses Vicki's new speed-scan reading ability to complete 55 chapters of his homework overnight, which earns him the

EP 10

Vicki's Adoption

Tipped off on the sly by busybody Bonnie Brindle, Child Services threatens to take Vicki away unless the Lawsons can pro

EP 11

Child Prodigy

To circumvent Child Services' orders to send Vicki to school and risk exposure, the Lawsons hire a pompous tutor who mis

EP 12

Brindles Move In

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

EP 13

RoboBrat

When overexposure to Harriet infects heuristically mimicking Vicki with Harriet's personality traits and shrieking tantr

EP 14

The Burrito Story

Jamie attempts to mass-produce burritos made by Vicki.

EP 15

Babes in the Woods

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

EP 16

First Love

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

EP 17

Substitute Dad

When golf-crazed Ted neglects taking Jamie to a Father-and-Son picnic for a golf tournament, Brandon steps in and incite

EP 18

The Robot Nappers

When keen-eyed recruitment officers from a rival robotics firm drop by to interview Ted, they suspect Vicki is a robot a

EP 19

Ted's Lay-Off

United Robotronics cutbacks have the Lawsons scrambling for odd jobs.

EP 20

Health Nuts

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

EP 21

The Reluctant Halfback

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

EP 22

Vaudeville Vicki

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

EP 23

The Birds, The Bees, and Robots

When timid Ted uses the "stork theory" in answering Jamie's questions about sex, Jamie believes Dad's in serious need of

EP 24

Grandpa Lawson's Visit

Ted has the unenviable task of explaining to his unwary Vicki-doting father, who bitterly lost his job to automation, th

EP 1

Root Beer, Women and Song

Still out to flatter the redoubtable Jessica, Jamie takes her out to an expensive restaurant while tightwad Ted puts Vic

EP 2

My Mother the Teacher

Jamie tries to recover his respect in class when his mother comes in as substitute teacher by trying to humiliate her ou

EP 3

Vicki for the Defense

Playing a judge in a class simulation of a courtroom, Jamie dispenses uneven justice and gets impeached, while parking-t

EP 4

Homeless Causes

Joan's civic project with the homeless prompts Jamie to bring home a bum, who virtually takes over the Lawson household.

EP 5

The Hustle

When Jamie is taken by a slick curbside vendor with a bad mini-TV, Ted goes after him for reparations -- and gets conned

EP 6

Jamie's Older Woman

Jamie pushes Harriet aside in an unrequited crush on her 16-year-old cousin, who teaches him a lesson in respect.

EP 7

My Robot Family

When he's punished for thoughtlessly dropping the family's reservations to Mexico, Jamie dreams that the others are robo

EP 8

The Wonder Worker

To help Jamie's shy and withdrawn classmate who stutters, Ted programs Vicki to be her speech therapist.

EP 9

Have a Heart

Jamie tries to show Vicki the meaning of compassion by sharing, which she does -- including the dress off her back, whil

EP 10

Latchkey Dreams

To get on a community-sponsored Thanksgiving ski trip for disadvantaged kids, Jamie convinces the sponsors that his pare

EP 11

Computer Dating

To pay for a new bike he bought from the neighborhood bully, Jamie uses Vicki to run a school computerized match-making

EP 12

Smoker's Delight

Jamie learns a sobering lesson in using smoking and chewing tobacco to elevate his freshman status in junior high.

EP 13

Movin' Up

While Vicki learns to spend a day without duties or instructions, Ted's new prestigious job offer in Massachusetts tests

EP 14

Project Blender

To make his dad's ""button-pusher"" job seem important to his friends, Jamie hints that Ted is head of a top-secret proj

EP 15

Class Comedienne

Nagged by classmates that Vicki has a wooden personality, Jamie overdoes it in secretly programming her a livelier one.

EP 16

Little Miss Shopping Mall

The Lawsons take up the Brindles' snobby challenge and enter Vicki in a mall pageant against Harriet.

EP 17

Victor/ V.I.C.I.

To help his Little League team's rock-bottom status, Jamie disguises Vicki as a boy to use her robotic abilities to bat

EP 18

Look into My Eyes

After Vicki watches a TV hypnotist turn volunteers into clowns and animals, she starts practicing her new mesmerizing ""

EP 19

Pint Sized Pick-Up

While in a store with Jamie looking for a present for her mock birthday party to convince Child Services that they treat

EP 20

Community Watch and See

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

EP 21

Here Kitty, Kitty!

To train Vicki to be more affectionate, Ted buys her a toy cat that only makes her mimic Jamie's past jealousy and run a

EP 22

Vicki Goodwrench

During Jamie's part-time gas station job, Vicki fine-tunes a car to go 50 miles a gallon, causing oil companies and oil

EP 23

The Wedding

Ted and Joan decide to have the ceremonial wedding they never had -- until the Brindles butt in.

EP 24

Wham-Bam-Body Slam

Joan invites Wally Crandal, a former 90-pound weakling college classmate, over for dinner to meet his former school torm

EP 1

Vicki and the Pusher

When a schoolyard pusher tries to hook Vicki on drugs, the Lawsons help the police on a undercover sting.

EP 2

The Strike

A United Robotronics strike pits shop steward Ted against management rep Brandon; Joan has her students use the strike a

EP 3

The Pool

While saving Harriet in the Lawsons' new pool, Vicki ""drowns"" and lands in the hospital under X-rays with a bewildered

EP 4

Screaming Skulls

Jamie stumbles into the membership of a junior high gang whose vandalism tests his sense of belonging with right and wro

EP 5

The Electric Potatoheads

Jamie, Reggie, Harriet and Vicki try to start a rock group to play to Ida Mae's visiting agent friend.

EP 6

Geisha Vicki

To help Brandon get promoted to a job in Japan, Joan pretends that she's his estranged wife and that Vicki and Jamie are

EP 7

I Hear You

When Jamie befriends a deaf boy to score scout points, he learns a lesson in sensitivity and exploitation.

EP 8

Haunted House

When unseen Vicki is struck by lightning and begins influencing objects around the house, the shook-up and unwary Lawson

EP 9

The Bad Seedling

Ted brings home Vanessa, an upgraded twin of Vicki whose revolutionary but quirky quasi-human artificial intelligence ru

EP 10

My Living Doll

A Christmas show wherein Joan borrows a life-sized animated ""doll"" from a store for a charity show -- until Brandon ge

EP 11

Fat's Where It's At

Vicki literally balloons after Ted unwittingly upgrades her energy-supplementing polynucleotide processor with an appeti

EP 12

Bank Hostages

Vicki, Jamie and Harriet are held hostage in an inept bank robbery.

EP 13

Breakfast of Criminals

Vicki is discovered by a marketing firm to play in a cereal commercial, but the Lawsons have second thoughts when her ta

EP 14

Girl on the Milk Carton

While Jamie and Reggie search for a story for the school paper, Vicki discovers that a new girl in class is a missing ch

EP 15

The Bossy Daughter

Jamie is picked up by the possessive daughter of Ted's boss who starts pulling his strings the wrong way.

EP 16

Home Sweet Sale

Ted begins remodeling the house, and Joan's new real estate side job gets upstaged when Vicki sells the Lawson homestead

EP 17

Ronald McDonald House

To help a withdrawn and bitter classmate cope with leukemia, Jamie and Joan help set up a play on fighting disease.

EP 18

The Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming

Vicki competes with a Soviet robot.

EP 19

In the Spirits

Due to Vicki's mishandling of terms, Child Services Officer Mrs. Fernwald thinks Ted is an alcoholic and threatens to ta

EP 20

The Perfect Daughter

To win a promotion over Brandon's boss fawning, Ted decides to reveal Vicki's robot secret to his boss at a company picn

EP 21

Earthquake Vicki

Tired of the loud and impudent Brindles as neighbors, the Lawsons concoct a fake earthquake to scare them into moving.

EP 22

Ted's Dead

Due to Vicki's misinterpreting Ted's quip while doing the family's on-line banking, the Lawsons are re-categorized as de

EP 23

Big J, the D.J.

Jamie, competing with Reggie for school radio D.J., uses Vicki's voice mimicry to fake an interview with football star L

EP 24

Safety First

Vicky imitates Ted's demostration on saving a choking victim's life on Brendle. Brendle arrives the next day faking a br

EP 25

How I Love Thee

While running an unauthorized answering service for grounded kids which nearly wrecks Ted's respect with his boss, Jamie

EP 26

The Cheater

Jamie takes the fall in exchange for Jessica's affections after he catches her stealing copies of the seventh grade's te

EP 27

Digital Love

Ted brings home a voice activated computer. Vicki finds herself falling for the computer, but trouble begins when the co

EP 1

Big J, Private Eye

Prompted by Ted and his class to get his school reading assignment going, Jamie videos a book report based on a 1940s P.

EP 2

School Monitor

On their first day in junior high, Vicki becomes a hall monitor and Jamie tries to avoid Harriet for a dance while vying

EP 3

More About L.E.S.

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

EP 4

Game Show

The Lawsons enter a game show to get back at the Brindles for trying to kick them off the eligibility list.

EP 5

Jailbirds

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

EP 6

I Dream of Vicki

To keep his company's presence in an Arab country, Ted lets its visiting young ruler draft Vicki into his harem.

EP 7

Golddigging Ida

Joan's doctor father drops by to visit and Ida Mae smells a plump husband. Meanwhile, Vicki vies for school cheerleader

EP 8

It's a Gas

A digestion feedback problem with Vicki's polynucleotide processor generates nitrous oxide gas that brings laughs to any

EP 9

SuperSuds

While playing with Jamie's chemistry set, Vicki creates a potent laundry detergent that Ted -- and Brandon -- leap to ma

EP 10

Battle of the Sexes and Robot

Ted, Jamie and Reggie go macho on an all-male fishing trip-- tailed by a slighted and competitive bevy: Joan, Vicki and

EP 11

Vicki and the Skyjacker

Fly-shy Brandon bribes the Lawsons' company to fly with him on a company job on a plane that is hijacked for Cuba.

EP 12

Luke and Ray

To help a withdrawn and bitter classmate cope with leukemia, Jamie and Joan help set up a play on fighting disease.

EP 13

Vicki's Glasses

Jamie regrets putting Vicki on guard duty for his pricey new bike when her eyes start to malfunction in a schoolyard of

EP 14

Double Dates

Jamie winds up handling two dates on the same night, blind to the fact that one of them is Harriet in disguise.

EP 15

Vicki's Expose

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, fabrica

EP 16

Doolittle Vicki

A new language translation device (Random Access Multiple Concurrent Linquistic Analytical Sequencer) installed in Vicki

EP 17

Radio Show

Ted prepares for a robotics interview on a local radio talk show while Jamie looks for an idea for a class play.

EP 18

Pool Shark Vicki

To land a new promotion with the boss, Ted invites him over for dinner and a playful game of pool -- until Jennings star

EP 19

Singing Telegram

Ted's singing telegram birthday greeting makes him pine back to his ""youthful years"" with a surfboard and prompts Jami

EP 20

The Rip-Off

While on a company vacation at a health resort, Jamie, Vicki, Brandon and Harriet see a burglar hitting their residence

EP 21

My Favorite Martian

While Jamie tests out Ted's new laser projection system in Vicki's eyes, unwary Brandon glimpses her projection of a mov

EP 22

Hooray for Hollyweird!

Ted brings back ""Bad Seed"" Vanessa, who again takes Vicki's place, locks Vicki in her/its cabinet and joins the family

EP 23

See No Evil

Jamie regrets putting Vicki on guard duty for his pricey newJamie regrets putting Vicki on guard duty for his pricey new

EP 24

Thy Neighbor's Wife

To help Brandon get promoted to a job in Japan, Joan pretends that she's his estranged wife and that Vicki and Jamie are

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