Small Wonder (1985)
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 1 - Vicki and the Pusher
Release Date: 1987-09-05When a schoolyard pusher tries to hook Vicki on drugs, the Lawsons help the police on a undercover sting.
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Episode 2 - The Strike
Release Date: 1987-09-12A 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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Episode 3 - The Pool
Release Date: 1987-09-19While 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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Episode 4 - Screaming Skulls
Release Date: 1987-09-26Jamie 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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Episode 5 - The Electric Potatoheads
Release Date: 1987-10-03Jamie, Reggie, Harriet and Vicki try to start a rock group to play to Ida Mae's visiting agent friend.
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Episode 6 - Geisha Vicki
Release Date: 1987-10-10To 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.
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Episode 7 - I Hear You
Release Date: 1987-10-24When Jamie befriends a deaf boy to score scout points, he learns a lesson in sensitivity and exploitation.
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Episode 8 - Haunted House
Release Date: 1987-10-31When 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.
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Episode 9 - The Bad Seedling
Release Date: 1987-11-07Ted brings home Vanessa, an upgraded twin of Vicki whose revolutionary but quirky quasi-human artificial intelligence runs amok.
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Episode 10 - My Living Doll
Release Date: 1987-11-14A Christmas show wherein Joan borrows a life-sized animated ""doll"" from a store for a charity show -- until Brandon gets his hands on it.
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Episode 11 - Fat's Where It's At
Release Date: 1987-11-21Vicki 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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Episode 12 - Bank Hostages
Release Date: 1987-11-28Vicki, Jamie and Harriet are held hostage in an inept bank robbery.
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Episode 13 - Breakfast of Criminals
Release Date: 1987-12-05Vicki 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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Episode 14 - Girl on the Milk Carton
Release Date: 1987-12-12While Jamie and Reggie search for a story for the school paper, Vicki discovers that a new girl in class is a missing child.
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Episode 15 - The Bossy Daughter
Release Date: 1988-01-09Jamie is picked up by the possessive daughter of Ted's boss who starts pulling his strings the wrong way.
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Episode 16 - Home Sweet Sale
Release Date: 1988-01-30Ted 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.
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Episode 17 - Ronald McDonald House
Release Date: 1988-02-06To help a withdrawn and bitter classmate cope with leukemia, Jamie and Joan help set up a play on fighting disease.
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Episode 18 - The Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming
Release Date: 1988-02-12Vicki competes with a Soviet robot.
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Episode 19 - In the Spirits
Release Date: 1988-02-20Due 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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Episode 20 - The Perfect Daughter
Release Date: 1988-03-12To 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.
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Episode 21 - Earthquake Vicki
Release Date: 1988-05-04Tired of the loud and impudent Brindles as neighbors, the Lawsons concoct a fake earthquake to scare them into moving.
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Episode 22 - Ted's Dead
Release Date: 1988-05-28Due 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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Episode 23 - Big J, the D.J.
Release Date: 1988-07-09Jamie, 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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Episode 24 - Safety First
Release Date: 1988-07-30Vicky 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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Episode 25 - How I Love Thee
Release Date: 1988-08-06While 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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Episode 26 - The Cheater
Release Date: 1988-08-27Jamie takes the fall in exchange for Jessica's affections after he catches her stealing copies of the seventh grade's test.
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Episode 27 - Digital Love
Release Date: 1988-09-06Ted brings home a voice activated computer. Vicki finds herself falling for the computer, but trouble begins when the computer becomes obsessed with Vicki.