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 - Big J, Private Eye
Release Date: 1988-07-23Prompted 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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Episode 2 - School Monitor
Release Date: 1988-07-30On 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.
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Episode 3 - More About L.E.S.
Release Date: 1988-08-06L.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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Episode 4 - Game Show
Release Date: 1988-08-13The Lawsons enter a game show to get back at the Brindles for trying to kick them off the eligibility list.
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Episode 5 - Jailbirds
Release Date: 1988-08-20Jamie and Vicki are arrested for spray-painting a wall -- and its owner's $60 shirt.
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Episode 6 - I Dream of Vicki
Release Date: 1988-09-18To keep his company's presence in an Arab country, Ted lets its visiting young ruler draft Vicki into his harem.
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Episode 7 - Golddigging Ida
Release Date: 1988-09-25Joan's doctor father drops by to visit and Ida Mae smells a plump husband. Meanwhile, Vicki vies for school cheerleader.
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Episode 8 - It's a Gas
Release Date: 1988-10-02A 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.
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Episode 9 - SuperSuds
Release Date: 1988-10-09While playing with Jamie's chemistry set, Vicki creates a potent laundry detergent that Ted -- and Brandon -- leap to market themselves.
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Episode 10 - Battle of the Sexes and Robot
Release Date: 1988-10-16Ted, Jamie and Reggie go macho on an all-male fishing trip-- tailed by a slighted and competitive bevy: Joan, Vicki and Harriet.
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Episode 11 - Vicki and the Skyjacker
Release Date: 1988-10-23Fly-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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Episode 12 - Luke and Ray
Release Date: 1988-10-30To 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 13 - Vicki's Glasses
Release Date: 1988-11-06Jamie regrets putting Vicki on guard duty for his pricey new bike when her eyes start to malfunction in a schoolyard of prowling thieves.
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Episode 14 - Double Dates
Release Date: 1988-11-13Jamie winds up handling two dates on the same night, blind to the fact that one of them is Harriet in disguise.
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Episode 15 - Vicki's Expose
Release Date: 1988-11-20Benny, 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.
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Episode 16 - Doolittle Vicki
Release Date: 1988-11-27A 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.
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Episode 17 - Radio Show
Release Date: 1988-12-03Ted 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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Episode 18 - Pool Shark Vicki
Release Date: 1988-12-10To 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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Episode 19 - Singing Telegram
Release Date: 1988-12-17Ted'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.
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Episode 20 - The Rip-Off
Release Date: 1989-01-05While 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.
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Episode 21 - My Favorite Martian
Release Date: 1989-01-12While 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.
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Episode 22 - Hooray for Hollyweird!
Release Date: 1989-02-09Ted 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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Episode 23 - See No Evil
Release Date: 1989-05-13Jamie 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.
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Episode 24 - Thy Neighbor's Wife
Release Date: 1989-05-20To 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.