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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2x01 Chewed Out (Smoker's Delight)
14 September, 1986 4:00 am
Jamie learns a sobering lesson in using smoking and chewing tobacco to elevate his freshman status in junior high.
2x02 Money, Money, Money
21 September, 1986 4:00 am
Still out to flatter the redoubtable Jessica, Jamie takes her out to an expensive restaurant while tightwad Ted puts Vicki in charge of household expenses.
2x03 My Mother the Teacher
28 September, 1986 4:00 am
Jamie tries to recover his respect in class when his mother comes in as substitute teacher by trying to humiliate her out of her job.
2x04 Here Comes the Judge
05 October, 1986 4:00 am
Playing a judge in a class simulation of a courtroom, Jamie dispenses uneven justice and gets impeached, while parking-ticket-skipping role model Ted tries to get himself arrested.
2x05 Home Sweet Homeless
12 October, 1986 4:00 am
Joan's civic project with the homeless prompts Jamie to bring home a bum, who virtually takes over the Lawson household.
2x06 Crazy Like a Fox
19 October, 1986 4:00 am
When Jamie is taken by a slick curbside vendor with a bad mini-TV, Ted goes after him for reparations -- and gets conned himself.
2x07 The Older Woman
26 October, 1986 3:00 am
Jamie pushes Harriet aside in an unrequited crush on her 16-year-old cousin, who teaches him a lesson in respect.
2x08 Who's the Boss?
02 November, 1986 4:00 am
When he's punished for thoughtlessly dropping the family's reservations to Mexico, Jamie dreams that the others are robots under his control.
2x09 P-P-P Paula
09 November, 1986 4:00 am
To help Jamie's shy and withdrawn classmate who stutters, Ted programs Vicki to be her speech therapist.
2x10 You Gotta Have Heart
16 November, 1986 4:00 am
Jamie tries to show Vicki the meaning of compassion by sharing, which she does -- including the dress off her back, while the Brindles move in with their marital dispute.
2x11 The Shoplifter
19 April, 1987 4:00 am
While in a store with Jamie looking for a present for her mock birthday party to convince Child Services that they treat her well, Vicki picks up an expensive watch and is picked up for shoplifting.
2x12 Thanksgiving Story
30 November, 1986 4:00 am
To get on a community-sponsored Thanksgiving ski trip for disadvantaged kids, Jamie convinces the sponsors that his parents are separated.
2x13 Neighborhood Watch
03 May, 1987 4:00 am
After being burglarized (while Vicki's home and they're at a restaurant), the Lawsons join the neighborhood watch.
2x14 Movin' Up
11 January, 1987 4:00 am
While Vicki learns to spend a day without duties or instructions, Ted's new prestigious job offer in Massachusetts tests the family's taste to social climb vs. its price of morality.
2x15 Top Secret
18 January, 1987 4:00 am
To make his dad's ""button-pusher"" job seem important to his friends, Jamie hints that Ted is head of a top-secret project -- which even Ted's jealous boss, Brandon, believes.
2x16 The Personality Kid
25 January, 1987 4:00 am
Nagged by classmates that Vicki has a wooden personality, Jamie overdoes it in secretly programming her a livelier one.
2x17 Matchmaker, Matchmaker
07 December, 1986 4:00 am
To pay for a new bike he bought from the neighborhood bully, Jamie uses Vicki to run a school computerized match-making business.
2x18 Little Miss Shopping Mall
08 February, 1987 4:00 am
The Lawsons take up the Brindles' snobby challenge and enter Vicki in a mall pageant against Harriet.
2x19 Victor/Vicki-toria
15 February, 1987 4:00 am
To help his Little League team's rock-bottom status, Jamie disguises Vicki as a boy to use her robotic abilities to bat for the pennant.
2x20 Look into My Eyes
22 February, 1987 4:00 am
After Vicki watches a TV hypnotist turn volunteers into clowns and animals, she starts practicing her new mesmerizing ""skill"" on the Lawsons with hysterical results.
2x21 Wally the Wimp
21 June, 1987 4:00 am
Joan invites Wally Crandal, a former 90-pound weakling college classmate, over for dinner to meet his former school tormentor: Ted, who rigs Vicki to play even crueler tricks. Only Ted's unaware that Wally's grown into a top pro wrestler.
2x22 The Cat's Meow
10 May, 1987 4:00 am
To train Vicki to be more affectionate, Ted buys her a toy cat that only makes her mimic Jamie's past jealousy and run away.
2x23 Vicki Goodwrench
17 May, 1987 4:00 am
During Jamie's part-time gas station job, Vicki fine-tunes a car to go 50 miles a gallon, causing oil companies and oil sheiks alike to drop by the Lawsons' door.
2x24 Double Wedding
24 May, 1987 4:00 am
Ted and Joan decide to have the ceremonial wedding they never had -- until the Brindles butt in.
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