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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4x01 Divided We Stand
17 October, 1988 4:00 am
Ted, Jamie and Reggie go macho on an all-male fishing trip-- tailed by a slighted and competitive bevy: Joan, Vicki and Harriet.
4x02 Double Dates
14 November, 1988 4:00 am
Jamie winds up handling two dates on the same night, blind to the fact that one of them is Harriet in disguise.
4x03 The Gang's All Here
27 September, 1987 4:00 am
Jamie 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.
4x04 Rashomon
06 January, 1989 4:00 am
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.
4x05 Come Fly with Me
24 October, 1988 3:00 am
Fly-shy Brandon bribes the Lawsons' company to fly with him on a company job on a plane that is hijacked for Cuba.
4x06 Love at First Byte
30 October, 1988 3:00 am
Ted brings home a voice activated computer. Vicki finds herself falling for the computer, but trouble begins when the computer becomes obsessed with Vicki.
4x07 The Sheik
19 September, 1988 4:00 am
To keep his company's presence in an Arab country, Ted lets its visiting young ruler draft Vicki into his harem.
4x08 Togetherness
14 August, 1988 4:00 am
The Lawsons enter a game show to get back at the Brindles for trying to kick them off the eligibility list.
4x09 My Favorite Martian
13 January, 1989 4:00 am
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.
4x10 Mommy Dearest
26 September, 1988 4:00 am
Joan's doctor father drops by to visit and Ida Mae smells a plump husband. Meanwhile, Vicki vies for school cheerleader.
4x11 No Laughing Matter
03 October, 1988 4:00 am
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.
4x12 Tag, You're It
31 July, 1988 4:00 am
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.
4x13 The Jailbirds
21 August, 1988 4:00 am
Jamie and Vicki are arrested for spray-painting a wall -- and its owner's $60 shirt.
4x14 Riches to Rags
10 October, 1988 4:00 am
While playing with Jamie's chemistry set, Vicki creates a potent laundry detergent that Ted -- and Brandon -- leap to market themselves.
4x15 Radio Days
04 December, 1988 4:00 am
Ted prepares for a robotics interview on a local radio talk show while Jamie looks for an idea for a class play.
4x16 Kid-O-Grams
18 December, 1988 4:00 am
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.
4x17 More About L.E.S.
07 August, 1988 4:00 am
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.
4x18 Hooray for Hollyweird!
10 February, 1989 4:00 am
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.
4x19 Minnesota Vicki
11 December, 1988 4:00 am
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.
4x20 Vicki Doolittle
28 November, 1988 4:00 am
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.
4x21 The Tattletale
21 November, 1988 4:00 am
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.
4x22 The Strike
07 May, 1989 4:00 am
A 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.
4x23 See No Evil
07 November, 1988 4:00 am
Jamie regrets putting Vicki on guard duty for his pricey new bike when her eyes start to malfunction in a schoolyard of prowling thieves.
4x24 Thy Neighbor's Wife
31 October, 1987 4:00 am
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.
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