EP 1AvailableNow playingVicki's Homecoming
21m·9/7/1985·0.0
Ted brings home his own cyber creation an android in the form of a ten year old girl he nicknames Vicki.
Small Wonder
Season 1 · Episode 1IMDb6.9
- Released
- 9/7/1985
- Duration
- 0h 21m
- Genre
- Comedy, Family
- Country
- United States of America
- Cast
- Tiffany Brissette, Dick Christie, Marla Pennington
Overview
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.
Episodes
EP 1AvailableNow playing
EP 2AvailableGuess Who's Coming to Dinner
21m·9/14/1985·0.0
The Brindles, the Lawson's nosy neighbors, come across Vicki and tries to find out their secret.
EP 3AvailableRobositter
21m·9/21/1985·0.0
Jamie has the entire house to himself, not knowing that Vicki is his babysitter!
EP 4AvailableNerd Crush
21m·9/28/1985·0.0
Warren Enright, the class nerd, falls in love with Vicki.
EP 5AvailableRunaway Jamie
21m·10/5/1985·0.0
Because Vicki is getting more attention, Jamie decides to run away to see what his parents might think.
EP 6AvailableLights! Camera! Ego!
21m·10/12/1985·0.0
Jamie and his friend Reggie Williams are involved in putting together a sci-fi movie project for school, but the power of directorial duties goes to Jamie's head.
EP 7AvailableWhite Lies
21m·10/19/1985·0.0
Jamie realizes the value of constant truthfulness when he can't convince his parents that he's not responsible for breaking (and secretly gluing together) a teapot caused by Harriet's smart-aleck cousin.
EP 8AvailableThe Bully
21m·10/26/1985·0.0
A bully extorts money from Jamie's neighborhood club, which quickly reconsiders its boys-only policy via Vicki's strong-arm "assistance."
EP 9AvailableDisHonor Student
21m·11/2/1985·0.0
Jamie uses Vicki's new speed-scan reading ability to complete 55 chapters of his homework overnight, which earns him the school honor roll -- along with snowballing guilt.
EP 10AvailableVicki's Adoption
21m·11/9/1985·0.0
Tipped off on the sly by busybody Bonnie Brindle, Child Services threatens to take Vicki away unless the Lawsons can produce her past -- and she passes a medical exam.
EP 11AvailableChild Prodigy
21m·11/16/1985·0.0
To circumvent Child Services' orders to send Vicki to school and risk exposure, the Lawsons hire a pompous tutor who mistakes her computer abilities for genius. To remedy the situation, Joan crams to follow-through her marriage-postponed teaching degree to act as Vicki's "tutor," while Ted takes over the kitchen and creates a mess.
EP 12AvailableBrindles Move In
21m·11/23/1985·0.0
A house fire moves Ted's new boss, Brandon Brindle, into the Lawsons' house, scheming for insurance fraud.
EP 13AvailableRoboBrat
21m·11/30/1985·0.0
When overexposure to Harriet infects heuristically mimicking Vicki with Harriet's personality traits and shrieking tantrums, Ted must purge the brat out of her at his factory -- but not before Harriet and Bonnie Brindle wonder where Vicki suddenly vanished to and summon the police.
EP 14AvailableThe Burrito Story
21m·1/4/1986·0.0
Jamie attempts to mass-produce burritos made by Vicki.
EP 15AvailableBabes in the Woods
21m·1/11/1986·0.0
The Lawsons and Reggie and Harriet take a wilderness camping trip, and get lost.
EP 16AvailableFirst Love
21m·1/18/1986·0.0
To charm prissy and picky Jessica, Jamie throws an expensive party for her, ignoring a surprising school tomboy.
EP 17AvailableSubstitute Dad
21m·1/25/1986·0.0
When golf-crazed Ted neglects taking Jamie to a Father-and-Son picnic for a golf tournament, Brandon steps in and incites a "father war" while Joan uses Vicki to voice her disapproval to Ted.
EP 18AvailableThe Robot Nappers
21m·2/8/1986·0.0
When keen-eyed recruitment officers from a rival robotics firm drop by to interview Ted, they suspect Vicki is a robot and plan to "robotnap" her.
EP 19AvailableTed's Lay-Off
21m·2/15/1986·0.0
United Robotronics cutbacks have the Lawsons scrambling for odd jobs.
EP 20AvailableHealth Nuts
21m·2/22/1986·0.0
Ted is motivated to get the family into shape when an obese co-worker loses a record amount of weight.
EP 21AvailableThe Reluctant Halfback
21m·3/1/1986·0.0
Ted is proud that Jamie's made the Pee Wee Football league, unknowing that Jamie only does it to please his dad.
EP 22AvailableVaudeville Vicki
21m·5/3/1986·0.0
When a vaudeville actor thinks Vicki is his long-lost daughter, he drafts her into a show and threatens her adoption.
EP 23AvailableThe Birds, The Bees, and Robots
21m·5/10/1986·0.0
When timid Ted uses the "stork theory" in answering Jamie's questions about sex, Jamie believes Dad's in serious need of sex education and tries to help him out.
EP 24AvailableGrandpa Lawson's Visit
21m·5/17/1986·0.0
Ted has the unenviable task of explaining to his unwary Vicki-doting father, who bitterly lost his job to automation, that his new lovely adopted granddaughter is really a robot.
Cast
Victoria "Vicki" Ann Smith-Lawson
Tiffany Brissette
Ted Lawson
Dick Christie
Joan Lawson
Marla Pennington
Jamie Lawson
Jerry Supiran
Harriet Brindle
Emily Schulman
Brandon Brindle
William Bogert
Ida Mae
