Howard Leeds
Director
Small Wonder (1985)
Season 3
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.
Released Sept. 7, 1985
Episode 21 min
2+
Genres: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
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Production Companies: Metromedia Video Productions, 20th Century Fox Television
Network: Syndication
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S3E1 - Vicki and the Pusher
When a schoolyard pusher tries to hook Vicki on drugs, the Lawsons help the police on a undercover sting.
Sept. 5, 1987, midnight
S3E2 - The Strike
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.
Sept. 12, 1987, midnight
S3E3 - The Pool
While saving Harriet in the Lawsons' new pool, Vicki ""drowns"" and lands in the hospital under X-rays with a bewildered doctor.
Sept. 19, 1987, midnight
S3E4 - Screaming Skulls
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.
Sept. 26, 1987, midnight
S3E5 - The Electric Potatoheads
Jamie, Reggie, Harriet and Vicki try to start a rock group to play to Ida Mae's visiting agent friend.
Oct. 3, 1987, midnight
S3E6 - Geisha Vicki
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.
Oct. 10, 1987, midnight
S3E7 - I Hear You
When Jamie befriends a deaf boy to score scout points, he learns a lesson in sensitivity and exploitation.
Oct. 24, 1987, midnight
S3E8 - Haunted House
When 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.
Oct. 31, 1987, midnight
S3E9 - The Bad Seedling
Ted brings home Vanessa, an upgraded twin of Vicki whose revolutionary but quirky quasi-human artificial intelligence runs amok.
Nov. 7, 1987, midnight
S3E10 - My Living Doll
A Christmas show wherein Joan borrows a life-sized animated ""doll"" from a store for a charity show -- until Brandon gets his hands on it.
Nov. 14, 1987, midnight
S3E11 - Fat's Where It's At
Vicki 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.
Nov. 21, 1987, midnight
S3E12 - Bank Hostages
Vicki, Jamie and Harriet are held hostage in an inept bank robbery.
Nov. 28, 1987, midnight
S3E13 - Breakfast of Criminals
Vicki 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.
Dec. 5, 1987, midnight
S3E14 - Girl on the Milk Carton
While Jamie and Reggie search for a story for the school paper, Vicki discovers that a new girl in class is a missing child.
Dec. 12, 1987, midnight
S3E15 - The Bossy Daughter
Jamie is picked up by the possessive daughter of Ted's boss who starts pulling his strings the wrong way.
Jan. 9, 1988, midnight
S3E16 - Home Sweet Sale
Ted 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.
Jan. 30, 1988, midnight
S3E17 - Ronald McDonald House
To help a withdrawn and bitter classmate cope with leukemia, Jamie and Joan help set up a play on fighting disease.
Feb. 6, 1988, midnight
S3E19 - In the Spirits
Due 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.
Feb. 20, 1988, midnight
S3E20 - The Perfect Daughter
To 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.
March 12, 1988, midnight
S3E21 - Earthquake Vicki
Tired of the loud and impudent Brindles as neighbors, the Lawsons concoct a fake earthquake to scare them into moving.
May 4, 1988, midnight
S3E22 - Ted's Dead
Due 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.
May 28, 1988, midnight
S3E23 - Big J, the D.J.
Jamie, 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.
July 9, 1988, midnight
S3E24 - Safety First
Vicky 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.
July 30, 1988, midnight
S3E25 - How I Love Thee
While 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.
Aug. 6, 1988, midnight
S3E26 - The Cheater
Jamie takes the fall in exchange for Jessica's affections after he catches her stealing copies of the seventh grade's test.
Aug. 27, 1988, midnight
S3E27 - Digital Love
Ted brings home a voice activated computer. Vicki finds herself falling for the computer, but trouble begins when the computer becomes obsessed with Vicki.
Sept. 6, 1988, midnight
S3E18 - The Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming
Vicki competes with a Soviet robot.
Feb. 12, 1988, midnight
Network: Syndication
Episode Runtime: 21 min.
Season Runtime: 2079 min.
Released: Sept. 7, 1985
Last Air Date: May 20, 1989, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-G / 2+
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