Howard Leeds
Director
Small Wonder (1985)
Season 4
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
S4E1 - Big J, Private Eye
Prompted 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.
July 23, 1988, midnight
S4E2 - School Monitor
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.
July 30, 1988, midnight
S4E3 - More About L.E.S.
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.
Aug. 6, 1988, midnight
S4E4 - Game Show
The Lawsons enter a game show to get back at the Brindles for trying to kick them off the eligibility list.
Aug. 13, 1988, midnight
S4E5 - Jailbirds
Jamie and Vicki are arrested for spray-painting a wall -- and its owner's $60 shirt.
Aug. 20, 1988, midnight
S4E6 - I Dream of Vicki
To keep his company's presence in an Arab country, Ted lets its visiting young ruler draft Vicki into his harem.
Sept. 18, 1988, midnight
S4E7 - Golddigging Ida
Joan's doctor father drops by to visit and Ida Mae smells a plump husband. Meanwhile, Vicki vies for school cheerleader.
Sept. 25, 1988, midnight
S4E8 - It's a Gas
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.
Oct. 2, 1988, midnight
S4E9 - SuperSuds
While playing with Jamie's chemistry set, Vicki creates a potent laundry detergent that Ted -- and Brandon -- leap to market themselves.
Oct. 9, 1988, midnight
S4E10 - Battle of the Sexes and Robot
Ted, Jamie and Reggie go macho on an all-male fishing trip-- tailed by a slighted and competitive bevy: Joan, Vicki and Harriet.
Oct. 16, 1988, midnight
S4E11 - Vicki and the Skyjacker
Fly-shy Brandon bribes the Lawsons' company to fly with him on a company job on a plane that is hijacked for Cuba.
Oct. 23, 1988, midnight
S4E12 - Luke and Ray
To help a withdrawn and bitter classmate cope with leukemia, Jamie and Joan help set up a play on fighting disease.
Oct. 30, 1988, midnight
S4E13 - Vicki's Glasses
Jamie regrets putting Vicki on guard duty for his pricey new bike when her eyes start to malfunction in a schoolyard of prowling thieves.
Nov. 6, 1988, midnight
S4E14 - Double Dates
Jamie winds up handling two dates on the same night, blind to the fact that one of them is Harriet in disguise.
Nov. 13, 1988, midnight
S4E15 - Vicki's Expose
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.
Nov. 20, 1988, midnight
S4E16 - Doolittle Vicki
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.
Nov. 27, 1988, midnight
S4E17 - Radio Show
Ted prepares for a robotics interview on a local radio talk show while Jamie looks for an idea for a class play.
Dec. 3, 1988, midnight
S4E18 - Pool Shark Vicki
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.
Dec. 10, 1988, midnight
S4E19 - Singing Telegram
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.
Dec. 17, 1988, midnight
S4E20 - The Rip-Off
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.
Jan. 5, 1989, midnight
S4E21 - My Favorite Martian
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.
Jan. 12, 1989, midnight
S4E22 - Hooray for Hollyweird!
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.
Feb. 9, 1989, midnight
S4E23 - See No Evil
Jamie 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.
May 13, 1989, midnight
S4E24 - Thy Neighbor's Wife
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.
May 20, 1989, 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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