Small Wonder
Synopsis
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.
Season 3 Episodes
EP 1
When a schoolyard pusher tries to hook Vicki on drugs, the Lawsons help the police on a undercover sting.
EP 2
A United Robotronics strike pits shop steward Ted against management rep Brandon; Joan has her students use the strike as a social studies …
EP 3
While saving Harriet in the Lawsons' new pool, Vicki ""drowns"" and lands in the hospital under X-rays with a bewildered doctor.
EP 4
Jamie stumbles into the membership of a junior high gang whose vandalism tests his sense of belonging with right and wrong -- and inducts V…
EP 5
Jamie, Reggie, Harriet and Vicki try to start a rock group to play to Ida Mae's visiting agent friend.
EP 6
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.
EP 7
When Jamie befriends a deaf boy to score scout points, he learns a lesson in sensitivity and exploitation.
EP 8
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…
EP 9
Ted brings home Vanessa, an upgraded twin of Vicki whose revolutionary but quirky quasi-human artificial intelligence runs amok.
EP 10
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.
EP 11
Vicki literally balloons after Ted unwittingly upgrades her energy-supplementing polynucleotide processor with an appetite, which creates e…
EP 12
Vicki, Jamie and Harriet are held hostage in an inept bank robbery.
EP 13
Vicki is discovered by a marketing firm to play in a cereal commercial, but the Lawsons have second thoughts when her taste test reveals th…
EP 14
While Jamie and Reggie search for a story for the school paper, Vicki discovers that a new girl in class is a missing child.
EP 15
Jamie is picked up by the possessive daughter of Ted's boss who starts pulling his strings the wrong way.
EP 16
Ted begins remodeling the house, and Joan's new real estate side job gets upstaged when Vicki sells the Lawson homestead to an unscrupulous…
EP 17
To help a withdrawn and bitter classmate cope with leukemia, Jamie and Joan help set up a play on fighting disease.
EP 18
Vicki competes with a Soviet robot.
EP 19
Due to Vicki's mishandling of terms, Child Services Officer Mrs. Fernwald thinks Ted is an alcoholic and threatens to take Vicki away unles…
EP 20
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 …
EP 21
Tired of the loud and impudent Brindles as neighbors, the Lawsons concoct a fake earthquake to scare them into moving.
EP 22
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 jus…
EP 23
Jamie, competing with Reggie for school radio D.J., uses Vicki's voice mimicry to fake an interview with football star Lyle Alzado -- who h…
EP 24
Vicky imitates Ted's demostration on saving a choking victim's life on Brendle. Brendle arrives the next day faking a broken neck and threa…
EP 25
While running an unauthorized answering service for grounded kids which nearly wrecks Ted's respect with his boss, Jamie and Vicki play Cup…
EP 26
Jamie takes the fall in exchange for Jessica's affections after he catches her stealing copies of the seventh grade's test.
EP 27
Ted brings home a voice activated computer. Vicki finds herself falling for the computer, but trouble begins when the computer becomes obse…
