Small Wonder

1Vicki and the Pusher

21 minSep 5, 1987

When a schoolyard pusher tries to hook Vicki on drugs, the Lawsons help the police on a undercover sting.

2The Strike

21 minSep 12, 1987

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.

3The Pool

21 minSep 19, 1987

While saving Harriet in the Lawsons' new pool, Vicki ""drowns"" and lands in the hospital under X-rays with a bewildered doctor.

4Screaming Skulls

21 minSep 26, 1987

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.

5The Electric Potatoheads

21 minOct 3, 1987

Jamie, Reggie, Harriet and Vicki try to start a rock group to play to Ida Mae's visiting agent friend.

6Geisha Vicki

21 minOct 10, 1987

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.

7I Hear You

21 minOct 24, 1987

When Jamie befriends a deaf boy to score scout points, he learns a lesson in sensitivity and exploitation.

8Haunted House

21 minOct 31, 1987

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.

9The Bad Seedling

21 minNov 7, 1987

Ted brings home Vanessa, an upgraded twin of Vicki whose revolutionary but quirky quasi-human artificial intelligence runs amok.

10My Living Doll

21 minNov 14, 1987

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.

11Fat's Where It's At

21 minNov 21, 1987

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.

12Bank Hostages

21 minNov 28, 1987

Vicki, Jamie and Harriet are held hostage in an inept bank robbery.

13Breakfast of Criminals

21 minDec 5, 1987

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.

14Girl on the Milk Carton

21 minDec 12, 1987

While Jamie and Reggie search for a story for the school paper, Vicki discovers that a new girl in class is a missing child.

15The Bossy Daughter

21 minJan 9, 1988

Jamie is picked up by the possessive daughter of Ted's boss who starts pulling his strings the wrong way.

16Home Sweet Sale

21 minJan 30, 1988

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.

17Ronald McDonald House

21 minFeb 6, 1988

To help a withdrawn and bitter classmate cope with leukemia, Jamie and Joan help set up a play on fighting disease.

18The Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming

21 minFeb 12, 1988

Vicki competes with a Soviet robot.

19In the Spirits

21 minFeb 20, 1988

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.

20The Perfect Daughter

21 minMar 12, 1988

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.

21Earthquake Vicki

21 minMay 4, 1988

Tired of the loud and impudent Brindles as neighbors, the Lawsons concoct a fake earthquake to scare them into moving.

22Ted's Dead

21 minMay 28, 1988

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.

23Big J, the D.J.

21 minJul 9, 1988

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.

24Safety First

21 minJul 30, 1988

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.

25How I Love Thee

21 minAug 6, 1988

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.

26The Cheater

21 minAug 27, 1988

Jamie takes the fall in exchange for Jessica's affections after he catches her stealing copies of the seventh grade's test.

27Digital Love

21 minSep 6, 1988

Ted brings home a voice activated computer. Vicki finds herself falling for the computer, but trouble begins when the computer becomes obsessed with Vicki.