The BEST episodes directed by Selig Frank
#1 - Riches to Rags
Small Wonder - Season 4 - Episode 14
While playing with Jamie's chemistry set, Vicki creates a potent laundry detergent that Ted -- and Brandon -- leap to market themselves.
Watch Now:Amazon#2 - The Gang's All Here
Small Wonder - Season 4 - Episode 3
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.
Watch Now:Amazon
#3 - Vaudeville Vicki
Small Wonder - Season 1 - Episode 22
A vaudeville actor becomes convinced Vicki is his long-lost daughter.
Watch Now:Amazon
#4 - Substitute Father
Small Wonder - Season 1 - Episode 17
Brandon Brindle begins a father war when he finds that a golf-crazed Ted has been neglecting Jamie.
Watch Now:Amazon#5 - Money, Money, Money
Small Wonder - Season 2 - Episode 2
Still out to flatter the redoubtable Jessica, Jamie takes her out to an expensive restaurant while tightwad Ted puts Vicki in charge of household expenses.
Watch Now:Amazon#6 - Here Comes the Judge
Small Wonder - Season 2 - Episode 4
Playing a judge in a class simulation of a courtroom, Jamie dispenses uneven justice and gets impeached, while parking-ticket-skipping role model Ted tries to get himself arrested.
Watch Now:Amazon
#7 - The Camping Trip
Small Wonder - Season 1 - Episode 15
The Lawsons and Reggie and Harriet take a wilderness camping trip and get lost.
Watch Now:Amazon#8 - More About L.E.S.
Small Wonder - Season 4 - Episode 17
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.
Watch Now:Amazon#9 - Home Sweet Homeless
Small Wonder - Season 2 - Episode 5
Joan's civic project with the homeless prompts Jamie to bring home a bum, who virtually takes over the Lawson household.
Watch Now:Amazon#10 - Vicki Goodwrench
Small Wonder - Season 2 - Episode 23
During Jamie's part-time gas station job, Vicki fine-tunes a car to go 50 miles a gallon, causing oil companies and oil sheiks alike to drop by the Lawsons' door.
Watch Now:Amazon#11 - My Mother the Teacher
Small Wonder - Season 2 - Episode 3
Jamie tries to recover his respect in class when his mother comes in as substitute teacher by trying to humiliate her out of her job.
Watch Now:Amazon#12 - Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
Small Wonder - Season 3 - Episode 14
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.
Watch Now:Amazon#13 - The Lawsonville Horror
Small Wonder - Season 3 - Episode 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 hapless ghostbusters.
Watch Now:Amazon#14 - Bride and Groom
Small Wonder - Season 3 - Episode 4
Jamie is picked up by the possessive daughter of Ted's boss who starts pulling his strings the wrong way.
Watch Now:Amazon#15 - The Older Woman
Small Wonder - Season 2 - Episode 7
Jamie pushes Harriet aside in an unrequited crush on her 16-year-old cousin, who teaches him a lesson in respect.
Watch Now:Amazon#16 - Bye Bye Brindles
Small Wonder - Season 3 - Episode 15
Tired of the loud and impudent Brindles as neighbors, the Lawsons concoct a fake earthquake to scare them into moving.
Watch Now:Amazon#17 - Hooray for Hollyweird!
Small Wonder - Season 4 - Episode 18
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.
Watch Now:Amazon
#18 - Arnold's Tangled Web
Diff'rent Strokes - Season 8 - Episode 15
To prevent Drummond from seeing his "F" in geometry, Arnold arranges to have Drummond's signature forged on his report on his report card, but the scheme backfires when Drummond insists on a personal inspection of Arnold's grades.
Watch Now:Amazon#19 - Breakfast of Criminals
Small Wonder - Season 3 - Episode 10
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.
Watch Now:Amazon#21 - Big J, the D.J.
Small Wonder - Season 3 - Episode 20
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.
Watch Now:Amazon#22 - The Tattletale
Small Wonder - Season 4 - Episode 21
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.
Watch Now:Amazon#23 - Radio Days
Small Wonder - Season 4 - Episode 15
Ted prepares for a robotics interview on a local radio talk show while Jamie looks for an idea for a class play.
Watch Now:Amazon
#24 - Beauty is in the Eye of Arnold
Diff'rent Strokes - Season 7 - Episode 21
Arnold is faced with a dilemma when his friends insist he take a cute cheerleader to the dance instead of the girl Arnold really likes who they consider an "ugly duckling."
#25 - The Nearness of You
One Day at a Time - Season 9 - Episode 20
Working together fuels an attraction between Max and Barbara.
Watch Now:Amazon#26 - Book-It
Small Wonder - Season 3 - Episode 22
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.
Watch Now:Amazon#27 - Ave Romano
One Day at a Time - Season 9 - Episode 16
An Italian priest arrives, claiming to be a distant relative.