The BEST episodes of Small Wonder
Every episode of Small Wonder ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Small Wonder!
When genius cybernetics engineer Ted Lawson (Dick Christie) brings home his top secret invention, a Voice Input Child Identicant or V.I.C.I. (Tiffany Brissette), life becomes anything but mechanic for the Lawson family. With Ted’s boss and nosy family next door, his family must pass off Vickie as a real child. It’s easy for his wife Joan (Marla Pennington) who can’t help dotting on her like a real daughter, but harder for his precocious son Jamie (Jerry Supiran) who uses Vickie to do his homework and ward off Harriet (Emily Schulman), the annoying red headed girl who has a crush on him. Also starring Edie McClurg (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Hogan Family) as Harriet’s busybody mom.
#1 - Everyone in the Pool
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/19/1987
While saving Harriet in the Lawsons' new pool, Vicki ""drowns"" and lands in the hospital under X-rays with a bewildered doctor.
#2 - It's Okay to Say No
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/5/1987
When a schoolyard pusher tries to hook Vicki on drugs, the Lawsons help the police on a undercover sting.
#3 - The Bank Job
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/28/1987
Vicki, Jamie and Harriet are held hostage in an inept bank robbery.
#4 - Brainwashed
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/30/1985
When Vicki begins to mimic Harriet, Ted decides to reprogram her.
#5 - Oooga Mooga
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/14/1987
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.
#6 - Bride and Groom
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/9/1988
Jamie is picked up by the possessive daughter of Ted's boss who starts pulling his strings the wrong way.
#7 - Bye Bye Brindles
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 5/4/1988
Tired of the loud and impudent Brindles as neighbors, the Lawsons concoct a fake earthquake to scare them into moving.
#8 - Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 5/28/1988
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.
#9 - Big J, the D.J.
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 7/9/1988
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.
#10 - The Bad Seed
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/7/1987
Ted brings home Vanessa, an upgraded twin of Vicki whose revolutionary but quirky quasi-human artificial intelligence runs amok.
#11 - Riches to Rags
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 10/9/1988
While playing with Jamie's chemistry set, Vicki creates a potent laundry detergent that Ted -- and Brandon -- leap to market themselves.
#12 - Here Comes the Judge
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/4/1986
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.
#13 - Who's the Boss?
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/1/1986
When he's punished for thoughtlessly dropping the family's reservations to Mexico, Jamie dreams that the others are robots under his control.
#14 - Woodward and Bernstein
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/12/1987
While Jamie and Reggie search for a story for the school paper, Vicki discovers that a new girl in class is a missing child.
#15 - The Fats of Life
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/21/1987
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.
#16 - Neighborhood Watch
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/2/1987
After being burglarized (while Vicki's home and they're at a restaurant), the Lawsons join the neighborhood watch.
#17 - Substitute Father
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/25/1986
Brandon Brindle begins a father war when he finds that a golf-crazed Ted has been neglecting Jamie.
#18 - The Company Takeover
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/15/1986
Cutbacks at United Robotronics have the Lawsons scrambling for odd jobs.
#19 - Vaudeville Vicki
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/3/1986
A vaudeville actor becomes convinced Vicki is his long-lost daughter.
#20 - The Real Facts of Life
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/10/1986
Jamie attempts to educate his dad in the ways of love.
#21 - The Gang's All Here
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/26/1987
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.
#22 - Togetherness
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/13/1988
The Lawsons enter a game show to get back at the Brindles for trying to kick them off the eligibility list.
#23 - The Sheik
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/18/1988
To keep his company's presence in an Arab country, Ted lets its visiting young ruler draft Vicki into his harem.
#24 - Double Dates
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/13/1988
Jamie winds up handling two dates on the same night, blind to the fact that one of them is Harriet in disguise.
#25 - The Shoplifter
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/18/1987
While in a store with Jamie looking for a present for her mock birthday party to convince Child Services that they treat her well, Vicki picks up an expensive watch and is picked up for shoplifting.
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