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 - 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.
#2 - The Bully
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/26/1985
When a bully begins extorting money from Jamie and his friends, Ted attempts to teach Jamie how to fight.
#3 - Divided We Stand
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/16/1988
Ted, Jamie and Reggie go macho on an all-male fishing trip-- tailed by a slighted and competitive bevy: Joan, Vicki and Harriet.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/13/1988
In an international junior high quiz, Vicki's school pits its top pupil -- her -- against an equally quick and infallible Russian whiz kid who has a secret of his own.
#8 - Love at First Byte
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/29/1988
Ted brings home a voice activated computer. Vicki finds herself falling for the computer, but trouble begins when the computer becomes obsessed with Vicki.
#9 - Come Fly with Me
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/1988
Fly-shy Brandon bribes the Lawsons' company to fly with him on a company job on a plane that is hijacked for Cuba.
#10 - When You Hear the Beep
Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired 8/6/1988
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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - I'll Drink To That
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/20/1988
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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - The Bank Job
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/28/1987
Vicki, Jamie and Harriet are held hostage in an inept bank robbery.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - Chewed Out (Smoker's Delight)
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1986
Jamie learns a sobering lesson in using smoking and chewing tobacco to elevate his freshman status in junior high.
#20 - 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.
#21 - The Grandparents
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/17/1986
Ted must break it to his father that Vicki is a robot.
#22 - Child Genius
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/16/1985
With Child Services watching, the Lawsons must hire a tutor for Vicki, and Joan resolves to complete her teaching degree.
#23 - The Rock Band
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 10/3/1987
Jamie, Reggie, Harriet and Vicki try to start a rock group to play to Ida Mae's visiting agent friend.
#24 - Book-It
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 7/23/1988
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.
#25 - Look into My Eyes
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/21/1987
After Vicki watches a TV hypnotist turn volunteers into clowns and animals, she starts practicing her new mesmerizing "skill" on the Lawsons with hysterical results.