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.
While saving Harriet in the Lawsons' new pool, Vicki ""drowns"" and lands in the hospital under X-rays with a bewildered doctor.
When a schoolyard pusher tries to hook Vicki on drugs, the Lawsons help the police on a undercover sting.
Vicki, Jamie and Harriet are held hostage in an inept bank robbery.
When Vicki begins to mimic Harriet, Ted decides to reprogram her.
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.
Jamie is picked up by the possessive daughter of Ted's boss who starts pulling his strings the wrong way.
Tired of the loud and impudent Brindles as neighbors, the Lawsons concoct a fake earthquake to scare them into moving.
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.
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.
Ted brings home Vanessa, an upgraded twin of Vicki whose revolutionary but quirky quasi-human artificial intelligence runs amok.
While playing with Jamie's chemistry set, Vicki creates a potent laundry detergent that Ted -- and Brandon -- leap to market themselves.
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.
When he's punished for thoughtlessly dropping the family's reservations to Mexico, Jamie dreams that the others are robots under his control.
While Jamie and Reggie search for a story for the school paper, Vicki discovers that a new girl in class is a missing child.
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.
After being burglarized (while Vicki's home and they're at a restaurant), the Lawsons join the neighborhood watch.
Brandon Brindle begins a father war when he finds that a golf-crazed Ted has been neglecting Jamie.
Cutbacks at United Robotronics have the Lawsons scrambling for odd jobs.
A vaudeville actor becomes convinced Vicki is his long-lost daughter.
Jamie attempts to educate his dad in the ways of love.
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.
The Lawsons enter a game show to get back at the Brindles for trying to kick them off the eligibility list.
To keep his company's presence in an Arab country, Ted lets its visiting young ruler draft Vicki into his harem.
Jamie winds up handling two dates on the same night, blind to the fact that one of them is Harriet in disguise.
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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