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.

Last Updated: 3/8/2024Network: SyndicationStatus: Ended
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Everyone in the Pool
star
9.50
4 votes

#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.

Directors: Bob Claver
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It's Okay to Say No
star
9.50
4 votes

#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.

Directors: Bob Claver
Writer: Matt Geller
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The Bank Job
star
9.25
4 votes

#3 - The Bank Job

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/28/1987

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

Directors: Bob Claver
Writer: Paul Hunter
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Brainwashed
star
9.12
16 votes

#4 - Brainwashed

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/30/1985

When Vicki begins to mimic Harriet, Ted decides to reprogram her.

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Oooga Mooga
star
9.00
3 votes

#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.

Bride and Groom
star
9.00
3 votes

#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.

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Bye Bye Brindles
star
9.00
2 votes

#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.

Directors: Selig Frank
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
star
9.00
3 votes

#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.

Directors: Selig Frank
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Big J, the D.J.
star
9.00
2 votes

#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.

Directors: Selig Frank
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The Bad Seed
star
9.00
3 votes

#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.

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Riches to Rags
star
8.91
32 votes

#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.

Directors: Selig Frank
Writer: Paul Chitlik
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Here Comes the Judge
star
8.88
8 votes

#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.

Directors: Selig Frank
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Who's the Boss?
star
8.80
10 votes

#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.

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Woodward and Bernstein
star
8.80
5 votes

#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.

The Fats of Life
star
8.75
4 votes

#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.

Directors: Bob Claver
Writer: Stan Cutler
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Neighborhood Watch
star
8.71
7 votes

#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.

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Substitute Father
star
8.70
10 votes

#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.

Directors: Selig Frank
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The Company Takeover
star
8.67
12 votes

#18 - The Company Takeover

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/15/1986

Cutbacks at United Robotronics have the Lawsons scrambling for odd jobs.

Directors: Peter Baldwin
Writer: John Boni
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Vaudeville Vicki
star
8.67
9 votes

#19 - Vaudeville Vicki

Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/3/1986

A vaudeville actor becomes convinced Vicki is his long-lost daughter.

Directors: Selig Frank
The Real Facts of Life
star
8.67
6 votes

#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.

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The Gang's All Here
star
8.67
3 votes

#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.

Directors: Selig Frank
Writer: Stan Cutler
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Togetherness
star
8.67
3 votes

#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.

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The Sheik
star
8.67
3 votes

#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.

Directors: Bob Claver
Writer: Paul Chitlik
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Double Dates
star
8.67
3 votes

#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.

Directors: Bob Claver
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The Shoplifter
star
8.67
6 votes

#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.

Writer: Bruce Taylor