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 - 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.
#2 - Brainwashed
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/30/1985
When Vicki begins to mimic Harriet, Ted decides to reprogram her.
#3 - 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.
#4 - Vaudeville Vicki
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/3/1986
A vaudeville actor becomes convinced Vicki is his long-lost daughter.
#5 - 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.
#7 - The Company Takeover
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/15/1986
Cutbacks at United Robotronics have the Lawsons scrambling for odd jobs.
#8 - The Grandparents
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/17/1986
Ted must break it to his father that Vicki is a robot.
#9 - Good Ol' Lou
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/22/1986
Ted is motivated to get the family into shape when an obese coworker loses a record amount of weight.
#10 - Ted's New Boss
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/23/1985
Following a house fire, the Brindles muscle their way into staying with the Lawsons.
#12 - 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.
#13 - Money, Money, Money
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/1986
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.
#14 - Slightly Dishonorable
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/2/1985
Jamie uses Vicki to do his homework and gets on the school honor roll.
#15 - The Burrito Story
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/4/1986
Jamie attempts to mass-produce burritos made by Vicki.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#18 - The Adoption
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/9/1985
After Bonnie Brindle tips off Child Services about the Lawsons' new child, Vicki must pass a medical exam.
#19 - 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.
#20 - Thy Neighbor's Wife
Season 4 - Episode 24 - Aired 10/30/1987
To help Brandon get promoted to a job in Japan, Joan pretends that she's his estranged wife and that Vicki and Jamie are their kids.
#21 - My Favorite Martian
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/12/1989
While Jamie tests out Ted's new laser projection system in Vicki's eyes, unwary Brandon glimpses her projection of a movie's flying saucer and calls the Air Force to investigate.
#23 - Spielberg Jr.
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/12/1985
When Jamie and his best friend Reggie put together a sci-fi movie project for school, the directorial power goes to Jamie's head.
#24 - The Camping Trip
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/11/1986
The Lawsons and Reggie and Harriet take a wilderness camping trip and get lost.
#25 - P-P-P Paula
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/8/1986
To help Jamie's shy and withdrawn classmate who stutters, Ted programs Vicki to be her speech therapist.