The BEST episodes of Small Wonder season 3
Every episode of Small Wonder season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Small Wonder season 3!
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 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - The Lawsonville Horror
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/31/1987
When unseen Vicki is struck by lightning and begins influencing objects around the house, the shook-up and unwary Lawsons call in a pair of hapless ghostbusters.
#13 - Whodunit?
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/27/1988
Jamie takes the fall in exchange for Jessica's affections after he catches her stealing copies of the seventh grade's test.
#14 - Read My Lips
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/24/1987
When Jamie befriends a deaf boy to score scout points, he learns a lesson in sensitivity and exploitation.
#15 - Breakfast of Criminals
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/5/1987
Vicki is discovered by a marketing firm to play in a cereal commercial, but the Lawsons have second thoughts when her taste test reveals that the product isn't all it's crackled up to be.
#16 - For Sale by Robot
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/30/1988
Ted begins remodeling the house, and Joan's new real estate side job gets upstaged when Vicki sells the Lawson homestead to an unscrupulous cowpoke couple.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - Safety First
Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 7/30/1988
Vicky imitates Ted's demostration on saving a choking victim's life on Brendle. Brendle arrives the next day faking a broken neck and threatens to sue the Lawson's.
#20 - 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.
#21 - The Promotion
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/12/1988
To win a promotion over Brandon's boss fawning, Ted decides to reveal Vicki's robot secret to his boss at a company picnic -- unaware that Brandon is out to sabatoge Ted's effort.
#22 - 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.
#23 - Ronald McDonald House
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 10/30/1988
To help a withdrawn and bitter classmate cope with leukemia, Jamie and Joan help set up a play on fighting disease.
#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.