The BEST episodes of Small Wonder season 4
Every episode of Small Wonder season 4, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Small Wonder season 4!
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 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
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Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/5/1989
While on a company vacation at a health resort, Jamie, Vicki, Brandon and Harriet see a burglar hitting their residence -- each with a different eyewitness account.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - Minnesota Vicki
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 12/10/1988
To land a new promotion with the boss, Ted invites him over for dinner and a playful game of pool -- until Jennings starts betting the shirt off his back and a lot more playing against Vicki.
#11 - 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.
#12 - Hooray for Hollyweird!
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/9/1989
Ted brings back ""Bad Seed"" Vanessa, who again takes Vicki's place, locks Vicki in her/its cabinet and joins the family to Hollywood, where Ted must repair a movie's robot while Vanessa mugs into a screen test on the sly.
#13 - 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.
#14 - No Laughing Matter
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/2/1988
A digestion feedback problem with Vicki's polynucleotide processor generates nitrous oxide gas that brings laughs to anyone near her, but not to Vicki herself -- just as Ted's boss is about to visit about lay-offs.
#15 - More About L.E.S.
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 8/6/1988
L.E.S. is back, and despite Ted's assurances that the rogue A.I. program has been rendered harmless, it comes back in a big way by possessing Vicki's body (chassis?) as its own.
#16 - Mommy Dearest
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/25/1988
Joan's doctor father drops by to visit and Ida Mae smells a plump husband. Meanwhile, Vicki vies for school cheerleader.
#17 - Vicki Doolittle
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 11/27/1988
A new language translation device (Random Access Multiple Concurrent Linquistic Analytical Sequencer) installed in Vicki enables her to understand any language...even animals, like the bosses' dog. Mrs. Jennings forces Mr. Jennings to fire Ted when Joan balks at doing uncredited work for an affair.
#18 - The Jailbirds
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 8/20/1988
Jamie and Vicki are arrested for spray-painting a wall -- and its owner's $60 shirt.
#19 - Tag, You're It
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/30/1988
On their first day in junior high, Vicki becomes a hall monitor and Jamie tries to avoid Harriet for a dance while vying for a class fox. Meanwhile, Ted prepares to host a cybernetics conference.
#20 - See No Evil
Season 4 - Episode 23 - Aired 11/6/1988
Jamie regrets putting Vicki on guard duty for his pricey new bike when her eyes start to malfunction in a schoolyard of prowling thieves.
#21 - Kid-O-Grams
Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 12/17/1988
Ted's singing telegram birthday greeting makes him pine back to his ""youthful years"" with a surfboard and prompts Jamie to start a singing telegram for schoolmates -- and competing with Reggie.
#22 - The Tattletale
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 11/20/1988
Benny, an old college chum of Ted and Joan's is up to his same trashy school paper tricks in a big city rag now, fabricating a tabloid feature which by sheer chance ""exposes"" Vicki as a robot just as she's about to join a fashionable clique of girls.
#23 - Radio Days
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/3/1988
Ted prepares for a robotics interview on a local radio talk show while Jamie looks for an idea for a class play.
#24 - The Strike
Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/6/1989
A United Robotronics strike pits shop steward Ted against management rep Brandon; Joan has her students use the strike as a social studies exercise, which also goes awry.