The WORST episodes of Small Wonder
Every episode of Small Wonder ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 - Vaudeville Vicki
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/3/1986
A vaudeville actor becomes convinced Vicki is his long-lost daughter.
#2 - Little Miss Shopping Mall
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/7/1987
The Lawsons take up the Brindles' snobby challenge and enter Vicki in a mall pageant against Harriet.
#3 - Top Secret
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/17/1987
To make his dad's "button-pusher" job seem important to his friends, Jamie hints that Ted is head of a top-secret project -- which even Ted's jealous boss, Brandon, believes.
#4 - Thanksgiving Story
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/29/1986
To get on a community-sponsored Thanksgiving ski trip for disadvantaged kids, Jamie convinces the sponsors that his parents are separated.
#5 - You Gotta Have Heart
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/15/1986
Jamie tries to show Vicki the meaning of compassion by sharing, which she does -- including the dress off her back, while the Brindles move in with their marital dispute.
#6 - 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To help Jamie's shy and withdrawn classmate who stutters, Ted programs Vicki to be her speech therapist.
#7 - 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.
#8 - Crazy Like a Fox
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/18/1986
When Jamie is taken by a slick curbside vendor with a bad mini-TV, Ted goes after him for reparations -- and gets conned himself.
#9 - Home Sweet Homeless
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/11/1986
Joan's civic project with the homeless prompts Jamie to bring home a bum, who virtually takes over the Lawson household.
#10 - My Mother the Teacher
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/1986
Jamie tries to recover his respect in class when his mother comes in as substitute teacher by trying to humiliate her out of her job.
#11 - 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.
#12 - The Real Facts of Life
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/10/1986
Jamie attempts to educate his dad in the ways of love.
#13 - Vicki Goodwrench
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/16/1987
During Jamie's part-time gas station job, Vicki fine-tunes a car to go 50 miles a gallon, causing oil companies and oil sheiks alike to drop by the Lawsons' door.
#15 - 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.
#16 - The Company Takeover
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/15/1986
Cutbacks at United Robotronics have the Lawsons scrambling for odd jobs.
#17 - The Robot Nappers
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/8/1986
A rival robotics firm suspects that Vicki is a robot and plans to steal her.
#18 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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.
#23 - Slightly Dishonorable
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/2/1985
Jamie uses Vicki to do his homework and gets on the school honor roll.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.