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Small Wonder

Season 4 · 24 episodes · Jul 23, 1988

  1. Episode 1

    Big J, Private Eye

    Jul 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.

  2. Episode 2

    School Monitor

    Jul 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.

  3. Episode 3

    More About L.E.S.

    Aug 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.

  4. Episode 4

    Game Show

    Aug 13, 1988

    The Lawsons enter a game show to get back at the Brindles for trying to kick them off the eligibility list.

  5. Episode 5

    Jailbirds

    Aug 20, 1988

    Jamie and Vicki are arrested for spray-painting a wall -- and its owner's $60 shirt.

  6. Episode 6

    I Dream of Vicki

    Sep 18, 1988

    To keep his company's presence in an Arab country, Ted lets its visiting young ruler draft Vicki into his harem.

  7. Episode 7

    Golddigging Ida

    Sep 25, 1988

    Joan's doctor father drops by to visit and Ida Mae smells a plump husband. Meanwhile, Vicki vies for school cheerleader.

  8. Episode 8

    It's a Gas

    Oct 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.

  9. Episode 9

    SuperSuds

    Oct 9, 1988

    While playing with Jamie's chemistry set, Vicki creates a potent laundry detergent that Ted -- and Brandon -- leap to market themselves.

  10. Episode 10

    Battle of the Sexes and Robot

    Oct 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.

  11. Episode 11

    Vicki and the Skyjacker

    Oct 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.

  12. Episode 12

    Luke and Ray

    Oct 30, 1988

    To help a withdrawn and bitter classmate cope with leukemia, Jamie and Joan help set up a play on fighting disease.

  13. Episode 13

    Vicki's Glasses

    Nov 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.

  14. Episode 14

    Double Dates

    Nov 13, 1988

    Jamie winds up handling two dates on the same night, blind to the fact that one of them is Harriet in disguise.

  15. Episode 15

    Vicki's Expose

    Nov 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.

  16. Episode 16

    Doolittle Vicki

    Nov 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.

  17. Episode 17

    Radio Show

    Dec 3, 1988

    Ted prepares for a robotics interview on a local radio talk show while Jamie looks for an idea for a class play.

  18. Episode 18

    Pool Shark Vicki

    Dec 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.

  19. Episode 19

    Singing Telegram

    Dec 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.

  20. Episode 20

    The Rip-Off

    Jan 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.

  21. Episode 21

    My Favorite Martian

    Jan 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.

  22. Episode 22

    Hooray for Hollyweird!

    Feb 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.

  23. Episode 23

    See No Evil

    May 13, 1989

    Jamie regrets putting Vicki on guard duty for his pricey newJamie regrets putting Vicki on guard duty for his pricey new bike when her eyes start to malfunction in a schoolyard of prowling thieves. bike when her eyes start to malfunction in a schoolyard of prowling thieves.

  24. Episode 24

    Thy Neighbor's Wife

    May 20, 1989

    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.