Small Wonder

9/14/1985

The Brindles, the Lawson's nosy neighbors, come across Vicki and tries to find out their secret.

9/21/1985

Jamie has the entire house to himself, not knowing that Vicki is his babysitter!

9/28/1985

Warren Enright, the class nerd, falls in love with Vicki.

10/5/1985

Because Vicki is getting more attention, Jamie decides to run away to see what his parents might think.

10/12/1985

Jamie and his friend Reggie Williams are involved in putting together a sci-fi movie project for school, but the power of directorial duties goes to Jamie's head.

10/19/1985

Jamie realizes the value of constant truthfulness when he can't convince his parents that he's not responsible for breaking (and secretly gluing together) a teapot caused by Harriet's smart-aleck cousin.

10/26/1985

A bully extorts money from Jamie's neighborhood club, which quickly reconsiders its boys-only policy via Vicki's strong-arm "assistance."

11/2/1985

Jamie uses Vicki's new speed-scan reading ability to complete 55 chapters of his homework overnight, which earns him the school honor roll -- along with snowballing guilt.

11/9/1985

Tipped off on the sly by busybody Bonnie Brindle, Child Services threatens to take Vicki away unless the Lawsons can produce her past -- and she passes a medical exam.

11/16/1985

To circumvent Child Services' orders to send Vicki to school and risk exposure, the Lawsons hire a pompous tutor who mistakes her computer abilities for genius. To remedy the situation, Joan crams to follow-through her marriage-postponed teaching degree to act as Vicki's "tutor," while Ted takes over the kitchen and creates a mess.

11/23/1985

A house fire moves Ted's new boss, Brandon Brindle, into the Lawsons' house, scheming for insurance fraud.

11/30/1985

When overexposure to Harriet infects heuristically mimicking Vicki with Harriet's personality traits and shrieking tantrums, Ted must purge the brat out of her at his factory -- but not before Harriet and Bonnie Brindle wonder where Vicki suddenly vanished to and summon the police.

1/4/1986

Jamie attempts to mass-produce burritos made by Vicki.

1/11/1986

The Lawsons and Reggie and Harriet take a wilderness camping trip, and get lost.

1/18/1986

To charm prissy and picky Jessica, Jamie throws an expensive party for her, ignoring a surprising school tomboy.

1/25/1986

When golf-crazed Ted neglects taking Jamie to a Father-and-Son picnic for a golf tournament, Brandon steps in and incites a "father war" while Joan uses Vicki to voice her disapproval to Ted.

2/8/1986

When keen-eyed recruitment officers from a rival robotics firm drop by to interview Ted, they suspect Vicki is a robot and plan to "robotnap" her.

2/15/1986

United Robotronics cutbacks have the Lawsons scrambling for odd jobs.

2/22/1986

Ted is motivated to get the family into shape when an obese co-worker loses a record amount of weight.

3/1/1986

Ted is proud that Jamie's made the Pee Wee Football league, unknowing that Jamie only does it to please his dad.

5/3/1986

When a vaudeville actor thinks Vicki is his long-lost daughter, he drafts her into a show and threatens her adoption.

5/10/1986

When timid Ted uses the "stork theory" in answering Jamie's questions about sex, Jamie believes Dad's in serious need of sex education and tries to help him out.

5/17/1986

Ted has the unenviable task of explaining to his unwary Vicki-doting father, who bitterly lost his job to automation, that his new lovely adopted granddaughter is really a robot.