Small Wonder (1987) Season 3
When genius cybernetics engineer Ted Lawson brings home his top-secret invention, a Voice Input Child Identicant or V.I.C.I., life becomes anything but mechanical for the Lawson Family. With his boss and his nosy family living next door, Ted, his wife Joan and their son Jamie must pass Vicki off as a real child. It is easy for Joan, who cannot help doting on her like a daughter, but harder for precocious Jamie, who uses Vicki to do his homework and to ward off Harriet, the annoying redheaded girl next door.
01 When a schoolyard pusher tries to hook Vicki on drugs, the Lawsons help the police on a undercover sting.
9/5/1987
02 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.
9/12/1987
03 While saving Harriet in the Lawsons' new pool, Vicki ""drowns"" and lands in the hospital under X-rays with a bewildered doctor.
9/19/1987
04 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.
9/26/1987
05 Jamie, Reggie, Harriet and Vicki try to start a rock group to play to Ida Mae's visiting agent friend.
10/3/1987
06 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.
10/10/1987
07 When Jamie befriends a deaf boy to score scout points, he learns a lesson in sensitivity and exploitation.
10/24/1987
08 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.
10/31/1987
09 Ted brings home Vanessa, an upgraded twin of Vicki whose revolutionary but quirky quasi-human artificial intelligence runs amok.
11/7/1987
10 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.
11/14/1987
11 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.
11/21/1987
12 Vicki, Jamie and Harriet are held hostage in an inept bank robbery.
11/28/1987
13 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.
12/5/1987
14 While Jamie and Reggie search for a story for the school paper, Vicki discovers that a new girl in class is a missing child.
12/12/1987
15 Jamie is picked up by the possessive daughter of Ted's boss who starts pulling his strings the wrong way.
1/9/1988
16 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.
1/30/1988
17 To help a withdrawn and bitter classmate cope with leukemia, Jamie and Joan help set up a play on fighting disease.
2/6/1988
The Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming 18 Vicki competes with a Soviet robot.
2/12/1988
19 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.
2/20/1988
20 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.
3/12/1988
21 Tired of the loud and impudent Brindles as neighbors, the Lawsons concoct a fake earthquake to scare them into moving.
5/4/1988
22 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.
5/28/1988
23 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.
7/9/1988
24 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.
7/30/1988
25 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.
8/6/1988
26 Jamie takes the fall in exchange for Jessica's affections after he catches her stealing copies of the seventh grade's test.
8/27/1988
27 Ted brings home a voice activated computer. Vicki finds herself falling for the computer, but trouble begins when the computer becomes obsessed with Vicki.
9/6/1988
