

Small Wonder
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.
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Seasons

1.Vicki's Homecoming
07-09-198521mTed brings home his own cyber creation an android in the form of a ten year old girl he nicknames Vicki.

2.Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
14-09-198521mThe Brindles, the Lawson's nosy neighbors, come across Vicki and tries to find out their secret.

3.Robositter
21-09-198521mJamie has the entire house to himself, not knowing that Vicki is his babysitter!

4.Nerd Crush
28-09-198521mWarren Enright, the class nerd, falls in love with Vicki.

5.Runaway Jamie
05-10-198521mBecause Vicki is getting more attention, Jamie decides to run away to see what his parents might think.

6.Lights! Camera! Ego!
12-10-198521mJamie 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.

7.White Lies
19-10-198521mJamie 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 Harrie...

8.The Bully
26-10-198521mA bully extorts money from Jamie's neighborhood club, which quickly reconsiders its boys-only policy via Vicki's strong-arm "assistance."

9.DisHonor Student
02-11-198521mJamie 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.

10.Vicki's Adoption
09-11-198521mTipped 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.Child Prodigy
16-11-198521mTo 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 situa...

12.Brindles Move In
23-11-198521mA house fire moves Ted's new boss, Brandon Brindle, into the Lawsons' house, scheming for insurance fraud.

13.RoboBrat
30-11-198521mWhen 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 -- bu...

14.The Burrito Story
04-01-198621mJamie attempts to mass-produce burritos made by Vicki.

15.Babes in the Woods
11-01-198621mThe Lawsons and Reggie and Harriet take a wilderness camping trip, and get lost.

16.First Love
18-01-198621mTo charm prissy and picky Jessica, Jamie throws an expensive party for her, ignoring a surprising school tomboy.

17.Substitute Dad
25-01-198621mWhen 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 disappro...

18.The Robot Nappers
08-02-198621mWhen 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.

19.Ted's Lay-Off
15-02-198621mUnited Robotronics cutbacks have the Lawsons scrambling for odd jobs.

20.Health Nuts
22-02-198621mTed is motivated to get the family into shape when an obese co-worker loses a record amount of weight.

21.The Reluctant Halfback
01-03-198621mTed is proud that Jamie's made the Pee Wee Football league, unknowing that Jamie only does it to please his dad.

22.Vaudeville Vicki
03-05-198621mWhen a vaudeville actor thinks Vicki is his long-lost daughter, he drafts her into a show and threatens her adoption.

23.The Birds, The Bees, and Robots
10-05-198621mWhen 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.

24.Grandpa Lawson's Visit
17-05-198621mTed 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.
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