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The Best Episodes of Small Wonder

Every episode of Small Wonder ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of 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...
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Best Episodes Summary

"Battle of the Sexes and Robot" is the best rated episode of "Small Wonder". It scored 7.9/10 based on 23 votes. Directed by Leslie H. Martinson and written by N/A, it aired on 10/16/1988. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Vicki's Adoption".

  • Battle of the Sexes and Robot
    7.9/1023 votes
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    #1 - Battle of the Sexes and Robot

    Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 10/16/1988

    Ted, Jamie and Reggie go macho on an all-male fishing trip-- tailed by a slighted and competitive bevy: Joan, Vicki and Harriet.

    Director: Leslie H. Martinson

    Writer: N/A

  • Vicki's Adoption
    7.8/1035 votes
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    #2 - Vicki's Adoption

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • RoboBrat
    7.8/1033 votes
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    #3 - RoboBrat

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Singing Telegram
    7.8/1019 votes
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    #4 - Singing Telegram

    Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 12/17/1988

    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.

    Director: Leslie H. Martinson

    Writer: Ralph Phillips

  • First Love
    7.7/1034 votes
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    #5 - First Love

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/18/1986

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

    Director: Leslie H. Martinson

    Writer: Howard Meyers

  • The Birds, The Bees, and Robots
    7.7/1028 votes
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    #6 - The Birds, The Bees, and Robots

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Ed Jurist

  • Here Kitty, Kitty!
    7.7/1035 votes
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    #7 - Here Kitty, Kitty!

    Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/9/1987

    To train Vicki to be more affectionate, Ted buys her a toy cat that only makes her mimic Jamie's past jealousy and run away.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Donald Ross

  • The Strike
    7.7/1025 votes
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    #8 - The Strike

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/12/1987

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Geisha Vicki
    7.7/1024 votes
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    #9 - Geisha Vicki

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/10/1987

    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.

    Director: Dick Christie

    Writer: N/A

  • Ronald McDonald House
    7.7/1025 votes
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    #10 - Ronald McDonald House

    Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 2/6/1988

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

    Director: Leslie H. Martinson

    Writer: Lawrence H. Levy

  • Safety First
    7.7/1024 votes
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    #11 - Safety First

    Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 7/30/1988

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Radio Show
    7.7/1018 votes
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    #12 - Radio Show

    Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 12/3/1988

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • See No Evil
    7.7/1019 votes
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    #13 - See No Evil

    Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 5/13/1989

    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.

    Director: Leslie H. Martinson

    Writer: N/A

  • Vicki's Homecoming
    7.6/1073 votes
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    #14 - Vicki's Homecoming

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/7/1985

    Ted brings home his own cyber creation an android in the form of a ten year old girl he nicknames Vicki.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Child Prodigy
    7.6/1036 votes
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    #15 - Child Prodigy

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 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.

    Director: Peter Baldwin

    Writer: N/A

  • Vaudeville Vicki
    7.6/1031 votes
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    #16 - Vaudeville Vicki

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/3/1986

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

    Director: Peter Baldwin

    Writer: N/A

  • Grandpa Lawson's Visit
    7.6/1029 votes
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    #17 - Grandpa Lawson's Visit

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Dick Christie, David Ruprecht

  • Homeless Causes
    7.6/1026 votes
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    #18 - Homeless Causes

    Season 2 Episode 4 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Have a Heart
    7.6/1023 votes
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    #19 - Have a Heart

    Season 2 Episode 9 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Class Comedienne
    7.6/1025 votes
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    #20 - Class Comedienne

    Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/24/1987

    Nagged by classmates that Vicki has a wooden personality, Jamie overdoes it in secretly programming her a livelier one.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Community Watch and See
    7.6/1029 votes
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    #21 - Community Watch and See

    Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 5/2/1987

    After being burglarized (while Vicki's home and they're at a restaurant), the Lawsons join the neighborhood watch.

    Director: Leslie H. Martinson

    Writer: Jack Gross Jr.

  • The Electric Potatoheads
    7.6/1024 votes
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    #22 - The Electric Potatoheads

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/3/1987

    Jamie, Reggie, Harriet and Vicki try to start a rock group to play to Ida Mae's visiting agent friend.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Perfect Daughter
    7.6/1020 votes
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    #23 - The Perfect Daughter

    Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 3/12/1988

    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.

    Director: Leslie H. Martinson

    Writer: Stephen Sustarsic, David Adam Silverman

  • It's a Gas
    7.6/1020 votes
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    #24 - It's a Gas

    Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 10/2/1988

    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.

    Director: Leslie H. Martinson

    Writer: N/A

  • Vicki's Expose
    7.6/1022 votes
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    #25 - Vicki's Expose

    Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 11/20/1988

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Dick Christie, David Ruprecht