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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!

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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  1. Background image for Battle of the Sexes and Robot
    7.9/10(25 votes)

    #1 - Battle of the Sexes and Robot

    S4:E10

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

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  2. Background image for Vicki's Adoption
    7.8/10(38 votes)

    #2 - Vicki's Adoption

    S1:E10

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for RoboBrat
    7.8/10(35 votes)

    #3 - RoboBrat

    S1:E13

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for First Love
    7.7/10(36 votes)

    #4 - First Love

    S1:E16

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

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  5. Background image for The Birds, The Bees, and Robots
    7.7/10(30 votes)

    #5 - The Birds, The Bees, and Robots

    S1:E23

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ed Jurist
  6. Background image for The Strike
    7.7/10(27 votes)

    #6 - The Strike

    S3:E2

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Ronald McDonald House
    7.7/10(27 votes)

    #7 - Ronald McDonald House

    S3:E17

    To help a withdrawn and bitter classmate cope with leukemia, Jamie and Joan help set up a play on fighting disease.

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  9. Background image for Safety First
    7.7/10(26 votes)

    #8 - Safety First

    S3:E24

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Vicki's Homecoming
    7.6/10(74 votes)

    #9 - Vicki's Homecoming

    S1:E1

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Vaudeville Vicki
    7.6/10(33 votes)

    #10 - Vaudeville Vicki

    S1:E22

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

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    Director:Peter Baldwin
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Grandpa Lawson's Visit
    7.6/10(31 votes)

    #11 - Grandpa Lawson's Visit

    S1:E24

    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.

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  13. Background image for The Electric Potatoheads
    7.6/10(26 votes)

    #12 - The Electric Potatoheads

    S3:E5

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Geisha Vicki
    7.6/10(26 votes)

    #13 - Geisha Vicki

    S3:E6

    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.

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    Director:Dick Christie
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for Big J, Private Eye
    7.6/10(23 votes)

    #14 - Big J, Private Eye

    S4:E1

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for The Rip-Off
    7.6/10(26 votes)

    #15 - The Rip-Off

    S4:E20

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
  17. Background image for See No Evil
    7.6/10(21 votes)

    #16 - See No Evil

    S4:E23

    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.

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  18. Background image for DisHonor Student
    7.5/10(35 votes)

    #17 - DisHonor Student

    S1:E9

    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.

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    Director:Peter Baldwin
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Child Prodigy
    7.5/10(38 votes)

    #18 - Child Prodigy

    S1:E11

    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.

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    Director:Peter Baldwin
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Babes in the Woods
    7.5/10(30 votes)

    #19 - Babes in the Woods

    S1:E15

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

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    Director:Unknown
  21. Background image for The Robot Nappers
    7.5/10(33 votes)

    #20 - The Robot Nappers

    S1:E18

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for The Reluctant Halfback
    7.5/10(30 votes)

    #21 - The Reluctant Halfback

    S1:E21

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

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    Director:Unknown
  23. Background image for Haunted House
    7.5/10(26 votes)

    #22 - Haunted House

    S3:E8

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
  24. Background image for In the Spirits
    7.5/10(21 votes)

    #23 - In the Spirits

    S3:E19

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for The Perfect Daughter
    7.5/10(22 votes)

    #24 - The Perfect Daughter

    S3:E20

    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.

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    7.5/10(24 votes)

    #25 - Ted's Dead

    S3:E22

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"Battle of the Sexes and Robot" is the best rated episode of "Small Wonder". It scored 7.9/10 based on 25 votes. Directed by Leslie H. Martinson and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/16/1988. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Vicki's Adoption".