The Best Episodes of Small Wonder

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

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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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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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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

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

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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Writer: Ed Jurist

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.

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Writer: Donald Ross

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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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

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To help a withdrawn and bitter classmate cope with leukemia, Jamie and Joan help set up a play on fighting disease.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

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

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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

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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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

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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

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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Writer: Dick Christie, David Ruprecht

Joan's civic project with the homeless prompts Jamie to bring home a bum, who virtually takes over the Lawson household.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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

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

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.

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Writer: Dick Christie, David Ruprecht