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 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.
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Small Wonder" is "Battle of the Sexes and Robot", rated 7.9/10 from 23 user votes. It was directed by Leslie H. Martinson and written by N/A. "Battle of the Sexes and Robot" aired on 10/16/1988 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Vicki's Adoption".
7.9/10 23 votes#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
7.8/10 34 votes#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
7.8/10 32 votes#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
- 7.8/10 19 votes
#5 - 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
7.7/10 33 votes#6 - 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
7.7/10 30 votes#7 - 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
7.7/10 28 votes#8 - 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
- 7.7/10 28 votes
#9 - 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.
- 7.7/10 34 votes
#10 - 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
- 7.7/10 25 votes
#11 - 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
- 7.7/10 24 votes
#12 - 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
- 7.7/10 25 votes
#13 - Ronald McDonald House
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 2/6/1988
No description available
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Writer: Lawrence H. Levy
- 7.7/10 24 votes
#14 - How I Love Thee
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 8/6/1988
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10 18 votes
#15 - 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
- 7.7/10 19 votes
#16 - See No Evil
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 5/13/1989
No description available
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Writer: N/A
7.6/10 71 votes#17 - 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
7.6/10 34 votes#18 - 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
7.6/10 27 votes#19 - Babes in the Woods
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/11/1986
The Lawsons and Reggie and Harriet take a wilderness camping trip, and get lost.
Director: N/A
Writer: Jurgen Wolff
- 7.6/10 24 votes
#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
- 7.6/10 24 votes
#21 - 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
- 7.6/10 20 votes
#22 - Earthquake Vicki
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 5/4/1988
Tired of the loud and impudent Brindles as neighbors, the Lawsons concoct a fake earthquake to scare them into moving.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10 20 votes
#23 - 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
- 7.6/10 22 votes
#24 - 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
- 7.6/10 24 votes
#25 - The Rip-Off
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 1/5/1989
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Steve Granat
