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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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Season 1

  • Vicki's Homecoming
    7.6/1073 votes
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    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

  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
    7.0/1044 votes
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    Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/14/1985

    The Brindles, the Lawson's nosy neighbors, come across Vicki and tries to find out their secret.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Ed Jurist

  • Robositter
    7.3/1039 votes
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    Robositter

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/21/1985

    Jamie has the entire house to himself, not knowing that Vicki is his babysitter!

    Director: Peter Baldwin

    Writer: N/A

  • Nerd Crush
    6.8/1042 votes
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    Nerd Crush

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/28/1985

    Warren Enright, the class nerd, falls in love with Vicki.

    Director: Leslie H. Martinson

    Writer: Howard Meyers

  • Runaway Jamie
    7.3/1037 votes
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    Runaway Jamie

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/5/1985

    Because Vicki is getting more attention, Jamie decides to run away to see what his parents might think.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Lights! Camera! Ego!
    6.9/1037 votes
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    Lights! Camera! Ego!

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/12/1985

    Jamie 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • White Lies
    7.1/1036 votes
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    White Lies

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/19/1985

    Jamie 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 Harriet's smart-aleck cousin.

    Director: Linda Day

    Writer: N/A

  • The Bully
    7.4/1039 votes
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    The Bully

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/26/1985

    A bully extorts money from Jamie's neighborhood club, which quickly reconsiders its boys-only policy via Vicki's strong-arm "assistance."

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Jurgen Wolff

  • DisHonor Student
    7.5/1032 votes
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    DisHonor Student

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/2/1985

    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.

    Director: Peter Baldwin

    Writer: N/A

  • Vicki's Adoption
    7.8/1035 votes
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    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

  • Child Prodigy
    7.6/1035 votes
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    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

  • Brindles Move In
    7.1/1029 votes
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    Brindles Move In

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 11/23/1985

    A house fire moves Ted's new boss, Brandon Brindle, into the Lawsons' house, scheming for insurance fraud.

    Director: Leslie H. Martinson

    Writer: N/A

  • RoboBrat
    7.8/1033 votes
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    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

  • The Burrito Story
    7.2/1027 votes
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    The Burrito Story

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/4/1986

    Jamie attempts to mass-produce burritos made by Vicki.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Babes in the Woods
    7.5/1028 votes
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    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

  • First Love
    7.7/1034 votes
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    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

  • Substitute Dad
    7.3/1027 votes
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    Substitute Dad

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/25/1986

    When 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 disapproval to Ted.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Ed Jurist

  • The Robot Nappers
    7.5/1031 votes
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    The Robot Nappers

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/8/1986

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Ted's Lay-Off
    7.3/1031 votes
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    Ted's Lay-Off

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/15/1986

    United Robotronics cutbacks have the Lawsons scrambling for odd jobs.

    Director: Peter Baldwin

    Writer: N/A

  • Health Nuts
    6.9/1030 votes
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    Health Nuts

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/22/1986

    Ted is motivated to get the family into shape when an obese co-worker loses a record amount of weight.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Reluctant Halfback
    7.5/1028 votes
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    The Reluctant Halfback

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/1/1986

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Howard Meyers

  • Vaudeville Vicki
    7.6/1031 votes
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    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

  • The Birds, The Bees, and Robots
    7.7/1028 votes
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    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

  • Grandpa Lawson's Visit
    7.6/1029 votes
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    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