Season 1

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  7.6/1074 votes

  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: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.0/1046 votes

  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: Unknown

  Writer: Ed Jurist

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  7.3/1041 votes

  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: Unknown

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  6.8/1044 votes

  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

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  7.3/1039 votes

  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: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  6.9/1039 votes

  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: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.0/1039 votes

  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: Unknown

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  7.4/1042 votes

  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: Unknown

  Writer: Jurgen Wolff

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  7.4/1035 votes

  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: Unknown

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  7.8/1037 votes

  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: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.5/1038 votes

  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: Unknown

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  7.1/1031 votes

  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: Unknown

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  7.8/1035 votes

  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: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.2/1029 votes

  The Burrito Story

  Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/4/1986

  Jamie attempts to mass-produce burritos made by Vicki.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.4/1030 votes

  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: Unknown

  Writer: Jurgen Wolff

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  7.6/1036 votes

  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

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  7.3/1029 votes

  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: Unknown

  Writer: Ed Jurist

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  7.5/1033 votes

  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: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.3/1033 votes

  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: Unknown

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  6.9/1032 votes

  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: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.5/1030 votes

  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: Unknown

  Writer: Howard Meyers

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  7.6/1033 votes

  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: Unknown

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  7.7/1030 votes

  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: Unknown

  Writer: Ed Jurist

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  7.6/1031 votes

  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: Unknown

  Writer: David Ruprecht, Dick Christie