7.6/1072 votes#1 - 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
7.0/1043 votes#2 - 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
7.3/1038 votes#3 - 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
6.8/1041 votes#4 - 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
7.3/1036 votes#5 - 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
6.9/1036 votes#6 - 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
7.1/1036 votes#7 - 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
7.4/1039 votes#8 - 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
7.5/1032 votes#9 - 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
7.8/1035 votes#10 - 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
7.6/1035 votes#11 - 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
7.1/1029 votes#12 - 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
7.8/1033 votes#13 - 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
7.2/1027 votes#14 - 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
7.5/1028 votes#15 - 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
7.7/1034 votes#16 - 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
7.3/1027 votes#17 - 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
7.5/1031 votes#18 - 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
7.3/1031 votes#19 - 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
6.9/1030 votes#20 - 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
7.5/1028 votes#21 - 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
7.6/1031 votes#22 - 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
7.7/1028 votes#23 - 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
7.6/1029 votes#24 - 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
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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 Ratings Summary
"Vicki's Homecoming" is the best rated episode of "Small Wonder" season 1. It scored 7.6/10 based on 72 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/7/1985. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner".