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The Best Episodes of Small Wonder Season 2

Every episode of Small Wonder Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Small Wonder Season 2!

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.

Genres:ComedyFamily
Network:Syndication

Season 2 Ratings Summary

The best episode of "Small Wonder" season 2 is "Root Beer, Women and Song", rated 7.5/10 from 28 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by Howard Meyers. "Root Beer, Women and Song" aired on 9/20/1986 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "My Mother the Teacher".

  • Root Beer, Women and Song
    7.5/10 28 votes

    #1 - Root Beer, Women and Song

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1986

    Still out to flatter the redoubtable Jessica, Jamie takes her out to an expensive restaurant while tightwad Ted puts Vicki in charge of household expenses.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Howard Meyers

  • My Mother the Teacher
    7.5/10 28 votes

    #2 - My Mother the Teacher

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1986

    Jamie tries to recover his respect in class when his mother comes in as substitute teacher by trying to humiliate her out of her job.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Vicki for the Defense
    7.3/10 27 votes

    #3 - Vicki for the Defense

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1986

    Playing a judge in a class simulation of a courtroom, Jamie dispenses uneven justice and gets impeached, while parking-ticket-skipping role model Ted tries to get himself arrested.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Homeless Causes
    7.5/10 25 votes

    #4 - Homeless Causes

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/1986

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Hustle
    7.4/10 25 votes

    #5 - The Hustle

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/1986

    When Jamie is taken by a slick curbside vendor with a bad mini-TV, Ted goes after him for reparations -- and gets conned himself.

    Director: Peter Baldwin

    Writer: N/A

  • Jamie's Older Woman
    7.2/10 23 votes

    #6 - Jamie's Older Woman

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1986

    Jamie pushes Harriet aside in an unrequited crush on her 16-year-old cousin, who teaches him a lesson in respect.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Michael Poryes

  • My Robot Family
    7.0/10 29 votes

    #7 - My Robot Family

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/1986

    When he's punished for thoughtlessly dropping the family's reservations to Mexico, Jamie dreams that the others are robots under his control.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Wonder Worker
    7.3/10 21 votes

    #8 - The Wonder Worker

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/1986

    To help Jamie's shy and withdrawn classmate who stutters, Ted programs Vicki to be her speech therapist.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Have a Heart
    7.5/10 22 votes

    #9 - Have a Heart

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/15/1986

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Latchkey Dreams
    7.3/10 21 votes

    #10 - Latchkey Dreams

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/29/1986

    To get on a community-sponsored Thanksgiving ski trip for disadvantaged kids, Jamie convinces the sponsors that his parents are separated.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Computer Dating
    6.9/10 22 votes

    #11 - Computer Dating

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/6/1986

    To pay for a new bike he bought from the neighborhood bully, Jamie uses Vicki to run a school computerized match-making business.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Jeffrey Duteil, Jerry Ross

  • Smoker's Delight
    7.5/10 24 votes

    #12 - Smoker's Delight

    Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/13/1986

    Jamie learns a sobering lesson in using smoking and chewing tobacco to elevate his freshman status in junior high.

    Director: Leslie H. Martinson

    Writer: N/A

  • Movin' Up
    7.5/10 24 votes

    #13 - Movin' Up

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/10/1987

    While Vicki learns to spend a day without duties or instructions, Ted's new prestigious job offer in Massachusetts tests the family's taste to social climb vs. its price of morality.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Jerry Ross

  • Project Blender
    7.4/10 22 votes

    #14 - Project Blender

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/17/1987

    To make his dad's ""button-pusher"" job seem important to his friends, Jamie hints that Ted is head of a top-secret project -- which even Ted's jealous boss, Brandon, believes.

    Director: Leslie H. Martinson

    Writer: N/A

  • Class Comedienne
    7.6/10 24 votes

    #15 - 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

  • Little Miss Shopping Mall
    7.3/10 21 votes

    #16 - Little Miss Shopping Mall

    Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/7/1987

    The Lawsons take up the Brindles' snobby challenge and enter Vicki in a mall pageant against Harriet.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Victor/ V.I.C.I.
    6.9/10 22 votes

    #17 - Victor/ V.I.C.I.

    Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/14/1987

    To help his Little League team's rock-bottom status, Jamie disguises Vicki as a boy to use her robotic abilities to bat for the pennant.

    Director: Peter Baldwin

    Writer: N/A

  • Look into My Eyes
    7.2/10 22 votes

    #18 - Look into My Eyes

    Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/21/1987

    After Vicki watches a TV hypnotist turn volunteers into clowns and animals, she starts practicing her new mesmerizing ""skill"" on the Lawsons with hysterical results.

    Director: Peter Baldwin

    Writer: N/A

  • Pint Sized Pick-Up
    6.8/10 22 votes

    #19 - Pint Sized Pick-Up

    Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 4/18/1987

    While in a store with Jamie looking for a present for her mock birthday party to convince Child Services that they treat her well, Vicki picks up an expensive watch and is picked up for shoplifting.

    Director: Leslie H. Martinson

    Writer: N/A

  • Community Watch and See
    7.7/10 28 votes

    #20 - 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.

  • Here Kitty, Kitty!
    7.7/10 34 votes

    #21 - 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

  • Vicki Goodwrench
    7.3/10 22 votes

    #22 - Vicki Goodwrench

    Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/16/1987

    During Jamie's part-time gas station job, Vicki fine-tunes a car to go 50 miles a gallon, causing oil companies and oil sheiks alike to drop by the Lawsons' door.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Wedding
    7.2/10 22 votes

    #23 - The Wedding

    Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 5/23/1987

    Ted and Joan decide to have the ceremonial wedding they never had -- until the Brindles butt in.

    Director: Leslie H. Martinson

    Writer: N/A

  • Wham-Bam-Body Slam
    7.3/10 22 votes

    #24 - Wham-Bam-Body Slam

    Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 6/20/1987

    Joan invites Wally Crandal, a former 90-pound weakling college classmate, over for dinner to meet his former school tormentor: Ted, who rigs Vicki to play even crueler tricks. Only Ted's unaware that Wally's grown into a top pro wrestler.

    Director: Peter Baldwin

    Writer: Dick Christie